New Curriculum to Help Teachers Use Mississippi Early Learning Guidelines

JUNE 11, 2007│A new curriculum rich in literacy-based, hands-on activities for young children will help teachers follow the official Mississippi Early Learning Guidelines.

The Mississippi State University Early Childhood Institute (ECI) is the publisher of Using the Mississippi Early Learning Guidelines: A Complete Curriculum for Three-year-olds by Lynn Darling, Ph.D.

The first three chapters, including a thematic unit, “All About Me,” for the month of August, are downloadable here. ECI will publish additional units online in the coming months.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation provided funding for development of the curriculum as part of a $1.25 million grant for recovery of the early care and education sector in the Hurricane Katrina disaster region.

Cathy Grace, Ed.D., professor and director of ECI, announced publication of the curriculum today:

“Dr. Lynn Darling has compiled a wonderful set of activities for early childhood teachers. The activities are parts of twelve one-month thematic units, with weekly schedules and ideas for indoor and outdoor learning and play. The book also contains a section, ‘Understanding the Mississippi Early Learning Guidelines,’ that walks the teacher and caregiver through the state’s learning goals for three-year-olds. We have included a reproducible Checklist of Learning Objectives that teachers and caregivers can use to record when individual children meet specific objectives.”

Lynn Bell of ECI designed and produced the curriculum. ECI will offer workshops on using the curriculum for teachers and caregivers in the Katrina region on June 16 and 23 and July 7 and 28.

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