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An Appropriate Curriculum An Important Tool For Children

In this essay I am going to identify the foundation stage. Practitioners need to
structure of the foundation know how to support the
stage curriculum, what it is and how it children in achieving it and
helps practitioners plan, progressing.Personal, Social and
assess and teach children. I am going to Emotional development is all about the
identify theorists such as emotional
Piaget, Vygosky and Bruner, and their well being, children having a sense of
theories that practitioners use themselves. They need to know
to teach.The foundation stage curriculum about feeling good about themselves. It
commences when a child reaches the age provides experiences to enable
of three until the end of reception. It children to get the best opportunities
is used to help educational for personal, social and
practitioners (those that work with emotional development.The early learning
children, for example; nursery goals that practitioners need to follow
nurses, teachers, child minders) in all for
the different settings, personal, social and emotional
whatever their qualifications.The aims development are; dispositions and
for the Foundation Stage Curriculum are attitudes, making relationships, self
that all child care, confidence and self
settings (nurseries, schools) that esteem, behavior and self control and a
receive government funding for sense of community.Communication,
children aged 3-5 are required to help Language and Literacy includes the child
children progress and develop to read a
in their learning and development. This variety of different books, being able
can be achieved through to communicate in different
planning activities and ways, such as facial expressions and eye
experiences.Throughout the Foundation contact used in non verbal
Stage, monitoring and assessing should be communication. Children should be able
undertaken to measure each child's to communicate in order for
progress. It is important to make them to participate in their society.
sure they are making progress, it is Children should also receive
also necessary to see if the simple reading tasks and texts and
children have any problems and if they writing for different purposes.The Early
do then practitioners can Learning goals that practitioners need to
identify and solve them before they get follow for
worse.The process of monitoring the Communication, Language and Literacy
child's progress needs to commence way are; language and communication,
before they join the particular setting. language for thinking, linking sounds
This is where practitioners and letters, reading, writing
need to listen to parents to find about and handwriting.Mathematical Development
their child's development and encourages children to solve problems,
progress.Practitioners need to listen counting and sorting out numbers, adding
and take into account what parents say, and subtracting, multiplying
for children, parents are their first and dividing. By the end of the
and most enduring educators. Foundation Stage, children should be
Parents and educational practitioners able to say and use number names in
need to work together as it has order in familiar contexts, count
positive results on their child's reliably up to ten everyday objects,
development and progress in recognize numerals 1-9, in
learning. This is what is known as practical activities and discussion
partnership with parents. There has begin to use the vocabulary
to be a two way flow of knowledge and involved in adding and subtracting,The
information and expertise if the Early Learning goals practitioners need
partnership is to be successful.There to follow for mathematical
are a few pointers and factors that development are; numbers as labels and
result in effective for counting, calculating,
practice, practitioners should listen shape, space and measureKnowledge and
and take into account the Understanding of the world, in this area
parent's experience of their child's of learning
progress and development. They children are developing an understanding
need to understand how important the of the world; this will help
relationship and duty is between them in later life with subjects such as
parent and child in the child's science, geography, history.The Early
education. Parents need to feel Learning goals for Knowledge and
important and that their presence is Understanding of the world
welcome through the range of are; exploration and investigation,
opportunities there would be through designing and making skills,
interaction between children, information and communication, and
parents and practitioners. Parents technology, sense of time, sense of
should be kept fully informed about place and culture and beliefs.Children
any changes in the Foundation learn about co-ordination and movement in
Curriculum. This can be achieved through Physical
the use of brochures, booklets or Development. By the end of the reception
information leaflets.The principles of year, according to QCA,
the Foundation Stage Curriculum are all "Children should know how to move with
found in confidence, imagination and in
good and effective practice in the early safety, move with control and
year's settings. coordination, show awareness of space,
Practitioners need to be able to of themselves and of others and to be
understand the curriculum able to use a range of small and
