Prefill your email content below, and then select your email client to send the message. And so that pillar needs to be strong because it's holding quite a bit of information that's important in this house metaphor. 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. In addition, HighScope delivers ongoing professional development opportunities through a range of in-person trainings, online courses, and certification programs. That's a great one. Global fidelity is really key because it provides information on how consistently and regularly staff implement the key elements of curriculum over time, right? So having someone who can support that staff by going in and perhaps running a morning meeting, modeling it, and really doing some coaching around that is going to be important. You're going to need to talk to staff, you're going to need to think about professional development supports, you're going to need to try to uncover what's going on there so that you can address that issue so staff feel comfortable and supported in getting back on track with those pieces of the curriculum. 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. And I think, again, we can look to the research here to give us a clue about that. Okay. Renita, if you want to go back to the PowerPoint, and I will All right. This house framework for effective, everyday practice is really familiar to all of you, I'm sure, right? That's a great one. We do have a couple of activities where we utilize the chat box, and we look forward to your participation. Glenn, so important. (Conscious Discipline, p. 68-71), (Creative Curriculum, p. 64-5) Teachers follow through with classroom jobs Jobs are not meaningful. 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. 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. Prefill your email content below, and then select your email client to send the message. Download Citation | On Jan 1, 2022, Marie-Andre Pelletier published La conscience de soi des enseignantes et des enseignants l'ducation prscolaire : un domaine de comptences socio . 0000003898 00000 n (15 min. Or maybe I don't have the materials I need to do some of the pieces in a curriculum. And let's start with fidelity of implementation. If you find that 6 out of 10 classrooms have not had any math activities going on in the past two months, you're you're going to need a plan, right? along with that, right? Do they have the knowledge needed? digging tools, containers for filling and dumping, other props such as sieves, slotted spoons, cookie cutters, animal and people figurines_ . It also includes guidance on how to implement the curriculum's extensive set of "Experiences." The Art of Keeping Your Sanity. This webinar helps Head Start administrators, teachers, home visitors, and child care partners understand and explore curriculum fidelity. What gap is it filling? So, they focus on a specific curriculum element or a specific curriculum activity. And while you do that, I'll explain the visual on the screen, sort of two prompts there. Discover research about why curriculum fidelity is important. And you can print that out and follow along. One, I think this PowerPoint is available for you as a resource as well as a handout, so we sort of created, like, a back-to-back handout on curriculum fidelity that gives you some of the key things that I talked about today; the key things that you would look for and see either at the classroom level or the program level that tell you that curriculum is being implemented in the way it was intended and with fidelity. 0000025350 00000 n And so one of the things the research gives us around this topic is sort of three main aspects of implementation fidelity, the first being differentiation so, the extent to which the critical features that distinguish the curriculum are present. If it's a confidence issue, figuring out the best way to provide training and support. They also embed prompts for teachers to implement assessment and family engagement. We will be using that scenario later in the presentation, so you may want to, you know, become familiar with where that is, maybe print it out, pull it up, you know, just get it ready. So, the extent to which teachers feel prepared to implement the curriculum. These are great. There were critical 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. Find a Head Start job near you or anywhere in the U.S. So, again, really just thinking about making sure that we shore up that pillar of the house by making sure that we're following the curriculum and implementing it in the way it's intended. Zip. This self-check will help you determine where your team is currently performing in regards to the Fundamentals of Inclusive Education. So let's just summarize some of these things that came up in the chat box, but let's think also just globally about all kinds of things we can do as a program, really foundational things to support curriculum fidelity from the start, right, so thinking about how you hire staff. Okay. Oh, that's a great idea. Curriculum Materials to Support Implementation: The curriculum includes a comprehensive set of materials to support implementation. Each rubric describes what RtI looks like across the 6 components of RtI (i.e., problem solving, curriculum & instruction, assessment . tool (e.g, Zones Check-In) Adult does not check for student learning Clinician/Adult - Use this form to monitor your own implementation for adherence, quality, and level of exposure to match the form below. You're not going to go out with your umbrellas. When a coach, principal, or fellow teacher observes instruction, he or she should not provide critical feedback. Allyson: We can hear you now, Joe. The environments in four classrooms were not designed to help children feel a sense of belonging and the sense of belonging that was needed to develop a healthy concept of personal identity important to. So, thinking about your role as an education manager, if you are working with this program and you have this finding, how would you use professional development to support the grantee? Joe: I had some connectivity difficulties. The curriculum offers professional development and materials to support implementation and continuous improvement. The curriculum offers three volumes to support teachers during implementation: Volume 1: The Foundation, Volume 2: Routines & Experiences, and Volume 3: Objectives for Development & Learning. Implementation of The Creative Curriculum for Preschool: Foundation Physical Environment 1. I adhere to that diet. Even in our own lives, natural drift happens from things we commit to. But really thinking about, when we train on a curriculum or when we introduce a new curriculum, are we giving practice-based training, right? Thanks for calling in this afternoon or logging in from wherever you are in the country. Manual. You can then easily cross-reference between the checklist and the CLASS Dimensions Overview or the CLASS Dimensions Guide. 