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Aistear: The Early Childhood Curriculum Framework
‘Aistear’, is the new curriculum framework in early year’s education. It is for children between birth and six years. It was developed by the NCCA (National Council for Curriculum & Assessment) in partnership with the early childhood sector.
It contains information for parents and practitioners that will help them plan for and provide challenging and enjoyable learning experiences that can enable all children to grow and develop as competent and confident learners in the context of loving relationships with others. Aistear describes the types of learning and development that are important for children in their early years, and offers ideas and suggestions on how these might be nurtured.
Aistear can be used in a range of settings, including children’s own homes, childminding settings, crèches, playgroups, pre-schools, naíonraí, and infant classes in primary and special schools.
What is in Aistear?
Aistear uses four themes that connect and overlap with each other to outline children’s learning and development. The themes are
Well-being
Identity and Belonging
Communicating
Exploring & thinking
The Aistear framework is broken up into principles and themes, guidelines for good practice, user guide, key messages from research papers and learning experiences.
The Aistear framework is available online at http://www.ncca.biz/Aistear/ or alternatively you can access Aistear here.
To access ‘Aistear’ from this website please click on the following links:
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