Friday 31 August 2012

How Necessary Are The Pre Schools In Delhi, Noida And Gurgaon?


By now, everyone must be aware of the pre schools and play schools because such kinds of institutions are seen in every city. Some cities which cater to larger populations have more such schools, where the parents can send their kids to prepare themselves for the coming years in primary education.

Plenty of pre schools in Delhi are coming up gradually. This is showing that the concept has been very well accepted by the parents of today, who want to let their kids learn new things from as early as possible. They would like to see their kids accept the idea of staying out of the home for a few hours and get adapted to the school environment as quickly as possible.

For the parents, the presence of pre schools in Delhi has been a big advantage. People are nowadays busy in their jobs and in most cases, such jobs are highly demanding. When both the parents are into jobs, it is imperative that they want their kids to be attended to and help them in their development. Since they have a time constraint, such parents want that their kids get to learn the basics of education and socialise with other kids. Such practices are carried out in the pre schools in Noida, where working parents are a common thing.
In such cities, people from different regions and backgrounds arrive and take up jobs. They therefore want that their kids should go to the pre schools in Noida for a few years, where they can learn the alphabets, numbers, drawing and other activities. By such activities, the kids are able to learn many things, primary of which is interaction with other kids of the same age group.

When the parents who are going out for jobs in Gurgaon send their kids to such pre schools in Gurgaon, they are providing a platform for the development of their children. Living inside the homes along with the parents and a few other relatives might not be effectively broadening the outlook of the children. This is aptly justified in the pre schools in Gurgaon, where the students comprise of different age groups, and who are involved in different kinds of study and play activities by the teachers.

To help in the development process by such methods, there are able teachers who have undergone training to handle kids of such tender age. They understand the psyche of the kids and therefore are able to judge properly about the needs and wants of the kids. Under their observation, the kids carry out different activities for a few hours in a day. By going to the pre schools in Noida, the kids are getting prepared to shed their inhibitions when they go to the schools. It is here that the children can learn about painting, drawing, dance, music, yoga, and various other activities.

The teachings of English alphabets and simple mathematics are imparted at this stage so that they are able to grasp their lessons in the higher classes, when they start going to the primary school. The concept of pre schools in Delhi and many other cities in India is growing at a rapid rate. Due to the popularity of such schools, the parents are also eager on providing the facilities to their kids for their all round development.

Friday 24 August 2012

The Importance Of Pre-School Educational Toy For Babies And Toddlers


Being a pre-school educator is not an easy task to do. It is a very challenging and adventurous job. As she is expected to be second mother of the child. To handle this difficult task she has to pay attention to more experienced mentors & watch how they handle disruptive situations. Here are some interesting tips for pre-school educators.

1.Never stop learning. Keep an open mind. Read latest reports on child care. Visit other programs to find out techniques you could fit in. Check for individual development classes for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers in your vicinity. Consider finishing a degree or take revision courses at a local university. 

2.Expect great things to happen. Be thrilled about your work each day. A child's first teacher is often the one he or she remembers the best part. You could be that person in the existence of the children you teach. 

3.Learn to be bendable. Although young children need a regular schedule, allow for the unforeseen. What if snow starts falling? Or, a bulldozer is working close by? Or, a helicopter hovers above your head? Utilize teachable moments. 

4. Leave personal troubles at home. Commence every day with a warm, friendly greeting for each child who enters your program. Push personal problems away until later. A smile reassures parents that you will be concerned for their child until they return. 

5.Preserve a clean, safe environment. Is your ecce program one in which you would wish for your own child to spend the day? Look around. Make a list of possible hazards. Avoidance could keep an accident from happening. Safe and clean environment is good for preschool goers.

6.Value individual differences in each child. Understand that each child has a unique learning style. Some children learn the best in a chart mode, such as watching an expression. Others learn in a hearing mode, such as listening to instruction. Still others learn best in a kinesthetic method which includes using the hands to feel, touch, and see. Study shows that teachers usually teach in the mode in which they learn best. Appraise each child and find his or her best education style. 

7.Build up a primary bonding process. David P. Weikart, President and creator of the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation suggest bonding with the children in your care. Some of your children may be from homeless shelters or dysfunctional families. They may show violent behavior, signs of removal, or disruptive conduct. Realize that a controlled environment, consistent daily routine and shared control between adult and child are critical to the unhappy child to take ownership of their learning. 

8. Establish an innocent relationship with parents. Choosing the right child care plan is of vital importance to parents. What are people saying about your plan throughout your society? Is your staff one that welcomes parents? Are children eager about coming each morning? Do parents trust their child is in safe surroundings? Think about these questions and list ways you can develop.

Friday 17 August 2012

Greening Up Our Pre-Schools


In addition to at home giving the child a learning experience for a variety of toys, games, books, music, many parents will consider whether need to give the child the external environment of different types of incentives. When a child should enter into kindergarten? Parents should let children before school to learn arithmetic?

