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This is where he starts kinder garten today. He remembers being told it will be lost of fun, that there will be many other boys and girls with whom he can play. But it is strange to Max. Dif ferent from his own comfortable, friendly room at home, his back yard with its familiar toys, and neighborhood friends and their play. Max feels the queasiness of fear of the new surroundings. He tugs Mom toward the family car back at the curb. But she firmly guides Max up the walk and through the big school doors, almost too big for a child to manage. The walk down the high, echo ing hall is even more frightening. It is made more so by Mom’s un usual silence. Then they enter a big room. Many other youngsters are there, some with tear-stained faces and one or two sniffling openly while a strange lady with a radiant smile kneels and talks softly to them. Max looks farther. A colorful array of boxes, bright paper, paints, a gurgling aquarium, a cage holding a gerbil and other things catch his eyes. He also sees several kids his age explor ing it all with expectant smiles. Then another mother tugs her five-year-old through the door. One glance, and the newcomer bursts into loud wails. How will Max react? Many more Texas children his age will soon have the chance to find out. Through legislation signed last week, Texas public schools will provide kindergarten for all children this fall. All the Maxes, Marias, Sues, and Carloses will get their first impression of school. A Texas A&M University spe cialist in early childhood educa tion, Mrs. Mary Bassett, believes it is a vital time in a child’s life. How he later views school, learning and even his home will be affected from that instant on. Many factors will contribute to Max’s initial response. His parents may have talked to him about school. His mother perhaps gave him toys and games that helped him learn to count, recognize let ters and grasp simple concepts. 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It may contain many unusual pieces of learning equipment and familiar objects he can use in the process of learning. It will contain an unusual num ber of his peers, more than Max has had to contend with socially except for brief, isolated instances. A very important person will be there — Max’s kindergarten teacher. Like his mom and dad and other adults he knows, she— or he—will serve as a model for Max’s impressionistic mind. “The teacher will have some very important qualities,” Mrs. Bassett hopes. “She will have a pleasing voice, a sense of humor, patience, kindness and gentleness, rapport with children and par ents, stable emotions and physical stamina and energy, among other things.” Just as important, she said, the kindergarten teacher will under stand and respect children, under stand individual differences and know that Max feels about the world much like adults do, but that he reasons about it differ ently. “The kindergarten school isn’t the child’s home,” she observed, “yet we better be ‘home-like’ in September. And then more ‘school-like’ in May. Learning is not always easy, so teachers must be warm and accepting of indi vidual children.” She teaches her fledgling teach ers that kindergarten is a “transi tion time. Any transition must be smooth to be effective.” Besides the other qualities, the effective kindergarten teacher needs special training, aimed at a different kind of learning the young child experiences. Mrs. Bassett, who has taught teachers at A&M since 1970, says the child must get the right attitude toward school and learn ing. Otherwise, first grade and later teachers will have to un learn the experience. Many elements in society will contribute to or detract from the proper kindergarten learning en vironment. “Children at this age don’t learn the same as older children,” she explained. They need to ma nipulate materials, experiment, question, learn to express them selves, gain confidence, begin to learn self-discipline and discover the relation of one thing to an other.” “It’s not all clean and not all quiet,” Mrs. Bassett went on. "It means animals, other people and going places. It takes room, more than later elementary grades, and equipment costs money.” The specialist who plans to re turn to teaching at the A&M Presbyterian Church Day School said studies show restricting learning space for this age group causes more aggressive behavior, more excitement and noise, and a less permissive atmosphere. It also leads to less individual guid ance and fewer children making personal contact with the teacher. “It costs more than with older children, because the kindergar ten child deals with experiences. Older students deal with ideas put down on paper. Paper doesn’t cost as much, yet,” she explained. More adults are needed to teach young children effectively, she added. Mrs. Bassett has 37 students in a course in art and music for early childhood and 19 in early childhood education. Three are male. She stressed the import men teachers in kinderg the model they provide ] boys and girls. “The kindergarten teacl be willing to try all sotfe things, curious and not &fn failure. The teacher mustt concerned with control tin ranging an environment in^ the child is safe to do! through which he leams,'-,| said. “We’re not as interested % I ing ‘up’ with a kindergarki as going ‘out’ and ‘into.J goal,” she added, “is to 4 [ the broadest base possible^] child to stand on in later ytf OPAS Receives Grant From Arts, Humanities Commission A&M’s Opera and Performing Arts Society has been awarded a $5,000 grant by the Texas Com mission on the Arts and Human ities. The award was announced by Maurice Coast, commission ex ecutive director. It supports OPAS’ debut season this fall. Six OPAS performances in cluding the opera, “The Marriage of Figaro,” will open the main, 2,500-seat auditorium of the new University Center. Support for the performances also comes from the Corbett Foundation of Cincinnati, the San Antonio Symphony and Opera Society, the Arts Council of the Brazos Valley and through con tributions and guarantees of numerous area residents. OPA’s premier season will also feature Violinist Itzhak Peruman, Dec. 5; Pianist Van Cliburn, Jan. 17; the National Ballet of Washington, Jan. 31; tse Hooston Symphony, April 25; Treigle, Marisa “Figaro” with Norman Feb. 27, and Soprano Galvany, April 9. OPAS was founded last fall as a functioning committee of the Town Hall Committee of the Memorial Student Center. W.C.’s prmrnmf fvr y*ur mmlmrtsinm—U brushy C reck ■41/ mrr kindly invited to Mttmd. - S.UrJ., Julr 12-13-1* TV ikcy son THE Final Final EXAM of THE WEEK Questions: 1) Who, 2) What, 3) When, 4) Where, 5) Why? ANSWERS: Who—The Social Combinations—A really good Dance ban Waltz-Polka—i What — A Dance—Country-Western, and Maggies most welcome. 3. When—This Saturday Nite—9-1. 4. 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