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. So, let's talk a little bit about what curriculum fidelity is. Comprehensive early childhood curriculum, assessment, and training resources for early childhood educators. that are really important. So, now we're gonna switch to think about actual individual activity, individual lesson fidelity, which really provides more of the sort of in-the-moment information about the way a curriculum activity is implemented within the learning setting, okay? 0000023325 00000 n So, a lot of people are bringing up the notion of, you know, "I'm not sure that we're meeting our curriculum with fidelity. 0000025350 00000 n Each rubric describes what RtI looks like across the 6 components of RtI (i.e., problem solving, curriculum & instruction, assessment . It's holding up highly individualized teaching and learning. Asia-Pacific early childhood care and education: teacher training handbook for social and emotional learning Corporate author : UNESCO Office Bangkok and Regional Bureau for Education in Asia and the Pacific Person as author : Singh Diwan, Monisha [author] Document code : TH/C3-5134/IQE/22/022-HB Date Issued: 2003 Source: Washington, DC: Teaching Strategies Topics: 10. 0000041326 00000 n So you may have terrific up- front orientation, maybe you bring in the office of a curriculum, you do coaching, you do all of these things in the first three months. Every human being has the right to safe, dignified and harm-free care in health institutions. 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. But has it been, you know, a month and a half and staff have been able to plan together? Online courses represent another option for ongoing professional development. Allyson: We can hear you now, Joe. So, the extent to which teachers feel prepared to implement the curriculum. 0000016981 00000 n Fidelity Observer(s) - Use this form to score implementation fidelity on four key elements. And we just wanted to get kicked off today with this definition because we know that sometimes it's confusing to staff. I think we have time for one more question. So, thanks for sharing. So being able to go and and maybe visit another program and see how others are doing that, as well. And do I have opportunities myself to think about what I need to do this well and how I think I'm doing? Do we ourselves or do you as Ed managers feel like you need some more support to fully understand a curriculum in order to support staff in implementing it? Assisted with exhibition design, curation, and planning. Kim is saying that the grantee needs to make sure that proper materials are available. In addition, I would look for the tools coming out in the next two months around curriculum, implementing the curriculum using the ELOF to enhance curriculum. So, those are some of the key aspects of 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. However, the curriculum lacks additional materials to support implementation, such as teaching resources that offer comprehensive guidance on foundational aspects of curriculum implementation (e.g., how to set up the physical environment, establish individualized schedules, engage families) or any training or coaching resources. The included Professional Development Teacher Membership offers flexible courses provided in a variety of formats, including all CDA and CCDF training, and a built-in online professional learning community. A fellow Mainer. 0000043178 00000 n digging tools, containers for filling and dumping, other props such as sieves, slotted spoons, cookie cutters, animal and people figurines_ . Peter, job shadowing. 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. And so in programs where you're seeing a high degree of implementation fidelity or processes to support that, you're going to see staff focus on the specific goals identified in the lesson plan. Designed for use with the Creative Curriculum Teaching Strategies Gold, these resources are aligned to the Teaching Guides to help you maintain fidelity to the curriculum. along with that, right? 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. Resources used in the formation of this checklist include: The Creative Curriculum, The CAP of WI Head Start Policy and Procedure Manual, Head Start Performance Standards (HSPS), and the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale. You're not going to go out with your umbrellas. 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. 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. Professional development includes gaining the knowledge and skills required for effective implementation of a curriculum. Go ahead and have a minute there to chat that in. Okay, so, Jamie is saying they could use real-life photos of people and children of different cultures. Welcome back. 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? So thank you again, thank you, Allyson, and thank you to Renita, who's our support staff today. You want to hear from teachers and home visitors about their challenges in curriculum implementation, what things they feel particularly good about, how well the curriculum meets the needs of the children and family in their program. I'm with NCECDTL. And one of the components of that curriculum is a Let's Find Out About It, which happens at morning meetings. Curriculum fidelity refers to how closely programs apply curriculum content and processes as they are designed. Education researchers may value the inclusion of empirical studies, key . So, you're going to want to know if your program is using assessment data over time and that that formative assessment data is used to inform curriculum modification. 0000041073 00000 n In addition, this tool is intended to be used in conjunction with several other NCSI coaching resources found on the website. So, curriculum is all of these things, and it also includes all of the things that you're all entering in the chat box. 0000018847 00000 n The Creative Curriculum comes alive! I love, you know, maybe the literacy component of a curriculum. Allyson: Well, I think a couple of things. Here's another reason to think about curriculum fidelity. And it's the same for teachers, particularly when they have so many things really pulling on their time and their focus. When a coach, principal, or fellow teacher observes instruction, he or she should not provide critical feedback. So, again, tying these pieces of P.D. I think reassuring people and just helping people understand, when do you know fidelity is met? My tasks included creating checklists and documentation of borrowed pieces, helping with art installations and takedown, receiving art . Build relationships and garner insights. Is it that children are just really focused on a different they have different interests at this moment? Background: As the European population ages, it becomes increasingly important to promote and facilitate healthy and active ageing and age-friendly societies. Fidelity monitoring refers to a system of measuring and analyzing the degree to which a program is implemented as intended. That That would Those are really the things that you need to do, just like we tried to figure out how to support children, you know, looking at what data tells us, asking teachers what they need, and then trying to come around and provide those in a meaningful way. Even though a tall container looks like it has more, the wide container might have more. that will be required to really start to implement a new piece of curriculum. 