What is an example of Creative Curriculum?

A creative curriculum is all about focusing on big concepts or ideas. For example, let’s say you’re working on a science curriculum about plants and how they grow. It’s important for students to learn the stages of photosynthesis.

Does Creative Curriculum have lesson plans?

Creative curriculum lesson plans are an answer to the demand for ensuring that preschoolers are educated in way that promotes development of thinking. These lesson plans encourage a style of teaching that takes advantage of a child’s natural curiosity, and uses it to stimulate a desire to learn.

What should I teach a Year 2 student?

They will learn to name and describe the properties of common 2D and 3D shapes. Year 2 children carry out activities where they interpret and construct pictograms, tally charts, block graphs and tables. A more detailed overview of the Year 2 maths curriculum is available in our parents’ guide.

What is the role of teacher in Creative Curriculum?

The Creative Curriculum teacher is engaged in an ongoing cycle of observing, guiding learning, and assessing children’s progress. During this cycle teachers interact with children continuously and make decisions about when and how to respond to meet individual and group needs.

How do you explain the creative curriculum to parents?

The Creative Curriculum® is a play-based learning curriculum that focuses on interest areas and fosters creativity in both children and teachers. Being creative means thinking of new ideas, obtaining information by asking questions, and learning through trial and error.

What are the themes for Creative Curriculum?

Scope: The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool clearly identifies nine areas of development and learning: Social-Emotional, Physical, Language, Cognitive, Literacy, Mathematics, Science and Technology, Social Studies, and the Arts.

What are the goals of Creative Curriculum?

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.

What is creative lesson planning?

Through critical and creative thinking and problem-solving, ideas become reality as children create inventive solutions, illustrate their ideas, and make models of their inventions. Creative thinking lesson plans provide children with opportunities to develop and practice higher-order thinking skills.

What is the role of the teacher in Creative Curriculum?

What times tables should Year 2 know?

By the end of Year 2, children should know by heart all multiplication and division facts for their 10, 5 and 2 times tables (up to 12 x 10, 12 x 5 and 12 x 2).

What does a good literacy lesson look like?

The teacher explanation should be short and concise. It should provide an objective or a target area of learning for that part of the lesson, and the quicker the teacher explanation is, the more time there is for students to respond to instruction. So, quick and concise is key with a teacher explanation.