0000016089 00000 n And so when we think about wanting, really, to achieve some of the same results that were achieved by those researchers, we have to think about curriculum fidelity to ensure that we're optimizing those outcomes. Professional Development: Frog Street Toddler offers a range of in-person courses, including both initial (Frog Street Toddler Curriculum Implementation) and ongoing (Frog Street Toddler Curriculum Follow-Up) training sessions. 0000016981 00000 n Allyson? Do you have the resources to support them? That That would Those are really the things that you need to do, just like we tried to figure out how to support children, you know, looking at what data tells us, asking teachers what they need, and then trying to come around and provide those in a meaningful way. And one of the components of that curriculum is a Let's Find Out About It, which happens at morning meetings. 0000012533 00000 n The Guide to The Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers & Twos orients teachers to the curriculum materials. Glenn, so important. And just as a reminder Yeah, so thank you again. I am going to now turn it over to Allyson Dean, who is going to talk about, what is curriculum fidelity? Have parents of color to visit the classrooms. Gained valuable experience in breaking down . So, those science materials in the science corner with the, you know, magnifying glasses that children never venture over to and look brand-new and unused you definitely those are those are things you'd want to think about. 0000007045 00000 n Online courses represent another option for ongoing professional development. It gives teachers it gives all of us information about how to improve practices to ensure that all children progress as planned, right? And when we talk about professional development as a component of curriculum fidelity, we're thinking about things like initial training or a course in the curriculum, ongoing coaching and mentoring, and opportunities for self- and peer-reflection. That could be very helpful as you start to think about this work. Why did you choose Opening a World of Learning? hopefully I'm not killing that is saying having children dress up and create their own diversity photos. The other resources you will need to use along side this are: Effective Coaching of Teachers: Fidelity Tool Rubric. This house framework for effective, everyday practice is really familiar to all of you, I'm sure, right? So I think, just like you might sit down and think about a child who is not getting an aspect of the curriculum or maybe they're struggling with a concept, you're going to individualize, right? I (Noel like Christmas) am a quick-learning, Agile engineer (literally and in methodology) looking for product-focused roles and experiences maturing and growing my strategic mindset. Oh, that's a great idea. Publisher (s): Teaching Strategies, Inc. 0000004456 00000 n Additional courses cover a wide range of content, such as family engagement and how to plan age-appropriate activities in each domain. 0000010353 00000 n But maybe I really stay away from the science pieces of a curriculum because I'm not really as confident there. A multidimensional evaluation of the benefits of an ecologically realistic training based on pretend play for preschoolers' cognitive control and self-regulation: From behavior to the underlying . Maybe, as Peter said in the chat box, maybe there's a chance for a teacher to go and see the curriculum implemented in a really strong way that can be used as a model. Rubrics are available for the classroom, school, and district level. The manual begins with an overview of the curriculum's approach and components. And so that pillar is only as strong as that curriculum. And then think about employing staff who have the knowledge and capacity to observe and support curriculum fidelity to both content and process. Here's another reason to think about curriculum fidelity. So whether you're using Creative Curriculum or the OWL or HighScope, many of these publishers also publish fidelity tools. Maybe you might use the HighScope High/Scope Program Quality Assessment, maybe the CLASS, maybe a curriculum fidelity tool that came with your published curriculum. So, what might you see in a program that was really focused on this type of global fidelity over time, right? We have two additional Ed Manager webinar series coming up, one in January, on the 24th, and one in March, on the 28th, at the same time. Additionally, programs can purchase Coaching to Fidelity, Preschool Edition ($210), which is a Wow. 0000008709 00000 n So, we're really excited that you're here. Well, probably not. (ongoing) Assess children's development and learning (3x/year) Complete classroom level School Readiness Data Analysis (3x/year) Engage in Practice Based Coaching. Does the curriculum have to be stored or located in the classroom? I convinced my fiscal office that I had to have the manual, the fidelity tools, and all the activity cards to go with it. The curriculum comes with a Trainer's Guide that provides instructions on how to