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. Both tools assess the fidelity of implementation of the Daily Resources, The Foundation, and Teaching Strategies GOLD. Do you have the resources to support them? 0000010418 00000 n coaching on teachers' ability to implement The Creative Curriculum with fidelity. Finally, the curriculum includes two Teacher's Guides with over 40 hours of self-guided professional development. Your students will love playing fashion designer as they use the magnetic tiles to create clothes for each template. And part of using research-based professional development is using a coaching or a modeling approach that provides real-time, specific feedback. Resources to put child photos. 0000019237 00000 n Great. Finally, the Daily Resources provide teachers with more specific guidance on how to engage children in learning experiences throughout the day (e.g., Intentional Teaching Cards, Mighty Minutes, Book Conversation Cards). And in addition, I'm going to read it out loud here. Probably the most important tool for you to look for is anything that came with your published curriculum. And so we're gonna walk through that and give you a minute to look at that. And so when we think about research-based, that means that we chose these curricula because somewhere in the research, we found that there was maybe a good fit for the children and families in our program and that there was perhaps some evidence or implementation data that we have that says that it's going to be helpful for children and families. The Teacher is responsible for performance expectations, child outcomes, compliance and adherence to policies that create a safe and active learning environment for all children in their care. 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? And that's important, right, because if we believe in something and we believe it's something we can do with support and that it will be beneficial to children, we're gonna continue to do it, and we're gonna continue to work hard to do it well. It comes within that tool kit, and it really walks you through the process of pulling a team together to think about these issues. 0000008207 00000 n Joe Preece: Hello. This document aligns with the Rubric of Effective Practices from TX CAN Indicator I: Alignment to State Standards - Components 1, 3, and 3a, Indicator II: Effective Teams - Components 3 and 4, Indicator IV: Differentiated Instruction - Component 7 and Indicator . The rubric offers informa-tion and guidelines for how to score coaches on the fidelity worksheet. Okay. One will be January 24, and the other will be March 28th. And then of course, as I said earlier, we know that curriculum fidelity is important because our Head Start Program Performance Standards really outline this as a key factor in high-quality early-learning programs, as defined within the Head Start Standards. Beautiful Beginnings: A Developmental Curriculum for Infants and Toddlers. You know, why If the science area isn't utilized, why not? Implementation of Curriculum with Fidelity. Fidelity checks consist of three variables: the data collection method, the frequency of data collection, and the support system to maintain and improve the implementation of the intervention. And that's not just to answer the fundamental question of, "How well is the curriculum working for the children? although that's that's, you know, critical, particularly when we think about the Head Start Standards around individualizing and using data to individualize. 0000012211 00000 n So, if a child isn't progressing as planned and you have some concerns, it can be helpful for teachers or a home visitor to really examine how the teaching was implemented, how the curriculum was adhered to, and where there was effectiveness of instruction and where maybe there wasn't, right? Additional courses cover a wide range of content, such as family engagement and how to plan age-appropriate activities in each domain. Now, if you look to the left pillar on your screen, research-based curriculum and teaching practices, and you think about all that that pillar is doing in this house, right? 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? Discover research about why curriculum fidelity is important. These things seem obvious, but, again, when you're thinking about global fidelity over time, it's one thing to miss planning time, you know, once in a while because staff are out and it's just too overwhelming. It's almost like triaging. And this really speaks to what I was talking about earlier in terms of drift. 0000003049 00000 n With changes in the Head Start Performance Standards and increased focus on implementing a programs chosen curriculum with fidelity, ABC Head Start decided to start by assessing how faithfully teachers were using the curriculum. Scores approached 100% accuracy/completion for all stations. 0000016471 00000 n %PDF-1.4 % 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. That might be something you'd want to think about when you're assessing how your program is supporting curriculum fidelity. Karen Campbell Sawyer Oh, I recognize that name. Okay. We spend so much time focused on making sure that learning is meaningful and relevant for children, and we need to do the same thing for our staff, to do real and meaningful professional development. 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. You know, that's a. Okay. So, maybe you might use the ITERS. trailer <<47499F57DC9C49C1B77ECB9652180DE5>]/Prev 61417/XRefStm 1545>> startxref 0 %%EOF 159 0 obj <>stream Teacher Time Series Promoting Children's Development and Lea. So, in addition to observation, where you can see that in action, you might look at lesson plans. There were critical things. Allyson? I adhere to that exercise routine. Is that an issue of teachers feeling insecure about that area? And so you can see the definition up here, and it's a fairly straightforward and simple one. Authors update them. And so that pillar is only as strong as that curriculum. So, those types of things. 