A Montserrat kindergarten experience

Sheron C BURNS

Книга по Требованию

2010

978-3-8383-7758-2

A Montserrat kindergarten experience

In classrooms influenced by British colonial history, the teacher is the sole decision maker and knowledge expert while children were regarded as passive receptacles. A kindergarten teacher and her students in the British dependent territory of Montserrat, in the West Indies, challenged that perception. Children became active participants through the use of a variety of direct and indirect teaching approaches including play. The interests and abilities of the children were critical in determining the topics that were studied and the activities in which they were engaged. This meant that children played an important management role in the classroom and were in co-control with the teacher. Celebration of accomplishments was ongoing throughout the process and not merely a culminating activity. Teaching and learning were a collaboration between and among students and teacher. Children learned more than the mandated curriculum. The teacher also learned many valuable lessons about the children, the teaching-learning process, and herself as an educator, a researcher and a citizen of the world.

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English with pre-schoolers

Pavlina Borovska

Книга по Требованию

2010

978-3-8383-7195-5

English with pre-schoolers

I tried to explain the development of the children?s minds and their attitude towards learning. I tried to define the technique for teaching very young English learners, the involvement of parents, because they cannot be eliminated from the learning process, even at this level. And I tried to use the methods in my practice. I found that the lessons must be interactive and each activity must not be longer than fifteen minutes, otherwise the children start to get bored and do not pay attention. The support is not only on the teacher, the activities he chooses and the teacher?s praise, parents play very important role there as well.

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