Child Centered Curriculum
Book Reflection:
Begin with yourself
Reutilizing your environment
Guiding children play and learning
Putting the child back into D.A.P
Redefining curriculum themes
Putting academic learning in its place
Caring for Infants AND TODDLERS
Organizing communicating and evaluating your approach
Developing yourself
Answer these questions, Write paragraph about every point :
Part 1: Integrate and apply concepts, including the value of play, developmentally appropriate principles, quality teaching strategies, the acquisition of knowledge and skills, physical-motor, cognitive and psychosocial learning, and appropriate curriculum including the arts, math, science, language and literacy to support children’s development and learning.
Part 2: Examine and evaluate a variety of approaches to curriculum development with an emphasis on constructivist theory and play-based curriculum that supports children’s cognitive, language, creative, physical and -emotional development.
Part 3:Analyze the role of the teacher in the development of observation strategies, documentation and planning techniques that place a high value on play as generator for curriculum.
Part 4:Discuss and apply teacher behaviors and best practices that reflect current research and the impact it has on children’s learning and development