Caring for and educating in early childhood education: how to choose your school?
Care and education in my son's school life.
Has the time come to distance oneself from the child and take it to school? But if you continue to wonder if by chance it is not too early or the right choice of teaching institution has been made.
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The safest is to ask yourself a basic question: is the focus of the institution of early childhood education caring, educating or both?
Well, we will understand that differentiation a little better so that, from there, you will see that it is not so difficult to choose the right school for our children.
Today, there are institutions of early childhood education that prioritize care with the child, providing, in addition to affection and affection, also hygiene and nutrition. They are, in general, quite welcoming and careful environments, which create strong links between the children themselves as well as between children and teachers. But the truth is that, by focusing excessively on that aspect, important pedagogical questions of pre-school are left aside, which range from learning to count to encouragement to reading early.
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On the other hand, there are also those schools that give excessive importance to content learning in order to prepare the child for the next educational years. In that case, they end up neglecting that more human side of education that parents expect to find in the institution. Thus, children become familiar with pencils and notebooks early, developing language activities, mathematics and related, but end up having an effective relationship a little more distant from school.
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As probably neither you nor your child wants to deal with that kind of situation in the school where you are going to study. At the end of the day, even though this is a very propitious age to begin the intellectual learning of the children, they also feel a great lack of affection and jokes. The first criterion to be observed in the choice of a nursery school is, therefore, the union of learning and affection on a day-to-day basis. This is because the more children are welcomed, the greater their performance in pedagogical activities.
To know if the educational proposal of the institution really involves taking care and educating, it is necessary, first, to know both theory and practice. Therefore, a great suggestion to take into account when going to do that guided tour is: do not pay attention only to what is said, see also some details that say a lot about the school, only without words. Check the space and how it is organized, as are the basic safety conditions for children and, of course, the human side.
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Do the murals have the exclusive function of communication between the members of the school team or a good part of them is decorated with artistic activities of the children? This is also a great indication of the focus of the institution. It has no secret: the more humanized space, the greater the chances that care is the privileged side. Observe also those paintings that are scattered throughout the internal areas. The disclosure of schedules, lists of rules on how to proceed and other types of communication in that model usually indicate excessive concern with formal education.
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Since the exhibition of paintings, drawings and other demonstrations of children's creativity coexist with more practical, optimal notices. In that case, there is a great possibility that the school balance well caring and educating. Then do not forget that the middle term is usually the most interesting.
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It's a matter of talking with the first teacher your son will have in life. After all, have you stopped for a minute to think about the importance of that professional for the way your child is going to face the whole school day ahead? It is more than valid, for example, to evaluate the relationship between the staff members of the school, since the way in which they relate to each other can determine how they will relate to the students. And the teacher, as the core of the team that will effectively care for your child, is more than included in that context.
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Then keep the focus on the teacher! Reserve a time to observe how you relate to other professionals if you seem to be a person open to dialogue or react negatively to criticism and suggestions. Are you affectionate, calm
and organized? It may seem difficult to attack all these details in such a short time, but there are clues. See, for example, the way he talks, his posture and receptivity in the dialogue with parents.
Source of information
- https://www.pinterest.com/pin/478296422906175529/?lp=true
- http://kidstownohio.com/how-parental-involvement-aides-early-learning/
- https://www.smh.com.au/education/rewiring-the-brain-to-learn-20121104-28scg.html
- https://www.pinterest.com/pin/70368812902916859/?lp=true
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