Integrating Curriculum Through Project and Play

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Integrating Curriculum Through Project and Play

• ECED 323

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AN INVITATION TO LIFEThe Art of Teaching

• Teaching is an art guided by educational values,
  personal needs, and by a variety of beliefs or
  generalizations that the teacher holds to be
  true. Eliot Eisner

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Teaching is

• INTENTIONAL
• PURPOSEFUL
• HIGHLY MORAL PROFESSION
• SEE CHILDREN AS COMPETENT PERSONS
• CONSTANTLY MAKING REAL, MEANINFUL DECISIONS THAT
  AFFECT THE LIVES OF STUDENTS

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• The teacher has a philosophical framework or
  approach that serves as a map or a tool through
  which she and he makes sense of the world,
  coupled with a sense of teaching as a art that
  influences practices and relationships in the
  classroom.

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Teaching Philosophy

• Science of Teaching

• Art of Teaching

• Guided by
• Educational Theories
• Personal Theories
• Grounded in
• Philosophical Theories
• Theoretical Frameworks
• Personal approach

• Creative practice of our craft
• Attention to quality of the teaching-learning
  situations
• Awareness of teachable moments
• Repertoire of skills and ability to improvise in
  any situation

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Your Personal Philosophy

• Beliefs are formed from?
• Beliefs can be about.?
• Research says.
• Thinking and framing your Philosophy!

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Our Philosophy

• ESU Teacher Education Conceptual Framework
• Mission Commitment
• Beginning Educator Outcomes
• Learning Cycle
• Assessment Model
• Initiatives

• Pre K 4 Philosophy
• Social Constuctivism
• Qualitative Inquiry
• Developmental Appropriate Practices (DAP)
• Inclusive Environment
• Integrated Curriculum
• Meaningful Engagement

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Pennsylvania SAS State Aligned System

• http//www.pdesas.org/
• A comprehensive approach to support student
  achievement across the Commonwealth
• Clear Standards
• Fair Assessments
• Curriculum Framework
• Instruction
• Materials Resources
• Interventions

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The Art of Teaching

• Reflection 2

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Theories Philosophies

• Theory

• Philosophy

• A coherent group of general propositions used as
  a principles of explanations for a class of
  phenomena or a proposed explanation whose status
  is still conjectural, in contrast to
  well-established propositions that are regarded
  as a reporting matters as actual fact.

• The rational investigation of the truths and
  principles of being, knowledge, or conduct
• Determines how we see as well as what and how
  much we see

BOTH are rationally constructed propositions that
we use to investigate, inquire into, and make
sense of events, behaviors, relationships,
teaching, learning .
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Theory vs Philosophy

• Theory A window that opens to a reality

• Philosophy Structure we are looking through

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Our Philosophy

• Theories

• Philosophy

• Pay attention to what goes on in classrooms
• Framework to understand and interpret intentions
  and actions
• Broad principles of development and learning
• Breadth of knowledge
• Different ways of seeing
• Teaching decisions based on knowledge of child
  development, learning, social cultural context

• Our approach to working with with children by
  attending to what we know about how children
  develop and learn and what we learn about the
  individual needs and interests of each child in
  the group.
• Influences our decision making about what, how
  and when to teach.

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Curriculum Teaching

• Content subject matter/discipline to be
  considered
• Integrated based on how children learn
  grounded in the discipline
• Emergent childs interests and needs in the
  context of learning
• Inclusive all childrens interests and needs
  are included
• Negotiated child and teacher are partners in
  learning child initiated and teacher framed

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Influential Thinkers

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
• Friedrich Froebel
• John Dewey
• Urie Bronfenbrenner
• Jean Piaget
• Lev Vygotsky
• Jerome Bruner
• Barbara Rogoff
• Howard Gardner

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Reggio Emilia Approach

• Children as protagonists, collaborators,
  communicators in the learning process
• Teachers as partners, nurturers, and guides
• Teachers as researchers
• Parents as partners active role in childrens
  learning
• Environment supports learning, social
  interaction, exploration
• Documentation as a means for negotiated learning
  through communication

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Project Approach Balls

• Brainstorm Individually, write as many words as
  you can that relate in any way to the topic of
  Balls. The words should be as specific and
  concrete as possible. (Time about 7 minutes)
• Tips
• Use visual imagery.
• Think with reference to all of your senses.
• Think about people whose work is involved with
  this topic.
• Resist the temptation to think of abstract
  categories.
• Continue for about 7 minutes or until you have
  about 50 or 60 words
• Work alone at this stage, even if you plan to
  team-teach.

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