Curriculum and Assessment: Resources
Wisconsin Early Childhood Collaborating Partners provides curriculum and assessment resources.
- United Way of Dane County - Pursuing three main strategies that are helping children in Dane County have a healthy and happy early childhood: Parental Education and Support, Born Learning Play and Learn and Supporting Early Childhood Education
- Governor's Early Care and Education Advisory Council
- Council on Children and Families - Early Education Facts and Quotes
- Early Learning and School Readiness
- What Settings are Wisconsin’s Young Children In?
- Investment in Early Learning Brings High Returns
- Healthy Children - up-to-the-minute health advice for proactive parents and caregivers from the American Academy of Pediatrics
- CLASP - Policy Solutions that Work for Low Income People: Strengthening Children, Youth and Families
- CLASP - Charting Progress for Babies in Child Care, What Babies and Toddlers in Child Care Need
- Born Learning - is designed as a tool for long-lasting community change that supports young children. It has three cornerstones:
- Awareness – Providing important information about how young children learn,
- Education – Providing easy, fun action steps that parents, grandparents and caregivers can use every day and
- Action – Providing a visible platform for public policy and action.
- NAECY and NAECS/SDE Position Statement on Curriculum Assessment in Programs Birth Through Age 8 (pdf) - NAEYC is the nation's largest organization of early childhood professional and others dedicated to improving the quality of early childhood education programs for children birth through age eight.
- NAECY and NAECS/SDE "Where we Stand on Curriculum, Assessment, and Program Evaluation (pdf) - National Institute for Early Education Research NIEER supports early childhood initiatives by providing objective, nonpartisan information based on research.
- The Brazelton Touchpoints Approach™ - is a practical approach for enhancing the competence of parents and building strong family-child relationships from before birth through the earliest years, laying the vital foundation for children’s healthy development.
- The Brain Map was adapted in 2006 by ZERO TO THREE from BrainWonders, a collaborative project (1998-2001) between Boston University School of Medicine, Erikson Institute and ZERO TO THREE. After selecting an age range, click on a hotspot of the brain to reveal questions and answers to learn how a baby's brain develops during this period of brain growth. You'll also learn what you can do to enrich a very young child's development.
- Tools of the Mind
- Read, Play Learn
- WI Child Care Information Center (CCIC) - is a free mail-order lending library and information service for anyone in WI working in the field of child care and early education.
- Wisconsin Head Start - Head Start is family-centered and community-based, providing developmentally appropriate activities for children and support for parents in their work and child-rearing roles.
Assessment Tools List
- Creative Curriculum
- High Scope - COR Assessment
- New Portage Guide
- Work Sampling, Rebus, Inc.
- Ages and Stages Questionnaire: Social-Emotional (ASQ:SE)
- Ages & Stages Questionnaires (ASQ)
- Assessment, Evaluation, and Programming System (AEPS) - for Infants and Children (Volumes 3 and 4)
- Assessment, Evaluation and Programming System (AEPS) - Curriculum for Three to Six Year Volume 4, Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing Company. 1993
- Battelle Developmental Inventory, Second Edition (BDI-2) - Riverside Publishing, 2005
- Brigance Inventory of Early Development II - Curriculum Associates (2005)
- Carolina Developmental Profile - Kaplan
- Creative Curriculum for Developmental Continuum Washington DC - Teaching Strategies, Inc. 2002.
- Early Learning Accomplishment Profile (E- LAP) * Kaplan Press,
- Hawaii Early learning Profile (HELP) * Vort Corporation, 2004
- High/Scope Child Observation Record (COR) for Infants And Toddlers Ypsilanti, MI: High/Scope, 2002
- High/Scope Preschool Child Observation Record (COR), Second Edition Ypsilanti, MI: High/Scope, 2003
- Indicators of Individual Growth and Development for Infants and Toddlers (IGDI: 0-3) University of Kansas
- Learning Accomplishment Profile Third Edition (LAP-3) Kaplan Earl Learning Company
- The New Portage Guide: Birth to Six CESA 5, Portage, WI, 2003
- The Work Sampling System, (preschool 3 and 4, 2004) Pearson Early Learning: Lebanon, IN, 2004
- The Ounce Scale Pearson Early Learning, 2003
- Work Sampling, Rebus, Inc.
- The Work Sampling System