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CURRICULUM for Infants and Toddlers?

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OBJECTIVES

• Explain what is meant by curriculum for infants and toddlers

• Describe the aspects of early care and education that are a part of an infant/toddler curriculum

• Define what is meant by developmentally appropriate curricula for infants/toddlers

• Describe the development and implantation of individualized curriculum for an infant and toddler

CURRICULUM

• What infants and toddler experience

– What they learn from those experiences

– How they learn from those experiences

CAREGIVER’S ROLE

• Observe and reflect• Support the learning process through– Interactions– Relationships– Environment

QUOTE

“Experts agree that the primary need of infants and

toddlers is emotional connection. Relationships are

the key and emotional development is the critical

domain.”~ Lloyd-Jones

DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE PRACTICE (DAP)

• What is known about…– Child development – Strengths and needs of the child– Cultural contexts

SIMPLISTIC VIEW… a cycle

Observation/Documentation

Reflection/Planning

Implementation

REALISTIC VIEW… overlaps

OBSERVATION DOCUMENTATION

REFLECTION PLANNING

IMPLEMENTATION

OBSERVATION OF DEVELOPMENT

• What skills has the child mastered in:– Communication or language?– Cognition?– Motor development?– Social skills?– Emotional development/self-regulation?

OBSERVATION

• Frustration or challenge?

• Engage attention?

• React to objects and people?

QUOTE

“Documentation is the intentional recording of daily

experiences in the infant/toddler environment in

order to capture and communicate children’s

learning and development.”~ WestEd

ROUTINES

• Arrival and departure

• Meals and snacks

• Diapering/toileting

• Napping

ENVIRONMENT

• Safety

• Health

• Comfort

• Convenient

• Child-sized

• Flexibility

• Movement

• Choice

SCENARIO

Picking a Curriculum

• Focus on relationship

• Primary caregiving

• Development in fall domains

• Stages of infancy

• Individualized

Picking a Curriculum (con’t)

• Safety

• Process

• Family focus

• Theory and research

• Learning Standards

IT WEEKLY LESSON PLAN

• Cognitive Development

• Language & Literacy– Book– Song

• Creative Expression

• Social, Emotional & Personal Development

• Gross Motor Development

• Fine Motor Development

INFANT LESSON PLAN

• Cognitive Development

• Language Development

• Social Development

• Emotional Development

• Fine Motor Development

• Cognitive Development

• Language Development

• Social Development

• Emotional Development

• Fine Motor Development

DAILY SHEET

EVALUATION

PD CERTIFICATE

• This Professional Development session will appear on your PD History on the PA Key website within 2-4 weeks.

• You will be able to print your certificate after we have received the Reflection Tool and Survey Monkey evaluation.

SURVEY MONKEY

• Please complete the Reflection Tool and email it to me at slcohick@stepcorp.org within 5 business days.

• Additionally, please complete the following evaluation on Survey Monkey to provide feedback regarding this session.http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DZGKXF3