TeachSmart® Early Childhood Activity Bundle
The TeachSmart® Learning System greatly assists early childhood educators by helping them "teach smarter not harder!™ " In essence, the system engages children in fun, motivating, and developmentally appropriate activities.
Over 1,100 exclusive, customized scaffolded activities
The activities are designed by experts in the field of early childhood education, are customized to support a variety of learning styles (including successful implementation in inclusion and ESL settings), and scaffolded into the levels of "emergent", "still developing", "developing", and extension. The teacher will also find a Lesson Plan ready to use for each of the activities. The Lesson Plan suggests group size, gives child learning standards supported by the lesson, and shows a bulleted step-by-step set of instructions for implementing the lesson—all for the teacher's convenience.
Spans Early Childhood Development Skills
In the busy early childhood classroom, teachers need to know that the strategies and activities they use are developing the needed cognitive and social/emotional skills for their children to be ready for formal schooling. The TeachSmart® Learning System provides the teacher with already designed, tested, and research-based strategies and activities. Playful, engaging, and purposeful, the skill areas cover Pre-Literacy, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Social/Emotional, and Physical Development.
Activities included are designed to strengthen key kindergarten readiness concepts such as:
- Phonological Awareness
- Prewriting
- Alphabet Knowledge
- Language Development
- Number Recognition
- Counting
- Patterns
- Sets
- Measurement
- Social Emotional Development
Purposeful, Playful, and Developmentally Appropriate
Early childhood education programs can be confident that all of the activities in the TeachSmart® Learning System are fun, purposeful, planful, playful, and developmentally appropriate. In addition to hundreds of teacher-guided activities, the TeachSmart® Learning System allows and encourages children to independently engage in Free Play with a large number of activities so they may follow their own interests.
Easy to Use Navigation Tool
As with all Hatch® products, the TeachSmart® Learning System is easy to use for both teachers and children. Through the use of Hatch’s exclusive TeachSmart® Learning System Navigational Tool, the System organizes the large volume of activities into intuitive categories. Further, teachers can quickly access the Learning System activities with a simple touch, saving valuable time and frustration.
An Exciting Way of Saving and Presenting Children's Work
The TeachSmart® Learning System has the ability to easily save children's progress into a "Digital Portfolio" for review by the child, and conferences between parents and teachers. The capability to easily record videos of children's voices and screen movements to track their learning processes and progress brings instruction to an amazing new level for teachers.
Sample Activity: The Train Game
Packed with State-of-the Art "Teacher Features"
The TeachSmart® Learning System brings the information packed Teacher Features directly to the teacher in a convenient, research-based, and easy to use format, attached to each activity. They include: Make it your Own, Beyond the Board, Standards, and Teacher Talk.
Make it your Own - helps the teacher to customize the activities that your children have grown to love! A teacher’s personalized activities will support instructional opportunities that enhance and strengthen early childhood developmental skills. The TeachSmart™ Learning System comes with a wide range of ideas for easy use as models.
Beyond the Board - gives the teacher dozens of ideas about how to integrate the TeachSmart® Activities into classroom activities so that your children have a full opportunity to experience and learn concepts.
Teacher Talk - "Teach Talk" provides short reviews of the most current research available in early childhood to support the teacher in implementing the TeachSmart® Learning System in their classroom.
Standards - Teachers will feel confident knowing the strategies and activities are research-based and meet or exceed national standards. Great care has been taken to align each activity to the most up to date scientific research, this alignment can be founds in the "Standards" section.
Assessments Supportively Monitor Progress
Having the right tools to conduct assessments of young children in key skill areas in non-threatening ways is at the heart of the TeachSmart® Learning System Assessment feature. Including assessments in the areas of letter/number recognition and formation, as well as language and self awareness, teachers will be able to determine the beginning levels of their children, and monitor progress throughout the school year. These assessments also serve as models for teachers to develop their own customized progress monitoring tools.
SMART Accredited content
The TeachSMART™ Learning System has been accredited at the Ready level. The Ready level is the basic accreditation level for an application or content product, indicating that SMART Technologies has approved the software title for use with SMART products.
The SMART Software Accreditation Program offers educators a wealth of multimedia content and software resources to enhance instruction in the classroom. SMART has accredited over 86 companies representing more than 300 titles in subject areas including math, science, technology, English, social studies, history, health, language arts, art and design, foreign languages and music.
