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

ELE: Intellectual DevelopmentQuestions for Reflection1. In what ways are children encouraged to notice, describe, and createpatterns; e.g., in painting and construction, interactions in nature?2. To what extent does the classroom reflect various representations doneby the children in the class?3. To what extent does the classroom environment contain environmentalprint that is relevant to the community?3. Early Learning Expectation: Children gain, organize, and useinformation in increasingly complex ways. [HSCOF-ID 4.1.5]Children typically:1. Gather information and learn new concepts through experimentation anddiscovery, making connections to what they already know.2. Share through words or actions the acquisition of increasingly complexconcepts.Examples of Experiences and Strategies• Children are actively engaged in the organization and care of their roomand their outdoor environment.• Children frequently engage in conversations with peers and adults, talkingthrough their thinking and discoveries.• Children from different cultures are supported as they make newconnections and discoveries that may vary from what they haveexperienced previously.• Adults regularly engage children in focused, small-group experiences topromote thinking processes and concept learning.• Adults articulate their thinking processes as they experiment with ororganize items or draw conclusions.• The program uses the full range of teaching strategies from directinstruction to open-ended questions to enhance each child’s thinking andlearning, choosing the most appropriate strategies for each goal and forindividualizing.• Adults provide an emotionally and physically safe environment in whichchildren can experiment, discover and question.Early Childhood Standards of Quality for Prekindergarten 65