facilitate an eight-hour "Comprehensive Introduction to Innovations: The Comprehensive Infant and Toddler Curriculum" session, as well as 29 modules that can be used with pre- or in-service teachers as either workshops or staff meetings. Curriculum Materials to Support Implementation: The curriculum includes a comprehensive set of materials to support implementation. I get my cholesterol levels. Discover research about why curriculum fidelity is important. Innovations: Infant and Toddler Development provides theoretical and practical information related to infant and toddler development and introduces teachers to the curriculum's approach. That might be an implementation issue, right? And then you'd think about what, you know, sort of happens in practice, which is that, in between routines and at your morning meeting and as you're handling transitions, that curriculum happens there, too. Yes. And that's an important one because, again, I think sometimes when we think about adherence to a curriculum, a particular model or a plan, we forget about the pieces that are really open-ended and meant to be child-guided, which are just as important in terms of components around a curriculum. To. So is that teacher available to do training? teachers are going to say, "If I could just see that morning meeting done in the way it's so beautifully laid out in my manual. Equip coaches with the tools and support they need to measure fidelity and effectively guide teachers. The Fidelity Tool: The Creative Curriculum for Family Child Careare consumable companion pieces to Coaching to Fidelity: The Creative Curriculum Stay up to date with news about our free webinars, online resources, and products! And when we say "intervention," which is a research-y word, I would just replace that with "curriculum.. research questions, the creative curriculum for preschool implementation checklist with implementation checklist classroom profile teaching strategies inc washington dc eric clearinghouse 2003 early childhood education 38 pages, the creative curriculum fidelity tool teacher checklist has 3 parts each part has between 1 and 9 items that consists . So, as you think about all of those issues, right, materials, authentic depictions of diversity, what are some of the ways Again, if you're thinking about the three-legged stool, the three factors we talked about that support fidelity, if you think about the professional development here, what types of professional development or how could professional development support the grantee in this scenario? So if it's a materials issue, figuring out a way to support the purchasing of materials. 0000010532 00000 n So, again, just thinking about, you know, if you make changes in a curriculum, it can be unclear what effects the curriculum will have on children. We really have to think about that. And then slowly, you wean back, right? Background:Self-directed learning (andragogy) or self-determined learning (heutagogy) can be implemented in guided self-study (GSS) with the aim to foster changes in the knowledge and skills of phy. We spend so much time focused on making sure that learning is meaningful and relevant for children, and we need to do the same thing for our staff, to do real and meaningful professional development. 0000004408 00000 n And using a process, sort of a process embedded in implementation science, you kind of think through the steps and the supports that will be necessary along the way to augment curriculum or enhance curriculum, so I would also watch for that. Just a few logistic things. That will be a tool you'll look for. 0000019237 00000 n My name's Joe Preece. Introduction to Authors update them. I love, you know, maybe the literacy component of a curriculum. Okay, great. Do we ourselves or do you as Ed managers feel like you need some more support to fully understand a curriculum in order to support staff in implementing it? Discover research about why curriculum fidelity is important. I have tested all AV equipment 11. For example, maybe there are certain components of the curriculum that are implemented less frequently or with less fidelity by the majority of classrooms. Okay. And maybe they've got another teacher who's really experiencing quite a bit of success who can offer some advice. Certainly staff differentiating instructions and learning goals based on formative assessment. It's holding up highly individualized teaching and learning. Zip. So, again, tying these pieces of P.D. We have large numbers today. And I am sure we'll have some exciting topics for all our participants then, as well. Train on why it's valuable to have diversity represented in the classrooms. The next piece here is, why is curriculum fidelity important, you know, aside from the fact that it's now in the new Head Start Program Performance Standards, which of course, makes it important? So, maybe you have a teacher that's struggling about how to really do that Let's Find Out About It. Though, again, thinking about the competencies of the staff that you're going to hire maybe to oversee curriculum fidelity processes or maybe to support staff to build their skills. How confident are they that they understand the components of a curriculum and how to implement them with fidelity? 