Curriculum

The early childhood is the most significant years for human growth, development and learning. Pre-school curriculum aims at providing a cohesive approach to facilitate the unfolding of each child‘s innate potentials in all the domains of development. Tapoban School curriculum is built upon the three goals which cater to all the domains of development , based on N.C.E.R.T 

 

Goal 1: Children maintain good health and wellbeing.

 

Goal 2: Children become effective communicators.

 

Goal 3: Children are involved learners and connect with their immediate environment.

Key Concepts/ Skills to be developed
 

Early Learning Outcomes

Development of
-Positive self- concept
- Self-awareness
- Self-esteem
-Self-control
-Participation and interaction
 

 Development of good habits, health, hygiene and sanitation.
 Maintenance of adequate growth
 Sensory integration
 Development of gross motor skills (walking, balancing, running, jumping, creeping-crawling-rolling, swinging, hopping, climbing (ascending and descending), rhythmic movement, skills with a ball or ring (throwing, catching, kicking)
 Body awareness
 Fine motor skills (threading tearing pasting scribbling coloring printing modeling Folding)
 Adaptations and inclusions for children with special needs.

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Planning for holistic development
Young children's growth is better understood in five developmental domains namely
Domains of Development
There are developmental continuities in terms of children‘s physical, cognitive and psychosocial abilities. Preschool Curriculum must address the following interrelated domains of holistic development through a play and activity based approach which focuses on the development of life skills.

 Physical Well-being, Health and Motor Development: physical and motor development during the early years supports young children‘s academic achievement, general health, positive self esteem, managing stress and social development. Two major goals of physical and motor development are achieving gross and fine motor control. Gross motor control includes body balance and coordination; movement and gross motor skills such as running, jumping, hoping, skipping and manipulations with balls such as kicking, throwing, catching etc. Fine motor skills involves using and coordinating the small muscles with dexterity (shows during self help skills). Eye-hand coordination helps in manipulating small materials / writing tools such as holding crayons, painting brushes using children friendly etc. Music and Movement activities support in developing spatial sense. Providing nutrition, health and hygiene is important for physical well-being.
 

 Language Development: language development is crucial at preschool stage it provides the foundation for later learning. It includes listening and comprehension; oral skills/speaking and communicating; vocabulary development; pre-literacy/emergent literacy skills like phonological awareness; print awareness and concepts; letter-sound correspondence; recognition of letters; building words and sentences and early writing and introduction to language of school transaction.
 

 Cognitive Development: Cognition refers to the processes of knowing and understanding the environment around us. It includes development of various concepts, including pre-number and number concepts and operations (knowledge and skills related to comparing, classification, seriation, conservation of space and
 

Physical Well-being, Health and Motor Development
Creative and Aesthetic Development
Language , communication and literacy Development
Cognitive Development- Environmental Awareness, Development of Scientific Temper and developing Mathematical thinking and Reasoning
Personal, Social and Emotional Development