Over the past five years, education professionals, teachers, and parents have come to realize that preschool children are increasingly experiencing difficulties integrating into the school environment (transition), self-serving, and performing activities in a complete manner, with a spirit of cooperation and acceptance with their peers. As a result—and continues to be the case, as the situation remains highly problematic—preschool educators spend most of their teaching time managing the classroom and their workday in endless discussions with the parents of their young students, which often do not lead to the desired outcome. To address these difficulties, a long-term workshop-based seminar was organized for preschool educators in Heraklion, Crete, conducted by the authors of this book. Despite adverse conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the program's workshops were held either face-to-face or remotely and culminated in this publication. The authors, drawing on international literature as well as specific European practices, set the main goal of the workshops to enhance the autonomy of young children through experiential activities aimed primarily at developing their fine motor skills, while also serving a range of objectives across all areas of the current curriculum. In these workshops, a significant number of preschool educators participated, who, dedicating effort and time, created new learning centers within their classrooms by utilizing a series of materials in an original, creative, and mainly pedagogical way. The observable benefits included children's enthusiasm and strong motivation to engage with various materials, increased concentration and dedication to their tasks, strengthening of their fine motor skills, and enhancement of their personal and social skills through individual or collective efforts, as well as their cognitive development—since a multitude of new ideas were proposed daily by the children themselves, aiming at evolving or expanding a workshop. This comprehensive work significantly contributes to enriching teachers’ instructional practices, creating a new dimension in the educational process by supporting key skills (motor coordination, attention span, creative thinking, imagination, etc.), which will serve as a foundation for their future school journey and academic growth.
Manufacturer
- Authors
- Anna Athanasopoulou, Eleni Vretoudaki
- Publisher
- Disigma
- Type
- Upbringing
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 192
- Release Date
- 11/2022
- Publication Date
- 2022
- Dimensions
- 21x29 cm
- Award
- -
- ISBN-13
- 9786182021088
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