A New Vision for High-Quality Preschool Curriculum
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education author Board on Children, Youth, and Families author National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine author Committee on a New Vision for High Quality Pre-K Curriculum author Amy Stephens editor Sue Bredekamp editor Rebekah Hutton editor Linda Espinosa editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:National Academies Press
Published:25th Oct '24
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A high-quality preschool education can foster critical development and learning that promotes joyful, affirming, and enriching learning opportunities that prepare children for success in school and life. While preschool programs generally provide emotionally supportive environments, their curricula often fall short in advancing learning in math, early literacy, and science, and lack the necessary support for multilingual learners emerging bilingualism. Additionally, access to high-quality, effective early learning experiences may be limited and inadequate based on factors such as a childs race, location, gender, language, identified disability, and socioeconomic status.
A New Vision for High-Quality Preschool Curriculum examines preschool curriculum quality for children from ages three to five, with special attention to the needs of Black and Latine children, multilingual learners, children with disabilities and children experiencing poverty in the United States. The report articulates a vision for high-quality preschool curricula for all children, grounded in an equity and justice-oriented principles from inception to implementation and evaluation.
Table of Contents- Front Matter
- Summary
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Evidence on the Effectiveness of Preschool Curricula
- 3 The Science of Early Learning and Brain Development
- 4 Developing High-Quality, Equitable Preschool Curricula
- 5 Optimizing the Learning Environment for Effective and Equitable Curriculum Delivery
- 6 Specialized and Targeted Curricula and Practices for Supporting Children with Disabilities
- 7 High-Quality Early Childhood Curriculum for Multilingual Learners
- 8 State- and Program-Level Curriculum Decision Making and Selection
- 9 Examining Variation in Curriculum Effects
- 10 Conclusions, Recommendations, and Research Needs
- Appendix A: Existing Curricula Identified by the Committee's Commissioned Literature Review
- Appendix B: Committee Member and Staff Biosketches
- Appendix C: Disclosure of Unavoidable Conflict of Interest <
ISBN: 9780309714013
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376 pages