Curriculums
A visual illustration or process that integrates various learning activities and curriculum areas.
Curriculum Web
The events that fit into the schedule.
Routine
An outgrowth of theme selection, brainstorming/webbing, and selection of projects and activities. Involves making a series of choices based on the developmental stages, learning styles, and interests of the children; the goals and objectives of the program; and the availability of materials, supplies, and resources.
Lesson Plan
An Italian physician and educator, developed her innovative ideas on teaching young children in the early part of the 20th century, many preschools (and elementary schools) sill bear her name and follow her method.
Maria Montessori
A curriculum that emerges out of the interests and experiences of the children.
Emergent Curriculum
The events that fit into the schedule.
Schedule
The specific purposes or teaching techniques that interpret the goals of planning, schedules, and routines, as well as meaningful descriptions of what children are expected to learn. These objectives are designed to meet the physical, intellectual, social, emotional, and creative development of young children.
Objectives
This whole-child system of early childhood education emphasizes art, creativity, the child's environment, interests, and Hundred Languages of Children
Reggio Emilia
Underscores the importance of individual differences, special needs, and cultural and linguistic diversity among young children.
Inclusive Curriculum
The general overall aims or overview of an early childhood program that consider what children should know and be able to do developmentally across the disciplines.
Goals
An in-depth investigation of a topic.
Project
Publicly funded, comprehensive services aimed at low-income, at-risk children and families, low child-staff ratio and written curriculum plan know as performance standards
Head Start
Encourages young children to transfer knowledge and skills from one subject to another while using all aspects of their development.
Integrated Curriculum
The sum total of a child's or family's ways of living: their values or beliefs, language, patterns of thinking, appearance, and behavior. These are passed or learned from one generation to the next.
Culture
A broad concept or topic that enables the development of a lesson plan and the activities that fit within this curriculum plan.
Theme
A nonprofit research and training organization founded in 1970, its detailed program was originally used for teaching preschool-age children from low-income families, but today is found in other settings as well, it stresses learning through "active involvement with people, materials, events, an ideas" along with Plan-Do-Review sequence.
High Scope
Curriculum that incorporates explicit learning outcomes, strategic learning design, and meaningful assessment.
Intentional Curriculum
An attitude that actively challenges prejudice, stereotyping, and unfair treatment of an individual or group of individuals.
A section of the curriculum based on the unifying theme around which activities are planned.
Unit
A multi-leveled process that encompasses what happens in an early education classroom each day, reflecting the philosophy, goals, and objectives of the early childhood program.
Curriculum