The Curriculum Starting From Early Education

After comparing the advantages and disadvantages of all the curriculums that were presented during the poster presentation, I have decided to purchase the Second Step Early Learning curriculum developed by the organization Committee for Children. This curriculum teaches skills that improve students’ ability to understand their own and other’s emotions, show empathy, be able to self-regulate, solve problems, and decrease the frequency of their disruptive behavior, including both verbal and physical aggression. (Second Step Program Review of Research) There are two main reasons and a couple small advantages that make me decided to choose this curriculum:

Human nature can be defined as characteristics, feelings, or traits that of all humans share. Human characteristics and traits can differ from personal cultural background and or by the community that you are surrounded in. The significance of your community and culture is that it can be of importance since it could affect you negatively or positively. Human nature is by origin naturally good but is corrupted gradually or abruptly by the community or religion. Individuals from society and society itself can immensely make an impact on people.

The understanding of human nature is the concept that there is a set of inherent distinguishing characteristics, including ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that all humans tend to possess (Winkler, 1996). My basic view of human nature correlates with

It is essential that educators create safe, welcoming environments that promote learning for all students in a classroom and to do this they must acknowledge issues of diversity and difference and know how to approach these issues. There are two key documents that guide educators in their planning and implementation of curriculum; The Australian Curriculum and The Early Years Learning Framework. Using these two documents to create learning programs, educators must enact an inclusive curriculum that empowers all students, regardless of differences. For educators to understand and address issues of diversity and differences such as socio-economic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, language barriers and stereotypes around gender and sexuality, they must look at their own philosophy, values and beliefs around these issues.

This research report presents an analysis of and conclusions drawn from the experiences and perspectives of two educators that work in the early childhood setting. The main objective is to identify key elements and issues in relation to the families, diversity and difference. In particular how an early childhood educator implements, different approaches to honour culture and diversity, and to advocate for social justice in an early childhood settings. As such, it allows an insight into the important role that families and their background plays in the everyday lives of the children and educators within early childhood settings. In today’s ever-changing growing society it is essential for educators to be flexible to the

Human nature is the fundamental traits and characteristics of humans. Human nature matter as this distinguishes the way one thinks and feels. In the “Peanuts” comic strip, Charles Schultz represents the falling of human nature. Although Charlie Brown always swears he won’t try kicking the football again after being duped by Lucy, he still ends up attempting it once more. To end the comic strip, Lucy looks down at Charlie Brown, as he’s laying on the ground, and says “I admire you, Charlie Brown… you have such faith in human nature.”. This comic strip represents humans as we always attempt something one more time no matter how many times the world has deceived us. This ties in with the human condition because human nature refers to your character and what it means to be human as the human condition is characteristics which compose the essentials of life such as growth and

Human nature is the general psychological characteristics, feelings, and behavioral traits of humankind, regarded as shared by all humans. Researchers are discovering ideas about human nature that we have not known of before. Some of these ideas are evolution and genes from our DNA. Matt Ridley's The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters and Human Nature explains these ideas in a way that we can relate to modern time. The Ridley reading Human Nature relates to the Walls family in the means that genetics and the society that the Walls family grew up in does not determine who they are and their future, but it can help guide them in the way that they want to go. The Ridley readings help us understand the Walls family because it describes how

Critically analyse one aspect of / component of the early childhood curriculum studied in this paper, with particular relevance to Aotearoa/ New Zealand

Common human nature: Human nature is relatively similar in the sense that human beings have a common set of basic needs and interest

There are five philosophies of education that make up my personal philosophy. I believe in certain aspects of every philosophy. Perennialism strives above all to develop our capacity to reason. The things of everlasting importance should be taught to people everywhere. I believe that there should be an authority figure to guide the students. The aspects of perennialism that I agree with are critical thinking, problem solving, coaching, discussion, prayer in the classroom, contemplation, and orderliness. I believe that the children should be led to use strategic thinking skills to solve problems. Moral development is included in the curriculum of perennialism. I believe children today need to be taught

Erikson, with interest in the developmental processes across time and the key factors of becoming who we are is Ethos of our character that guides our beliefs, ideas that characterized a community, nation, or ideology driven by our emotions, behaviors and morals. Adolescent for example, find out who think they are and start making choices. We have the capacity to build and develop communities with the strength of hope because our brain is prone to adrenarche and our body is prone to schedule and bring many questions. We then organize ourselves into groups, most of what is unusual about single humanity is culture and language that other animals do not have to share. Our stories work to make us who we are even though, there are too many stories we find way to coexist. The sacred is what motivates us because they are ineffable.

Essentialism is the belief that every individual has specific innate characteristics. Those characteristics are the basis of their existence. This concept usually advocates for the fact that humans have biological properties innate by nature, and determined before a person's existence. Essentialists link the behavior of people in whatever society to their human nature. Also, they believe that these features may not be modified through different social cultures, evolution or any kind of social change. These inborn attributes are unchanging determinants that define people. An example is given to support this view is the famous German Nazism which proclaims that the white german race is genetically superior to others. Or, essentialist anti-feminists

While all these characteristics of individuality are true there are pressures from society that still eliminate total individuality. Ones individuality is based on pressures of society. A woman will develop individual traits characteristic of a women, such as physical beauty and motherhood. A man will develop certain traits characteristic of a man, such as sports or risky behavior. An individual’s races or religions can also have an influence on what a person’s individual traits will be. While most humans have a certain amount of individuality, Berger’s statement still applies, society lives in us all and there is little an individual can do to manipulate it.

Human nature, the essence of what makes a human person what they are, is something that everybody has. Every person is innately a person, but how they put their personhood into action is the biggest indicator of their character, or the projection of a person’s human nature. At their core there is human nature, but their actions are what direct this source of humanity. The quality of someone’s actions is shaped by their environment and sometimes their biological makeup as well. Human nature does not have good or evil characteristics. It is how a person thinks and acts that is the true factor in the shaping of their character.

This week’s article provided interesting insight into science curriculum in a preschool classroom. I believe that children experience scientific concepts all around them every day, for example, weather and shadows, and that they are looking for information and the language to understand these concepts. This article furthered my belief that preschool children are capable of learning and exploring abstract scientific concepts. Furthermore, this articles supported my beliefs that although capable of understanding abstract concepts, preschoolers require teacher guided support in learning these concepts, as they often do not yet have the language require to explain the phenomenon’s they see happening.