This article presents a three-part playful learning framework to help educators move from a culture of compliance to one of agency and curiosity.
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Elias Blinkoff, Charlotte Anne Wright, Molly Scott, Katelyn Fletcher, Allyson S. Masters, Hande Ilgaz, Lien Vu, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
51吃瓜网鈥檚 Emergent Curriculum and the Cycle of Inquiry Approach course, is the first step on your journey to guiding children through an emergent curriculum.
Through the following examples, we aim to show how teachers can support young children鈥檚 growth in ways that are important to emergent writing development, with a focus on content knowledge, genre knowledge, and visual literacy.
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Authored by:
Carol A. Donovan, Diane C. Sekeres, Cailin Jane Kerch
Knowledge-Rich Curriculum: Supporting Identity Development & Advancing Equity
The December issue of Young Children includes a cluster of articles with perspectives on enriching curriculum by connecting lessons to children's social and cultural contexts.
Emergent curriculum arises from the things that fascinate children鈥攚hat they see, what they wonder about, what they develop theories about. Exploring these elements with children and using their interests to drive curriculum can be challenging for teache
Discover what math teaching and learning look like in the playful, emergent environment of the early childhood classroom. Every day, children explore math concepts in their conversations and interactions.
Teachers using an emergent inquiry curriculum are responsive to children, planning provocations around questions they have developed that challenge the children toward the edges of their own understandings.
I decided to begin my emergent curriculum paired with our elementary school鈥檚 initial response to the shelter in place mandate: What is a community helper? Who is a community helper?听 How can you be a community helper?
Three years ago, the Child Care Center at Hort Woods made a formal commitment to teaching anti-bias education. Center leaders and teachers recognized that an anti-bias program was one way of helping the 170 children and families who attend the center.
Like many educators, Debbie enjoys following the meaning that children are making of their experiences and she wondered how the children thought the chick happened to be in the egg.
Joyful learning is present in kindergarten classrooms that honor the identities and interests of children. Consider encouraging free exploration in an early childhood classroom.
