Technological University of PanamaBilingual Executive Communication Degree

International RelationsChapter #3

Students:1. Ching, Alicia2. Huang, Meilin3. Lau, Yamileth4. Magallón, Patricia5. Mancilla, Vahisy6. Mo, Angelica7. Nohely, Solis8. Nuñez, Gerardo 9. Quirós, Kevin10. Zambrano, Bercelys

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• For Japanese families, formal

preparations for entering

preschool begin five or six months

before the first day of school.

• During these months teachers,

parents and children can make

unhurried preparation for starting

school, children begin to look

forward to becoming a big

preschooler and the children and

their mothers gain some glimpses of

preschool life.

Pre-Entrance Events and Ceremonies

Japanese Preschool:

• The japanese school year

begins in April.

• Most preshools requiere that

applications be completed in

november.

• By february it is usually difficult

to find a preschool willing to

accept a late application.

• In japanese , the interview it is the

first opportunity for the mother, the

child, and a representative of the

school to Kao o awaseru (face

each other) and acknowledge their

new roles and coming affiliation.

• The mother completes an

information form about the family

and typically receives a

mimeographed set of instructions

on materials to be prepared and

childrearing suggestions to ease

the transition to preschool.

Registration

Interview

When Child enters Preschool…

o Play is the primary means by which the child’s interest in and affiliation with preschool

life is secured, and the enthusiasm arising from play is slowly shaped to include other

ends.

Enter preschool, which means becoming one member of a group-based society of

children his own age.

The first step in preschool life is to learn to play with friends and the teacher.

Everything starts from play. If you child is able to play, you need have no concern.

School visitation day

School visitation day

represents the second

step in gradually

acclimatizing children to

the preschool

enviroment.

Most preschool hold a

school visitation day for

new mothers and

students in march called:

Entering preschool for

a sinlge day.

The propose of

school visitation day is

to encourage a feeling of

anticipation and

reassurance in the

incoming students and

their mothers.

Activties typically center

around presentations

and speeches.

Opening Ceremony

• The entrance ceremony also signals the beginning of the child’s formal

status as a student at a particular school and his acceptance as a menber of

that student community.

An example of a opening ceremony in

« Mountain City Preschool-Fifty-first Entrance Ceremony»

Thirty minutes before the ceremony was scheduled to begin, new students and their

mothers started to arrive.

Here the children’s new classrom teacher was waiting to meet them. Inside the

classroom the teacher showed each child his own hook and pointed out his identifying

sticker and his name.

Ten minutes before the ceremony was to begin, students were seated in place in the

room in which the ceremony was to be held.

Then the director makes the welcoming remarks.

Opening Ceremony

Next, the continuiting students have some words of welcome for our new

friends.

Next, the assistance principal took the flour to introduce the teachers, then

request each of the new students to stand one at a time and give their

name.

After that the director continue and introduce the PTA president gives a

speech.

The director again took the flour.

And finally with a calm and quiet feeling let us listen to the piano before we

conclude the fifty-first opening ceremony.

Opening Ceremony

As soon as all of the new mothers and children had arrived in the

classroom, the theacher make speech to the student’s mothers.

At the end of her remarks she passed the regulation supplies the children

would use during the year.

Panamanian Schools

• Panama Bilingual College– Registration requirements

• International College of Maria Inmaculada– Admissions Process– Ages to admit students in the different grades– Procedure for admission – Necessary requirements for first entry

• Episcopal San Cristobal Institute– Registration requirements for Preschool and Kinder– Recommendations

Center for Child and Family Guidance

In Panama the age range to enter a child to a Center for Child and Family Guidance is 0 to 5 years

Levels or cycles cycles or stages of early education are:

• Preschool 1: includes infants from birth to 2 years old.• Preschool 2: includes the maternal, ranging in age from 2 to 4

years.• Preschool 3: includes preschoolers 4-5 years, which are

included as part of the first level of education, but under the technical and administrative responsibility for the National Early Education, which will coordinate with Dirección Nacional of First level.

Children who could not attend the pre-primary or have just completed a year of this education will receive an intensive period of readiness to enter the first grade of primary school.

Official and Private preschoolschools and government programs

• Kindergartens in schools: these cater to children 4 and 5 years.

• Child Guidance Centers (COIF): care for children 4 and 5 years and work in state and municipal institutions. (COIF Banco Nacional, la Contraloría and Municipality of Panama).

• Family and Community Centers for Initial Education: they are supported by funds from la Caja de Ahorros and which enables people to care for children.

• Family and Community Centers for Initial Education (CEFACEI): care for children 4 and 5 years in remote areas of extreme poverty, including (non-formal) aborigine areas.

• Early Childhood Education at Home: It guides parents on issues of care and early childhood stimulation for less than 6 years. The program is developed in vulnerable communities.

Admission of children in the COIF • Passport photo of the child.• Passport photo and personal

identity of the parents, guardian or responsible for the child.

• Birth certificate of child.• Card child vaccine.• General Medical Examinations.• They asked for the name of the

child who withdraws (preferably family and give the name and identification number)

Examples of COIF in Panama:

• Caritas Alegres (Curundú)

• Soy Feliz (San Miguelito)• El Porvenir (San Francisco)• Tomasa Lopez (El Chorrillo)

There is a regulation but is not met

• In the past most are schools but there are kindergartens center called Wizards or illegal. Parents are risking leaving their children in these small COIFS in which many do not have the requirements of the Ministry of Education and MIDES.

• The Executive Decree No. 30 of August 13, 1999, which makes provision for the establishment of nursery schools or kindergartens throughout the national territory and empowers the Ministry of Youth, Women, Children and the Family as the body responsible for issuing operating permits to these centers.

• These wizards centers allows a not suitable for child care staff are hired, which is very dangerous, since they are babies and infants in their prime for adequate stimulation professionally.