High Scope
High Scope curriculum emphasizes 'active participatory learning'. It means that children learn best through active and direct experiences with people, objects, events, and ideas. Adults become childrens partners in shaping their learning environments by providing physical, emotional, and intellectual supports. Children take the first steps in the learning process by making choices, and following through their decisions. Adults expand children's experiences and thinking by providing variety of materials and nurturing interactions.
The uniquness of High Scope is reflected in two key features: one is the daily plan-do-review sequence. Planning and reviewing allows teachers on daily basis to follow on children's developmental progress. The second key feature is High Scope curriculum content with main focus on essential building blocks of every child's development - social, intellectual, and physical. High Scope content areas are divided into eight main categories: 1) approaches to learning; 2) social and emotional development; 3) physical development and health; 4) language, literacy, and communication; 5) mathematics; 6) creative arts; 7) science and technology; and 8) social studies.
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