Child Centered Learning

A child-centered curriculum offers children the opportunity to make choices about what, how and

whom they  want to play. This approach enables children to initiate and direct their own play with

the support of interested and responsive teachers.  With this Curriculum, children

construct their own knowledge from their experiences and interactions with the world around them.

Teachers foster children’s growth and development by building on children’s interests, needs and

Strengths within a safe and caring environment.

Children learning through play:

Play provides opportunities for children to learn as they discover, create, improvise and imagine.

When children play with other children they create social groups, test out ideas, challenge each

other’s thinking and build new understandings. Play provides a supportive environment where

children can ask questions, solve problems and engage in critical thinking. Play can expand

children’s thinking and enhance their desire to know and to learn. In these ways play can promote

positive dispositions towards learning. Children’s immersion in their play illustrates how play

enables them to simply enjoy being.  

Early childhood teachers will have to take on many roles in play with children and use a range of strategies to support learning. They engage in sustained shared conversations with children to extend their thinking. The teacher must create learning environments that encourage children to explore, solve problems, create and construct. . Children use routines and play experiences to do this.

Play supports children’s sense of belonging, being and becoming. Play supports a child’s physical,

social, emotional and intellectual development as it provides children with the opportunity to:

• Practice physical skills

• Release energy

• Develop positive social skills and behavior

• Learn about themselves and others

• Build self esteem and confidence

• Learn and practice language

• Develop creativity, imagination and curiosity

• Pursue and develop their own interests

• Express their personality and uniqueness

• Explore materials, equipment and natural objects

• Develop problem solving skills

• Develop independence and autonomy

• Develop relationships and concepts

• Make connection between prior experiences and new learning.

• Ask questions

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