1. Preschool Summer course
23 August 2016
Gilgel Beles CTE
Lissa

2. Start Activity
Animal memory

3. Why are you a preschool teacher?
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STRENGTH WEAKNESS
LIKE DON’T LIKE
For themselves, write down on sticky notes and stick to their clothes
Smiley’s on paper – people stand up, show their smiley, and tell why

4. Questions Why preschool education? Preschool versus primary school?
The qualities and role of a preschool teacher
Problems and solutions
Divide these questions amongst groups (each questions by two groups)

5. Preschool Preschool is different Practical: playing, doing Curriculum
Why:
To learn how to learn
Problems:
Downwards extension of primary
Knowledge/skills
Materials
Solution:
Preschool is different
Practical: playing, doing
Curriculum
Work together
Be creative
Just tell

6. Teaching Methods Video: ABC Teacher centered Repetition Memorizing
Repetition is good for preschool but it depends with what and how
Just telling this!

7. Classroom Setting
Blackboard and tables/chairs – suitable for teacher centered – but not for preschool!
Problem is often that classrooms cannot be locked so people can take things away  box. You can make children help to keep it safe: if it’s gone, it’s gone…

8. Materials Lack Local available materials Where? ACTIVITY
There is a lack of materials, because there is no money. What we see is a blackboard, tables/chairs, foot ball, cloth
Where: at school(compound), at your place, at the children’s house, in town,
Competition: in your group, write down in a web as many local available materials that you can use for child-friendly teaching, whether for children to play with, or that they can use to make something else, or that you can use to explain/show something, or …..

9. Materials

10. Teaching Methods Programmed Learning / Instruction
Child Centered / Didactic Play
Exploration / Discovery
Group Teaching
Educational Visits
Story Telling
Singing
Drama/ Role Play
Play
Themes
First head on to classroom setting and materials, and then come back to teaching methods: I’ll give you some ideas

11. Teaching Methods – PROGRAMMED LEARNING/ INSTRUCTION
Numbers – feeling/counting on back
Describing animals, others guess
Big/Small
Rice - writing

12. Teaching Methods – CHILD CENTERED/ DIDACTIC PLAY
Numbers on back, feeling/counting, sand paper

13. Teaching Methods – GROUP TEACHING
Imitation: I do something, they copy me.
Circle time
Shoes
Hide fruit – they guess what it is

14. Teaching Methods – EXPLORING / DISCOVERING
Stones, flowers

15. Teaching Methods - EDUCATIONAL VISITS

16. Teaching Methods – STORY TELLING
Tell a story
Children can repeat

17. Teaching Methods – ROLE PLAY/ DRAMA

18. Teaching Methods – SPORTIVE PLAY
Video sportive play
Constructive – give stones, blocks
In three groups: 1 group role, 1 didactic, 1 constructive play – use all available materials

19. Teaching Methods – CONSTRUCTIVE PLAY

20. Teaching Methods - SINGING
Head, shoulders, knees and toes

21. Corners Circle time Reading Mathematics Drama Block Family
Sand and water
Science
Art
Music and movement
ACTIVITY: What can you do with these materials in these corners? Pick with the eyes closed 5 materials I brought. Turn around and when I said ‘Stop’ you point at a corner. What can you do with the picked materials in this corner?

22. Themes
THE MARKET
Name a theme and identify from various activity areas which could be organized around the theme for preschool class.

23. To remember What will you not forget about today’s class?
Pick one of today’s activities that will you do in your own class
Pick today’s favorite teaching method
Which teaching method are you already using?
Pick a teaching method that is new for you but do you want to start using
What have you heard today that you already knew/did?
Pick five materials you want to start using in your class
What will you change in your classroom environment?
Divide these questions under the groups, let them answer and present
Pick one of today’s activities that will you do in your own class: write down…
Pick today’s favorite teaching method: develop three activities with this method
Pick a teaching method that is new for you but do you want to start using: how will you use it in your class?
What have you heard today that you already knew/did?
Which teaching materials do you want to use in your class? Why? How/where will you gather them? How will you use them?
What will you change in your classroom and how?

24. End Activity
Describe your animal
If your happy…