This course has been designed to help professional in the education sector explore some of the theoretical principles currently used within the education industry for effective curriculum planning and their practical application. Each session will include practical ideas for the classroom, and how to plan for quality and progression.

• The purpose of the curriculum
• The objectives of the curriculum?
• How the learning experiences are to be selected and organized
• What resources are to be employed, and how are time and space to be used?
• Ideas on the design of the learning activities?
• How the curriculum is to be evaluated?

• What is development and the areas needing same
• How development is holistic
• Observation and assessment of children and factors to consider
• Curriculum planning
• Planning cycle
• Involving children in their own planning
• Partnership with parents
• Transitions
• Curriculum evaluation