Tennessee Guiding Principles
Tennessee Early Learning Developmental Standards Pre-Kindergarten
Approaches to Learning (PK.AL)
Early Learning Development Standards (ELDS) Kindergarten Culture
Creativity: Actively engage in learning with curiosity, flexibility, and openness to new ideas.
PK.AL.CR.1 Independently interact with a variety of materials through multiple play activities.
PK.AL.CR.2 Self-select play activities to support own curiosity and to engage in pretend and imaginative play (e.g., testing theories, acting out imagination).
PK.AL.CR.3 Choose materials/props and use novel ways to represent ideas, characters, and objects in symbolic play.
PK.AL.CR.4 Demonstrate a willingness to engage in new experiences and activities.
Self-Regulation: Engage in learning to effectively plan and problem solve.
PK.AL.SR.5 Maintain focus appropriate to completing a task and/or learning activity.
PK.AL.SR.6 Persist in solving a problem or question, with adult prompting.
PK.AL.SR.7 Reflect and plan a logical series of steps to accomplish a task, such as writing a message, completing a puzzle, drawing a picture, or building a block structure.
Critical Thinking: Actively inquire and reflect about new ideas and activities.
PK.AL.CT.8 Seek additional clarity to further own knowledge (e.g., asks what, how, why, when, where, and/or what if).
PK.AL.CT.9 Demonstrate an awareness of connection between prior and new knowledge.
PK.AL.CT.10 Identify a problem and attempt multiple ways to solve it, with or without assistance.
Communication: Actively engage in conversations with adults and peers.
PK.AL.CO.11 Ask and respond to questions with peers and adults in individual and group activities.
AL.PK.CO.12 Seek assistance and/or information when needed to complete a task.
Collaboration: Actively engage in learning with other people.
PK.AL.CB.13 Engage in play-based, student-directed activities with a peer or peers (e.g., dramatic play, block building, symbolic play in recess) for at least 15 consecutive minutes, at multiple times throughout the year.
PK.AL.CB.14 Demonstrate a willingness to collaborate with others to solve a problem.
Source: Tennessee Department of Education
The kids learn to read & write after learning to speak and listen actively
- Listening comes first-by listening to others the child learns to identify speech.
- Speaking-Listening is followed by speaking
- Reading – Reading comes much, much, later after the child masters the ‘look and say’ method of identifying letters and words and begins to read.
- Writing (This comes last) – It starts only after the child is able to hold a pencil or crayon. We seem , as a country to place a lot of importance on writing, even before the child has mastered listening, speaking and reading skills.
Achievement
The Mastering of the spoken word, identification of letters, numbers, alphabet, word pictures, and other objects are necessities for development.
Leaps N Bounds Academy utilizes over 360 spoken language activities, 250 written language activities and 225 identifying sound activities.
These activities assist children in learning basic skills with repetitiveness in order to master more difficult skill.
What others are saying...….
I have known Priscilla for many years. There is no one more I would trust with my infant or child than her. We worked together in the Newborn Nursery at River Park Hospital years ago. -Stacy Brown
Priscilla DunnRegistered Nurse and OwnerKristie used to work at the Manchester Rec Center in the daycare and Nursery in Manchester TN while she was going to school. My kids loved Kristie. When she became a teacher at the Middle School my kids were so excited to see Kristie at school. -Jeanette Wilson
Kristie MorrisonProfessional Teacher and Owner
Leaps N Bounds Academy
The Pedagogy of Childcare
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Pedagogy informs teacher actions, judgments, and teaching strategies by taking into consideration theories of learning, understandings of students and their needs, and the backgrounds and interests of individual students.
Pedagogy includes how the teacher interacts with students and the social and intellectual environment the teacher seeks to establish. Its aims may include furthering liberal education (the general development of human potential) to the narrower specifics of vocational education (the imparting and acquisition of specific skills).
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