when you follow a childs lead!

During this class I have been helping, along with my co-workers, to transform our centre, which has been theme-based since 1970, into an emergent curriculum approach. Now these two approaches are vastly different. I was trained in college with a mostly emergent approach to teaching. From the time I graduated college I was a nanny, and not really practising my skills, so when I was hired by a theme-based centre, I quickly forgot the ways in which I was trained to do things.With my own research I was able to find many articles talking about emergent approach but not to many comparing the two, this article really helped me to see the differences clearly. Taking a new course with my supervisor has definitely allowed me to remember the differences and I feel has brought back so many of my skills. It has been such a great experience, and I've enjoyed every moment.