I would like to work with children, but I do not know how I would like to work with children at this time. I would have liked to be a CLS, but I could not gain internship experience that is the requirement for certified CLS. Now I have to find a specific area that I would like to work in the future. Through my practicum in a kindergarten, I expect to find how I would like to work with children. It could be a teacher, a program manager, or work for a company that provides child related items. Thus, I expect to realize my own ability and which educational area are the best to work with children with my abilities.
The kindergarten, it is called “yochien” in Japanese, usually offer three or two-year program. For the three-year program, children must have reached three years old by April 1st of the entrance year. However, the kindergarten that I’m working for offers four-year program for children who have reached two years old by April 1st. The four-year program began April 2016, so it is still a new program. The kindergarten had had “pre-school” program for two years old children by March 2016, but the program had offered the class only one day or two days a week with parent(s). The new program offers classes for five days a week without parent(s) like three or two-year program.
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For example, older children come to the kindergarten in school uniform and then change clothes to training wear by themselves. Children in the four-year program come to the kindergarten in training wear so that they do not have to change the clothes. In addition, they can not participate in some events such as potato digging and music recital because they are too young to participate in. Therefore, the class teachers need to make daily activities plan based on children’s