The National ECCE Curriculum is a comprehensive early childhood education curriculum for children ages 3-4 that focuses on holistic development, literacy, numeracy, and values education. It uses an integrated approach delivered through themes, projects, and learning centers and emphasizes active learning, play, and partnerships between teachers and parents.
The National ECCE Curriculum is a comprehensive early childhood education curriculum for children ages 3-4 that focuses on holistic development, literacy, numeracy, and values education. It uses an integrated approach delivered through themes, projects, and learning centers and emphasizes active learning, play, and partnerships between teachers and parents.
The National ECCE Curriculum is a comprehensive early childhood education curriculum for children ages 3-4 that focuses on holistic development, literacy, numeracy, and values education. It uses an integrated approach delivered through themes, projects, and learning centers and emphasizes active learning, play, and partnerships between teachers and parents.
The National ECCE Curriculum is a comprehensive early childhood education curriculum for children ages 3-4 that focuses on holistic development, literacy, numeracy, and values education. It uses an integrated approach delivered through themes, projects, and learning centers and emphasizes active learning, play, and partnerships between teachers and parents.
The National ECCE Curriculum is a projects, themes and the use of learning centres comprehensive, research-based document with a variety of materials and resources, which which facilitates curriculum planning for help to add depth to the curriculum, and four children three and four-years of age. interactive processes used in implementation. Themes, projects and activities are based on how It adopts an integrated approach and caters children learn and on their expressed or observed for holistic development of the young child interests. with an emphasis on values education and How is compliance to the National early literacy and numeracy. Curriculum ensured? The ECCE Division ensures quality in the ECCE Curriculum is designed implementation of curriculum for both the according to five strands: public and private ECCE sector. This is done 1. Wellness through intensive monitoring and evaluation 2. Effective Communication by a core curriculum team as well as a 3. Aesthetic Expression progressive training programme for all levels 4. Intellectual Empowerment of staff. 5. Citizenship Will children learn literacy and numeracy skills using the curriculum? How Children learn using this curriculum? Key Components of Key Components of Through the seven broad principles reflecting Literacy Numeracy developmentally appropriate practices; Number/Number Holistic Learning and Development, Active Oral Language Operations Learning, Interactive Learning, Integrated Phonological and Learning, Learning through Play, Patterns Phonemic Awareness Partnership/Relationship for Learning, and Alphabetic Knowledge Authentic Assessment. These principles are Shape central to quality curriculum for three and Print Knowledge and four-year old children in early childhood Concepts Space and Position settings. Comparison of Measure including time and How is the curriculum delivered? Invented Spelling money The curriculum is integrated so that children’s Statistics (information learning in all areas occurs primarily through the gathering/tables/ charts) in-depth explorations of themes and projects, which are organized in such a way that they cut across subject matter lines, bringing together How parents are involved in the curriculum? Teachers develop the following partnerships to various aspects of the curriculum into meaningful promote children’s learning: association. For example, children making soup are learning the names of the vegetables partnerships with children; (language), the shapes of the vegetables partnerships with parents/family; (geometry), the weight of the ingredients (math), partnerships with the community; and the effect of heating up the contents (science) professional partnerships not to mention social cooperation in making and These partnerships are built on collegiality, trust enjoying a consumable product. The integrated and mutual respect and promote ownership of the curriculum is emergent, incorporating the use of curriculum.