Early Childhood Education
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The stage of Early Childhood Education works with organizational arrangements different from other stages of education (perhaps the only primary education and work that way). Two of them are classroom organization by playing corner and work workshops.
Corners work by corners in the classroom is a form of organization that allows students to develop basic work habits, setting and enforcing standards and ‘above all’ the development of their autonomy. This methodology is based on ecological models or paradigms of authors like Doyle or Bronfenbernner. For this class is divided into several work areas for pre and after the teacher preparation standards use children themselves manage. Examples of common corners at this stage can be the kitchen, shop, buildings, library class, assembly, logical-mathematical, observation, inventor of the corner … and any that can be adapted to the needs and interests of students.
Workshops: is another form of organization in which the collective and premium boosted by adults or older children. Regular class time devoted to workshops in which they are put into practice various techniques with the help of teachers, families, specialists or older students. Collaboration, then, is essential in this type of organization. The workshops may be nivelares (students of the same age) or internivelares (mixing different ages in each group) or rotational and fixed in time. Typical examples of workshops in the schedule could be: cooking workshop, music, and building with recycled materials.