Keywords: Tao Xingzhi; Life education; Children's language; activity
"Life education" is the core content of Tao Xingzhi's educational thought, which embodies his educational ideas on educational objectives, contents and methods. He advocates starting from children's nature, promoting children's personality development, and emphasizing the idea of inquiry and innovation. Tao Xingzhi's life education mainly has three principles: life is education, society is school, and teaching is integration. Language activities carried out entirely in self-feeling are one of the best activities to cultivate children's creative spirit. Today, with the emphasis on improving children's innovative spirit and practical ability, Tao Xingzhi's life education thought has important reference value for children's education. Using his educational thought to guide children's language activities will help children to express themselves creatively in language activities.
1 Let language activities come alive and enrich children's life experience.
Life is education is the core of Tao Xingzhi's life education theory. Tao Xingzhi believes that life is born with important educational significance, and early childhood education comes from life and eventually returns to education. The combination of Chinese teaching activities with children's real life experience and practice can highlight children's dominant position in Chinese teaching activities and effectively meet children's development needs in all aspects, which is an important development trend of contemporary Chinese education reform. Teachers should choose the content that children are interested in and close to daily life, capture children's hobbies and choose educational materials suitable for children. Children perceive the world through their daily life experiences. Therefore, the content and form of life-oriented education is an important prerequisite to stimulate children's active learning and exploration. For children, the most effective learning is interest. Preschool teachers should be good at discovering children's interests and expanding them into educational content to encourage children to actively explore. For example, in the "Hello Birds" activity in the middle class next semester, the teacher will guide the children to know different birds and their different skills. Inspire children to have feelings of protecting birds and caring for nature. Birds are very common in children's lives. Based on this, the language activity of "Goose is admitted to the postman" is designed. In the story, ducklings, sparrows and geese all want to run for the post of postman. The children are very interested in the story of the bird race. Ducklings, sparrows and geese are common and familiar animals in daily life, and they all have previous experience and knowledge about their different appearance characteristics, walking styles and different skills. After three kinds of birds competed in flying, walking and launching skills, Dayan was finally admitted to the post of postman with excellent performance. Interesting story content and interesting bird competition attracted attention and aroused interest. When reading stories and pictures, a pair of eyes are very attentive, and at the same time, they are more willing to express their ideas boldly, try to play different birds and imitate their actions, which is of great benefit to improving children's language expression ability and imitation ability.
2. Create a lively language activity environment to stimulate children's interest in speaking.
Teachers need to fully realize the significance of life-oriented Chinese teaching, and on this basis, start from multiple practical levels and adopt more vivid educational means to promote the life-oriented Chinese activities of children. Put children in an environment where they feel close to life, can relax themselves and are more willing to express their ideas freely. According to the physiological and psychological characteristics of children's learning, children's curiosity about new things is used to stimulate their enthusiasm and initiative in learning. For example, in language activities, teachers can use the language of life to describe the image of the protagonist in the story, and children can imagine and associate this image according to their own life experience, and then guess the protagonist of the story. This way can not only keep children interested in learning, but also help them form good language expression habits and promote the improvement of language organization and expression ability. Create a richer living Chinese classroom teaching environment, liberate children's heads, hands, feet, space and time, and let them get real education in a free living environment. For example, based on the traditional folk culture of Kunshan, the language activity of "Kunshan Three Treasures Are Really Good" made children experience the cultural diversity, the pride of their hometown culture and the inheritance and continuous development of their hometown culture. For children who grew up in Kunshan, the three treasures of Qionghua, Kunshi and C-land love in Kunshan are familiar to them since childhood, and this language activity will read out the strangeness and beauty of these three treasures in an allegro way, and children's interest will be improved at once, and their enthusiasm for learning will be high.
Advocate the teaching method of "integration of teaching and doing" and pay attention to the all-round and harmonious development of children.
The purpose of children's education is to let children learn to adapt to society, learn to communicate with others, and develop into independent social people without family protection. Therefore, the responsibility of preschool teachers is to guide children to apply what they have learned to real life. Just as Mr. Tao Xingzhi advocated the idea of "integration of teaching and learning", education must be a combination of social practice, and practice is the only way to test educational achievements. At the same time, teachers' teaching methods should be related to children's learning methods, which should be based on practical methods, and "teaching and doing" should be regarded as an inseparable whole. Teachers do it in teaching and children do it in middle school, thus achieving the purpose of education.
3. 1 Exploration of Children's Autonomous Learning
The focus of "integration of teaching and doing" is "doing". Therefore, children's practice and exploration are particularly important. Only in practice, in the process of speaking loudly, can children effectively feel the characteristics of things, discover the laws of language and writing, and at the same time become interested in talking to other children. This way can leave a deep impression on children's language activities, master the methods of practical exploration, and make the teaching process get twice the result with half the effort.
3.2 Use in group activities
The way of "teaching and doing in one" allows children to master and develop language. When children are in a good language situation, they can stimulate the desire to communicate. For example, in the "Visit Friends" activity of the middle class, the teacher prepared a press card and a simulated interview draft for each young reporter, and at the same time set up the door of the "Disney Animal Kingdom" in the classroom, which contained all kinds of small animals. This situation aroused the children's strong desire to speak, and they imitated the appearance of reporters' uncles and aunts on TV to interview carefully. But how should every animal reporter interview? What should the interview say? Invisibly arouse children's interest in thinking and exploring. Through this activity, the development of children's language use ability has been improved. Tao Xingzhi's life education theory is of great significance and enlightenment to guide the development of language activities in kindergartens. Teachers should take life as a teaching material, look for educational opportunities in life and make education live. Guide children to use language to enter life, capture the material and inspiration of life, and let language activities continue to glow with new excitement.
References:
Wu Tingting. On the implementation strategy of life-oriented science education in kindergartens [J]. Science and education literature exchange (mid-tour), 2013,02.
Author: Ren Liyuan Unit: Zizhu Kindergarten, Kunshan High-tech Zone, Jiangsu Province