Eco-Tots Early Learning Center offers The Creative Curriculum® for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers!
The Creative Curriculum® encourages parental involvement and works best when teachers and parents work together. The curriculum offers tools for parents to understand, assess, and support their child’s development, as well as connect with teachers and other individuals important in their child’s development. The philosophy of The Creative Curriculum is that young children learn best by doing. The Creative Curriculum is built on theories of development in young children, that all children learn through active exploration of their environment and therefore the environment plays a critical role in learning. The goal of the Creative Curriculum is to help children become independent, self-confident, inquisitive and enthusiastic learners by actively exploring their environment. The curriculum identifies goals in all areas of development: Social/Emotional, Cognitive, Physical and Language. The planned activities for the children, the organization of the environment, the selection of toys and materials, planning the daily schedule and interacting with the children, are all designed to accomplish the goals and objectives of the curriculum and give your child a successful year. The Creative Curriculum shows teachers how to integrate learning in literacy, math, science, social studies, the arts, and technology throughout the day. It also gives the teacher a wide range of teaching strategies– from child-initiated learning to teacher-directed approaches– to best respond to children’s learning styles, strengths, and interests.
The richer the environments, the more concrete opportunities there are for children to learn by interacting with materials and people. The teacher’s role is to create an environment that invites children to observe, to be active, to make choices, and to experiment. If you have questions concerning the Creative Curriculum please contact your child’s teacher.
