Discussion Assignment Week 2: Checking Quality Criteria

Student Name: Angie Woods

There is a great aspect of many different varieties of resources of information about early childhood field with many standards/ guidelines of having the quality of many researches information. The source I chose was High Scope Preschool Curriculum Comparison Study the in a nursery program. The resources quality criteria clearly states about the compares in High Scope active learning preschool model with two other preschool models. The children were in three groups and were all living in poverty at high risk of school failure. Now the three models was direct instruction model, a traditional nursery school model with the High Scope model. All three model groups have had significantly fewer felony arrests of various kinds and just about fewer years of special education for emotional impairment. Mainly just a different effect from different preschools but the best model was the direct instruction approach. It focuses on academics and requires young children to respond to rapid harder questions pose by teachers.  In the High Scope group aspires to complete a higher level of school in the direct instruction. The preschool programs it promotes children initiated activities.

I had gain out of this information was that some preschools are not on the same curriculum that High Scope is more like a Nursery School programs. Plus the curriculum that I am more firmly with is the NAEYC Accreditation Standards and Criteria. I feel that the quality of children’s is more on a daily experience in early childhood programs. That promotes positive child out comes goals in the ten NAEYC early childhood program standards and accreditation criteria. In the resource that I discover about High Scope Preschool Curriculum Comparison it compares active learning preschool model. I really don’t see that much guidelines in academics standards skill in High Scope Preschool Curriculum Comparison. So what I did learn from the article was out of the three models the Direct Instruction. Is the high level in the High Scope Preschool Curriculum and that it is also part of the preschool programs that promote child- initiated activities the High Scope Nursery school programs. So that was something new to me because I didn’t know that nursery have or go by a curriculum of a different program from NAEYC.

                                                                                               

References List

1.      High Scope Curriculum - Plan 4 Preschool High Scope Curriculum. The High Scope model has undergone extensive research validation. This model is based on the principle that children learn best through hand plan 4preschool. org/curriculum /high_scope_curriculum– Cached

2.      Schweinhart, L. J., & Weikart, D. P. (1997). Lasting differences: The High Scope Preschool Curriculum Comparison study through age 23 (Monographs of the High Scope Educational Research Foundation, 12). Ypsilanti, MI: High Scope Press.

3.      Schweinhart, L. J., Weikart, D. P., & Larner, M. B. (1986). Consequences of the three preschool curriculum models through age 15. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1: 15–45.

4.      Weikart, D. P., Epstein, A. S., Schweinhart, L. J., & Bond, J. T. (1978). The Ypsilanti Preschool Curriculum Demonstration Project: Preschool years and longitudinal results (Monographs of the High Scope Educational Research Foundation, 4). Ypsilanti: High Scope Press.

5.      http://www.naeyc.org/