Colorado Academic Standards Online

Supportive Teaching Practices/Adults May:

1. Ask children to recall events from earlier in the day or from the day before.
2. Provide scaffolding to assist children’s recall of prior learning and events.
3. Ask children to identify their plan for center time.
4. Provide opportunities for children to plan for upcoming transitions, events, and activities.

Examples of Learning/Children May:

1. Tell stories of past events.
2. Select examples from pictures that illustrate past, present, and future.
3. Describe how they have grown.
4. Participate in creating a class memory book.
5. Track the height of the classroom plant. Progress photos and measurements are recorded on calendar.

Supportive Teaching Practices/Adults May:

1. Involve children in firsthand experiences in their community. For example: exploration of the school, neighborhood, and city.
2. Furnish learning centers with literature, activities, and materials for play based on children’s experiences with their community. For example: visit the school office and then create a classroom office.
3. Involve children in discussions about the homes they live in and the different types of homes and buildings in the community. For example: taking neighborhood walks.
4. Have children interpret simple maps of the classroom, playground and neighborhood.
5. Provide materials, literature, and activities that explore different types of homes and aspects of the children’s surrounding environment. For example: apartments, single-family homes, motels, modular homes, trees, rivers, mountains, and buildings.
6. Display pictures of familiar community buildings and landmarks in block, writing, or other centers.

Examples of Learning/Children May:

1. Build with blocks or draw various environments.
2. Take pictures of familiar building locations to place on a map of the school. The children glue the pictures on the map while the adult labels the location.
3. Identify and discuss the things they see, such as trees, fountains, streets, etc.

Supportive Teaching Practices/Adults May:

1. Provide opportunities for children to participate in classroom jobs.
2. Create situations in which children exchange money in a play situation.

Examples of Learning/Children May:

1. Engage in dramatic play, playing various job roles and pretending to perform the work associated with the chosen job.
2. Use pretend money while engaging in dramatic play activities.
3. Pretend to have jobs and be paid for their work.
4. Exchange money for goods through play.

Supportive Teaching Practices/Adults May:

1. Provide materials and opportunities for children to dramatize interactions with currency exchange.
2. Read stories related to currency.
3. Set up dramatic play opportunities that involve the use of pretend money. For example: bank, grocery store, or restaurant.
4. Use names of coins and currency when talking about money.

Examples of Learning/Children May:

1. Identify that money is used to buy things.
2. Explain that money can be saved.
3. Use pretend money while engaging in dramatic play activities.
4. Practice exchanging play money for goods.

Supportive Teaching Practices/Adults May:

1. Through books, class visitors, and field trips, extend children’s knowledge of what people do in the community.
2. Engage in one-on-one and small group conversations about similarities and differences among individuals. For example: hair, eyes, skin tone, talents, interests, and food preferences.
3. Provide books, classroom materials, photos, props, music, etc., that support diversity with respect to race, culture, ethnicity, age, ability, and non-stereotyping roles.
4. Encourage children to appreciate individual differences by providing diverse materials, literature and activities. For example: mirrors, height charts, and multicultural paints.
5. Provide opportunities for children to engage in community building, through large-group discussions with problem solving, and cooperative activities such as murals and pair-painting.

Examples of Learning/Children May:

1. Ask each other for help when needing support with a task.
2. Recognize membership in family, neighborhood, school, team and various other groups and organizations.
3. Identify examples of times when people can play different roles and bring unique talents to a variety of groups.
4. Have assigned jobs and contribute to the upkeep of the learning classroom.
5. Share problems and celebrations during large-group time. They come up with solutions to the problems in the classroom.

Supportive Teaching Practices/Adults May:

1. Discuss rules with children.
2. Explain the purpose of rules such as safety and respect.
3. Begin to introduce games that have rules.
4. Read both fiction and nonfiction books that support following rules. Create a class rules chart.
5. Engage children in class meetings and decision-making.
6. Give children classroom jobs and responsibilities.
7. Provide activities that require cooperative play.

Examples of Learning/Children May:

1. Participate in the development of classroom rules.
2. Describe classroom rules.
3. Work cooperatively with other children to achieve an outcome.
4. Participate in group decision-making.
5. Notice the classroom rules and support others in remembering the rules.
6. Allow children to develop a few simple classroom rules.