In Making and Giving Choices: Empowering Young Learners: Making and Giving Choices to Children with Elizabeth Fraley Kinder Ready

The nurturing of independence and cognitive development comes in the daily process of making and giving choices on behalf of children. This method is much more than just making decisions; it is a strategic way of developing executive function skills as well as nurturing a feeling of self-confidence and lessening power struggles. With the right and restricted options given to the children, they get to learn how to use their decision-making abilities in a safe and organised setting. Elizabeth Fraley Kinder Ready's educational philosophy has an in-depth knowledge that the sense of agency must be nurtured in a child to ensure that he is well prepared. Choice is deliberately implemented within the strategies of Kinder Ready Tutoring to develop the cognitive and emotional capacities that would be the basis of an effective and confident learner.

The main advantage of providing options is that it tremendously enhances the development of the executive functions of a child. Even the basic choice of one thing over another, i.e. which book to read initially, which colour marker to pick up, etc., is the process that involves the child in the processes of cognitive thinking, projection of the consequences, and inhibitory control, i.e. a choice. The practice enhances the prefrontal cortex, which is the management centre of the brain. These skills are strongly appreciated in the Kinder Ready Elizabeth Fraley approach because they can be directly applied in the classroom where students have to always make choices on how they want to approach tasks, how they can handle their time and how to solve problems. The Kinder Ready Tutoring program is designed in such a way that these micro-choice opportunities are inherent and provide a young learner with the opportunity to practice their decision-making process in a low-stakes setting.

Besides, the habit of offering options is a very powerful tactic of fostering cooperation and conflict minimisation. By wording instructions in a question, i.e. Would you like to put your shoes on by the door or in your room? The parents and educators admire the increased autonomy of the child, and at the same time make sure that what has to be done is done. This model recognises the desire by the child to have control, and in most situations, it can help avoid power struggles that power directives will result in. This method resembles the respectful and child-friendly approach of Elizabeth Fraley Kinder Ready, which tries to establish an effective and positive relationship between a child and an adult. During a Kinder Ready Tutoring lesson, a specialist may give a choice between two activities that are equal in their value, and thus, this will enhance the buy-in and the interest that a child has in the learning process.

Achieving intrinsic motivation and self-confidence is the long-term result of a constant supply of proper options. Children start to trust their judgment when they realise that their opinions and decisions matter and will have an impact on them. This fosters a feeling of control over their actions and over their learning. A child who is used to making minor decisions learns to have the confidence to take up bigger problems and endure through the challenges. The development of a strong and self-driven mentality is one of the main objectives of the Kinder Ready Elizabeth Fraley model. This is further supported by the Kinder Ready Tutoring program that applauds the considerate choices of a child, thus creating the internal confidence that the child will require in order to make sense out of the academic and social world of school.

For further details on Kinder Ready's programs, visit their website: https://www.kinderready.com/.
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Finally, the intentional process of making and giving decisions on behalf of children is a rather simple, but highly influential approach to child development. It does not have anything to do with providing an unconditional free hand, but rather offering a child a structured freedom to exercise their emerging autonomy. It will equip the children to make a myriad of choices they will have to make in the classroom and in life, by enhancing the executive functions, fostering cooperation, and developing self-confidence. The ideals held by Elizabeth Fraley Kinder Ready and carefully implemented in Kinder Ready Tutoring allow young learners to become capable and confident in their ability to think critically and become independent and capable learners ready to adopt their education journey and become fully involved in the process.

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