Preschool Curriculum

Students who are allowed to explore, empathize, question, hypothesize, conceptualize, experiment, and evaluate throughout their own learning become productive community members" (Hummell 5). Allowing children to learn to think critically helps them to solve problems and have a logical argument about something they believe is true. Applying critical thinking into schools gives a child a chance to make a difference. Also, Elizabeth McKinstry agrees with Hummell in challenging the next generation to think for themselves. McKinstry writes about how Common Core education helps children become more interactive in the world and teaches them how to apply the knowledge they have learned in life.

It also talks about the importance of play in early childhood education. Early Education Curriculum, stresses the importance of schedules as well as having a plan in your classroom. This book can be useful to everyone from a preschool teacher, to a mother trying to homeschool her child. It gives a number of different examples of schedules and examples

Family support programs that focus on nutrition, health, and a safe household also fall under this type of involvement, as these things are necessary for a child to learn successfully. The second type of involvement is communicating. This includes families and schools communicating with each other in numerous ways. Schools send home notes and flyers about important events and activities, as mentioned above in the specific interaction category. Parents can give teachers information about their child's health and educational history.

They are turning around their approach into a focus on creating positive school climate and responsive classroom as part of holistic quality education based on child rights where there is effective teaching and classroom management, thus enhancing students’ learning experiences. The motivational psychology researchers discovered several useful approaches and practices that can be implemented in the classroom for effective learning to take place (Miller, 2012). Teachers are using differentiation to support teaching and learning. Differentiation can vary in pace, activities, resources, teaching and learning styles in an attempt to best meet the needs of individual student. Various teaching strategies such as cooperative learning, active learning, role play and games and pedagogic tools are being integrated in educational theories in meaningful and useful ways to encourage task or learning achievements.

The Head Start and Reggio Emilia approaches have respect for teacher, children, families, and community through school and home. They have the children become active learning with parent as partner, observe, learner, and support from their children’s learning. They engage families in planning activities and learning experiences in their home for their children that work in innovative,

Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP)? Illustrate how DAP is child-centered? “Developmentally Appropriate Practice, often shortened to DAP, is an approach to teaching grounded in the research on how young children develop and learn and in what is known about effective early education. Its framework is designed to promote young children’s optimal learning and development.” (National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2009) DAP is a tool that guides teachers in making good decisions for the children, both as individuals and as part of a group, based on their understanding of the child’s development and learning as well as in setting learning goals that are both challenging and realisable for the children. In a developmentally

Is the child’s mother an active participant in the classroom? • Zion’s mother is involved in his learning process. She attends events regularly and supports us teachers and the administrators in efforts to help him grow. PARENT INTERVIEW 1. Is premature birth common in your family?

In-classroom therapy- An Approach to Lateral Thinking: For children with serious emotional, developmental and cognitive disturbances, effective treatment early in life is crucial to fully support two precious human functions: loving and learning. This therapy is a deliberately synergetic combination of Love, Education and Therapy of in-classroom psychological treatment for children. The possibility of creating a model program for all economic classes and those with varied problems is a gripping solution. Its techniques include individualized in-classroom psychodynamic psychotherapy for each child, briefings, debriefings and parent guidance- all of which take place within the context of an early childhood educational process. Sessions are witnessed,

EYE37WB-2.1 Describe areas of learning and development within the current framework which relate to school readiness. Prime areas of learning Specific areas of learning Persona, social and emotional development • The development of the children‘s confidence. • How children manage their feelings. • How children make friends and take turns Physical development • How children move and use fine and motor skills • How children learn about healthy living. • Children’s management of their self – care.

An Early year’s teacher’s job role is to ‘work with children from birth to 5 years old, to standards set out in the early year’s foundation stage (EYFS) framework.’ (National Careers service). The purpose of this job is to motivate, educate and provide a safe environment in which young children can develop socialisation and communication skills, whilst helping to prepare young children for transition into primary school. Early years teachers have many duties and activities in which they carry out on a day-to-day basis. One of their main duties is to ‘help children to develop basic learning skills (verbal, written and numeric)’ (allaboutcareers.com). To do this Early Years teachers are required to plan fun lessons and interesting activities