Australia:Two years of preschool have more impact than one, research shows

Oceania/Australia/Octubre 2016/Noticias/http://theconversation.com/

Providing universal access to preschool programs for all three-year-old children could improve academic results in the longer term and prevent the learning gap that sees nearly one in four children not ready for school when they start.

Australia currently has a national preschool program for all children (around four years old) in the year before school – a significant reform that started in 2008 and now provides 15 hours of preschool, delivered by a qualified early childhood teacher.

It is a key strategy for investing in the most important economic asset we have – the capabilities of the Australian people.

For the children most likely to experience developmental vulnerability, two years of high-quality preschool can be transformative. But it has positive impacts for all children.

There are many studies that show the long-term benefits of two years of preschool for children of all socioeconomic backgrounds.

Although many three-year-olds currently attending ECEC will be experiencing a high-quality learning environment, this isn’t the case for all children.

The National Quality Framework already provides the foundations of structural quality needed for a three-year-old preschool program – appropriate educator to child ratios, and a second early childhood teacher coming online in many services from 2020.

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http://theconversation.com/two-years-of-preschool-have-more-impact-than-one-research-shows-67790

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