Today, with the rapid development of material civilization, childhood is full of crises: TV culture, online games, exam-oriented education and other childhood killers lurk in every corner of the world, ready to devour children's leisure, conscience and physical and mental health. Television and internet make us have to watch children's innocence and curiosity gradually degenerate, and then distort into the sad face of pseudo-adults; Examination-oriented education deprives children of leisure, games and personality, and makes them learn to fight, calculate and gloat prematurely. While trying to eliminate TV culture, online games and exam-oriented education from childhood, we should also give them a positive lifestyle, cultivate their sound minds, and let them calmly cope with all the temptations and pressures of life and spend a crisis-ridden childhood safely.
This active lifestyle is "reciting in the morning, reading in the afternoon and saving at night".
In the past few decades, the morning reading mode of children mechanically reciting texts in the morning has aroused the opposition of most people. Subsequently, alternative courses such as Bible reading movement and English morning reading came into being. According to the new educational experiment, the main purpose of morning reading is not to remember the knowledge that may be used in the future, not to strengthen memory training, but to enrich children's present life. It is to cultivate a lifestyle that dances with the dawn, to learn and appreciate the beautiful mother tongue, and to feel the gratitude, grace and sense of music conveyed by poetry through morning reading. Therefore, the morning recitation developed by the new educational experiment is a compound course combining classical poetry, children's songs, children's poetry and morning recitation. Beautiful words and phrases, which children can feel, understand and convey the beautiful wishes and feelings of human beings when reciting, are the three basic characteristics of morning reading in new education. The new educational experiment has officially published six volumes of Reading China Classics, and is further compiling morning reading that can better reflect the above ideas.
Afternoon reading represents the whole childhood non-disciplinary reading. The core content is to read my childhood books.
With the progress of the experiment, some questions are becoming more and more urgent for the experimental teacher: what excellent reading materials can we provide for children, and can we ensure that these books are the best and most suitable through wider screening? For a specific child (in fact, there will never be an abstract child, a primary school student, there will always be his specific age, personality, gender, experience, interest and unique intelligence), what books can he read? Can a book "Education of Love" really be suitable for all students in grade 1-6? Besides, many children like reading materials. Are they really suitable for children to grow up? On the other hand, what books should children read for their better growth? The above are just detailed bibliography. Even though we have the most scientific bibliography, if we want different children to read effectively at different ages, we will still think about how to start reading activities.
In order to solve the above problems, since 2006, the new education experiment has carried out the project "Caterpillar and Butterfly-Step Reading Research for Newly Educated Children". The caterpillar and butterfly project believes that children of different ages can read relatively limited children's books because of the limitation of psychological development stage. We should find books that children of all ages can read from a large number of children's books.
The caterpillar and butterfly project believes that living in different languages means living in different worlds; Reading together is creation, with a common language and password. Co-reading is really living with people who read the same book. Therefore, the new educational experiment advocates parent-child reading and class reading. Reading a book together and writing a sincere paragraph can help us realize the real common life between teachers and students, parents and children, classmates, and even teachers and parents. Since the beginning of the experiment, a large number of touching stories have happened through reading together, which has improved countless parent-child, teacher-student and home-school relationships and made everyone truly feel a happy and complete educational life. In a sense, the new educational experiment takes restoring the tradition of cooperative reading as a breakthrough to improve education.
The caterpillar and butterfly project believes that childhood is not a static room, but a colorful ladder from romance to precision, from pink to sky blue. Grade two and grade four are not two similar classrooms, but two completely different worlds separated by several worlds. Therefore, reading every year should conform to their different characteristics. According to research, the caterpillar and butterfly project advocates the combination of reading, writing and drawing in the lower grades (1-3), which integrates reading picture books, telling stories and expressing creation with pictures, so that children's learning ability and creativity can be freely exerted. Middle school students (grades 3-4) began to fade out of painting and increase text reading; Combine storytelling to increase the theme of the book; And began to read historical stories and biographies. Senior students advocate topic discussion as the main aspect of joint reading; Increase the amount of free reading; Join the reading of natural science; Combine reading with children's literature creation. In the experiment, this kind of targeted reading shows a very obvious "therapeutic effect". There is a first-grade student in Loufeng No.2 Primary School. He didn't say a word during kindergarten. When he entered the school, he got a zero. After a month of reading, writing and painting activities, he suddenly told his mother a complete story and began to draw very beautiful children's paintings (including story lines), and his academic performance reached the qualified level. Moreover, almost all the children in the children's book experiment have consciously started to stay away from TV and games, and their whole mental outlook has been greatly improved.
The caterpillar and butterfly project also believes that education is both awakening and giving. We believe that every life is a magical seed, which contains unknown mysteries. Reading can awaken this beauty and magic. At the same time, we also believe that education is a kind of giving. Whether it is the characteristics of national culture or the value of universal civilization, teachers and parents need to pass it on to their children slowly through reading and stories according to the law of life growth. On the basis of fully considering the characteristics of national culture and Chinese language, we take more than 20 motifs of human culture and core civilization values as the "keywords" for selecting children's books and stories to read together. It can be said that every children's book, especially common reading, is in the form of a story, which perfectly embodies one or several core values of civilization. The study of children's ladder reading is to find the most suitable children's book for every child at the moment; At every moment of their growth, there must be the most suitable children's book at this moment. These carefully selected books will tell them peace, respect, love, tolerance, optimism, responsibility, cooperation, modesty, honesty, simplicity, freedom, unity, concentration, imagination, tranquility, courage, awe, enthusiasm, piety, gratitude, discipline and reflection with beautiful stories ... They will weave a beautiful net to take care of the children.
The caterpillar and butterfly project not only respects the order of children's growth, such as putting the story of God after fairy tales, history and heroes after myths, and natural knowledge after imaginary knowledge, but also attaches importance to the teaching of national literature characteristics. In order to endow national culture with its own characteristics, we first established a sequence of China myths, followed by Greek and Hebrew myths. For the same purpose, we will also develop local picture books in China (including myths, folk stories, Buddhist and Taoist stories, stories of heroes and celebrities, etc.). ).
Sunset province refers to students' essays and diaries, through which teachers and students weave meaningful lives with each other. Keeping a diary to record growth, encouraging and comforting each other with words between parents and children, teachers and students, has become an important part of the new educational experiment and daily life style.
At the beginning of the experiment, students' compositions have obvious writing tendency. The experimental teacher evaluates students' compositions according to their requirements, but does not regard them as a way of living together. With the improvement of the experiment, more and more teachers began to consciously guide students to take composition and diary as a way of life, and began to participate in the growth of students, using teachers and students to write compositions to lead children to independence and maturity. And students' compositions are gradually enriched into various forms, such as spiritual monologues (confidential diaries), mutual trust (common diaries), observation diaries, classroom discussion diaries, fairy tale literary creation and so on. In the lower class, this kind of writing is combined with parents and painting and writing.
Reciting in the morning, reading in the afternoon and reflecting at dusk make education return to a simple whole, which is not only a supplement to the subject curriculum, but also a correction to the prematurely refined subject curriculum. According to the new educational experiment, quality is not the combination of knowledge and ability, but a person's complete understanding and creativity. Through the integrated lifestyle and the study of subject courses, the new education is expected to realize the educational ideal put forward by quality education.