EPSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Structured Prediction, Crystallization, Grade Retention
12 Feb 2020
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Academically centered programs: emphasize providing children with structured learning environments in which teachers deliver direct instruction on letters, numbers, shapes, and academic skills. Project head start: one of most successful early childhood education and intervention programs in united states. Provides economically disadvantaged children with nutritional, health, and educational services during early childhood years. Improves cognitive performance and other long-lasting social and physical effects. Beginning movement in united states toward comprehensive pre- kindergarten. First grade holds symbolic value as the threshold to elementary school and older childhood. Adjustment and behavior in the first year of elementary school influence teacher perceptions and children"s views of themselves, academic performance, and class involvement. Teacher role in aiding adjustment to first grade. Social promotion: practice of promoting children to the next grade even when they have not met the academic standards. Students who are retained do not fare as well as promoted students.
