Welcome to our curriculum page!
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Learning Connections of Galva uses Teaching Strategies for student assessment. Teaching Strategies Gold aligns with the Illinois Early Learning Standards for children from birth to three. For more information on how Teaching Strategies Gold aligns with preschool and kindergarten, please click here. We use Creative Curriculum to develop our lessons. For information on Creative Curriculum in the infants, toddlers, and twos classroom, click here. For Creative Curriculum in the preschool class, click here.
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LCG utilizes Creative Curriculum and an assessment tool, Teaching Strategies Gold, as a framework for providing planned experiences in each age group served. Our curriculum emphasizes the process of learning, and it encourages both children and adults to initiate learning experiences. It supports the idea that children construct their own understanding of the world through active involvement with materials, people and ideas. Our classroom arrangement, daily routines, portfolio-style record keeping, and planned family involvement work together to support the following educational and developmental goals that we have for young children:
Teachers use observation of children’s interests and abilities to plan project-based learning experiences. These projects support development in all of the key experience areas and utilize the plan-do-review process. Families are always encouraged to contribute by sharing information or hands-on experiences as they relate to each project.
LCG also utilizes Ages & Stages as our screening tool in the appropriate age groups.
Families are also encouraged to share the goals they have for their child as he/she grows and develops. You are asked to submit goals and an overall evaluation of the program each semester. However, daily communication between teachers and families aids in planning experiences to support the goals you have for your child. Teachers maintain a portfolio for each child containing anecdotal observations of his/her work, work samples, photos that document his/her activities, and other pertinent documents that reflect his/her developmental progress.
Formal family/teacher conferences are held at the end of the fall and spring semesters or more often as needed. You are welcome to review your child’s portfolio at any time and are encouraged to share your observations. Your input is valuable and aids teachers in completing portfolios.
- to develop children’s ability to make decisions about what they are going to do and how they are going to do it
- to develop children’s self-discipline and their ability to identify personal goals so they can pursue and complete self-chosen tasks
- to develop children’s ability to work with other children and adults so that the work done is a result of group planning, cooperative effort and shared leadership
- to develop children’s ability for self-expression – enabling them to speak, write, dramatize and graphically represent their experiences and to communicate these experiences to others
- to develop children’s ability to apply their reasoning capacity in a wide range of naturally occurring situations, using a variety of materials
- to develop children’s spirit of inquiry and of openness to knowledge and the points of view of other people
Teachers use observation of children’s interests and abilities to plan project-based learning experiences. These projects support development in all of the key experience areas and utilize the plan-do-review process. Families are always encouraged to contribute by sharing information or hands-on experiences as they relate to each project.
LCG also utilizes Ages & Stages as our screening tool in the appropriate age groups.
Families are also encouraged to share the goals they have for their child as he/she grows and develops. You are asked to submit goals and an overall evaluation of the program each semester. However, daily communication between teachers and families aids in planning experiences to support the goals you have for your child. Teachers maintain a portfolio for each child containing anecdotal observations of his/her work, work samples, photos that document his/her activities, and other pertinent documents that reflect his/her developmental progress.
Formal family/teacher conferences are held at the end of the fall and spring semesters or more often as needed. You are welcome to review your child’s portfolio at any time and are encouraged to share your observations. Your input is valuable and aids teachers in completing portfolios.