Saturday, September 10, 2016

My Personal Research Journey


Hello classmates, I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. As many of you know the original topic that I choose to research is curriculum. Curriculum is something that has stolen my curiosity since I entered the early childhood field. It fascinates me how there are so many different ones to choose from, but at the same time they all have at least one goal in common and that’s to educate children whether they be younger or older. The three sub topics that I came up with for the topic of curriculum where as follows:

1.    Ways curriculum foster development in young children

2.    How curriculums coincide with different states early learning standards

3.    Qualities of high quality curriculum

Out of those three subtopics of curriculum, I choose to focus on ways curriculum fosters the development of young children for the stimulation. I choose this subtopic because I can explore the different was on how different curriculums help to teach young children different things. For instance each child is given an individualized plan for their education, so they are not rushed to learn something they are not ready to learn, nor do they have to wait for their peers to catch up before they can move forward. Since children are given choices in their education, they learn to pursue their own interests. The children learn to learn for learning’s sake, to find their own order, and respect their surroundings (http://education.cu-portland.edu/blog/curriculum-instruction/is-the-montessori-curriculum-model-effective/). Then there are others like Reggio Emilia, High Scope, Bank Street, creative curriculum and etc. All of these curriculum’s focus on different ways of educating young children, in very unique ways. Often when children get into higher grades teachers focus so much on teaching test material that they forget to fully focus on the different needs of each child. Which is what I like most about most early childhood education curriculums. They build on what the children already and most of the time kind of let them learn at their own pace.

So for this stimulation process I have just been researching in debt the origin of different curriculums used in early childhood. I have been looking at information on the qualifications of teachers that teach the different curriculums, and also how effective each of the different curriculums are.   The classroom structures for some of these curriculums have also been very interesting. It has been very interesting constructing the resource chart, but during the process I have learned a lot of different terms and their meanings. I have also learned about what research really is, how it is done, and why it is so important to the early education field. Classmates do you’ll have any advice that could help during this learning process? As a reminder about resources it is very important to make sure all resources are scholarly. Also use key words when searching data bases through the school, google also a very good search engine to use it even has a section for scholarly articles and journals on different topics. Happy Researching Everyone!

Resource

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1 comment:

  1. I am impressed at all of the work you have done already! Also, I think that curriculum is extremely important and needs to be specialized for every child. In our classroom, we use lesson plans specialized for each child but broad to incorporate all of the children in the classroom.
    I am hopeful that we will all learn how to research throughout this class and the importance that it will have throughout our career paths. Good luck on your topic!

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