HighScope
Professional Development Courses
The HighScope Ireland Institute offers a wide range of training programmes designed to meet the needs of practitioners and others. The following professional development courses can be commissioned for your area or service. Costs available on request by emailing highscope@early-years.org
The instrument provides authentic, reliable assessment of key areas of learning and development for young children from birth through kindergarten. The Scoring Guide enables COR users to score their child anecdotes accurately, using the sample anecdotes and the easy-to-understand explanation given for each COR item and level.
This Scoring Guide is just one of the many useful tools that make up the COR Advantage assessment system.
An Introduction to the Child Observation Record Advantage Tool (from birth to six)
Two workshops (2.5hrs each)
This book is designed for teachers offering workshops to parents.
The 27 workshops contained within this book offer parents hand-on experiences in large and small group activities that are fun and easy to do and which teach practical strategies for interacting with children in everyday situations outside the classroom.
Parent workshops can help parents bring active learning home to their children! The 27 workshops contained in this book, a part of the Teachers' Idea Series, help family members learn about and appreciate the importance of active learning by experiencing it the way their children do. The workshops, designed for preschool parent meetings, give parents hands-on experiences in large- and small-group activities that are fun and easy to do, and which teach practical strategies for interacting with children in everyday situations outside the classroom. Each workshop includes objectives, an opening activity, central ideas for discussion, an application activity, and follow-up ideas for practicing strategies at home. This book is packaged with a CD containing PowerPoint slides and handouts for each workshop.
Bringing Active Learning Home, Supporting Parent Workshops in early years settings
One workshop (2.5 hrs)
Form A is the evaluation instrument's classroom items in four areas: learning environment, daily routine, adult-child interaction, curriculum planning and assessment. Contains a five-point rating scale for 39 dimensions of quality, a redesigned and improved scoring system, and easy-to-understand quality indicators broken down specifically for each item.
Self-Evaluation using The HighScope PQA for Pre-School Children
One workshop (2.5 hrs)
The Infant-Toddler Program Quality Assessment (PQA) is a research-validated tool that provides an accurate and authentic picture of a program’s strengths and needs for improvement in a form that caregivers can understand and use. Form A of the Infant-Toddler PQA measures quality in child care settings serving children in the zero-to-three age range. The form focuses on four key dimensions of quality:
• Learning environment
• Schedules and routines
• Adult-child interaction
• Curriculum planning and child observation
Users gather data to complete the form primarily through direct observation during everyday activities in infant and toddler rooms. Form A includes 25 assessment items, scored using objective 5-point rating scales. Each item includes specific, easy-to-understand quality indicators with detailed examples and explanations to guide scoring.
Self Evaluation using The HighScope PQA for Infant and Toddler Children
One workshop (2.5 hrs)
This book presents a six-step mediation process adults can used to help young children resolve disputes. More than fifty scenarios of conflict resolution are included.
An Introduction to the HighScope Approach to Problem solving with Pre-school Children
One workshop (2.5 hrs)
This book explores how teachers can provide a foundation for children's development in oral language, reading, and writing by providing opportunities for children to listen and talk every day, creating environments rich with books and other printed materials, and engaging children in meaningful experiences they are eager to talk and write about.
This book focuses on the 10 key developmental indicators (KDIs) in Language, Literacy, and Communication:
21. Comprehension
22. Speaking
23. Vocabulary
24. Phonological awareness
25. Alphabetic knowledge
26. Reading
27. Concepts about print
28. Book knowledge
29. Writing
30. English language learning
Supporting Language, Literacy and Communication in pre-school settings
One workshop (2.5 hrs)
This book explains how children's understanding of science and technology develops and how adults can effectively and intentionally support this process. Through hands-on materials and multisensory experiences that build on children's discoveries, adults can help children develop the skills associated with scientific thinking.
This book focuses on the eight key developmental indicators (KDIs) in Science and Technology:
45. Observing
46. Classifying
47. Experimenting
48. Predicting
49. Drawing conclusions
50. Communicating ideas
51. Natural and physical world
52. Tools and technology~
Supporting Science and Technology in pre-school settings
One workshop (2.5 hrs)
Children love to get up to their elbows in art projects, participate with voices and whole bodies in music projects, and engage in pretend play. This book explains the role that the arts play in children's development and how to make them an important part of the preschool day.
