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Early Childhood Curriculum
CR1
The Creative Curriculum for Early Childhood
This video discusses how the environmental
arrangement affects the quality of a program. It shows how activity
centers enhance creativity in children. The video is excellent for
ers who want guidance with learning centers. It is ideal for
training sessions, explaining developmentally appropriate practice,
and for CDA courses and workshops. teaching Strategies, Inc.
(40 mins.)
CR2
Language and Literacy: High Scope Preschool Key Experiences
This video supports the six High Scope
key experiences in language and literacy: talking about experiences,
describing things, playing with language, writing, reading, and
dictating stories. The video focuses on ways adults can extend children's
experiences in early childhood settings. (Preschool) High Scope
Educational Research Foundation (60 mins.)
CR3
Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum for Young Children: The
Role of the Teacher
This video illustrates the important
role of the adult in helping children learn in a play-oriented environment
and shows the adult's role in child-initiated activity. This video
is useful for beginner educators. The National Association for the
Education of Young Children (NAEYC). (28 mins.)
CR4
Anti-Bias Curriculum
The video introduces a new approach
for integrating cultural diversity in early childhood classrooms.
It shows how to help young children develop positive self-concept
and attitudes about gender, race/ethnicity and disabilities, critical
thinking and skills for challenging bias. Based on the book Anti-Bias
Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Children. This video is excellent
for beginning to advanced ers. Pacific Oaks College.
(30 mins.)
CR5
Toddler Curriculum: Making Connections
This video shows how toddlers develop
and learn. It depicts developmentally appropriate curriculum. South
Carolina Educational Television (1991) Provided by NAEYC (20
mins.)
CR6
Creative Representation: High Scope Preschool Key Experiences
The ability to represent mental images
of objects, people, and experiences is the basis for creative thinking.
Imitation, pretending, drawing, painting, and model making are some
of the many ways preschool children represent their experiences.
Adults will learn to recognize and support the six High Scope key
experiences in creative expression: recognizing objects using sensory
cues; imitating actions and sounds; relating diagrams, models, and
pictures to real places and things; pretending; making models; and
drawing and painting. Includes examples of how representation occurs
in play, strategies for promoting representation and lists of materials
to encourage it. (Preschool) High Scope Educational Research
Foundation (40 mins.)
CR7
A Boy Named Sue
This is a video featuring Mitzi Pearsall
at the School-Age Conference held during May, 1992. The speech refers
to gender equality in the classroom. It also discusses how to encourage
a "non-sexist" environment with children and the sharing
of information on interactions of parents and ers with children
of differing sexes. Satellite Training Network Oklahoma Department
of Human Services (SATTRN) (1 hr.)
CR8
Building Quality Child Care: Independence
This video focuses on the developmental
stage of independence and the importance of adults recognizing and
working through this stage with young children. The video explores
the aspects of independence in children's behavior, the design and
set up of the classroom curriculum building, and the role of the
er. This video explains how to organize the after-school program
into a more homelike atmosphere. South Carolina Educational Television
Provided by NAEYC. (20 mins.)
CR9
Schedules and Routines: Why Bother?
Routines and schedules are basic and
fundamental to a program. Learn why and how to plan schedules and
routines according to the objectives of the facility, the times
children arrive and depart, number and ages, activities and weather.
Child Care Worker Video Series, Self Dimensions, Inc. (20
mins.)
CR10
We All Belong
This video discusses a visit to a multicultural
child care program in Sidney, Australia. (26 mins.)
CR11
Play and Learning
A discussion with Barbara Biber regarding
why play is important. What children learn when they play is also
discussed. The National Association for the Education of Young
Children (NAEYC). (18 mins.)
CR12
Your Preschool Classroom Computer Center: How Does It Measure
Up?
Illustrates ten practical tips on setting
up and developing a computer center. Suggestions range from safety
to the use of software. The National Association for the Education
of Young Children (NAEYC) (20 mins.)
CR13
Sharing Nature with Young Children
This engaging program demonstrates
ways of making ordinary and common-place natural phenomena into
exciting learning experiences for young children. The National
Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). (18
mins.)
CR14
Music Across the Curriculum
Thomas Moore gives examples of music
in an early childhood classroom. This is excellent for enhancement
of curriculum. The National Association for the Education of
Young Children (NAEYC). (20 mins.)
