Describe the curriculum indicators suggested by the National Association for the Education of Young Children that would enhance not only student involvement in the development of their curriculum, but also involve them in design of study methods and assessment.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Children should be active and engaged. Goals should be clear and shared by all. Curriculum selected should be evidence-based. Investigation, play, and focused intentional teaching should be used for methods of learning of valued content. Selection of curriculum built on prior learning and experiences. Curriculum is comprehensive. Curriculum content is based on professional standards. Curriculum benefits children.
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a. correlated assets. b. a PBL program. c. student acceleration. d. content sophistication.
Documentation, as used in the early childhood programs of Reggio-Emilia, is
a. making posters on the classroom walls for parents to see the cute things their children or doing b. a process of searching for the meaning of what the children are doing c. sending home to parents the projects that the students have done d. being careful that the center's documents are accurate
The national curriculum standards
(a) have been in existence in the United States since 1960 (b) have been developed only for mathematics, science, and technology education (c) represent a mandated national curriculum defining what students should know and be able to do (d) represent the best thinking of panels of experts about the essential elements of a basic core of subject knowledge that all students should acquire