Transition to Kindergarten: Reaching Back to Preschoolers and Parents through Shared Summer School

Autor/inn/en	Dail, Alanna Rochelle; McGee, Lea M.
Titel	Transition to Kindergarten: Reaching Back to Preschoolers and Parents through Shared Summer School
Quelle	In: Childhood Education, 84 (2008) 5, S.305 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-4056
Schlagwörter	Summer Schools; Preschool Children; Preschool Education; Kindergarten; Transitional Programs; Disadvantaged Youth; Parent Participation; Small Group Instruction; Day Programs; Teaching Methods; Team Teaching; Preschool Teachers; Parent School Relationship; Class Activities + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Summer school; Sommerkurs; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Elternmitwirkung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Teamteaching; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung
Abstract	Making the transition from preschool to kindergarten is a milestone in a young child's life, and it does not always go smoothly. Consequently, the authors developed Shared Summer School, a unique approach to kindergarten transition, in which preschool and kindergarten teachers jointly taught children prior to their kindergarten entry. Shared Summer School was a half-day program that lasted for six weeks, with classes held five days a week. Over two summers, five preschool and four kindergarten teachers and 60 entering kindergartners participated in this program, housed in one elementary school. Children from a local child care, Head Start, and pre-kindergarten program who were considered most at risk for school failure were invited to participate. The threefold purpose of this program was to develop supportive relationships between local kindergarten teachers in the community elementary school and preschool children and their families, provide a seamless transition in activities and teaching approach from late preschool to early kindergarten, and increase the social and academic skills of children most at risk for school failure. After two years of Shared Summer School, reports from the parents, teachers, and the elementary school principal suggest that two activities--small-group instruction and school-home morning message--most influenced parental involvement and changed kindergarten teachers' instruction. This article further describes those two activities. (Contains 1 figure.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10