Early Childhood Standards of Quality for ... - State of Michigan

Learning Environment5. Makes additions to learning environments throughout time in order toenhance and expand concept development.6. Incorporates language experiences which include repetition into children’sdaily activities.7. Arranges for children to use technology materials and centers in asimilar manner as other materials and centers (e.g., there is no specialcomputer time).8. Observes children carefully to identify their preferred ways of interactingwith the environment, taking into account their skills and abilities.5. Program Standard: Technology tools are used to support the teachingpractices.A Quality Program:1. Provides technology tools for teachers to make instructional materials.2. Incorporates the use of technology tools during ongoing child observationand assessment to keep records and to create reports about children and/or classroom activities.3. Enables teachers to communicate with parents and other professionalsvia e-mail and other technologies.4. Provides technology tools for teachers to use the Internet to locateresources including appropriate websites for children and ideas for bestteaching practices.5. Provides technology tools for teachers to develop and producephotographs and video from digital media.6. Locates resources for assistive technology.6. Program Standard: Formal and informal grouping practices are used tostrengthen children’s learning.A Quality Program:1. Takes children’s interests, friendships, and common needs into accountwhen groups are formed.2. Groups children primarily heterogeneously, using homogeneoussubgroups on a limited and temporary basis and changing readily toaccommodate varying rates of growth.3. Provides children with opportunities to work and play in large groups,small groups, and individually.4. Maintains child-adult ratios in accordance with the requirements of theparticular program.44 Michigan Department of Education