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Goal

This grant aims to allow our Pine Ridge future educators to create engaging and interactive dramatic play activities for our preschool students. Our program allows for high school students to explore the art of teaching by leading engaging lessons with eight 3-5-year-old students. Students gain the knowledge and experience for leading lessons and planning standards driven lessons for our Tiny Panthers. I have 150 high school students and 9 preschool students ranging from the ages of 3-5.  

What will be done with my students

Students will use the materials as tools for creating fun and intercave lessons during our scheduled center exploration time. During this time lead teachers will be able to use the materials requested as tools to for creating engaging and hands activities during play.
For example: Lead teachers will be teaching our Preschoolers the standard: Uses senses to explore and understand their social and physical environment
Standards that will be addressed with the materials from this
22.0 Create, implement and evaluate lesson plans. The student will be able to:
22.01 Research criteria for creating an age appropriate lesson plan.
22.02 Research or develop evaluation criteria for the lesson.
22.03 Demonstrate an understanding of Florida’s birth to five learning standards.
22.04 Incorporate all five learning domains in lesson plans.
22.05 Evaluate the need for differentiated instruction (i.e. enrichment, accommodations, IEP, etc.) to meet the needs of
individual students.
23.0 Plan developmentally appropriate activities for infants and toddlers. The student will be able to:
23.01 Plan and evaluate activities for infants and toddlers across all domains (i.e.: social-emotional, cognitive, etc.)
23.02 Describe specific strategies for meeting the emotional needs of infants and toddlers.
24.0 Plan, implement and evaluate developmentally appropriate physical development activities for preschool children. The student
will be able to:
24.01 Describe the stages of physical development.
24.02 Select and use appropriate equipment and materials that promote physical development.
24.03 Plan, implement and evaluate developmentally appropriate fine and gross motor activities. Create, analyze and interpret a child study. The student will be able to:
42.01 Collect data using multiple sources (i.e.: observations, developmental checklist, assessment tools, writing samples, etc.).
42.02 Analyze multiple sources and interpret results to develop interventions/accommodations.
42.03 Participate in a parent’/teacher conference and share results.

 

Benefits to my students

This project gives our future educators the tools and materials they need to create engaging and interactive lessons. The project will go directly into helping my students to better their craft of teaching. These students will be future Volusia county teachers that will continue to use the experienced gained in Early Childhood Education to make an impact on the educational community.  

Budget Narrative

The dress-up items listed will be used throughout the school year located in our classroom dramatic play area.  

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