CR15
Learning Can Be Fun
Ella Jenkins demonstrates how she sings
and uses music to promote learning. This video is excellent for
enhancement of curriculum. The National Association for the Education
of Young Children (NAEYC). (57 mins.)
CR16
Sensory Play: Constructing Realities
This video shows how promoting learning
through sensory play enables children to become independent thinkers
and trust the importance of their senses. The National Association
for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). (18 mins.)
CR17
Playgrounds as a Learning Environment
This video is excellent for anyone
who needs creative and safe ideas for their outdoor areas. (Broadcast
on September 18, 1995.) Satellite Training Network Oklahoma Department
of Human Services (SATTRN). (101 mins.)
CR18
Creating Environments for Learning and Play
Play is children's work and it is important
to create an environment that enhances a child's ability to play
and to learn. Observe ways to make your child care environment both
physically and emotionally secure. You will be able to adapt the
ideas and techniques presented by child care professionals and children
interacting in enriching environments. The Child Care Worker
Video Series. Self Dimensions, Inc. (27 mins.)
CR19
Confessions of Color Book User
Creative art activities and ideas are
discussed in this video. It also answers the question, "Why
is art important?" Satellite Training Network Oklahoma Department
of Human Services (SATTRN).
(1 hr. 34 mins.)
CR20
Block Play: Constructing Realities
This video describes why blocks are
timeless materials that give children joy and a means of self-expression
and learning. The National Association of the Education for Young
Children (NAEYC). (20 mins.)
CR21
Exploring Science and Nature
Introducing Children to These Concepts
- This video the ways to help make your classroom environment promote
exploration. Indiana Steps Ahead: The Child Care Collection.
(28 mins.)
CR22
Structured Play: Gross Motor Activities for Everyday
Gross-motor play is an important contributor
to each child's development. Indiana Steps Ahead: The Child Care
Collection. (28 mins.)
CR23
Science and Math: 2 Wiggly Worms + County Bears = 4 Your Enjoyment
Brenda Wood is featured as a presenter
at this broadcast held on September 11, 1997. Satellite Training
Network Oklahoma Department of Human Services (SATTRN). (1 hr.
44 mins.)
CR24
Math and Science for Preschoolers
This video is an introduction to methods
of teaching math and science. Some activities are included. This
video is good to watch before CR23, CR21, & CR2. Meridian
Education Corporation. (13 mins.)
CR25
Jewish Miracle Days
A video for children using songs to
explain Jewish customs, religious celebrations, and history. Jewish
Fun Club (30 mins.)
CR26
Food: A Medium for Learning
This video explains how cooking in
the classroom incorporates many areas of your curriculum, such as
math, science, social studies, and language. (10 mins.)
CR27
Infant Curriculum: Great Explorations
This video focuses on stages of development
from birth through 15 months, individual temperament and style,
shaping the environment, and using routines to support an infant's
explorations. The National Association for the Education of Young
Children (NAEYC). (20 mins.)
CR28
Fingerplays and Footplays
Immediately involve your class in fun activities that help develop coordination, concentration and
listening skills. An exciting group of adult and children performers lead your students through nine
fun-filled activity songs. Childhood fingerplays and footplays are little action songs involving simple,
controlled movements of the fingers and feet that help children develop coordination, improve
concentration, and gain confidence in choral speaking. They can be performed while standing, seated
in a chair, or with legs crossed on the floor.
Educational Activities Video, Inc. (1997)
(24 mins.)
CR29 Initiative and Social Relations: High Scope Preschool Key Experiences
Young children are developing as independent decision makers who can make plans and carry them
out and as community members who can form close relationships, play cooperatively, and show
sensitivity and respect for others. They are becoming socially competent individuals. This program is
designed to help adults working in early childhood programs recognize and encourage these key
abilities. Children and teachers in a variety of High/Scope early childhood settings are featured.
High Scope Educational Research Foundation. (2002) (60 mins.)
CR30
Ready to Learn
When you hold a baby lovingly and talk,
sing, or read to her, the emotional closeness and language experiences
you provide are an important part of preparing her to learn when
she is old enough for school. This video shows the many things parents
and caregivers can do to help build a child's literacy skills from
the time he is born. Also available in Spanish version. I Am
Your Child (24 mins.)
CR31
Developing the Young Bilingual Learner
Today many children enter early childhood programs with home languages
other than English. This video explores the importance of supporting
children's home language, while helping them learn English, and
gives strategies for helping children become bilingual learners.
