L3

• Different types of teaching approaches for early childhood development


  • Theme based approach
  • Activity based approach
  • Project inquiry based approach
  • Integrated based approach
• Integrated-based approach


  Pupils are able to connect what they are learning in one subject area to related content in another subject area
• Integrated-based approach


  • Topics learned in Math or Social Studies may be used by the pupils with related concepts and skills in Reading and Language
• Children learn in many different ways from birth
• Integrated teaching and learning

  Includes guided play and learning
• Play

  • A mainly powerful way that children learn
  • Central to the concept of integrated teaching and learning approaches
  • Essential to stimulate and integrate a wide range of children's intellectual, physical, social, and creative abilities
• Integrated teaching and learning approaches

  Support sustained and shared interactions with children
• Integrated teaching and learning includes

  • Guided play and learning
  • Adult-led learning
  • Child-directed play and learning
• With so many methods of teaching that schools offer, it might be confusing to know which methods are more effective</b>
• It depends on the children
• Theme-based learning

  • A popular way to organize the curriculum in many primary schools
  • Involves your child learning through one central topic
  • The theme could have strong links to one subject
  • A theme-based topic could be divided into smaller units or themes under different subjects
• Theme-based topics

  • Family
  • Weather
  • Sea
  • Farm
• When students learn through a theme

  • They are learning in context
  • This helps students understand what they are learning and why they are learning it
  • It helps students attach ideas and skills to specific contexts
  • This helps students remember what they have learned
• Montessori methods


  • Exercises of practical life
  • Sensorial
  • Language
  • Arithmetic
  • Cultural studies

  
• Montessori methods


  • Based on self-directed activity, hands-on learning and collaborative play
  • Children make creative choices in their learning
  • The classroom and the highly trained teacher offer age-appropriate activities to guide the process

  
• Five Areas of the Montessori Classroom

  • Practical Life
  • Sensorial
  • Language
  • Mathematics
  • Cultural
• Practical Life

  • Activities comprise of care of the person, caring for the environment and lessons in grace and courtesy
  • Encourage good work habits, increase concentration, and independence, and develop coordination
  • Prepare the child for all other subject areas of the classroom
• Practical Life activities

  • Sewing buttons
  • Button Frame
  • Carrot peeling
  • Pouring water with a funnel
• Sensorial


  • Prepare the child to sharpen their abilities in learning reading, writing, and mathematics
  • Develop all faculties of intelligence by exploring diverse materials designed using variable dimensions, colour, shape, texture, and smell
• Language

  • Explored phonetically
  • Initial alphabet sounds introduced through the sandpaper letters and matching objects
  • Blending exercises with the moveable alphabet
  • Metal insets exercise used to refine pencil control and improve writing skills
• Language activities

  • Learning sounds of the letter
  • Sandpaper letters
• Mathematics

  Use hands-on materials to provide the child with a simple and clear understanding of the mathematical concepts being taught
• Cultural


  • Divided into geography, history, nature and science
  • Geography materials teach a child the places in the world
  • History assists a child in learning about the concept of change
  • Looking at the seasons, studying the weather, and changing the calendar daily helps the child to establish a cycle of time
  • Children are encouraged to bring things to put in the natural area
  • Birthday lesson with a representation of the sun and the birthday child holding the globe and walking around
• Cultural activities

  • Cultural Shelf
• Montessori-based childcare centers


  • Available globally
  • Structured towards the individual child and their interests
  • Children given the autonomy to learn and use the material in the classroom independently
• Montessori may not be effective for all children, who may require more of a structured learning environment

  
• There may be transitional challenges later on when moving onto traditional or "mainstream" schools
• Movable Alphabet


  • Children form colorful, three-dimensional letters into words
  • Hands-on interactive play makes learning easier
• Pink Tower


  • Set of ten blocks in increasing sizes
  • Children stack the blocks in size order
  • Sharpens early mathematical skills like measuring and comparing
• Sound Cylinders

  • Each cylinder is filled with different materials, some louder than others
  • Children can shake the cylinders and place them in order of softest to loudest
• Hands-on tasks

  Allow students to use their hands to discover the world around them, keeping them captivated and focused on the subject at hand
• Dressing Frames

  • Learning important motor skills like tying shoes and buttoning buttons
  • Montessori method founder Maria Montessori created dressing frames that schools still use today
  • Some have buttonholes that children can practice buttoning and unbuttoning
• Montessori hands-on tasks

  • Pouring and scooping
  • Watering flowers
  • Ironing
  • Opening bottle caps
  • Washing clothes
  • Gluing paper
  • Sweeping
  • Washing a window
• Hands-on tasks in Montessori

  Allow students to use their hands to discover the world around them, keeping them captivated and focused on the subject at hand

  
• Montessori dressing frames


  • Have buttonholes that children can practice buttoning and unbuttoning
  • Allow children to tie and untie laces and bows, zip and unzip zippers, and fasten and unfasten buckles
• Classification cards

  • Help children learn the names of different objects in their world
  • Objects become more advanced depending on the skill level of the child
  • Each object comes with three cards: picture, name, and control card with both
• Beads in Montessori


  • Come in various sizes and arrangements: single beads, rods of 10 beads, flats of 10 rods, and cubes of 10 flats
  • Used to teach children about the decimal system and geometry
• Reggio Emilia approach

  • Focuses heavily on documenting the children's learning and allowing the children to really take on their interests
  • Parents and educators support the learning process of the child over time
  • Learning is broken up into open-ended projects that children solve through research, questioning and experimentation
  • Encourages children to express themselves through painting, drawing, sculpting, and drama

  
• Waldorf education


  • Based on engaging the head, heart, and hands—or thinking, feeling, and doing
  • Focuses on storytelling and learning through play, with reading introduced at age 7
• Technical skills for early childhood educators

  • Child care
  • Child development
  • Lesson planning
  • Special education
  • Creating a nurturing environment
  • Scheduling
  • Customer service
  • Progress reports
  • Music