Curriculum for infants and toddlers: HighScope Infant-Toddler Curriculum

HighScope Infant-Toddler Curriculum

How We Teach

Your youngest learners need to feel safe and supported so they can learn with their whole body and all of their senses. In a HighScope infant and toddler program, teachers focus on developing supportive, trusting relationships with the children in their care. We create rich environments that encourage very young children to explore and discover the world around them, helping them to engage in experiences designed to support their optimal development in all domains.

At HighScope we value and respect parents as their children’s first teachers. That’s why we encourage teachers to partner with parents in learning everything they can about their infants and toddlers to better care for their needs and plan for their development. As a result, our programs create a strong three-way bond between child, parent, and caregiver.

Active learning is at the center of the HighScope Curriculum. It’s the foundation where young children gain knowledge through their natural play and interactions with the environment, events, and other people.

Adult-Child Interaction

Nurturing, responsive teachers practice primary caregiving and continuity of care by scaffolding the individual needs and temperaments of infants and toddlers. Key strategies for adult-child interactions are touching, holding, playing alongside infants and toddlers at their level and pace, communicating in give-and-take exchanges verbally and nonverbally, respecting children’s choices and encouraging their efforts, acknowledging children’s strong emotions, and involving toddlers in resolving conflicts.

Learning Environment

The physical space is safe, flexible, and child oriented to provide comfort and accommodate the changing developmental needs and interests of the earliest learners. The space is organized into play and care areas that serve the needs of infants and toddlers and stocked with a variety of sensory-motor materials that infants and toddlers can reach, explore, and play with in their own way at their own pace. With nurturing and responsive caregivers as a home base, infants and toddlers are free to move about, explore materials, exercise creativity, and solve problems.

Schedules and Routines

A consistent yet flexible routine that accommodates individual children’s natural rhythms and temperaments gives infants and toddlers a sense of security and stability that creates trust between the child and teacher and builds independence as children engage with their environment and the people around them. Each routine is built around daily events and caregiving routines that value infants’ and toddlers’ active learning.

Observation

Ongoing child and program assessment is an underlying component of the HighScope Curriculum. Objective observations of children allow teachers to intentionally plan to build on individual and group interests and scaffold development by supporting what children know while gently extending their learning.

What We Teach

Grounded in current child development theory and research, the HighScope Infant-Toddler Curriculum is evidence-based. Our framework for understanding and supporting infants’ and toddlers’ learning from birth to age three is based on 42 key developmental indicators (KDIs) which align with national and state early learning guidelines and the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework.

In the HighScope Infant-Toddler Curriculum, learning is focused on these six content areas:

• Approaches to Learning
• Social and Emotional Development
• Physical Development and Health
• Communication, Language, and Literacy
• Cognitive Development
• Creative Arts

Infant-Toddler Curriculum Content

Early learning and development in these six content areas is guided by 42 key developmental indicators (KDIs) — the skills and behaviors at each stage of development that pave the way for school and adult success. Each KDI is connected to and reinforced by scaffolding strategies to help teachers appropriately support and gently extend children’s learning.

The HighScope key developmental indicators

• Provide teachers with a child development “filter” for observing and choosing appropriate interactions and activities
• Help teachers interpret what young children say and do along a developmental continuum
• Enable teachers to maintain reasonable expectations for young children
• Reinforce children’s play as the primary mechanism for learning
• Allow teachers to be more knowledgeable and intentional in their daily planning for individual children and the class

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Everyday moments with infants, toddlers, and twos present opportunities to build upon their natural curiosity. Create meaningful interactions that help young children learn to regulate their emotions and behaviors, participate in a group, develop relationships with people in their lives, and have confidence in their own learning.

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Focus on Intentional Caregiving

Utilize resources designed specifically to support the unique demands of each day in an infants, toddlers, and twos program. Teachers and caregivers can provide children with the opportunity to develop secure attachments through developmentally appropriate resources that allow them to gain confidence as learners.

Address the Unique Needs, Interests, and Abilities of All Children

Every child is different, so it’s no surprise that they learn differently, too. Easily meet an infant, toddler, or 2-year-old exactly at their level with a unique color-coded progression that shows the typical development of a skill from birth through third grade.

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Ensure Success With Embedded Guidance

Embedded professional development in the curriculum resources and in our set of foundation volumes supports teachers and caregivers as they create a path for success for our youngest learners. We are here to support you every step of the way with online professional development, sessions, and coaching.

