Forest kindergarten

social-emotional, and cognitive benefits, as well as other long lasting benefits. Young kids throughout the United States should be required to attend preschool because of these various benefits. When a parent imagines their child’s first day of kindergarten she might think of the fresh new crayons, or the new backpack with matching lunchbox her child already picked out for the occasion. She might imagine the excitement on her child 's face when he bursts into the…

Quality of education in primary school in Cameroon: a perspective from dropout and repeat rate Daigo Ito Introduction In the Cameroon, the enrolment rate of primary school has achieved more than 90% however, the achieve rate is still less than 80% and there are many children out of the school. There may be problems of quality of education. First, I researched enrolment, survival, dropout and repeat ratio annualize and analyse the problem behind them. Second, I report the teacher circumstance…

My point here is that poverty prevents the marginalized children from quality education access, at the same time hindering them from selecting the school of their choice Wedgwood (2007) contended that Tanzania had reached the universal primary education in the past, and the maximum number of adults could read and write. Yet to the contrary, the country remains one of the poorest in Africa. The reason for the situation, Wedgwood (2007) blamed the teaching, learning arrangement, and the atmosphere…

An interview with a female preschooler, age 3 years 11 months, was conducted to examine the characteristics of early self-concept and self-esteem. A series of questions were asked, including “can you tell me a little bit about yourself/describe yourself” and “what are some things you like to do.” After a response to these questions was collected, the interviewer was to ask, “How good he/she thinks they are at the particular activity.” Samayah, the preschooler interviewed, answered the first…

Childcare and education soon became a household agenda for the government. At this point kindergartens that were running two daily sessions needed to extend to one full-day session, so government provided funds of which were restrained due to primary education and labor salary…

Background: Tara Noel is 3 years 7 months old. She was born on April 1st, 2013, and is the only child in her home. She lives with both parents. Since Tara Noel was 2 months old, she has gone to a home daycare in her neighborhood. She is receiving speech/language services and occupational services at the local public school. A speech evaluation was recommended by Tara Noel’s doctor at a wellness visit because he was concerned with her lack of common/typical vocabulary. She was recommended to…

there is an advantage in implementing MAE curriculum to students who us a NMAE in order to increase their overall academic proficiency. However, the question remained, would these same results be possible if put into effect before children entered kindergarten? The study of Edwards and Rosin sought out to answer this…

cried everyday of Kindergarten, begging my patient teacher, Mrs. Graber, to allow my mom to come and pick me up. I chewed on the ribbons of my pink floral dress, tears streaming down my face, too scared to talk to other kids and too homesick to pay attention to lessons. Mrs. Graber rocked me in her chair, daily. She gave me homework to catch up on the things that I had been too grief stricken to comprehend. Eventually, I grew out of my fears of school, and was able to pass Kindergarten. I was…

To implement the qualitative methodology in the investigation of the current topic, a sample population of five teachers will be selected randomly from F.H. elementary school in Fairfax County, Virginia Public School System. F.H. Elementary school is 41% white, 26% Hispanic, 24% Asian, and 4% black. As of June of 2015, F.H Elementary school was comprised of 514 students in the general education body, 140 students in elementary advanced academics-levels II & III, and 116 students in special…

When students come into kindergarten they are across the board with different levels of development and skills. I quickly noticed through observation that a very important characteristic to understand with these children is their maturity level. I found it the most helpful to observe students with how they work and interact with others. I believe the best way to teach is to understand who your students are. This means getting to know them on a personal level; learning about their families,…