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Welcome to the comprehensive guide on the Nurturing Early Learners NEL Framework, a strategic guideline designed by the Ministry of Education MOE to ensure every preschooler receives high-quality early childhood education and supports curriculum development for children aged 4-6 years old.
The heart of this framework lies in shaping the curriculum at MOE Kindergartens MKs, where educators share resources and guidelines based on its principles with preschool institutions across Singapore. The NEL Framework underscores three core messages:
Fostering a Positive Learning Environment: Encouraging joy, curiosity, and engagement in learning to build enthusiasm for discovering the world around them.
Character Building and Lifelong Learning: Instilling values and social skills that are essential for harmonious interaction and lifelong educational pursuits.
The Role of Educators and Parents: Collaborative support between educators and parents for children's comprehensive development.
For educators, dive deeper into this framework through the NEL Portal to access more detled information and downloadable curriculum resources.
How Children Learn:
At preschool age, kids are naturally joyful, curious, and active learners thriving in a diverse cultural setting. Preschool education should:
Cultivate Curiosity: By sparking joy in learning and providing opportunities for meaningful exploration.
Nurture Social Skills: By fostering respect, responsibility, care, and honesty - the core values that guide their interactions with others.
Promote Active Learning: Through hands-on experiences that empower them to learn indepently.
Key Stage Outcomes:
The NEL Framework's key outcomes highlight a child's holistic development as they transition through preschool education:
Moral Understanding: Children should grasp right and wrong behaviors.
Social Harmony: Ability to share, play, and collaborate with peers.
Empathy and Respect: Showing care for others and respect towards diverse backgrounds.
Inquisitiveness: Curiosity about the world and willingness to explore.
Communication Skills: Expressing thoughts and feelings clearly.
Self-Confidence: Acceptance and appreciation of themselves.
Physical Development: Coordination, healthy habits, and enjoyment in arts activities.
Community Engagement: Love for their family, fris, teachers, and community members.
Values, Social Emotional Competencies:
The development of values, social skills, and learning dispositions forms the foundation for character building and lifelong learning:
Values Development: Teach respect, responsibility, care, and honesty to shape behaviors.
Social Emotional Skills: Equip children with self-awareness, management, relationships, decision-making abilities to foster healthy interactions.
Learning Dispositions: Cultivate perseverance, reflection, appreciation, creativity, wonder, curiosity, and engagement.
Preschool Learning Goals:
Support your child in achieving educational milestones across these domns:
Aesthetics Creative Expression
Discovery of the World
Health Motor Skill Development
Language and Literacy
Numeracy Skills
Educators should help children reach their learning goals through a multifaceted approach that includes:
Integrating values, social skills, and positive attitudes into dly activities.
Using iTeach principles:
Integrated Learning: A cohesive approach to teaching and learning experiences.
Facilitator Role: Teachers guiding rather than directing the learning process.
Play-Based Learning: Engaging children through meaningful play activities.
Authentic Learning: Quality interactions that are relevant and impactful for the child's development.
Constructivist Approach: Encouraging children to build their own knowledge.
Holistic Development: Fostering physical, emotional, social, cognitive growth.
Parental Involvement:
Parents play a crucial role in supporting your child's development before entering primary school:
Balanced Focus: Support both cognitive and non-cognitive growth equally.
Strengthen Parent-Teacher Collaboration: Work together with teachers to foster a positive attitude towards learning at home.
Encourage Exploration: Expose children to diverse experiences beyond the classroom.
For educators looking for more detled information, visit the NEL Portal.
Ministry of Education
Your comprehensive guide to fostering early learners' development through high-quality education
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