At the age of 5-7 years, parents become interested in the question of readiness of his child to school, what criteria definition of readiness there if needed at the same time help the expert how many years must be fulfilled future first-grader.
Different countries are looking at this issue in their own way, in some countries, children are pupils already in 4 years, but mainly between the ages of 6 to 8 years. In Russia, the age of a first grader 6.5 - 7.5 years. first graders learning program is constructed according to the age characteristics of the child. Many schools create their own criteria for assessing the readiness of the future first-grader guided by the recommendations of doctors, psychologists and educators.
If your child is 6 years old, you can make a diagnosis, look for the emotional state of his child, his attitude, willingness to learn. Diagnosis, you can spend at home or directly where are planning to attend.
To determine the child's readiness for school in many schools of the future first-grader diagnosed by several criteria:
- Level of physical development, whether the future is able to move all the student assigned to him a systematic load, determining the health of the group.
- Mental readiness: intelligence, intelligence, attentiveness, diligence, patience, perseverance, compliance with all of the above criteria of age, emotionally - volitional.
- Social readiness: development of the whole person, the ability to communicate with others (parents, peers), find friends, chat with toys relation to things.
- Didactic readiness: the ability to read, count (is optional), find patterns, identify causal relationships, express and defend their opinion, the development of motor skills, speech.
When the results obtained determined readiness level (high, medium, low, null) in accordance with the results grader can choose a program instruction.
Test results can be varied, the most important thing to take them calmly. Having underperformed do not worry, the tests are not 100% identify the intellectual level of your child, do some educational games, try to raise the baby. Through time go testing again, if the results did not change, seek help from a psychologist. Children with strong results also need your attention, you can be happy, but at the same time to think about how not to ruin potential giftedness of the child, to develop it further.
