The Guide to Learning and Development for Children Aged 3-6 points out that children's curiosity and interest in learning should be fully respected and protected, and children should be constantly helped to gradually develop the spirit of being proactive, not afraid of difficulties, being earnest and focused, daring to explore and try, being willing to imagine and creating good learning quality. Simply pursuing knowledge and skills learning is harmful in a short time. We should pay more attention to the gamification of kindergarten courses, effectively integrate games and courses, and let children learn knowledge happily in the process of playing.
First, the difference between traditional education and gamification teaching
traditional education
As the main body, teachers constantly instill knowledge into children, thus ignoring their innovative spirit. The usual arrangement makes children gradually become too lazy to think, too lazy to start and too lazy to experience. It obliterated the children's curiosity and sense of inquiry.
Gamification education
Give children a chance to speak boldly in a relaxed and happy range, with children as the mainstay and teachers as the supplement. Don't always stop them, try to enter their world, give reasonable guidance and affirmation to children's whimsical ideas, and encourage and praise them more to arouse children's interest. Cultivate children's spirit of daring to try, think and create.
In other words, gamification teaching refers to a teaching method that uses games as a means to run through the whole kindergarten teaching activities, hiding and melting the goals, contents, requirements and tasks of early childhood education in various games, so that children can master knowledge and acquire skills in pleasant games, and its essence is to make children become the main body of learning and development.
So how to carry out gamification teaching? First of all, we should recognize two kinds of children's games.
Second, the two categories of children's games
1, autonomous game
Traditional children's independent games that are widely valued. Such as role games, building games and performing games. Role-playing is a game in which children creatively reflect real life by playing roles and using imitation and imagination.
Architectural game, also known as structural game, is a game in which children combine real life with children's imagination by using various natural or unnatural objects, such as mud, sand, snow, building blocks, plastic inserts and metal pieces. When constructing games, we need to pay special attention to building block games, which are irreplaceable games for children to develop and creatively reflect real life.
Respecting children's game nature, giving them rich and happy game experiences, and letting them fully connect with life experiences in the game, so as to obtain natural and integrated learning and development, are the key points of independent games.
2. purposeful games
The purposeful game, also known as "game work", has been redefined as "evolutionary game work" in the study of evolutionary game theory, and has become a new focus of game research that researchers attach great importance to.
Purposeful games have a clearer educational goal. According to the requirements of children's development in a certain field, games are used to guide and organize children's learning. It has the dual characteristics of games and activities, and can flexibly become an effective part of kindergarten curriculum.
For example, many kindergarten classes have activity areas such as puzzle area and science area, which allow children to choose freely, find companions and play games.
Thirdly, an effective way to realize the gamification teaching of preschool curriculum.
1. Integrate resources and rationally allocate kindergarten environment.
The indoor environment and outdoor environment of kindergarten are the space for children's activities, which can provide an overall perceptual environment for children's knowledge learning, ability training and personality development, and can promote children to form the most intuitive initial experience of daily life learning. Kindergartens should meet the demand of entertaining through reasonable space design and the configuration and arrangement of game equipment and materials. Teaching gamification needs to take games as the core, so that children can experience education in games. After creating a kindergarten environment with a purpose, we should fully tap the wasted teaching resources.
2. Improve teachers' quality and develop gamification teaching skills.
The gamification teaching mode needs to realize the gamification of teaching and learning, and the leading role of teachers is very important. The role of teachers in teaching activities also affects the nature of teaching and restricts the process of teaching gamification. Preschool teachers should first have a gamification teaching concept and realize that teaching activities and game activities are not separated, but should be integrated and promoted each other.
Children's learning should be centered on games, and teaching activities should be coordinated with game activities. There is no obvious boundary between teaching activities and game activities, and game activities can be the source of teaching, and they promote each other. Kindergarten teachers should take the initiative to learn, constantly create new gamification teaching models, integrate kindergarten teaching resources and organize gamification teaching activities.
3. Enrich activity materials and increase gamification teaching methods.
The existing preschool teaching activities are mainly based on the activity materials provided by kindergartens, and rarely create activity materials. First of all, kindergartens should provide creative and imaginative game toys according to children's characteristics. Secondly, teachers should guide children to actively explore toys endowed by nature, and use different living spaces and natural environments to create activity materials that meet children's interests.
Kindergarten teachers can make use of the season, let children wear gloves to make snowmen in winter, and use their knowledge to distinguish different kinds of flowers and plants in spring. Active materials can also be made from materials such as water, sand and stone in life. Preschool teachers should also add certain course content in the process of playing games to guide children to have interest in learning.
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