The importance of pre-school education

THE IMPORTANCE OF PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION
During pre-school education, children learn to share, cooperate, socialize and work together while preparing for primary education. The aim of pre-school education is to arouse interest in learning in children and to make the child’s existing abilities visible.
This period is seen as a period in which the child has high learning potential for researchers. Children who grow up in appropriate physical and social environmental conditions and in a healthy interaction environment show a faster and more successful development.
Preschool education, which is the first step of education, is the first button of the shirt and it must be buttoned correctly.
Covering the years from the day the child was born to the day he started basic education and playing an important role in the later lives of children; It is a process in which physical, psychomotor, social-emotional, mental and language developments are completed to a large extent, the personality is shaped and the child is constantly changing. For this reason, it is important for the child to continue his development in a healthy environment at a young age.
Raising children with healthy and desired behaviors depends on knowing their developmental characteristics and what their needs are in line with these characteristics. With the developments in early childhood, pre-school education is no longer a subject that parents can achieve alone.
Education is a platform consisting of student-teacher-parent triangle. The more conscious and healthy this union is, the more solid personality our children will acquire.
The role of pre-school education has been scientifically proven in the establishment of education on solid foundations and the success of people in later ages. After the intense interest in the mother’s arms, the kindergarten environment is a brand new window to the world for the child. Everything that is given in a positive or negative sense directly affects them in their adult years.
A child’s brain works 2.5 times more than an adult until the age of 3… All international studies and tests show that children in the 0-6 age group, who have received pre-school education at the developmental level, are 1 year old compared to those who have received education in academic programs. At the age of 12, their IQ values ​​are higher by 5 points. At the age of 15, they achieve 90-100% success in aptitude tests. 65% of them win and finish high school and 45% university without any problems. When they become adults, they become social people who communicate easily and healthily with the outside world.
Pre-school education institutions; It is the safest environment that forms the basic structure of society
* Respect, love,
* Sharing, division of labor,
* Responsibility
* It is the safest environment that prepares the child for the future in terms of creating a social environment.
As it is known, many developmental changes are experienced in children between the ages of 3 and 6 years. A normally developing child has gained many motor skills around the age of 6 and has started to use various physical skills.
In terms of cognitive development, he started to build up an intense knowledge about his physical and social environment and to understand the events surrounding him.
On the other hand, the preschool years are the years in which the abstract thinking ability of the child is not yet fully formed and for this reason, all the activities carried out are the years in which the child realizes learning by doing and experimenting in a concrete way. Considering this, the pre-school years should be the years when activities that develop the speaking and listening skills based on the communication that the child will establish one-on-one with his friends and teacher predominate.
Why is pre-school education necessary?
* 70% of the intelligence development in children is completed until the age of 7 and learning skills develop at this age.
* Phenomena such as the child’s joining the group, establishing healthy relationships, protecting cultural values ​​and socializing develop at this age.
* The deviations and negativities in this period negatively affect the whole life of the child.
* Children from different cultural environments and families reach a common growing environment in pre-school education institutions. The child begins to gain the sense of self-confidence in these institutions.
* He learns the feature of speaking his language correctly, correctly and beautifully at this age. Begins to recognize society, environment, universe and human behavior.
* The age of starting to learn about objects, things and assets, some basic skills, behaviors, positives and negatives is between 4-6 years old.
* Pre-school education is compulsory and necessary because it is an environment where family support alone is not enough, where the child can be with their peers and maintain their physical and mental development in a healthy way.
The average pre-school enrollment rate in Turkey is 15%. This is an extremely striking ratio. The situation is more clearly understood when compared with other countries. In many countries in Europe this rate is 100%.
As a result, we can say the following in order to support preschool education: Pre-school education realized with the cooperation of parents and educators; It will contribute to the development of the child as an autonomous individual who can be more creative, able to see ahead, create new products and direct his environment for his own purposes…