What should a good kindergarten environment look like?
Experts point out that the main function of kindergartens is to provide children with various toys and places to play and cultivate their team spirit.
In American kindergartens, children usually sit together in the morning, and the teacher takes them to do routine things such as attendance and weather lectures. Then, share their interesting stories at home or on their way to school. Later, children will learn simple math, such as how many windows there are in the classroom. After lunch, it's reading time. The teacher will read story books to the children, and then let them draw and do crafts according to the characters or plots.
In American kindergartens, children will get in touch with life through play and improve their basic cognitive ability and language ability. At the same time, kindergarten is also the primary stage for them to learn to get along with others. American kindergarten teachers pay more attention to cultivating children's good habits of sharing things with others, such as not monopolizing toys, sharing food with others and speaking politely.
Reggio's early childhood education system in Italy is an early childhood education system that affects the world. The means for children to express themselves and communicate with others, as well as the marks for teachers to judge children's understanding, should include not only language symbols, but also hundreds of languages such as actions, gestures, gestures, expressions, paintings and sculptures. Reggio doesn't have a fixed curriculum plan, and the project activities begin with the teacher's inquiry about the children, discovering their interests and solving problems in real life.
American kindergarten curriculum includes reading, Chinese, arithmetic, social science (including history and geography), natural science and pinyin. Physical education class is one of the main courses in kindergartens, and computer courses are offered in middle classes. The classrooms and venues used for classes are all modern equipment. In the United States, food tasting and nutrition absorption in kindergartens are also an important subject here. Let children understand the importance of collective life in the joy of eating, because eating provides children with opportunities for language communication, and at the same time let children know the shape, color, smell and dining rules of food.
Kindergarten teachers in Australia spend most of their time talking to each child alone, instead of talking to the whole class. Children are in a relaxed, happy and free environment, without pressure and fear of teachers, and without being silent all the time.
In Japan, as an important part of social education and lifelong education, there are "mother classes" and "parent classes". There are two types of courses, one is for parents of babies, and the other is for people who are about to become parents. The content of learning is roughly infant psychology, physical hygiene, family education principles and so on.