Texas Rising Star Alignment to ITSN

Part 1 PLC covers five strategies to promote children’s early literacy skills: Read with Enthusiasm, Share Control, Invite Interest, Talk about Pictures, and Encourage Active Participation. Part 2 covers six additional strategies: Practice Fine Motor Skills, Point Out Print and Alphabet, Model Writing, Use Rhythm and Rhyme, Use Props and Extenders, and Link to Experiences. Completion of each related course is required. The courses are part of the CIRCLE Infant and Toddler Teacher Training: “Play with Me” series.

Texas Rising Star Alignment: Although we do not explicitly align the Read with Me strategies to Category 2 standards, early literacy activities are an excellent way to facilitate language, vary instructional formats, extend playful learning, and foster warm relationships between teachers and children.

Part 1, Partnering with Families, explores broad-based partnership and communication strategies. Part 2, Play-Based Learning, is focused on promoting play-based learning at home through incorporating home-based activities into lesson plans. Completion of each related course is required. The courses are part of the Family Engagement Series on CLI Engage.

This PLC supports best practices in developmental screening and referral for infants and toddlers using content from the Grow with Me course and CLI’s Developmental Milestones Checklists. Completion of the related course is required. The course is part of the CIRCLE Infant and Toddler Teacher Training: “Play with Me” series.

Texas Rising Star Alignment: The Grow with Me PLC may be helpful for teachers who need support understanding and using assessment tools, particularly if they are using developmental milestone checklists (P-IFAL-06).

The ITSN provides four PLCs that correspond to the domains of the ITELGs: Physical, Social Emotional, Language, and Cognitive. Completion of each related course is required (Texas Infant Toddler and Three-Year-Old Guidelines Training).

Texas Rising Star Alignment: These PLCs are a great way to engage teachers in facilitated discussion around the ITELG training, which is required for directors and recommended for teachers.

The activity collection is a free online resource that provides a wide range of activities and video demonstrations across domains. This PLC discusses the importance of play-based learning and helps teachers become familiar with navigating the activity collection and selecting activities to incorporate into lesson plans. There is no related course for this PLC.

Texas Rising Star Alignment: Using the activity collection may help teachers implement skills within Category 2: Instructional Formats and Approaches to Learning. For example, the collection includes ideas for both teacher- and child-directed play and how to use routines and transition times for incidental learning.