AI in ECSE
This CPS Approved generative AI tool can help teachers draft initial IEP goal ideas or simplify complex medical jargon for parent newsletters.
What is Gemini
Outcome A focuses on this area, including a child’s ability to form social relationships and express emotions.
What is Positive Social-Emotional Skills?
This set of standards provides reasonable expectations for children’s growth, development, and learning in the preschool years. The support high-quality programs and services for children from birth to kindergarten
What are the Illinois Early Learning & Development Standards (IELDS)
This term refers to the unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding and actions toward others.
What is Implicit Bias?
Research shows that typically developing peers in inclusive rooms make "this" much progress compared to peers in non-inclusive rooms.
What is the same (or equal) progress?
AI tools can help reduce this specific, time-consuming annual ECSE provider task from hours to minutes. AI can be used to help streamline the workload.
What is IEP preparation/paperwork
This is how the child figures things out, how they learn new things, understands, and responds to directions, as well as how they interact with books and other playthings)
What is Outcome 2 -Acquiring and using knowledge and skills
These are the specific, age-appropriate "look-fors" within the IELDS that help teachers evaluate child progress.
What are benchmarks?
Anti-bias education goals include helping children develop a confident "this," while also respecting the "this" of others.
What is Identity?
These are small, intentional changes to materials or the environment (like adding a "fidget" or a "pencil grip") to help a child participate.
What are Accommodations (or Modifications)?
Educators can use AI to generate these tools, which help students with autism and other diagnoses navigate transitions and daily routines.
What are Visual Schedules or Social Stories?
This is how the child meets his or her basic needs like eating, dressing, showing toilet readiness, getting from place to place
What is Outcome 3-Taking appropriate action to meet needs
The standards are designed to be used in conjunction with this, rather than serving as a stand-alone this
What is curriculum?
This practice involves selecting books and toys that act as "mirrors" and "these," allowing kids to see themselves and others.
What are Windows?
This framework suggests that environments should be designed from the start to be accessible to all learners.
What is UDL (Universal Design for Learning)
AI should never be used to make these final legal decisions, as it lacks the clinical judgment and "whole child" perspective of a multi-disciplinary team.
What are Eligibility or Placement Decisions?
To show progress, data must be collected at these three specific points of time. Extra points if you can share one of the specific date reporting windows.
What are Entry, Exit, and annually?
The standards emphasize this type of learning, which is the primary vehicle through which young children explore the world.
What is Play-based Learning?
Research shows that these two disciplinary actions disproportionately affect children of color in early childhood settings.
What are Suspension and Expulsion?
This is the primary federal law that mandates children with disabilities be educated in the Least Restrictive Environment.
What is IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)?
When using AI, this is the most critical ethical factor to protect student data and stay compliant with FERPA and IDEA.
What is data privacy or student confidentiality
2 or more people who know or have information on the child (Such as the teacher, current or former RSPs, the case manager, and parents)
What are the COS team members
These standards highlight the experience that we as educators want "this" group of children to have
What is ALL CHILDREN?
This study indicates that children with 2 or more of these are at significantly higher risk for chronic physical health conditions (asthma, obesity, cancer), mental health struggles (depression, anxiety), and behavioral issues, such as school failure, absenteeism, and engaging in bullying
What is ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences)
This specific benefit of inclusion for children without disabilities involves developing higher levels of empathy, social awareness, and "this" for human differences.
What is Acceptance (or Tolerance/Appreciation)?