A program in Charlotte Schools is focusing on the smallest learners. Recognizing that good students should start early, early education leaders developed an award-winning preschool program called Bright.
Bright Beginnings
The Bright Beginnings program includes the full day, literacy-based programs for four year olds in the Charlotte - Mecklenburg area. More than 3,000 students from the program at five education centers and fourteen elementary schools will benefit. AboutTime, Distributed System program of public school and preschool community has been integrated into the classroom, as amended by the partnership with Smart Start, Child Care Resources, Child care centers and four programs, target the learning needs of all children preschoolers.
The development of pre - K experience
Teachers and program developers recognize the need to enrich the experiences in preschool. Students at this age verylimited opportunities to explore the world around them and the Bright Beginnings program will change that. Exposing children to new and different things, the developers believe the program to improve students' vocabulary, a skill that they hope to pass, when students learn to read. While many of these new experiences to take place in the classroom, Bright principle also encourages students with field trips to local centers of learning, such as Discovery Place, andImaginOn.
Aligning Pre - K to the curriculum of primary education and education
Bright beginnings, has recently been instructed on the North Carolina State Elementary Education and Curriculum. Teachers hope to make connections between what early Bright program and what students should do when they enter kindergarten building. The new partnership is designed for students entering kindergarten are better prepared to learn to produceand kindergarten teachers with a clearer idea of what students have been exposed and how they build their knowledge that they move like a kindergarten-through. The program has the potential for growth, student achievement at each grade level, as better prepared students advance from year to year. Bright Beginnings recognizes that policies to increase primary education, preschool curriculum as students' needs. As explained by the program director,"(The children) are expected to read more. The standards have risen, not only in school and high school, but also in kindergarten."
Professional development for teachers
As part of the early commitment to preschool education Bright, Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools has used the money and the status of federal grant to ensure that teachers in the program are highly trained and qualified. All teachers must be certified in early child development, that havestudied children from birth to kindergarten.
national recognition for Bright Beginnings
Some years ago he sold his award-winning curriculum Pearson Publishing Bright Beginnings. Through this partnership, the curriculum has been distributed nationwide and continues to grow in the district of Charlotte - Mecklenburg area. The director of the Bright Start program loans to success for the continued commitment of teachers and developersto better learning. She said: "some new things started and will continue to build. We have for years we have received tokens for our great nation curriculum. Have (Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools) is a leader in."
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