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The preschool programs will be taught by a Sioux City Community School District Early Childhood Special Education Teacher and supported by two/three Para-Educators.
This will offer the opportunity for children with and without disabilities to learn and play together in an integrated setting. The Sioux City Community School District also offers another special education programming for preschool children.
The curriculum framework is based on the Creative Curriculum, GOLD Assessment, the State of Iowa Board of Education Early Learning Standards, and by each student’s Individual Education Plan – IEP (if applicable). Plans are tailored to meet each individual student’s educational needs.
At the heart of the Teaching Strategies approach to early childhood education is The Creative Curriculum®, the country’s leading scientifically based, comprehensive curriculum for programs serving children from birth to age 5.
We believe that the curriculum should be integrated with high-quality assessment, professional development, and family connection resources to create a well-rounded program that addresses the needs of early childhood education professionals, children, and their families.
The Creative Curriculum® helps you plan and implement a developmentally appropriate program that promotes children’s social-emotional development and learning in the core areas of literacy, mathematics, science, and social studies.
It combines the latest research and the freshest ideas into a forward-thinking approach to learning–one that honors creativity and respects the role that teachers play in making learning exciting and relevant for every child in their classrooms.
Our unique approach is designed to inspire teachers, to help them create a high-quality learning environment and, most of all, to support their important efforts as they open doors to successful learning.
With The Creative Curriculum®, every program can put together a complete system that promotes positive outcomes for all children, including English-language learners, children with disabilities, and advanced learners. More information on Creative Curriculum can be found here.
Social-Emotional
Regulates own emotions and behaviors
Manages feelings
Follows limits and expectations
Takes care of own needs appropriately
Establishes and sustains positive relationships
Forms relationships with adults
Responds to emotional cues
Interacts with peers
Makes friends
Participates cooperatively and constructively in group situations
Balances needs and rights of self and others
Solves social problems
Physical
Demonstrates traveling skills
Demonstrates balancing skills
Demonstrates gross-motor manipulative skills
Demonstrates fine-motor strength and coordination
Uses fingers and hands
Uses writing and drawing tools
Language
Listens to and understands increasingly complex language
Comprehends language
Follows directions
Uses language to express thoughts and needs
Uses an expanding expressive vocabulary
Speaks clearly
Uses conventional grammar
Tells about another time or place
Uses appropriate conversational and other communication skills
Engages in conversations
Uses social rules of language
Cognitive
Demonstrates positive approaches to learning
Attends and engages
Persists
Solves problems
Shows curiosity and motivation
Shows flexibility and inventiveness in thinking
Remembers and connects experiences
Recognizes and recalls
Makes connections
Uses classification skills
Uses symbols and images to represent something not present
Thinks symbolically
Engages in sociodramatic play
Literacy
Demonstrates phonological awareness
Notices and discriminates rhyme
Notices and discriminates alliteration
Notices and discriminates smaller and smaller units of sound
Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet
Identifies and names letters
Uses letter-sound knowledge
Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses
Uses and appreciates books
Uses print concepts
Comprehends and responds to books and other texts
Interacts during read-aloud and book conversations
Uses emergent reading skills
Retells stories
Demonstrates emergent writing skills
Writes name
Writes to convey meaning
Mathematics
Uses number concepts and operations
Counts
Quantifies
Connects numerals with their quantities
Explores and describes spatial relationships and shapes
Understands spatial relationships
Understands shapes
Compares and measures
Demonstrates knowledge of patterns
Science and Technology
Uses scientific inquiry skills
Demonstrates knowledge of the characteristics of living things
Demonstrates knowledge of the physical properties of objects and materials
Demonstrates knowledge of Earth’s environment
Uses tools and other technology to perform tasks
Social Studies
Demonstrates knowledge about self
Shows basic understanding of people and how they live
Explores change related to familiar people or places
Demonstrates simple geographic knowledge
The Arts
Explores the visual arts
Explores musical concepts and expression
Explores dance and movement concepts
Explores drama through actions and language
English Language Acquisition
Demonstrates progress in listening to and understanding English
Demonstrates progress in speaking English