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Auto-populate your calendar with curricular resources, add activities you already use, and easily adjust your plans. Connect with families from the start with family-friendly resources, including monthly curated, multimedia playlists; planning and care forms; Highlights Hello family sets, At-Home Guided Learning Plans; Guided Learning Experiences; family Mighty Minutes; and LearningGames.

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The Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers & Twos has allowed my teachers to provide meaningful and engaging activities in their classrooms. It provides components teachers can use to ensure they are reaching the whole child, including social–emotional skills, cognitive skills, language, and physical development. The Creative Curriculum Cloud was a great addition for my teachers and parents.

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Our infant and toddler curriculum rounded in knowledge of child development and the latest theory and research from the field and is based on what is appropriate for all children.

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Aligned to early learning guidelines in each state and the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework

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Introduce 2-year-olds to hands-on study explorations, while still maintaining responsive routines and caregiving with our Expanded Daily Resources for Twos.

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School programs – for elementary grades

Today we will talk about 7 work programs for elementary grades – from first to fourth. And you can rate them.
and find out which is right for your child.

What are the types of programs for grades 1-4

The textbooks that first-graders will use at school are approved by the Ministry of Education. Those programs
that comply with the Federal State Educational Standards are published in a single list – the federal list of textbooks. The ones that didn’t hit it
can only be used as additional materials. Checking a particular textbook is easy – it can be
make on the portal of the federal
list of textbooks.

Programs for elementary grades approved by the Ministry of Education can be divided into only 2 types:
traditional and developmental. Let’s see how they differ.

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Popular Elementary School Programs

Now let’s move on to the main thing – let’s talk about modern school programs common in Russia for
junior high school students. All of them are included in the federal list of textbooks for 2023 and are considered the best.

EMC “School of Russia”

This program is one of the most popular. Its basis is traditional Soviet methods combined with modern
elements: e.g. digital technologies. The goal of the program for grades 1-4 is to adapt the student in the team and
help to learn the skills that will be useful in the VPR. Currently, the textbooks of the EMC “School of Russia” are used by
most public schools.

There is an opinion that this program is too extended. According to her materials, children learn at a slow pace, and her workload is
the easiest of all in this article. Children who were engaged in additional training will learn from it
boring. But for first graders without counting, reading and writing skills, it is well suited.

The EMC “School of Russia” includes textbooks on subjects: Russian language, literary reading, mathematics, the world around,
informatics, fine arts, music, technology, physical education, ORKSE, foreign languages.

Authors of textbooks : V. G. Goretsky, M. I. Moro, A. A. Pleshakov, V. P. Kanakina, L. M. Zelenina, L.
F. Klimanov and others.

UMK “RITM”

RITM is an abbreviation that means “Development. Individuality. Creation. Thinking”. The goal of the WMC is to develop
child all these qualities. This is a flexible program that allows the teacher to build lessons at different paces. Assignments in
textbooks are divided by difficulty levels, for each subject there are additional materials. All this makes
education
variable in elementary school. Thanks to this, the program is suitable for children with different abilities and knowledge base.

The UMK “RITM” includes textbooks on subjects: Russian language, literary reading, mathematics, the world around,
informatics, fine arts, music, technology, physical culture.

Authors of textbooks : T. G. Ramzaeva, L. I. Timchenko, K. E. Korepova, G. M. Grekhneva, G. K. and O. V.
Muravina, E. V. and A. I. Saplina and others.

EMC “Planet of Knowledge”

Planet of Knowledge is another program based on a flexible approach to learning. The authors compiled it
So,
in order not to overload students in elementary school and help them adapt to new conditions. At the same time, the tasks were divided
levels: basic and advanced. Many of them are for independent work. This allows the child to learn
make decisions on your own and develop motivation in your studies.

But, unlike the same EMC “RITM”, this program requires preschool training. To comfortably engage in her
textbooks, a first grader should be able to read, count and write. Even if he only performs basic tasks.

The “Planet of Knowledge” UMC includes textbooks on the following subjects: Russian language, literary reading, mathematics, environmental
world,
informatics, technology, fine arts, ORKSE, music, physical culture.

Textbook authors : T. M. Andrianova, V. A. Ilyukhina, L. Ya. Zheltovskaya, O. B. Kalinina, M. I.
Bashmakov, M. G. Nefedova,
G. G. Ivanochenkova, I. V. Potapov, E. V. and A. I. Saplin, etc.

UMK “Perspektiva”

This is a program that helps direct children’s interest and curiosity towards learning. But not worth it
think,
that fun tasks with a creative touch make it easy. Just the opposite. Mathematics course at UMK
“Perspective” is more difficult than the average, because it includes a lot of tasks on logic and the basics of geometry. Therefore, it is important
so that the child has passed preschool training and already knows how to count. Otherwise, the curriculum will seem too
complex.

