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

ELE: Intellectual DevelopmentExamples of Experiences and Strategies• Activities in all of the learning centers are designed to promoteexperimentation and to encourage children to arrive at creative solutions;e.g., availability of a variety of writing tools, paints organized to permitmixing colors.• Adults pose questions in ways that encourage children to ask their ownquestions about what is happening.• Children are engaged in generating multiple solutions to questions orproblems.• Adults give recognition to children who support others in problem solving.• Adults talk with children in ways that promote children’s thinking andreasoning about what they are doing.• Adults regularly pose open-ended questions related to a variety of topics.• Adults model and scaffold dramatic—or block-play skills for childrenwith limited play experience or confidence; e.g., “Let’s pretend this is ahammer, and we’re fixing the fence.”• Adults resist the impulse to solve problems for children; instead, adultsput the problem back in the hands of the children and give them time andsupport to resolve it.• Children are encouraged and helped to name, describe, think about, andtalk about what they are doing.• Children are encouraged to record their observations in various ways;e.g., making drawings, recording their ideas, creating simple graphs.• Children have access to a variety of tools for observation andexperimentation, such as magnifying glasses, scales and other measuringtools, and collection boxes.Early Childhood Standards of Quality for Prekindergarten 67