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Figure 5.2 Lesson Planning with an Emergent Curriculum (Image by\u00a0 Figure 5.2 Lesson Planning with an Emergent Curriculum (Image by\u00a0College of the Canyons ZTC Team<\/a>\u00a0is licensed under\u00a0CC BY 4.0<\/a>)[\/caption]","rendered":"In early care and education, we value how children process information, we recognize how important their feelings are, and we place great significance on how children learn to socialize with others. As intentional teachers, our primary goal is to incorporate curriculum that supports the \u201cwhole-child\u201d in all domains of development including social, emotional, physical, and intellectual. The word \u201ccurriculum\u201d can mean different things to different people. For some, curriculum can provide the framework for learning, for others it can be a variety of planned activities, still for others curriculum is a way to drive learning outcomes, goals and objectives. Curriculum can be developed by teachers, or it can be purchased as part of a prefabbed program. Curriculum can be child-directed, and it can be teacher-directed. According to a joint position paper by the National Association for the Education of Young Child (NAEYC) and the National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Department of Education (NAECS-SDE), \u201cCurriculum is an organized framework that delineates the content children are to learn, the processes through which children achieve identified curricular goals, what teachers do to help achieve these goals, and the context in which teaching and learning occur\u201d (2009). In other words, curriculum helps teachers organize the day to day activities, it outlines the learning goals and outcomes that teachers need to assess, and lastly, curriculum provides teachers with the guidance and structure that they need to teach. [1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n