Integrated Curriculum

an educational approach to teach young children that connects various subject areas by emphasizing unifying concepts.

Play-based Learning

educational approach where children learn skills through active engagement, exploration, and play.

Constructivism

the theory that learners actively build knowledge from experience and experiences in the environment instead of passively absorbing information.

Perry Preschool Study

a longitudinal study following young children who attended a half-day preschool program. Results found more likelihood that they would be employed, graduate high school, have higher incomes, not have been arrested, and pursue higher education

Head Start-What population does Head Start serve? Who funds it?

Low-income families and students with disabilities. The federal government funds it.

Environmental Rating Scales

standardized observation tools to assess the quality of the learning environment of early childhood educational settings.

SACERS

School-Age Care Environment Rating Scales, used for children ages 5- to 12.

Checking for Understanding

School-informal assessment during instruction to determine whether students are grasping the material.

Reasons for CFU:

1. Immediate feedback (teachers can re-teach or explain in a different way 2) Adjust instruction (re-teach or scaffold), 3) Environment for Learning (students can view mistakes as a part of learning process)

Formative Assessment

an ongoing low-stakes means to monitor student learning in real time and adjust teaching to help students learn.

Summative Assessment

a means to measure student learning and academic achievement at the end of a specific instructional period, for instance at the conclusion an academic year, course, or unit.

Accountability

a framework to monitor the quality of providers, educators, and systems according to child outcomes, safety, and overall program quality.

E Component of Lesson Planning

Can be one of 2 things: 1. a student work product (worksheet, work sample like a craft) 2. data based on observation of students

Arithmetic-

the area of math where on learns the ability to understand the properties and manipulation of numbers.

Conservation

a child’s ability to realize that two equal quantities or groups remain equal in amount of number, despite their appearance or transformation in shape or position.

Classification

to group objects, numbers, or ideas into categories based on shared properties, rules, or characteristics.

Ordering/Seriation

the ability to arrange items in a logical order based on specific, measurable, or quantitative characteristics like size, weight, or length.

Child Guidance

the practices used to help children learn about and use acceptable behaviors and to understand the feelings of others and themselves. The terms “child guidance” is often used interchangeably with “behavior management” or “discipline” by practitioners.

Punishment

as a form of discipline, is reliant on children being afraid in order to stop unwanted behaviors. Punishment has children cease those behaviors to avoid pain, loneliness, or humiliation.