As early childhood programs across the state adopt evidence-based curricula, often designed primarily for four-year-olds, and more programs seek to blend programs and practices in order to provide more inclusive opportunities, the task of determining “who needs to learn what” across the developmental continuum becomes increasingly important, yet more complex. An Instructional Continuum Early Childhood… Read More Providing Instruction in Early Childhood: A Simple, but Necessary Organizing Framework
TACtics for your Toolkit: Making Sense of a Curriculum Framework
A curriculum framework, however, represents a structure for classifying and organizing the many elements and processes involved in creating learning opportunities for young children. It serves as an underlying foundation from which all practices related to children’s learning and development are identified, implemented and evaluated. A curriculum, as many of us understand it, is… Read More TACtics for your Toolkit: Making Sense of a Curriculum Framework