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WORKSHEETS MATHEMATICAL ACTIVITY SIX YEAR OLD CHILD
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| Principle |
Suggested Practice |
Inappropriate Practice |
Suggested Strategies |
| Social relationships are an important context
for learning. |
| All participants consider
and contribute to each other's well-being. Each child is valued;
children learn to respect and acknowledge differences in abilities
and talents and value each person for their strengths. |
Children allowed to work together.
Alone and group time allowed.
Involvement and fairness are emphasized. |
Children punished for comparing
solutions.
Adult uses power to reward acceptable behavior. |
Use a rotational buddy learning
system.
Allow trading.
Recognize kids who praise each other.
Cross-age partnering. |
| The adult develops children's interests
by introducing ideas, problems, experiences, or hypotheses while
increasing difficulty or challenge as children develop new skill
and understanding. |
Adult plans environment with enough
materials and activities for the children in the group.
Activities to allow independence planned. |
Expect children to work silently. |
Build knowledge in small steps.
Plan out learning environment in advance of children's arrival.
Plan multiple activities using a variety of skills: tapes, visual,
matching pictures, puzzles, building, acting, creating, manipulating... |
| Adults help children build
their knowledge with many different learning strategies including
but not limited to modeling, collaborating, co-constructing,
mentoring, coaching, instructing, observing, experimenting, and
cooperating with peers. |
Adults guide youth in choosing,
deciding.
Child models adult enthusiasm. |
Adults use adult directed activities
only.
Group size too large for adult ratio. |
Maintain low adult: child ratio.
Optimum in group learning is 1:8.
When children are with animals, a much lower ratio is necessary,
particularly for safety! |
| Children learn in an organized
environment that is dynamic, but predictable and comprehensible
from a child's point of view. |
A range of activities planned. |
Chaotic environment. |
Identify suitable meeting location
with adequate space, child sized, room to move around.
Use clinics, petting zoo, dress-up gaming with no particular
winner. |
Curriculum
| Principle |
Suggested Practice |
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| Curriculum enables children
to develop strategies for constructing and representing knowledge
and supports the child in making meaning out of their experiences. |
Children work in small flexible
groups.
Whole group time used to build a sense of community and shared
purpose. |
Child's work is measured by
their conformity to rigid standards. |
Encourage small groups of 2-4 to
work together.
Organize concrete learning activities.
Build learning upon what is already known. |
| Curriculum strengthens children's
sense of competence and enjoyment of learning by providing experiences
for children to succeed from their point of view. |
Positive feelings toward learning
nurtured.
Adults alert to over stimulation, excitement, fear.
Manageable schedule with learning reinforced in several ways. |
Children's first effort perceived
as their best effort.
Pre-mature expectations of skill level.
"Placings" have much less importance to younger children. |
Be flexible enough to change plans
if energy level is not as expected.
Explain schedule for meeting/time together so children know what
to expect.
Involve group in making rules, plans, schedules.
Allow curriculum to evolve out of own curiosity. |
| Child-centered environments
are planned so children can learn through exploration and interaction
with materials, adults and other children. |
Use of redirection and clear limits
and modeling to guide behavior.
Talk about reasonable expectations for the child so as not to
overwhelm.
Physical safety and emotional safety are most important to these
children. |
Passive, sitting, listening, waiting
activities.
Demeaning children who misbehave.
Boring, uninteresting, unchallenging experiences lower internal
motivation to learn. |
Use storytelling, photos, posters.
Use learning centers.
Explain what is expected. Transition from one activity to another
can cause chaos. Be creative with lighting, music, movement,
warning of changes.
Consider range of development.
Use puppets to talk about feelings about activities. |
| A wide range (at least 12
months) of developmental interests, with a variety of challenging
levels, is considered when planning for learning. |
Social interaction of children to
develop understanding of concepts.
Plan for whole child (social, physical, cognitive). |
Adults underestimate children's
attention spans.
Overuse of time out. |
Consider the social child, the active
child, small motor, large motor.
Remember cognitive principles.
Keep "group" teaching in minimum. |
| Adults function as facilitators
interacting through questioning, suggesting, adding more complex
materials, listening, and observing. |
Youth select from among an array
of activities available.
Adult moves among groups and individuals to facilitate questions,
offers suggestion, add more complex materials or ideas.
Judges are seen as helpers of learning. |
Adult dominated environment, or
passive adult with no assistance.
Rote memorization and drill emphasized. |
Learn to move within the group,
rather than just using lecture mode.
Think mind, body, self, emotions when planning.
Design a choice board for each child to work through options
over time at their own pace.
Youth recognize judges and thank them for assisting. |
Partnerships between the Home and the Early Childhood Environment
| Principle |
Appropriate Practice |
Inappropriate Practice |
Suggested Strategies |
| Parents share in decisions
about their child's care and education. |
Parents counsel sought regularly. |
Parents involved only when
there is a conflict, or group needs money and resources. |
Develop a parent committee just
for 5-8 year-old planning.
Parents are valued, recognized. |
| Adults share observations,
resources, and insights as a part of regular communication with
family members. |
Adults who interact with child
discuss his/her interests, skills, needs. |
Little knowledge of child
outside of one environment. |
Schedule family outings, field trips
to child's home if invited.
Create family album of project. |
| Parents have opportunities
to be included in the educational program to the extent possible. |
Partnerships built with parents.
Involve parent in positive ways. |
Blame parent when child has
difficulty. |
Parents can benefit from program
too.
Have parents involved in learning centers/stations. |
Assessment of the Child
| Principle |
Appropriate Practice |
Inappropriate Practice |
Suggested Strategies |
| Many pieces of information
are used before making teaching decisions. |
Parents, teachers, child are
sources of information to use in planned learning. |
A systematic scale or test is sole
criterion for decisions.
A culminating judging event used to evaluate child's progress. |
Ask colleague to observe and give
feedback.
Involve parents as partners of a child other than own - rotate
kids. |
| Observation of the child is
used in making decisions about aptitudes and abilities; standardized
tests alone are not the only determining placement factors for
a child. |
Multiple methods are used to praise
child.
Intermittent use of outside observation.
Children learn to understand and correct errors.
Children allowed to progress at their own rate. |
Participation in activities obtained
by extrinsic reward or threat of punishment.
Child's progress compared to peer group; not to child's previous
work.
Children are expected to change to fit program. |
Keep index card file or computer
disk of child's learning. Allow them to do narrative input.
Display work without reward for parents, in store windows, bulletin
boards.
Provide means to learn from errors. |
| Gender, culture, and socioeconomic
standards are taken into consideration when finding out the developmental
expectations of the child. |
Creative solutions sought to create
opportunities for involvement.
Build on strengths each person offers. |
Exclude some from activities due
to gender, class or culture.
See different as negative, nonconformity. |
Seek ways to be inclusive.
Learn about all children. Learn new ways from building on strengths.
Be sensitive to language for gender sensitivity.
Build a group history chart, showing knowledge gained as a group
over time.
Watch children for ideas for activities. |
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