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Everyone is So Nice Here
January 25, 2016
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
-Mark Twain
-Mark Twain
In the article, "Why Is Everyone So Nice Here?," in Edutopia, Joan Murphy describes the impact of the Responsive Curriculum. This curriculum has seven guiding principles:
- The social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum.
- How children learn is as important as what they learn.
- The greatest cognitive growth occurs through social interaction.
- There is a specific set of social skills that children need to learn and practice in order to be successful academically and socially: cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control.
- Knowing the children we teach individually, culturally, and developmentally is as important as knowing the content we teach.
- Knowing the families of the children we teach is as important as knowing the children we teach.
- How we, the adults at school, work together is as important as our individual competence.
Contributed by Kirsten Haugen
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Displaying All 2 CommentsPennsylvania, United States
The goal of early childhood education should be focused on the care and nurturing of the children and their young minds. As we converse and care for the children, as we prepare our environments to allow them to explore, as we guide them in understanding their emotions, and as we watch their friendships and abilities blossom, we are teaching them. There is no performance assessment that can adequately gauge all that the child is capable of doing with time, care and attention. We do a tremendous disservice to children to reduce their experience to assessments.
CSBC
Denver, CO, United States
I teach a class in curriculum development at a local community college in Denver, Colorado. I focus on all the things highlighted here. However, my students have to implement curricular programs that are totally outcome-based, and focus on academics. There is a huge tension between these two ideas. The people at the state level are imposing these outcome based curricula.
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