Creative Curriculum for Early Childhood

Author: Dianne Trister Dodge; Laura J. Colker  Publisher: Gryphon House  Date: 1992

Description: This teaching guide provides teachers of young children with a philosophy and guidelines for teaching that address children's social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development. The guide describes a curriculum that offers teachers guidance, support, and freedom to be creative and responsive with children, and provides children, including disabled children, with a carefully organized and rich environment. Topics discussed in Part 1 of the guide are:

(1) the philosophy of the creative curriculum;

(2) goals and objectives of children's development;

(3) the physical environment of the classroom;

(4) methods for meeting the needs of individual children;

(5) schedule and routines;

(6) the organization of children's learning; and

(7) parents' role in the creative curriculum.

Part 2 describes in detail what and how children learn, and the teacher's role in supporting children's development by means of the following interest areas: blocks, house corner, table toys, art, sand and water, library, music and movement, cooking, computers, and outdoors. Appendices include a child development and learning checklist, and a list of 80 resources for further reading. (BC)  -from Google

ISBN-10: 1879537060  ISBN-13: 978-1879537064

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