A Course in Curriculum is a Course in Life

Will our Vision & Mission suffice and meet an Expectation such as this?”

Master of Arts in Early Childhood Education, Educ 111. Early Childhood Curriculum

Congratulations to you, Early Childhood Education

Teachers and Stakeholders!

Credits to you:

“All a child really needs to know, he/she could learn from YOU!”

Such honour, isn’t it?

And so, that child, whose curiosity is at the peak of gathering all the experiences he could and at the height of asking all the questions he wants to get answers from, has TO MEET YOU!

Why? … because YOU, being there in THE EARLY CHILDHOOD/PRESCHOOL Educational System, could do MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE — to “SQUARE A CHILD’S EXPECTATIONS”!

AND SO, here you are NOW, taking a Course in Early Childhood Curriculum to align, if not just “meet halfway”  with Robert Fulghum’s VISION:

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

That myth is more potent than history.

That dreams are more powerful than facts.

That hope always triumphs over experience.

That laughter is the only cure for grief.

And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Not all the answers that we could give a child could be taken from the piles of book that we may require them to have or that we’ve personally gathered to equip ourselves with answers to kids’ queries which may at times stun us!

Some of the answers that we would give them will be what we have in our PERSONAL CURRICULUM!

However we see life in its DIFFERENT SEASONS will be that same POINT OF VIEW that we would share with those innocent minds.

And so, take this CHALLENGE NOW!

Identify, define, specify, and SOUL-SEARCH with these stuff and START PREPARING your PERSONAL CURRICULUM! 🙂

1st, TRADITIONAL or PROGRESSIVIST … what IS YOUR POINT OF VIEW?

2nd, DEFINE WHO YOU ARE and the LEGACY that you want to live-by!

Create your own VISION and specify it in your MISSION!

3rd, Considering the Components of Curriculum based on the Philippine Constitution of 1987,

what AIMS, GOALS & OBJECTIVES could you personally come up with?

4th, Having inputted with the Aims of Elementary Education [Educ Act of 1982],

what do you see should be your AIMS, GOALS & OBJECTIVES as a teacher?

… what about COMING UP WITH YOUR OWN SCHOOL? [be ready for this 🙂 ]

CREATING A CURRICULUM that would BUILD LIFE can be very AMBITIOUS! — ARE YOU too?

So there, WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN!

Now let’s bug our imagination:

Who REALLY HAS THE TASK TO INITIALLY LEARN? .. THE KIDZ or the TEACHER?

Our POINTS OF VIEW as we go through the Seasons of Life will matter a lot as we strive to meet up and square A LIFE for the YOUNGs — but we should foremost nurture our heart and let these lines be ours too:

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

That myth is more potent than history.

That dreams are more powerful than facts.

That hope always triumphs over experience.

That laughter is the only cure for grief.

And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Credits to:

http://www.amazon.com/Really-Need-Know-Learned-Kindergarten/dp/034546639X