My Proposal For Children Under The Age Of Six - 980 Words

Yi Qu Dr. Anne Heintzman 2014/10/30 Word Count: 980 Competitive Analysis Introduction My proposal is for helping children under the age of six in China stand to benefit from increased access to high quality preschool education. Since 1979, the one-child policy has been in effect for 30 years in China. The first generation of single child are now growing into childbearing age. The one-child policy in China is altering family roles and child-rearing practices, raising concerns about the possible harmful effects of too much attention and pampering. It has strengthened the emphasis on education for young children. Children in China enter elementary school and take a systematically education at age 6, before that most of the young-parents let†¦show more content†¦There is no history of a dual development of one type of full-day program to provide care for children of working mothers and another type of half-day program to provide education for children of non-employed mothers. Education replaces physical care as the primary emphasis in this program. Class size inc reases with age, ranging from 20 to 40 children. Each group typically has two teachers and a nurse. Preschool: Serve children upper age 5. A part of the elementary school. It is a typically half-day program serving children the year prior to the 1st grade. Comparable to U.S. public kindergartens, these classes usually place greater emphasis upon academics and use teaching methods similar to those of the Chinese elementary classrooms. In both of those three kind of program, there is a common problem. Those children rarely work independently or in self-selected group tasks. On the contrary, the point is on following teacher s guidance, instead of self-invention. All the children will do the same thing at the same time. For example, in a typical art class, teacher demonstrates how to fold and twist a paper butterfly. Then she check every child doing the same step before proceed to the next step. Painting class usually include children to copy an object of the teacher. Even if the use of teaching toys, all children are using the same toy at the same time.