PRESCHOOL CURRICULUM 21st century

What do you think of when you hear PRESCHOOL? Do you want to send you child? Are you sad? Do you want to control every environment your child will be in? Do you just want a break from your child? Worried? Happy? Stressed?

All emotions are valid. Talk yourself through this. It will be okay.  Some people think it is time to teach your child the ABC's. But before you you teach that we should be teaching them to identify feelings. MAD, HAPPY, SAD, EXCITED. This will help them to understand themselves. NOT the ABC's. And they are egocentric at this age any way. ABC's come naturally and so do most things kids need to learn.

Have you ever had a teacher teach a lesson and you didn't care for the content or their voice? Well, how do you think a kids feels? When a child is not interested they get up and run around. They leave the area. They do not sit still. I taught in the classroom and can tell you that there are some kids that will sit through a lesson and some kids will not. What do teachers do with the kids that won't sit? Get a $379 CUBE chair and make them sit. Give them a toy in the cube chair so they do not disturb the other children. That child is getting nothing out of it. The other children may get something out of it. Are they listening? 

Education needs reforming. The younger kids are always on the back burner of getting help. Colleges are starting to recognize that Freshman need support because of the high drop out rate and suicide rate. And high schools are trying to help kids. Middle school is starting to have calming rooms and grade school has more psychologist and calming rooms for students and teachers. And Preschool is Preschool. 

Obviously, kids and adult need some more help with the sky-rocketing anxiety and suicide rate. Let's teach kids how to recognize anxiety before it becomes habitual thought. Help them develop skills before it's a problem. DBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, is a new therapy that teaches that you can cope and there may be more than one truth. Everything isn't black and white. If we look at Piaget's theory 

We learn that he found 4 specific stages we learn from.

Now. If we are the genius human's that we claim to be wouldn't we perfect education by now. No. We know a lot but the only education system that follows Piaget's theory is the Swiss. They start formal education at age 7. In the United States they start at 5. Preschool is optional in the US and Kindergarten is optional in some states (Utah). With our knowledge of our learning stages the United States Education System still doesn't listen to the specialist. They continue to begin teaching kids younger and younger. 

What happens if a child skips a stage of learning? What if he doesn't get enough sensorimotor experiences?

A child will not skip a stage of Piaget's theory. Does that mean that we must go through each phase. In my experience if a child doesn't get sensorimotor, they are still in that phase for a while longer. 

Do they move on to the next stage? Do we still believe kids are capable of Formal Operational Stage in the 21st century? Kids are much more immature than in the 20th century. 

So the reason we can't perfect being a human is because as soon as we figure out what it means, it changes!

However, the Sensorimotor has not changed much. Baby Einstein tried to mess with this stage by teaching babies to talk on the television.  

It didn't work.

So! All this points to teaching kids more...

Here is my curriculum. 

So have fun and remember all this above means PLAY WITH YOUR CHILDREN.