0000004408 00000 n And those are things that you would want to take a look at. Joe, are you there? %PDF-1.4 % And that curriculum is only as strong as the extent to which we implement it with fidelity, right? by. And so Oh, folks are jumping in already. 0000023815 00000 n Joe: Okay, well, those were those were great answers, Allyson, and it looks like we're at 3:59, so I don't think we have time for another question, but I wanted to thank you for coming and being our guest presenter today on this important topic. And you can use the chat box to jot your answers in. However, training on how to treat burn victims in the clinical setting is rarely taught in undergraduate medical classes. Allyson: Okay. Similarly, you can think about the implementation issues across a program or even across several programs within an agency to strengthen your curriculum implementation. And one of the components of that curriculum is a Let's Find Out About It, which happens at morning meetings. So, we'll talk here a little bit about, again, fidelity of implementation, those processes. 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? It's informing the types of things you assess, and those assessments, in turn, are informing your curriculum plans. So, those are the types of things you really want to track over time. They knew that when they were playing in the water table, it was because they were exploring the concept of volume or how you know, how different containers take different amounts of fluid. 0000006537 00000 n 0000023325 00000 n Finally, the curriculum includes two Teacher's Guides with over 40 hours of self-guided professional development. 0000006007 00000 n The classroom is organized to support learning and encourage children to work independently and with peers in self-selected . So you can certainly use those tools. So, as they saw children benefit and really increase their access to and the outcomes from the learning experiences, they were more and more committed to continuing to do it. The online portal houses three introductory videos, which provide an overview of the curriculum materials. And those things should be tied to another part of the performance Standards around professional development and making sure that there is a place for teachers or home visitors to really get one-on-one feedback and supervision and mentoring around the use of the curriculum. Support and guidance can be found by using resources above and the W.H.Y. But since we're talking about curriculum today, Joe and I thought it might be interesting to have you all start with just entering a word or two in the chat box about what you think of when you hear the term "curriculum. What's a curriculum to you, with your program? It comes within that tool kit, and it really walks you through the process of pulling a team together to think about these issues. 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. Okay, I think we might have lost Joe, so I'm going to ask Renita to pull up the scenario at this point. Effective Coaching of Teachers: Completed Sample of Fideilty Tool Worksheet. And then, of course, tying to an individual professional development plan the types of experiences and things that the teacher will do and then that the two of you commit together to come back and work on through maybe using the practice-based coaching approach where you set some goals and work together on those. Coaching to Fidelity includes The Fidelity ToolTeacher Checklist, which helps teachers reflect on their practice, and The Fidelity Tool for Administrators, which helps administrators determine how well teachers are implementing The Creative Curriculum for Preschool in their classrooms. 0000005461 00000 n Implementation Guide for Effective Coaching of Teachers Documents Developed By National Center for Systemic Improvement The purpose of this implementation guide from the National Center for Systemic Improvement is to help practitioners systematically implement effective coaching practices. So, we could sort of think about that as the sort of the way a curriculum What sets your curriculum apart, you know? So, in addition to observation, where you can see that in action, you might look at lesson plans. Even though a tall container looks like it has more, the wide container might have more. High fidelity simulation has been used in teaching for the training and continuing education of health professionals to promote quality, safe and humanized. For instance, if the curriculum guide for this week or this month say that you're going to focus on shapes and all your children already identify shapes well and have really a solid understanding of that concept, you're not going to the activities around shapes, right? Absolutely. The Creative Curriculum for Preschool Classroom Levels of Implementation Introduction to The Fidelity Tool Teacher Checklist Guidelines for Use Sample Implementation Item and Indicators Using The Fidelity Tool Teachers Checklist for Self-Reflection Part I: Implementation of The Creative Curriculum for Preschool: Daily Resources [Laughter]. What we know is that this type of support and P.D. 0000012211 00000 n Allyson: Well, I think a couple of things. Kim is suggesting you could use the ECERS. Date Issued: 2003 Source: Washington, DC: Teaching Strategies Topics: 10. It's your written plan, it's how you're thoughtful about what you're going to be doing in any given day. | Find, read and cite all the research . And it basically says that a program has to support staff to effectively implement curricula and, at a minimum, monitor curriculum implementation and fidelity. So, if you bring all of your teaching staff together or all of your home visitors together, and there's, you know, a shared concern about how to implement a piece of a curriculum, you can problem-solve, and you can teachers can share with one another how they have solved some of those problems. 