TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE
Curtains for Classrooms takes a hands-on approach to providing technical assistance. Technical Assistance includes the modeling, guided and independent implementation of effective practices, coupled with the Curtains for Classrooms Coaching Method.
Curtains for Classrooms uses evidence based practices to inform recommendations when providing classroom technical assistance. Each classroom is unique. Recommendations may vary based on both the caregiver and children represented in each classroom environment.
Room Arrangement and the Classroom Environment
Room arrangement in an early childhood classroom is just as important as learning standards. Effective room arrangement allows teachers to facilitate learning. Curtains for Classrooms assists programs in creating visually inviting and logical use spaces for children to enjoy and explore.
Supervision in the Early Childhood Classroom
The first role of an early education teacher is to ensure the safety of all children. Actively supervising children and engaging with them on their level promotes a safe learning environment, prevents injuries, and encourages exploration in young children.
Playground Safety
For children to enjoy their fun time of exercise with friends, they must be provided with a safe playground environment that includes both the landscape and the equipment. Curtains for Classrooms helps both administrators and teachers identify the safety of their playground in addition to any improvements that need to be made to ensure compliance with both BFTS Licensing Rules and Regulations and the Environmental Rating Scales.
Gross Motor Development
Gross Motor skills help children develop healthy bodies that include body awareness, speed, balance, and strength to perform everyday tasks such as moving, walking, running, jumping, coordinating movements, and increasing muscular and core strength.
Health and Hygiene
Quality health practices are dependent upon the accuracy and frequency in which these practices take place and how teachers both encourage and reinforce these steps with children.
Classroom Routines and Procedures
When well constructed and consistently followed, routines, and procedures can help children feel safe by providing a sense of predictability to their learning environment. Children feel more comfortable and at ease when they know what to expect. Routines and Procedures help children develop the skills needed to be successful in life.
Classroom Management
It is important that teachers understand the difference between discipline and punishment in the early childhood classroom. Children need discipline but can do without punishment. Understanding the nature of children, their background, and their family life can help teachers be more proactive in preventing less desirable behaviors in children without the use of punishment, timeout, and/or withholding.
Language and Literacy in the Early Childhood Classroom
In the early childhood classroom, language and literacy skills are developed through books, stories, communication, and meaningful interactions with adults. Curtains for Classrooms works one-on-one with teachers to help them implement literacy strategies in the classroom that promote student learning and encourage progress towards meeting the Georgia Early Learning and Development Standards
Math in the Early Childhood Classroom
Early childhood mathematics lays the foundation for future success in understanding the four basic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division and using these operations to solve everyday problems. Math in the early childhood classroom helps children explore number and quality, measurement and comparison, and mathematical reasoning.
Science in the Early Childhood Classroom
In the early childhood classroom, Science helps children think critically and learn invaluable problem-solving skills that enhance both curiosity and creativity. Curtains for Classrooms helps teachers teach children the scientific skills and methods needed to understand the natural world around them.
Art in the Early Childhood Classroom
Art is an invaluable contributor to the development of young children's confidence and indepedence. Art in the early childhood classroom encourages self-expression, and foster imagination, creativity, and innovation. The use of fine-motor skills and hand-eye coordination in this unique way allow children to develop the motor skills needed to complete everyday tasks we as adults oftentimes take for granted. Curtains for Classrooms helps teachers understand the importance of art, facilitate and assess learning through both teacher-directed and child-initiated art.
Music in the Early Childhood Classroom
Many teachers are limited to playing music for children or prohibiting children from exploring certain instruments because they are too loud. But incorporating musical instruments and using them to "express creativity" requires so much more. Curtains for Classrooms helps teachers incorporate music in more meaningful ways that extend student learning.
Social Emotional Development of Young Children
Curtains for Classroom supports the usage of the Second Step curriculum in all preschool classrooms to help children develop self-awareness, engage in self-expression, develop self-control and build relationships with both children and adults. The Second Step Curriculum is broken down into five units that include: Skills for Learning, Empathy, Emotion Management, Friendship Skills and Problem-Solving, and Transitioning to Kindergarten.
