IN ELS Organization and Use
To provide a continuum of the core foundational skills children develop over time, with common language and expectations for the ECE field.
What is the purpose for the IN ELS?
Sense of Self, self regulation, conflict resolution, and building relationships are skills under this ELS domain
What is Student Well being?
Communication Process, Early Reading and Early Writing
What are the 3 learning outcomes included in ELA?
Numeracy, Computation, Algebraic Thinking, Data Analysis, Geometry, and Measurement are all standards for this Domain
What is mathematics?
Health/Safety, Senses, Motor Skills, and Personal Care
What are the 4 skills of Physical Health and Growth?
The IN ELS provide a framework of experiences to support early educators in preparing young children for this.
What is kindergarten readiness?
What is demonstrate conflict resolution?
Demonstrate receptive communication is a standard under this learning outcome.
What is communication process?
Demonstrate engineering design skills falls under this Domain and Standard.
What is Science, demonstrate engineering design skills?
Demonstrate development of oral motor skills is an example of this skill
What is Motor Skills?
Physical, Cognitive, Linguistic, Social/Emotional
What are developmental domains?
A child staying close to the teacher, when a new adult enters the room is a behavioral indicator for this Student Wellbeing standard.
What is demonstrate relationship skills?
Looking at a book with an adult, Holding a book independently, recognizing parts of the books, using a finger to follow along with the text are all behavioral indicators for this ELA standard.
What is demonstrate awareness of understanding of concepts of print?
Children playing store in the house/dramatic play area is behavioral indicator that falls under this Domain and Standard
What is Social Studies, Demonstrate awareness of economics, spending and making money?
What is demonstrate how the five senses support processing information?
Infants through Kindergarten
What is the age range for the IN ELS?
Onlooker play, solitary play, parrallel play, associative play and cooperative play are all developmental behavioral indicators observed in this Approaches to PLay and Learning standard.
What is Demonstrate development of social interaction during play?
Take turns in a conversation
What is a behavioral indicator for an older toddler for ELA 1.3?
Providing an infant/toddler with a paintbrush or black/white picture books can support this ELS Domain.
What is creative arts?
Chewing, sucking and eating are all behavioral indicators of this PHG standard.
What is demonstrate development of oral motor skills?
What are indicators listed for each IN ELS?
Candy Land is the activity planned for Kacey's (teacher) small group activity. Kacey is supporting this Approaches to Play and Learning standard.
What is demonstrate development of social interactions during play?
Nursery Rhymes, repeating children's babbles, stretching sounds in a word are all teaching activities that can support this ELA standard.
What is demonstrate phonological awareness?
Placing measurement spoons and cups, sand and various sized containers in the sand/water table can support this ELS Domain and standard.
What is Mathematics, Understand measurement through description and comparison?
An infant shakes their head no when presented a spoonful of peas and then when presented with a spoonful of pears, signs "more". This is a behavioral indicator of what PHG skill and standard?
What is Health/Safety, demonstrate development of nutrition awareness?