UMK “Perspektiva” includes textbooks on subjects: Russian language, literary reading, mathematics, the world around,
Fine arts, technology, physical culture, ORKSE, foreign languages.

Authors of textbooks : L. F. Klimanova, S. G. Makeeva, G. V. Dorofeev, T. A. Rudchenko, A. L. Semenov,
A. A. Pleshakov and
others

TMC “Perspective Primary School”

Perspective Elementary School has chosen the same goal as Perspective: to develop the child’s motivation to
study.
So that children can learn new things visually and study with interest, they are accompanied in the lessons by heroes – Misha and Masha.
The textbooks themselves are full of colorful illustrations, and the authors divided the topics in different colors.

The purpose of the school program: to teach the child to work with a large amount of information and develop emotional intelligence.
At the same time, the “Perspective Primary School” TMC is not so difficult, so children without preschool education also
will be
interesting to work on it.

The TMC “Promising Primary School” includes textbooks in the following subjects: Russian language, literary reading, mathematics,
informatics and ICT, the world around us, ORKSE, technology, music, fine arts, physical education, English.

Authors of textbooks : N. G. and Yu. A. Agarkov, N. A. Churakova, A. L. Chekin, S. G. Ter-Minasova and others.

Primary school of the XXI century

This is a program for first-graders, which was developed by the doctor of pedagogical sciences N. F. Vinogradova. Her goal is
to form the logic of the child in a playful way, to teach him to work independently and make decisions. textbooks
are full
complex tasks for ingenuity, and over time, the pace of learning only increases. Children are getting more and more
research work and work on personal projects. But it is organized in such a way that elementary school students do not
overworked and remained involved in the lessons.

True, for this it is important that the child undergoes preschool training. Moreover, the EMC “Primary School of the XXI century” –
this is a challenging program that will be of interest to students with high initial knowledge in mathematics and literature.
The rest will be difficult to do at this pace.

The TMC “Primary School of the XXI century” includes textbooks on subjects: Russian language, literary reading, mathematics,
world around, music, fine arts, technology, physical education, English.

Authors of textbooks : A. M. Pyshkalo, L. E. Zhurova, O. A. Evdokimova, S. V. Ivanov, M. I. Kuznetsova and
etc.

Teaching materials according to the system of D. B. Elkonin — V. V. Davydov

This is the only developmental program on our list, and it is very different from what Russians are used to. For example,
on
In this system, the teacher does not grade work during the school year. Instead, the elementary student learns
myself
control the level of knowledge and evaluate yourself. The authors of the system compiled tasks in such a way as to develop critical
child’s thinking. And also – to teach him to analyze and draw conclusions instead of memorizing common truths.

Due to the fact that in the classroom the student will have to analyze a lot and work independently, this system
considered one of the most difficult. To engage in it, it is important to go through preschool training.

The teaching materials according to the system of D. B. Elkonin – V. V. Davydov include textbooks on subjects: Russian language, literary reading,
mathematics, environment. This is the shortest list of disciplines in the program of all those that were on the list.
GEF.

Authors of textbooks : V. V. Repkin, E. V. Vostrogova, V. A. Levin, T. V. Nekrasova, L. I. Timchenko,
D. B. Elkonin, G.
A. Zuckerman, O. L. Obukhova and others.

How to find out which school program is right for your child

In the previous section, we analyzed 7 different programs. To make it easier for you to evaluate them and compare them with each other,
leave the summary table below. There you will find criteria by which you can find out if one is right for your child.
from the programs in this article.

Comparison of school programs for teaching elementary students
Program	Program type	Do you need pre-school training	Continuation in high school	Difficulty
School of Russia	Traditional	No	Yes	Light
Promising Elementary School		No	No	Moderate
“RITM”		No	No	Moderate
Planet of Knowledge		Yes	No	Moderate
Perspective		Yes	Yes	Complex
Primary School of the 21st Century		Yes	Yes, up to grade 8	Complex
System of D. B. Elkonin — V. V. Davydov	Educational	No	No	Complex

We have analyzed only 7 curricula for first graders, but in fact there are more. We advise carefully
to choose
suitable as it is one of the main variables in your child’s schooling. Please note: to
some of them need to be prepared in advance.

If you have chosen just such a program, we advise you to get the necessary skills in advance. For example, in preschool
Preparing at Skysmart, we teach kids to read, count and write in a way that makes them comfortable using
complicated system at school. And it will also help the child get used to the lessons, homework and the new schedule in the new environment more easily.
period of life.

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