Tennessee Guiding Principles
Tennessee Early Learning Developmental Standards Pre-Kindergarten
Social and Personal Competencies (PK.SPC)
Early Learning Development Standards (ELDS) Kindergarten Culture
Self-Awareness: Demonstrate an awareness of emotions, personal qualities and interests, personal abilities, and sense of personal responsibility.
PK.SPC.SA.1 Express feelings, needs, opinions, and desires in a way which is appropriate to the situation.
PK.SPC.SA.2 Appropriately name types of emotions (e.g., happy, sad, frustrated) and associate them with different facial expressions, words, and behaviors.
PK.SPC.SA.3 Describe self using several different identifying characteristics and/or unique qualities (e.g., abilities, interests, gender, culture).
PK.SPC.SA.4 Develop a basic awareness of self as an individual, self within the context of family, and self within the context of community.
PK.SPC.SA.5 Display sense of accomplishment, contentment, and acknowledgement when completing a task or solving a problem.
PK.SPC.SA.6 Seek and accept guidance from primary caregivers, teachers, and other familiar adults.
PK.SPC.SA.7 Demonstrate an understanding of rules through actions and conversations.
PK.SPC.SA.8 Use materials purposefully, safely, and respectfully as set by group rules.
Self-Management: Understand and use strategies for managing emotions and behaviors constructively.
PK.SPC.SM.1 Express feelings, needs, opinions, and desires and begin to identify causal relationships.
PK.SPC.SM.2 Demonstrate ability to modify behavior in different situations using multiple problem solving strategies (e.g., trade, take turns, share, wait) with or without adult guidance and support.
Social Awareness: Demonstrate awareness and consideration of other people’s emotions, perspectives, and social cues.
PK.SPC.SCA.1 Show empathy and caring for others.
PK.SPC.SCA.2 Demonstrate an understanding of how personal choices impact others..
Relationship Skills: Use positive communication skills to interact effectively with others.
PK.SPC.RS.1 Seek assistance and/or information when needed to complete a task.
PK.SPC.RS.2 Interact and develop positive relationships with significant adults (e.g., primary caregivers, teachers, and other familiar adults).
PK.SPC.RS.3 Initiate play and interact positively with another child or children.
PK.SPC.RS.4 Develop friendship skills (e.g., help, share, take turns, give compliments) with increasing ease and comfort to sustain interaction by cooperating, helping, and suggesting new ideas for play.
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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