0000012931 00000 n You would see maybe programs that administer some program evaluation instruments in assigned classrooms in the fall and then again in the winter to kind of think about quality practices, homes, or socialization. And in addition, I'm going to read it out loud here. And we just wanted to get kicked off today with this definition because we know that sometimes it's confusing to staff. Fidelity monitoring refers to a system of measuring and analyzing the degree to which a program is implemented as intended. And from the research from, you know, Bridget Hamre and Barbara Wasik, folks that you know, names that we're all familiar with their research really shows that that fidelity makes a difference in terms of children's outcomes. Renita, if you want to go back to the PowerPoint, and I will All right. And so you have to think about how to make that area more meaningful and relevant to children. On the micro level, you would probably expect in these programs to see staff in regularly scheduled planning times, staff who have time to organize materials in learning environments, and to plan curriculum modifications to support access to learning activities for children with disabilities or to modify activities in response to the communities they serve. Creative Curriculum for Preschool, Guided Edition Getting Started Guide. | Find, read and cite all the research . Joe: I had some connectivity difficulties. It can be diagnostic, to a certain extent, for a program. Allyson: We can hear you now, Joe. Developed By National Center for Systemic Improvement This worksheet and rubric can be used to collect and score information about the fidelity of coaching so that this information can be used by coaches and other educators to continuously improve upon how coaching occurs. 0000003049 00000 n And so that's one aspect of implementation fidelity. A fellow Mainer. One of the things that we'll be coming out with in the next few months, and some of the some of your regional early childhood specialists, your T/TA folks got last week, was a draft of some materials including a curriculum alignment tool that lets you assess, do a self-assessment, of your curriculum against all of the ELOF domains and subdomains which can be helpful in terms of thinking through this question. Now, if you look to the left pillar on your screen, research-based curriculum and teaching practices, and you think about all that that pillar is doing in this house, right? Curriculum Materials to Support Implementation: Innovations: The Comprehensive Infant and Toddler Curriculum includes a thorough set of materials to support implementation. Find a Head Start job near you or anywhere in the U.S. 0000000016 00000 n Is that an issue of teachers feeling insecure about that area? The Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers & Twos, 3rd Edition. It's never gone that way for me," right? Okay, so, on your screens now, you should see a scenario. HighScope's Preschool Quality Assessment (PQA), The Creative Curriculum's Fidelity Tool, Tools of the Mind's Preschool Teacher Self-Reflection and Curiosity Corner's Implementation Checklist and Curiosity Implementation Self-Assessment Guide are examples of curriculum specific assessments that have a key role in maintaining curriculum . ___a variety of simple sand toys (e.g. The Guide to The Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers & Twos orients teachers to the curriculum materials. Dallas, TX. You can't really ever totally wean back. So, as you're doing that, you can also think about those same types of supports as related to curriculum fidelity. And what we know is that these four components, when pulled together, sort of define what we mean by effective practices, effective teacher practices that really lead to the types of outcomes we want for children and families. The Creative Curriculum for Preschool provides the guidance, support, and encouragement your teachers need for effective implementation. One of the first questions We have a couple of questions that have came in during the course of the webinar. Frog Street Toddler comes with wall posters to remind teachers of best practices for supporting child development. So, we'll talk here a little bit about, again, fidelity of implementation, those processes. You sort of go through all of the systems that are in your control, all the things you can control in terms of supporting children, and then if what's left is something more organic about the child, then you have great information to move forward with a referral or other options. You would see perhaps folks going out alongside a home visitor to observe a session or to observe a socialization and provide some performance-based data to improve their implementation of the home-visiting curriculum. Measure and improve fidelity. We see many people in the chat already excited about this session. Because what we know is that