First, the role of children in the team changes-from followers to leaders.
The role of children in mixed-age classes is constantly changing and developing, from the initial care object to caring for others. With the growth of age, children will constantly change in physical development, psychology and "social role". Especially for the only children without brothers and sisters, they may not have the experience of caring for each other, loving each other, imitating each other and working together, which will not be conducive to the development of children's collective consciousness.
Tong Tong's mother shared a short story of Tong Tong with us in a mixed-age class: One day, Tong Tong came back from kindergarten and said to me, "Mom, today I helped a little sister in our class dress, and the teacher praised me." Mother Tong Tong takes this opportunity to praise Tong Tong as a big sister and hopes to help her little brother and sister more. She replied happily, "I like to help my little brother and sister best." I am a good sister. "
Second, children can learn from each other and grow together.
Observation and imitation are the main ways for children to learn. In mixed-age classes, younger children play and live with older children, so they have the opportunity to learn from older children, get help, reduce competition pressure and increase cooperation opportunities.
Children like to imitate their peers who are older, more capable and have higher status. Similarly, older children can help younger children and benefit from activities with them. They get happy experiences by helping children. It is found that peer teaching has a positive influence on children who play educators. They will be better at helping each other because they have helped others and won the praise of adults.
Third, it can effectively promote children's social development.
Mixed-age education, because there are mixed-age classes, expands children's contact surface and allows children to learn to interact with children of different ages. Class is the embryonic form of society. This family-style class arrangement can provide children with more role experience and promote the development of role bearing ability. Children will subtly learn a lot of knowledge and skills from older children, and older children will learn the qualities of care, help, tolerance and humility through interaction with children.
What are the precautions for mixed-age education:
In the process of education, in addition to teachers educating children, we should also make full use of the methods of "children educating children", such as peer promotion, different age promotion and role transposition. Let every child grow up physically and mentally.
Mixed-age education puts forward higher requirements for teachers and courses. In mixed-age education, teachers must choose different educational contents and adopt different teaching methods to meet the needs of children of different ages in the same space, which challenges teachers' literacy, ability and wisdom.
It is worth noting that this kind of mixed-age education is different from the compound teaching in primary schools in remote areas and needs to follow the laws of early childhood education. In terms of curriculum, mixed-age education needs more school-based curriculum, and teachers need richer curriculum resources, more suitable curriculum development and more ingenious educational design, which is very demanding and difficult.
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On the significance of carrying out education management of mixed-age classes in full-time kindergartens
abstract:
Mixed-age classes provide a mixed-age living and learning environment for children. The educational model of mixed-age classes in boarding kindergartens has natural advantages. In life, children not only live and study with children of the same age, but also encourage, influence and make progress together, which enhances their self-confidence and promotes their emotional, cognitive and social development. Under the new educational form of mixed-age classes, home cooperation should also innovate ideas, explore new models, give full play to the role of two-way interactive education in homes, constantly update educational ideas in cooperation, and form educational synergy in exchanges.
Key words:
Comprehensive care; Mixed-age class; Sociality; Education model
1, the significance of full-time kindergarten mixed-age class education to preschool education
1. 1 provides more opportunities for children to observe, imitate and learn.
The development history of children in all aspects has an impact on the surrounding environment. Children of different ages live together and each child has a different stage of development. In mutual communication, younger children or foreign children will learn the language faster by imitating the language of older children. Older children use their daily life to correct the mistakes of younger children, improve their language level and achieve common progress.
1.2 mixed-age class education can effectively promote emotional communication between children.
Children's life and education in kindergarten mixed-age classes With the growth of age and the change of environment, the former younger brothers and sisters have become younger brothers and sisters, and children's roles have changed, prompting them to constantly accept new roles and adapt to the participation of new friends. This dynamic social environment provides space for emotional communication between children.
1.3 effectively promoted the development of children's social cognition.
Education survey found that children of the same age are prone to aggressive behavior when they live and play together, because imitation is a very important reason for children's aggressive behavior. Without correct solutions to problems, children don't have a certain degree of self-control like adults. Children in mixed-age classes live together, and older children will show a higher level of consciousness and conscious behavior. Older children are more willing to share toys with their younger brothers and sisters. In this way, in the educational activities of mixed-age classes, children's dependence, independence and communicative competence will be better developed, and the development of children's social consciousness will be more effectively promoted.
