Emergent Curriculum
Child-led, Teacher Enriched
All Steps Academy programs are based on the “Emergent Curriculum” philosophy of learning. Whether your child is in an all-day daycare program or attending our Out of School program, they will all have the same experience of having a strong voice in their learning experiences with us.
This means we observe what the children are excited about, what trends they're following and then wrap language, math, arts/crafts, writing, science, social studies, multiculturalism and more around these pieces of insight.
For example:
• If the children are interested in Pokémon® or superheroes or car races, we might talk about the different
elements by organizing them into groups (e.g. sequencing, categorizing, defining, matching,
multiculturalism [Japanese origins]).
• Two children could come to school excited about a construction site nearby so we could discuss the tools
and jobs linked with building a house (associating, logic, keen observation techniques) and what the
necessary steps might be to complete a house from beginning to end (basic programming, linear thinking,
patterns, site words, listing).
• A child may have a birthday coming so perhaps the teacher will do something called a verbamime,
enacting without props on how to bake a cake (measurement, physics [actions/reactions], imagination,
creativity, social interactions).
Emergent Planning is a wonderfully effective method of teaching children the basics with a STEAM-based teaching approach in such a way that they are learning without even realizing it!
Child-led, Teacher Enriched
All Steps Academy programs are based on the “Emergent Curriculum” philosophy of learning. Whether your child is in an all-day daycare program or attending our Out of School program, they will all have the same experience of having a strong voice in their learning experiences with us.
This means we observe what the children are excited about, what trends they're following and then wrap language, math, arts/crafts, writing, science, social studies, multiculturalism and more around these pieces of insight.
For example:
• If the children are interested in Pokémon® or superheroes or car races, we might talk about the different
elements by organizing them into groups (e.g. sequencing, categorizing, defining, matching,
multiculturalism [Japanese origins]).
• Two children could come to school excited about a construction site nearby so we could discuss the tools
and jobs linked with building a house (associating, logic, keen observation techniques) and what the
necessary steps might be to complete a house from beginning to end (basic programming, linear thinking,
patterns, site words, listing).
• A child may have a birthday coming so perhaps the teacher will do something called a verbamime,
enacting without props on how to bake a cake (measurement, physics [actions/reactions], imagination,
creativity, social interactions).
Emergent Planning is a wonderfully effective method of teaching children the basics with a STEAM-based teaching approach in such a way that they are learning without even realizing it!