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The Child is the Curriculum

Bev Bos coined this phrase: The child is the curriculum.

 That really defines child-centered teaching & learning.

 We learn so much about our children when we interact with them and let them choose what they want to do in the classroom. 

 I like to define "curriculum" as 'everything that happens in the classroom'. 

 "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation" 
- Plato from http://www.playcounts.com/

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