Peep's World/El Mundo de Peep

WGBH教育基金会将创建PEEP'S WORLD/EL MUNDO DE PEEP，一个基于网络的“数字中心”，英语和西班牙语，以显着增加从艾美奖获奖电视节目PEEP AND THE BIG WIDE WORLD®中广泛收集的经过验证的学前科学和数学资产的影响。 该项目将：（1）重新设计PEEP网站，创建交互式媒体体验，将现有内容与新的网页设计结合起来;（2）为学前教育工作者提供专业发展;（3）接触家庭儿童保育教育工作者的新受众，当涉及到科学教育资源时，他们的服务严重不足。 通过全国性组织网络进行传播，包括全国家庭儿童保育协会、全国儿童保育资源和转介机构协会、全国先行协会、全国教育协会、AVANCE和西班牙裔儿童和家庭委员会，将有助于使尽可能多的教育工作者和家长参与该项目。 具体而言，这些资源将提供：儿童有多种方式参与科学或数学内容领域，包括互动游戏，动画故事和真人视频;父母有指导经验，以促进他们的孩子的数学和科学游戏;以中心为基础的学前教育工作者，拥有丰富的媒体，长达一年的科学课程和专业发展材料;与媒体相结合的课程模块侧重于六个科学内容领域，以及英语和西班牙语的家庭护理环境专业发展材料。 马萨诸塞州大学多纳休研究所将对家庭儿童保育教育者资源进行形成性评估：200名讲西班牙语和200名讲英语的教育者将试点课程模块和专业发展视频。 康科德评估集团将进行总结性评估，包括家庭网站实验和国家观察研究，以评估该项目在多大程度上成功地实现其预期的影响。 一个多方面的国家传播计划将包括一个强有力的社会媒体战略，由一名讲西班牙语的在线社区管理人员实施，以接触家长，并与全州幼儿教育系统合作，以接触教育工作者。该项目的预期影响是：（1）帮助讲英语和西班牙语的学龄前儿童有效地应用科学和数学探究和处理技能;（2）使讲英语和西班牙语的父母感到更有能力和倾向于促进学龄前儿童的科学和数学探索;以及（3）为以中心为基础的和家庭育儿教育工作者提供资源，将数学和科学纳入他们的课程，并增强他们教授这些科目的信心。 虽然许多父母知道如何给孩子读书，但他们通常不知道如何与学龄前儿童进行科学或数学调查。 除了父母，学前教育工作者是幼儿学习的最重要促进者。 然而，基于中心和家庭的育儿教育者没有接受科学方面的重要培训，因此在开展学前科学活动时缺乏信心。 通过为家长和教育工作者提供满足他们特定需求的学前科学和数学资源，PEEP将有助于缓解这些挑战。

WGBH Educational Foundation will create PEEP'S WORLD/EL MUNDO DE PEEP, a Web-based "Digital Hub," in both English and Spanish, to significantly increase the impact of the extensive collection of proven preschool science and math assets from the Emmy Award-winning TV show PEEP AND THE BIG WIDE WORLD®. This project will: (1) redesign the PEEP Web site, creating interactive media experiences that will contextualize existing content and take advantage of new Web design; (2) provide professional development for preschool educators; and (3) reach a new audience of family childcare educators, one that is woefully underserved when it comes to educational resources about science. Dissemination through a network of national organizations, including National Association of Family Child Care, National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, National Head Start Association, National Education Association, AVANCE, and Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, will help engage the maximum number of educators and parents in the project.PEEP'S WORLD/EL MUNDO DE PEEP will provide resources for targeted audiences. Specifically these resources will provide: Children with multiple ways to engage with science or math content areas, including interactive games, animated stories, and live-action videos; Parents with guided experiences to facilitate their child's math and science play; Center-based preschool educators with a media-rich, year long science curriculum and professional development materials; and Family childcare educators with curriculum modules, integrated with media, focused on six science content areas, and professional development materials for home-care settings in English and in Spanish. The University of Massachusetts's Donahue Institute will conduct a formative evaluation of the family childcare educator resources: 200 Spanish-speaking and 200 English-speaking educators will pilot the curriculum modules and professional development videos. Concord Evaluation Group, Inc. will conduct a summative evaluation, consisting of a Family Web Site Experiment and a National Observational Study, to assess the extent to which the project is successful at achieving its intended impacts. A multifaceted national dissemination plan will include a robust social media strategy, implemented by a Spanish-speaking online community manager, to reach parents, and collaborations with early childhood education statewide systems to reach educators. The projects intended impacts are to: (1) help English- and Spanish-speaking preschoolers effectively apply science and mathematical inquiry and process skills; (2) empower English- and Spanish-speaking parents to feel more equipped and inclined to facilitate science and math exploration with their preschoolers; and, (3) provide center-based and family childcare educators with resources for incorporating math and science into their curricula and boosting their confidence in teaching these subjects. While many parents know how to read to their children, they do not typically know how to approach science or math investigations with their pre-schoolers. After parents, preschool educators are the most important promoters of a young child's learning. Yet, center-based and family childcare educators do not receive significant training in science, and thus lack confidence when conducting preschool science activities. By providing parents and educators resources for approaching preschool science and math, which meet their specific needs, PEEP will help alleviate these challenges.