Pre-school level: What is taught?
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The pre-school facilities in German, French, and Italian Switzerland do not differ substantially in their goals: The kindergarten (or the "école enfantine" and the "scuola dell'infanzia") encourages the development of children and prepares them for entry into school. This happens without systematic evaluation of achievement and without selection (no division into achievement groups is carried out).
Kindergarten should encourage every child according to his or her developmental status and needs. The encouragement of independence in the children is emphasised as well as individual, social and cultural skills.
Kindergarten should encourage every child according to his or her developmental status and needs. The encouragement of independence in the children is emphasised as well as individual, social and cultural skills.
Curricula
The new kindergarten curricula have the same basis and educational goal as the curricula at the primary level. The choice of themes is based on the learning goals and is formulated with a binding character. Ten German Swiss cantons apply the same curricula.
Goals for the special fields are formulated depending on the curricula (e.g. man and environment, physical activities, language, design, music, arithmetic) or interdisciplinary learning goals are formulated and developed (e.g. improvement of physical activities, differentiation of perceptive ability, handling success and failure, perception of and focus on natural processes, experience and application of the rules of common speech, etc.). The French Swiss curriculum PECARO and other cantonal curricula define the goal description of the pre-school level for the same special fields and curricula as for the primary and lower secondary level.
The new kindergarten curricula have the same basis and educational goal as the curricula at the primary level. The choice of themes is based on the learning goals and is formulated with a binding character. Ten German Swiss cantons apply the same curricula.
Goals for the special fields are formulated depending on the curricula (e.g. man and environment, physical activities, language, design, music, arithmetic) or interdisciplinary learning goals are formulated and developed (e.g. improvement of physical activities, differentiation of perceptive ability, handling success and failure, perception of and focus on natural processes, experience and application of the rules of common speech, etc.). The French Swiss curriculum PECARO and other cantonal curricula define the goal description of the pre-school level for the same special fields and curricula as for the primary and lower secondary level.
