Understanding the Principles and Practices of Early Childhood Education
What does it mean that “the activities and work projects should be treated with global interest and significance for the children?”
Structured educational and learning of children in different areas or areas of expertise and development is a complex and always controversial. It is essential to take into account the totality with which the children act and learn, so the activities and work projects should be treated globalized. However, those educators to facilitate the identification of content and activities that children should take to achieve the objectives, content grouped in the following areas of expertise and development:
- Discovery of self and other.
- Discovery of the environment.
- Communication and Languages.
What are the general principles of the curriculum of the first cycle of infant education?
The Catalan language as a teaching and learning
The first cycle of infant education is organized in accordance with the principles of inclusive education and coeducadora
The educational activity must ensure the integration of the diverse experiences of children, promote their overall development and adaptation to their evolutionary rate.
Whenever possible, coordination must be established with the second cycle of infant education
Coordination with the second cycle
Integrating the diverse experiences of children, promote their development and adaptation to the rhythm.
Organized in two cycles: 0 to 3 years Early childhood education for 3 to 6 anysàprimer
What does “the 1st cycle of infant education is organized in accordance with the principles of inclusive education and coeducadora?
Should put special attention to the diversity of children, early detection of the specific educational needs, intervention in the development difficulties, as soon as detected, and close cooperation between schools and families.
Coeducadora: means for equal education without discrimination
Inclusive: full integration of any child without discrimination or inequality as disability, religious beliefs, race, …
What are the governing bodies and participation of a school? Explains who made
The school board: the compound the director, members of the management team, the representatives of teachers and educators, parent representative, a representative council, a representative of non-teaching staff
The faculty is made up of the educational team: comprising the director, most educators are nothing to the education team.
Direction: up to the director
The association of parents of students: the members who have given up voluntarily or have been chosen
That is, who composes and performs functions which the school board?
The school board: the compound the director, members of the management team, the representatives of teachers and educators, parent representative, a representative council, a representative of non-teaching staff and their functions are: adoption and evaluation of the organizational documents center, participate in the selection of the director of the center, ensuring that the actions of the center to remain within the law, intervene in the conservation and renovation of school facilities, to decide on the admission of students, promote quality improvement in managing the performance of one school.
What is PEC? What information it contains? Calls which documents are related? Why?
The PEC is the project’s educational center, joins the set of principles and decisions made by the entire school community, respect for basic educational options and general aspects of the center. Contains the identity, the general objectives organizational structure. Are related to the proposed educational center, the plan of living, the language project and the project quality.
Used for: setting the general framework of action and from this, it n’estructurarà everyday life. Describe the characteristics of the center and includes some key documents to organize educational and coexistence.
What parts have the PEC? Explaining briefly.
Signs of identity attempts to answer the question: Who are we as a school? History and geographical location, administrative and legal framework: whether public or private, whether concerted or private, that serves as the ages: the first cycle studied all the other stage or stages of education and ideological principles.
General objectives: kill or goals that represent the center as such, will get raises. It aims to answer the question that aims at the center? Define objectives of character education relating to human resources, institutional and government in the economic and administrative.
Organisational structure: Refers to how to organize the operation of a center. Includes relations of hierarchy and communication flows established between different persons or bodies involved in managing the center. To answer the question How do we organize? Management, computer experts in education and non-teaching staff.
Lists the documents comprising the PEC. Explaining briefly.
The proposed teaching: planning, preparation and evaluation team will correspond education should be based on the analysis of context, in tune with the identity and be aimed at achieving the general objectives
The coexistence plan: to start drawing up a commission to be coexistence (director, a member of the education team, a representative of the AMPA and a specialized professional)
The Language Project: extension of the principles that determine the identity but can generate a document itself within the PEC
The project quality: require a separate committee, with specific goals and following the guidelines and requirements of an external consulting firm will be confirming that the center meets quality parameters.
What is the project language center? Define it briefly.
Project language: it is an extension of the principles that determine the identity but given its importance, can generate a document itself within the PEC.
What is the Plan de Convivencia? Why do you think is important in a nursery? What aspects contemplates?
Plan for coexistence: to start the process must constitute a committee of living in the center, formed usually by director, a member of the educational team, a representative of AMPA and a specialized professional who will speak when his presence is required.This committee is responsible for proposal preparation and evaluation of the Plan Living Center. The Commission will draw up the Plan de Convivencia from its own reality and setting targets for improvement which will be included in the annual general programming.
What is the Internal Regulations?
Interior Regulation: a document that governs the organization and functioning of living downtown. This document should include all the rules to ensure compliance plan living set on PEC
Do you think it is important to develop a language project? As it relates to the PEC?
Yes, because the document is explicit on all aspects of treatment, education and language use. It is related to the PEC for multilingual classrooms of many schools
Explain the purpose of educational commitment letter (see the guidelines regarding the letter of commitment from the start of the course manual)
The purpose of the letter of commitment is to promote communication, participation, involvement and engagement between schools and families in the education of children and youth.
- Improving information and communication between school and families
- Share with students and families with the principles and contents of the PEC.
- Provide students and families to exercise their rights and fulfilling obligations.
- Linking the school and family
- Promote a sense of belonging for students and families
- Promote organizational formulas that favor the involvement of families in the faith education.
- Encourage a coherent educational agents
- Promote peaceful coexistence and good school climate.
Involve families in the adoption of alternative or complementary educational measures that are appropriate to meet the specific needs of students