NERDC National Early Childhood Education Curriculum for Affective and Psychosocial Development Ages 3 – 5 years
Week 1
Topic: Social and Mora Development
Performance Objectives – Parent/Caregiver:
Should be able to:
- Identify acceptable cultural beliefs of the family and community
- encourage acceptance of cultural beliefs of the family and the community
- organise healthy competitions among the children
- Stimulate cooperative among the children
- state acceptable behavior for the class
- stimulate children to participate in acceptable cultural activities
- reward good behaviours and discourage anti-social Behaviour
Performance Objectives – Child:
Should be able to:
. recognise the cultural beliefs and values of family and community
. participate in healthy competition and acceptable
cultural activities
.Co-operate with others in social/moral activities
. Exhibit appreciation on the community values and reward systems
- Express views on issues affecting him or her
- freely express self through creative activities e.g. Moulding, tracing, drawing etc
Content:
- Social, moral, cultural beliefs and values of the family and community e.g greeting, helping, respect etc.
- Community stories of reward system
- Play with peers and others in the community
- Social institutions e.g Naming ceremony, Kinship, Chieftaincy, Religious etc.
- Peace Education
- Right, and Responsibilities
- conflict resolution
Activities – Parent/Caregiver:
- Provide opportunities for the child to:
.listen and react to stories, song and rhymes
. discuss the cultural/ moral beliefs and
social institutions
. organize social and cultural events
•engage in healthy competition
• attend religious and cultural activities
2.invite resource person from the community to talk to children on cultural beliefs and values
3. take children to visit community resource centres and Institutions.
Activities – Child:
- Learn and practice local social habits e.g greetings, manners, dressing, eating, etc
- Talk and ask question about social institutions
- Talks about events in the community
- Dramatize social cultural events and participate in healthy competition with peers
- Participate in cultural and religious activities
- Tell and listen to stories, poems, and rhymes
- Sing song and dance to music
- Share toys and other materials with peers.
Caring/Learning Materials:
• Song books
• Toys
• Puzzles
• Radio
• Television
• Musical
•Instruments
•Picture books
. Discarded Materials
•Clothes
•Shoes
•Walking stick
. Jewelry
•Coat
• Handbag
• Caps
• Video
•Tape recorder
•Cassettes
Evaluation Guide:
Child:
- show respect for cultural beliefs, values and social institutions.
- participate in cultural and religious activities
- identify some social institutions within the
- show interest in people and things in the community
- willingness to cooperate with others
Parents/Caregiver
- appreciate the child’s social background
- for child’s cultural and social values
- clarify acceptable community reward and punishment system
- provide availability of opportunities for child to Participate in social activities
NERDC National Early Childhood Education Curriculum for Affective and Psychosocial Development
Week 2
Topic: Emotional Development
Performance Objectives – Parent/Caregiver: Should be able to:
1. Encourage child to develop confidence in self and others
2. Facilitate child’s acquisition of arts and craft skills;
3. Stimulate children to ma friends irrespective of sex and physical challenges
4. Respect the basic rig the child and individual Differences.
Performance Objectives – Child: Should be able to: lo
1. Express self through plays and dances.
2. Share things with others
- develop more,
Confidence and show
Confidence in others
Accept others; irrespective of sex and challenges
Content:
Psychosocial values e.g. Expression of attitude, Love, appreciation, trust, care.
2. Self-expression through play, songs and dance, music, writing, drawing, molding, drama etc.
3. Arts and crafts e.g. molding, drawing, building with wooden blocks or Lego, paper cutting etc.
4. Relationship with people and objects
5. Individual differences and basic Rights.
Activities – Parent/Caregiver:
1. Use stimulation, role-play, stories and folklores, music and dance to express various emotional states e.g. happiness, sadness, anger, fear etc.
2. Take child to visit local artists and craft-men and others places of interest
3. Stimulate gender fairness by using Non-discriminating Materials.
Activities – Child:
- Participates in creative activities through molding, drawing, building, cutting with scissors, tearing papers etc.
- Listen to and tell stories
- Take turns
- Play and share with others
- Sing songs and dance
- Take corrections from peers and others.
