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Unit
1. Introduction
to the course
SmartStart program
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- Course overview
- Major remedial issues of internationally
adopted post-institutionalized preschool and school
age children
- Introduction into SmartStart program
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Unit
3. Let's make a plan
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Unit
5. The nimble symbol
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- Theoretical background on the role
of symbols in the development of literacy and numeracy.
- Guidelines for caregivers.
- Part 1. Recognizing
symbols.
Activity 1: "Signs of the Times"
- Part 2. Creating symbols.
Activity 1: "Our Family Shield"
Activity 2: "My Secret Language"
Activity
3: "Symbols in My Home"
- Part 3. Using symbols.
Activity 1: "Ready, Set, Read"
Activity 2: "Family Fun"
Activity
3: "Measure for Pleasure"
Activity
4: "It's about Rhyme"
Activity 5:
"Because I Said So!"
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Unit
7. Who is in charge?
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- Theoretical background on the role
of self-regulation.
- Guidelines for caregivers.
- Part 1. Main ideas.
Activity 1: "Relax"
Activity 2: "Mirror, Mirror!"
Activity
3: "Red Light"
Activity 4: "First
Say; Then Do"
Activity 5: "Listen up!"
Activity 6: "All the World's a Stage"
Activity 7: "When You're Happy and You Know It…"
Activity 8: "Taking Turns as Boss"
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Unit
2. Noticing our world
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- Theoretical background on the ability
to detect patterns and sequences.
- Guidelines for caregivers.
- Part 1. Learning
how to look, listen, touch and to be aware of the
surroundings.
Activity 1: "What is This?"
Activity 2: "Details; Details..."
Activity 3: "Sense-A-Tional Food!"
Activity 4: "To See Is To Remember"
- Part 2. Pattern recognition and pattern
production.
Activity 1: "Cereal Serial"
Activity 2: "A Moving Experience"
Activity 3: "Pattern Pictures"
- Part 3. Comparing and classifying by
shape, color, size.
Activity 1: "The Collector"
Activity 2: "I Spy"
Activity 3: "Pasta
Sort"
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Unit
4. That's fantastic!
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Unit
6. What's the big idea?
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- Theoretical background on the importance
of making rules and learning from general principles.
- Guidelines for caregivers.
- Part 1. Main ideas.
Activity 1: "You Tell Me Yours
and I'll Tell You Mine"
Activity 2: "Headlines"
Activity 3: "TV Gab"
- Part 2. Principles and rules.
Activity 1: "Rules for
My Space"
Activity 2: "The Rules of
the Game"
Activity 3: "The Rule is
the Tool"
Activity 4: "It's the Principle
of the Thing"
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Unit
8. Making connections:
understanding the
past - facilitating the future
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- Theoretical background on the cause
and effect thinking.
- Guidelines for caregivers.
- Part 1. Cause and effect thinking.
Activity 1: "Me, Myself,
and I"
Activity 2: "We're Connected"
Activity 3: "Finding the Source"
- Part 2. Family relationships.
Activity 1: "Ritually Speaking"
Activity 2: "Let Them Read History"
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