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Child Care and Education Programs- Preschool Care
GENERAL COMMENTS:
"Preschool is defined as an environment in which children have opportunities, through a planned schedule of learning activities that promote school readiness. Preschool children range in age from three years to school entry, generally five-years-old." 1 According to a survey of Oregon kindergarten teachers, 69.2% of children entering kindergarten in the fall of 2000 were reported as having participated in some form of preschool. In 1998 the National Education Goals Panel defined three objectives to ensure that all children would start school ready to learn.
1. All children will have access to high-quality and developmentally appropriate preschool programs that help prepare children for school.
2. Every parent in the United States will be a child´s first teacher and devote time each day to helping such parent´s preschool child learn, and parents will have access to the training and support parents need.
3. Children will receive the nutrition, physical activity experiences, and health care needed to arrive at school with healthy minds and bodies and to maintain the mental alertness necessary to be prepared to learn. 1
Preschool Care
1 Shepard, L., Kagan, S.L., & Wurtz, E. (1998). Principles and recommendations for early childhood assessments. The National Education Goals Panel. [Available:] http:// govinfo.library.unt.edu/negp/
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