Early Childhood Curriculum
Briefing Guidelines:
EC722 The Early Childhood Curriculum
Part Two- Essay
Select one learning story from Kei Tua o te Pae which includes a range of subject content areas covered in this course. In your essay:
Section 1. Examine the essential concepts of three subject content areas that children are exploring in the learning story.
Section 2. Analyse the teaching strategies used by the teachers to support and enhance childrens learning of essential concepts in the relevant content areas
Section 3. Based on an example of your teaching practice in your early childhood centre, choose two subject content areas (preferably not discussed in part two, Section 1) and identify possible links to childrens interests, including teaching strategies that could be implemented to support learning.
Your essay should include:
Links to Te Whriki and The New Zealand Curriculum
An understanding of how children in the different age groups learn about essential concepts in the relevant subject content areas
Appropriate use of subject content language and demonstration of your subject content knowledge of the learning areas
(Total Word Limit: 2200 words)
Introduction: 110 words
Section 1 and 2: 1200 words
Section 3: 670 words
Conclusion: 220 words
*15% leeway above or below word limit
Section 1 and section 2 should be combined in the first part of your essay, making up for around 1200 of the word count. Section 3 is separate from sections 1 and 2, but you should include a linking sentence.
For section 1:
Choose any of the learning stories of the Kei Tua o te Pae resource.
Identify links to three content learning areas of to The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Eductation, 2007) in the learning story.
These content learning areas may be mentioned in the learning story or be recognised by you.
The content learning areas are:
o Language and Literacy, The Arts (Visual Arts and Performing Arts), Mathematics, Science, Technology, Health and Physical Education and Social Science. Please have a look at the Learning Objectives of the strands of each learning area to familiarise yourself with the content of each learning area.
o See: http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/The-New-Zealand-Curriculum/English/Achievement-objectives
o Click on the learning areas in the column on the left hand side to open up the strands and learning objectives of the learning area.
o The essential concepts are the foci mentioned in the learning objectives.
Include links to The New Zealand Curriculum as well as Te Whriki (Ministry of Eductation, 2017), using your own words, rather than quotes. Also include links to course readings.
For section 2:
Identify which strategies the teacher has used and discuss these.
Avoid copying out exactly what has been written in Kei Tua o te Pae, instead analyse the strategies. Why are these particular strategies used?
What other strategies could be used instead or in addition?
Show an understanding of which strategies are appropriate for the age group written about in the learning story.
Also show an understanding of how children in ECE learn about subject content knowledge (i.e., starting from the interest of the child/ learning through play).
For section 3:
You are now looking at how learning of subject content happens in the centre.
Choose different content learning areas from the previous sections.
Start from a possible interest you have observed in your centre, which you can mention as an example. Avoid making this example too long.
To show an understanding of different age groups you could choose a different age group from those examined in sections 1 and 2.
Explain how the learning interest can be linked to the strands and learning concepts of two learning areas, how the teacher can draw out these concepts through conversation and how this learning may be connected to home experiences and prior knowledge of the child. Explain how the learning of subject area concepts can be meaningful and at the childs level. Additionally, what teaching strategies would be appropriate for the age group you are discussing and how would these strategies be different if this was a different age group?
Include links to The New Zealand Curriculum as well as Te Whriki (Ministry of Eductation, 2017), using your own words, rather than quotes. Also include links to course readings.
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Learning Outcome 1, 2, 3
LO1: Critically analyse how Te Whriki guides curriculum implementation in early childhood education
LO2: Critically examine a range of strategies to support and enhance childrens knowledge and learning of the subject content areas
LO3: Critically examine subject content areas in early childhood contexts and their link to The New Zealand Curriculum
REMINDER: this is a level 7 course so make sure you maintain good academic presentation standards with excellent referencing throughout.
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