A large part of what is offered by Teaching Strategies focuses on professional development for both teachers and administrators, offered on-site, online or at the company's headquarters. Staff at a preschool that subscribes to Creative Curriculum should be able to explain what types of professional development programs they've participated in and in what ways these programs have impacted their teaching styles and materials.
Creative Curriculum's website, CreativeCurriculum.net, offers a menu of online services for parents. Parents can create individual accounts through which they can view schoolwork portfolios, evaluate their child's progress in terms of the curriculum's objectives, access a library of recommended home activities, communicate with teachers and find a variety of information on parenting and educational topics.
Creative Curriculum programming is detailed and assessment-based. The preschool curriculum has 50 identified goals. Teaching strategies and assessment methods are based on scientific research and developed by a team of educators, administrators and other experts who are early childhood specialists.
Creative Curriculum programming is designed to align seamlessly with Head Start programs and most early childhood learning standards and pre-kindergarten outcome standards developed and implemented at both statewide and national levels. A Creative Curriculum preschool experience should offer everything your child needs for kindergarten readiness in your own community.