HighScope Elementary Approach: Classroom Environment (continued)
Topics: Early Years (Birth-5), What to Expect in Kindergarten, more...
- Language
- Mathematics
- Science
- Fine arts
- Physical education/movement
- Music
- Social studies and social-emotional development
In concert with Gardner's view that each of the "intelligences" should have equal educational priority, the High/Scope Curriculum views each area of intelligence as a body of skills and knowledge with an underlying developmental sequence and framework. It is the aim of the High/Scope Elementary Curriculum to provide the essential teaching materials for effective support of children's learning in each of these areas.
Summary
The High/Scope Elementary Curriculum implements specific strategies for classroom arrangement and for establishing and managing the daily schedule of activities. High/Scope classrooms provide spaces for large and small groups and for materials in a variety of activity centers. Daily schedules include time for large-group activities such as circle times, for a sequence of small-group instructional workshops, and for the plan-do-review sequence of student-selected activities. The classroom arrangement and schedule of events provide the stage upon which the curriculum activities are played out each day.
Endnote
1 H. Gardner, "Developing the Spectrum of Human Intelligences," Harvard Educational Review 57(2) (1984): 187-93.
For more information on the elementary approach, mailto: info@highscope.org
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