Curricular Approaches
An educational approach based upon the work of a physician in Italy whose work with impoverished children led to the development of a pedagogy that is grounded in direct, real-world materials and experiences.
What is Montessori?
A curriculum that is built on the strengths of the child and arises from the interests of the children.
What is emergent curriculum?
What is a supported transition?
This type of learner is inquisitive, experimental, and oriented towards numbers, patterns, and relationships.
What is a logical/mathematical learner or Logical/mathematical intelligence?
This term refers to a process of development in children that does not conform to typical developmental trajectories, due to genetic or adverse biological, accidental, or environmental conditions or circumstances.
What is non-typical development?
Children in programs that use this approach experience academics through artistic activities such as music, dance, and theater, all of which are considered central to their development.
What are Waldorf schools?
Visual schedules, a timer on an iPad, songs, and visual cues are all examples.
What are behavioral supports?
What is comprehension?
Children who experience learning best through activities, such as games, movement, and hands-on tasks.
What is kinesthetic intelligence?
How long and how well a child can attend to an activity.
What is attention span?
Programs that use this curriculum approach have a special place for experimenting and manipulating called an atelier or studio.
What is the Reggio Emilia approach?
A six-level classification system for categorizing questions and designing instruction from lower- to higher-order levels of thinking.
What is Bloom’s Taxonomy?
A process that is helpful in designing any lesson or activity for young children that includes five components.
What is a curriculum cycle?
A teacher that actively supports gardening activities and engages her students in observing wildlife on the playground is supporting what type of intelligence?
What is naturalistic intelligence?
Varying activities so that the new and old are in an interesting as well as developmentally appropriate pattern for young children.
What is activity pattern?
The Reggio Emilia approach utilizes this child-centered strategy to demonstrate the child's ideas, understanding, and processes of learning.
What is documentation?
This term describes providing different types of learning experiences and environments to suit each child’s individual needs.
What is differentiated learning?
A focus on providing children with experiences that promote thinking and problem-solving without specifically identified outcomes, which integrates particularly well with creative expression.
What is process learning?
Children that demonstrate an interest in creating books, listening to stories, and dictating lists are demonstrating this type of intelligence.
What is linguistic intelligence?
What is intentionality?
Planning activities and providing materials that seamlessly bring together all developmental domains rather than seeing them as separate pathways of growth.
What is integrated curriculum?
This term refers to a framework upon which we organize our knowledge and observations of children, including four areas of growth: physical social, emotional, and cognitive.
What is developmental level?
This theorist suggested that children learn by doing and experience cognitive development when engaged in social interactions within the Zone of Proximal Development.
Why is Lev Vygotsky?
What is spatial intelligence?
These types of activities, such as free choice and peer engagement are associated with more positive task and peer management.
What are child-choice activities?