Welcome Back!
If you are here on Day 2 without going through Day 1 we would urge you to go through the Day 1 Topic and reflect upon it and then get back here.
Did you reflect upon yesterday’s topic “Prime areas of Development? Did you try to find out more about it? If yes, that clearly shows that you are curious to know more about it. If not, do not worry. Let us get into the Day 2 reading.
This will offer you a quick look into the specific areas of growth, development and learning. The specific areas grow out of prime areas, and provide important contexts for learning
What Specific Areas?
Specific areas: Literacy
As children develop speaking and listening skills they build the foundations for literacy, for making sense of visual and verbal signs and ultimately for reading and writing.
Specific areas: Mathematics
Children’s mathematical development occurs as they seek and explore patterns, make connections and recognize relationships, working with quantities, numbers and counting, with sorting, matching, classifying and sequencing with shapes etc
Specific areas: Understanding the world
Children learn and make sense about the world around them through a variety of opportunities to encounter people, plants, creatures, objects in their natural environments and real-life situations; undertake practical experiments, and work with a range of materials.
Specific areas: Expressive arts and design
Children explore and share their thoughts, ideas, feelings, for example, through a variety of art, music, movements, dance, imaginative and role-play activities, mathematics, and design and technology.
Reflective Questions
Are there more specific areas or they are the off shoots of the one discussed here?
How will this knowing about specific areas would help me in becoming an effective preschool educator?
How are these specific areas linked to the prime areas of development?
Am I interested in knowing more about this?
When you take the Nursery Teacher’s Training Course: Certificate in Early Childhood Education you go deeper in these specific areas and more including the practical exploration.
Registrations are open for the batch commencing on 16 Aug. Visit www.sakalyawisdom.org/ntt for further details.
About the author: Lt Col Bincy K Thomas (Retd) is the Co-founder and Director of Sakalya Wisdom Foundation, an organisation committed to design and offer meaningful educational services and activities. She is the Director of Sakalya Prep, The Holistic Preschool, Whitefield Bangalore. She is the Trainer and Pedagogy Expert in Sakalya Centre for Professional Development, training Centre for Teachers Professional Development, School Leaders Development Programs and Parenting Programs. She is researching into creating a dynamic holistic early childhood pedagogy. Presently She is pursuing Certificate in Early Education Leadership from Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA. Other areas of her interests are world mythologies, philosophy, social, emotional and spiritual development, leadership, gardening etc.
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