Thematic Teaching
Thematic
Units are derived from the student’s interest. The units address the skills
and knowledge that is assessed by the kindergarten mastery objectives checklist.
Thematic units are designed to follow the student’s interest by allowing them
to choose ongoing projects that they will research, learn about, and complete.
This method ensures that the child has an authentic purpose and excitement for
learning. Thematic units will be completed through extensive research,
brainstorming/webbing ideas, project work, and fact books.
Some Benefits of Thematic Teaching
Fosters a developing sense of community
- Provides meaningful opportunities for cooperative learning
- Fosters and enhances literacy development
- Encourages social interaction
- Fosters a developing sense of responsibility
- Enhances an awareness of the world we live in
- Provides meaningful opportunities to explore number concepts and to apply
these concepts
- Fosters a "need to know"
- Enhances development of social and scientific concepts
- Fosters the development of creative writing and enhances the knowledge of
print
- Enhances critical thinking and problem solving
- Allows for the integration of curriculum into meaningful "whole"
- Fosters a life-long love of learning
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