First of all, teachers should understand the importance of gratitude education.
I remember the former Soviet educator Suhomlinski once said: "Good feelings are formed in childhood. If childhood is wasted, what is lost will be irreparable. " Kindergarten is one of the important places for one's childhood and one of the important places for receiving enlightenment education. Childhood is also the best time to educate children with gratitude.
Learning to be grateful is especially important for children nowadays. In today's society, children have become the center of every family, and their all-round development has become the focus of parents' concern. But in real life, many parents often only measure their children's development from their height, weight and test scores, while ignoring their mental health. As a kindergarten teacher, we should not only teach children all kinds of knowledge and learning methods, but also teach them the ability to take care of themselves in daily life and care about their healthy growth. We should also take it as our glorious mission and responsibility to educate our children about gratitude. Through our efforts, all children should have a grateful heart and be cultivated into a mentally healthy person.
Second, develop teaching content and appropriate methods suitable for children's age characteristics.
(1) Teachers should set an example for their children.
To teach children to learn to be grateful, teachers must first have a grateful heart. Kindergarten teachers bear heavy teaching tasks. In kindergarten, in the eyes of children, teachers are adults with many stories, knowledge and skills. Teachers' words and deeds are examples for children to learn and objects for children to imitate. Therefore, teachers should treat everything around them with a grateful heart, treat children with care, peace and patience, and always bring a heartfelt and sincere smile to their faces. This pious and grateful attitude of teachers will inevitably affect the cultivation of children's personality.
(2) Various methods suitable for children's age characteristics should be adopted.
In teaching activities, we should adopt various ways suitable for children's age characteristics to guide them, such as telling some touching and loving stories to children, such as "The Little Match Girl" and "The Radish is Back", so that they can be edified and infected, learn to sympathize with others, and know how to care for people around them and those in need. Another example is to teach children to remember their family's birthdays, or important anniversaries, and to teach children to send a flower, a small gift and a word of blessing to their families, so that children can learn how to pay attention to and respect others, and at the same time create an intimate and enthusiastic harmonious atmosphere for their families.
(3) Teachers should discover and encourage children's good deeds in time.
In kindergarten, teachers should guide children to know how to be grateful from the simplest aspects in their usual teaching. For children in small classes, what we should teach them is when to say what kind of polite words. If you need help from other children, you should say "please" first. When accepting the help of other children, say "thank you" to others; When you accidentally break other people's things, you should say "sorry" to others in time. For the children in the middle class and the big class, because they have more exchanges and contacts, we should guide them to learn to be grateful in time according to the situation at that time. In a day's activities and life, teachers should always be participants, but also observers and discoverers. Teachers should praise and encourage children as soon as they see a little kindness or behavior. If we find a child picking up building blocks on the ground, we should say to him, "thank you!" You help children pick up building blocks, you are so caring! " A thank you fell on the children's hearts, giving them psychological satisfaction and warmth, and also prompting other children to learn from him.
(4) Educate children with life cases.
Wenchuan earthquake made many families lose their loved ones and many children become orphans. After seeing the report of the earthquake on TV, the children spontaneously took out their pocket money and gave it to the teacher, asking the teacher to give his heart to the children in the earthquake-stricken area. We are moved by the sincere kindness of these children and realize that this is an excellent opportunity to educate them to be grateful. To this end, we specially launched a theme education called "Earthquake ……". We consciously let the children find some pictures of the earthquake with the help of their parents, then the children exchange and watch, and let the children talk about how the earthquake happened. What should I do if there is an earthquake? What difficulties do children in the earthquake-stricken areas encounter now? How can all sectors of society help them? What can we do for them? What help can we give them? Through this series of activities, children not only know the knowledge of how the earthquake happened, but also know the knowledge of escape after the earthquake. More importantly, children can realize that it is a happy thing to give to others and themselves, and at the same time be grateful for their hard-won happy life today.
3. Family education and gratitude education for children.
After all, children's time in kindergarten is limited, and most of the time is in their own homes. Children's education is inseparable from the cooperation of their families. Thanksgiving education for children should also be extended to families.
On the one hand, it is necessary to take advantage of opportunities such as parents picking up and dropping off children and home visits, and often communicate with parents about gratitude education for their children. We hope that parents will actively cooperate, and at the same time, we also hope that children's family members can be peaceful and friendly, understand and respect, and have a harmonious family atmosphere. In the garden, we tell them how parents care for their children, how much hardships and efforts they have made for their children's growth, and give them psychological hints by telling stories and other forms. We also talk to children, for example, asking their parents if they are early for work. Did you come back late? Are you tired every day? What did mom and dad buy for cooking for you today? What did mom and dad do for you today? Wait, let the children know that there are a lot of hardships and tiredness behind everything their parents do for themselves, and let the children naturally feel grateful to their parents and family in their hearts and learn to thank their parents for their kindness in life.
Some people say that at the beginning of life, human nature is good. Others say that this should be the beginning of life and the inherent evil. I don't entirely agree with these two statements. In my opinion, the beginning of life is neither "good" nor "evil". A child's heart is an acre of fertile land. What seeds are planted, what flowers are produced and what fruits are produced. Only by planting good seeds and watering and managing them frequently every day can we grow good fruits. We should repay the world with love and help more people, make them feel warm and strong, and make the world full of love.