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    "id": 401471,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Elachi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support the Motion knowing very well that many parents in this country take their children to school at the age of one year upwards. When we talk about the development of a child and early childhood education, we must look at, first, how does a child grow up? What are those development steps and how important are they especially when a child is in the early childhood education foundation? One of the things that children do between ages one to five years is to learn to understand themselves, adopt skills and get the muscles to roll and skip around. They also learn how to think and interact. Therefore if the teacher does not understand the five ways of developing a child, then indeed that child will have challenges. We have seen many children who have gone through the best early childhood education always doing very well in Standard One. They are able to understand what the teachers are saying, interact, respond and even question their teachers. The child is usually more exposed. When we talk of early childhood education, we should not just look at the teachers, but also the facilities. At that level, the child must learn how to identify the numbers, vowels and the alphabet. I think the most important thing in early childhood education, if a teacher is well trained, is to mould the child to grow his or her mind. They should be given time to paint anything that is on their minds. They should be left to also play and sing because this is the level at which they develop their minds. If you keep them in a classroom environment, then the child’s mind is developed in a way that when they go to Class One, they would wonder what they are being taught because it would simply be a repetition of what they had learnt. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is need to look at an early childhood teacher and how he or she is supposed to manage a child from one year to five years. They should endeavour to develop that child to be part of society without making the child feel stressed by the teachers. This could discourage them from going to school because they are not able to read. This stage is very challenging to the teacher and also to the child. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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