Modern Influences in Early Learning

With beginning year teachers leaving in droves, use this WebQuest as you mentor young teachers.  With useful links that apply to today's classrooms, supported by the great educational theorists, you can help young teachers not only feel supported, but also feel encouraged to use new strategies with early learners.

Standards

Approaches to Play and Learning (APL)
Subdomain: Curiosity, Information-Seeking, and Eagerness
• Goal APL-1: Children show curiosity and express interest in the world around them.
• Goal APL-2: Children actively seek to understand the world around them.
Subdomain: Play and Imagination
• Goal APL-3: Children engage in increasingly complex play.
• Goal APL-4: Children demonstrate creativity, imagination, and inventiveness.
Subdomain: Risk-Taking, Problem-Solving, and Flexibility
• Goal APL-5: Children are willing to try new and challenging experiences.
• Goal APL-6: Children use a variety of strategies to solve problems.
Subdomain: Attentiveness, Effort, and Persistence
• Goal APL-7: Children demonstrate initiative.
• Goal APL-8: Children maintain attentiveness and focus.
• Goal APL-9: Children persist at challenging activities.
Emotional and Social Development (ESD)
Subdomain: Developing a Sense of Self
• Goal ESD-1: Children demonstrate a positive sense of self-identity and self-awareness.
• Goal ESD-2: Children express positive feelings about themselves and confidence in what they can do.
Subdomain: Developing a Sense of Self with Others
• Goal ESD-3: Children form relationships and interact positively with familiar adults who are consistent and responsive to their needs.
• Goal ESD-4: Children form relationships and interact positively with other children.
• Goal ESD-5: Children demonstrate the social and behavioral skills needed to successfully participate in groups.
Subdomain: Learning about Feelings
• Goal ESD-6: Children identify, manage, and express their feelings.
• Goal ESD-7: Children recognize and respond to the needs and feelings of others.
South Carolina Early Learning Standards
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Language Development and Communication (LDC)
Subdomain: Physical Health and Growth
• Goal HPD-1: Children develop healthy eating habits.
• Goal HPD-2: Children engage in and sustain various forms of physical play indoors and outdoors.
• Goal HPD-3: Children develop healthy sleeping habits.
Subdomain: Motor Development
• Goal HPD-4: Children develop the large muscle control and abilities needed to move through and explore their environment.
• Goal HPD-5: Children develop small muscle control and hand-eye coordination to manipulate objects and work with tools.
Subdomain: Self-Care
• Goal HPD-6: Children develop awareness of their needs and the ability to communicate their needs.
• Goal HPD-7: Children develop independence in caring for themselves and their environment.
Subdomain: Safety Awareness
• Goal HPD-8: Children develop awareness of basic safety rules and begin to follow them.
Subdomain: Learning to Communicate
• Goal LDC-1: Children understand communications from others.
• Goal LDC-2: Children participate in conversations with peers and adults in one-on-one, small, and larger group interactions.
• Goal LDC-3: Children ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
• Goal LDC-4: Children speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
• Goal LDC-5: Children describe familiar people, places, things, and events.
• Goal LDC-6: Children use most grammatical constructions of their home language well.
• Goal LDC-7: Children respond to and use a growing vocabulary.
Subdomain: Foundations for Reading
• Goal LDC-8: Children develop interest in books and motivation to read.
• Goal LDC-9: Children develop book knowledge and print awareness.
• Goal LDC-10: Children comprehend and use information presented in books and other print media.
• Goal LDC-11: Children develop phonological awareness.
• Goal LDC-12: Children develop knowledge of the alphabet and the alphabetic principle.
Health and Physical Development (HPD)
South Carolina Early Learning Standards
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Mathematical Thinking and Expression (MTE)
Cognitive Development (CD)
Subdomain: Foundations for Writing
• Goal LDC-13: Children use writing and other symbols to record information and communicate for a variety of purposes.
• Goal LDC-14: Children use knowledge of letters in their attempts to write.
• Goal LDC-15: Children use writing skills and writing conventions.
Subdomain: Foundations for Number Sense
• Goal MTE-1: Children demonstrate a beginning understanding of numbers and quantity during play and other activities.
• Goal MTE-2: Children demonstrate a beginning understanding of numbers and operations during play and other activities.
Subdomain: Foundations for Algebraic Thinking
• Goal MTE-3: Children demonstrate a beginning understanding of algebraic thinking by sorting, describing, extending, and
creating simple patterns during play and other activities.
Subdomain: Foundations for Geometry and Spatial Understanding
• Goal MTE-4: Children begin to identify, describe, classify and understand shape, size, direction and movement during play and
other activities.
Subdomain: Foundations for Measurement and Data Analysis
• Goal MTE-5: Children demonstrate a beginning understanding of measurement (the idea of repeating the use of an object to
measure) and a beginning understanding of data analysis through comparing, and interpreting data during play and other activities.
Subdomain: Mathematical Thinking and Reasoning
• Goal MTE-6: Children use mathematical thinking to solve problems in their everyday environment.
Subdomain: Construction of Knowledge: Thinking and Reasoning
• Goal CD-1: Children use their senses to construct knowledge about the world around them.
• Goal CD-2: Children recall information and use it for addressing new situations and problems.
• Goal CD-3: Children demonstrate the ability to think about their own thinking: reasoning, taking perspectives, and making decisions.
Subdomain: Creative Expression
• Goal CD-4: Children demonstrate appreciation for different forms of artistic expression.
• Goal CD-5: Children demonstrate self-expression and creativity in a variety of forms and contexts, including play, visual arts,
music, drama, and dance.
South Carolina Early Learning Standards
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Subdomain: Social Connections
• Goal CD-6: Children demonstrate knowledge of relationships and roles within their own families, homes, classrooms, and communities.
• Goal CD-7: Children recognize that they are members of different groups (e.g. family, preschool class, cultural group).
• Goal CD-8: Children identify and demonstrate acceptance of similarities and differences between themselves and others.
• Goal CD-9: Children explore concepts connected with their daily experiences in their community.
Subdomain: Scientific Exploration and Knowledge
• Goal CD-10: Children observe and describe characteristics of living things and the physical world.
• Goal CD-11: Children explore the natural world by observing, manipulating objects, asking questions, making predictions, and
developing generalizations

Credits

References:

Morrison, G. S. (2014). Fundamentals of early childhood education. (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

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