THE CURRICULUM IN THE PRESCHOOL

Why is an important curriculum in preschool education?

Preschool Education Program aims to ensure that children who attend preschool education institutions grow healthy, gain motor skills, improve their social-emotional, language, and cognitive developmental area, provide their self-care skills and be ready for primary education through rich learning experiences. What’s more, while preparing the education program, it is the basis of the success of the program that the teacher provides children with qualified and supportive development and learning environments in line with the interests and needs of the children, taking into account the individual differences and taking the development of the children in an integrated way (MoNE, 2016). Teachers are expected to provide the factors included in the MoNE Pre-School Education Program in their practices. These; children are expected to be based on the principles of child recognition, planning, implementation and evaluation of educational activities, organizing educational environments, providing educational materials, and family participation. Fulfilling these expectations depends on a good understanding of all aspects of the program. On the other hand, a teacher can use content knowledge to build a meaningful curriculum. S/he understands content knowledge and resources in academic disciplines. It is also important to know and using the central concepts, inquiry tools, and structures of content areas or academic disciplines. A teacher uses their knowledge, appropriate learning standards, and other resources to design, implement, and evaluate meaningful, challenging curricula for each child. Shortly, a curriculum is important in an educational system. It helps a plan the education process. Preschools work with children in the early years have a unique opportunity to support lifelong learning. An early year’s curriculum is an important part of this process. It is everything that children learn. For example, a lesson plan is a curriculum used by the teacher in the classroom. You imagine that a preschool teacher going into the classroom not knowing what to teach or how to teach it, that is going to be a disaster for her or him because at the end the students wouldn’t have learned anything apart from the fact that the teacher seems confused and the teacher would be mentally stressed out unnecessarily a result of lack of curriculum. Therefore, for an early childhood education to achieve educational goals, it needs a curriculum that is functional and relevant to need. Which method can the teacher use to effectively use the curriculum? Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include storytelling, playing, discussion, teaching, training, and directed research. Generally, adults think that child games as activities that are enjoyable, help children have fun, and have no goals. However, the game is an important fact in a child’s life and it is a significant task of the children. Children’s games and toys are an important part of childhood. Always, children in the 0–6 age range are very prone to play games. That’s why it makes learning easier for them to play. In this way, while children feel themselves emotionally better and reinforce their role in social relations more easily they also improve and reinforce any information by repeating tirelessly through the play process. In short, the game affects the social, cognitive, language, psychological and physical development of children while entertaining children, and provides mutual understanding, learning somethings, tolerance, and respect for each other in the class environment. Also, the questioning style the teachers use is important, teachers always use open-ended questions. It emphasizes open-ended questions that initiate conversations with children and help them to participate in circle time.