Month: November 2019

Seven Continuous Trends in Education
Continuing Education

Seven Continuous Trends in Education

- by Jacob Sullivan

In the coming decade of the 21st century, good and comprehensive education can be the difference between developing future or future that depends on low-wage jobs and periods of unemployment. One of the reasons for the current boom in private and online education is one of the growing sectors. What are the seven current trends in education?

1. More Affordable Education

Even though savings measures and reducing government education programs, private and internet-based education programs bridge this gap. Future graduates can study online, but work part time, and

attend personal education course or online. This can be more affordable, because the level of student debt decreases, due to the fact that they are not restricted to spending several years in high school or university.

2. Education for All

Before the internet era, some students had the choice to study outside of traditional educational institutions. The growth of these traditional educational institutions offers online alternatives, and the fact that the internet can be considered as an information web. Enabling students today to access information more easily, and choose programs that are more affordable, and relevant to their needs.

3. Increased Job Opportunities

Globally, higher percentage of people are studying courses, degrees or training compared to previous generations. This leads to more employment opportunities in the field of education, especially in the field of higher education specifically. Because our economies are interconnected globally, this trend must continue because international standardized tests and tests are available globally.

4. Independent Learning Growth

One of the biggest successes of the internet era, is the simple fact that information is available with one click, it means that anyone who is interested in subject can find lot of information through website, video or blog. This trend must continue as the presence of online education institutions grows, and …

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Preschool Curriculum and Child Development
Continuing Education

Preschool Curriculum and Child Development

- by Jacob Sullivan

As your child reaches the age of four, you should begin considering the start of your child’s education. For some this will begin with kindergarten at the age of five or six. However, it is recommended by most pediatric specialists in any field, that child’s education begin earlier than that.

Preschool is great introduction to this. It will give your child the opportunity to become comfortable with the structured environment of school before actually entering those twelve years of education. Providing your children with social and learning stimulus, in and outside the home will help them to develop the needed skills in learning new and more complex ideas. It will help them to form individual concepts and thoughts and give them the confidence to begin growing on their own and seeking their own interests.

Preschool curriculum centers on basic skills and ideas. It is meant to introduce young children to concepts regarding personal, social, economic, and emotional development. Communication is introduced in variety of forms including sign language and in specific programs foreign language may even be touched upon. Knowledge and understanding of the world, creative and aesthetic concepts, Mathematical awareness and development, Physical health and growth, Teamwork, self-help, Scientific thinking, literacy, and other creative activities are some more subjects that will be introduced and expanded on through child’s preschool years. One of the most important benefits of preschool education is the building of confidence in young children to seek their own interests, develop their own ideas, and learn to use the necessary skills to communicate that to the world.

If taken literally child’s preschool education is simply the learning of basic concepts that occur before the structured curriculum of classroom. In fact, child can begin their preschool education at home while being taught by their parents. This should be …

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