Public Service Activities
Engaging Children's Minds: The Project Approach
The Project Approach to early childhood education involves young children in investigations of significant events and phenomena in their own environments in ways that strengthen their intellectual dispositions and provide contexts for applying their developing social, literacy, and numeracy skills. The summer institutes are designed to introduce participants to the three phases of the Project Approach and to demonstrate how these phases can be implemented in the classroom. In the Engaging Children's Minds summer institutes, educators acquire a thorough understanding of the Project Approach, and learn how to incorporate it into their own curriculum plans through a simulation of project work in a class for pre-primary and primary school children. The institutes are specially designed for classroom teachers and for those responsible for early childhood pre-service and in-service teacher education, as well as other teacher education faculty.
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Geographic Areas Served:
- State of Illinois
- Central Illinois
- Nation
Program Activity Types: Program Duration: Multiple days
Program Frequency: Annual / Bi-annual
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