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Planning Developmentally Appropriate ECCE Curriculum

• experiment and explore

• ask questions
Notes
• imitate, enact and perform

• feel physically and emotionally safe

Keeping in view the objectives of ECCE and developmental characteristics
of pre-school children,the MWCD, in its Curriculum Framework(2013)has
talked about the following Principles of Programme Planning:

• The activities should be age appropriate and developmentally
appropriate.
• Activities fostering all domains of development should be appropriately
planned.
• The attention span of young children is 15-20 minutes; therefore, the
duration of activities should be 20 minutes, with additional time allotted
to winding up and initiation of the next activity. However, the programme
should allow space and flexibility for need-based variations.
• There should be a balance between structured and unstructured; active
and quiet; outdoor and indoor; self-directed and adult-initiated learning
opportunities and individual, small group and large group activities.

• The learning experiences and activities should progress from simple to
complex.
• A wide range of individual and group experiences should be planned. These
should be related to the child’s environment, are enjoyable and
challenging for children.

• Routine fosters a sense of security in children. Therefore, some routine
should be followed in the daily programme.
• The ECCE programme should never be rigid. It needs to be flexible.

• The duration of pre-school programmes should be three to four hours.
The programme should provide for some rest period during the day and if
it is of longer duration, like a full-day programme, nap time is to be ensured.

• Learning opportunities should be interconnected, linking learning
experiences across developmental domains in a meaningful context,
reflecting the real-life context of the children.
• The language used should be the mother tongue of the child. Efforts
should be made to extend their language sensitively and introduce the
school language gradually to facilitate school readiness.

• Curriculum goal and objectives should guide classroom processes and

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