What is the most important skill a preschool teacher can teach her students to best prepare them for kindergarten?
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Blog 18 - Answer 2
1. What is your EQ?
What is the most important skill a preschool teacher can teach her students to best prepare them for kindergarten?
2. What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
The most important skill a preschool teacher can teach her students to best prepare them for kindergarten are social skills.
3. What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
The most important skill a preschool teacher can teach her students to best prepare them for kindergarten are motor skills.
4. List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
◦ Learning fine motor skills will improve kids' abilities to coordinate the small muscles in
their hands and fingers. This helps them in assignments such as writing, drawing,
painting, etc.
◦ Improving upon fine motor skills also helps when it comes to pencil grip. Coming into
kindergarten a child will be expected to have a dominant hand and to be able to write
their name, basic words, and numbers.
◦ Learning gross motor skills will improve a child's ability to move the larger muscles in
the arms, legs, and torso. This helps with the physical activities they'll engage in when
they are in kindergarten.
5. What printed source best supports your answer?
Research Check #16, Source #48
Pica, Rae. "Why Motor Skills Matter." Naeyc.org. National Association for the Education of Young Children, Jul. 2008. Web. 10 Feb. 2016. <https://www.naeyc.org/files/yc/file/200807/BTJLearningLeapsBounds.pdf>
6. What other source supports your answer?
Research Check #15, Source #43:
Abramovitz, Renee. "Gross Motor Development." Schoolsparks.com. SchoolSparks, Dec. 2014. Web. 4 Feb. 2016. <http://www.schoolsparks.com/early-childhood-development/gross-motor>
Research Check #15, Source #44:
Abramovitz, Renee. "Fine Motor Development." Schoolsparks.com. SchoolSparks, Nov. 2014. Web. 28 Jan. 2016. <http://www.schoolsparks.com/early-childhood-development/fine-motor>
7. Tie this together with a concluding thought.
Knowing or not knowing motor skills when entering kindergarten will have a significant impact on a child. A lot of the activities kids will engage in rely upon their motor skills. A child with these skills will breeze through, whereas a child without will experience some difficulty throughout the year as he picks up on the skill.
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