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01 Get To the Point

Directions: Use this page to evaluate a pre planned early childhood curriculum. Answer
“yes” or “no” and write comments to respond to each question.

1. Does it promote interactive learning and encourage the child’s construction of knowledge?
In the activity Trees, I believe it helps the children learn how to make christmas trees, the
children are using their hands to create a christmas tree and their decorating the tree.

2. Does it help achieve social, emotional, physical, and cognitive goals and promote democratic
values? ​Yes, it helps the children feel like they did something right.

3. Does it encourage development of positive feelings and dispositions toward learning while
leading to acquisition of knowledge and skills?
No, because the children are only making christmas trees

4. Is it meaningful for these children? Is it relevant to the children’s lives? Can it be made more
relevant by relating it to a personal experience children have had, or can they easily gain direct
experience with it?
Yes because they are experiencing how to make christmas trees, they could use to decorate
with or give as a gift.

5. Are the expectations realistic and attainable at this time, or could the children more easily and
efficiently acquire the knowledge or skills later on?
Yes, because the kids are making things that mean something

6. Is it of interest to children and to the teacher?

Yes, children love to make things for the parents or grandparents to see them happy

7. Is it sensitive to and respectful of the cultural and linguistic diversity? Does it expect, allow,
and appreciate individual differences? Does it promote positive relationships with families?
Yes, it is respectful and sensitive because the children get to make it how they want to, and
they get help from their teacher.
8. Does it build on and elaborate children’s current knowledge and abilities?
No not really because there just decorating a tree.

9. Does it lead to conceptual understanding by helping children construct their own

understanding in meaningful contexts?
Yes, because the children are doing everything themselves mainly, just get a little help from
the teacher.

10.​ ​Does it facilitate integration of content across traditional subject matter areas?
No because the children end us sharing the materials with each other.

11.​ ​Is the information presented accurate and credible according to the recognized standards of the
relevant discipline?
Yes, the activity is completely harmless to the kids.

12.​ ​Is this content worth knowing? Can it be learned by these children efficiently and effectively
now? ​Yes, because of the kind of activity it is.

13.​ ​Does it encourage active learning and allow children to make meaningful choices?
Yes, its meaningful to the parents and children because the parents are happy, and it
makes the children happy seeing their parents faces.

14.​ ​Does it foster children’s exploration and inquiry, rather than focusing on “right” answers or
“right” ways to complete a task?
Yes, because there isn't a right or wrong answer.

15.​ ​Does it promote the development of higher order abilities such as thinking, reasoning, problem
solving, and decision making?
No, there just gluing things down.
16.​ ​Does it promote and encourage social interaction among children and adults?
Yes, the children and sharing and gluing down on the trees.

17.​ ​Does it respect children’s physiological needs for activity, sensory stimulation, fresh air,
rest, hygiene and nourishment/elimination?
Yes, its a easy activity for the kids to do.

18.​ ​Does it promote feelings of physiological safety, security, and belonging?

Yes, they feel like they have made their parents happy

19.​ ​Does it provide experiences that promote feelings of success, competence, and enjoyment
of learning?
Yes, because they made something for the parents, and their parents and keep it for the
future.

20.​ ​Does it permit flexibility for children and teachers?

Yes, the children can make different things out of it.