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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually the new thinking is we need to move away from the PreK model. We are over educating our kids... meaning we are forcing children into specific structured didactic with ever increasing worse results. Children are learning dependence not independence. We have expanded helicopter parenting to helicopter life from nearly cradle to post college. Kids need unsupervised play to develop properly.[/quote]

This is the reasoning behind play-based preschools, but I haven't heard that it should be applied to at-risk children as well as UMC children.  [/quote]

Even play-based preschools are not based on "unsupervised" play.  It's "unstructured" play or guided play, as opposed to work sheets and didactic teaching of letters, numbers, colors, etc.  You let kids play with blocks and then ask them what color blocks they chose and why and how tall is their tower and do they think they can add one more block and now lets count again and see how many there are now.  Or you let kids play with a computer and they ask you to spell different words that are meaningful to them (their names, sibling's names, superheroes, whatever they're into) and you help them spell out the words and print them in different colors.  Or you have class plants and it's someone's job to water them and you talk about why plants need water to grow and experiment with a plant kept in the dark closet and a plant kept at the window and ask them what happened and why they think that might be.  As opposed to "this week is about the letter B, lets all color in worksheets of things that begin with the letter B."  Kids learn by play but also by interacting with their caregivers in a stimulating environment where their curiosity is encouraged and built upon by the adults in charge.[/quote]

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