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Discovering kindergarten
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The first three years of life of the child - an extremely intensive period of development and learning. Social and emotional development is progressing well when the relationships with adults are close, supportive, based on trust. But mostly young children coming to kindergarten experiencing various emotional difficulties which deteriorate in their social, emotional, cognitive development, and sometimes even temporary physical ailments experienced. Children of this age have difficult adaptation in a new environment, poor socio-cultural integration skills. Parents, seeing this temporary, but complicated process often feel emotionally insecure, begins to mistrust in institutional education and even take back their children from the kindergarten. Teachers, confronted with these problems, suffer from psychological pressure, feel dissatisfaction with their job, start to doubt about their professional competence. In this situation, the educational process quality is low, children feel distrust in their-selves and adults, who surround them. All these reasons harm children's development. Negative emotions of all participants of the educational process complicate children’s of early years integration and socialization opportunities. Meanwhile, controlled early age children adaptation period, positive communication and collaboration between all participants of learning process, allows children to feel safe, to know themselves, successfully adapt to the new environment and successfully integrate into the community sociocultural life. The aim of the project- the improvement of early age children socialization and integration at institutional development and creating a new adaptation methodology for early age children. Objectives: 1. The provision of assistance to overcome the difficulties of adaptation period. 2. The development of methodology how to make easier socialization of early age children. 3. Promoting interaction between child- family-institution: family is an active participant in the educational process. 4. The expansion of early age children social skills in cultural, social and natural environments. Target groups: 1. Early-age (2-3 years of age) children (about 85) who begin attending kindergarten. 2. Institution's teachers and child support specialists (about 26). 3. Aggregate - counseling and support to families, carers – facilitating of critical period, support, assistance to individual requirements (about 160). The final result of the project - practical methodology of socialization of early age children. The methodology will contain such parts: Diary "My first days in Kindergarten"; Power Point presentation "Working together"; experience of "Open doors Week"; Teacher's book "Let's be friends"; creative work „My social puzzle“, the personage of project - Poppet. All these parts will be placed in project's album with DVD. There is a need for exchanging of experiences, ideas, information about the socialization of early age children. During this project we exchange and compare experiences, ideas of education of early age children. The project will ensure the mobility of teachers for educational purposes, it will increase the attractiveness of teachers work and also will increase childcare availability. This project will promote the quality of work and lifelong learning. Project "Discovering kindergarten" will help to find the most effective and best solutions of the problem of early age children socialization.

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