Parents' Confusion: What does it mean to choose Ba Xueyuan?
Since the opening of Ba Xueyuan, many questions have been raised about many practices of Ba Xueyuan. Now some issues that parents care about are gathered here for your reference. Q: Based on Montessori's educational philosophy, does Ba Xueyuan consider integrating with domestic education? A: Ba Xueyuan has chosen Montessori's educational idea as our basic idea from all kinds of preschool education schools in the world. Based on this idea, it is not only because we agree with this idea in practice, but also because of the consideration of connecting with domestic education. Montessori education emphasizes education according to the natural law of children's growth, the cultivation of children's mental development, and the freedom from rules to self-discipline. At the same time, the mixed-age teaching and life practice of Montessori education is of great help to the development of sociality, communicative ability, independence and practical ability of the only child in China today. Q: Can Montessori-educated children successfully pass the Youth League? A: What should parents do if they are worried about their children going to primary school? According to our understanding, Montessori education is not only to lay the foundation for primary schools, but also to lay the foundation for life. It pays more attention to children's mental development, which is the essential difference from traditional kindergartens that pay more attention to skill development. Specifically, children educated by Montessori will need to adapt to the following two points after entering ordinary schools: First, the psychological state, children who grew up in freedom and respect, suddenly the environment changed, and adaptation needs a process. Second, the change of thinking mode, the past growth process, depends on the self-integrated thinking structure, entering ordinary schools is more of a learning mode with memory as the main body. Children need some time to change. The child is a person, and the person's adjustment ability is very strong. Adapting to the environment is everyone's job, so children will adapt after entering other schools for six months to a year or even longer. In fact, the problem of children's connection is not only the problem of children under Montessori education. Even if children in traditional kindergartens go to preschool for a long time, it takes time to adapt to school. So do you want your children to receive this kind of education? The answer lies in the following question: can you eat well before you are six, but you can't eat well after you are six. Do you want to eat before you are six? Q: During the visit, I found that the children in Ba Xueyuan were very relaxed and free. Your characteristic is relaxed and free, don't you teach children knowledge? A: Montessori's educational method is to provide conditions for each child's development, and freedom is the best condition for children's development. In freedom, children practice what they already know and make it concrete. There is no child who is not engaged in this activity by himself. This activity of transforming knowledge into ability is creativity. After the age of six, once the absorptive thinking disappears, children begin to absorb the external knowledge told in language. The mechanism of transforming creativity and knowledge into ability has been firmly established in children, benefiting them for life. Therefore, the purpose and method of this kind of education are completely different from our past educational concepts. Therefore, compared with the teacher's teaching, Ba Xueyuan pays more attention to children's active absorption, and the academy has prepared a very rich environment for children. We will provide a knowledge environment including language, mathematics, music, art, humanities and so on, so that children can learn what they want to learn according to their own development needs. Our teaching focuses on children's active absorption, and teachers are more responsible for observing and guiding children into the field. Children learn not by rote, but by exploration, which will make the process of "learning" full of fun. Therefore, our job is to provide a good development environment for children, which is an arduous task. Our teachers are not only not relaxed, but also have to work harder than traditional education teachers.