Assessing Early Education in Indiana
Early Childhood Meeting Place
Promoting School Readiness
Training & Outreach
- Training & Outreach
- Online Learning Series: Topics in Early Intervention
- Adapting Your Teaching to Individual Learners
- Beginning With the Objectives in Mind
- Designing Effective Transitions to Kindergarten
- Meaningful Language, Purposeful Literacy, Ready Children
- Reexamining Classroom Day to Promote School Readiness
- Rethinking How We Can Use Free Choice Time
- Targeting Skills That Make a Difference in Kindergarten
- Teaching Strategies that Support Children's Thinking
- When Actions Speak Louder
Unified Training System/First Steps
Universal Design in ECE
Past Projects
Products
Who We Are
Contact Us
Phone: (812) 855-6508
TTY: (812) 855-9396
Fax: (812) 855-9630
Director: Michael Conn-Powers, Ph.D.
e-mail: mipower@indiana.edu
Past Projects
Prekindergarten in Indiana
Prekindergarten is provided by many Indiana school corporations.
Prekindergarten is early education for young children who are three,
four, and/or five, but not yet in kindergarten. It is classroom-based
learning that takes place at least two days a week. Prekindergarten may
be known as pre-k, pre-kindergarten, preschool, or pre-school.
The purpose of this project is to develop and disseminate information
products and training to meet the needs of Indiana school
administrators, prekindergarten educators, and others interested in the
development of prekindergarten in Indiana. Since Indiana does not yet
have state-funded prekindergarten, school districts may find it
difficult to locate information that would help them to make sound data-
and research-driven decisions regarding implementation.
Topics include purposes and anticipated outcomes, service delivery
models, children served, funding, curriculum and assessment, staffing,
and project evaluation.
Products
2009
- Announcing the Briefing Paper: Combining Funding Streams
- Briefing Paper 2: Prekindergarten: Cost, Quality, Outcomes (November 2008) (PowerPoint Presentation)
References for Presentation Prekindergarten: Cost, Quality, Outcomes - (2008)
Working paper: Prekindergarten education in Indiana (November 2007)
Fact sheet: Prekindergarten in Indiana (October 2007)
Directory of Indiana Prekindergarten programs by provider type, then by county - 2007
2006
- Education policy brief: Closing the achievement gap: Part 1: Is Indiana ready for state-sponsored prekindergarten programs? (Summer, 2006)
- Briefing Paper 1 - Universal Preschool Defined
- Briefing Paper 2 - Indiana's Public Schools Offer Prekindergarten Education
- Briefing Paper 3 - State-Funded Prekindergarten Programs: How States Fund Their Programs
Links to Indiana Prekindergarten Programs
- Evansville-Vanderburgh Community Schools Early Childhood Education
- MSD Lawrence Township Early Learning Centers
- MSD Warren Township: Warren Early Childhood Center
Videos
- A forum on prekindergarten for Indiana decision makers (October 2007)
- Forum - Opening presentation
- Forum - Panel presentation
- Forum - Audience responses
- Raising the profile of Pre-K: A national strategy session: The Pre-K Now 2007 National Satelite Conference
Collaborative Pre-Service Training- Undergraduate Early Education
The IU School of Education restructured its undergraduate program for early education in 2001 to incorporate information concerning children with differing abilities into their regular coursework and practice. Early Childhood Center staff were members of instructional teams that taught three 1- to 3-credit classes addressing infancy and toddlerhood, preschool, and early primary.
- Each sophomore is paired with a volunteer family who has a child with a disability and develops an on-line relationship exchanging information about specific disabilities, family events and challenges, and experiences with their child's teacher.
- In their junior year, the student cohort focuses on the universal design of sound early education programs, such as how to adapt their curriculum, instruction, and environments to meet the individual needs of all children, including children with disabilities.
- Through a senior seminar and student teaching, seniors apply
their learning to meet the individual needs of students in community
classrooms.