Quote Originally Posted by LittleFeet View Post
I just took it that the educational programs being discussed were "on paper" or "teacher led" where as what I teach is more day-to-day learning through play.
Agreed ~ even Ontario kindergarten programs are moving back to the play based learning from back when kindergarten first began and moving away from boxed preplanned curriculum where the themes are the same across Ontario regardless of the interests of the child, theme related worksheets, flashcards and other academic geared lesson plans and expectations of 'early years education' that had crept into this age groups programming over the decades with the increasing importance of 'teaching' them certain things which has proven over time to actually be hindering instilling 'life long learning' for children as by the time they reach grade 3 statistics are showing that children exposed to this academic push too early get turned off of school and their desire to 'discover' for themselves gets squished out of them by the testing style 'right answers' often associated with that form of teacher led curriculum.

There is certainly a time and a place for that type of curriculum ~ IMO the early years are just better spent learning to LEARN for themselves with support from the adults in their live around that so that when that time comes for 'academic learning' they have the skills needed and their passion to do it is still intact