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Teaching Strategies in Florida

Florida's Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) Education Program Approved  Kit
This convenient kit combines the essential elements of The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool system--curriculum, assessment, evaluation and implementation, and professional development--into one easy-to-use solution for classroom teachers in Florida. The Kit is an instant resource library for every teacher.

The Creative Curriculum® balances teacher-planned and child-initiated learning, emphasizing responsiveness to children's strengths, interests, needs, and learning styles. Nationally known for being forward-thinking, comprehensive, and rigorously researched, it helps teachers plan and implement content-rich, developmentally appropriate programs that support active learning and promote children's progress in all developmental areas.

This kit includes:

  • The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool, Fourth Edition
  • Mathematics: The Creative Curriculum® Approach
  • Literacy: The Creative Curriculum® Approach
  • The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool in Action! DVD
  • Teaching Strategies GOLD™ assessment system
  • Moving Beyond Developmental Continuum: Teaching Strategies, GOLD™
  • Introducing the Objectives for Development and Learning
  • A Parent's Guide to Preschool
  • Reading Right from the Start (2 copies)
  • What Parents Can Do in the First Five Years
  • Math Right from the Start (2 copies)
  • What Parents Can Do in the First Five Years
  • Florida Voluntary Pre-K Professional Development

Order your Florida VPK Kit online.

Professional Development
Teaching Strategies is offering On-Site Professional Development for all preschool teachers and administrators. 

Early Learning Standards

Teaching Strategies GOLDTM
Learn how the 2008 Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) Education Standards align with Teaching Strategies GOLDTM Objectives for Development & Learning: Birth Through Kindergarten. (PDF)

Learn how the 2009 Florida Birth to Three Early Learning and Development Standards align with Teaching Strategies GOLDTM Objectives for Development & Learning: Birth Through Kindergarten (PDF) 

Developmental Continuum
Learn how Florida's Birth to Three Learning and Development Standards align with The Creative Curriculum®. (pdf)

Learn how Florida's School Readiness Performance Standards for Preschool: Four-Year-Olds align with The Creative Curriculum®. (pdf)

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