Let’s Reflect On The Past Weeks

Transition from early care to formal schooling Tom Corbett, Governor; Ronald Tomalis, Secretary of Education; Gary Alexander, Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us www.dpw.state.pa.us

1. Revisit your Understand your Local Community Handout and identify one stakeholder you will reach out to over the next few weeks. Share your experience. 2. Review your prioritized areas for Management of Transition Practices and School in Community and develop a plan for moving forward. Remember resources are available in the Transition toolkit to assist in the planning process.

3. Identify resources that may be missing from the toolkit. Be prepared to share resources that could fill these gap

Let’s Reflect On The Past Weeks

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Strategies, Thoughts and Ideas about the Transition to Kindergarten

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ku4jXmiirA





Transition: Child to School

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• Understand perspectives of children’s feelings and expectations when moving to a new environment .

• Develop interaction skills to diminish children’s transition fears or concerns by intentionally planned activities.

• Evaluate outcomes for children when intentionally planned transition strategies are in place.

Child to SchoolOBJECTIVES

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The actual set of transition practices enacted with a given family or classroom must be based on the needs and strengths of that child.

Positive school connections can be built when schools reflect on the strengths of the child.

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Goal:

To help make transition an exciting event with a high level of comfort for the child. Become familiar with new setting.

Get to know child and share this information.

Child <–> School Connections

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Transition from the Child’s Perspective

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTE4snzX-e0

As you watch, think about:

1. What are the children’s priorities?2. Are they similar or different from our own perspective?3. How do we or might we address the children’s priorities?




I am who I am,

Please get to know me.

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The Child’s Framework

Child’s Readiness

Child Expectatio

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Contributing Factors:

Child’s Readiness

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Age

Skill Development

Social and Emotional Factors


Child’s expectations

Generally Children expect to learn more at school and play more at preschool (Dockett and Perry 2004)


Child’s place in the world

Children’s connections that make them feel like they belong to the new setting.


This section emphasizes practices to help make transition an exciting event with a high level of comfort. These practices help foster positive attitudes toward school and learning, foster positive teacher-child relationships, and help children develop and maintain positive relationship with peers.

Best Practice Rubric Child-to-school:

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Let’s Reflect On The Past Weeks