Supporting the transition from kindergarten to school  – AIA

Description

The training prepares participants to use the ArTeC Early Years programme to its full potential. 

The ArTeC Early Years is a programme that supports experience-based learning. At the heart of the whole programme is a learning process based on students’ own experiences, which directly supports the transition between pre-school and school and provides the basis for many of the skills and competences essential for successful progression to school. 

• The programme consits of 3 units: 
• Logical challanges  
• Remarkable (not yet programmable, but already moving) robots  
• Programmable robots 

While solving Logical challenges using coloured building blocks, children’s algorithmic thinking, spatial orientation and fine motor skills are developed. The multi-thematic and multi-skill building blocks keep children interested and curious, motivating them, while allowing for differentiated skill development.  

In the Remarkable Robots unit, children learn about the laws of physics in a playful way and experience the joy of designing and building. The construction elements in the set make it easy for students to create interesting, colourful structures. Both this unit and the booklets for programmable robots contain step-by-step descriptions and thought-provoking, experimental exercises.  

The Programmable Robots section completes the designing-building-programming sequence. The focus is on developing problem-solving skills and flexible thinking. The icon-based programming interface is easy to use, quick to learn, simple to use, and gives the experience of real programming. even for those children who cannot read. By debugging and fixing their own code, children’s self-reflective skills are developed. 

The structure of the curriculum allows space for independent learning, exploration and self-reflection throughout, thus promoting more positive connections to the concept and process of learning.