Louisiana's Early Learning Guidelines and Program Standards: Birth Through Three
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Louisiana’s Early Learning Guidelines and Program Standards: Birth through Three Introduction Table of Contents Introduction Acknowledgements ………………………………….. 2 Contents and Format ………………………………….. 6 Program Standards ………………………………….. 12 Close Caring Relationships Area 1 ………………………………….. 13 Safe and Healthy Practices Area 2 ………………………………….. 15 Connections with Families Area 3 ………………………………….. 17 Knowledgeable Responsive Caregivers Area 4 ………………………………….. 19 Professional Growth Area 5 ………………………………….. 22 Early Learning Guidelines Interest in Others Goal 1 ………………………………….. 23 Self-Awareness Goal 2 ………………………………….. 29 Expression of Feelings Goal 3 ………………………………….. 37 Communication Goal 4 ………………………………….. 46 About the World Goal 5 ………………………………….. 62 Moving and Doing Goal 6 ………………………………….. 73 Guidelines for Working with Threes Introduction ………………………………….. 86 Social and Emotional Development ………………………………….. 88 Language and Literacy Development ………………………………….. 95 Cognitive Math Development ………………………………….. 101 Cognitive Science Development ………………………………….. 108 Cognitive Social Studies Development ………………………………….. 114 Creative Development ………………………………….. 117 Health and Physical Development ………………………………….. 123 Resource Section ………………………………….. 128 Louisiana’s ELG and PS Revised October 2005 1 Introduction Acknowledgements Many have helped with the development of this document as it has evolved over several years. What began as an endeavor through Louisiana’s Head Start Collaboration Project under Shirley Williams, Director, with a large group of contributors 1, underwent major revisions in September of 2004 under Louisiana’s Infant and Toddler Team 2 through the National Infant and Toddler Child Care Initiative at Zero to Three. We would like to thank the Early Learning Guidelines subcommittee members who worked diligently on this project, contributing countless hours and priceless knowledge and experience over the last year: Carol Aghayan, MA Curriculum & Instruction, Kathleen Flanagan, MS in Early Childhood Education, Gail Kelso, MS in Child Development, Cindy Ramagos, MA in Early Childhood Education, Martha R. South, MEd in Early Childhood Education and Janie Starks, MS in Child Development. We would also like to acknowledge our Zero to Three consultants, Elizabeth Ford and Sandy Peterson for their valued guidance and suggestions; the State of Arkansas for generously allowing us to use some of the indicators, strategies and examples found in their Early Learning Guidelines; Teaching Strategies, Inc. for allowing us to use the framework of Goals and Objectives from the Creative Curriculum for Infants and Toddlers; Zero to Three for permission to use the “Developmental Milestone indicators” found in Caring for Infants and Toddlers in Groups: Developmentally Appropriate Practice, 1995; and the Program for Infant and Toddler Caregivers for providing the relationship-based philosophy of care evident throughout the Program Standards and the Early Learning Guidelines. Special thanks go to Dr. Ron Lally of the Center for Child and Family Studies, at WestEd in California for his guidance and thorough review of our document; to Rosemarie Coffman, a dear friend of our profession who offered generous help in editing; to Joaniko Kohchi, MSW, LCSW for hours of reads and re-reads above and beyond the call of duty and her incredible knowledge of young children and good programs; to Rachel South Boquet, JD, MEd, for her keen editing skills, for moral support, and for real-life-child-rearing-lessons-learned. Louisiana’s ELG and PS Revised October 2005 2 Introduction 1 Original Committee Members Allison Mitchell, Department of Education Janie Starks, VOA Partnerships in Child Care Amie Gardner, Building Block Early Learning Center Lafete Tucker, Magnified Youth Center Angelique White, LA Office of Public Health Linda Hardie, Delgado Early Childhood Education Anna Simon, DSS Office of Community Services Marcia Daniel, DSS Office of Community Services Betty Lacy, Agenda for Children Martha South, Lafourche Parish Schools Carol Aghayan, LSU Human Ecology Mary Sciaraffa, LSU Child Care Center Demetria McJulien, BHM HSQIC Southern University Nancy Alexander, NSU Child & Family Network Dianna Constant, Agenda for Children, CCR&R Reg III Nina Araujo, LSU Child Care Center Donna Garrett, Department of Education Pamela Chaisson, SMILE Head Start Donna Hammond, Pointe Coupee Head Start Patsy Brownlee, LTC Delta Ouachita Enola Williams, City of Baton Rouge DHDS Rhonda Cheek, DSS Office of Family Support Ethel Robinson, MCIO Head Start Sheri Cox, NSU Child & Family Network Eula V. Smith, Shiloh Baptist Church Preschool Shirley Williams, DSS Head Start Collaboration Eva Carter, NCCIC/QUILT Teresa Edgerton-Scott, CCAA