[Zach'smom]

I just recieved a letter from DS preschool today. They are implementing "The Creative Curriculum". I guess it is used by a lot of Head Start programs too. Has anyone had any experience with this curriculum? Good? Bad?

Thanks!
Traci

 

[jlpumkin]

I used the creative curriculum for my family child care for a while. I don't know how the preschool varies but can say that I loved that the focus was on learning through play. It stressed offering a variety of developmentally appropriate play activities/scenerios for self directed discovery. I think that they just rolled outsomething new with the preschool version and it's sort of "all the rage" at least locally with our educators of young children. You can search for creative curriculum and see samples of daily activities I believe. We - including my day care kids - all enjoyed it.

 

[Zach'smom]

Sounds good. I have been doing some additional research on the internet. Has anyone else had an experience with this curriculum?

 

[Aeress]

It is probably the rage for places that are trying for NAEYC accreditation...creative curriculum works very well and has been linked with the accreditation.

personally, it is very easy to use...as the other poster mentioned...it is play based. no testing of children....but they do use developmental guidelines to asses children. the guidelines help to show where the child is currently at and where they are going.
they base how the child is progressing on teacher observations, in the form of pictures, anecdotals and other.

currently, I am using the toddler creative curriculum and it has been great. it is very parent friendly...

sometimes the language that educators use when discussing children's development can sound like they are testing children and expecting a certain level of performance...but the creative curriculum is anything but that.

I believe in allowing children to be children and not some adults idea of what children should be....

 

[trimomma]

My ds's preschool used this curriculum. (they are also NAEYC accredited, as pp mentioned). We loved the school and the play based curriculum was just an added bonus for us. Ds was always learning something new and didn't even realize it. They used Handwriting Without Tears as part of the curriculum, also.