Equipping children with life skills from kindergarten

3-8 years old is the stage when children are passionate about learning new things and everything around them. This is the core stage to build a foundation of skills for children through providing knowledge about the world around them. For children to be successful in the future, parents' learning orientation for their children from an early age is very important. Parents in Vietnam often tend to want their children to learn a lot of knowledge. However, knowledge is not enough for children to be successful later.

The constant development of society makes the knowledge that children learn at the present time become outdated and cannot be applied in 10 or 20 years. Therefore, in order for children to always adapt to rapid changes, parents should create in their children a passion for learning, the ability to concentrate and proactively acquire knowledge so that they can get acquainted with new knowledge. In addition, you should teach children problem-solving skills so that they can adapt to difficulties on their own. Teamwork skills, presentation skills, confidence, and creative thinking are also very important for children.

Several studies have shown that 3-8 is a critical period in a child's learning life. Children are very passionate about learning new things and everything around them. Therefore, this is the core stage to build a foundation of skills for children through providing knowledge about the world around them. Dr. Peter Huttenlocher, who started the "Pediatric Neurology Residency" program at the University of Chicago, USA, said that up to 50% of a child's brain architecture is formed by the age of 5, so the window of opportunity really closes before children even begin the learning process.

The learning process is developed in two directions: horizontal and vertical. The horizontal direction acts as a foundation that includes the necessary core skills. The vertical direction is the knowledge system that children build up during their life and learning process. Providing knowledge to children too early, focusing on knowledge rather than skills, makes children develop unsteadily. This happens because you have ignored the foundation and skills that play a fundamental role in the child's future learning process. Therefore, parents should have a clear direction and strategy in investing in building an educational foundation for their children before entering life.

In the US, since 1998, education experts have proposed solutions to address the difficulties in training and providing quality education programs to develop life skills and enrich knowledge FasTracKids for children from 3 years old. FasTracKids meets that requirement while impacting individual abilities and in the early years of life.

In order to maintain the quality of teaching and achieve high efficiency, FasTracKids uses the most advanced teaching equipment through a digitalized lesson plan system with vivid sounds and images suitable for children. The program is a combination of computers, projectors and interactive boards. This method makes the classroom more lively and attractive, increases the ability to concentrate, and develops children's hidden abilities.

Currently, more than 50,000 children in more than 50 countries around the world participate in FasTracKids. This is one of the successful programs in education to enrich knowledge and develop life skills for children today with 19 languages.

According to City Smart