The Resource Book has been compiled to assist you, the practitioners and other relevant stakeholders, with your curricular activity plans. It is a supplemental guide that accompanies the Jamaica Early Childhood Curriculum For Children Birth to Five Years Old.
The first written Jamaican pre-school curriculum for children four to six years old was completed in 1973 through the Project for Early Childhood Education (PECE), directed by Mr. D.R.B. Grant and funded by the Bernard van Leer Foundation. The “PECE Curriculum Manual”, as it was called, was a very detailed instructional guide comprising 24 volumes totaling 4,988 pages.
The Jamaica Early Childhood Curriculum, Scope and Sequence for Children: Four to Five Years, is a document outlining developmental objectives for children within the age range. The document will help practitioners at different levels of the early childhood education to see the alignment of instructional planning and children’s development.
Over the past sixty years, advances made by other countries in their provision of early childhood programmes to compensate for deficiencies among children of the poor, have played a significant role in stimulating action-oriented interest in early childhood development in Jamaica.
The Jamaica Early Childhood Curriculum, Scope and Sequence for Children: Birth to 3 Years, is a document outlining developmental objectives for children within the age range. The document will help practitioners at different levels of the early childhood education to see the alignment of instructional planning and children’s development
The Jamaica Early Childhood Curriculum for Children Birth to Five Years – A Conceptual Framework