Cultivating Creativity in the Classrooms of Preschools in NYC

A for Apple

B for Ball

C for…

Children as young as two year olds these days are well-versed with the alphabets and numbers. Some can even recite an entire rhyme (which consists of several lines) to pleasantly surprise you with their fluency and memory.

Parents of these children wish to geta steady head start for their kids’ education quite early and why not?

With the competition for admission into good schools and colleges increasing in leaps and bounds and the correspondingly diminishing opportunities, parents do not want to take any risks when it comes to securing the future of their little ones.

According to a report produced for the U.S Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics, a growing fraction of children these days are attending center-based care a year before joining preschools in NYC.

A meagre 21% of children from well-to-do families and 35% children from low income families spent the year before preschool in parent-only care.

As educational practices for early childhood education undergo myriad transformations, one component remains unchanged- it is creativity.

You might ask why creativity is so important in early childhood education.

Creativity, which is an indispensable component of comprehensive educational programs for preschoolers is what makes for an intuitive, experimental and open mind.

It is highly critical for educators and parents to start off early and fuel the vehicle of creative and intuitive learning that can keep your child from merely engaging in lessons in a robotic manner.

Curriculum is static in the sense that teachers have to teach what needs to be taught, but it is creativity in the classroom that can bring to life even the dullest activity or lesson.

A structured academic program which runs alongside creativity-stimulating activities that may happen within the classroom as a part of a lesson or take place outside in the playground or activity area can go a long way in embedding key concepts in math or science deep within children’s minds.

In this way, many preschools in NYC have turned otherwise boring lessons into fun-filled and engaging activities for young students who need more than a blackboard and a piece of chalk to focus in class.