This course deals with the following topics: the concept of the
program, and the difference between the old curriculum and the program, the
principles of establishing early childhood education programs, including : the
philosophical principles, the basic principles of early childhood education
programs, the psychological principles, the steps or stages of designing
the program (the goals of the early
childhood education program, the sources of deriving goals, the levels of the
goals and objectives, the classification of goals and objectives, the goals and
objectives related to activities and content); the content of early childhood
education programs (the standards of selecting the program content, organizing
or sequencing the program content, analyzing the program content); the
practical steps of designing activities (learning centers, corners, integrated
experience), and the standards of designing the activity; the ways of
implementing the program (organizational environment, the role of the teacher
and the child, the duration of the program and the activities); evaluating early
childhood education programs (the concept of evaluation, the importance of
evaluating early childhood education, the functions of evaluation, its fields,
its types, its principles, and its tools). The course also include field trips
to a number of kindergartens to evaluate their programs and activities