The Importance Of Junior Kindergarten

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When choosing a topic to research and discuss, I wanted to research something that I wasn’t as familiar with and that would be Junior Kindergarten. I come from a small town in central South Dakota. Where I went to school, there was only Kindergarten thru 12th grade, until the year after I graduated, when a preschool program was started at the school. It wasn’t until I had come to college and started the Early Childhood Education program at South Dakota State University, that I had first heard the term “junior kindergarten.” Over the past semester in my PS1 classes, I have heard the term more often and have become more familiar with what junior kindergarten is, but yet questions still remain. Some of the questions that I want an answer to are, what really is junior kindergarten, do I have to send my child to junior kindergarten, is junior kindergarten necessary for the education of young minds, and what are children learning in junior kindergarten?
Before you are able to determine if junior kindergarten is the right fit for your child, you first have to know what junior kindergarten is. So, what is junior kindergarten? In an article in the magazine, Educational Leadership¸ it was said that:
“Junior kindergarten is a year-long …show more content…

The first tier is junior kindergarten followed by regular kindergarten being the second tier (Galloway & George, 1986, p.68). Junior kindergarten was created with the intention to give children another year to become developmentally ready before they take on kindergarten. Given this extra year, children are given different opportunities to excel in different areas that will help better prepare them for kindergarten that following year. In 2006, Pagani, Jalbert, Lapointe, & Hébert agreed with Calloway & George and said that: “Junior kindergarten could represent an excellent opportunity to hone precursor social and academic skills that facilitate kindergarten and school entry success”

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