Notes from the Conference - Part 3

On Saturday I provided a presentation titled “Connecting Activities to Florida Educational Standards.” The attendance for my presentation started out slowly, but a nice size group arrived. A few conferees left during the presentation, and I got the impression that they wanted a kit to use to apply the educational standards—one person even asked for one. Apparently, conferees were aware of state educational standards that have been in the field for at least four years, but the standards haven’t been applied broadly. In many cases children center haven’t either trained staff members or ensured staff members have been trained to apply the standards. At the conference attendees were on a search to find free lesson plans, kits, and etc. to carry back to their centers and use without having to work developing activities using standards to fit their particular situation.