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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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.
ReplyDeleteI 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!