Most school districts have a list of recommended skills for children as they enter school. Wouldn't it be helpful to know what is expected of your five-year old before kindergarten enrollment? "Teach Your Preschooler to Learn" is a parent's guide for your child's first teacher--YOU! Your classroom is your home and neighborhood. Your curriculum is the humble flow of your daily lives together. "Teach Your Preschooler to Learn, A Parent's Guide: Preparing Your Toddler for School" explains how busy parents can respond to their child's natural curiosity and readiness to learn. You can prepare your child for school easily through casual discussion, manipulative toys, music, decorations, movies, books, and short trips while doing normal daily errands or while taking a walk together. These teaching opportunities are used to expose your child to concepts, and to invite your child to learn more about a subject now and later. This book presents some essential physical, social, and cognitive skills that schools recommend for their incoming kindergarteners. Parents are very, very busy. Many of you work, have other children to care for, have a house to clean, and have meals to cook. This book shows you how to better use the time you have to help your baby, toddler, or preschooler attain the necessary skills which are needed to achieve a positive and successful experience when your child does enter kindergarten. "Teach Your Preschooler to Learn, A Parent's Guide: Preparing Your Toddler for School" is the logical prequel to its companion book "Teach Your Child to Learn, A Parent's Guide: Simple and Tested Techniques That Work." Even though these techniques can help students of any age, the younger a person can adopt these suggestions, the more productive a student that person can become. These books are my sincere efforts to help you help your child, effectively, efficiently, and lovingly. Mommy, Daddy, be prepared . . . you also are about to grow in the most wonderful ways! Soon you will hear your child say, "I did it!" You will soon hear yourself say, "I'm having fun, too!"
About the Author: Since 1971 I've taught children and adults, most subjects, and all grade levels, as well as college courses-including foreign exchange students, adults learning English as their second language, and students unable to attend school due to illness, surgeries, emotional problems, or pregnancies. Teaching via private instruction became very satisfying. I decided that I had found my niche. Moving around the country with my military husband during his assignments, I taught in Alaska, Washington, and Montana, finally settling in New York. Years later I returned to my native Ohio to help care for my aging parent. Some of my experience was gained while teaching in a traditional classroom; most was not. Recently, I also began teaching via the Internet. I have coordinated lesson plans for parents who home-school their children, and I have conducted the instruction for a tutorial program offered by the UAW at the Ford plant in Avon Lake, Ohio, for workers' children. I've prepared students for various examinations, including SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test), PSAT (Preliminary version of the SAT), ACT (American College Test), GRE (Graduate Record Exam), GED (General Educational Development), OGT (Ohio Graduation Test), OAA (Ohio Achievement Assessment), TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language), PRAXIS (practical application of learning), Catholic High School Entrance Exam, the New York State Regents Exam, the Pipe Fitter's Licensing Exam, and Broker's Licensing Exam. I teach skills in organization, study, time management, and efficiency while I am teaching the subject material; and-importantly-I encourage my students to become independent from me. I have been the guest speaker at various PTA/PTO meetings. In 2007, I was inducted into Who's Who Among America's Teachers. In 2012, I published "Teach Your Child to Learn, A Parent's Guide: Simple and Tested Techniques That Work." After more than four decades of teaching a variety of subjects to hundreds of students, I still find that one-on-one is stimulating and productive, for both the student and for me-in my case, even well past my formative years. I love what I do!