This type of program is child-centered with the teachers serving as a guide and offering help only when needed. The program allows children to negotiate rules and directions for the project, work independently and come to decisions on their own. Generally these types of programs offer lots of field trips. Lesson plans are often theme-based focused around a season or a particular topic. Teacher-directed classrooms have a more structured and predictable feel where students are expected to remain seated and follow a set schedule of activities planned by the teacher.
Such structure aims to prepare children for the kindergarten setting. For the most part, classroom time is devoted to learning letters and sounds, distinguishing shapes and colors, counting, and doing worksheets. Play generally takes place only during recess time. There are a number of major research studies that show contradictory results. In recent years, pressured by parents to prepare their children for kindergarten and school, preschool programs have become more and more academic in nature.
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In a classroom of 20 children you have 20 different learning styles and 20 different personalities, 20 different ways of taking in information and giving information. Great teachers know this and know that one lesson plan, one mode of teaching, is never going to be good enough. Can that teacher create 20 different lesson plans? Of course not, but that great teacher knows that their students are on different levels and have different ways of processing information. So child-centered teaching and learning basically starts from the child inside-out rather than the curriculum outside-in.
The starting point is looking at the child and what he or she needs and then building your curriculum outward from there. The old-fashioned way of doing it would be a one-size-fits-all curriculum, and that curriculum would be delivered and children would be expected to adapt to it.
Traditionally, curricula were developed to be targeted to the middle of the class. Therefore, kids at the top were bored, and the kids who were not at that point often struggled. Great teachers are able to differentiate based on a lot different factors: the skills development of the children, where kids are academically, and the personality of the child. Does that child need to be up and moving? Or can he or she be more passive?
Where is your starting point? Is the starting point the child, or is the starting point the curriculum? Both are important. For example, many children who are pushed academically at a young age lose interest and motivation in learning and experience more behavioral problems.
However, they also score higher on standardized testing for the first two years of school. Likewise, children who attend child-centered preschools may be well-balanced emotionally and socially, but lag behind in pre-reading and math skills when they enter kindergarten. Understanding the philosophy of different preschools will help you decide on one that works best for your child. Discover more on the web or by contacting local preschools.
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