This book focuses on the five key developmental indicators (KDIs) in Creative Arts:
40. Art
41. Music
42. Movement
43. Pretend play
44. Appreciating the arts~
Supporting Creative Arts in pre-school settings
One workshop (2.5 hrs)
Young children are beginning to develop awareness of social norms, customs, personal responsibility, and strategies for interacting with others. This book explores how adults can support children as they grow and develop in these areas.
This book focuses on the six key developmental indicators (KDIs) in Social Studies:
53. Diversity
54. Community roles
55. Decision making
56. Geography
57. History
58. Ecology~
Supporting Social Studies in pre-school settings
One workshop (2.5 hrs)
Much more than rote counting, mathematics for preschoolers includes asking "how many?" questions, exploring shapes, comparing sizes, exploring patterns, and collecting and interpreting quantitative information. This book describes how adults can support children's natural curiosity about mathematics and mathematical thinking by providing open-ended materials and interactive hands-on activities.
This book focuses on the nine key developmental indicators (KDIs) in Mathematics:
31. Number words and symbols
32. Counting
33. Part-whole relationships
34. Shapes
35. Spatial awareness
36. Measuring
37. Unit
38. Patterns
39. Data analysis~
Supporting Mathematics in pre-school settings
One workshop (2.5 hrs)
While healthy bodies grow and develop on their own, children need the support of adults to develop their physical abilities to the fullest and learn healthy ways of living. Adults support learning in this area by providing children with opportunities to exercise their large and small muscles in purposeful ways and by encouraging personal care skills and healthful behaviors.
This book focuses on the five key developmental indicators (KDIs) in Physical Development and Health:
16. Gross-motor skills
17. Fine-motor skills
18. Body awareness
19. Personal care
20. Healthy behaviour~
Supporting Physical Development and Health in pre-school settings
One workshop (2.5 hrs)
Young children's social and emotional development is vital to their overall well-being and affects their success in school and their ability to learn in all subject areas. This book explains how positive interactions with adults can support children as they develop a sense of self and learn to relate to others.
This book focuses on the nine key developmental indicators (KDIs) in Social and Emotional Development:
7. Self-identity
8. Sense of competence
9. Emotions
10. Empathy
11. Community
12. Building relationships
13. Cooperative play
14. Moral development
15. Conflict resolution~
Supporting Social and Emotional Development and Health in pre-school settings
One workshop (2.5 hrs)
Children's approaches to learning — how they acquire knowledge and masters skills — shape their educational experiences in all other content areas. This book describes how adults can provide experiences for children that adapt to individual styles of learning and help children develop the ability to pursue tasks and solve problems with confidence, flexibility, and persistence.
This book focuses on the six key developmental indicators (KDIs) in Approaches to Learning:
1. Initiative
2. Planning
3. Engagement
4. Problem solving
5. Use of resources
6. Reflection~
Supporting Approaches to Learning in pre-school settings
One workshop (2.5 hrs)
Children love to get up to their elbows in art projects, participate with voices and whole bodies in music projects, and engage in pretend play. This book explains the role that the arts play in children's development and how to make them an important part of the preschool day.
This book focuses on the five key developmental indicators (KDIs) in Creative Arts:
40. Art
41. Music
42. Movement
43. Pretend play
44. Appreciating the arts~
Supporting Music and Movement in Early Years Settings
One workshop (2.5 hrs)
This book presents a six-step mediation process adults can used to help young children resolve disputes. More than fifty scenarios of conflict resolution are included.
An Introduction to the HighScope Approach to problem solving with Infant and Toddler Children
One workshop (2.5 hrs)
Boys often experience preschool differently from girls. This popular book covers the latest research on boys' experience and needs in early childhood. It has valuable tips for activities, teaching strategies for social-emotional and cognitive development, and solutions to common challenges.
Make room for boys
One workshop (2.5 hrs)