Interest Areas
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How many Interest Areas should you have in a Creative Curriculum classroom?
All materials, shelves, and containers must have these attached.
What are labels?
TPOT is short for...
What is Teaching Pyramid Observation Tool?
Skills or age-specific activities that the majority of children should be able to do within age range
What are Developmental Milestones?
This Area of Development focuses on gross motor and fine motor.
What is Physical Development?
Allowing children to learn through play
What is the purpose of an interest area?
The number of children that should have a classroom job.
What are all of the children in the class?
Nurturing and Responsive Relationships is on the _____ tier of the Pyramid Model.
What is the first tier in the Pyramid Model?
What a child knows about communication, reading and writing before they learn to read and write.
What is early literacy?
The objective documentation of what a child says and does.
What are anecdotal notes?
60 minutes
What is the amount of time the children need to work in interest areas?
True or False
It is important to use tall furniture to delineate the spaces for your Interest Areas.
What is false?
This group developed the Teaching Pyramid.
What is CSEFEL?
When a child uses materials to construct objects that mirror the real world.
What is Constructive Play?
The level at which the Objectives for Development and Learning begin.
What is birth?
Where the library area should be placed next too.
What is another quiet area?
These directions should be posted by the sink.
What are hand washing steps?
The two areas of the Pyramid that model support.
What is Social and Emotional development?
Two pieces of evidence, per child, must be collected in the areas of Math, Language and Literacy every ______.
What is a week?
This resource tells you what to do on the first second and third reading of a book.
What are book discussion cards?
Space to store random materials vs clearly defined area for a type of play
What is the difference between a play area and an interest center?
This is how children will know which interest area they can work in.
What are Interest Area signs indicating how many students can participate in an area?
The section of the pyramid that includes a team based approach to address a child's needs when they engage in highly disruptive behavior?
What is the Functional Assessment?
The term that describes when young children discover how to control their thoughts, feelings and bodies.
What is self-regulation?
We use this tool to set the objectives of a lesson, group and assess children and find guiding questions to ask the children.
What are Intentional Teaching Cards?