This workshop will help you transform your large-group time (also called circle times) into a fun and meaningful part of your day. If you want to learn how to bring children and adults together for action songs, cooperative games and projects, movement activities, storytelling, and more, then you should consider this workshop. You will learn how to implement shared control during large-group time, the format for an appropriate large-group time, and how to develop appropriate large-group time activities and plans.

Learn how to put the “active” in active learning! Includes the four types of play children engage in during work time and strategies for supporting and scaffolding children’s development.

Learn to develop lesson plans based on curriculum content as well as children’s development and interests. You’ll return to the classroom with your own lesson plan, plus the skills and confidence to intentionally plan for infants and toddlers, scaffold learning, and include families in the planning process.

Successfully identify the categories, items, and indicators of HighScope’s child assessment instrument, COR Advantage. Through expert instruction and video clips, you will learn how to collect and accurately score objective evidence and receive strategies to engage families in the child assessment process. Includes Reliability Test.

This online workshop provides hands-on experience in observing, recording, and evaluating program quality using HighScope’s Preschool Program Quality Assessment (PQA) instrument. The Program Quality Assessment (PQA) is used to evaluate all Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) classrooms. Because it is critical that reliable and valid data is entered into each PQA, GSRP Early Childhood Specialists (ECS) must receive formal training in the tool. The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) strongly recommends participation in online PQA training.

Gain hands-on experience in observing, recording, and evaluating program quality using HighScope’s program quality assessment instrument. This valid and reliable online tool was designed to evaluate program quality and assess implementation of the HighScope Infant-Toddler Curriculum.

This online workshop provides hands-on experience in observing, recording, and evaluating program quality using HighScope’s Preschool Program Quality Assessment – Revised (PQA–R) instrument. Fee includes the instrument, training, and participation in HighScope’s online examination of rater reliability.

Learn how to create planning and recall experiences based on children’s interests and developmental needs. Explore the benefits of planning time and recall time, the similarities and differences, and how these integral processes change as the school year progresses.

This workshop will help you transform your large-group time (also called circle times) into a fun and meaningful part of your day. If you want to learn how to bring children and adults together for action songs, cooperative games and projects, movement activities, storytelling, and more, then you should consider this workshop. You will learn how to implement shared control during large-group time, the format for an appropriate large-group time, and how to develop appropriate large-group time activities and plans.

Successfully identify the categories, items, and indicators of HighScope’s child assessment instrument, COR Advantage. Through expert instruction and video clips, you will learn how to collect and accurately score objective evidence and receive strategies to engage families in the child assessment process. Includes Reliability Test.

This online workshop will introduce you to the importance of math learning for preschool children and use of the Numbers Plus Preschool Mathematics Curriculum. You will learn about important math concepts in the number sense and operations, geometry, measurement, algebra and data analysis. We will cover how to scaffold children’s math learning using specific interaction strategies.

Prerequisite: Completion of ToT Weeks 1 & 2.

Please contact Educational Services at 800.587.5639 Ext. 268 to register.

This 3-week course is designed for those who have already received extensive training in the HighScope Curriculum and wish to extend their skills to training adults in the educational approach. View summer workshop course details here.