The transition from kindergarten to school
The transition from kindergarten to school

Summary/Abstract: Every transition to a new environment is an important step in life for the child andthe family. To make this step as less stressful as possible, it is important that we think about it earlyenough and that everyone participates in the process: family, kindergarten and school.The article presents the cooperation between family, kindergarten and school. Here, theimportant question is how to prepare the child and help him enter school. Kindergarten teachers playan important role in getting to know the child, who accompany the child throughout the entirepreschool period and support parents and teachers with their knowledge and experience. During thepreschool period, the child is in a relationship with important people through play and is gainingexperience and skills.The changes during the transition to school are greater or lesser, more or less pleasant for theindividual. Quality education also includes a quality and smooth transition from preschool educationto primary education.In Slovenia, we devoted a great deal of attention to the transition from kindergarten to schoolduring the preparation of the major education reform in the 1990s. One of the major changes was thelowering of the age for children to enter school to six years of age in the calendar year. With the aimof making the children's transition to school smoother and adapting schools more appropriately tothe needs of younger children, in the new (younger) first grade, educational work was graduallystarted to be carried out by two professionals: in addition to the teacher, the educator or anotherteacher.

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