Gregg Hymowitz and the Creative Curriculum
A few years ago, Gregg Hymowitz was honored by the Governor’s Committee on Scholastic Achievement for his efforts using creative curriculum as a way to “promot[e] academic excellence in New York City.” The theory used in creative curriculum thinking is that kids “learn best by doing.” Kids in this program will learn via their own “active thinking and experimenting to find out how things work and to learn firsthand about the world we live in.” Methods used to teach kids this way, from a young age, involve “using real materials….[to] try out their ideas….[to] notice relationships between things.” They are taught symbolic thinking and develop “during the pre-school years as children play.”
