Policies and Strategies for Young Children's Successful Transitions toward Socialization and School
About the Project:
This project will contribute to strengthening the institutional capacity of national directors for early childhood and basic education in order to develop policies and strategies oriented to preparing young children for success in life and school. The goals of Education for All 2015, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (January 2006), and the Ministers of Education from CIDI (August 2005) agreed to expand quality early childhood education as a means to fight poverty. In facing this challenge, we need to learn and examine the advances and lessons learned from giving comprehensive attention to children, from birth until they begin primary school.
We seek to identify significant transition experiences from the home to early childhood and basic education; likewise, significant practices of articulation of initial-preschool education with basic education, and patterns of behavior and learning in developing reading competencies, writing, and mathematics, each of which influences the reduction in the percentages of repetition in first grade. The research argues that these goals can be reached if we begin working with young children from birth.
The project will serve to share advances in the countries and sub regions; to carry out training in theory and practice; to evaluate the situation surrounding early childhood, pre-school and basic education; as well as collecting the lessons and the challenges in policy design and execution in the hemisphere. This will be achieved through a series of related activities, principally: surveys, two major symposiums, networking and dissemination of specialized literature via internet; new studies of curriculum, educational materials, and pedagogy; and partnership with universities and civil society organizations to achieve change in teacher preparation for early childhood education.
The two symposiums are related, both will contribute to the strengthening of the institutional capacity of the national participating entities, the improvement of the quality of services, and the expansion of coverage where equity is lacking.
Objective of the Research:
To support member countries in their efforts to develop and strengthen policies and strategies that contribute to the extension and improvement of the quality and coverage of the education and care of the children from 0 to 6 years, to facilitate their successful transition from home to the preschool programs and the preschool program to basic education.
Beneficiary Countries:
The 34 member states of the Organization of American States.
Project Report
Early Childhood Symposia:
Washington DC
May 2007
- Information about the Symposium , to view click here.
- Questionnaire that was developed for this Symposium, to view click here.
- Final Report
II Inter-American Symposium: Policies and Strategies for the Child's Successful Transition to Socialization and School
Valparaiso, Chile
May 27-29, 2009
Background
Special Meetings (Available only in Spanish)
Communications Strategy for Early Childhood
Indigenous Leaders Meeting
Presentations and Documents
- Declaration of Indigenous People - May 2009
- Transitions and the Rights of Indigenous Children – Anna Lucia D’Emilio – May 2009
- Application of the EDI Tool - Mary Young - May 2009
- Study on Transitions – Conceptual Framework and situational analysis of worldwide advancements and challenges - Maribel Cormack - May 2009
- Organization Diálogos – Emprendimientos Educativos – Elías Halperin – May 2009
- State of the Art of Early Childhood Education from birth to eight years in the Hemisphere - Gaby Fujimoto - May 2009
- State of the Art in Early Childhood Education and Care in Central American Countries(Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Dominican Republic) AND Mexico - Maite Onochie - May 2009
- State of the Art of Education for Early Childhood in the Andean Zone and the Southern - Olympia Icochea - May 2009
- Centros de Desarrollo Infantil del frente popular tierra y libertad – Adaptación al CENDI – Lorena Iracema Galindo – May 2009
- United States: Assessing and Improving Early Childhood Learning and Program Quality – Eugene Garcia – May 2009
- Early Childhood Development in the United States: History and Current Trends – Joan Lombardi Ph.D – May 2009
- In- Service training and education in early childhood development Caribbean community (CARICOM) – Sian Williams – May 2009
- Project “Transition policy trends in indigenous, rural and border communities” (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela) – Enrique Ku , Mayo 2009
- Equity from the Start and Transition to Society and School – Fraser Mustard, May 2009
- School readiness and brain development and language remediation – Kenneth Pugh – May 2009
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Questionnaire of Early Childhood / Preschool Education
Questionnaire of Basic / Primary Education
Experiences
Work Group Sub regions
Videos from the Symposium
Day 1 - May 27, 2009
Day 2 - May 28, 2009
Day 3 - May 29, 2009