Early Head Start – Geoff Nagle, Tulane University Shreveport Geraldine Russell, SMILE Head Start Thalia Stevenson, DSS Bureau of Licensing Grace Hardy, QUILT/CDI Tim Wilcox, BHM HSQIC Irishan Charles, St. Charles EHS Jacqueline Ackel, LTC Jackie Walker, VOA Partnerships in Child Care Janice King, Building Block Early Learning Center Janie Humphries, LA Tech University Louisiana’s ELG and PS Revised October 2005 3 Introduction Louisiana Team Membership Louisiana Team Leader: Shirley Williams, Director, Head Start State Collaboration Project Carol Aghayan Instructor, School of Human Ecology, LSU Nancy Alexander or Dianne Aillet Child Care Specialist, Northwestern State Univ. Child & Family Jean Allen-Wilson Assistant Tribal Social Services Director, Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana Betty Blaize Excellence for Children Victoria Cooper Director, Special Services, DSS/Office of Family Support Rose Duhon-Sells PhD Southern University at New Orleans College of Education Teresa Edgerton-Scott, Ed.D. Caddo Community Action Agency Early Head Start Supervisor Kathleen Flanagan Director, Yaamahana Center, Chitimacha Tribe of LA Bonnie B. Hyfield Director, St. Aloysius Child Care Center Judy L. Harrison Executive Director, Louisiana Children’s Trust Fund Mary Joseph Deputy Assistant Secretary, DSS/Office of Family Support Dr. Patricia A. Keller Clinical Nurse Specialist/ Perinatal Enrichment Program Director, University Hospital, NO Gail B. Kelso President, LAEYC, Instructor, Lloyd J. Rockhold Center Pamela A. Kimbrough Director, Children’s Division. The Arc of Caddo-Bossier Joaniko Kohchi Clinical Instructor, LSU HSC Child Psychiatry Janie Martin Executive Director, Louisiana SICC, Office of the Governor Pam Metoyer Statewide Nurse Consultant – Child Health, OPH Terry Meeuwenberg Community Specialist, Louisiana OFS Southeast Region (continued, next page) Louisiana’s ELG and PS Revised October 2005 4 Introduction Louisiana Team Membership (continued) Geoffrey Nagle, PhD ECCS, Tulane University Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Dr. Patti Peairs Pediatric Physician, LA Academy of Pediatrics Barbara Pickney Program Director, Child Development Council of Acadiana, Inc. Cindy Ramagos Program Coordinator Preschool & Elementary Standards Section Acquanetta Reiss Program Coordinator, Project PACT, Early Intervention Institute, LSU HSC Crystal Rock Program Manager, Redemption Christian Center Baptist Church/The MAAT Foundation Martha R. South Early Childhood Curriculum Coordinator, Lafourche Parish Early Intervention Programs Janie Starks Division Director, Partnerships in Child Care/Volunteers of America Thalia Stevenson Director, Bureau of Licensing Jean Valliere Mental Health Coordinator, Maternal and Child Health Program, Judy Watts President/CEO, Agenda For Children Ex-Officio Ann S. Williamson Secretary, Department of Social Services Adren O. Wilson Assistant Secretary, Office of Family Support Joy D. Osofsky, Ph.D. Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry & Public Health, LSU Health Sciences Center Suzy Sonnier Executive Director, Louisiana Children’s Cabinet Kim Hunter-Reed Director of Policy & Planning, Office of the Governor Project Support Sherry S. Guarisco SSG Consulting Services Susan Delle SSG Consulting Services Louisiana’s ELG and PS Revised October 2005 5 Introduction Contents and Format of Louisiana’s Early Learning Guidelines and Program Standards: Birth through Three Introduction Goals of This Document • To share a vision of high quality infant and toddler early learning experiences • To provide a framework for infant toddler professional development activities throughout Louisiana • To collaboratively develop a user friendly guide to infant and toddler early care and education for a wide variety of stakeholders and constituents including policy makers and parents What Early Learning Guidelines (ELG) and Program Standards (PS) Are; What They Are Not Early Learning Guidelines and the accompanying Program Standards are frameworks for high quality practices for all who care for infants and toddlers. The guidelines are indicators of what children at certain ages should be “working on” and contain ideas for caregivers for arranging the environment and what interactions and communication best support this development. Think of these strategies and activities as a way to care for infants and toddlers, not what to teach infants and toddlers. The Program Standards outline policy decisions for the program to consider supporting this relationship-based care. The ELGs are not a checklist to determine how a child measures up to other children his age. Truly developmentally appropriate practices take into account a wide variety of skill development within a certain age group and also reflect a thorough understanding of individual temperament, family values