1. Does preschool education accelerate
student achievement prior to early
education?
Noha Ahmed
Block B
Nov.6, 2010

2. Questions
How many preschoolers need speech or
language therapy?
How many preschoolers receive physical
therapy?
How many students receive tutoring for
learning problems?
How many students benefit from Special
Education programs?

3. Introduction
 “ Youngsters in Shining Stars Preschool water plants they
grew and sketched the weekly growth” says Jackie Maese
 The vast majority of children ages 3 through 5 with disabilities
who received special education services:
1. Received speech or language therapy (93%)
2. Other common services included special education in
school (42%)
3. Occupational therapy (34%)
4. Physical therapy (21%)
5. Tutoring for learning problems (19%)

4. What are the reasons parents will want to enroll
students into preschool?
 Gain one year of growth
 Disability needs decreased
with the program
 Development of the
cognitive, social and
emotional skills
 Helps prepare students for
school
 Program helps students
prepare for early childhood
education

5. When do people see the achievement of
the students?
 See it develop in
later years
 Needs for
speech &
language
therapy
decreases
 Students are
already reading
and writing
 They see it over
a period of time

6. Why are they offering the preschool
program?
 Proven that children are more successful at learning
to read
 To see if certain strategies will improve the overall
performance over a period of time
 Children do better than students that don’t take the
program
 Provide educational benefits to all children
 Provides critical thinking and democracy

7. What do they do for activities/field
trips?
 Read about
fictional
characters in
books to solve
social behaviors
 Dramatic play, or
dress up, arts,
with music, dance

8. How does preschool education accelerate
student achievement?
 Students score higher than children in the
traditional programs
 Development skills
1. Emerging literary skills
2. Math skills
3. Social behavioral skills
4. Motor Skills
5. Adaptive behavior
6. Declassification/ reclassification
7. Cognitive development
 Students score higher in vocabulary
 Close achievement gap
 Long- term projects and cooperative
learning is encouraged

9. Preschool Teacher
 Preschool teacher is responsible for
administering and implementing curricula:
 Average salary $ 20,000
 +20 % change from 2006- 2016 for employment
 $ 43,800 the wage increase
 Kindergarten teachers, Except Special Education

10. High School Career Academy
Atholton High
School
Biotechnology
Academy Health&
Biosciences Cluster
I picked this career
academy because
it sounded
interesting

11. Penn State University Park
 It is located in Old Main Park,
Pennsylvania
 The curriculum requires the
person to be compassionate,
tolerant, and inspired. Joint effort
skills are very important too. In
this program you’ll want to teach
teamwork to your students, and
you’ll need it yourself—most of
the time you’ll be working with
an assistant teacher
 $27,114 per year
 the student body embracing 66%
in-state students and 34% out of
state students. Also, according to
data there were 49% women next
to 57% men.

12. Community Service
Volunteering in an animal shelter
I did this because I love animals and I hate
seeing them hurt so it makes me feel
happy that I am helping them feel better

13. Prior Job Experience
Babysitting
Pizza Hut
Howard County Veterinary
Accomplishments/awards:
• Honor roll
• Athletic award
• Student of the month
• Free pass to bowling

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