Caring/Learning Materials:
• Clay/ plastering
• Wooden blocks
• Lego
• Punching bags
• Paper
• Crayons
• Pencils
• Story Books
• Poetry books
• Song books
• Picture books
• Musical Instrument
• Cards
• Soft toys
• Mobile toys
• Balls
• Plates
• Cups
• Chairs
• Tables
• Plastic containers
• Rattles
• Dolls
• Water
• Sand
• Bed/pillow
• Boxes
Evaluation Guide:
Child
1. Enjoy sharing thing
2. Listen to others and be listened to
3. Enjoy other’s company
4. Has more confidence in self to deal with emotional situations.
Parent/Caregiver/Teacher
1. Sensitive, confident, fair firm with child.
- Provide opportunities for acquisition of creative skills.
- Reward good Behaviors and discourage anti- social behaviors.
Affective and Psychosocial Development Curriculum (3 – 5 Years)
Week 3
Topic: 3. Gender Issues in Child Care
Performance Objectives – Parent/Caregiver: Should be able to:
1. Assign duties equally children irrespective of
2. Give equal opportune to children to express themselves irrespective sex
3. Encourage teamwork between boys and girls
4. Apply necessary rule equally to children
Performance Objectives – Child: Should be able to:
1. Associate freely with members of their cohort
- appreciate one of another irrespective of sex
- help one another
Content:
- Teamwork skills e.g. Play, partnering, expression of appreciation
- Drama
- Dance
- Sorting
- Rhymes/songs
- Selection of shapes and colors
Basic rights and responsibility
Activities – Parent/Caregiver:
1. Group children of different sexes for activities like:
• play
• Dance
• rhymes
• singing
2. Show film of other children playing together
3. Tell stories and ask children to identify gender issues
4. Guide children to identify and accept responsibility
Activities – Child:
- Play and share with others irresponsibility of sex
- Sing song and dance together
- Take correction from peers
- Accept Responsibilities.
Caring/Learning Materials:
Gender sensitive
• Story books
• Poetry books
• Musical Instrument
• Toys
• Plates
• Cups
• Radio
• Television
• Video
Building blocks.
Evaluation Guide:
Child
1. Enjoy other’s company
2. Listen to others and be listened to
3. Share ideas and materials without fear or favor
4. Participate freely in different games
5. Identify rights and Responsibilities.
Parent/Caregiver
1. Role play, storytelling, rhymes etc. used to encourage group Participation
2. Use of gender fair materials among Children.
Week 4
Topic: Types of Responsibilities
Performance Objectives – Parent/Caregiver: Should be able
1. Stimulate and encourage child to keep home center clean
2. Maintain peace
3. Demonstrate simple household chores
4. Encourage lead role
Performance Objectives – Child:
- keep environment clean
- take care of impersonal and communal belongings
3. Take turns and be orderly and maintain leadership peace
- assist in simple household chores engage in role play
Content:
. Types of social responsibilities
a) Cleaning of the home and the center
b) Taking care of personal and communal belongings
2. Orderliness
a) At home
b) At center
c) In the community
3. Maintaining peace e.g. Non-violent cooperation, dialogue and conflict resolution
4. Role play
Activities – Parent/Caregiver:
1. Guide child to keep environment clean and to use dust bins
2. Demonstrate how to sweep, dust, wash small items at home and center
3. Engage child to participate in simple household chores
4. Guide child to take turns, be orderly and maintain peace.
5. Involve children in role-play
Activities – Child:
Participate in keeping the home and center environment clean by
- sweeping
- putting thing away after use
- taking care of personal and communal belongings
2. Taking turns, being orderly and
Maintaining peace 3.engage in role play
Caring/Learning Materials:
• Dustbin
• Dustpan
• Broom
• Napkins
• Rakes
• Cutlass and hoe
• Cabinet and cubicle
• Water
• Basin
• Toys
• Soap
• Towel
• Posters/Chart on pollution
• Home corner
Evaluation Guide:
Child
1. Keep the home and center environment clean
2. Take care of personal and communal belongings
3. Take turns to be orderly and independent
4. Maintain peace
5. Assist in simple household chores
6. Demonstrate leadership straits
Parent/Caregiver
1. Appreciate the child’s growing independence and awareness of clean environment
2. Good role model for keeping the environment clean
3. Maintain peaceful and clean environment
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