requirements and put them into practice. large equipment".The Early Learning
They need to learn to goals for Physical Development are;
understand that children develop rapidly movement, sense
during the early years, and of space, health and bodily awareness,
every child should be included and not using equipment, and using
disadvantaged just because of tools and materialsCreative Development
their culture, gender, ability, family is used to enable children to make
background. In order for the connections
children to have confidence and to feel between one area of learning and
secure, practitioners need to another. This includes art, music,
make sure they work with parents, as it imaginative play and role play.The Early
has a positive effect onthe children. The learning Goals for creative development
Curriculum should build on what the are; exploring
children have materials and media, music, imagination,
already learnt and on what they already and responding to
know.In order for the curriculum to be experiences, expressing and
effective it needs to be well communicating ideas.Teachers need to
planned and organized, content needs to learn the many different ways a child can
be relevant so that it learn and
co-insides with the different abilities how they can adapt to teach the
of children. Practitioners children. One of the few ways children
need to learn how to have an learn is through their own mistakes and
understanding of how children develop and experiences. Psychologist
learn and how to move the children onto Piaget believed that children learnt by
the next level of development 'doing', they construct their own
and learning.In order for the children thinking by acting in their
to progress in their learning, environment. Anning (1996) page 21 cites
practitioners that Piaget thought all
need to make sure what they teach is children are seen to develop through a
well planned; intervention by the series of clearly defined stages towards
practitioners needs to be appropriate. logical thinking. He also believed that
The learning setting of the children are lone scientists, meaning
child needs to be caring in order for they develop
the children to have learning through experience, discovery and
experiences that are stimulating. investigation, and adults should
Practitioners need to know that high provide stimulating and varied
quality care and a good education experiences.Vygotsky was a psychologist
develops effective learning and who challenged Piaget's views. He
development of the child.The diversity believed
of needs that children acquire need to be that teachers should help children learn
met by the by guiding them through
practitioners who need to set out concentrating and learning effectively,
realistic opportunities for the Gross, (1998). Vygotsky
children. Early learning goals need to believed in the child centered approach,
be set for their level of he thought the idea of sitting
ability. Practitioners need to know, at desks and completing exams were
meet and understand the range of totally irrelevant for children and
special educational needs that children their learning. Children worked with
may have. Diversity may their peers who were maybe more
include children with disabilities, or less advanced than themselves, this
children from different ethnic is known as Collaborative
groups, culture and religion, refugees Learning. The child is seen as an
and travelers.Stepping stones were apprentice meaning they learn
introduced to help practitioners plan. In through others. Vygotsky believed that
order the support of teachers and
for children to achieve the early other children builds on the child's
learning goals for each area of understanding; this is formally
learning, knowledge, skills, known as scaffolding.It is cited in
understanding and attitudes are the main Anning (1996) page 22 what Bruner thought
focus of what children need to learn. of children's
This has to occur during the learning; "It is only when research
foundation stage. Stepping stones is not helps one to see with ones own
age related, meaning it eyes that it gets beneath the skin". He
allows children to progress at their own believed children's learning
rate of ability. Three could be enhanced through adult
colors are used to show the progress intervention. He agreed with Vygotsky
made - yellow, blue and then that they support and structure
green. Most three year olds would be children's thinking.Children are entitled
best suited to the yellow, to be provided with an appropriate
progressing through blue then green at curriculum,
the reception year.Practitioners need to the Foundation Stage provides children
know how to assess; the guide helps them with an education that
by practitioners can provide allowing them
identifying when the main focuses are to progress at their own rate
being achieved by children, of ability whilst setting them realistic
individually or with groups of children. goals in order for children
The focuses are knowledge, to have a head start in life.The article
skills, understanding and was produced by the member of
attitudes.Early learning goals are Sharon White is a senior writer and
introduced to help teachers teach, they writers consultant at term papers. Get
establish expectations for most children some useful tips for thesis and buy term
to reach by the end of the papers .




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