Intellectual education preschool through integrated activities
Intellectual education preschool through integrated activities

Summary/Abstract: Integrated activities lay the stress on the development of critical thinking, on the creation of practical competencies, on the qualitative aspect of education, on positive feedback, on measuring and evaluating competences. It cultivates independence, openness to innovation, positive emotions, self-control. Integration is achieved through a coherent script of the contents which correspond to the involved subject areas. The proposed contents have a common subject which is to be investigated and explained after going through the subjects and after achieving the proposed objectives. The integrated approach is a combination of the teaching/learning contents in an attractive and flexible manner which leads the child`s activity towards investigation, documentation, research and practical application of the information acquired. The success of teaching integrated contents in kindergarten greatly depends on the degree of structuring the projected content as a whole with taking into account certain aims. The natural learning and the rigorous learning represent extremes which must co-exist within an integrated curriculum. Through approaching the activities in an integrated manner, the kindergarten teacher organizes the process of teaching as a director and helps the children understand and accept opinions, emotions and feelings, the teacher encourages them to be partners in the teaching process.

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