Providing high quality early childhood education benefits children and society concurrently. The ability to work on their physical, cognitive, and emotional developmental needs at an early age will help them flourish as students, and eventually as members of a globalized society. Providing children with equal learning opportunities could break cycles of poverty and mitigate social inequalities; thus leading to increased social and economic development of society. A major issue at hand is how to effectively create equal opportunities for children without hurting our struggling economy.
In order to implement the necessary policies and programs needed for universal quality education there needs to be a deeper understanding what makes a quality …show more content…
Due to this, the children thrive and development at an astonishing rate. Lena, the child I observe has grown substantially socially, physically, and cognitively since I started observing her in September. Each day Lena has the opportunity to experience exploratory play and investigate her environment around her. She is provided with various tools and instruments of play that provoke cognitive, physical, and sensory growth. Additionally, her teachers surround her with a warm and welcoming environment. Her teachers ask her open-ended question to stimulate her thought processes and provide her with activities that they feel adequately suit Lena’s interests and development style. For example, Lena enjoys animals and so Shannon, her teacher, created a playpen of animals for her and other students to explore within. Shannon interacts with her students constantly in order to help them develop language, cognitively, and socially. Shannon is a well-educated teacher who understands how to evoke a child’s development and create greater learning gains. The CDCLR is a prime example of a quality education center that has highly qualified staff in an atmosphere that provides instruments and tools for exploration and growth of the …show more content…
The main issue being a child’s school readiness as they enter kindergarten or first grade. Lee and Burkman (2002) found that most American students who start school significantly behind their peers can never close the readiness gap and it instead widens over time. They also state that school readiness has been shown to be predictive of achievement test scores, grade retention, special education placement, and likelihood of truancy, delinquent behaviors, and dropout rates. These are immediate consequences while still in school however there are more perilous consequences as they become active citizens, which affect society as a whole. The research done by Bartik (2014) suggests that the investments we make in children today could benefit our economy. Providing children with education to close the education gap leads to expanding our skilled workforce, increased earnings of citizens, a lower percentage of welfare participation, reduced involvement with the criminal justice system, healthier citizens, and a larger revenue base for our
In order to implement the necessary policies and programs needed for universal quality education there needs to be a deeper understanding what makes a quality …show more content…
Due to this, the children thrive and development at an astonishing rate. Lena, the child I observe has grown substantially socially, physically, and cognitively since I started observing her in September. Each day Lena has the opportunity to experience exploratory play and investigate her environment around her. She is provided with various tools and instruments of play that provoke cognitive, physical, and sensory growth. Additionally, her teachers surround her with a warm and welcoming environment. Her teachers ask her open-ended question to stimulate her thought processes and provide her with activities that they feel adequately suit Lena’s interests and development style. For example, Lena enjoys animals and so Shannon, her teacher, created a playpen of animals for her and other students to explore within. Shannon interacts with her students constantly in order to help them develop language, cognitively, and socially. Shannon is a well-educated teacher who understands how to evoke a child’s development and create greater learning gains. The CDCLR is a prime example of a quality education center that has highly qualified staff in an atmosphere that provides instruments and tools for exploration and growth of the …show more content…
The main issue being a child’s school readiness as they enter kindergarten or first grade. Lee and Burkman (2002) found that most American students who start school significantly behind their peers can never close the readiness gap and it instead widens over time. They also state that school readiness has been shown to be predictive of achievement test scores, grade retention, special education placement, and likelihood of truancy, delinquent behaviors, and dropout rates. These are immediate consequences while still in school however there are more perilous consequences as they become active citizens, which affect society as a whole. The research done by Bartik (2014) suggests that the investments we make in children today could benefit our economy. Providing children with education to close the education gap leads to expanding our skilled workforce, increased earnings of citizens, a lower percentage of welfare participation, reduced involvement with the criminal justice system, healthier citizens, and a larger revenue base for our