Learning Outcome Framework, and Next Generation Science Standards( provides a scaffold to kindergarten standards) and align to the CT Early Learning and Development Standards. PLTW:
• Supports our integrated units
• Introduces students to engineering notebooks
• Encourages STEAM thinking through the Engineering and Design Process
• Supports solving real world problems
• Implemented PK & and available 6-12 in Enfield Public Schools
Enfield Head Start and the PK STEAM Academy implement the Second Step: Early Learning Social Emotional Curriculum, a research based, teacher informed, and classroom tested social emotional curriculum to promote the social emotional development, safety, and well-being of children. It’ s designed to promote social competence and reduce social-emotional problems by teaching children skills in the core areas of:
• empathy
• emotion management( impulse control, emotion regulation, anger management)
• social problem solving
• transition to kindergarten It is a universal prevention program that emphasizes understanding and dealing with emotions, expressing emotions in socially acceptable ways, thinking about social situations in accurate and constructive ways, and learning prosocial behaviors through practice. The program assumes that feelings, thoughts, and behaviors affect one another.
All PK classrooms implement the Executive Function( EF) Project by embedding strategies throughout the day to support:
• Inhibitory Control-self-control or self-discipline, selective or sustained attention
• Working Memory-the ability to hold information in your mind and work with it
• Cognitive Flexibility- thinking“ outside the box”
EF skills are essential for success in school, positive behaviors, health / wellness, and ULTIMATELY an innovative, competent, and flexible future society.
Enfield Head Start and the PK STEAM Academy implement the Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum. Heggerty provides research-backed phonemic awareness and literacy programs to help students become confident readers.
UNITS OF STUDY Enfield Head Start & PKSTEAM
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