Young children:
- have a natural curiosity about their physical, social and technological world.
- want to make sense of their world.
- want to communicate their understandings with language and arts forms.
- develop their understandings through interaction with others, real and imaginary experiences and the use of their senses.
- can exercise increasing sophistication and control over their own learning
Learning and teaching programs:
- build upon each child's understandings, skills, values and experiences.
- should encourage independence, intellectual risk taking, responsibility and control of learning.
- enable children to achieve learning outcomes through play and experimentation, observation, manipulation and exploration of objects, materials, technologies and physical movement.
- provide frequent opportunities for children to make, build, design and draw for both self-expression and creative purposes, in both indoor and outdoor settings.
- allow children to discuss, describe, label, classify, communicate and represent their observations and experiences in ways that are meaningful to them.
- provide appropriate opportunities for children to develop understanding and control of the symbolic representations associated with written language and mathematics.
- include reflection on behaviours, values, language and social practices.
- develop skills that help children understand their world and achieve competence and personal satisfaction.
Curriculum Framework, pp. 29 - 30 |
