Mixed-age education provides children with rich opportunities for emotional experience. Due to the differences in age and the resulting differences in ability and experience, each child has a different role and status and has to face complex relationship situations. In mixed-age education activities, one child can be a teacher's student, another child's brother or sister, or a companion. These role changes not only make children experience respect, awe, admiration or jealousy from young children to older children, but also make children experience care, love or contempt from older children to younger children. These complicated emotional experiences have brought great impact to children.
Therefore, in mixed-age education activities, teachers should not only provide children with opportunities for emotional experience, cultivate children's sensitivity to various emotions and enrich their emotional world, but also prevent children from experiencing unhealthy emotions such as jealousy, arrogance and contempt too much, so as to guide children's peer relationship to develop in the direction of caring and helping each other and lay a good foundation for the formation of children's healthy personality.
Disadvantages of mixed-age education:
1. The design and implementation of the education plan is complicated.
Teachers should master the different levels of each child's development, accurately and appropriately divide the children into several groups, and then teach according to their characteristics: sometimes they should be grouped according to their age or ability, and sometimes they need to put forward different requirements for the same content. This operation is very difficult, and it is difficult for ordinary teachers to be competent.
2. Mixed age education is likely to cause a waste of time.
Some educational activities only need one unit time in the same age class, but it takes several units time to complete in the mixed age class. If the organization is not good, it will also cause some children to do nothing.
3. Mixed-age education may lead to competition among older children.
Performance, thus affecting the development of children, so that their self-confidence is affected to a certain extent. On the contrary, teachers tend to pay more attention to younger children, but lower the requirements for older children, which affects the development of older children to some extent.
Advantages of mixed-age education:
1, "mixed" brotherhood
Nowadays, most families have only one child. For children, there are no brothers or sisters. Although better material conditions can be obtained, it is difficult for children nowadays to understand what brotherhood is. The mixed-age class is like a big family, with brothers and sisters, and has developed brotherhood in life and study.
2. "Mixed" communication power
Mixed-age education provides a platform for children to communicate, and classes composed of children of different ages are a concentrated society. Teachers tend to pay more attention to children's lives and educate older children to take care of them. In the face of younger children, older children are more willing to share toys and food with them, and are more willing to humble them when there is conflict. Younger children also learn these abilities in a subtle way.
3. "Mixing" comes from confidence
In the mixed-age environment, children have a comparison, know how to evaluate themselves, and can also find their own advantages. In some activities, younger children can get help from older children, thus successfully completing tasks and greatly increasing their self-confidence; Older children also see their different abilities in the process of helping children.
4. "Mixed" high emotional intelligence
Mixed-age education brings opportunities for children to communicate with different age groups. For children, the correct behavior norms of older children set an example for them. As for older children, they will consciously show their brothers and sisters and overcome their personality shortcomings because they have self-psychological hints to be role models. Therefore, mixed-age education is conducive to the development of children's emotional intelligence.
5, "mixed" good eloquence
Babies are the key and sensitive period of language development. In mixed-age education, children with strong language expression ability and large vocabulary will affect children with weak language expression ability, which will directly promote children's language expression ability.