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Overview
Curriculum refers to experiences that allow children to acquire and construct skills, concepts, attitudes, and dispositions. Curriculum develops through interactions with adults and other children and through carefully selected materials. As stated in our mission, the PVCC Children's Center Curriculum is “inspired by the natural world ”. Our children’s program celebrates the joy of learning and advocates for the art of teaching.” The natural world is viewed as key to expanding our view of the world and our place in it. We take great interest in supporting the child’s positive disposition towards learning. The Center staff created a vision that remains alive in the classroom today. It is “ an emotional and physical place where all learners are free to engage and reflect about their learning ”.
Our goals for each child are:
- To use visual arts, music, movement, math, nature (scientific thinking) and verbal (literacy) languages to communicate and represent what they know and feel. Each child participates in learning experiences that represent and express what they know and feel.
- To develop critical and creative thinking, each child participates in learning experiences to create and solve problems.
- To develop and maintain positive relationships, each child participates in learning experiences to:
- connect community, family and culture.
- build relationships with others.
- develop understanding of self.
Arizona Early Learning Standards provide a framework for teaching and learning for teachers and parents of young children. The standards represent a synthesis of exemplary practice and experience modeled in programs that have been empirically validated by thousands of young children in Arizona, the United States and the world. Thus these standards align with developmentally appropriate practices and our actual practices at The Children’s Center.
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