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Der Übergang vom Kindergarten in die Volkschule wird in der Bildungslandschaft seit langem diskutiert, beforscht und aus verschiedenen Perspektiven beleuchtet. Nicht nur für die Kinder, sondern auch für deren Familien und Pädagog/innen ist Transition mit Herausforderungen, vielen Erfahrungen und neuen Aufgaben verbunden. Dieser Tagungsband beschäftigt sich mit Kooperationsmöglichkeiten und gelebten Praxen in beiden Institutionen. Anhand von Konzepten zu Transitionen, Umgang mit Diversität und sprachlicher Vielfalt, unterschiedlichen Tools und gesammelten Erfahrungen zur Zusammenarbeit richtet sich dieser Sammelband an alle an einer systemischen Vernetzung Interessierten.

Engage students in mathematics using growth mindset techniques The most challenging parts of teaching mathematics are engaging students and helping them understand the connections between mathematics concepts. In this volume, you'll find a collection of low floor, high ceiling tasks that will help you do just that, by looking at the big ideas at the kindergarten-grade level through visualization, play, and investigation. During their work with tens of thousands of teachers, authors Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, and Cathy Williams heard the same message—that they want to incorporate more brain science into their math instruction, but they need guidance in the techniques that work best to get across the concepts they needed to teach. So the authors designed Mindset Mathematics around the principle of active student engagement, with tasks that reflect the latest brain science on learning. Open, creative, and visual math tasks have been shown to improve student test scores, and more importantly change their relationship with mathematics and start believing in their own potential. The tasks in Mindset Mathematics reflect the lessons from brain science that: There is no such thing as a math person - anyone can learn mathematics to high levels. Mistakes, struggle and challenge are the most important times for brain growth. Speed is unimportant in mathematics. Mathematics is a visual and beautiful subject, and our brains want to think visually about mathematics. With engaging questions, open-ended tasks, and four-color visuals that will help kids get excited about mathematics, Mindset Mathematics is organized around nine big ideas which emphasize the connections within the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and can be used with any current curriculum.

This text provides a comprehensive analysis of historical archives, letters, and primary sources to offer unique insight into how Fröbel's pedagogy of kindergarten and play has been understood, interpreted, and modified throughout history and in particular, as a consequence of it's adoption in the US.Tracing the development, modification, and global spread of the kindergarten movement, this volume demonstrates the far-reaching impacts of Fröbel's work, and asks how far contemporary understandings of the kindergarten pedagogy reflect the educationalist's original intentions. Recognizing that Fröbel's pedagogy has at times been simplified or misunderstood, the book tackles issues caused by translation, or transfer to non-German speaking countries such as the US, and so demonstrates how and why contemporary research and Froebelian practice is in the danger of diverging from the original ideas expressed in Fröbel's work. By returning to original documents produced by Fröbel, Wasmuth traces various interpretations, and explains how and why some of these understandings established themselves in the context of US Early Childhood Education, whilst others did not.This insightful text will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academics, professionals and policy makers in the fields of early childhood education, history of education, Philosophy of Education and Teacher Education.

Come deve avvenire l'inserimento del bambino all'asilo nido? Come deve svolgersi la sua giornata? Come deve essere strutturato lo spazio delle sue attività? Come gestire i rapporti con la famiglia? Quali sono cioè le «buone prassi» da recuperare o da inventare per la primissima educazione? Questo libro - ri-edizione di Nido d'infanzia 1 - offre numerosi spunti e materiali di lavoro, ma non vuol essere un semplice prontuario dell'educatore. La riflessione dell'autore si rivolge prima di tutto alle fondamenta del sistema educativo al nido, proponendo un metodo oltre che una tecnica. Ecco perché la prima questione non sarà come educare il bambino ma piuttosto come formare l'educatore. Cruciali saranno inoltre la ricerca dei fini educativi (il cui raggiungimento soltanto può validare pratiche e modelli), la definizione di competenza come capacità di adattamento, le tematiche dell'automonitoraggio e della documentazione. Non un semplice manuale, ma una vera e propria occasione per conoscere il nido d'infanzia e ripensarlo, un libro per educarsi a educare.