The National Association for the Education of Young Children
(NAEYC). (21 mins.)
CR32
New Games for Child Care Settings
Tired of Duck, Duck, Goose? Emphasizing the benefits of active play
for young children, this program suggests several new, simple games
that offer enjoyable, noncompetitive physical activity and build
skills for preschoolers and school-agers. The National Association
for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). (28 mins.)
CR33
How to Lead Games
You can lead games so everyone wins. Dr. Bill Michaelis presents
a step-by-step approach to teaching games, promoting physical and
emotional safety, dividing into teams, and more. Demonstrated through
a variety of can't-miss games for all ages. A practical motivational
tool for anyone who works with children, and a great way to kick
off a staff training event. Redleaf Press and Radworks &
Children Together (39 mins.)
CR34
The Whole Child - Creativity and Play
The relationship of creativity to self-worth and self-expression.
The Annenberb/CPB Collection (30 mins.)
CR35
The Whole Child - Let's Talk About It
Language acquisition and methods for increasing language competence.
The Annenberb/CPB Collection (30 mins.)
CR36 Setting Sail: An Emergent Curriculum Project
What do we really mean when we talk about child-centered emergent curriculum? This real-life
video beautifully captures the essence of a long-term study within a developmentally appropriate
framework. See how a child's interest in a song about the Titanic grows into an exciting classroom
project. Watch as the children become fascinated with the subject and the teachers support their
curiosity. Witness emerging artistic expression and representation, scientific knowledge, language
development, and social skills through this study.
Harvest Resources and Teaching Strategies, Inc. (1997) (19 mins.)
CR37 Thinking Big: Extending Emergent Curriculum Projects
As teachers discover emergent curriculum themes in children's play, how can they extend this
interest into an in-depth project? Watch two teachers set the stage with a flexible environment and
schedule, and engaging materials to support the children's pursuits for a project on building towers.
This videotape is a living example of how teachers can use information from observing
children--their interests, their language, their games--to develop a long-term study that captures their
curiosity as well as extends and integrates their learning. Viewers discover how to observe, redesign
space, document, and collaborate on a project within the limitations of their setting. An engaging
sequel to the video, Setting Sail: An Emergent Curriculum Project. (Refer to CR 36). Harvest Resources and Teaching Strategies, Inc. (1999) (26 mins.)
CR38 Dramatic Play: More Than Playing House
Learn the benefits of dramatic play for children's development and across the curriculum. Get ideas
for prop boxes and thematic play, and see the important roles of adults in supporting dramatic play.
Also available in Spanish.
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).(28 mins.)
CR39 Music Play: Bah, Bah, Bebop, Beethoven
Explores the innovative concept that young children's musical development has much in common
with their language development. It considers the role of play, culture, and improvisation and
presents examples from a variety of early childhood settings.
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).(54 mins.)
CR40 Discovering Nature with Young Children
For teachers who want to do serious science in the preschool classroom, this resource-rich curriculum
provides all the tools. Children will learn essential life-long scientific reasoning skills as they
investigate the natural world. Important language and literacy skills are developed as children
communicate their findings, participate in discussions, and represent their experiences; and crucial
math skills are fostered as children count, measure, sort, categorize, and compare the many plants
and animals in their surroundings. This video contains eight real-life vignettes of the curriculum in use in the classroom.
Education Development Center, Inc. and Redleaf Press. (2003) (37 mins.)
CR41 An Idea Blossoms: Integrated Curriculum
Illustrates how three teachers successfully used an integrated curriculum to meet individual children's
needs at many levels. The program examines planning techniques, as well as the roles of the teacher
and the child in implementing an integrated curriculum. From The Early Childhood Program: A
Place to Learn and Grow series.
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). (31 mins.)
CR42 Play: The Seed of Learning
Examines the role of play in the classroom, how children use play to better understand the world,
how play evolves as children acquire social competence, how teachers can support children's play,
and play as a vehicle for assessing children's abilities. From The Early Childhood Program: A Place
to Learn and Grow series.
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). (27 mins.)
CR43 NAEYC Showcase 2000: Storytelling
Taped on location at the NAEYC Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, in November 2000, this
series of presentations provides direct information from national experts. The simple format can be
used in extending local training sessions. Joe Ferguson, presenter.
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
(2000) (53 mins.)
