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Methodology & Principles

Enter Education Kids strives to impart not only English to its readers, but also core values and the objectives and
indicators required of the T.R. Ministry of Education.To learn more about our methodology and guiding principles see
the respective headings below.

Methodology & Principles

Enter Education Kids strives to impart not only English to its readers, but also core values and the objectives and
indicators required of the T.R. Ministry of Education.To learn more about our methodology and guiding principles see
the respective headings below.

T.R. MoE Objectives and Indicators

Our systems are designed for children in the Turkish education system. Therefore, one of our main goals is to impart the objectives and indicators of the Turkish Ministry of Education to our children. This means focusing on cognitive development, language development, social and emotional development, motor skills, and self-care skills.

For example, while we don’t teach children how to read or write, we give great importance to phonetics. All of our characters have phonetically similar names, such as “Ryan the Rhino”. Being able to differentiate sounds is a language development objective of the Ministry of Education.

Another example is that being able to express how you feel or how others feel in negative situations are social and emotional development objectives of the Ministry of Education and we address these issues in our story books.

In fact our storybooks, our activity books and our lessons all strive towards the goal of imparting the T.R. MoE objectives and indicators. Furthermore each of our systems also strives to help kids meet the age-specific benchmarks set out by the T.R. MoE for each of the objective headings.

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Core Values

Children of the 21st century need to be creative. They need to be responsible. They need to be able to work as a team. But perhaps more importantly, the world needs people who can empathize, who are honest, who are thoughtful, who take care of the environment, and so much more!

As such, one of cornerstone principles is that we instill our children with values and ethics. Our story books help children to empathize and to see the world from a different perspective. On top of that, all of our story books have an overarching theme or core value they address.

Meaningful Exposure

We teach English through meaningful exposure of the English language. What do we mean by meaningful exposure? The most frequently used word in the English language isn’t a color. It isn’t an animal. It is the word ‘the’. In fact, the top 25 words in the written English language are words like ‘of’, ‘and’, ‘a’, ‘to’, ‘is’, ‘in’, ‘for’, etc. These aren’t words aren’t words that we typically focus on in the kindergarten. But, we need to! Because, it is estimated that the top 25 words in the English language make up one third of written English.

But how do you teach a Turkish speaking child the word ‘the’ when there isn’t even an equivalent in Turkish? The answer is exposing them to it through real language usage that not only can they hear, but they can see. That is where our story books come in. Story books allow children to draw meaning from visual context.

Finally, when we say meaningful exposure, we also mean exposure to words that actually have meaning to the children. For example, which fruit is a child in Turkey more likely to know: a pineapple or a mulberry? Of course the answer is the humble mulberry! Almost every child in Turkey has picked mulberries, but how many have had the opportunity to taste a pineapple?

To summarize, our goal is to expose children to meaningful language through context that is meaningful.

Integrated Disciplines

Integrating Disciplines English is used in all disciplines, so who are we to separate them? This is why we integrate other disciplines into the learning process, such as music, art, STEM and drama. What’s more, these disciplines often support the implementation of the objectives and indicators of the Ministry of Education.

Here are some examples:

Activity Book-1 has a whole week dedicated to the Turkish musician Barış Manço and we talk about different instruments during Week 10.

We use the primary colors to create our own Piet Mondrian paintings and color mandalas to calm our hearts.

Our activity books are chock-full of prediction and results pages for different experiments. Our focus is less on the experiments themselves, and more on the scientific method.

We even find our inner critter as we act out different animals! Sock puppets, emotion sticks, finger puppets… the list goes on and on!

Helping Teachers

Our goal is to make the jobs of teachers as easy as possible.

We aid your lesson preparations by making sure our system follows the Ministry of Education’s special weeks and days. This means that we provide material for holidays like ‘Cumhuriyet Bayramı’ and ‘23 Nisan Ulusal Egemenlik ve Çocuk Bayramı’. We celebrate special weeks like ‘Yerli Malı Haftası’ and ‘Atatürk Haftası’.

We also know that classroom management is difficult. So, the first weeks are primarily focused on enabling children to express their basic needs- be they physical or emotional.

But perhaps the best way we help you with classroom management is by being fun.