Calendar Description
Students examine the principles to develop, implement and evaluate a play-based
program with key concepts in language and literacy and music and movement across
the curriculum. Students learn theory and gain practical knowledge to plan activities in
which young children can explore sound, movement, music, books, stories, drama, and
beginning literacy, within the context of the whole program for children.
Course Description
This course will bring early childhood practices that rely on developmental psychology
into conversation with pedagogical documentation and curriculum-making, as invited by
the B.C. Early Learning Framework (2019). With support from readings, lectures and
conversations in class, students will engage with the Learning Outcomes (below) to
think critically about the role of the early childhood educator in creating vibrant placebased curriculum alongside colleagues and children. Alongside student colleagues,
readings and materials, students will engage with multiple possibilities for thinking and
doing curriculum that takes seriously the ideas of children-in-relation with the 21st
century worlds they inhabit.
- Teacher: SmithTeresa