Save The Children, a non-government organization that helps children, believes that every nursery school in England should have an early years teacher. The early years teacher should be the one to guide the toddlers' learning and development such as speech and language.
According to BBC, the early years teacher will not only help the children but their parents as well by teaching proper learning. Save The Children believes that the government should find a way to help the toddlers have "brain time" learning with an eligible early years teacher.
Save The Children, with the help from Institute of Child Health at University College London, created a report titled "Lighting Up Young Brains." Save The Children and Institute of Child Health found out that the nursery years are are critical for children's brain development.
Save The Children suggests that nursery toddlers' brain should start learning early before the kids begin formal schooling. If the child's intelligence is not effectively thought early, there is a big chance that they can be left behind by heaps compared to their peers.
In fact, 130,000 children in England are left behind in language development skills last year, according to the government figures claimed by Save The Children. This only means there are about six children in every reception class having a hard time to build up their verbal communication.
Sky News reported Professor Torsten Baldeweg of the Institute of Child Health said that the nursery stage is the time where kids' brain are being developed and shaped. "And we know that if these connections are not formed they, to variable degrees, will suffer longer term consequences to their physical, cognitive but also emotional development," Baldeweg added.
Steve McIntosh from Save the Children, on the other hand, told Sky News that the nursery years is the stage when the brain's development is rapidly active. Hence, this is the right time for the children to be taught, which only proves that they need early years teacher.
