It is clear that every child develops at their own pace, and for the same opportunities, one will be somewhat ahead of the other, something to give him. But there are criteria of readiness of the child to the school, to neglect which the psychologists do not advise.
Experts are not talking about the child's readiness to learn in 1st grade in General, they distinguish the following types: physical, physiological, mental, psychological, personal, motivational, speech, intellectual, etc. and, of course, it would be better if the preschooler who's going to be a first grader, was prepared for this important step in all of these areas.
This aspect is determined primarily by how a child realizes that a new stage in his life – the period of apprenticeship. To determine whether the child is psychologically ready for it, can psychologists. For this purpose testing of future first-graders in preschool institutions and centres for psychological-pedagogical counselling. We can say that psychological readiness of the child to start school is determined by the whole system of education and development in previous years.
This component of the overall child's readiness for school is determined by how little one understands that he has to prove himself in a new social role – the role of a student, student. It is important how the future first-grader to seek new knowledge, build new relationships (with schoolmates, teachers), how he is overall positive on the future of school life.
Plays an important role in a child's motivation. If the question "what do you want to go to school?" he confidently replied that he wants to learn new things, learn something interesting, etc. – in this case, the pronounced motivation training, which is certainly good. If the answer to the question, the child says that at school he'll make new friends that will have fun and play – this suggests that the most important motive for such a child is playing, and mentally for school he is still not ready. Talk about a lack of psychological readiness and external ("because mommy and daddy said so"), and social ("I have to learn, because it should be", "to learn a profession and work") motives.
Another important factor is how the harmonious development of the child in the preschool period how successfully and in a timely manner he passed through all the physical stages of early adolescence, whether at his normal physical and mental health, whether underdevelopment from this point of view.
If the child is healthy and developing normally, it is considered that he is ready for schooling at the age of 6.5 – 7 years. One of the indirect signs of physical readiness of a child to school is considered to be the beginning of a process of replacement of deciduous teeth root. There are also more exotic tests physiological readiness. So, Tibetan children are considered fit for schooling, if you can, extending both hands above the head, reach the upper edge of the opposite ear.
To more accurately determine whether a child is ready for school life physiologically, to help pediatrician and medical professionals. A medical examination before entering school in our country, every child is mandatory.
Many parents motivate their desire to send their children to school early is the fact that their child "reads in 4 years, and 6 speaks English and knows the multiplication table". Of course, General knowledge is important for the future of the student, but by defining his intellectual readiness for school education, the specialists look not only at the amount of knowledge and skills accumulated by the preschooler to early learning activities as the degree of the formation of such mental operations as analysis, synthesis, ability to make logical conclusions, to identify the main, understanding of causality and space-time relations.
Closely associated with the intellectual aspect and voice. It is clear that if the child's speech is not sufficiently developed, vocabulary is poor, that many mental operations, for it is unsustainable. By the beginning of schooling the child has clearly and correctly pronounce all the sounds of the native language, to be able to build grammatically correct sentences – this directly affects his progress in learning the Russian language. Dictionary of the future first-grader should be at least 1500 – 2000 words.
So whether they send their child to school with 6 years, or wait until 7 years of age – to decide, of course, parents. But listen to the experts still stands.
Experts are not talking about the child's readiness to learn in 1st grade in General, they distinguish the following types: physical, physiological, mental, psychological, personal, motivational, speech, intellectual, etc. and, of course, it would be better if the preschooler who's going to be a first grader, was prepared for this important step in all of these areas.
Psychological readiness
This aspect is determined primarily by how a child realizes that a new stage in his life – the period of apprenticeship. To determine whether the child is psychologically ready for it, can psychologists. For this purpose testing of future first-graders in preschool institutions and centres for psychological-pedagogical counselling. We can say that psychological readiness of the child to start school is determined by the whole system of education and development in previous years.
Personality and motivational readiness
This component of the overall child's readiness for school is determined by how little one understands that he has to prove himself in a new social role – the role of a student, student. It is important how the future first-grader to seek new knowledge, build new relationships (with schoolmates, teachers), how he is overall positive on the future of school life.
Plays an important role in a child's motivation. If the question "what do you want to go to school?" he confidently replied that he wants to learn new things, learn something interesting, etc. – in this case, the pronounced motivation training, which is certainly good. If the answer to the question, the child says that at school he'll make new friends that will have fun and play – this suggests that the most important motive for such a child is playing, and mentally for school he is still not ready. Talk about a lack of psychological readiness and external ("because mommy and daddy said so"), and social ("I have to learn, because it should be", "to learn a profession and work") motives.
Physical and mental readiness
Another important factor is how the harmonious development of the child in the preschool period how successfully and in a timely manner he passed through all the physical stages of early adolescence, whether at his normal physical and mental health, whether underdevelopment from this point of view.
If the child is healthy and developing normally, it is considered that he is ready for schooling at the age of 6.5 – 7 years. One of the indirect signs of physical readiness of a child to school is considered to be the beginning of a process of replacement of deciduous teeth root. There are also more exotic tests physiological readiness. So, Tibetan children are considered fit for schooling, if you can, extending both hands above the head, reach the upper edge of the opposite ear.
To more accurately determine whether a child is ready for school life physiologically, to help pediatrician and medical professionals. A medical examination before entering school in our country, every child is mandatory.
Intellectual and language readiness
Many parents motivate their desire to send their children to school early is the fact that their child "reads in 4 years, and 6 speaks English and knows the multiplication table". Of course, General knowledge is important for the future of the student, but by defining his intellectual readiness for school education, the specialists look not only at the amount of knowledge and skills accumulated by the preschooler to early learning activities as the degree of the formation of such mental operations as analysis, synthesis, ability to make logical conclusions, to identify the main, understanding of causality and space-time relations.
Closely associated with the intellectual aspect and voice. It is clear that if the child's speech is not sufficiently developed, vocabulary is poor, that many mental operations, for it is unsustainable. By the beginning of schooling the child has clearly and correctly pronounce all the sounds of the native language, to be able to build grammatically correct sentences – this directly affects his progress in learning the Russian language. Dictionary of the future first-grader should be at least 1500 – 2000 words.
So whether they send their child to school with 6 years, or wait until 7 years of age – to decide, of course, parents. But listen to the experts still stands.