In the podcast I learned the
importance of providing children with a healthy social development because if
children have not acquired the social skills they need when they enter kindergarten. If children do not have those build social
skills then they will lack the tools to cope, to survive and to know how to
communicate. It is sad to learn that
kindergarten is resembling a grade school environment with standards and
children are no longer being given the opportunity to learn by playing. The gaps are becoming wider as we are moving
into a standard teaching and exploring the website “Center on the Developing
Child” Harvard University I learned that they have a joint effort around the
world to close those gaps in education.
It was reported that over 200 million children fail to reach their full developmental
potential by the age 5 (Center on the Developing Child). Working globally is partnering with several
organization around the world like Brazil, Canada, Mexico to build a greater
movement in which children are being supported in their education, health and economic
development. It is imperative to provide
every child with an accessible education, so they can become school readiness.
References
Harvard
University’s “Global Children’s Initiative” website (http://developingchild.harvard.edu/about/what-we-do/global-work/)
Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2011).
Issues and trends in the early childhood field: Excellence and equity of
care and education for children and families—Part 1. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Janet,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing. One thing that I always tell people that are close to me is how children have to have social skills in order to succeed when entering into school. I have a friend whose child has no social skills what so ever. When he entered into school he had a very hard time adjusting. I believe that it is up to the parent to give their child certain skills that will set them up for success in life.
Janet,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your thoughts this week. I agree with you that children need to learn social and emotional skills for kindergarten and it is sad that academics take priority over that. You can have a criminal that is extremely smart but is very disturbed in their emotions because they never learned how to control them. If children can't be social, then they will have an even harder time learning the academics. If a child is taking things from everyone and pushing it won't matter if they know their ABCS because they will be kicked out of school. The academics will come in time, but the social and emotional skills need to be learned as soon as possible and they need to be strong before kindergarten.