Curriculum Development and Best Practices in Early Childhood According to NAEYC (2009)," Developmentally Appropriate Practice, is an approach to teaching, grounded in research regarding how young children develop and learn in what is known about early education". When DAP is used in the classroom, teachers/educators have gain a better understanding of how to serve the students within the classroom. By providing a developmentally appropriate environment, teachers are able to meet the needs of all children helping them achieve necessary goals. Within the teaching philosophy, it is important the educators create a teaching philosophy. The purpose of teaching philosophy is to let one know what your beliefs about education are. Writing a philosophy …show more content…
The Materials and resources should support all of the developmental domains, give children the opportunities to explore and be creative. Some examples of materials and resources include board games that teach expectations and turn taking, puzzles that encourage critical thinking, and art materials like paints playdough, markers, stencils, scissors, magazines, and physical materials that help strengthen large and small motor skills. For example, bean bags, jump ropes, balls, etc. The literacy area should offer a variety of genres and multicultural books. Organization of materials is just as important as having developmentally appropriate materials for the classroom. Toys should be clean and in good condition. Materials should be accessible to children. Materials should be labeled and put into containers with the both a picture and written …show more content…
Children are always eager to learn new things and this is where teachers need to plan activities that are developmentally appropriate for children. Activities should be fun and engaging and provide hands on learning experiences for all children. Play is an important part of the Kindergarten classroom and should be incorporated daily. When children have opportunities to play and interact with their peers they learn social skills that will be needed as they grow into adults. Kid writing is an activity that is often used in a kindergarten curriculum. It has been proven to be a successful approach to literacy (kidwriting.com). This activity involves all aspects of phonics, journal writing, and the writing workshop. Kid writing helps children hear the letter sounds that they incorporate into their writing. The teacher and child work closely together, and students in the classroom are able share their writing pieces with one another when they are finished.
A daily schedule that would be appropriate for the kindergarten setting would include, meeting/circle time, language, art, math, science, music, recess, snack, lunch and outdoor play. Free Play or center play should also be incorporated in the daily routine or schedule. This presents children with the opportunities to socialize,
Early childhood education, although constantly evolving, was actually established and practiced as early on as the times of Ancient Greece and Rome. The foundation that early childhood education is based upon is to instill in children the skills needed to succeed later on in life, while making sure young children enjoy their time in schooling. Throughout chapter 3 in the textbook Who Am I in the Lives of Children, the reader is capable of evaluating just how greatly the methods for teaching today’s youth have evolved and changed for the better.
First of all, kindergarten is an important school development in children. One of the teachers said that kindergarten children are so lovely and easy to mold them the way one wants. Kindergarten students have not being in any school setting before and they are mostly coming from home, parents, grandparents or their caregivers. They also absorb and believe
get along with other kids, and to share, and color in the lines. In Kindergarten
Morrison, G. S. (1976). Chapter 6: Early Childhood Programs APPLYING THEORIES TO PRACTICE. In Early childhood education today (10th ed., pp. 5-31). Columbus, Ohio: Merrill.
Developmentally appropriate practice provides a framework of promoting quality in early childhood education programs. It Developmentally appropriate practice are used to help create a program that is acceptable for the age and development of young groups of children with also considering the individual need of each child. When programs use developmentally appropriate practice they should help develop the domains of development. These domains are all connected, a child’s development in one domain impacts what takes place in another domain.
My Educational philosophy is defined in becoming a teacher as a set of ideas and beliefs about education that guide the professional behavior of educators. Also included in educational philosophy are one’s beliefs about teaching and learning, students, knowledge and what is worth knowing. My five general purposes for philosophy of education are: to set goals of plan, to teach useful and relevant information, be aware of students learning styles, modeling positive cooperative behavior, to look for solutions and to make sure those solutions are working.
This research report presents an analysis of and conclusions drawn from the experiences and perspectives of two educators that work in the early childhood setting. The main objective is to identify key elements and issues in relation to the families, diversity and difference. In particular how an early childhood educator implements, different approaches to honour culture and diversity, and to advocate for social justice in an early childhood settings. As such, it allows an insight into the important role that families and their background plays in the everyday lives of the children and educators within early childhood settings. In today’s ever-changing growing society it is essential for educators to be flexible to the diversity and differences with families of today. Gaining an insight into way that educators view and approach these important elements will enable the readers to understand that diversity and social justice is not only interwoven into today’s education system but also the educators themselves.
Additionally, a high quality early childhood program highlights on developmentally appropriate curriculum. I believe an early childhood classroom should be flexible, stimulating, clean, safe and organized. It should be a place where students can be engaged in learning through interacting with things around them.
Early Childhood Education teachers know that our children deserve to learn the important lessons from us and to acquire important habits with our help. Teachers and future teachers want our children to grow up to be responsible adults. Also, teachers are trying to find the perfect way to deal with children with different type of behavior. Teachers have to deal with parents, giving them a satisfactory result of their child developmental progress and security. My philosophy of guiding young children behavior is to use the combination of collaboration, positive attitude, and patience.
In order to promote the best outcome from the curriculum we must consider that each child is an individual in their own right. Tricia David (2001: 55) states that early childhood should be a time of “spontaneity and of exploration according to individual interests”. Thus accounting for the child’s strengths and weaknesses, as well as their likes and dislikes, provides a curriculum, which will promote optimum development. This is also known as a ...
Froebel believed that the kindergarten's primary focus should be on play–the process by which he believed children expressed their inner thoughts, needs, and desires so that's why Froebel's emphasis on play. For Froebel play is facilitated by children's process of thoughts, imitation of adult vocational activities, and socialization. By playing, children socialize and imitate adult social and economic activities as they are gradually led into the larger world of group life. The kindergarten provides an environment that encouraged children to interact with other children under the guidance of a loving teacher he also believed in outdoor play and nature. (hardy, 2013) (Notes, 2013)
Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
The indoor environment-first and foremost the indoor environment needs to be safe, and it needs to be all inclusive. This means that every child, no matter their age race, ethnicity, gender or abilities or special education needs, can all play. When considering the layout of the indoor area it needs to be spacious and it needs to accommodate children continuous change of interests and abilities so that children are able to grow and learn. If the indoor environment stayed the same each day, children would not be stimulated, they would get bored and they would not develop their learning. Furthermore, the environment needs to be of the highest quality, the toys need to be safe, and good enough to situmulate the childs brain. these toys need to
Entering my kindergarten teaching experience in the last quarter of school year I had to quickly become familiar with kindergarten content standards and the school’s curriculum. To do this I observed my mentor teachers instructional time with the children and gained as much information as I could about the children’s educational standing by developing a professional relationship with the my mentor teacher and the children. I learned that the majority of my kindergarten children had not previously attended preschool and that this was their first year of school. I found that interacting with the children in social activities provided me with great insight to their literacy, math, science, and social studies development. In reviewing the children’s class projects, school displays, and an array of their work sample along with my mentor teachers year-long assessments I was able to recognize challenging, emerging and advanced content areas of the children’s core curriculum. These emerging and challenging content areas is what I centered my curriculum planning around. “Information about each child’s learning and development is used to evaluate teaching effectiveness. This may lead to changes in schedule, curriculum and teaching strategies, room set up, resources, and so on.” (Bredekamp and Copple, p. 249)
Attending kindergarten means having more structure in a child’s young life, and they are ready for it after going to preschool. They have learned to socialize, follow simple rules, and stay on a task longer and longer. They are now ready for more intense learning; this is an opportune time for a teacher to harness the mind and still keep the fun and adventure of a kindergartener’s mind going.