Preschool teachers educate and prepare children before they enter kindergarten. The age range for children is typically four to five. They teach math, literacy, and other skills needed for kindergarten. Learning to sit quietly, conflict-resolution, and delayed gratification are also important skills children learn during this period. Family Involvement, understanding parenting types, and having an inclusive classroom can help improve a preschool teacher’s classroom and career.
An important aspect of preschool education is parent involvement. In more than twenty percent of homes, the grandparents are the primary childcare providers for preschool aged children. (S. Jackson, Lecture, March 30, 2015) Some of these homes are skipped generation
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This idea values a safe environment where children grow their own way. Parents with a college education value concerted cultivation. These parents push the children certain directions to develop skills, talents, and opinion. (S. Jackson, Lecture, February 9, 2015) In lower educated families, this leads to conformity and obedience. College educated families, value autonomy, questioning the status quo, and creativity. Both parenting styles enforce behaviors of careers similar to their own. (S. Jackson, Lecture, February 9, 2015) It is important to talk to guardians over their view of discipline and what they expect from their children. There is a big difference in parenting styles. Preschool teachers do not want to teach children to question everything and when they get home, they are punished for it. A teacher also wants to let the parents know the classroom management philosophy and policies. If the classroom contains students of both parenting philosophies the teacher can include them into the activities. Some activities can be creative outside of the box and some can be detailed orientated direction following activities. This allows students from both parenting styles to …show more content…
Teachers do not want any child left out or to feel this way. Just as a teacher has to be inclusive with children, they also need to be inclusive with parents. If a child feels their parent or family is alienated they may feel alienated as well. One side of inclusiveness needs to be welcoming towards new aspects of sexuality. A nuclear family is not the only family structure anymore, many couples cohabitate before and without marriage. There are homosexual parents, teen parents, and grand parents. (S. Jackson, Lecture, February 23, 2015) During activities, teachers need to be conscience of this and include these family types. A preschool teacher can do this through picking stories with an atypical family, having baby dolls with different skin colors, not giving assignments just based on mom or dad. For mothers day or Fathers day the teacher can include grandparents, stepparents, or just parent day (eliminating gender