Some learning programs today will urge parents to teach in its infancy children to read, do arithmetic, learning a foreign language to help children develop intelligence, whether you need to follow these plans? We may never be able to clearly resolve the dispute. In fact, some eye specialists warned that before the age of six children's vision is not fully qualified for the activity of reading a printed book, children too early to start reading may lead to vision problems. Some experts believe that there is no link between early onset of reading and visual impairment.

Most educators believe that for the pre-school children, imaginative games play much more important role than academic learning. Has been specifically designed to enhance child IQ for the purpose of the project may not have caused children any substantial harm, because the children are either boring or unknown or just having fun, and these have no special benefits on children. The results of a number of studies show that most children between six and seven-year-old, when is the official school, began learning to read.

However, parents should avoid setting the formal curriculum at home. Cutting-edge researcher Arnold Gesell suggested that child's school readiness and state of readiness to learn to walk is the same all need for the flexibility. That child learn to read before entering literacy is more harm than good, such thinking is outdated, in fact, some children can even read proficiency personally. This can promote children to build a strong and happy self-awareness, and its meaning is nothing more than a first step for children to be independent. If your child has raised various numbers and letters, you should try to answer his questions. As much as possible to provide children with the information he wants, but do not waste your time on the formal academic curriculum.

In addition, you should teach children how to think and memory. Whether the child is gifted or qualification flat, parents should help them learn to think and remember, this is the child of two necessary skills. By allowing the toddler to classify the washed clothes or according to the size and color to organize the beautiful stone retrieved by a walk or stack the plates in the cupboard to provide them with the opportunity to practice the comparison and classification ability. 

The Quality of Learning in Pre Schools


In addition to at home giving the child a learning experience for a variety of toys, games, books, music, many parents will consider whether need to give the child the external environment of different types of incentives. When a child should enter into kindergarten? Parents should let children before school to learn arithmetic?

Some learning programs today will urge parents to teach in its infancy children to read, do arithmetic, learning a foreign language to help children develop intelligence, whether you need to follow these plans? We may never be able to clearly resolve the dispute. In fact, some eye specialists warned that before the age of six children's vision is not fully qualified for the activity of reading a printed book, children too early to start reading may lead to vision problems. Some experts believe that there is no link between early onset of reading and visual impairment.

Most educators believe that for the pre-school children, imaginative games play much more important role than academic learning. Has been specifically designed to enhance child IQ for the purpose of the project may not have caused children any substantial harm, because the children are either boring or unknown or just having fun, and these have no special benefits on children. The results of a number of studies show that most children between six and seven-year-old, when is the official school, began learning to read.

However, parents should avoid setting the formal curriculum at home. Cutting-edge researcher Arnold Gesell suggested that child's school readiness and state of readiness to learn to walk is the same all need for the flexibility. That child learn to read before entering literacy is more harm than good, such thinking is outdated, in fact, some children can even read proficiency personally. This can promote children to build a strong and happy self-awareness, and its meaning is nothing more than a first step for children to be independent. If your child has raised various numbers and letters, you should try to answer his questions. As much as possible to provide children with the information he wants, but do not waste your time on the formal academic curriculum.

In addition, you should teach children how to think and memory. Whether the child is gifted or qualification flat, parents should help them learn to think and remember, this is the child of two necessary skills. By allowing the toddler to classify the washed clothes or according to the size and color to organize the beautiful stone retrieved by a walk or stack the plates in the cupboard to provide them with the opportunity to practice the comparison and classification ability. 

Friday 10 August 2012

Preschool tips for you


Preschools that nurture a child’s mind are required to prepare a child for kindergarten and elementary school. Picking a preschool that is suitable for your child is a tough task. The right preschool will prepare your child both academically and socially to face kindergarten. Different children will find different schools suitable. Here are some important factors to bear in mind before settling on a preschool for your child.
The first thing to do is to start looking for a suitable playschool franchisee early as there is lot of rush in most preschool franchisees. Good preschools are in great demand and there is lot of rush when it comes to admission. You could settle for your neighborhood preschool, however before you decide to admit your child to the nearest playschool, check their curriculum. Does the school have a scientific curriculum to deliver the best education to your child? Some schools admit children after the child has attained two years of age. Call up preschools on your checklist and ask them questions to see if they meet the needs of your child. Visit the preschool you have chosen for your child and are comfortable with. Take your child along with you to visit the school. Take into account your feelings about the school. See your child’s response to the school environment. Take your child to all the schools on your list and see how comfortable he is with the school environment. Discuss the activities of the school with your child and ask for his feedback. This will give you an honest impression of what your child feels about the school.

