Emergent Curriculum
Curriculum planning is based on observation.
Teachers observe children as they play, playing close attention to recurring themes, children’s understandings and misunderstandings, developmental issues, and underlying questions. Our observations guide our curriculum planning, as we cerate opportunities for children to deepen their thinking, represent their understandings, and encounter new perspectives.
Curriculum projects grow through many opportunities for children to present, reflect on, and think critically about what they know.
Teachers offer children many opportunities to communicate their understandings by representing them with a range of media. They encourage children to revisit earlier ideas by studying their representations, revising or reasserting them, and by studying other children’s representations.