Group Times
These 3 content areas should be included in small group time for toddlers and preschool classrooms?
A collection of supplies and equipment that is used to give medical treatment that is also required for every classroom.
What is a first aid kit?
Adults and children always follow this.
What is a daily routine?
What is COR?
To learn to plan many of their own activities, carry them out, and talk with others about what they have done and what they have learned
What is Plan, Do, Review?
This refers to active learning times for infants.
What is Choice Time?
Areas of the classroom that are divided into blocks, house, art, books, toys and so on.
What are centers or interest areas?
Changes in the daily routine are discussed during this.
What is message board?
In all early childhood programs, children have conflicts over space, materials, and friendships. Learning how to find solutions that work for everyone is an important learning experience for young children.
What is Conflict Resolution?
Concepts in number sense and operations, geometry, measurement, algebra, and data analysis.
What is math?
Children and adults always stay with the same small group for at least 2 months or more.
What is primary caregiver groups?
These 2 active areas of the classroom are adjacent.
What are the house and block areas?
The use of props are used in these to parts of the day.
What is planning and recall?
These are statements that identify observable child behavior reflecting knowledge and skills in the main content areas.
What are KDIs?
Children and adults together for action songs, cooperative games and projects, movement activities, and storytelling.
What is Large Group?
Using a die with run, jump, dance on it and another die with numbers on it is an example of this.
What is a Large Group Activity?
This area should have tricycles, sleds, balls, climbers, stones, boxes, buckets, chalk, scarves, brushes.
What is the outside side area?
This active part of the day, is a combination of big muscle movements where children contribute their own ideas and participate at their own developmental levels.
What is Large Group?
Examining the effects through age 40 of the HighScope Preschool Curriculum.
What is the Perry Preschool Longitudinal Study?
This is how often lesson planning happens.
What is daily?
Children meet with an adult to experiment with materials and solve problems
What is small group?
Tracing, pictures, photographs, actual objects and words are examples of types these that are easily understood by the children.
What are labels?
"Now all children wearing seat pants jump to the coat rake"; encouraging children to each move along the floor in their own way toward their cubbies for outside time is an example of this.
What are transitions?
This early childhood research psychologist referred to the zone of proximal development as the area between what children can accomplish on their own and what they can do with the help of an adult or another child who is more developmentally advanced.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
Statements that describe significant and essential learning that learners have achieved, and can reliably demonstrate at the end of a course or program.
What are learning outcomes?