FROM INITIAL TO PRIMARY

Guide for parents and families on how to support the transition

The book addresses the process of transition from Early Childhood Education to Primary Education, a period considered critical in the educational process of children. It seeks to answer, in a simple way, many of the essential questions that parents who have children at these educational levels ask daily. How to make this experience, which can be stressful or positive, become a happy and stimulating experience during the process?

The text offers clear explanations that help families join the children's educational process, at school and at home, and proposes simple activities so that parents and their children can live this transition as a pleasant experience of learning, of personal development, of growth and academic, social and emotional independence.

This Guide, based on scientific evidence, uses direct, fresh and simple language; It does not prescribe rigid instructions to address this stage; Nor does it provide magic solutions to the problems that children and their families may face in this transition. On the contrary, the book is designed and organized so that family members analyze and reflect on this process of change from their own experience, to identify good practices that can be applied and eliminate those that may hinder it.

INDEX EXTRACT

1. The educational transition

What is educational transition?

What educational transitions do children experience?

The role of teachers, families and students in this transition.

What other factors intervene and how do they affect the process?

2. The boy and girl who transitions from Preschool to Primary

What are boys and girls like in this transition?

How is their development?

How do they perceive the transition?

3. School and its role in the transition

What are the new demands, possibilities and responsibilities that children face when they reach Primary School?

How can the school know that the change is negatively affecting children?

4. Activities that families can do during the transition

What good practices can be done at home before starting Primary?

How can the family prevent the change from negatively affecting the children?

How to improve family participation in school activities?

Conclusions

SUBJECTS

Early childhood education

Psychopedagogy

Teacher training

Psychopedagogical advice

Family-school

Emelinda Padilla Faneytt has a Master's and Doctorate in Education and a Postgraduate Degree in Early Childhood Education. She is a researcher, lecturer, trainer, consultant and educational advisor. Participates in advocacy programs and projects and educational policies, and collaborates in national and international organizations (UNICEF, OEI, among others). She is Founder and Director of the educational services company Red-Explora.