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It is never too early to start teaching STEM. Kindergartners are the perfect age to start. The research is quite clear that the best practice in early childhood education is to break away from passive instruction. My desire is to allow for more play and investigation in our classroom. This kind of learning early in life builds skills and interests that serve children throughout their school years, and later in life. Early childhood education should tap into children’s natural curiosity and give them ample opportunities to be active participants in their own learning. My desire is fill my classroom with more STEM learning activities like a blocks and blueprints center that will help my students get lots of practice with spatial reasoning and building 3-D structures. I would also like to set up a low table encouraging group building projects where students will have to work together to design, create and build. Emphasizing teamwork and group collaboration. Making learning relevant is one of the best practices in teaching and active exploration helps students to develop a strong intuition, critical thinking and determination all 21st century skills our children will be needing. While it may be an accomplishment for children of this age to recite the alphabet or count to 100, I also want to support their natural curiosity and desire to learn by giving them rich and meaningful learning centers to explore.

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It is never too early to start teaching STEM. Kindergartners are the perfect age to start. The research is quite clear that the best practice in early childhood education is to break away from passive instruction. My desire is to allow for more play and investigation in our classroom. This kind of learning early in life builds skills and interests that serve children throughout their school years, and later in life. Early childhood education should tap into children’s natural curiosity and give them ample opportunities to be active participants in their own learning. My desire is fill my classroom with more STEM learning activities like a blocks and blueprints center that will help my students get lots of practice with spatial reasoning and building 3-D structures. I would also like to set up a low table encouraging group building projects where students will have to work together to design, create and build. Emphasizing teamwork and group collaboration. Making learning relevant is one of the best practices in teaching and active exploration helps students to develop a strong intuition, critical thinking and determination all 21st century skills our children will be needing. While it may be an accomplishment for children of this age to recite the alphabet or count to 100, I also want to support their natural curiosity and desire to learn by giving them rich and meaningful learning centers to explore.

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