What Gainesville Preschool Is Al About

By Douglas Turner


Preschools are spaces for learning or educational establishments that impart early childhood education in kids. Learners in these facilities range in age from three to five. Learners are meant to have some education that would make them ready for the mandatory learning in primary schools. In Gainesville preschool is also referred to by multiple other names such Grade 0, kindergarten, nursery school, pre-K, and pre-primary.

Preschool has its origin from an age when school was only restricted to children who already knew how to read and write from their homes. That restriction made it necessary to introduce a way of educating orphans and children whose mothers worked in factories. As such, Louise Scheppler and Johann Oberlin established a facility for educating children whose parents were not at home during daytime in 1779.

Shortly after the establishment of the facility headed by Oberlin and Scheppler, people in different location also started to establish similar schools. In 1816, a globally recognized facility was established in Scotland by Robert Owen. The goal of this facility was to prepare children for work by instilling good moral education to them. The facility succeeded in its goal because the children it produced had higher levels of literacy and numeracy.

According to findings by several studies, the years immediately after birth are very vital to learning. The human brain has higher ability to absorb information while still young in comparison to later years in life. Partly, this is because brain development is fastest in early years. When children are exposed to quality teachers and preschools, the resultant positive impact in the long-term improves their outcome in life.

Education in preschools covers a wide variety of subjects. Subjects covered tend to vary from one state to another. However, some general subjects covered in almost all preschools include physical development, mathematical awareness, physical health, creative and aesthetic development, teamwork, social skills, and play. Additional subjects include literacy, scientific thinking, world knowledge, listening, talking, communication including sign language, and personal development among others.

Most states have bodies for regulating many areas of pre-schooling. The bodies regulate student-teacher ratio, class size, curriculum assessment, administration, quality of classrooms, child-teacher interaction, and services available. Children at different ages are placed under different curricular. To ensure that facilities adhere to standards set by the government, regular inspections and evaluations are conducted.

Preschools are linked to many positive effects in children by many studies. Findings by some studies are very different. The University of Stanford and UC Berkeley carried out a study that associated these facilities with many detrimental effects. Pre-reading and mathematics are the two areas that are positively impacted while cooperation and social development are impacted negatively.

Because of the detrimental effects that some studies have proposed that preschools have on children, some people opt to home school their children. There are studies that concluded that the home environment has a bigger impact on future outcomes compared to preschool. That is part of the reasons why different preschools adopt different techniques of teaching. Common methods are Forest kindergartens, Bank Street, Waldorf, HighScope, Montessori, and Head Start among others.




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