Active Learning Ingredients
Children choose materials and play partners, change and build on their play ideas, and plan activities according to their interest and needs.
What is choice?
The kind of materials we use in a HighScope classroom.
What is Open-Ended Materials?
A predictable sequence of events.
What is a daily routine?
In a HighScope classroom, adults focus on children's ___ when interacting with them.
What are children's strengths?
Teachers record this on children throughout the day.
What are daily anecdotes?
Interesting, in abundance, readily available to all children, appealing to all the senses, open-ended, and stimulate thought.
What is materials?
Furniture and equipment are arranged in several clearly defined interest areas that enable children to find, use, and return materials they need in order to explore, invent, and learn about their world.
What is the learning environment?
During planning time this is used to maintain children's interest.
What is a manipulative/prop?
In a HighScope classroom adults use ____ instead of praise.
What is encouragement?
This tool is used to provide accurate and objective information about how children are learning and developing.
What is the child observation record (COR)?
Children handle, examine, combine, and transform materials and their ideas. They make discoveries through direct "hands-on" and "minds-on" contact with these resources.
What is manipulation?
"____" is a major component of this framework.
What is Plan-Do-Review?
A 15-20 minute period when children experiment with materials and solve problems in an activity adults have chosen for a particular purpose.
What is Small Group Time?
The HighScope curriculum advocates for this type of climate in the classroom.
What is a supportive climate?
This tool is used to assess a HighScope preschool classroom.
What is the Preschool Quality Assessment (PQA)?
Children describe what they are doing and understanding. They communicate verbally and nonverbally as they consider their actions and modify their thinking to take their new learning into account.
What is child language and thought?
HighScope identifies these as the building blocks of thinking and reasoning.
What are key developmental indicators (KDIs)?
The sharing of creative movement and music ideas and building a sense of community for children, typically lasting 10-15 minutes.
What is Large Group Time?
The stages to HighScope Conflict Resolution.
What is approach calmly, stopping any hurtful actions, acknowledge children's feelings, gather information, restate the problem, ask for ideas for solutions and choose one together, and be prepared to give follow-up support.
To work most effectively, teaching team members need uninterrupted time for _____ so that they can share observations of children and determine what to do next.
What is daily planning?
Adults support the child's current level of thinking and challenge them to advance their abilities to reason, problem solve, or create. Encourage the child's efforts and help them build on their work.
What is adult scaffolding?
The illustration of the curriculum principles that guide HighScope preschool teachers in there daily work with children.
What is the HighScope Wheel of Learning?
The components to a HighScope Daily routine..
What is Greeting, planning, work, clean up, recall, large group, small group, rest, read aloud, outside, transitions, and meal times?
The central aspect of how adults and children interact in a preschool classroom.
What is shared control?
How often we write lesson plans in a HighScope Preschool Classroom...
What is Daily.