What is Best Practice Curriculum
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"Best practices are those practices that have been identified through a review of literature and a process of field testing and revision to determine which activities work "best" to promote education that goes beyond the minimum that is required by law. Practices that are "best" truly assist families, children and providers..."- from Prendeville, J. & Ross-Allen, J. (2001.) "The Transition Process in the Early Years" It has been proven that a "cookbook approach" is not the best way to meet the needs of children and families. With the help of our curriculum advisors we've chosen the best and the most results-oriented components of highly-researched educational approaches and have combined them to provide the most optimal learning environment. This exclusive combination forms Little Leprechaun Academy's Best Practice Curriculum. The following pages explore each component to help you understand these theories and to illustrate how we put them into practice each day at Little Leprechaun. |
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Pshycho-Social Development Theory As a young man Erikson became a teacher in a |
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In his most influential work, Childhood and Society, he divided the human life cycle into eight psychosocial stages of development.
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A Constructivist Perspective On Learning and Teaching Jean Piaget, 1896 - 1980 |
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over reports of researchers around the world who were doing the same. He found, to put it most succinctly, that children don't think like adults. After thousands of interactions with young people often barely old enough to talk, Piaget began to suspect that behind their cute and seemingly illogical utterances were thought processes that had their own kind of order and their own special logic. Einstein called it a discovery "so simple that only a genius could have thought of it."
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