So today I wanted to talk a little bit about this article that I was directed towards about the changes in present day kindergarten.
I thought this was relevant to my topic Early Childhood Education (ECE) because kindergarten is under the umbrella of ECE and concerns my overall EQ.
Ms. Wendy Lecker, Education Columnist for Hearst Connecticut Media Group talks about the changes she is seeing in classrooms nowadays. While education reformers are trying to improve how students perform and ignore how students are learning which is sadly seen more prominently in kindergarten. Allowing a child to lead their own activity has dropped and direct instruction has increased. So these teachers are now holding all children at the same standard which seems silly because it is well-known that not everyone is the same especially not children who are barely starting to learn and explore.
She goes on to talk about the different opinions of child development experts and how they see this as silly because they understand that children can only learn what their brains are ready to absorb.
Is it really worth showing young children new concepts at a very young age where they just memorize it instead of understanding it?
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