Child Centered Curriculum

Definition
Designed to develop the individual and
social qualities of a student rather than
provide a generalized information or
training by way of prescribed subject
matter used of elementary or secondary
education or schools
Child Centered Curriculum
Child-Centered Curriculum means children
take command of their own learning.
Teachers are there to provide support and
facilitate the childs learning but children
determine the direction of their own
learning following their natural curiosities,
interests and passions.
Child Centered Curriculum
Children co-create their
learning objectives and goals
together with teachers.
Because we capitalize on the
childrens interests and
empower them to take an
active role, we find children
are emotionally invested in
their own learning. When
children are emotionally
invested, they are willing to
explore in-depth and are able
to reach deeper levels of
understanding. For children,
child-centered curriculum just
feels like fun!
Scope
High/Scope is an
active learning
educational approach
that seeks to meet a
child's needs on all
levels social,
cognitive, physical,
and emotional.
Scope
With this approach children are mentally and
physically active using their whole bodies and all
their senses to explore and learn about their
world.
Scope

It views play as childrens work a time when

children are planning, testing, questioning, and
experimenting to construct their own knowledge
about people, objects, events, and ideas
Merits
Help children become
independent,
responsible and
confident
Give children and
adults opportunity to
invent and discover
together as they
explore materials and
ideas and experience
events
Merits
Maintain childrens interest by allowing
them to do what is important to them
Give children the opportunity to develop
skills in which to take care of their own
needs and solve problems
Minimize adult-child conflicts
Avoid Borden
Merits
Help child develop executive skills (self
control)
Help children gain knowledge and skills in
content areas such as creative
representation, language and literacy,
initiative and social relations, movement
and music, classification and serration,
number, space and time
Demerits
The weaknesses of the
child-centered
curriculum are chiefly
in the possibilities for
misinterpretation
Teachers sometimes
ill prepared to adapt
to changing concepts
of child development,
Demerits
In this effort to free the
child, many critics charged
that the basic purposes in
the establishment of
schools were ignore
Selection of activities is
difficult
Focus is on activities rather
than subject
School values are ignored
Role of Teacher
Role of Teacher
Student-Centered Teaching and Learning focuses
on the needs, abilities, interests, and learning
styles of the students and has many implications
for the design of curriculum, course content, and
interactivity of courses.
A prominent pedagogy will be teacher-as-coach,
to provoke students to learn rather than the
more traditional teaching which places the
teacher at its center in an active role and
students in a passive.
Role of Teacher
To capitalize on this, teaching and learning
should be personalized to the maximum
feasible extent.
Decisions about the details of the course
of study, the use of students and
teachers time, and the choice of teaching
materials and specific pedagogies must be
unreservedly placed in the hands of the
staff.
Role of Teacher
Teachers plan the types of questions and
prompts at multiple entry points
throughout a lesson, which build students
understanding of, and engagement
toward, concepts and ideas and their
application to real-world scenarios.