1.4 promotes the development of children's mutual cognitive ability, which is more conducive to the improvement of creativity and practical ability.
In the educational activities of mixed-age classes in full-time kindergartens, children of different ages live, study and play together, and children find their own learning models and learn to communicate and cooperate. The relaxed and free environment gives children more space and opportunities. Different children choose materials to operate and practice according to their hobbies and abilities, and children at all stages are full of confidence and devoted to innovative activities.
1.5 is a supplement to the second child policy.
Now the country implements the second child family planning policy. It should be said that the communication between children of the same age and children of different ages is a new educational course for children now. Mixed-age class education is of great enlightening significance and inestimable role to the current children's education in China.
2. The development of mixed-age class education and its requirements for teachers.
The education of mixed-age classes should develop in a multi-level and diversified direction. All forms that can effectively make children get happy and harmonious development are worth promoting. All forms and systems that are conducive to children's development are valuable. All forms conducive to children's development are worth promoting. Therefore, in the process of updating parents' attention to the optimization of family education, we must improve and improve the quality of teachers. Not all teachers who can educate children can certainly educate them well. Early childhood education in mixed-age classes needs special education.
2. 1 From "educator" to "guide"
In mixed-age classes, children of all ages are free to choose their favorite activities and materials and take the initiative to learn. Teachers in mixed-age classes need to more keenly capture and guide children's subtle and rich emotional feelings and their little progress. By introducing the advanced concept and practice of "learning stories", teachers should lead teachers to create a positive learning environment based on children's needs, so that children can explore and play independently in this environment.
2.2 proceed from reality
If the education of children in mixed-age classes deviates from the maturity level and needs of children, if too many unrealistic expectations are incorporated, it will alienate children's education and exaggerate the educational possibility of mixed-age classes. Therefore, the study of preschool education in mixed-age classes should start from practice and pay close attention to the objectives, contents and processes of preschool education, so that children can really live an educational life that suits them and effectively promote the healthy growth of children in mixed-age classes. In the educational environment of mixed-age classes, the interaction between teachers and children, children and children, and children and parents is colorful. For every child, this kind of interaction is constantly updated and developed, and everything should proceed from reality.
2.3 Change yourself
First of all, what has changed is the teacher's educational thought. Teachers no longer pay too much attention to the teaching results, and no longer require all children to master the same level of teaching content and understand the development differences between children. Mixed-age education activities make every child fully develop in his own recent development field, and pay attention to the change of process and result.
Secondly, the teaching organization forms are more diverse, and teachers provide children with more opportunities for group research, peer help, personality expression and performance. Life courses, games, physical exercises and other collective activities of mixed-age classes are all of children's interest, and the accumulation of their own experience is more conducive to children of all ages to realize their own development.
3. Mixed-age classes should strive to cooperate at home.
For most parents, mixed-age education is a new experimental form. Starting from their own interests, parents have a complex mentality of expectation and anxiety. Only by getting parents' participation and support and achieving family cooperation is important.
3. 1 Clear the concept, find the right position and stimulate interest.
Teachers should pay attention to strengthen communication with parents in various ways, show parents the importance of kindergarten activities, understand their needs, publicize the educational concept of kindergartens, and make parents feel that teachers are their partners, which can help them improve their ability of family education.
3.2 Clear objectives, careful design and practical results.
Considering the needs of children's development in mixed-age classes, teachers should design every home interaction activity on the basis of understanding parents, solve parents' practical problems, let parents experience kindergarten's educational ideas, educational goals and educational methods in the process of participation, and learn to treat children's self-development correctly.
3.3 expand thinking, empathy, two-way reflection
To arouse parents' initiative and enthusiasm, teachers need to know and understand parents, think from their perspective, constantly reflect on both teachers and parents, expand their own way of thinking, and then solve the needs of different parents in different ways. Kindergartens should strengthen the training and guidance for mixed-age class teachers, learn advanced educational concepts, help teachers understand the basic viewpoints and concepts of mixed-age class education, impart some specific teaching skills, and create opportunities for teachers to exchange experiences or go out to study. Give teachers in mixed-age classes appropriate expectations, give teachers timely feedback and appropriate suggestions at work, accept teachers' "failure" and allow them to try and explore new methods. In short, it is very necessary for kindergartens to provide support for teachers of mixed-age classes, so that teachers can let go of their burdens, eliminate their frustration and increase their trust, and then actively participate in the educational practice of mixed-age classes.
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