PK4 TIP Cohort
August 10 & 11
Welcome to Austin ISD Early Childhood!
Vision Statement
The AISD Early Childhood department will evolve in partnership with the community as a cohesive and pedagogically aligned program to ensure that the district's prekindergarten students are kindergarten ready.
Mission Statement
PK Mimes!
Everyone will take turns drawing a slip of paper that has a situation of something that may happen during the PK day. That person will act out the scenario.
The group must guess what the situation or scenario is.
Curriculum
Texas PK Guidelines
PK Curriculum Resource
Scholastic Big Day Online Teacher Space
LOGIN SCHOLASTIC INSTRUCTIONS
Scholastic Big Day Teacher's Space gives teachers access to a wide variety of Scholastic curriculum supporting materials. New teachers use the district username and password that are listed above. This is for one time use! Once you login in with these credentials it prompts the teacher to set up a customized user name and password.
For support, you can contact Scholastic BIg Day Technical Support 1-888-326-6546.
Username: 227901 Password: Travis
Classroom Libraries
Austin ISD PK Yearly Planning Guides (YPG) and Student Performance Guides (SPG)
1st 20 days Lesson Plans
Lesson Plan Templates
AISD Focus Areas
Heggerty- Phonemic Awareness Lessons
-10 min.
-See schedule
PK English
PK Spanish
PK Spanish
Heggerty Training Videos and Schedules
PK Daily Activities
Large Group Instruction
Small Group Instruction
Learning Centers
Hands-On Learning!
Instead of this...
Do this...
Establishing a Schedule
AISD Rest Time Guidelines
Other Rest Time Guidelines
Modeled Read Aloud / Shared Reading
Modeled Write Aloud / Shared Writing
The Learning Environment
Physical Arrangement of Space
Organization and Routine of Activities
• Rules Chart
• Helpers Chart
• Attendance Chart
• Daily Schedule Chart
• Learning Area Planning Chart
Schedule Cards (Editable)
Home/School Icons- Add your own school
Social Emotional Learning / Classroom Management
Family Tree
Morning Greeting
"A Letter to Teachers on the use of Stoplights in the Classroom"
Positive Messages Conveyed by the Classroom Structure
AISD PK4 Environmental Checklist
Monitoring Children's Learning and Development
Informal Assessments
• Ongoing observations
• Systematic observations
• Reflections
• Anecdotal notes
• Checklists
• Portfolios
Formal Assessments
In addition to district report cards, Austin ISD uses the CIRCLE Progress Monitoring System as our formal assessment. These assessments are given through the computer and are accessed on the CLI Engage website.
Austin ISD has created PK4 assessment rubrics that go with the report card.