Center-Based Instruction

Paper Summary:

The paper asserts that center-based services represent the means by which schools can become optimally pro-active in preparing students so that all learning will be accelerated, streamlined, and efficient. The paper examines center-based early education childhood interventions that involve the enhancement of cognitive and language competencies and of the general educational process. The paper maintains that children need more from us than just intellectual development; it is our job to prepare them with life skills that are hardly taught in the traditional educational curriculum.

From the Paper:

"The role of the educational institution in its most proactive sense needs to be expanded to consider not only the standard school year curriculums for educating children, but offering tools and programs which will most effectively equip children with succeeding in the environment that constitutes the normal curriculum of elementary years and beyond. In effect, we refer to preparing children even for kindergarten, and the cultural and organizational notion of the educational environment that is ubiquitous to all American children in preparation for the society that is of course ubiquitous to all of us as adults. Center-based services represent the means by which the schools can become optimally pro-active in preparing students so that all learning will be accelerated, streamlined, and efficient."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bottini, Michael and Grossman, Sue. "Center-based teaching and children's learning: the effects of learning centers on young children's growth and development." Childhood Education 81.5 (Annual 2005): p274(4).
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