Emergent Curriculum

Shifting from a Classroom of Reluctant Compliance to a Classroom of Responsive Curiosity

This article presents a three-part playful learning framework to help educators move from a culture of compliance to one of agency and curiosity.

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Elias Blinkoff, Charlotte Anne Wright, Molly Scott, Katelyn Fletcher, Allyson S. Masters, Hande Ilgaz, Lien Vu, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

The Preschool Birth Stories Project: Developing Emergent Curriculum with Families

In “The Preschool Birth Stories Project,” the children are absorbed in family narratives about their own and their classmates’ births.

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Emergent Curriculum and the Cycle of Inquiry (On Demand)

NAEYC’s Emergent Curriculum and the Cycle of Inquiry Approach course, is the first step on your journey to guiding children through an emergent curriculum.

مشروع مركز القيادة: التخلص من التوتر المرافق للمنهاج الدراسي المستجد The Command Center Project: Resolving My Tensions with Emergent Curriculum

مع توفر مجموعة واسعة من الخيارات المتزايدة في التعقيد فيما يخص تعليم الطفولة المبكرة نجد أن المعلمات والإداريات يقمن بصورة دائمة بعملية تقييم للنماذج والنُهج والمواد التي تدعم تعلم الأطفال وأكثرها نجاعة في ذلك

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Scaffolding Background Knowledge and Emergent Writing Through Conversations

Through the following examples, we aim to show how teachers can support young children’s growth in ways that are important to emergent writing development, with a focus on content knowledge, genre knowledge, and visual literacy.

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December 2020

The December issue of Young Children includes a cluster of articles with perspectives on enriching curriculum by connecting lessons to children's social and cultural contexts.

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(E-Book) Embracing Math: Cultivating a Mindset for Exploring and Learning

(E-Book) From Children’s Interests to Children’s Thinking: Using a Cycle of Inquiry to Plan Curriculum *All Sales are Final

E-Book version of the publication, From Children's Interests to Children's Thinking: Using a Cycle of Inquiry to Plan Curriculum

NAEYC Publishes New Curriculum Development Resource for Early Childhood Educators

Emergent curriculum arises from the things that fascinate children—what they see, what they wonder about, what they develop theories about. Exploring these elements with children and using their interests to drive curriculum can be challenging for teache

NAEYC Publishes New Resource to Help Teachers Increase Children’s Success in Math

Discover what math teaching and learning look like in the playful, emergent environment of the early childhood classroom. Every day, children explore math concepts in their conversations and interactions.