ECED 351 - Programming 5: Emergent Curriculum

Description
This advanced, project-based course examines age-appropriate approaches and strategies, specifically emergent curriculum, when designing, developing, and implementing play opportunities in an early childhood setting. Students will incorporate appropriate technology to create an early childhood education plan for various needs and developmental stages. Students will design a developmentally appropriate curriculum for indoor and outdoor learning environments, considering concepts and strategies previously learned. These will include childhood wellness (nutrition, fitness and safety), equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), language and digital literacy, as well as numeracy. Students will consider Alberta’s Flight framework in their planning and design process.

3 Credits

Time Guidelines
The standard instructional time for this course is 60 hours.

Prerequisites

ECED 300
ECED 301