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| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Creative Curriculum Teaching Strategies, Gryphon House, Delmar Thomson Learning, 1988-01-01 The Creative Curriculum comes alive! This videotape-winner of the 1989 Silver Apple Award at the National Educational Film and Video Festival-demonstrates how teachers set the stage for learning by creating a dynamic well-organized environment. It shows children involved in seven of the interest areas in the The Creative Curriculum and explains how they learn in each area. Everyone conducts in-service training workshops for staff and parents or who teaches early childhood education courses will find the video an indispensable tool for explainin appropriate practice. |
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| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Where Do I Live? Neil Chesanow, 1995 Part of being a child is wondering. This charming book uses easy words and color illustrations to explain to children exactly where they live. Crenshaw starts with a child's room, in his or her home, neighborhood, town, state, and county-then moves out to the planet Earth, the solar system, and the Milky Way. From there, children trace their way home again. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Teach Smarter Vanessa J. Levin, 2021-06-02 Discover new, practical methods for teaching literacy skills in your early childhood classroom. Has teaching early literacy skills become a stumbling block to getting your preschool students kindergarten ready? Break out of the tired “letter of the week” routine and learn how to transform your lessons with fun and effective techniques. Teach Smarter: Literacy Strategies for Early Childhood Teachers will equip teachers to infuse every aspect of their teaching with exciting hands-on literacy teaching methods that engage students and help them build authentic connections with books, so that 100% of their students will have a strong literacy foundation and will be fully prepared for success in kindergarten and beyond. Respected author Vanessa Levin, veteran early childhood educator and author of the “Pre-K Pages” blog, breaks down the research and translates it into realistic, actionable steps you can take to improve your teaching. Features specific examples of teaching techniques and activities that engage students in hands-on, experiential learning during circle time, centers, and small groups. Offers a simple, four-step system for teaching literacy skills, based on the foundational principles of early literacy teaching Demonstrates how to build your confidence in your ability to get 100% of your students ready for kindergarten, long before the end of the school year Understand the problems with traditional literacy teaching and identify gaps in your current teaching practice with this valuable resource. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: If I Built a House Chris Van Dusen, 2019-08-13 The much-anticipated follow-up to the E. B. White Award-winning picture book If I Built a Car In If I Built a Car, imaginative Jack dreamed up a whimsical fantasy ride that could do just about anything. Now he's back and ready to build the house of his dreams, complete with a racetrack, flying room, and gigantic slide. Jack's limitless creativity and infectious enthusiasm will inspire budding young inventors to imagine their own fantastical designs. Chris Van Dusen's vibrant illustrations marry retro appeal with futuristic style as he, once again, gives readers a delightfully rhyming text that absolutely begs to be read aloud. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Look at That Building! Scot Ritchie, 2011-09 The neighborhood kids decide to build Max his own awesome doghouse. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Connect4learning Julie Sarama, 2016-02-01 |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Not a Box Board Book Antoinette Portis, 2011-09-27 A box is just a box . . . unless it's not a box. From mountain to rocket ship, a small rabbit shows that a box will go as far as the imagination allows. Inspired by a memory of sitting in a box on her driveway with her sister, Antoinette Portis captures the thrill when pretend feels so real that it actually becomes real—when the imagination takes over and inside a cardboard box, a child is transported to a world where anything is possible. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: The First Six Weeks of School Mike Anderson, Responsive Classroom, 2015 This second edition of a teacher favorite features a fresh, easy-to-use layout including color coding by grade level, more support for student engagement in academics, greater emphasis on the effective use of teacher language, and a dedicated chapter on the all-important first day of school. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: The Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers & Twos Diane Trister Dodge, Sherrie Rudick, Kai-leé Berke, Amy Laura Dombro, 2006 Helps teachers appreciate and find joy in the everyday discoveries that delight a child, and helps them to thoughtfully observe and use what they learn, to respond to children's interests and needs. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Purposeful Play Kristine Mraz, Alison Porcelli, Cheryl Tyler, 2016 Play is serious business. Whether it's reenacting a favorite book (comprehension and close reading), negotiating the rules for a game (speaking and listening), or collaborating over building blocks (college and career readiness and STEM), Kristi Mraz, Alison Porcelli, and Cheryl Tyler see every day how play helps students reach standards and goals in ways that in-their-seat instruction alone can't do. And not just during playtimes. We believe there is play in work and work in play, they write. It helps to have practical ways to carry that mindset into all aspects of the curriculum. In Purposeful Play, they share ways to: optimize and balance different types of play to deepen regular classroom learning teach into play to foster social-emotional skills and a growth mindset bring the impact of play into all your lessons across the day. We believe that play is one type of environment where children can be rigorous in their learning, Kristi, Alison, and Cheryl write. So they provide a host of lessons, suggestions for classroom setups, helpful tools and charts, curriculum connections, teaching points, and teaching language to help you foster mature play that makes every moment in your classroom instructional. Play doesn't only happen when work is over. Children show us time and time again that play is the way they work. In Purposeful Play, you'll find research-driven methods for making play an engine for rigorous learning in your classroom. