Benefits of Head Start Program Between ages two to six, the brain increases from seventy percent of its adult weight to ninety percent (Berk, 2014). This is the time where children can improve certain skills such as physical coordination, perception, attention, memory, language, logical thinking and imagination. Each individual child will express these skills differently due to contributing factors such as nutrition, parent involvement, social- economic status and etc. According to Erickson, this age group is in the stage of initiative versus guilt where children begin find purpose in what they do, have the sense of completing task, engaging with peers and discovering what they can do with the assistance from adults. Play is vital in this …show more content…
Its mission is to provide high quality education to children and their families that are from lower class and they are given the opportunity to accomplish a well- rounded education. The Head Start Program is a program designed to prepare children from birth to age five for school. These children are from low-income families and their parents are encouraged to be involved in this program. This program supports and enhances children’s growth and development, which in turn increases the success rate in school. It also integrates health and nutritional services, serving children with disabilities and opportunities for parent involvement. The philosophy of the program consist of the degree of the child readiness for school associated with living experiences, culturally deprived children that have not been introduced to the wide sphere of living and the detrimental effects of cultural deprivation (Chesteen, …show more content…
Pre-school teachers are important sources for students because these teachers are the first people to interact with children to build a learning foundation. This author believes, more training and ongoing training should be implemented for these Head Start Program childhood teachers. Teachers are the root of this program and proper training and supplies should be given to increase effectiveness of this program. A study was conducted with thirty-seven teachers from Head Start programs where they were asked: how movement influences children’s learning; what types of movement experiences are most beneficial for children; what settings best support children’s movement and what challenges related to children’s movement (Gehris, 2014). The results included, teachers expressed that children have an innate need to move and teachers would respond to this need by using movement experiences to prepare children to learn and to teach academic concepts. Teachers also expressed that they wanted more training in these area and discussed their limited preparation and in-service training regarding children’s movement (Gehris, 2014). They suggested having scheduled meetings with their colleagues to share ideas about movement activities. In this way, teachers can interact and exchange ideas on how better to serve these children. By the way, children learn from