PSYCH 241 Lecture 22: Early Childhood Education
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Cognitive control: sustained attention increases sharply between 2 & 6 years, attention & cognitive control improvements, frontal lobe growth: following increasingly complex goals, adult teaching is necessary, high-quality preschools have a significant positive effect on later school performance. Early literacy development: preschooler"s understanding occurs before practical usage, emergent literacy, gradual mastery of functions and phonological awareness, more informal experiences contribute to earlier and better literacy. Reading readiness skills at kindergarten entry by ses: alphabet letters: Low: 51: high: 72, remember 30 million word gap by age 4. Early childhood: mathematical reasoning: builds on informal knowledge, three counting principles, number names: number names, & order, one to one correspondence: one object, one number, cardinality: the goal of counting is the last number, not counting. Early intervention for at-risk preschoolers: head start, parent-involvement is essential. Long term benefits: better early school achievement, less special education and grade retention, more high school graduation, college enrollment, advantages still evident at 40 years of age.
