1. Introduction to NYSED Guidance for School Districts Operating Pre-K Programs for Three Year Olds 3 Year Old Public Preschool Summer Institute
July 18-19, 2017

2. What’s in the Guide?
You’ve actually been hearing about it all day!

3. Highlight: Principles of Child Development
Child Development Principles
Implications for Teaching
There are variations in the sequence of development from child to child; individual children may develop more rapidly in one area than in another.
Individualize the curriculum to reflect each child’s varied strengths, needs, interests, temperaments, learning styles, cultures, English language abilities, and home language abilities for Emergent Bilinguals.
Allow children to work at their own pace and provide multiple points of entry into projects and activities.

4. Highlight: Characteristics of PK Learners
Classroom Practices:
Three Year Old
Four Year Old
Use make-believe as part of their everyday living
Change classroom learning areas to coincide with the classroom theme/topic of study
Provide opportunities for children to re-create life experiences in the dramatic play area

5. Highlight: Environment
Equipment
How Three Year Old might use
How Four Year Old might use
Blocks
May play independently and spread out over a large space in the block area
Will incorporate peers and more theme related schemas into their construction and play

6. Highlight: Setting up Centers
e.g., Dramatic Play

7. The morning connections…
Am I
3 or 4?
Principles; Milestones; Characteristics
Purposeful Play
Principles; Characteristics; Play; Environment

8. The afternoon connections…
Instructional Cycle
Principles; Milestones; Characteristics; Play; Environment
Environments and Interactions
Administrator Session
Principles

9. Please complete your DAY 1 Evaluation
Before we go…
Please complete your DAY 1 Evaluation

10. Thank you. Sarah Hughes Early Learning Lead
Northeast Comprehensive Center | RMC Research