1,2,3, A, B, C! On Your Way to Pre-K! – Best Practices in Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment

Audience: Pre-K

Length: Half or Full Day Workshop

This workshop is designed to provide valuable information to teachers, teachers assistants and supervisors on researched and valid practices in a Pre-K program. This information will benefit supervisors to observe “look fors” in a Pre-K program

Participants will:

• Understand brain development and its implications to early childhood learning
• Examine the expectations for teachers in Pre-K and K based on the Danielson model specifically for the domains of Classroom Environment and Instruction
• Learn a variety of assessment methods and reliable and valid criteria for Pre-K and K students
• Explore several social skills curricula that support student learning and social and emotional development
• Learn the importance of classroom space and time: environments and schedules
• Understand how to frame questions to support student accountable talk
• Learn curricula programs that are NAEYC endorsed
• Engage in dialogue and activities as a means of sharing practices and experiences as Pre-K educators
• Explore interactive media tools which support Pre-K learning.

This is typically a full day workshop. As a ½ day workshop, there will be less focus and engagement in each of the learning outcomes or will have same degree of focus of a full day workshop with less learning outcomes.