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Standards of Experience
May 12, 2011
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
-Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Diplomat, First Lady, Activist
In her presentation at the 2011 World Forum in Honolulu last week, Lilian Katz observed that we need to think deliberately about the types of experiences children are having in our programs.  She proposed that in each setting we develop our own Standards of Experience for children.  She offered these suggestions as "experiences that all children should have much of the time:
  • Being intellectually engaged and challenged
  • Applying developing skills in purposeful ways
  • Developing confidence in their own intellectual powers
  • Extended conversations/interactions with adults and peers
  • Taking initiative/responsibility; making choices
  • Generating questions/predictions/hypotheses
  • Sustained involvement in investigations of worthwhile topics
  • Overcoming obstacles and set-backs
  • Helping others to find out about and understand things better
  • Making suggestions to others
  • Feeling a sense of belonging to a community in the school





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Bonnie Mallonga · May 12, 2011
1199 SEIU Child Care Corporation
Bronx, NY, United States



Hello:

This is not a feed back to the article above.

It's a question about CC Exchange's ability to put all articles and books on an e-book format for Kindle or Nook or Ipad.

bonnie

E Jaffe · May 12, 2011
United States


Lilian Katz has the marvelous gift being able to take complex concepts and making them easy to understand. Her writing is clear and to the point, and always on target. I suggest we post this in the place we are most likely to see and think about it frequently to help guide our decision-making.
Thank you for sharing this with us!



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