Attention All Child Development Administrators
Trainers and Curriculum Specialists!

1. Do you feel that the curriculum of your child care and enrichment classroom, family child care home, before and after school program, youth program, home visitor program and/or parent education program is centered on your children's needs and interests?

2. Do your coordinators, trainers and staff implement developmentally appropriate practice with confidence and conviction?

3. Do you and your staff document the use of curriculum matter, subject activities, and materials to support and challenge children's development rather than using activities and materials to teach isolated skills?

4. Is your classroom practice focused on supporting and challenging children's development as opposed to "fixing what's wrong with children?"

5. Do you and your staff do authentic assessment? That is to say, do you gather information about what children say and do, interpret the meaning of this information, and then use the information to plan individually for children from week to week?

6. Do you have formal and/or informal communication with families during which you discuss their children's giftedness?

7. Do you have formal and/or informal communication with families that invites families to tell you about their children's interests and needs so that you can support their interests and needs in future lesson plans?

8. Do you know how to meet NAEYC's accreditation criteria related to "authentic assessment and individualized planning?"

9. Do you have concrete evidence for meeting licensing and accreditation standards?

10. Do you have a systematic means for gathering and storing evidence to meet licensing and accreditation standards so that your program is always ready for unannounced inspection visits?

If you answered "No" to any of the questions in this survey, you will want to look into The Marazon System.  For more information click here or contact us at mapsforlife@toledolink.com or call us at (419) 661-1945.