NOTE I will not answer anything that will breach my confidentiality NOTE About me: I have a bachelor degree in kindergarten teaching and is currently working in a kindergarten in Norway. I work in a team consisting of four persons (one of those are another kindergarten teacher) and we have responsibility for 25 kids in the age group of 3-6 years. About kindergartens in Norway: Every kid at the age of one has the right to attend a kindergarten in the place where they live, kindergartens are not allowed to charge more than 2330 Norwegian kroner (about 386 dollars) a month, every kindergarten is obligated to follow a framework made by the government where it says what we shall teach, every kindergarten shall have at least one educated kindergarten teacher but since there's not enough of us dispensations are given. What I do: I'm in charge for the parent-teacher conferences, organizing the day, I also have the responsibility for preparing the older kids for school.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 17:13 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 12:07 |
So you're saying that people have to pay $386 a month to attend kindergarten or did I misinterpret that?
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 17:26 |
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What are the day to day problems in a class full of white well-off 5 year olds? Seems like easy mode to me.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 17:36 |
AdorableStar posted:So you're saying that people have to pay $386 a month to attend kindergarten or did I misinterpret that? Redkist posted:What are the day to day problems in a class full of white well-off 5 year olds? I don't know. That's not the reality in my kindergarten.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 17:43 |
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Are you sure it's not a tumor?
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 18:20 |
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Alhazred posted:Every kid at the age of one has the right to attend a kindergarten in the place where they live, kindergartens are not allowed to charge more than 2330 Norwegian kroner (about 386 dollars) a month... So its more like daycare.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 18:34 |
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AdorableStar posted:So you're saying that people have to pay $386 a month to attend kindergarten or did I misinterpret that? Don't you have to pay for preschool here in the sates? I'm guessing its a similar situation where is not mandatory. Preschool can be pretty expensive also.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 20:33 |
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In the US, preschool isn't mandatory and you pay for it. What we call Kindergarten is the first year kids go to public school.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 20:49 |
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I used to think I wanted to be a kindergarten teacher, but then I had some kids More, I thought that I wouldn't want to deal with the parents, especially being a man. My sister in law teaches second grade, and has done both inner city Oakland with kids that revealed they were being raped by their relatives weekly, and bilingual schools in SF where the parents will get a hair up their rear end about something and do everything within their (wrongfully considerable) power to have you fired. She prefered the former. Does Norway have a stranger-danger, don't let men near my children sort of culture? If so, how have you dealt with it?
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# ? Jul 3, 2014 01:16 |
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My wife is a kindergarten teacher here in the US. I'm curious based on our family discussions on how classrooms are run here in the states. How would you incorporate play into your daily routine. What kind of expectations do you have for each age, and what are the expectations for successful completion of your kindergarten program?
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# ? Jul 3, 2014 01:40 |
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That is a pretty good model for cheap daycare. Does the State subsidies the kindergartens pretty significantly? ~$10,000 a month doesn't seem enough for 4 working adults and everything that goes with it.
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# ? Jul 3, 2014 03:24 |
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r0ck0 posted:So its more like daycare. According to Wikipedia we Americans are apparently the oddballs. In every other nation on the planet Kindergarten is pre-school, with it not being a standard part of the educational system.
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# ? Jul 3, 2014 03:31 |
Tricerapowerbottom posted:Does Norway have a stranger-danger, don't let men near my children sort of culture? If so, how have you dealt with it? I myself have never experienced anyone that has reacted negatively to me being a man working with kids, but I have met others that have. If anything people thinks it positive that men works in kindegarten. Lord Windy posted:That is a pretty good model for cheap daycare. Does the State subsidies the kindergartens pretty significantly? ~$10,000 a month doesn't seem enough for 4 working adults and everything that goes with it. Tooke posted:How would you incorporate play into your daily routine. quote:What kind of expectations do you have for each age All in all it's difficult to set expectations for kids development. I know what the kids should be able to do at certain ages (by the age of two for example they should be able to play pretend) but I also know that kids develop differently. Take language for example, some kids produce their first words at nine months, some at sixteen months. That doesn't mean that the kids that speak at sixteen months are behind in development but that they're developing language differently than those that speak at nine months. quote:and what are the expectations for successful completion of your kindergarten program?
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# ? Jul 3, 2014 11:39 |
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How does an average day pan out?
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# ? Aug 5, 2014 01:22 |
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What kinds of cultural differences are there? Like, let's say that there are multicultural classrooms and the like? Is that the case in Norway? Or are we talking about a different kind of cultural differences.
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# ? Aug 17, 2014 05:32 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 12:07 |
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Liar posted:According to Wikipedia we Americans are apparently the oddballs. In every other nation on the planet Kindergarten is pre-school, with it not being a standard part of the educational system. You guys also call the main course of a meal an entree vv
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# ? Aug 17, 2014 09:06 |