Pre School Teaching Analysis Report

Running head: PRESCHOOL TEACHING 1
Teaching Cooperation to Preschool Children
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PRESCHOOL TEACHING 2
“Alone we can do little; together we can do so much” – Helen Keller
Cooperation is an important skill to be taught in preschool, as it can essentially help
preschool children develop problem-solving and teamwork skills. Introducing cooperative
play to preschool children is considered to be vital for their physical development as such
activities have been found to be linked to improvement in gross motor skills. The following
sections of the paper will discuss the importance of teaching cooperation to preschool
children and interventions that can critically help the teachers to achieve such objectives.
According to Statista Research Development (2019) report, there were over 8.74
children in the United States of America in 2018 enrolled in pre-primary school institutions.
This indicates that a huge part of the overall population is in pre-school, where critical
interventions could lead to the growth of positive intent in them. Teaching cooperation helps
the children to better collaborate with others, which could lead to the development of vital
social and emotional skills.
One of the few interventions that the teachers in preschool undertake to teach
cooperative skills to children is turn-taking. Turn-taking encourages the child to imitate the
acts of teachers and help them by participating in the activity. Such experiences give children
ample opportunities to experience feelings of accomplishment while working in teams.
According to a research study conducted by Rabinowitch & Meltzoff (2017), the
intervention of synchronous motion is highly successful in increasing the cooperation of pre-
schoolers with unfamiliar peers. The research findings indicated that groups with no motion
or unsynchronized motion showed increase timings with the decreased speed in completion
of joint tasks involving the pre-schoolers and unfamiliar peers. Synchrony induces intention
communication, which leads to enhanced peer cooperation.
Problem-solving is one important aspect that is highly dependent on the cooperative
skills of the children (Siew, Chin & Sombuling, 2017). The teachers can arrange time-