0000006537 00000 n 0000003898 00000 n We'll talk about professional development support and the ongoing assessment of child learning, okay? I get my cholesterol levels. That What a great idea, right? Kim is suggesting you could use the ECERS. So monitoring and looking across your own programs for curriculum fidelity is important, but more important is what are you going to do with that data when you find it? 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. Teachers do not follow through with jobs, including using loss of a job as punishment. So, as a result of all of those things and you can see here multiple classrooms, multiple programs within an agency having the same issue around authentic resources and materials to support diversity these as a result of these things, the monitoring finding was that grantee did not implement with fidelity a curriculum promoting young children's school readiness in the area of social-emotional development and therefore was not in compliance with the regulations. And so what This is taken directly from those new Standards. You might see certainly performance-based assessment data used to determine, you know, different types of coaching models used, maybe a more intensive versus a less intensive or peer-based approach, depending on what your data's telling you about how curriculum is being implemented across classrooms. 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. (ongoing) It's informing the types of things you assess, and those assessments, in turn, are informing your curriculum plans. All of those things are things that you would think about in terms of fidelity. Prefill your email content below, and then select your email client to send the message. PDF. 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. Oh, that's a great idea. Professional Development: The curriculum publisher does not offer standardized initial training or ongoing professional development opportunities. Standardized initial training options include two in-person courses: a one-week introduction to the curriculum and a four-week training that covers the five major topics in the "HighScope Infant-Toddler Wheel of Learning:" active learning, adult-child interaction, learning environment, schedule and routines, and assessment. Why did you choose the Creative Curriculum? If you're having trouble reading this because we do want to keep the chat box open I want to remind you that you have it as a handout in the "supporting documents" pod on your screen. You can then easily cross-reference between the checklist and the CLASS Dimensions Overview or the CLASS Dimensions Guide. It's the extent to which a curriculum, including its content and processes, are implemented as designed by the developers. Prefill your email content below, and then select your email client to send the message. The curriculum also provides an Infant Activity Tracker to help teachers organize which activities they will focus on for each child. Conclusions: Examination of a diverse sample of . When using the Creative Curriculum Small Group Activities, you can use this form to collect assessment data on the students that complete the activity, then can transfer it quickly into your TS GOLD assessment portfolios. PDF | Background Junior doctors are often the first responders to acutely unwell patients and yet frequently report feeling under-prepared to do so. 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? 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. And really that's about ensuring that teachers are getting and all staff are getting support, feedback, supervision for continuous improvement. And I change my lifestyle, and I'm really, really good. So, in addition to purchasing them, making sure teachers feel confident in using them. And that one seems pretty important, right? We have two additional Ed Manager webinar series coming up, one in January, on the 24th, and one in March, on the 28th, at the same time. Joe: I had some connectivity difficulties. Professionals across a range of disciplines and sectors need knowledge and skills to observer can complete the Fidelity Tool Work-sheet. Well, probably not. So, I'm gonna turn now just to sort of outline some of the features from the research again that are critical to successful implementation of curriculum. It's, in a cyclical way, informing your interactions, the way you set up your environment. 0000026080 00000 n Finally, HighScope offers customized trainings for programs. So, if you're already working, for instance, with teaching staff around the CLASS pre-K indicators under instructional learning format, for instance so, all of those things where you're asking staff to be thoughtful about using advanced organizers or re-orienting children back to the purpose of a lesson or some of those summary statements that, again, help children connect why they're doing certain things, what the purpose of activities is, what you're really what they're really what you're hoping they're going to get out of the activity. gold coaching to fidelity fidelity tool teacher checklist 5 volumes fidelity tool for administrators 5 volumes, 1 login to the creative curriculum web site www creativecurriculum net with your username and password provided to you by teaching strategies via e mail your administrator must create your username for you 2 to confirm *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. 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. And so Oh, folks are jumping in already. Research & Evaluation Methods > 10.3. You might want to familiarize yourself with where the chat box is. All of us who've been teachers have been there, right? So is that teacher available to do training? Again, thank you for being on. Absolutely. The Art of Keeping Your Sanity. Though, again, thinking about the competencies of the staff that you're going to hire maybe to oversee curriculum fidelity processes or maybe to support staff to build their skills. Measure and improve fidelity. Marissa is a student with visual impairment She is currently schooled in an from PSED 5 123 at Our Lady of Fatima University And I think about it because I spent sort of the last three years of my life really researching implementation of curricula and other supports to improve class instructional support scores in Head Start program as part of my dissertation research and, really, to a "T," whether a teacher has implemented maybe a stronger focus on quality of feedback in the class or maybe they focused on implementing the OWL curriculum or other curriculum that was maybe a little more structured than they had been used to.