High Scope Education

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What is High Scope Education?

Early childhood curriculum that promotes active participatory learning
It Offers:
- Infant Toddler Educational Care
- Preschool Education
- Early Literacy
- Music and Movement
- Elementary Education
- Youth Development
Follow 3 Main Things
- Research
- Application
- Validation
Supports active learning, where the children's interests are taken to heart
Adult-Child interaction
- The curriculum follows the idea of shared control, where the adults give children enough freedom to be able to learn and express themselves but also give limits so that the children feel safe
Interest Areas-designed for specific types of play to help with development in certain areas
Provides a daily routine
- Plan-Do-Review Method
  - Plan: Children make their own intentional plan about where they are going to choose to play
  - Do: Children then implement that plan by going and playing where they made a plan to play
  - Review: Children recall on and explain what things they did with an adult

High Scope is an advocate for early childhood practices
Assessment tools are available for use by non-High Scope programs as well as programs that do use High Scope Curriculum
Gather information in ways that are natural and comfortable for children and adults
Assess young children to see how they are developing and to measure how the programs children attend contribute to the children's growth
Authentic assessment provides teachers with valuable and practical information to understand and plan for the developmental needs of their students in everyday classroom activities to strengthen the program
Provides accurate data that can be used for individual child planning and policy-level decision making

The curriculum gives teachers the guidelines for what their classrooms need to include
- Teachers use those guidelines to base what their classroom is like and how their classroom runs by following each component
Child Observation Record
- Teachers observe the children and write down anecdotes about the child's behavior. They use these notes to keep track of the children's progress and to help them better meet the needs of the children by gearing lesson plans to their specific needs
- They enter these into the computer and it keeps track of their children's progress

Parents are given progress reports that come from the COR's that the teachers are observing and collecting
- This helps parents to better understand where their children stand and lets them know the progress that they have made