Why you should read Emergent Curriculum in the Primary Classroom if you're and educator.

1. Emergent
Curriculum in
the Primary
Classroom
By: Mindy Manning

2. Are you tired of reading
books which tell you what
you should be
implementing but do not
provide strategies to
actually implement them
in the classroom?

3. If you would like to create
a windhorse of a classroom,
this is the book for you!
Windhorse – raising positive energy, the life force that
whirls through us. The sense of feeling as an electric
current that excites everyone involved and enlivens
programs.

4. A Book Which Shows you Ways to Teach,
Rather than Telling you How to Teach.
Emergent Curriculum
– This book shows how several different
teachers took the opportunity to use
students desire to discover and turned
it into a learning experience through
student inquiry.
– “…in emergent curriculum children
sand teachers step out into real
experience, real stuff, real problems---
learning lived in three dimensions.”
Page 151
Understanding by
Design
– “Understanding develops as a result
of ongoing inquiry and rethinking,
the assessment of understanding
should be thought of in terms of a
collection of evidence over time
instead of an “event” – a single
moment-in-time test at the end of
instruction – as often happens in
practice.” –Page 152

5. Learning is Organic and Student
Lead
Emergent Curriculum in the
Primary Classroom
– “Standardized curriculum can be
taught in a way that allows children
to take ownership of their own
ideas and work together with the
teacher, and other children
towards shared goals.” – Page 14
Curriculum – The Teacher’s
Initiative
– “When the interactions among students
and teachers result in new content,
interpretations, ways of working, and
purposes, curricula are created. The
feelings and meanings generated from
classroom experiences may make up a
curriculum; indeed, curriculum may
continue to form as the meanings of
classroom experiences unfold throughout
a lifetime.” Page 189

6. Emergent
Curriculum
In the Primary
Classroom

7. Emergent Curriculum in the Primary Classroom
will inspire you to create interactive lessons in
which the students explore and research topics
and find their own truths through innovative
curricula design. If this sounds enticing to you, or
something you would love to learn more about,
pick up your copy today!
Review the link below to learn more:
https://youtu.be/J1rIdpb8xhs

8. References
McNeil, J. D. (2003). Curriculum: The teacher’s initiative. Upper Saddle
River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall.
Wien, C. (2008). Emergent Curriculum in the Primary Classroom:
Interpreting the Reggio Emilia Approach in School. Washington
DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children.
Wiggins, G., & McTighe, J. (2006). Understanding by design, 2nd ed.
Alexandria, VA: ASCD.