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Empowering the early childhood care and education sector
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Why you should choose HighScope?

HighScope provides practitioners and managers with:

A recognised and well researched curriculum

Validated observation tools – child assessment - Cor Advantage and Programme Quality assessment PQA for both Infant and Toddler and pre-school children

A flexible open framework for learning which can meet the needs of individual children

Support when using the Northern Ireland Pre-School Curriculum and the ROI’s early childhood curriculum framework Aistear, as well as the national quality framework Síolta.

Opportunities for initial and ongoing training and development

Opportunity to achieve HighScope Ireland Institute Accreditation

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Highscope Training

All of the training programmes can be offered at central venues  for individual setting participants or specifically in individual early years settings for full staff teams.

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HIGHSCOPE COURSES

Implementation Courses

We offer two implementation courses over one year, which support and enable practitioners to use the approach in either infant and toddler or pre-school settings.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Courses

The HighScope Ireland Institute offers a wide range of training programmes which include a variety of one to two day workshops.

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HighScope is a quality approach to early childhood care and education which has been shaped and developed by research and practice over 50 years. It identifies and builds on children's strengths, interests and abilities.

The central belief of HighScope is that children construct their own learning by doing and being actively involved in working with materials, people and ideas.

Early Years and HighScope Ireland

Early years leads the HighScope Ireland Institute in Ireland, which is one of several HighScope Institutes throughout the world. It is accountable to the HighScope Educational Research Foundation based in Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA. HighScope Ireland  institute employs a Highscope Consultant Trainer and a team of Highscope endorsed trainers who provide a range of training and support.

Outcomes for Children

Findings from the HighScope Perry pre-school Study found that using the HighScope curriculum had positive effects from the time the child attended the setting into adulthood, including better school achievement and literacy, more likely to graduate from high school, adult earnings, home ownership and lifetime arrest rates.

  • Children develop self-confidence, initiative, creativity and problem-solving skills

  • Children learn about social relationships, the world about them, maths, science and technology, reasoning and language

  • Children develop positive attitudes to self, others and to future learning

  • HighScope provides children with:

  • A consistent and flexible daily routine which provides for child and adult initiated activities

  • Opportunities to choose, plan, carry out and reflect on their activities

  • Opportunities for children to engage in the active participatory learning process

  • Adults who value and appreciate children and provide a creative and supportive learning climate

HighScope promotes family involvement through a partnership approach to the child’s care and education with ongoing exchange of information between the family and the setting. Curriculum-based workshops are used to support families and to promote children’s development at home.

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Queries? Interested? Want more INFORMATION?

Contact HighScope Ireland

Have you a query for a specialist or need support in practice? Contact us today and we will support you.

 
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