Preschool Curriculum

Tools of the MInd

Tools of the Mind is a research-based early childhood program that builds strong foundations for school success in preschool children by promoting their intentional and self-regulated learning. Tools of the Mind has been shown to have a significant impact on self-regulation of preschool children. One study found these gains in self-regulation to be related to scores in child achievement in early literacy and mathematics.

In our classrooms:

• • Teachers systematically scaffold children's movement along the continuum of self-regulation from being regulated by others to engaging in "shared" regulation to eventually becoming "masters of their own behavior."

  • Children gain control of their social, emotional, and cognitive behaviors by learning how to use a variety of "mental tools."

  • Teaching of early literacy and mathematics emphasizes building underlying cognitive competencies such as reflective thinking and metacognition.

  • Children practice self-regulated learning throughout the day by engaging in a variety of specifically designed developmentally appropriate self-regulation activities.

  • Children learn to regulate their own behaviors as well as the behaviors of their friends as they enact increasingly more complex scenarios in their imaginary play and learning activities in preschool 

  • We have lots of fun!