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Curriculum
Assessment
SUTQ
Screening
Family & Community Partnerships
100
It is research-based, play-based, and is the foundation of the infant, toddler, and preschool classrooms. It is based on the same 38 Objectives as Teaching Strategies GOLD. Teachers utilize it to set up the classroom environment, inform instruction, work with families and plan for children's individualized needs.
What is Creative Curriculum?
100
Observation notes and work samples
What are informal assessments?
100
The first of the month the children transitioning are identified. During the faculty meeting teachers come together to discuss current development and a meeting occurs with the parent either before or after the faculty meeting but prior to the transition. The last two weeks of the month, the child transitions into the new classroom.
What is the transition process?
100
A comprehensive developmentally appropriate screening instrument that looks at communication, personal social, fine motor, gross motor, and problem solving.
What is the ASQ:3?
100
A document that has information, resources, and community services for families and is available to all families in our centers.
What is a Community Resource Guide?
200
A set of guidelines that is used in Ohio to look at children's development and learning from birth through age 5.
What is Ohio Early Learning & Development Standards?
200
An assessment that measures children's development and learning and measure children's progress according to 38 Objectives in the following areas: Social-Emotional, Physical, Language, Cognitive, Literacy, Mathematics, Social Studies, The Arts, and English Language Acquisition.
What is Teaching Strategies GOLD?
200
A comprehensive web-based system which allows teachers to track their professional development, education, employment history, credentials, and awards a career pathway level based on this information.
What is the Ohio Professional Registry?
200
The number of days a screening must be completed for SUTQ and the number of days a referral needs to be made.
What is 60 business days and 90 days?
200
A document that collects information about the family structure and routines that is important to the child's development. This document is also useful for teachers to get to know the child and family and to support the transition into the program.
What is the Child Information Form?
300
40 Developmental Assets Skills and Structures from Conscious Discipline Building the Primary Classroom
What is the school age curriculum?
300
The Asset Survey and CWL Assessment Tool
What are the Formal assessments for school age classrooms?
300
Classroom self-assessment tool completed in the fall and spring that addresses the quality of the classroom environment and staff/child interactions for each group of children. Areas are selected for the development of a classroom action plan.
What are the Environmental Rating Scales (ERS)? Infant-Toddlers=ITERS Preschool=ECERS School Age= SACERS
300
-Complete and Score Screenings -If results fall in the CONCERN range, notify ELC/ESS to discuss next steps and how to best share results with the family. Provide the family with a copy of the screening/s and refer them to their pediatrician to discuss results and additional referral resources in the community. If the child is enrolled in EHS/HS, the ELC/ESS notifies the ESS & FSS of the results to begin the appropriate EHS/HS referral process. Additionally, if ASQ-SE results indicate a concern, ELC/ESS contacts the ECMH statewide referral resource for classroom-level support. -If results fall in the MONITOR range, provide the results to the family with ASQ:3 or ASQ-SE Parent Activity handouts, plan individualized experiences on lesson plans, and rescreen in 2 weeks to determine if a referral is warranted.
What is the referral process?
300
In-Person, daily conversations Daily Sheets Documentation Boards Monday Morning Mail Social Media Newsletters Phone Calls Website Memos/Flyers Parent Bulletin Board
What are different modes of communication utilized with families?
400
An in-depth investigation of a topic that is based on interest and background experiences of children. It focuses on a topic that children can investigate firsthand and is comprehensive enough to span several weeks.
What is a study?
400
Observe & Collect Facts; Analyze & Respond; Evaluate; Summarize, Plan, & Communicate.
What is the Assessment Cycle?
400
A individualized plan for each faculty member that is created to monitor ongoing training and professional development needs annually.
What is a Professional Development Plan?
400
A developmentally appropriate screening instrument that focuses on social and emotional development.
What is ASQ:SE?
400
A person or organization within the community that provides services to benefit the children and families within the center.
What is a community partner?
500
The Foundation Interest Areas Literacy Mathematics Objectives for Development & Learning
What are the 5 volume titles in Creative Curriculum for Preschool edition?
500
The type of assessment that is developmentally appropriate, observation-based that occurs when teachers are observing children during regular everyday activities, experiences, and routines on a continuous basis throughout the year.
What is on-going assessment?
500
In our Teacher Resource Binders, this tool demonstrates which Objectives from our Curriculum & Assessment are aligned with Ohio's Early Learning & Development Standards (ELDS). When teachers plan lessons, they can pull out this tool to determine how and where the Curriculum and Assessment practices are aligned with the ELDS.
What is the alignment tool or alignment document? Infant,Toddlers, PreK: You have documents demonstrating alignment of Creative Curriculum to the ELDS and TS GOLD to the ELDS. Our Curriculum and Assessment products are both based on the same 38 Objectives as their foundation. School Age: Your document demonstrates alignment between our SA curriculum, SA assessments, and Ohio's Learning Standards.
500
In-person Communication Conferences Copy of the results
What is 'how we share screening results with families'?
500
A collaborative process between teachers and parents/guardians to determine and record developmental or educational goals for the child.
What is a Parent Teacher Conference and Goal Setting?