Recent Trends in ECE Curriculum (Theory)

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’