Curriculum: in the early childhood settingcurriculum means ‘all the interactions, experiences,activities, routines and events, planned andDispositions: enduring habits of mind and actions,and tendencies to respond in characteristic waysto situations, for example, maintaining an optimisticoutlook, being willing to persevere, approaching newexperiences with confi dence.Intentional teaching: involves educators beingdeliberate, purposeful and thoughtful in theirdecisions and actions. Intentional teaching is theopposite of teaching by rote or continuing withtraditions simply because things have ‘always’ beendone that way.