Children's education in kindergarten is voluntary, not compulsory. Parents can comprehensively consider whether to send their children to nurseries or kindergartens and which kindergartens or nurseries to send their children to according to their children and their own situation. Today, China is still a nine-year compulsory education, and preschool education is not compulsory. Therefore, it is not mandatory for parents to send their children to kindergarten, and the time schedule is more flexible. Therefore, the first feature of preschool education is non-compulsory.
2. Combination of preschool education and education
Preschool period is a very rapid and vigorous stage of children's growth and development, and it is also a period when the functions of various organs and systems of the body are not yet mature and perfect. Therefore, the education of preschool children should pay special attention to the combination of conservation and education, and all educational activities are carried out on the premise of conservation. The combination of protection and education of preschool teachers emphasizes the combination of protection and education, including education in protection, education in education and education in education, so as to promote the harmonious and all-round development of children's body and mind.
3. Enlightenment of preschool education.
The enlightenment of pre-school education means that the education of pre-school children should be related to their actual development needs, and should be started before development, taught in a timely manner, step by step, without damaging the "buds" and promoting their healthy growth.
In preschool education, the main goal is not to impart systematic knowledge. For preschool children, the content provided by specially organized teaching activities is the most basic and enlightening; Preschool children's free play, even eating, taking a nap, dressing, etc., are arranged in combination with their daily activities in preschool education institutions, which has the characteristics of life.
4. Direct experience of preschool education.
In the pre-school education stage, due to the low level of cognition and lack of knowledge and experience, pre-school children mainly know things through senses and actions, and directly contact with things in the surrounding living environment, so as to perceive and operate and gain direct experience. And their way of thinking is mainly through concrete images. Preschool children will only understand things through senses and actions and operate them.