 Curriculum Content
Building blocks of Infant-Toddler Development
The educational content of HighScope infant-toddler programs is built around 41 "key experiences" in 10 curriculum content areas.The key experiences are early childhood milestones that guide caregivers as they plan and assess learning experiences and interact with children to support learning.
Each key experience is a guideline that identifies an observable infant-toddler behavior reflecting knowledge and skills in areas such as communication and language, social relations, exploring objects, and movement.
A list of the key experiences for infants and toddlers follows. [Note: At the preschool level, we have replaced the term "preschool key experiences" with the term "preschool key developmental indicators (KDIs)," but regardless of this change in terminology, both the preschool and infant-toddler sets of learning milestones are used in the same way.]
HighScope KEY EXPERIENCES FOR INFANTS AND TODDLERS
Sense of Self
• Expressing initiative
• Distinguishing self from others
• Solving problems encountered in exploration and play
• Doing things for one's self
Social Relations
• Forming an attachment to a primary caregiver
• Building relationships with other adults
• Building relationships with peers
• Expressing emotions
• Showing empathy toward the feelings and needs of others
• Playing with others
Creative Representation
• Imitating and pretending
• Exploring building and art materials
• Responding to and identifying pictures and photographs
Movement
• Moving parts of the body (turning head, grasping, kicking)
• Moving the whole body (rolling, crawling, cruising, walking, running, balancing)
• Moving with objects
• Feeling and experiencing steady beat
Music
• Listening to music
• Responding to music
• Exploring and imitating sound s
• Exploring vocal pitch sounds
Communication and Language
• Listening and responding
• Communicating nonverbally
• Participating in two-way communication
• Speaking
• Exploring picture books and magazines
• Enjoying stories, rhymes, and songs
Exploring Objects
• Exploring objects with one's hands, feet, mouth, eyes, ears, and nose
• Discovering object permanence
• Exploring and noticing how things are the same or different
Early Quantity and Number
• Experiencing "more"
• Experiencing one-to-one correspondence
• Experiencing the number of things
Space
• Exploring and noticing the location of objects
• Observing people and things from various perspectives
• Filling and emptying, putting in and taking out
• Taking things apart and fitting them together
Time
• Anticipating familiar events
• Noticing the beginning and ending of time intervals
• Experiencing "fast" and "slow"
• Repeating an action to make something happen again: experiencing cause and effect
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related training
2-Day Workshops
The HighScope Key Experiences for Infants and Toddlers (WK548)
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