School Readiness Goals: Head Start
Approaches to Learning
Goals
Children will:
- Demonstrate the use of creative and imaginative expression such as music, movement, art and drama
- Demonstrate an interest and engagement in large and small group experiences as well as cooperative play with peers
- Manage their actions, words, and behavior with increasing independence.
Outcomes
- Expresses emotions in ways that are appropriate to the situation.
- Demonstrates awareness of classroom rules when asked and is able to follow these rules most of the time.
- Appropriately handles materials during activities.
Social and Emotional Development
Goals
Children will:
- Demonstrate positive relationships and interactions with adults and peers
- Recognize and regulate emotions, attention, impulse and behavior
- Initiate longer and more reciprocal interactions with trusted adults, such as asking questions or talking about ideas.
Outcomes
Children will learn to:
- Interacts readily with trusted adults.
- Engages in prosocial behaviors with adults, such as using respectful language or greetings.
Language and
Communication
Goals
Children will:
- Demonstrate the ability to use language
- Demonstrate familiarity with writing implements, conventions and emerging skills to communicate through written representation s, symbols and letters
Outcomes
Children will learn to:
- Uses verbal and non-verbal signals appropriately to acknowledge the comments or questions of others.
- Shows ongoing connection to a conversation, group discussion, or presentation.
- Shows an ability to recall multiple step directions.
- Shows understanding of a variety of sentence types, such as multi-clause, cause-effect, sequential order, or if-then.
Literacy
Goals
Children will:
- Demonstrate an interest in books and their
characteristics, and the ability to understand
and get meaning from stories and information
from books and other texts - Demonstrate knowledge of concepts about print and early decoding (identifying letter-
sound relationships)
Outcomes
Children will learn to:
- Children demonstrate appropriate or improved communication, language, and emergent literacy skills
Mathematics
Development
Goals
Children will:
- Demonstrate the use of numbers to describe relationships and solve problems
Outcomes
Children will learn to:
- Counts verbally or signs to at least 20 by ones.
- Instantly recognizes, without counting, small quantities of up to five objects and says or signs the number.
- Accurately counts as many as five objects in a scattered configuration.
- Understands that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger.
- Identifies and uses numbers related to order or position from first to tenth.
- Associates a number of objects with a written numeral 0–5.
- Recognizes and, with support, writes some numerals up to 10.
Scientific
Reasoning
Goals
Children will:
- Demonstrate the ability to observer and collect information and use it to ask questions, predict, explain and draw conclusions
Outcomes
Children will learn to:
- Identifies the five senses (smell, touch, sight, sound, taste) and uses them to make observations.
- Uses scientific practice words or signs, such as observe, describe, compare, contrast, question, predict, experiment, reflect, cooperate, or measure.
- Categorizes by sorting observable phenomena into groups based on attributes such as appearance, weight, function, ability, texture, odor, and sound.
Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development
Goals
Children will:
- Demonstrate the understanding of one’s relationship to the family and community, roles in the family and community and respect for diversity
- Understand and practice healthy and safe habits
- Demonstrate age appropriate control of large muscles for movement, navigation and balance
- Demonstrate age appropriate control of small muscles for such purposes as using utensils, self- care, building and exploring
Outcomes
Children will learn to:
- Demonstrates balance in large-muscle movement, such as walking on a log without falling or balancing on one leg.
- Demonstrates strength and stamina that allow for participation in a range of physical activities, such as running around playing tag.
- Demonstrates awareness of own body and other people’s space during interactions.
- Changes directions when moving with little difficulty.
- Children will be assessed individually by the education staff and provide individualized interventions, as identified. Information regarding the assessments will be shared with the parents during home visits (two (2) per year) and parent-teacher conferences (two (2) per year).
- Aggregated child assessment data will be analyzed three (3) times per year (pre, mid, and post) by the data team. Results will be shared with the governing body and others as determined by the Delta Health Alliance. Information gained will inform the program of changes or amendments to services.
- Early Learning Assessments to be conducted: Teaching Strategies Gold, MKAS2, Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS), Brigance III, Infants and Toddlers Environment Rating Scale (ITERS-R), and Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS-R).