- The Creative Curriculum promotes discovery and inquiry with opportunities for children to think critically and develop process skills with hands-on investigations of relevant and interesting topics in the classroom.
- The Creative Curriculum streamlines planning, teaching, and engagement so teachers can be responsive to child needs and develop meaningful engagement with every child and family.
- Allows for teachers to individualize instruction by understanding how children’s abilities progress and scaffold learning experiences to respond to each child’s current strengths and needs, including those with disabilities.
- Use Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment Tool to accompany the use of the Creative Curriculum
- Teaching Strategies GOLD is an authentic, ongoing observational system for assessing children from birth through kindergarten; the ongoing assessment offers a broad, more meaningful picture of development.
- It helps teachers observe children in the context of everyday experiences
- Structured around 38 objectives that help teachers link observable behavior to essential early learning requirements and predict likely next steps in every area of development and learning.