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: The Creative Curriculum for Preschool Teaching Guide Kai-leé Berke, Carol Aghayan, Cate Heroman, 2010 |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Look! Look! Look! at Sculpture Nancy Elizabeth Wallace, Linda K. Friedlaender, 2020-03-31 Three mice visit a museum and learn that sculpture comes in all shapes, sizes, and textures |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Building Blocks for Teaching Preschoolers with Special Needs Susan Rebecka Sandall, Ilene S. Schwartz, Gail E. Joseph, 2019 The third edition of Building Blocks provides readers with a framework for successful and meaningful inclusion of preschoolers with special needs. Like the first two editions, the third edition offers teachers effective, research-based instructional practices to promote learning in inclusive classrooms. The authors have updated existing content and added new content to reflect current thinking in the field. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Just Like Josh Gibson Angela Johnson, 2007-01-09 The story goes... Grandmama could hit the ball a mile, catch anything that was thrown, and do everything else -- just like Josh Gibson. But unfortunately, no matter how well a girl growing up in the 1940s played the game of baseball, she would have faced tremendous challenges. These challenges are not unlike those met by the legendary Josh Gibson, arguably the best Negro-League player to never make it into the majors. In a poignant tribute to anyone who's had a dream deferred, two-time Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Angela Johnson and celebrated artist Beth Peck offer up this reminder -- that the small steps made by each of us inspire us all. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Understanding by Design Grant P. Wiggins, Jay McTighe, 2005 What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Changes, Changes Pat Hutchins, 2012-03-20 A charming, wordless picture book that the very youngest can “read” all by themselves. The little wooden couple are happy in their building-block house—until it catches fire. The solution? They transform the house into a fire engine! But then there’s so much water that they have to build a boat… Follow these inventive dolls as they use their imagination to adapt to each situation they encounter. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Literacy Cate Heroman, Candy Jones, 2004 Literacy: The Creative Curriculum® Approach shows teachers how to create literacy learning opportunities within the framework of a comprehensive, integrated curriculum. This book provides a review of the most up-to-date research about literacy development and throuoghly describes the seven components of literacy in detail: literacy as a source of enjoyment, vocabulary and language, phonological awareness, knowledge of print, letters and words, comprehension, and books and other texts. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: National Educational Technology Standards for Students International Society for Technology in Education, 2007 This booklet includes the full text of the ISTE Standards for Students, along with the Essential Conditions, profiles and scenarios. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Making Thinking Visible Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, Karin Morrison, 2011-05-03 A proven program for enhancing students' thinking and comprehension abilities Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection of practices, including thinking routines?small sets of questions or a short sequence of steps?as well as the documentation of student thinking. Using this process thinking becomes visible as the students' different viewpoints are expressed, documented, discussed and reflected upon. Helps direct student thinking and structure classroom discussion Can be applied with students at all grade levels and in all content areas Includes easy-to-implement classroom strategies The book also comes with a DVD of video clips featuring Visible Thinking in practice in different classrooms. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Learning Across the Early Childhood Curriculum Lynn Cohen, Sandra Waite-Stupiansky, 2013-07-12 Education, according to John Dewey, should be viewed as dynamic and ongoing with direct teaching of integrated content knowledge. This volume offers readers an examination of the content areas in early childhood curriculum that honor Dewey's belief in active, integrated learning. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Engaging Children's Minds Lilian Gonshaw Katz, Sylvia C. Chard, 2000 This new edition incorporates many insights and strategies the authors have learned while working extensively with teachers to implement the project approach. Since the popular first edition was published in 1989, the authors have continued to help teachers around the world understand the benefits of this approach. Katz and Chard discuss in great detail the philosophical, theoretical, and research bases of project work. The typical phases are presented and detailed suggestions for implementing each one are described. Using specific examples, this book clarifies and articulates the process and benefits of the project approach. These specific examples outline how children's intellectual development is enhanced. Years of working with teachers and young children from preschool to primary age provide the authors with first hand experience for employing the project approach. Helpful guidelines will aid teachers in working with this approach comfortably in order to gain the interset of children and in order for those to grow and florish mentally. