Essay On Early Childhood Curriculum

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I live in North Carolina and was able to see how the standards aligned with Mecklenburg school systems kindergarten classrooms. The course of study for kindergarten take on the common core approach to providing activities to bridge the gap of what children should know to what they do not know to how to best meet their learning styles. The abstract thinking the common core kindergarten curriculum focus on is critical thinking skills and logical relations. The combination of the two approaches all makes understandable sense when written. When the approaches are put into practice political sanctums confuses teachers’ tactics in teaching developmentally appropriate practices. Teachers are put into a predicament to meet outcomes to achieve deliverables …show more content…

The curriculum expresses the importance of providing a positive teacher-family relationship and the respect of exchange of ideas (Vol1 page 12). The curriculum believed having parents involved in the learning process during the early years can help build on the child’s success. Early childhood programs can benefit greatly when families of diverse background can contribute their belief systems, cultures, experiences and parent abilities to help understand the importance of relationship (Vol 1 page 13). Communication within the curriculum is supposed to be on a regular basis through one on one contact, email, phone calls, and newsletters. If communication is effective parents can support the decision making when it comes to their child …show more content…

The Creative Curriculum was also a curriculum that was reviewed on the What Works Clearinghouse. I have also found substantive research on what is being implemented and how teachers view the assessment outcomes when effectively utilizing the curriculum. According to the (Gold Assessment), studies indicate that Teaching Strategies GOLD® yields valid and reliable inferences for the intended population and that teachers are able to use the measure to accurately assess children’s development and learning across the designed age range. Research has indicated how teachers who use this curriculum improve their professional development skills in learning new ways to support children’s

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