Bildungshäuser sind Verbünde von Kindergarten und Grundschule mit dem Ziel, Kindern eine bruchlose Bildungsbiographie zu ermöglichen, indem ein möglichst fließender Übergang zwischen Kindergarten und Grundschule geschaffen wird. Zudem sollen die pädagogischen Lehr- und Fachkräfte aus Kindergarten und Schule durch die gemeinsame Planung, Durchführung und Reflexion der Bildungshausaktivitäten in ihren Aufgaben profitieren und sich gegenseitig bereichern. An annähernd 200 Standorten werden gemeinsame, institutions- und jahrgangsübergreifende Spiel- und Lernangebote erarbeitet und umgesetzt. Diese Publikation stellt heraus, welchen Mehrwert diese Kooperation für die einzelnen Beteiligten, die Kinder, die Erzieher/innen und Lehrer/innen, die Eltern sowie die Institutionen, und auf bildungspolitischer/gesellschaftlicher Ebene bietet. Anhand von Geschichten aus den Bildungshäusern in Baden-Württemberg werden lebendige Einblicke in das Geschehen ermöglicht.

Today's kindergarten teachers face enormous challenges to reach district-mandated academic standards. This book presents a model for 21st-century kindergartens that is rooted in child-centered learning and also shaped by the needs and goals of the present day. Classroom teachers working with diverse populations of students and focusing on issues of social justice provide vivid descriptions of classroom life across urban and rural communities. Teacher reflections and commentary from the editors link teacher decisions to principles of good practice. Teaching Kindergarten illustrates how a progressive, learning-centered approach can not only meet the equity and accountability goals of the Common Core State Standards but go well beyond that to educate the whole child.Book Features:Rich examples of learner-centered teaching in diverse public school settings.Depictions of integrated curricula in science, social studies, math, arts, and language arts that address Common Core and other standards.Connections to recent developmental research and pedagogy.Programs promoting social and cultural awareness.Photographs of children's projects and a list of children's books.“The teachers you are about to read tell stories no one has heard before, at a time when it is difficult to hear the individual voices in the classroom. No grade level needs this soul-searching examination more than kindergarten. This book maps a remarkable number of journeys toward this goal. I hope teachers will be inspired to add their own voices to the process of renewal.”—Vivian Gussin Paley, internationally renowned educator, author, and classroom teacher“We need this book. It speaks eloquently to what good practice looks like in real schools, as well as what it means to be a good teacher. These are stories of amazing educators whose work addresses what equity is all about—starting with 5 year olds. It's too bad the next 12 years of school are not more like these kindergarten classrooms.”—Deborah Meier, education activist, senior scholar at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education

In this book, the authors discuss the teaching methods, expectations and current challenges in kindergarten education. Topics include designing educational material for early childhood mathematics education; additive bilingualism of immigrant children; evolution of graphomotor parameters in kindergartner's handwriting; multisensory handwriting curriculum enhancing kindergarten skills; family environment as a predictor of behavioral competencies in early elementary years; an exploration of meaning in young children's images and designs; and first aid training in the kindergarten.

Nursery World Awards 2012 winner! This stimulating book brings together contributions from distinguished practitioners, who demonstrate how they have used educational methods advocated by Froebel in contemporary settings. Stressing the importance of outdoor play, they explore the Froebelian principles of: -Play -Learning through firsthand experience -Parent partnership and community in early childhood -Practitioners supporting children′s interests and learning -Finger rhymes and action songs -Movement -The garden and forests -Wooden blockplay -Use of clay, paint, junk modelling, construction kits The book emphasises how learning and the application of knowledge become possible through play. It contrasts the Froebel approach with the methods such as Montessori, Steiner and recent approaches to play such as post-Modern ′playfulness′. This book is relevant to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Early Childhood Education, as well as students following QTS and EYPS, PGCE, CPD and BEd courses. Tina Bruce CBE is an Honorary Visiting Professor in Early Childhood at the University of Roehampton.

Mateřská škola a obecně výchova v předškolním věku mohou významně přispět k rozvoji dítěte. Učitelky i rodiče by měli mít k dispozici poznatky na úrovni soudobého poznání psychologie a souvisejících vědních oborů. Předkládaná publikace našich předních odborníků jednak shrnuje nové pohledy na tradiční otázky psychologie a pedagogiky předškolního věku (například výuka čtení, integrace postižených), jednak zařazuje nová aktuální témata (dítě imigrantů v mateřské škole, stimulování citového vývoje, rozvoj sociálních kompetencí).