The PITC Curriculum: Learning Progressions Book

The PITC Curriculum Supports Discovery, Amazement, and Marvel for Infants and Toddlers

For more information about the new PITC Curriculum, or to schedule curriculum implementation training, please contact Amber Morabito.

Enhancing the relationship-based, responsive approach to early care promoted by the Program for Infant/Toddler Care (PITC), new PITC Curriculum planning tools and strategies support the efforts of family care providers and center-based teachers to facilitate high-quality individualized learning and healthy development for children from 0-3. Unique to the PITC Curriculum is a planning process based on reflection, observation, and documentation of play and learning that respects each child’s developing abilities, individual strengths and needs, family culture(s), and language(s). This planning process helps teachers deepen understanding, share meaning, support learning, and strengthen meaningful, caring relationships with infants and toddlers.

The PITC Learning Progressions book is a user-friendly tool that supports goal-specific curriculum planning in five developmental domains adapted from the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework: Ages Birth to Five:

• Approaches to Learning
• Social and Emotional Development
• Language and Communication
• Cognition
• Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development

The PITC Learning Progressions are organized according to the three developmental ages of infancy - young, mobile, and older - and include hundreds of initial ideas for curriculum planning, or First Steps, that care teachers may choose to include in their next curriculum plan.

The PITC Curriculum can be purchased and used independently, but is most effective when used in conjunction with dynamic PITC Curriculum Implementation Training, led by experts in early learning and care. Training includes:

• Engaging, interactive, knowledgeable support facilitated by a PITC-authorized trainer (four 2-hour sessions)
• High-quality resources and materials to extend the curriculum and enhance learning and participation in training
• Expanded technical assistance to support your implementation

For more information about the new PITC Curriculum or to schedule curriculum implementation training, please contact Amber Morabito.