Overview
Description
Issues related to planning an emergent, integrated curriculum, including webbing, documentation and collaboration. Philosophical underpinnings of emergent curriculum are emphasized.
Requirements
Prerequisites
HDFS 428
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): HDFS 428.
Units
Lecture2
Laboratory Studio1
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- utilize skills obtained in the first semester of this two-course sequence with regard to the 7 curriculum essentials (communication, observation, documentation, assessment, standards, environments, and studio practices) in their practicum work with young children.
- demonstrate curriculum planning and implementation by designing and implementing a cross-curricular long-term project across time with a small group of children, documenting progress in a project journal and presenting the project in a professional documentation panel.
- demonstrate curriculum planning and implementation by designing and implementing 5 specific aspects of the curriculum as part of their long-term project (social & emotional learning/social studies, physical development & health, language and literacy; mathematics, and science).
- demonstrate their ability to be reflective through weekly reflections on their work with children.