Pre-kindergarten

The authors claim that the United States has the highest achievement gaps between high and low socioeconomic students in the world, and say that the majority of the gap is created during the years leading up to kindergarten. (Bradbury, p.111) The United States has a gap of 1 standard deviation in language, reading and math skills at age five between the highest and lowest socioeconomic students, the highest of any other comparable country. (Bradbury, p. 71) This gap…

not be majority from property taxes. That is just an awful idea. The government should take it upon themselves to ensure that America’s future leaders and citizens are ready to face whatever obstacles they encounter intelligently. Starting a public pre-school program would probably be the single most important thing that the government could do for the educational system. Another way the educational system could improve would be to better fund public elementary and high schools. The American…

prepared to enter kindergarten. My parents working in the fields, worked long and hard to be able to live a healthy lifestyle. My parents although no matter how tired they were, always explained how receiving an education is important; in order to not work in the fields as they did. Entering kindergarten I was behind, neither was I able to speak English correctly but lacked in reading and writing. As a child, I felt humiliated not being able to understand. Then my kindergarten teacher,…

children are attending some form of early education. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that “53% of 3 year olds, 66% of 4-year-olds, and 85% of 5 year-olds are enrolled in pre-primary education (2016, p. 70). Now more than ever, children are expected to know more and more to be considered kindergarten ready. The No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 and the Common Core Standards in 2012 have put pressure on preschool programs to look more like an elementary classroom which…

Wah Tee Ku Mrs. Gallos English 3 28 July 2016 Preschool Should Be Free Many people in the United States want to be able to send their children to free public preschool. The U.S. has a strong education system for grades K-12, but it does not offer pre-school to every child. Educational research shows that children who go to preschool are more ready for school than children who stay at home. Some people disagree with this research. They believe that children need to be at home with their…

For this reason, early childhood centers and pre-k classes in school districts follows constructivism theory in their classroom. After preschool or pre-k constructivism is being used less in the classroom, although, it should be used in classrooms after preschool/pre-k. Constructivism has a positive effect on students learning. Why is this a positive effect? The students learn what they want to learn and…

The Georgia Pre-K Program I remember attending preschool like it was yesterday. I went from going to a babysitter, to daycare, and then right to preschool. If I 'm correct I think I adapted pretty well to it, I adjust naturally to different environments with ease. I made a lot of friends and never had a hard time being there. My two teachers threw each student a birthday party, we as well went on numerous field trips, and many enjoyable activities I remember fondly. Those were much simpler…

Kindergarten is another step for a preschooler’s life they would have to learn more in kindergarten then they thing in preschool; preschool may be easy for them before but now they have to learn 10 times more than they did in preschool. Preschoolers that will become kindergartener will have to learn…

If children are required to attend preschool, you are exposing your child to many different skills that are going to be needed for the rest of your life. Don’t you want your child to be getting an education about life while making friends and having fun at the same time? There are three different areas of development that your child will grow in when attending an early childhood education program. Those three areas of development are physical, social and emotional, and intellectual. Your…

o As an ECE birth-5 major, I want to work as a preschool or kindergarten teacher. The ages of these children can range of 3-5 years of age. During this time, children are on Jean Piaget’s pre-operation stage. At this stage, the children a beginning to play symbolically as well as parallel to other children. At this age, the children are also very egocentric. This means that they only believe in their taught and can’t take on more than one concept at a time.  What developmental themes do…