What kind of features should a kindergarten have? What should families pay attention to when choosing a kindergarten for their children?
3 - 6 years of age is the most important period for children's mental, emotional and social development. First of all, children need to socialize and be with other children as a feature of their development. Kindergartens meet children's needs to share, be together, act together and play. Being together with peers whose skills and mental capacities are equal enables children to learn by experiencing and is effective in learning social sharing. For this reason, kindergartens and kindergartens need to implement a program that supports children's physical, mental, emotional, social and language development and offer this program under appropriate conditions. A program that supports all developmental areas of children should be prepared and this program should be prepared with a content that will enable children to follow it with pleasure and interest. It is important to offer different activities to develop children's existing interests and abilities. Children should have fun, learn and find new interests. While learning, it is also important for them to acquire skills such as acting together, making decisions with the group, taking turns, expressing themselves in the group, expressing their needs, learning the set rules and complying with these rules and limits, which are the basis of their educational life. It is possible for children to learn the necessary concepts (color, shape, number, etc.), manual skills and social skills in accordance with their age, in the nursery environment rather than at home. In kindergarten, all this knowledge and skills are taught in a certain order. The experience and training of the nursery staff are also very important during the implementation of the program. The presence of a permanent pedagogue or a psychologist experienced in child development in the kindergarten should be the first condition when choosing a kindergarten. It is of great importance to be able to follow children's skills and development and to warn the family in case of a possible problem. Because some possible problems can be solved quickly when discovered at an early age, otherwise they may turn into other difficulties that last for many years and affect the child's educational life and social life. er. In addition, every child may experience some problems from time to time, and these problems are expressed in different ways. It requires expertise and experience to carefully observe these symptoms and changes in children and to discover that they are signs of another problem. It is also important for families to be guided and supported regarding the education and development of their children and appropriate discipline methods. For this reason, it is of great importance that the nursery staff is pedagogically trained. Cleanliness and physical environment are features that parents pay attention to and do not have difficulty noticing. What needs to be considered here is how the physical environment is arranged. For example, where are the children located during which activity? Are these environments suitable for that activity to occur comfortably? (for example, having a carpet on the floor where painting is done may not be suitable for both children's comfort and hygiene) How protected are the stairs? Are the garden and its play materials available to all children and are they sufficient in proportion to the number of children? Is there a variety of toys? What materials are used? Are the dyes etc. harmful if children put them in their mouths? Are toys and other educational materials actually used? The number of staff caring for children during free play times and garden hours is also important. Because children become more active in open spaces and the possibility of getting harmed increases. For this reason, it is important to supplement the number of teachers and educators normally present during garden hours and active games.
Another very important issue is class size. Preschool classes should be around 10-12 for 3 year olds. One teacher is not enough for a larger number of children. This number may be slightly higher in the 4 and 5 age groups. However, since it will be difficult to ensure that children are in order in crowded environments such as primary school classrooms, stricter discipline will inevitably be imposed, which will conflict with the comfort and attention that children need.
What does kindergarten teach the child? What kind of contributions will it make to your future academic and social life?
Kindergarten � It is the first real social experience in the child's life. It is the first environment where the child moves away from an environment where he is the center and receives all the attention, shares attention and love, moves in a group in an orderly manner, learns to wait and be patient, and is supported to meet all his needs. By going to kindergarten, the child first learns order. He gets up at the same time every day and goes to school in the same order. This also provides order in home life. He learns to go to bed at a certain time and eat breakfast regularly. They have regular and constant friendships. He starts looking for his friends and being wanted by them. Friendship and what they share with their friends have become important. Apart from his parents, his teacher and friends at school begin to become important in his life. Learns to establish and maintain relationships with other people. He may not have to solve problems that arise at home, but if he cannot approach them in the appropriate way at home, for example when he needs to share his toys, he may be disappointed and in this way he learns to solve problems over time. Social concepts such as acceptance and acceptance begin to develop and gain importance. He/she gets the opportunity to learn by living and trying. All kinds of knowledge are taught in interaction with the group, and a teaching plan that appeals to children's many senses is implemented as much as possible. For this reason, the child is provided with a rich learning environment that is more permanent and allows for reasoning, compared to the unsystematic and plain information taught at home. This type of learning creates a constant desire and need for learning in the child.
