{"id":62818,"date":"2018-03-03T10:44:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T15:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=62818"},"modified":"2018-03-03T10:44:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T15:44:03","slug":"new-push-will-help-children-meet-individualized-literacy-goals-in-preschool-lynch-at-news-ku-edu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/03\/03\/new-push-will-help-children-meet-individualized-literacy-goals-in-preschool-lynch-at-news-ku-edu\/","title":{"rendered":"New push will help children meet individualized literacy goals in preschool [Lynch at news.ku.edu]"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<p class=\"node-title\"><strong><a title=\"New push will help children meet individualized literacy goals in preschool \" href=\"http:\/\/news.ku.edu\/2018\/02\/27\/new-push-will-help-children-meet-individualized-literacy-goals-preschool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New push will help children meet individualized literacy goals in preschool<\/a> <\/strong><span class=\"date-display-single\">&#8212; from news.ku.edu as posted by Brendan Lynch<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-ku-news-article field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">LAWRENCE \u2014 Researchers from the Juniper Gardens Children\u2019s Project at the University of Kansas are improving kids\u2019 response to literacy instruction in Kansas City area preschool classrooms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The new program, called Literacy 360\u00b0, will train psychologists, early childhood special educators and teachers to individualize literacy interventions for children who are not making progress (sometimes due to disabilities or factors such as coming from a home where English isn\u2019t the primary language).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The designers of the four-year project, funded by $1.4 million from the U.S. Department of Education, liken it to \u201cpersonalized medicine\u201d for literacy instruction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cOne of the challenges that teachers have is knowing what to do when individual young children aren\u2019t making progress in learning their literacy skills,\u201d said Charles Greenwood, director of Literacy 360\u00b0. &#8220;We see a gap in the information a teacher needs to make those decisions. In using direct observations of the classroom context and teacher talk-child response, a record of what the child and teacher were doing in the classroom can be provided back to teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">To house this information, the Literacy 360\u00b0 team uses is a classroom observational measure called \u201cCIRCLE,\u201d an acronym for Code for Interactive Recording of Children\u2019s Learning Environment, a tool specifically designed to capture organizational and behavioral features of preschool classroom instruction to help guide intervention decisions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New push will help children meet individualized literacy goals in preschool &#8212; from news.ku.edu as posted by Brendan Lynch Excerpt: LAWRENCE \u2014 Researchers from the Juniper Gardens Children\u2019s Project at the University of Kansas are improving kids\u2019 response to literacy instruction in Kansas City area preschool classrooms. 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