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How Are Kindergarten Teachers Balancing More Rigorous Standards?

Have you noticed the change in the standards in school for students? How do you think that Kindergarten teachers are balancing more rigorous standards? To learn more, read on in this article. By KQED Mindshift

Laura Lurns Last updated November 10, 2016 · 1 min read

Recently there has been given some insight into the aspect of the question of just how kindergarten teachers are balancing some more rigorous standards in general. In more detail to this in general education experts in particular widely recognize that a strong early childhood education is important in general as a factor to set kids up for success when it comes to school.

One long particular open ended question that has been associated with this in particular is whether or not kindergarten is more like preschool or elementary school in general. For a lot of children in particular kindergarten is actually the first time that they have been to school and they are too young at this age to take on the pressure and stress of benchmark testing in general.

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Many children are not ready for benchmark testing at this point in their lives.
Information for early childhood educators and how to deal with those beginning school for the first time.

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Laura Lurns · Learning Success expert Writes about the learning brain for parents who want plain answers. Every article is grounded in current neuroscience and classroom practice.

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