Curriculum Cycle
Used to help educators plan effective curriculum.
What is the curriculum cycle?
What is physical development?
A approach to educating that recognizes that all teaching practice should be aligned with children's age and developmental status, attuned to them as unique individuals, and responsive to the social and cultural contexts in which they live.
What is developmentally appropriate practice (DAP)?
A tool that is used to identify if a child may need intervention or supportive services.
What is assessment?
Observations can and should occur at this time of day.
What is any/all?
A step of the curriculum cycle that involves considering how to best construct curriculum and how to set up the environment.
What is planning?
Feelings, self-concept, self-esteem, relationships.
A person's sense of belonging to a particular culture or group.
What is cultural identity?
An intentional set aside block of time used to see and gather evidence of a child’s skills and behaviors.
What is planned observation?
A step of the curriculum process that involves objectively looking at children and their actions and behaviors.
What is observation?
Language, memory, problem-solving and critical thinking skills
What is cognitive development?
This type of response to behavior is a negative response to what an adult considers wrong or inappropriate behavior and may involve physical or harsh treatment.
What is punishment?
A documentation method that uses tally marks to gather information about a child's interests, social interactions, play patterns, behaviors, or actions within a set time frame.
What are frequency counts?
Unexpected moments that occur where evidence of a child’s skills/behaviors can be seen and documented.
What is spontaneous observation?
A step of the curriculum cycle that involves recording what we see and hear children do and say.
What is documentation?
How we connect our "inner us" to the world around us—children's uniqueness
What is spiritual development?
This type of response to behavior trains or enforces obedience that corrects, shapes or develops acceptable patters or behaviors.
What is discipline?
A documentation method that is used to track a child's growth and development in all of the developmental domains.
What is a developmental checklist?
Having this helps us look and listen with an open-mind rather than assuming we know what a child is doing or thinking.
What is an objective lens?
A step of the curriculum cycle that involves analyzing and making sense of your documentation.
What is interpretation?
A concept that explains typical development in children that occurs chronologically.
When learning reflects children's interests, this type of learning occurs.
What is optimal learning?
What are documentation boards?
Something that can interfere with objective observation.
A step of the curriculum cycle that involves delivering the curriculum/instruction.
What is implementation?
Common characteristics that emerge chronologically.
What are milestones?
This type of response to behavior involves helping young children understand they can learn from their mistakes and shows them how.
What is guidance?
A documentation method that provides brief, focused accounts of a specific event or activity.
What is an anecdotal record?
It is important to share observations with _____.
A step of the curriculum cycle that involves reviewing teaching strategies and practices.
What is reflection?
A child is likely to be this old when they have increased balanced, can be "bossy", and begin to understand concepts like time and money.
Developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) goes hand-in-hand with this concept.
What is developmental ages and stages?
A documentation method used to gather spontaneous, general info without interfering in the child's actions or providing interpretations of what was observed.
What is a running record?
This specific type of bias can make it difficult for teachers to objectively observe and interpret children's actions and behaviors.
What is implicit/unconscious bias?
A step of the curriculum cycle that involves determining if children have mastered goals/expectations, met learning outcomes, and determining next steps.
What is evaluation?
A child is likely to be this age when they have difficulty sharing, often says "no", and mimics others.
What is two-years-old?
Implementing activities that align with interests and skills of individual children.
What is differentiated instruction?
An assessment that is aligned with California's learning foundations and educational standards that is used to measure young children's learning and development.
What is the Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP)?
The three different settings in which teachers should observe children.
What is individually, in small groups, and in large groups?