As you use this resource , remember that children learn best when they can control and act upon environment. Many opportunities should available for seeing, touching, tasting, learning, and self-expression. Children needs hands-on activities and choices. To construct knowledge, children need to actively manipulate their environment. To provide these opportunities, the teacher’s primary role is to set the stage by offering many experiences that stimulate the children’s sense and curiosity; children learn by doing and play is their work. As a result, it is the authors’ intention that this “book” will be used as a resource. Specifically, the ideas in this “book”, should help you to enrich, organize, and structure the children’s environment, providing them an opportunity to make choice among a wide variety of activities that stimulate their natural curiosity . Knowledge of child development and curriculum must be interwoven. To illustrate , paly in the classroom should be child-centered and self-initiated. To provide and environment that promotes the types of paly, it is the teacher’s role to provide unstructured time, space, and materials. Using a theme approach to plan curriculum is one way to ensure that a wide variety of classroom experiences are provided. Successful early childhood programs provide interesting, challenging, and engaging environments. Children need to learn to think, reason, and become decision makers.
It is important that all curricula be adapted to match the developmental needs of children at a particular age or stage of development. An activity that is appropriate for one group of children may be inappropriate for another. To develop an appropriate curriculum, knowledge of the typical development of children is needed. For this reason, the inside covers of this “book” contain such information. Review these developmental norms before selecting a theme or specific activities.
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