Did You Know? A quality curriculum supports both teachers and children. A quality curriculum is the foundation of an active, successful classroom in early childhood education. It nurtures children’s development and provides educators with the tools and resources to succeed. At Experience Curriculum, we understand the unique challenges educators face. With brightwheel, we bring you an exceptional curriculum and digital tools that save time, reduce burnout, and ensure every child’s growth.
Consistency Through Quality Curriculum
One key benefit of using a quality curriculum is the consistency it brings to the classroom. A structured curriculum provides built-in daily routines that children can depend on, creating a stable and predictable learning environment.
From Circle Time to art, music and movement, and math and literacy activities, the Experience Curriculum allows for large group, small group, and free play experiences. This consistency benefits the children’s sense of security. It also provides educators a well-organized framework to guide their teaching.
Save Time with Ready-to-Use Lesson Plans
Our ready-to-use lesson plans are designed to help educators focus more on teaching and less on planning. Our well-organized and comprehensive themes introduce children to a wide range of new concepts and experiences. The curriculum is still being flexible, allowing educators to customize lessons to meet their students’ needs. Lesson plans in brightwheel make it easy to fully customize, share lessons with co-teachers, quickly share with families, print and post.
Support for All Teachers
Whether you’re a new or experienced teacher, our easy-to-implement curriculum ensures every teacher can hit the ground running. With daily routines, materials, and comprehensive teacher guides, our curriculum sets clear expectations for each teacher. It also sets the same expectations across each classroom in your program. Using a quality curriculum reduces the risk of burnout and turnover.
Our curriculum supports teachers and helps them grow professionally by guiding them through the teaching process. Educators learn best practices and develop their teaching skills by following our detailed teacher guides and utilizing our resources.
New teachers especially benefit from using the Experience Curriculum in many ways. First, it sets a daily routine and expectations and goals for the classroom. The Experience Curriculum teacher guides outline the teaching process. Teachers learn how to introduce a topic at Circle Time and continue to explore that topic throughout the day’s activities. New teachers are supported with social-emotional development and managing small-group, large-group, and one-on-one instruction.
Download a free sample of the Experience preschool curriculum lesson plan.
Guided Assessment for Individualized Learning
An integral part of our curriculum is guided assessment, which allows educators to track each child’s progress in real time. Embedded within our curriculum, these assessments provide a clear roadmap for understanding each child’s developmental journey. The results of these assessments are seamlessly integrated with brightwheel, making documentation and sharing with families quick and efficient.
Consistent and routine assessment is key in quality programs to understand the growth and development of each child. Regular assessment practices help educators identify developmental delays so they can be addressed. Assessment provides a record of the child’s growth in all developmental areas and allows educators to plan instruction. Educators can see where a child needs support or challenges to grow.
When programs provide assessment findings to families, they can understand their child’s strengths and areas for growth and support further learning at home. Assessment conversations also enhance relationships with families when they understand their child is an individual in the teacher’s eyes.
Positive Classroom Environments
A positive classroom environment is key to effective learning. Our curriculum includes integrated classroom management tools, such as social-emotional development activities, Daily Routine Picture Cards, Calming Corner Resources, and the Forest Friends character development program. Transition songs and cards further support a smooth and engaging classroom experience.
Consistent routines paired with an engaging curriculum result in highly motivated children excited to participate and learn. Our daily activities cover seven developmental domains, ensuring that each child’s needs are met through a variety of hands-on, sensory-rich experiences. From large group activities to individual tasks, every child is given the opportunity to grow.
Adaptable Curriculum to Meet Individual Needs
Our curriculum is adaptable to meet the diverse needs of all learners. For babies, we offer activity cards with three levels of play. For toddlers, there are two levels of play, while our multi-age and preschool options include simplified or challenging prompts for math and literacy, along with flexible, open-ended activities.
Teachers are encouraged to customize the curriculum by adding their own activities or adjusting how existing activities are implemented. Depending on the children’s interests, activities can be skipped, repeated, or enhanced with additional materials and ideas.
Simplify Administrative Tasks with brightwheel
By combining Experience Curriculum with the power of brightwheel, educators can efficiently manage all aspects of their program. From automatic billing and payments to improved communication with families, Brightwheel simplifies administrative tasks, allowing teachers to focus more on what they love—teaching.
Our curriculum is fully integrated with brightwheel, offering embedded assessment tools, curriculum and family engagement tools and resources. We also provide training to support teachers in using both the app and the curriculum, ensuring they have the professional tools they need to thrive.
Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators
At Experience Curriculum, we believe in the continuous growth of early childhood educators. We offer ongoing, on-demand, live, and free professional development opportunities. These training sessions help educators grow, stay updated, and confident in their teaching practices.
Family Engagement
Engaging families is another cornerstone of any curriculum. We provide tools, including newsletters, daily art notes, Celebration Kits, individual child assessment forms, and portfolio tools to keep parents informed and involved in their child’s learning journey. From newsletters to daily art notes and individual child assessment reports, our communication tools ensure that families are always in the loop. Simplified administrative systems, enhanced by brightwheel, further support family engagement with lesson plan sharing, daily activity updates, individual child assessment and digital portfolios and more, leading to improved child outcomes.
Maintaining a High-Quality Program
Developing ideas for a high-quality program is easy, but maintaining those strategies day-in and day-out can be challenging. Experience Curriculum is committed to helping programs maintain the highest quality standards. Our curriculum aligns with all 50 state standards and NAEYC guidelines, focusing on best practices that lead to improved child outcomes. Our digital business and curriculum support tools and resources that reinforce best practices ensure that your program remains at the forefront of early childhood education.
Instill a Love of Learning
A love of learning begins in early childhood. Perhaps that’s the most important part of the Experience curriculum: providing consistent, engaging activities that encourage children’s natural curiosity and excitement for learning.
From social-emotional learning to outdoor activities, STEAM projects, dramatic play, and process art, our hands-on, open-ended approach helps children develop critical skills while enjoying every moment.