curriculum is all of these things. Definitely, it seems obvious, but making sure you're using the most recent version of the curriculum is always important because as research progresses, curricula change. And as I said, it's a bit of both. (Conscious Discipline, p. 68-71), (Creative Curriculum, p. 64-5) Teachers follow through with classroom jobs Jobs are not meaningful. Also learn ways to help education staff to implement the new Head Start Program Performance Standards (HSPPS) related to curriculum fidelity. What is fidelity monitoring? Am I learning about the curriculum? In other words, when I was when people were when teachers were pushed out of their comfort zone and asked to adopt a new technique or a new strategy, to a person, each participant in my study indicated that the most powerful reason that they were able to do that was because they saw that it benefited children. And all of those inform how you individualize and modify your curriculum in response to individual children. And do I have opportunities myself to think about what I need to do this well and how I think I'm doing? I adhere to that exercise routine. We will have a Q&A period, but also something might come to you as I'm talking, and feel free to add that. 0000005461 00000 n I get all of these great diet and exercise sort of scripts that I should follow. Okay, I think we might have lost Joe, so I'm going to ask Renita to pull up the scenario at this point. It is intended to be used in conjunction with four other tools: Effective Coaching of Teachers: Fidelity Tool Rubric and Fidelity Tool Worksheet. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. So, you'd think about that. So, in addition to observation, where you can see that in action, you might look at lesson plans. The other aspect is program adherence so, the extent to which program components are delivered as described in your curriculum publication manuals so, thinking about, you know, whether or not you're really following the different components of a day that are outlined and thinking about whether you consistently skip one piece of the curriculum because maybe a teacher is not quite sure how to do it. Asking parents to share about their culture is a great one. But it's also really important to teachers to give them information about how their practice is working or not working for children. And what Robert Pianta and his associates found in a study regarding the use of a curriculum intervention, in terms of positive outcomes for children, was that it was that individualized consultation and regular, consistent feedback that were most effective in improving preschool teachers' use of instructional strategies. Preschool Effective Practice Series Print Implementing Preschool Curriculum with Fidelity Download the video [MP4, 192MB] Download the transcript View the transcript Learn what it means to implement a curriculum with fidelity. The Fidelity of Implementation Tools are a set of rubrics that serve as an overview of implementation for Response to Intervention (RtI). 0000041633 00000 n There were unique things that you thought were a good fit with your program. The guides include materials, vocabulary, learning centers, and plans for activities that support children's development in specific domains. And I want to invite you I see folks are still in the chat box, but I do want to invite you to also use the question-and-answer box or the chat box to jot down or collect questions as we go along. Creative Curriculum Infant/Toddler/Two's Session 1* (2 days) Creative Curriculum Infant/Toddler/Two's Session 2* (2 days) Creative Curriculum GOLD Teachers Lab* (2 days) (Note: If attending formal curriculum training sessions through the developer and not through Grow NJ Kids, the titles of the training may differ; i.e. You know, why If the science area isn't utilized, why not? The included Professional Development Teacher Membership offers flexible courses provided in a variety of formats, including all CDA and CCDF training, and a built-in online professional learning community. Background: Management of burn injuries presents a complex and challenging situation for medical staff, especially for inexperienced young doctors. 0000006007 00000 n You might see certainly performance-based assessment data used to determine, you know, different types of coaching models used, maybe a more intensive versus a less intensive or peer-based approach, depending on what your data's telling you about how curriculum is being implemented across classrooms. The two Lesson Plans for a Strong Start books give teachers six weeks of lesson plans for infants and toddlers as well as information on how to continue to make intentional plans for children. And that information is really helpful to program leadership, such as education managers, such as yourself, As you think about what supports are needed to sustain curriculum implementation. 0000012211 00000 n The curriculum offers professional development and materials to support implementation and continuous improvement.
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