The real importance of gaining all this knowledge and experience before the age of 6 is that these years are very important for the child's mental and emotional development. The information acquired during this period is both easy to learn and permanent, and is important for developing learning habits. It is known that children who attend kindergarten are much more adaptable and successful in primary school than those who do not. In addition, children who have received pre-school education are much luckier in terms of social adaptation and friendship development skills. Another importance of pre-school education is monitoring the development of children. Because parents are aware of their children's developmental areas. They may not have the knowledge and skills to follow it carefully. In addition, every child may experience problems in some areas of their development, and it may give clues about some problems they may experience in later ages. The best way to recognize these symptoms and decide what the most appropriate intervention is is to follow the child regularly in a structured environment such as a kindergarten.
How should families treat children who start kindergarten?
Starting kindergarten is a very important first step for both the family and the child. Families experience many concerns. Parents are especially concerned about children who are overly dependent on their mothers and who have not been taught rules or given responsibilities at home. Because these children generally have more adaptation problems. Children should be encouraged to meet their own needs from the time their skills begin to develop. Additionally, rules should be taught about issues such as eating, sleeping, cleaning, etc. Starting from the age of 2, the child should be gradually informed about where and how to behave. He/she must begin to learn the difference between desired behaviors and undesirable behaviors. Consistency is important here. Always receiving positive attention towards the desired behavior will encourage the child to behave in this way. His/her wishes must be met within reasonable limits, and he/she must know that some of his/her wishes cannot be met. Otherwise, the child will expect the parents' attitude to meet every demand in every environment they enter, and will eventually be disappointed and not want to go to kindergarten. A child who has gained independence instead of a dependency relationship will not have much of a problem starting a kindergarten.
It is appropriate for parents to choose the kindergarten the child will go to without the child and to take the child after making the decision. Because when the decision is made to choose a child, criteria that are not important to us may be important to the children, and there may be an obligation to choose a home that is not very suitable because our child wants it. We may also be influenced by this.
When we decide on the appropriate home for the child, we It should be said that from now on he will go to a school where he can play games, make friends and acquire new information, and one day he should just visit. It may be beneficial for visiting time to be a fun activity time for children. After visiting the entire nursery and introducing his/her own teacher, the nursery official can give the child information about the nursery. You should return on the first day without staying too long. It is especially appropriate for 3-year-old children not to stay in the nursery for more than 1-2 hours a day in the first week. In the second week it can be increased to 3-4 hours. If possible, it is more appropriate for the child to attend kindergarten half-time throughout the semester, or at least for 2 months. Because the all-day program may be too intense for 3-year-old children due to their lack of psychological maturation.
Asking the child too many questions, praising the nursery too much, paying too much attention to what he eats, frequently Going to the nursery and looking after it can disrupt the child's harmony. You should get information about the child from the nursery official when your child is not with you. Instead of overwhelming the child with questions, you can listen to him/her if he/she tells something and express how much you appreciate him/her and how proud you are of him/her for starting school.
Even when everything seems to be going well, one day your child may suddenly state that he/she does not want to go to kindergarten anymore. . You should try to understand what his problem is without panicking. Because children not wanting to go to kindergarten is usually not a problem with the nursery. Many reasons, such as the arrival of a new sibling, problems with the mother, or unrest at home, may cause the child to state that he does not want to go to kindergarten. In this case, you should contact the experts at the kindergarten and get help from them.
Is behavior such as being afraid of going to kindergarten, crying, or even feeling nauseous in the morning normal? What attitude should parents take in the face of such behavior?
A child over the age of 3 is expected to have the psychological maturity necessary to go to kindergarten. However, some children may have difficulties in separating from their mothers and therefore may be extremely resistant to going to kindergarten. Even this resistance is extreme network
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