Overview

As a teacher, you want to know if every child is developing and learning as expected in all four areas of development: social/emotional, physical, cognitive, and language. The Creative Curriculum^® Developmental Continuum for Infants, Toddlers & Twos is designed to help you find out by making purposeful observation part of your everyday practice. The Developmental Continuum is the core of the Assessment System and helps you to evaluate each child's developmental level, to map each child's progress, and to plan learning experiences based on individual strengths and needs.

The Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers & Twos translates research and theory about child development and learning into practical strategies that support high-quality care for children under age 3. It explains all aspects of a developmentally appropriate program and leads teachers through the processes of planning and implementing every aspect of caring for and teaching infants, toddlers, and twos.

Development typically unfolds in progressive steps. Children don't master a particular skill all at once. There is a sequence of steps to expect as children progress toward reaching developmental objectives. Having a way to determine each child's developmental level enables you to decide what kinds of experiences will support his or her progress. The Developmental Continuum for Infants, Toddlers & Twos describes the progression of typical development. It includes 21 objectives organized by goals in four areas of development: social/emotional, physical, cognitive, and language.

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Assessment

The assessment portion of the The Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers & Twos is essential to building responsive relationships and to offering care and experiences that promote each child's development and learning. 

This system

• uses the same goals and objectives as The Creative Curriculum for Preschool
  
  
• helps teachers observe children intentionally; use what they learn to be respond to children's interests, strengths, and needs; and share information with families 
  
  
• enables teachers to identify children's levels of development in reation to 21 objectives in 4 goal areas
  
  
• links curriculum and assessment to allow teachers to plan appropriate experiences for infants, toddlers, and twos while retaining the flexibility to respond to the changing needs and abilities of young children
  
  
• helps teachers follow the development of children with disabilities and include them in the program
  
  
• includes tools that help teachers individualize care for infants, toddlers, and twos

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Training

Teaching Strategies offers introductory training on The Developmental Continuum Assessment System both at your location and at our national conferences. Onsite training is customized to meet the needs of your staff. By participating in one of these sessions, you will have a better understanding of how to

• observe and document children's
  development and learning
  
  
• use The Developmental Continuum to map children's progress
  
  
• use assessment information to plan for individual children and for groups of children
  
  
• include families in the assessment process
  
  
• create and read reports summarizing group progress

For CreativeCurriculum.net subscribers, we offer administrators, supervisors, and trainers both techinical training seminars, as well as live, interactive demonstrations delivered via the Internet.

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