Recent Trends in ECE Curriculum

· Elements and its inter relatedness- Goals, content, pedagogy, assessment,

· Guiding principles of Pre-School:

birth to three years: focus on care and stimulation,

three to six years: focus on care, early learning and readiness, suggestive developmentally appropriate

· Curricular issues and concerns: handle variations in learning, multilingualism inclusion, manage multi-age grouping, ensure and encourage gender equality, harms of early formal instruction, preparing ECCE teachers/caregivers

Features of curriculum : age , developmentally & culturally appropriate

• From aims to learning Outcome
• Curricular Goals
• Linkage to preparatory stage-from foundation stage - Panchkosh
• Literacy & Numeracy at foundation stage

• Panchkosh Model, Montessori Model, Reggio Emilia,  Waldorf School
• Behaviorist, Constructivist, Cognitive Oriented Curriculum
• Project Approach
• Thematic Curriculum
• Toy-based Curriculum                                                                          

• Introduction to Language Skills
• Components of early language and literacy- (emergent literacy skills, oral language development, phonological awareness, decoding, reading with comprehension, fluent reading, writing, developing a desire or habit of reading), print recognition, understanding, pictures and books, and introducing the alphabet
• Planning strategies to enabling reading and writing
• Creating a language learning environment

• Understanding  space number and its relations, basic Mathematical operations, shapes and spatial understanding, patterns, measurement and data handling,
• Pre-number skills: comparison, seriation, classification, sorting, shapes, space and position patterns and relationships, estimation, prediction, concept of money, number and operations, counting, one to one correspondence, quantity, comparison of sets,
• Learning to Add & subtract
• Developing Conceptual Knowledge and Values in Children
• The Curricular Area included in‘The World Around Us’