0000041073 00000 n Lots of great responses coming in. 0000001719 00000 n So is that teacher available to do training? And so that pillar is only as strong as that curriculum. So, what might you see in a program that was really focused on this type of global fidelity over time, right? So [Laughter] What are you going to do? You can't really ever totally wean back. She provides both introductory and more specialized, advanced workshops for teachers, administrators, and professional development providers on how to implement Innovations: The Comprehensive Infant and Toddler Curriculum. 0000042626 00000 n There were no pictures of children's families posted in the classroom. Finally, HighScope offers customized trainings for programs. Registration must be received two weeks before the training. And that guide is called an Ed manager's tool kit. Online courses represent another option for ongoing professional development. 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. 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. Is that training, an asynchronous, sort of 20- minute video that folks watch online and then they're given the curriculum manual and off they go into their classroom? Because it would be meaningless for children. I have my blood drawn. So, when you introduce a new curriculum or maybe when you're doing refresher training or maybe you're introducing a curriculum that augments your foundational curriculum maybe it's a language and literacy add-on to a foundational curriculum you're already using how do you do that initial rollout? And all of those inform how you individualize and modify your curriculum in response to individual children. I love using stories to do, you know, different types of acting out of plots and things. So, if teachers believe that this curriculum is effective, that there's a need for it, that the curriculum will be effective and that they themselves have the ability to carry it out and that, in doing so, that's going to benefit children. But it's also really important to teachers to give them information about how their practice is working or not working for children. 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! HSKo@Wq`{w)DbHUmUfNvgg{%lO* i|rC^?S^OSpyy^sQ6lNt_C. And the other reason that ongoing support is essential is, again, a more pragmatic one, but to prevent drift, okay, or a teacher or program gradually shifting away from implementation fidelity. 0000001905 00000 n The Guide to The Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers & Twos orients teachers to the curriculum materials. So important, right? The other thing you might see is the use of survey or other qualitative methods of gathering feedback from teachers themselves or home visitors. 0000013018 00000 n A checklist was used to record and assess performance in the simulations. So, what that means is that fidelity as implementation occurs when teachers use the instructional strategies to deliver the content in the same way that they were designed to be used and delivered, okay? Professional development includes gaining the knowledge and skills required for effective implementation of a curriculum. So, continuing that ongoing coaching and support really helps teachers stay on it, really helps them see when maybe they're starting to move away from the implementation with fidelity. - Developed curriculum, mentored and tutored students, created assessments and evaluation - Managed small teaching teams, and coordinated weekly responsibilities of a team of learning assistants The Guide to The Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers & Twos orients teachers to the curriculum materials. Joe: Yeah. So, thanks for sharing. 0000018847 00000 n This set includes 13 no-prep templates perfect for exploring shapes, critical thinking, and creativity. So, maybe you have a teacher that's struggling about how to really do that Let's Find Out About It. And then think about employing staff who have the knowledge and capacity to observe and support curriculum fidelity to both content and process. hb``e``Ka Y800* B1Cy9l9TdZ_s0~a"`_"z"1[b/4q=T y#%7Bp3pH310uq20S` ^% endstream endobj 158 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/Index[10 101]/Length 24/Size 111/Type/XRef/W[1 1 1]>>stream And so we're gonna walk through that and give you a minute to look at that. Absolutely. Curriculum Materials to Support Implementation: The curriculum includes a comprehensive set of materials to support implementation. In-person training options for teachers range from a two-day introduction called "Implementing The Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers & Twos, 3rd Edition, to more advanced examinations of specific topics (e.g., partnering with families, supporting language and literacy development). So whether you're using Creative Curriculum or the OWL or HighScope, many of these publishers also publish fidelity tools. Or would that teacher thrive more in a smaller group setting where you can talk through these issues with other teachers? Professional Development: One of the curriculum's authors offers comprehensive standardized initial training and ongoing professional development for an additional fee. $7.00. This engaging Book Discussion Card Supplement for Henny Penny, comes right from the Teaching Guide, so you maintain fidelity to the program and make learning fun. 0000000016 00000 n So just as a reminder, we have two more webinars in this series. Allyson: Well, I think probably the first thing, really, to think about is doing some type of an assessment with a group of folks about what is the curriculum enhancement What's the purpose of that, right? 0000012533 00000 n But if it's one week and it rained every day and it didn't happen, but within the course of a month, you see some that activity or something very similar around helping children understand different textures, then that would still be a curriculum implemented with fidelity, even though it wasn't scripted and it didn't happen in the exact time and place that a curriculum might define. So, in this scenario, we have a grantee who did not implement with fidelity a curriculum promoting young children's school readiness in the area of social- emotional development. 