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UCP Preschool Staff Completes Curriculum Training
In July 2008, UCP Preschool staff completed Project Construct Curriculum training.
As children of all abilities are taught in the same classrooms beginning this fall, UCP is adopting Project Construct Curriculum, a curriculum that links what UCP Preschool students do with state and national standards.
According to Director of Children’s Programs Heather Weddle, UCP teaching staff has always been well informed about child development, various teaching strategies, and classroom environment. Weddle said, “Project Construct Curriculum gives us a framework to aid in classroom planning, ongoing child assessment and goal setting both for the classroom and individual children.” Adopting this particular curriculum should help parents be even more secure in knowing that their children are being adequately prepared for what will be expected of them in kindergarten.
With Project Construct Curriculum, UCP Preschool will:
• Use children’s interests to motivate and engage learning by encouraging the children to choose topics of interest, to make choices of materials, etc.
• Encourage children to cooperate and work together
• Allow children to take initiative, express opinions and make choices
• Continually assess each child’s development within the social, cognitive, communication and physical domains to include pre-literacy and pre-writing skills
• Increase the ways that we share information with families and opportunities for family involvement
• Increase the wonder of physical and social environments for children by increasing the amount of their displayed artwork, increasing nature and other elements for them to touch and explore, increasing the time they have to pursue activities of interest, and much more!
For more information about Project Construct Curriculum, go to http://www.projectconstruct.org
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