Designed to help early educators, parents, and others by describing skills and abilities important for children's success in the early years.
What is Foundations?
100
Like a map; provides directions for programs, courses, teaching, and accountability.
What is conceptual framework?
100
The central focus of FOUNDATIONS which provides a common set of age-appropriate developmental standards for children three, four, and five years old who are not yet age-eligible for kindergarten.
What is Widely Held Expectations?
200
Uses scientific approach and is mass marketed.
What is Montessori?
200
Includes all of the activities as well as the subject matter, the interactions with people, and all the experiences of the child's day.
What is curriculum?
200
Each child is unique, development occurs in predictable patterns.
What is a guiding principle?
300
Uses the environment as creating a classroom of community learners.
What is Creative Curriculum?
300
Evolves out of a child's interests and experiences.
What is emergent curriculum?
300
Approaches to learning
Emotional/Social development
Health/physical development
Language development and Communication
Cognitive development
What are the five domains of development?
400
Context, Process, Content, Teacher.
What is Curriculum?
400
What is being taught? Reflects interests, needs, and experiences of the children as well as what children should learn.
What is content?
400
Within each domain there are strategies provided for two groups of people.
Who are Early Educators and Families.
500
Utilizes a holistic approach to learning.
What is Integrated Curriculum?
500
The conceptual framework for our program in education.
What is constructivist learning model?
500
Developing a sense of self and developing a sense of self with others.
What are the two subdomains of Emotional/Social development?