Longitudinal Benefits of kindergarten

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Subject Area:Education

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Canada is among the countries that aim to establish kindergartens in almost all areas to ensure that employed parents have the opportunity to ensure that their children grow like other children in the neighborhoods. Kindergartens prepare children for schooling and play a major role in determining the academic prowess of children at later stages of life. Though certain groups of individuals have opposed the existence of kindergartens, kindergartens have been said to have a long time benefit ratio compared to the risks involved. Among the benefits that are alongside kindergarten, attendance includes self-confidence, better socialization lower costs of childcare as they are taken care of at lower prices and easy transition to first grade. Kindergartens produce children with great academic equity. Female children have also been found to have better performance in mathematics if they were subjected to full-day kindergarten when young.

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Although the concepts of full-day kindergarten may be least understood, it needs to be noted that the full-day kindergarten attendance have both the long-term and short-term benefits. On various researches done, it has been determined that kindergarten has made great impact on the lives of most children in terms of knowing how to adapt to their social lives (Fusaro, 1997). It has been determined that children who attended full-day kindergarten have lower incidences of drug abuse and teen pregnancies (Fusaro, 1997). This is tied to the fact that they have learnt the art of adopting into various procedures that are necessary in ensuring that they are responsible for their actions. A study on the outcome faring depends on the societal behaviors of the children, and it has been associated with improved societal outcomes due to understanding the art of socialization at a tender age (Belsky et al.

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It is important to try to understand the behaviors that result from kindergarten attendance to determine whether it is important to attend kindergarten or not. Kindergarten gives an opportunity for an individual to attend to their duties within a short period after giving birth. The importance of Kindergarten Age It has been determined that children have different requirements at their different ages of growth and this determines whether they should attend kindergarten or not. The best age for children to begin their schooling has been a major issue of debate among parents, administrators, and educators over quite a long time (Belsky et al. The researches that try to fathom the relationships between the ages and the school performance had been extracted from the national data bases. The major aims of studying the relationship between age and the kindergarten performance are to determine the long-term effects of attending kindergarten at the appropriate ages.

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Attending kindergarten at the right age have been determined to have the most appropriate social outcomes that the kindergarten is expected to breed among students as they are going to be confident in the surrounding of their peers. Older individuals at the kindergarten are likely to be bullies and control who are below them making them ignorant. Younger individuals are likely to be bullied, and this makes them have lower self-esteem. At the kindergarten, children are taught about the alphabetical letters and their sounds, and they are expected to master them (Elicker & Mathur, 1997). They are able to recognize the letters written in both upper and lower cases and are expected to be able to be able to read short words like the and in. At home, parents are expected to constantly read loudly to their children to enable them to be able to master the various sounds taught at school.

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It has been determined that parents reading together with their children helps in building their companion and makes reading more fun. Such children are bale to have a well-built concentration, and this reflects a higher academic performance in the end (Elicker & Mathur, 1997). Teachers and parents have a common expectation of what children should be able to learn when they are at the kindergarten level (Betawi, 2013). Researches explain that the probability that a child is likely to meet the behavioral expectations of their teachers is likely to influence the ways that they are likely to perform in later stages in life. Meeting the expectations of teachers at the kindergarten level is associated with good performance at later levels in life. The children who are able to reach the social and academic performance of schools are likely to get closer to their children and have lower probabilities of failing to reach their target at any given time (Betawi, 2013).

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The closers relationships between teachers and students due to their good performances are likely to make the children have good behavioral changes that would greatly help them at later stages in life. The behaviors of the gender they interact with during their early ages are likely to make them like or hate a given gender. It has been documented that the early childhood experiences are likely to greatly influence the socioemotional response of children at various stages of their development. The way teacher’s nature children in their academic fields are likely to determine whether they are likely to prefer the schooling systems or not social (Claessens, 2012). Harsh teaching environments are likely to determine whether the child would be able to enjoy their learning or not. It has been determined on the environment provided at early stages, children are likely to have performed decisions through schooling, and this might greatly influence the way they are going to perform in their academics at later stages.

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References Belsky, J. Vandell, D. L. Burchinal, M. Clarke‐Stewart, K. Kindergarten child care experiences and child achievement and socioemotional skills. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(3), 365-375. Elicker, J. Mathur, S. What do they do all day? Comprehensive evaluation of a full-day kindergarten.

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