To a young student, knowledge of how is much better than memorization. It is the street-level, versatile ability to solve problems, to learn and approach the problem with a can-do attitude. This is the combination of expertise, tactics and attitude that is required, and this is the ultimate aim of early childhood education. This basic know-how is the key to our strategy at Elizabeth Fraley Kinder Ready. Our Kinder Ready Tutoring program is a specialized program that is more than just instruction, to the extent of developing cognitive tools and inner confidence to enable children to become capable and independent learners.
The way to true know-how starts with a discovery of personalized kinds. Each child has a set of interests and strengths that are different. Kinder Ready Elizabeth Fraley’s mission aims at exposing children to various forms of learning so that they can know what interests them. This is a critical first step. When learning can relate to the inborn inquisitiveness of a child, building, storytelling, nature, and patterns, then the interest level skyrockets.
During our individual classes, teachers effectively exploit these passions as a portal. A dinosaur-obsessed child could sort them by size (an early math skill) or could learn letters by matching the letters with the names of dinosaurs. This approach means that the new knowledge is not pushed but rather built by the child, and thus it is more adhesive and significant.
Now that interest is the driving force, the second step is to construct the particular cognitive instruments which are know-how. This involves such executive functions as working memory, cognitive flexibility, and self-control. Kinder Ready Tutoring incorporates activities that are specifically aimed at strengthening these mental muscles. Crafts that may require three steps to be followed, organizing items into a few groups based on various qualities, and waiting until it is your turn in a game are all activities of executive functioning.
These are the skills that a child will use later on to arrange their thoughts in order to write an assignment, and manage time in order to complete a project or work with other peers. With the help of all these processes practiced in a non-stressful environment, children learn how to think and learn.
Finally, confidence solidifies real expertise. A child can know something but still fail to use it because they do not believe in themself. The Elizabeth Fraley Kinder Ready philosophy lays great emphasis on the development of this self-confidence. Our teachers use specific and process-related praise, which is concerned with effort and strategy: “I like the way you tried a different approach when that piece did not fit. This inculcates the spirit of growth, as children learn that the more they practice, the better they get, and that errors are useful criticism. This strong sense of confidence is the last, and essential element of know-how, which changes the knowledge not only as an object of possession, but as an instrument of exploration.
Combining individualized interest, strategy competency-building and undying confidence-building, Kinder Ready Tutoring offers a holistic guide in know-how building. We not only equip young learners with kindergarten information, but with versatile intelligence and self-confidence to face any further academic and life challenges. It is a comprehensive growth that acquired the name of Elizabeth Fraley Kinder Ready as its champion, so that children do not enter the classroom and the world as passive receptacles, but as able, interested, and self-assured young minds that will approach everything they meet.
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