SUBJECT: Curriculum

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE - Staff, in collaboration with parents, implements a curriculum that is consistent with the Head Start Program Performance Standards. Curriculum may be developed or adapted from among a variety of curriculum approaches or frameworks, which support each child’s social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development, as well as the educational aspects of other program areas. The daily implementation of the curriculum is responsible to ongoing observations of children. Staff works with parents to support the goals of the curriculum in the home.

Individualization of Curriculum - The staff, through the curriculum, supports each child’s individual pattern of development and learning. Staff, together with parents, supports individualizing the curriculum.

vi. Experiencing Success - Staff provides each child with opportunities for success to help develop feelings of competence, self-esteem, and positive attitudes toward learning. Staff and parents use a variety of strategies to assure that children experience success, including:

A. Encouraging and allowing children to do as much for themselves as they can.

B. Intervening, when appropriate, to expand and extend the children’s experiences.

C. Providing experiences that move from simple to more complex thinking and skills.

D. Challenging children to work at the edge of their capability and to acquire new skills and competencies which will increase their self-confidence and self-efficacy.

E. Helping children acknowledge their own and other’s progress.