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: 100 Side Hustles Chris Guillebeau, 2019-06-04 Best-selling author Chris Guillebeau presents a full-color ideabook featuring 100 stories of regular people launching successful side businesses that almost anyone can do. This unique guide features the startup stories of regular people launching side businesses that almost anyone can do: an urban tour guide, an artist inspired by maps, a travel site founder, an ice pop maker, a confetti photographer, a group of friends who sell hammocks to support local economies, and many more. In 100 Side Hustles, best-selling author of The $100 Startup Chris Guillebeau presents a colorful idea book filled with inspiration for your next big idea. Distilled from Guillebeau's popular Side Hustle School podcast, these case studies feature teachers, artists, coders, and even entire families who've found ways to create new sources of income. With insights, takeaways, and photography that reveals the human element behind the hustles, this playbook covers every important step of launching a side hustle, from identifying underserved markets to crafting unique products and services that spring from your passions. Soon you'll find yourself joining the ranks of these innovative entrepreneurs--making money on the side while living your best life. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Already Ready Katie Wood Ray, Matt Glover, 2008 From the very first chapter of this informative and inspiring book, a clear picture emerges of how even three- and four-year-olds' capacities for serious authorship can and should be supported. - Lillian G. Katz Coauthor of Young Investigators: The Project Approach in the Early Years By the time they reach preschool or kindergarten, young children are already writers. They don't have much experience, but they're filled with stories to tell and ideas to express - they want to show the world what they know and see. All they need is a nurturing teacher like you to recognize the writer at work within them. All you need to help them is Already Ready. Taking an exciting, new approach to working with our youngest students, Already Ready shows you how, by respecting children as writers, engaged in bookmaking, you can gently nudge them toward a lifetime of joyful writing. Katie Wood Ray and Matt Glover guide you through fundamental concepts of early writing. Providing numerous, helpful examples of early writing - complete with transcriptions - they demonstrate how to: make sense of children's writing and interpret how they represent sounds, ideas, and images see important developmental signs in writers that you can use to help them grow further recognize the thinking young children engage in and discover that it's the same thinking more experienced writers use to craft purposeful, thoughtful pieces. Then Ray and Glover show you how little ones can develop powerful understandings about: texts and their characteristics the writing process what it means to be a writer. You'll learn how to support your writers' quest to make meaning, as they grow their abilities and refine their thinking about writing through teaching strategies such as: reading aloud working side by side with writers sharing children's writing. Writing is just one part of a busy early childhood classroom, but even in little doses, a nurturing approach can work wonders and help children connect the natural writer inside them to a life of expressing themselves on paper. Find that approach, share it with your students, and you'll discover that you don't have to get students ready to write - they're Already Ready. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Essentials of Team Building Daniel W. Midura, Donald R. Glover, 2005 Team building is a proven approach for helping people become respectful competitors, cooperative team members, and community leaders. Now you can help your students or group develop those same important skills with Essentials of Team Building: Principles and Practices. The authors, with two successful books on team building and 30 years of team-building experience, offer a day-by-day guide for implementing activities and challenges for individual sessions, units, or an entire semester. The activities and challenges are geared to beginning through advanced participants in a variety of settings, and they help participants develop the following valuable skills: à ̄¿ÅProblem solving à ̄¿ÅAppropriate risk taking à ̄¿ÅBuilding working relationships à ̄¿ÅCooperation à ̄¿ÅLeadership and communication à ̄¿ÅCreative thinking à ̄¿ÅBuilding trust à ̄¿ÅMaking decisions à ̄¿ÅSetting goals à ̄¿ÅDeveloping physical skills In chapters 1 and 2 the authors introduce the concept of team building, including its benefits, its connection with adventure education and community building, and the process involved in building a team. Chapters 3 and 4 provide assessment tools and safety strategies. Chapter 5 offers a sample college course outline in team building. You'll find icebreaker and community activities in chapter 6, and in chapters 7 through 9 you can choose from an array of introductory, intermediate, and advanced challenges. Chapter 10 provides character development and community-building challenges, and an appendix lays out challenge cards, useful forms, reports, and examples. In addition, Essentials of Team Building: Principles and Practices includes à ̄¿Å58 activities and challenges for beginning through advanced teams; à ̄¿Åreproducible forms for organizing, presenting, and evaluating team-building challenges; à ̄¿Åready-to-use unit and semester plans with evaluation tools for each activity; and à ̄¿Åa bound-in DVD with video clips of 25 challenge demonstrations and reproducible challenge and organizer cards. |
