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The HighScope Early Education Model and Its Effects

The HighScope Early Education Model and Its Effects. Larry Schweinhart HighScope Educational Research Foundation www.highscope.org. The HighScope Preschool Curriculum. Interactive Education. Adults help children – Take initiative Develop on key indicators: Social and emotional

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The HighScope Early Education Model and Its Effects

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  1. The HighScope Early Education Model and Its Effects Larry Schweinhart HighScope Educational Research Foundation www.highscope.org

  2. The HighScope Preschool Curriculum

  3. Interactive Education Adults help children – • Take initiative • Develop on key indicators: • Social and emotional • Movement and physical • Cognitive • Language and literacy • Science and mathematics • Arts and music

  4. Adult-Child Interaction Adults • Have strategies for interacting with children. • Encourage children’s efforts rather than praise them indiscriminately. • Help children take a problem-solving approach to resolving conflicts.

  5. Learning Environment • Classroom organized into interest areas. • Materials varied, show respect for individual differences, stored where children can reach them. • Teacher influences the flow of activities while giving children opportunities for active learning.

  6. The Daily Routine Components • Plan-do-review times • Cleanup time • Snack time • Small-group time • Large-group circle time • Outside time Gives teachers and children opportunities to influence learning.

  7. Child Assessment Adults • Work as a team on child assessment. • Take notes daily on episodes of children’s behavior. • Plan next steps with children daily. • Assess children’s development with the HighScope Child Observation Record, found valid and reliable in Head Start.

  8. HighScope Perry Preschool Study • Comparison 1: program versus no program groups • Comparison 2: HighScope vs. Nursery School vs. Direct Instruction preschool curriculums • 191 study participants living in poverty and at risk of school failure • Randomly assigned to initially similar groups • Data collected annually from 3 to 11, and at 14, 15, 19, 27, and 40, 8 % missing

  9. Comparison 1:Major findings over time

  10. Comparison 1Large return on investment (Per participant in 2008 constant dollars discounted 3% annually)

  11. Four Approaches to Early Childhood Education

  12. Comparison 2:The Curriculum Models • Direct Instruction - Teacher-directed script with child “lines” focuses on academics. • High/Scope - Children learn actively through plan-do-review and group times. • Nursery School - Children learn through play.

  13. Comparison 2:Child Experience by Curriculum

  14. Comparison 2:Some Curriculum Effectsthrough Age 23

  15. HighScope Teacher TrainingTraining for Quality Study • Certified High/Scope trainers have trained over 16,000 early childhood teaching teams of all backgrounds. • Classrooms with High/Scope-trained teachers have better environments, daily routine, adult-child-interaction, and overall implementation. • Children in these classrooms have better initiative, social relations, creative representation, music and movement skills, and overall child development.

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