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Early education is very important for our children. What they learn early on can and will be carried on as they grow up, such as how to get along with others, how to perceive work and study, how to work with personal belongings, etc. This is the very premise of the foundation stage curriculum, which is to address these needs early on when the personality and impressionability of young ones are still plastic enough for words and teachings to take firm root.

And as such, the following four factors are addressed by the curriculum in their own special ways:

Reasoning

Lessons that focus on problem solving, reasoning, and numerical manipulation enhance a child’s logic and reason. The children are not simply taught to accept the fact that one plus one is two or that two times two is four. Instead, they are made to understand the underlying concepts of reason, logic, problem solving, and numerical manipulation that form most of the essential factors in a person’s professional life.

Knowledge and Understanding

However, the focus of the Foundation Stage is not limited merely to logic and reasoning: a wider understanding of the world around a child is engrained into him by activities designed to broaden his perspectives. These activities focus on observing, exploring, experimenting, and generally understanding the objects, the people, and the ideas that abound his world. This understanding of the world around him then empowers the child to make full use of the things around him, as well as to live comfortably and adaptively with the changes it brings.

Communication Skills

A person may talk, and other people can hear, but it takes a great deal more mastery to make people listen to what you are saying. This vital aspect of communication is what drives the Foundation Stage curriculum on communication which focuses on is teaching the child how to communicate with other people, not just to talk or to speak. This means that lessons are not limited to simply learning the A-B-C’s of the English language, but how to effectively communicate what they want to say to other people.

Overall Development

This is perhaps the most important aspect of the Foundation Stage curriculum—the one with the most weight on the child’s future. Physical, creative, personal, social, and emotional development all aim to develop the child not just as a functioning member of society, but as a full and complete human being, one that is able to live a healthy life, grow with great maturity, cope with stress, and tap his or her inner resources for creative purposes.

Most other educational programs aim simply to engrain skills into a child, with the primary objective of creating a successful graduate whose achievements can be traced back to an institution’s education program. The unities of these four aspects of the Foundation Stage curriculum make it uniquely able to develop a child both as a capable and functioning member of society and a fully developed human being who is in touch with himself and the world around him.

All this is done without compromising one for the other, and the end result is a young child entering the program and that same child leaving as a holistically developed person.

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