CURRICULUM
Students spend a total of at least 600 hours in the lecture room and in the classroom working with children ages 2 1/2 to 6 years during their year of study.
- Pre-natal and Post-natal Child Care
- Birth Process
- Periods of Physical Development from 0 to 6 years
- Physiological Education from Birth to Six years of age
- Practical Life (developing fine and gross motor skills/everyday living exercises)
- Normalization (behaviour management)
- Child Observation: language behaviour and development, physical and motor co-ordination, cognitive behaviour and development, emotional and social behaviour and development.
- Development and Education of the Senses: tactile, visual, olfactory, auditory, baric, thermic, stereognostic
- Practical presentation of Sensorial materials
- Development of movement and personality
- Physical Education
- Health and Nutrition
- Music and Movement
- Other Setting Observation
- Development of Language: Reading, Writing, Early Grammar and Language Arts
- Teaching Numbers and Mathematics
- Approach to teaching cultural subjects: History, Geography and Science
- Art
- Material making in all areas of the curriculum
- Exams: Practical and Written
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