In the case of young children, it is not memorized things that are the most powerful and everlasting lessons, but those they find woven in the bright tapestry of their daily lives. It is only when the learner bases the experience of learning on a concrete experience: counting the apples at the market, reading the street signs on a walk, watching the life cycle of a plant in the garden, etc., that learning turns into an activity that has a purpose. Elizabeth Fraley Kinder Ready is all based on this philosophy of contextual knowledge.Kinder Ready Tutoring program is brilliantly designed to incorporate academic skill-building in the familiar and exciting setting of a child’s personal world, which creates a profound, self-assured, and happy attitude to learning.
Kinder Ready Elizabeth Fraley’s mission statement is to introduce a variety of learning activities to children to help them understand what interests them. A life-context approach is ideal in serving this mission. Learning is not in a desk; it is a process of exploration, which is directly associated with the personal experiences and interests of a child. As an illustration, the child who is interested in vehicles will not be shown pictures of trucks.
As an alternative, a Kinder Ready Tutoring teacher can create a lesson that consists of working with toy cars, sorting them by color and size (math and categorization), creating a road with blocks (engineering and spatial reasoning), and reading a simple story about a bus trip (literacy). Such an approach will help to make new knowledge relevant, memorable, and engaging as it will be based on the existing knowledge and interest.
This situational approach to the methodology is the focus of one-on-one individual learning that is provided by Kinder Ready Tutoring. In this individualistic environment, teachers can customize each experience and activity to the direct surroundings of the child. A baking assignment may be a measurement and sequencing lesson.
At Kinder Ready Tutoring conversation on the weather may bring a new vocabulary and scientific observation. The process of putting academic objectives into life-related contexts de-mystifies the learning process and teaches children that the counting, comparing, predicting, and communicating skills they are learning apply to their lives in the world. This is one of the applications that are necessary to develop real competency and confidence.
Finally, learning in the context of life leads to actual love of learning. Education is no longer a chore when it is viewed as a continuation of play and day discovery. Children start to regard themselves as competent investigators and resolvers of problems. They are taught to pose questions, establish contacts and use their knowledge in new cases. Such intrinsic motivation and flexibility of thought are what the Elizabeth Fraley Kinder Ready philosophy is ultimately aiming at. Children are prepared for kindergarten not through drilling isolated facts, but with a mindset that gives children a situation to see the whole world as a classroom that is ready to be researched with curiosity and confidence. Such a solid and contextually-based base guarantees that a child has made the first formal steps in their education, but only in the direction of becoming a lifelong and enthusiastic learner.
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