幼儿园的学前教育是孩子今后所有学习的第一步。孩子除了学习一些基础知识，如字母和数字之外，更重要的是学习社交技巧，如独立精神，和其他小朋友共享以及遵守学校规章制度等。选择一个适合您孩子的幼儿园需要父母预先做出计划和明确孩子上幼儿园的目的。
为了帮助家长找到适合孩子的幼儿园，在这里我们提供一些建议。家长需要认真考虑和权衡以下主要因素。如，着重培养孩子的学术能力还是社交能力？孩子在幼儿园的时间段？离家远近等。
应该在什么时候开始寻找幼儿园？
在美国许多幼儿园从1月开始考虑申请，但您应该向每个幼儿园了解和确实具体情况。通常孩子在两岁后开始上幼儿园。关于幼儿园的入园要求， 如招收孩子的年龄，便盆训练等，请向各个幼儿园确认。
找出对您的孩子和家人最重要的因素
明确孩子和家人的需要，缩小搜索范围。想清楚您想从孩子的幼儿园得到什么？您是在寻找一个有严格的学术培养计划的幼儿园还是着重培养孩子社交能力的幼儿园？
考虑以下主要因素
幼儿园的收费，托儿时间，学校的教育思想，宗教和学生教师的比例等是家长需要认真考虑的因素。通过网上和网下，以及打电话的方式尽量收集以下有关信息。
托儿费
不同的居住地，托儿费很不同。有的幼儿园会收相当贵的托儿费。决定你能够负担得起的预算，然后集中在那些在您的价格范围之内的幼儿园。
托儿时间
不同的幼儿园有不同的托儿时间。如一周几天，全天还是半天。一天8点到6点等。
教育思想
每个幼儿园有自己的教育思想。例如，著名的蒙台梭利学校强调培养孩子的独立性，华尔道夫学校强调培养孩子的创造力;高级/范围幼儿园强调培养孩子从小立志。另外，还有面向低收入家庭的教会幼儿园和社区幼儿园。
宗教信仰
在美国，许多幼儿园在教堂的地点设置的。但是，这并不意味着有参与宗教教育。即使许多宗教的幼儿园也允许无信仰的孩子入园。具体情况请向有关幼儿园询问和确实。
学生教师比例
在美国各州都有法律规定要求一定的学生教师比例。许多学校严格遵循这些规定，但有些学校可能提供一个更好的比率，即每名教师照看较少的孩子，但这种情况往往是学费会高一些。一般来说一个老师带七个2 岁半到3岁的孩子，或十个 3 - 5岁的孩子。
交通和距离
幼儿园与您的家的距离远近也很重要。孩子如何去上学？需要乘车吗？
幼儿园的候选名单
向朋友和其他家长询问是找到一个好幼儿园的一个方法。并且向您的朋友或熟人询问他们所喜欢和不喜欢的地方。充分考虑上述主要因素，选择几个您想了解更多的幼儿园，并计划现场考察。
去现场访问
做实地访问是很有必要的。事先打电话和幼儿园联系提前预订访问的时间。访问时尽可能带上您的孩子到学校，看看孩子的想法。察看和确认幼儿园的许可证，并 在您参观学校时密切注意学校的安全措施和卫生情况。
和校长，教师，助理和工作人员交谈，深入地提出一些问题。例如，孩子学习什么？如何学习？如果允许的话，在不打搅老师和其他孩子的情况下，至少在幼儿园停留半小时以便更好地感受幼儿园是如何运作的。
作出决定
在做了几次实地访问后，您就可以缩小您的选择范围，然后决定最符合您的孩子和家人标准的前三位。幼儿园应该是一个培养孩子爱学习的地方。
学前教育是孩子未来教育的重要基础。一个很好的幼儿园将帮助您的孩子在社交能力和学术能力的发展奠定坚实的基础。良好的学前教育帮助您的孩子为上小学做好准备。家长应提前做好计划，投入一定的时间和精力努力为您的孩子找到最好的幼儿园。如果您的孩子喜欢在幼儿园学习和玩耍的话，那么他就会喜欢学校的学习和生活。
提高育儿和教育孩子的知识和技能，请参阅优秀的育儿图书。
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2009年08月20日 星期四 at 05:10上午
There is a climate of high expectations, which includes the core belief that all students can learn and the teacher has the capacity to teach all children – KIDZEE schools.
iLLUME is an approach that helps parents and teachers spot the potential in children, one on one. Illume facilitates them to spot the unique quality in each child and helping them unleash that infinite potential within and strive with all their might to help the child realize it. Every time they spark a new insight, a new ray of hope, however small it may be illume helps unfolds the miracle.
iLLUME is a competency based curriculum with the end in mind. For every learning outcome expected from the child, there is a well-defined objective in place. For example, to facilitate children’s encyclopedic knowledge on the concept of elephant – the facilitator will show the poster of an elephant, introduce a puppet of an elephant who interacts with the children, a song about the elephant for the children to sing and creative movements for the children to imitate. This will be followed by an art activity / game on the following day to reinforce the concept combined with a field trip to the zoo.
This way most of the concepts across the curriculum are delivered in what Glen Doman would quote as “the joyous, honest and factual manner” covering the different learning styles of children thereby reaching every child through his / her way.
Mission of every teacher in Kidzee is to “Reach each child everyday” in his / her unique way. iLLUME ensures that the teachers have the knowledge of child development as well as the skills in teaching young children through iLLUMNAIRE. (iLLUMNAIRE is an exhaustive 80 hours training program through which every teacher (2000+ at Kidzee schools across India) learns the modalities of executing illume. This is the corner store on which the edifice of iLLUME rests.
The program has an early childhood environment that enables children to learn according to their own development and learning styles. Every child is given adequate opportunity to master the required concepts and those who struggle are given more time as needed for example, a specific concept for instance an apple is taught on a particular day. The children are then provided an opportunity to reinforce and revise the same concept through puzzles, books, games, rhymes, art and craft, stories on apple during free play the following day
The ambience of the classroom nurtures the children’s innate need to enquire and discover in their own unique ways. It thus facilitates the children’s quest for identifying their learning style. .
The play and learn equipments are carefully chosen with specific objectives in mind and what is most important teaching a particular concept. These equipments reinforce the competence for manipulation and recapitulation of concepts by the child. Relationships, memories and connectivity are a big part of what children take away from KIDZEE schools and are a vital contributor to the child’s achievement and an integral part of iLLUME.
iLLUME fosters a positive Home- School connection through a structured, well planned, face to face sessions, be it a PTM, PTA, workshops, seminars, open forums where parents discuss not only the development of the child but also the contemporary issues in child development.
Continuous, comprehensive and competency based evaluation is much more than the usual annual standardized testing. It is an ongoing review of the child’s progress accompanied by timely feedback and appropriate intervention. iLLUME thus ensure that no child is left behind.
KIDZEE puts its ear to the ground and listening to what stakeholders wanted in our schools provided valuable insights into what needs to exist to make it an efficient and an effective system, which is realized through e-KIDZEE. e-KIDZEE enables us to have greater accountability with respect to data regarding logistics, enrolment, fees, and other administrative activities.
Each school must place its own signature on its strategy to make it a success. And the signature of KIDZEE schools is iLLUME.
这里有一种很高的期望，其中包括核心理念，即所有学生都可以学习和教师有能力教导所有儿童。
启发教育是一种方式，可以帮助家长和教师发现儿童的潜力和每个孩子独特的品质，并帮助他们发挥无限的潜力，并尽可能地帮助孩子意识到这一点。