True education plays crucial part in children’s healthy development. There are stage-related skills required at a specific time. It can be fundamental as learning how to walk or feed themselves. Dealing with deadlines may give you a hurry sickness. It is okay to feel pressure sometimes. It does not give you the right of forcing a child to learn.
Encouraging them and creating a positive learning environment is a part of your role in parenting. You need to help them improve. You need to approach them based on their development stage and any related convenient condition. Achieving this in the early years enables education play a crucial part for a lifetime.
What is True Education?
It would not be right to assume education is simply just teaching. It is not forcing them to read or do homework. The unrealistic expectations or grading may create a false impression on them. Well, their performances at school do not show their full potential. Yes, it is not uncommon to think that education and schooling are interchangeable. True education offers more.
True Education with Different Approaches
You may be familiar with the individualized education program (IEP) and social-emotional learning (SEL). They stress and prioritize different aspects of education to support and encourage child development.
1. Individualized Education Program (IEP)1
As for those with special needs, the individualized education program comes to the rescue. You can get the help of a map for special education instructions. It provides supports and services for the kids to make progress and thrive. The first step is the evaluation to see the strengths and challenges of students. Plus, IEP lets families be involved in decisions that impact children. Child-centered adjustment would benefit more.
2. Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)2
Social-emotional learning emerges the significance of social-emotional abilities that need to be enhanced. SEL seeks to improve the social-emotional competence of students. It adopts explicit instructions in the learning context that are safe, well-managed, and participatory.
– Self-Awareness
It has understanding one’s emotions, personal goals, and values. Self-awareness means accurately assessing strengths, limitations, having positive mindsets, a well-grounded sense of self-efficiency, and optimism.
– Self-Management
It requires delaying gratification, managing stress, controlling impulses, and persevering through challenges to achieve personal and educational goals.
– Social-Awareness
It is the ability to take the perspective of those with different backgrounds or cultures and empathize.
– Relationship Skills
These skills are needed to establish and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships.
– Responsible Decision Making
It requires knowledge, skills, and attitudes to make constructive choices in personal behavior and social interactions across diverse settings.
References
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Belsky, G. (2021, May 5). What is an IEP? Understood. Retrieved September 25, from https://www.understood.org/articles/en/what-is-an-iep
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Weissberg, R. P., Durlak, J. A., Domitrovich, C. E., & Gullotta, T. P. (2015). Social and emotional learning: Past, present, and future.
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Gordon, I. J. (1976). Parenting, Teaching, and Child Development. Young Children, 31(3), 173–183. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42657999
