Emphasizing more play, hands-on learning, and students helping one another in kindergarten improves academic outcomes, self-control and attention regulation, finds new UBC research.
The study, published today in the journal PLoS One , found this approach to kindergarten curriculum also enhanced children’s joy in learning and teachers’ enjoyment of teaching, and reduced bullying, peer ostracism, and teacher burnout.
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I think this should be just a doh moment but just shows how poor the education system really is in the western world…
It seems that rewarding kids for being adventurous is the way to go for all our society!
Hands - on wouldn’t have worked for me . That’s not to say it wouldn’t have worked for a lot of other children.
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