Emergent Curriculum in the Primary Classroom

By: Mindy Manning

Are you tired of reading books which tell you what you should be implementing

but do not provide strategies to actually implement them in the classroom?

If you would like to create a windhorse of a classroom, this is the book for you!

Windhorse – raising positive energy, the life force that whirls through us. The sense of feeling as an electric current that excites everyone involved and enlivens

programs.

A Book Which Shows you Ways to Teach, Rather than Telling you How to Teach.

Emergent Curriculum

– This book shows how several different teachers took the opportunity to use students desire to discover and turned it into a learning experience through student inquiry.

– “…in emergent curriculum children sand teachers step out into real experience, real stuff, real problems---learning lived in three dimensions.” Page 151

Understanding by Design

– “Understanding develops as a result of ongoing inquiry and rethinking, the assessment of understanding should be thought of in terms of a collection of evidence over time instead of an “event” – a single moment-in-time test at the end of instruction – as often happens in practice.” –Page 152

Learning is Organic and Student Lead

Emergent Curriculum in the Primary Classroom

– “Standardized curriculum can be taught in a way that allows children to take ownership of their own ideas and work together with the teacher, and other children towards shared goals.” – Page 14

Curriculum – The Teacher’s Initiative

– “When the interactions among students and teachers result in new content, interpretations, ways of working, and purposes, curricula are created. The feelings and meanings generated from classroom experiences may make up a curriculum; indeed, curriculum may continue to form as the meanings of classroom experiences unfold throughout a lifetime.” Page 189

Role of TeacherFacilitatorListenerObserve

Collaborate

Role of StudentActive

CompetentResearcher

Emergent Curriculum

In the Primary Classroom

Emergent Curriculum in the Primary Classroom will inspire you to create interactive lessons in which the students explore and research topics and find their own truths through innovative curricula design. If this sounds enticing to you, or something you would love to learn more about, pick up your copy today!

Review the link below to learn more:https://youtu.be/J1rIdpb8xhs

References

McNeil, J. D. (2003). Curriculum: The teacher’s initiative. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall.

Wien, C. (2008). Emergent Curriculum in the Primary Classroom: Interpreting the Reggio Emilia Approach in School. Washington DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children.

Wiggins, G., & McTighe, J. (2006). Understanding by design, 2nd ed. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.