Find out about the staff members of the school, their number and the student staff ratio. Find out how well-trained the staff members are to handle the children. Discuss the safety issues, the school curriculum, the activities they do at the school and the mid-day meal programs. Before you admit your child to a school please ensure you are comfortable with their schedule. Talk to the parents of other kids who are admitted at the school. Take their feedback seriously. Are their children happy at the school and are they learning there? Find out how the staff deals with parents who ask questions. How do the other parents find the school curriculum? Ask if they have any concerns about the school programs that they would like to share. Find out if the school will allow your child to try out the school before you finally admit your child to the school. Some schools offer a free day at the school or a money back guarantee. Some others offer a refund of the tuition fee after the first month.

Give your child enough time to adjust to the new environment.  Your child may not respond well to the new environment due to several reasons like he may not want to be separated from you or he may be apprehensive about meeting other kids out of shyness. Allow your child to be comfortable with the environment before you decide to withdraw.

Making your child ready for preschool


Preschools differ from day care centers. Don’t confuse between the two. Your child learns different skills in preschool and becomes ready for kindergarten and elementary school.  Day care centers care for your children while you are away at work or any other place. A day care center provides meals and some preschools too provide meals. Your child attending can be a source of anxiety for you and a daunting experience for your child. Your child may have difficulty in adjusting to the new environment. You can prepare your child by ensuring that he has a smooth transition from home to preschool. Please ensure that you keep all learning activity playful. Don’t make entering preschool a difficult chore for your child. Make entering preschool a fun activity for your child. Tell your child that there will be many fun activities in the school like making new friends, learning new skills and developing social skills. Find out the details of the preschool you are sending your child to. Does the school have many play activities? What mode of instruction do they use? Go ahead and talk in detail to the teacher at the play school.

Before you send your child to preschool plan some activities where your child gets a chance to meet children his age, this will make your child learn the concept of adjusting with other children and being cooperative. Use the role play method to familiarize your child to the concept of preschool. Play the role of parent as well as teacher to totally make your child comfortable with preschool.

Introduce the concept of preschool gently so that your child feels he is on familiar ground when he goes to preschool. Make your child more comfortable by introducing the concept of preschool gently to him. Prepare your child by acting out all the activities your child will do at school, like singing songs, reading aloud, solving puzzles and playing with other children. Make all these activities fun filled so that your child participates in them enthusiastically.  Reassure your child that preschool will be fun and he will learn many new and interesting things there.

Discuss preschool with your child while playing with him. Introduce the concept that school will be fun and that he will learn many new things there. List out all the activities your child will do at preschool. Go to the preschool with your child before admitting him there. Show him what he will do there and ensure that he is familiar with the campus and is used to the concept that he will be separated from you for a few hours.  Act out all the activities your child will do when he leaves for school like wearing his uniform and shoes, make him pick his bag and play as if you are going to school. Tell him what he will be doing at school and play act all the activities he will be doing prior to going to school. Make your child thoroughly comfortable with preschool before you leave him there. 

Friday 3 August 2012

Right to education for preschool


According to a recent news item, the education ministry is looking to bring preschool education under the ambit of Right to Education Act. This may be a good suggestion but the logistical and financial pressures of bringing about four crore children under the RTE is a cause of concern. It is however argued that bringing the early years of education under the free and compulsory education will improve the condition of early childhood education. The Prime Minister has said that a final decision on increasing the ambit of the RTE will be taken by the end of July. The inclusion of children between the ages of four and six will mean reworking the ambit of the ministry of women and child development which administers integrated child development schemes targeting children below the age of six.

While all said and done the RTE being applied to tiny tots is a good idea, the practicality of how it will be applied is under question. Do we have the infrastructure to send so many children to school? The National Advisory council is of the view that the Prime Minister’s anganwadi scheme should cover children up to the age of four.  Simultaneously the planning commission’s sub group on elementary education is trying to widen the reach of the Right to Education Act to include children between the age of four and six years. The advantage of bringing preschool children under the ambit of the Right to Education Act is more and more children will start learning and if they go to school early elementary education will be naturally covered though wherefore will the infrastructure come for such a herculean task is indeed something to be pondered over. The sub group of the Central advisory board of education, which is examining the possibility of extending the free and compulsory education law to cover secondary education, will be asked to look into the inclusion of preschool learning. In its present form the RTE covers children from classes 1 to 8.  The biggest impediment to including preschool children under the RTE is the logistical and financial pressure it will entail. The move will mean moving four crore children to the free and compulsory education recipients. It will involve setting up at least ten lakh classrooms and hiring ten lakh trained nursery teachers.

An approximate estimate suggests that it will cost at least two lakh per classroom to immediately implement the plan. There will also be other recurring costs such as teachers, salaries and learning materials.  The biggest cause of concern however would be to find trained nursery teachers or to train so many teachers to teach. Even if children are brought under the right to education act what guarantee is there that those children will attend the schools and even if the schools are run what guarantee is there that the children will have qualified teachers who teach them. There is also apprehension about bringing a new system of convergence with the health sector that the growth monitoring component of the integrated child development is not lost.