Zusammenfassung der Ressource
School readiness in United States
- Schooling
- Elementary School (Compulsory)
- Refers to the first 8 years
of formal education
- children finish elemtary school
when they are in fifth or sixth grade
(aged 11 or 12)
- successful completion of elementary
education students can then go onto
middle school (aged 11 or 12)
- children start elementary
school when they are five or
six years old
- A child's ability to move from one year to the
next is based on their achievement of specified
skills. If these are not met then a child is
expected to repeat the year.
- Subjects studied include, maths,
english, science, geography, history,
addiotnal languages, music etc
- Kindergarden
- first year of primary education. Children
start kindergarten at the age of 5 years
- Pre kindergarden
- This is an optional part of a child's education which is for children aged three to five years.
These two years are believed to be a crucial part of a child's education. During this period the
main focus is to enhance the child's formation of character, develop their personality,
cognition, curiosity, social skills, emotional development, develop their physical skills, , their
curiosity and language skills.
- High school
- Junior high (12- 14 years)
- senior high (15- 17 years)
- In 2001, there were 92,858
elementary schools (68,173
public, 24,685 private) in the
United States.
- Bibliography Bennett, William J.,Chester E. Finn, Jr., and John
T. E. Crib, Jr., The Educated Child: A Parent’s Guide from
Preschool Through Eighth Grade. New York: The Free Press,
1999
- What determinenes if
a child is school
ready?
- It is the responsibility of schools to be ready
for all children at all levels of readiness.
Readiness in the child is defined by...
- Physical well-being and motor development,
including health status, growth, and disability
- Social and emotional development,
including turn-taking, cooperation,
empathy, and the ability to express one's
own emotions
- Approaches to learning, including enthusiasm,
curiosity, temperament, culture, and values
- Language development, including
listening, speaking, and vocabulary, as
well as literacy skills, including print
awareness, story sense, and writing
and drawing processes
- General knowledge and cognition, including sound-letter
association, spatial relations, and number concepts.
- U.S FLAG
- statistics to show where the US is on the PISA results
- Science place 28 with a mean
score of 497
- Mathematics place 36 with a mean score of 481
- Reading 24 with a mean score of 498