| As a young child your brain is like a sponge. A child's | | | | teachers. Modern methods are fine, but one |
| early years are what shape them as a person and | | | | under-appreciated commodity is experience. Nursery |
| also determine how well and how easily they can learn | | | | and primary school teachers who have been in the |
| new things. In a child's first 7 to 8 years they do an | | | | business for a long time knows how to give children |
| incredible amount of learning not least the ability to | | | | the right amount of encouragement to learn in the right |
| speak a language and read. As such it is vitally | | | | way. It's not a matter of class size either as while it |
| important to provide a child with the best learning | | | | would be beneficial to have smaller classes, it simply |
| environment to give them the best opportunities in their | | | | isn't practical and experienced teachers will know how |
| early years. | | | | to get the children to work despite numbers. |
| The major problems for parents are all to do with | | | | What is also important is to ensure the right |
| getting the right schools and preschools for their | | | | environment for children. Learning made fun is the |
| children. While you can devote a lot of your time to | | | | easiest way to get children to teach themselves. As |
| teaching your children as they grow you will have little | | | | such, classrooms should not simply be a place for |
| control over what they are learning while they are at | | | | factual learning but practical learning. Educational |
| nursery or primary school. As such it has reached the | | | | supplies extend well beyond notebooks and pens as |
| stage that parents are striving to get their children into | | | | learning aids such as educational toys and games are |
| the best nurseries and primary schools they can. But | | | | the most conducive way to educate a young child. If |
| what makes the best schools; it's not to do with the | | | | you want to give your child an added advantage, |
| private schools and tuition fees, but the priorities of the | | | | preschool equipment and games can be used in the |
| schools themselves. | | | | home. |
| The best schooling doesn't come from expensive | | | | First and foremost though, is the home environment. A |
| learning but from the methods of the teachers | | | | lot of parents forget that learning should start at home, |
| themselves. It should be the first priority of the parent | | | | and learning together is one of the best ways to form |
| to find out about the school and take time to meet the | | | | a bond with your young child. |