1, improve language expression ability and promote children's intellectual development.
When carrying out mixed-age education for children, the first thing is to cultivate children's language communication ability. Through mutual communication between children of different ages, we can cultivate children's language expression ability, enrich children's vocabulary and innovate children's communication methods.
When children of different ages receive education together, older children often consciously become little teachers for younger children, while younger children unconsciously learn from older children, which provides opportunities to promote children's intellectual development to some extent.
2. Promote children's emotional communication and form a good social emotion.
In the mixed-age education environment, children of all ages will learn from each other, and children of all ages will get different experiences. Children of all ages often help each other and get the affirmation and praise from teachers, which will be a different kind of behavioral stimulation and reinforcement for children.
Being good at discovering other people's needs and taking the initiative to help others is beneficial to enhancing feelings between children, especially in the context of more and more only children and more selfish children. Educating children of mixed age can better cultivate brotherhood among children.
3. Promote mental health development and better cultivate children's socialization.
Developing and implementing mixed-age education for children, bringing children of different ages together and allowing children of different ages to interact with each other, invisibly increases the complexity and unpredictability of group activities; At the same time, the implementation of mixed-age education adds psychological experience and communication challenges to children's communication, and also brings challenges to kindergarten teachers' conservation work.
However, these challenges are also favorable conditions to promote children's continuous growth and the formation of socialization characteristics. In mixed-age education, older children can play the role of guides and learners for younger children, and younger children get help and care from older children.
The so-called mixed-age education refers to an educational institution that arranges preschool children aged 3 to 6 in a relative environment to study, live and play together.