Emergent Curriculum

Which of the following are traits of emergent curriculum?

• Has predetermined learning objectives

• Generated in-class

• All of the answers are correct

• Involves student and teacher interests

Which of the following might guide a lesson in emergent curriculum?

• All of the answers are correct

• The student's interests

• The environment

How could we define webbing in terms of emergent curriculum?

• A method of generating curriculum based on a starting point

• Generating curriculum by observing spiders

• The teacher's listing of their interests

• Linking students to each other so they don't wander off

How can we define emergent curriculum?

• Developing curriculum that caters only to the teacher's interests

• Lesson plans that are invented by the teacher when they realize they haven't planned for the class

• Lesson plans that are open-ended and directed by the interests and activities of both the student and teacher

• The traditional lecture format

What is the difference between emergent cussiculum and traditional curriculum?