Early childhood education aims to provide a suitable learning environment and promote children's physical, cognitive, emotional, social and language development through targeted teaching and comprehensive activities.
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First of all, the central task of early childhood education is to promote children's physical development. Early childhood is a critical period of physical development, so early childhood education focuses on cultivating children's sports ability, coordination ability and muscle control ability, for example, through outdoor activities, gymnastics and games. Early childhood education also emphasizes the cultivation of good hygiene habits and personal hygiene awareness.
Secondly, the central task of early childhood education is to promote children's cognitive development. This includes children's thinking development, observation, memory, creativity and so on. Early childhood education stimulates children's curiosity and desire to explore through interesting and exploratory learning activities, such as toys, games and stories, and cultivates children's attention, thinking logic and problem-solving ability.
Third, the central task of early childhood education is to promote children's emotional development. Early childhood education focuses on cultivating children's self-awareness, self-understanding and self-expression, as well as their emotional management and self-control. In early childhood education, teachers pay attention to emotional communication with children, encourage children to express their feelings, needs and ideas, and cultivate children's positive, cooperative and friendly emotional attitude.
Fourthly, the central task of preschool education is to promote children's social development. Early childhood education focuses on cultivating children's social skills, communication skills and teamwork spirit. Through interaction, cooperation and sharing with other children, children's cooperative consciousness, mutual help spirit and friendly behavior are cultivated in social communication.
Finally, the central task of early childhood education is to promote children's language development. Language is an important tool for children to communicate, express their thoughts and accept knowledge. Early childhood education develops children's language abilities such as listening, speaking, reading and writing through rich language environment, listening and speaking training and story reading, and at the same time stimulates children's interest in language and expresses their wishes.