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 . You can have beautiful materials, but if you're not sure how to use them or where to place them in your program or like me when I had teachers in my childcare program it wasn't a Head Start program, but a childcare program we would get new materials once a year. One is the session presentation, where you can, you know, print that off and take notes, and you'll have the slides to keep after the webinar. Standardized training procedures provide consistent content and delivery methods across training sessions. These are terrific. And, again, identify strategies around how a program can ensure that they are implementing their research-based curriculum with fidelity. The curriculum also offers professional learning webinars that can be customized to meet the needs of programs using a pre-webinar questionnaire to identify challenges and share successes. Fidelity refers to implementing a program or curriculum as intended, which can be a key factor in its success and whether it positively moves youth outcomes. We always have to remember to take care of our staff so that they can in turn take care of our children. Certainly, we want to train all education staff to implement the curriculum as intended using any fidelity tools that may be provided by the publisher, and I think several of you mentioned that in our chat box. My tasks included creating checklists and documentation of borrowed pieces, helping with art installations and takedown, receiving art . Marissa is a student with visual impairment She is currently schooled in an from PSED 5 123 at Our Lady of Fatima University Probably lots of you are familiar with that approach. And so in that way, collecting information about curriculum fidelity can really be helpful. Yes. Zip. Use this document to understand and explore curriculum fidelity. So, if you're using the creative curriculum and there's a certain amount of autonomous exploration of interest areas, you want to make sure that teachers are making time for that, particularly in shorter days, where scheduling might get in the way. Is that an issue of teachers feeling insecure about that area? We're really excited to kick this webinar series off. How do we ensure that? 0000005044 00000 n coaching on teachers' ability to implement The Creative Curriculum with fidelity. What is our data telling us, and then how is that data reflected in the decisions we make about selections, augmentation, implementation of curriculum? Display photos and art. So, over time, if you saw that a teacher, you know, never went out and did that activity on texture you know, it was months and months, and that piece was never addressed that's one thing. Does this curriculum meet maybe all of the critical domains in the ELOF, and does it meet or address activities in support of the school readiness goals we've set for our children, and if not, what is missing? And then if there is a significant thing missing that a curriculum and augmentation might address, then you would go about looking at that and really, I would say, bringing the group together to figure out goodness of fit between your different curricular options and your program needs, your family culture, the local community needs, and then really develop a plan whereby you can think about sort of the initial rollout and training and then the ongoing P.D. No, "The Fidelity Tool" is a self-assessment tool that helps programs to assess if Creative Curriculum is being fully implemented. 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. Now, that sounds like a tall order, but when you really think about the ways in which we are already coaching staff to do some of these things, you can sort of use other data you're collecting to inform this. All of those things are things that you would think about in terms of fidelity. But maybe I really stay away from the science pieces of a curriculum because I'm not really as confident there. And I want to emphasize the "over time" and its importance here because what we don't want curriculum fidelity to be is a scripted response to curriculum implementation. So, programs that are committed to ensuring fidelity have processes in place to ensure that, over time, things are happening in a consistent way. It can be confusing to a home visitor, what her curriculum is. Find a Head Start job near you or anywhere in the U.S. Curriculum Implementation Fidelity Handout, Curriculum Implementation Fidelity Power Point Handout, Curriculum Implementation Fidelity - Scenario I, Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning. Your students will love playing fashion designer as they use the magnetic tiles to create clothes for each template. 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. 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. I have normed the classroom, so all students are included and engaged in the learning process 14. Is the teacher, you know, not sure how to use her formative assessment to tailor or individualize a particular activity? The curriculum features 13 Activity Guides that provide weekly lesson plans. Is it that children are just really focused on a different they have different interests at this moment? And so the continuum is a little bit of a falsity, right? We can have natural biases about the types of things we love to do in our classrooms. Curriculum Materials to Support Implementation: The curriculum includes a comprehensive set of materials to support implementation. Allyson: It's probably the best you can do. So, I think about this, something just, you know, really straightforward. We'll talk about professional development support and the ongoing assessment of child learning, okay? And then probably the most important piece is the quality of delivery, right? 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. And so you can see the definition up here, and it's a fairly straightforward and simple one. And do I have opportunities myself to think about what I need to do this well and how I think I'm doing? that are really important. Professional Development: Frog Street offers a range of in-person courses, including both initial (Frog Street Infant Curriculum Implementation) and ongoing (Frog Street Infant Curriculum Follow-Up) training sessions. You're gonna want to see that staff are regularly documenting children's knowledge and skills, that they're making modifications, that they're using appropriate strategies, for instance, for children who are dual-language learners.

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