Kindergarten and primary school are two interrelated stages of education. Kindergarten and primary school are different in educational nature, curriculum and teaching methods.
1. Kindergarten belongs to non-compulsory education, and primary school belongs to compulsory education. Compulsory education has the characteristics of "compulsory" and "universal", that is, it is the obligation of schools, parents and society to let every school-age child receive compulsory education. Therefore, parents must send their school-age children to school for primary education.
2. Kindergarten pays equal attention to education, while primary school pays equal attention to teaching.
Kindergarten should not only provide children with comprehensive and harmonious enlightenment education, but also provide children with care and upbringing in life. Primary schools should carry out purposeful and planned comprehensive and sustainable education in morality, intelligence and physique according to certain training objectives and curriculum standards. Each course has clear and specific teaching objectives and requirements. It also pays special attention to students' interest in learning, curiosity, thirst for knowledge and the formation of good moral behavior habits and study habits.
3. Kindergarten curriculum is comprehensive, organically integrating the contents of various fields and presenting them in a thematic way. Primary school curriculum is mainly divided into subjects, such as Chinese, English, mathematics, nature, physical fitness, singing, art and so on. , as well as various interest activities and inquiry activities.
4. Kindergartens focus on games, focusing on letting children learn in games and experience in activities. Primary schools focus on classroom teaching. In addition to teaching in the form of lectures, teachers also attach great importance to students' knowledge learning and ability training through observation, thinking, operation, exploration, discussion and expression.
Changes in educational content
In kindergarten, children's main activity is games, and primary education is the beginning of systematic cultural knowledge education for children. Learning has become a child's main task, and children need to pay considerable physical and mental work.
Changes in the form of activities
Kindergarten activities are lively and interesting, and children will not feel bored, while primary schools learn through classroom teaching, and teachers' teaching tasks are mostly completed by listening to lectures, doing homework, checking and taking exams.
As far as possible, it will naturally give children some pressure and require children to have certain psychological endurance.
Changes in self-control requirements
Although kindergartens also attach great importance to the requirements of children's behavior norms, the degree of discipline is not as high as that of primary schools. Once children go to primary school, they should not only learn what they are interested in, but also learn what they are not interested in but must master. Therefore, children must have a strong ability to control and regulate their own behavior in order to complete their learning tasks. Kindergarten is from the perspective of respecting children and focusing on children's interests.
Therefore, we pay more attention to the cultivation of children's three abilities: self-control, self-care and understanding, so as to lay a good foundation for children to adapt to primary school life and study after entering primary school.