Essays on Kindergarten

The article, Kindergarten Teachers Speak Out: “Too Much, Too Soon, Too Fast!” presented Kindergarten teachers’ responses about the current state of Michigan kindergartens in 2009. The author, Patricia Gallant, did a survey on the said topic and discussed the current kindergarten teaching experience and highlighted...

Have you ever wanted to be first in line? When children are in kindergarten, they push and pull every morning to be the first one to enter the school building when the school bell rings at 8:55 a.m. As a kindergarten patrol one morning, I...

The context for my observation about student’s learning and perceptions of what learning is, was a kindergarten student at an Elementary School in Greensboro. To prepare for my observation, I examined a series of developmental stages identified by Piaget, Vygotsky and Erikson to be aware...