Preschool education

Broken Education, Broken Future Throughout the many years of school, there has always been those couple of classes that everyone dreads to attend. One of said classes being mathematics class. So many formulas and long problem solving processes, not to mention the mountain of homework to be assigned that night. My question is, why do kids feel this way about all of the math classes? Math surely can’t be all that bad. I found some of the answers in an article in the New York Times titled, “Who…

and assessment types, parenting behaviors were found to considerably vary by child attachment status. However, African American and Caucasian children did not differ drastically in the distribution of attachment. Caregivers of “securely attached preschool children, when compared with caregivers of insecurely attached children were observed to display greater levels of positive affect and responsivity toward their children”. In conclusion, the current study has several strengths and limitations.…

ESSA: Empty Promises or Great Hopes The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to reform education policies to make all students have equal opportunities. ESSA expands the government's power in the education system and promises to focus more on the student rather than standardized tests. However, not all students are being treated the way the Act specifies and schools are still struggling with funding that could be dropped.…

Classism in Education: Myth or Fact Why are children in America, graduating high school without fully understanding concepts that relate to the core subjects of Math, English, Science, and History? According to sociologist Doctor James W. Loewen and award winning writer Jonathan Kozol, classism is to blame. Loewen believes that history textbooks should take some of the blame for student’s ignorance of inequality within education, while Kozol believes it is ignorance from well educated people…

program called “Oportunidades”. Oportunidades focuses on helping poor families in rural and urban communities invest in human capital (worldbank.org, 2016). Parents have an option to participate in a program that aims to improve their child’s education, health, and nutrition from primary to high school grades. The vision of Oportunidades is to help families in need by investing in their children by providing families with a monetary compensation to send their children to school. The program…

something they want to engage in they will likely show more interested and excellent for it. This will let the children open their imagination, learn critical thinking, make a hypothesis, and discover how the world works in a secure environment. Preschool is a time to start learning about the world, start exploring areas and topics they aren’t familiar with, and have many experimentation and question their world like why does a ball bounce? Why is the sky blue? Why do I have black hair when…

Growing up as a child, I watched my mom show passions, wisdom, and motivation while interacting and teaching preschool children in her classroom A lot of the children in my mom’s classroom came from single families, low income, and socioeconomic backgrounds. My mom was a very passionate person. She loved her job. I can recall, the time when she was undergoing Chemotherapy and was in some pain she continued to smile, inspire, and motivate the children to engage in activities. This played a key…

After I suspended my study for over one year, I desire to return to academic education and undertake the Bachelor degree of Early Childhood Education and Care at TAFE NSW. I am applying for this course because I love children and I want to have a career in children’s education. I remember when I was around the ages of 6, I imagined my dolls were little kids and taught them how to count and sing. As I am growing up, I enjoy babysitting for my sibling’s children and I like assisting them in the…

One of the most controversial issues faced by educators today is how to provide adequate education to students with disabilities. Many strategies have been implemented and studied to determine a possible solution to this problem. Inclusion is one of the current strategies being tested. In order for inclusion programs to be implemented properly it is important to understand the definition of inclusion programs and the desired outcome they hope to achieve in educational psychology. An inclusion…

We go from fun and games; our happy place (preschool) to a prison with rules and textbooks to learn from for eight hours (K-12). Our schools are not educating our children the way the should. Our educational system in our society is broken because schools are not giving students the opportunities to learn and also because students are not getting the proper attention academically. When a child start his or her first day of at preschool. The child is a little scared at first because the child…