'I’m endlessly grateful for the educators in my kids’ classrooms for teaching and inspiring them to be successful. I’m disappointed to hear anyone undervalue how much they do and how hard they work to educate our youngest school children.' | CBCKids
was pretty much immediate. For all of the hemming and hawing people did when the full-day program was first introduced back in 2010, there was a definite"nooooooooooooooooo" across my newsfeed at the suggestion of getting rid of it.
There was, of course, a lot of glee, too. I, for one, have always been a fan, but full-day kindergarten has always had its share of critics. I went to public school in the morning and private school in the afternoon as a kindergartner. Full days for me, 35 years ago. Kids can handle the full days. I was hardly extraordinary. The fact is, we underestimate our kids by practice. So, I wasn’t overly surprised by the number of people who thought their kids could not. What I was surprised by then, and continue to see come up again in the wake of the threat to nix the program, was the references to kindie as free daycare , and the reference to the teachers in the classroom as babysitters.
On a typical day in a kindergarten classroom, children learn about problem solving, creative thinking, critical thinking, social skills, self-help skills, fine motor skills, literacy , math , art, music and movement, outdoor education, appreciation for the outdoors, gross motor skills and on and on and on and on and on. There is a curriculum. There are expectations. There is education going on each and every day.
People see the words 'play-based education' and some put on blinders that the word 'education’ is there at all. Kids learn best through play. It doesn’t mean they’re not learning just because the curriculum is speaking to them in a way that makes the most sense for their brain development and age.Kindergarten teachers are expected to teach a relatively new curriculum, to a class room filled with hyper, loud, antsy, snotty little kids.
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