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| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Transformative Ethnic Studies in Schools Christine E. Sleeter, Miguel Zavala, 2020 Drawing on Christine Sleeter's review of research on the academic and social impact of ethnic studies commissioned by the National Education Association, this book will examine the value and forms of teaching and researching ethnic studies. The book employs a diverse conceptual framework, including critical pedagogy, anti-racism, Afrocentrism, Indigeneity, youth participatory action research, and critical multicultural education. The book provides cases of classroom teachers to 'illustrate what such conceptual framework look like when enacted in the classroom, as well as tensions that spring from them within school bureaucracies driven by neoliberalism.' Sleeter and Zavala will also outline ways to conduct research for 'investigating both learning and broader impacts of ethnic research used for liberatory ends'-- |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Houses and Homes Ann Morris, Ken Hayman, 1995-03 A clear, declarative text combines with intriguing photographs to provide children with a unique view of the world and its people. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Sitting in My Box Dee Lillegard, 2015-09-22 The box in which all the animals are sitting gets more and more crowded until a hungry flea comes along. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Transforming Teaching Marie Masterson, 2021-03 Child-centered lesson planning provides a system to strengthen teaching. Great lesson planning helps teachers to choose a range of strategies that match what children are learning and doing-- from directed mini-lessons to facilitated group activities. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: California Preschool Learning Foundations: Visual and performing arts. Physical development. Health Faye Ong, 2008 |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: The Creative Curriculum for Family Child Care: ) The foundation ; (volume 2) Routines and Experiences ; (volume 3) Objective for Development & Learning Diane Trister Dodge, 2017 |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Mathematics Juanita V. Copley, Candy Jones, Judith Dighe, Toni S. Bickart, Cate Heroman, 2007 Summary: Shows teachers how to create a mathematically-rich physical environment and guide children's mathematics learning through focused lessons and integrated learning throughout the day. Supplements The Creative Curriculum for Preschool, a comprehensive curriculum for children ages 3-5. Discusses the components of mathematics, mathematical process skills, mathematics learning in interest areas, and mathematics activities--Provided by publisher. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Educating Young Children Mary Hohmann, David P. Weikart, 2002 The updated chapters include information on phonemic awareness and preschool reading, additional references, the latest Perry Preschool research results, recent research relating to brain development, and a complete description of a consistent approach to problem solving. Written for early childhood practitioners and students, this manual presents essential strategies adults can use to make active learning a reality in their programs. Describes key components of the adult ‚'s role: planning the physical setting and establishing a consistent daily routi≠ creating a positive social climate; and using High/Scope ‚'s 58 ‚key experiences ‚ in child development to understand and support young children. Other topics include family involvement, daily team planning, interest areas, appropriate materials, the plan-do-review process, small- and large-group times. Offers numerous anecdotes, photographs, illustrations, real-life scenarios, and practical suggestions for adults. Reflects High/Scope ‚'s current research findings and over 30 years of experience. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: The Creative Curriculum for Preschool Teaching Guide Clarissa G. Martínez, 2016 |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Teaching Reading Sourcebook Bill Honig, Linda Diamond, Linda Gutlohn, 2013 Prepare students for future success by using effective reading instruction that's proven to work. The Teaching Reading Sourcebook, updated second edition is an indispensable resource that combines evidence-based research with actionable instructional strategies. It is an essential addition to any educator's professional literacy library--elementary, secondary, university.--P. [4] of cover. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards The Council of Chief State School Officers, 2011-05-31 These new model core teaching standards outline what all teachers across all content and grade levels should know and be able to do to be effective in today's learning contexts. They are a revision of the 1992 model standards, in response to the need for a new vision of teaching to meet the needs of next generation learners. This document incorporates changes from a public feedback period in July 2010. |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Saving Play Thomas Rendon, Gaye Gronlund, 2017 Saving Play addresses two questions critical to the field of early childhood education: Can child-directed, open-ended play activities in preschool and kindergarten classrooms address early learning and Common Core standards? and Can play be used to reach specific goals and objectives across all developmental domains? Authors Thomas Rendon and Gaye Gronlund answer both of these questions with a resounding yes and believe play, academics, and standards can and do work together-- |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Teaching Strategies GOLD Cate Heroman, 2010 |
| creative curriculum building study activities for preschoolers: Lesson Plans for the First 30 Days Beth Marshall, Shannon Lockhart, Moya Fewson, 2012-01-01 |
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