Work with Environment and Materials. The teacher is responsible for designing, organizing and maintaining a materials-based classroom that reflects the curriculum and current work of the children. Create and prepare materials that serve the curriculum. The teacher is responsible for developing curriculum in all areas based on children's developmental capacities and needs and current understanding of literacy learning, mathematics and interdisciplinary curriculum development in social studies, science and the arts. A multicultural understanding must be reflected in the curriculum developed for children.
Special emphasis is placed on social studies as the core of classroom life and learning.
As cooperating practitioners for graduate students who are placed in their classrooms, teachers plan cooperatively with students and hold weekly supervisory meetings. Teachers meet with the student and the advisor from Graduate Programs 3 times per semester. Teachers are required to meet with parents twice yearly for individual conferences and to be available for additional conferences where needed. Teachers and parents work together to increase each other's knowledge of the children. Teachers have two comprehensive reports on children each year.