A HEAD-START TUTORING PROGRAM FOR IMMIGRANT PRESCHOOLERS: THE CASE OF ETHIOPIANS IN ISRAEL
A HEAD-START TUTORING PROGRAM FOR IMMIGRANT PRESCHOOLERS: THE CASE OF ETHIOPIANS IN ISRAEL
Author(s): Elite OlshtainSubject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: EDITURA ASE
Keywords: head-start; tutoring; preschoolers; language mediation; pre-literacy and numeracy skills
Summary/Abstract: This article describes the development and implementation of an intervention program for at-risk pre-school children from an immigrant community. The program presents a preventive curriculum which aims to reduce some of the risk-factors experienced by such populations when they encounter a western-oriented school in the dominant culture. The intervention is a head-start program intended to be carried out in the child’s home before official kindergarten. This is a tutoring program which recruits high-school students from the same community and trains them to work with the young children in a process of mediating language and literacy activities in the dominant language.
Journal: Synergy
- Issue Year: 13/2017
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 208-218
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English