School Readiness
This framework is research based and describes how children progress across key areas of learning and development. It includes five central domains: Aproaches to Learning, Social and Emotional Development, Language and Literacy, Cognition, and Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development.
What is the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework?
Set up the environment, position staff, scan and count, listen, anticipate children's behavior, and engage and redirect.
What are active supervision strategies?
The assessment tool used by teachers to document observations made regarding child's ability using 38 objectives for learning and development.
What is Teaching Strategies Gold?
30 months old and 3 years old.
What are the ages at which Preschool and Kindergarten Transitions begin?
The child's first and most influential teacher.
Who is the parent?
This group includes parents, teachers, administrative staff, community members, and school district representatives. They meet at least one time per year, more often as needed, and provide input regarding school readiness procedures, transition process, curricula selection, and child development outcomes.
What is School Readiness Advisory Team?
Room arrangement, use of lesson plans with intentional teaching experiences, developmentally appropriate classroom rules, system in place for children to select the centers they want to play in, classroom jobs for children, fostering positive warm relationships between teacher and children, positive redirection, social stories, availability of a quiet spot children can choose to use.
What are positive and proactive classroom management strategies?
This report is printed after every checkpoint and used by the teacher to individualize lesson plans and learning activities to meet the need of the individual child. This report is filed in the education folder in the child's record.
What is Individual Child Report from Teaching Strategies?
Begins when a child turns 30 months old and includes discussion and shared learning activities with families, development goals for child that families and teachers create together, and four visits to preschool classroom over the course of one month.
What is Preschool Transition?
Learning Objectives, Development and Learning Report, Parent Conference Form, Alphabet Knowledge Checklist, Number Concepts Checklists, Shape Concepts Checklist, Educational Activity, and Individual Care Plan for Infants and Toddlers.
What are the documents shared during home visits and parent teacher conferences?
Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (HSELOF), Arkansas Child Development and Early Learning Standards: Birth through 60 months, Louisiana's Birth to Five Early Learning and Development Standards, and local school districts Kindergarten entry expectations.
What are the frameworks that CAPCA's School Readiness Goals are aligned with?
One to two times per year each preschool teacher is observed by a trained observer. This observation is used to assess the quality of teacher-child interactions. Feedback is provided to each teacher which identifies the strengths and areas of improvement. The teacher creates a professional development goal based off of the identified areas of improvement.
What is a CLASS observation?
Teachers adapt and scaffold the learning activities based on the developmental needs of the children.
What is individualization?
This process begins when a child enters CAPCA's Head Start or MSHS preschool program and includes parent partnership, provision of learning activities for families to do with child, visit to local elementary school, a visit from an elementary school representative to parent meeting, and for all four year old's the provision of a packet that parents will take to the elementary school for enrollment.
What is Kindergarten Transition?
Second Step curriculum is used in the classroom daily and the Second Step Home Link is shared with the family.
What is supporting social emotional learning at home and school?
Specific dates throughout the program year which teachers 'lock in' the child's developmental level in all 38 Objectives for development and learning in Teaching Strategies. These dates happen 3 times during a 10 month program and 4 times for 12 month programs. The data gathered is analyzed and used to update School Readiness goals.
What are Teaching Strategies checkpoints?
What is daily schedule?
Teachers document which children they will individualize for on each intentional teaching experience on this weekly document.
What is the weekly lesson plan?
Families, teacher(s), family advocate, center manager, and education coordinator.
Who are the people involved in the Preschool Transition process?
Educational activities shared during home visits and parent teacher conferences, PACT (Parent and Child Together) Activities, transition activities, virtual learning, and Lesson Plan Activities.
What are ways to partner with families in their child's learning?
Signed document between CAPCA and receiving school district that is updated regularly and creates an agreement between the two to facilitate smooth transition to kindergarten for children moving from CAPCA's program to receiving public school.
What are transition agreements with public schools?
Teachers post signs and labels using pictures and words throughout the classroom. There are multiple examples of environmental print used. Teachers practice self-talk, parallel-talk, prompting back and forth exchanges with children, ask open-ended questions, and encourage talk between peers. Teachers understand they are the language models for the children in the classroom.
What is a language rich learning environment?
Statements, videos or pictures that are objective and state exactly what a child was observed doing, not what they 'should' be able to do. These statements are entered into Teaching Strategies Gold and used assess child growth and development.
What are child observations or documentation?
Services provided to children in a manner that promotes primary caregiving and minimizes the number of transitions in teachers that child experiences over the course of their participation from birth to age three in Early Head Start.
What is continuity of care?
Conducted 4 to 5 times per year in order to create partnership between families and teachers regarding the child's learning and development.
What are home visits and parent teacher conferences?