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How to create the growth files of kindergarten children?
The New Outline points out: "Respect the individual differences of children in development level, ability, experience and learning. Teach students in accordance with their aptitude and strive to make every child satisfied and successful. " According to the spirit of the "Outline", starting from children's age characteristics and psychological and physiological reality, a "children's growth file" is created. In the advice of American preschool education experts to preschool teachers on curriculum construction, it is mentioned how teachers can collect information reflecting children's development together with children as a document set. Children's growth file is a record of children's growth process. Its purpose is to reflect children's interests, attitudes, efforts, progress and achievements in a specific field through the intentional collection of children's works and related materials. It focuses on the strengths and achievements of children's development, rather than finding children's problems, failures and deficiencies from a negative perspective. First, the importance of establishing a growth file 1, "children's growth file" greatly expands the content, form and participants of the children's observation record book in the general sense, including teachers' records and evaluations of children's life and study in the park, parents' records of children's various interesting behaviors in family life, and children's own collections of works, activity records and data collection. It can not only truly record the little changes and growth process of children, but also reflect the guiding strategy of teachers teaching students in accordance with their aptitude; It not only provides effective information and objective basis for teachers to "help", "teach" and "guide" purposefully, but also helps teachers to accumulate, refine, criticize and reflect on their own educational behavior and experience, and at the same time opens up new channels for teachers to communicate and cooperate closely at home. 2. Dynamic assessment of children's development level. Whether children's development level has improved in various fields, whether they have reached the prescribed or expected development goals, and what advantages and disadvantages they have need to be evaluated by scientific and reasonable methods. Most of the traditional evaluation methods are tests, checklists and questionnaires. Although it is convenient to use, they only pay attention to the results and ignore the process. The use of growth files can collect and accumulate children's works and related materials, and provide comprehensive, rich and vivid information for the evaluation of children's development level. Teachers evaluate children through the characteristics and records of various works accumulated in the growing portfolio for a period of time, and combine summative evaluation with formative evaluation to ensure the accuracy of evaluation. However, it must be pointed out that the evaluation of children's development level is not for evaluation and labeling, but for better promoting children's growth. Instead of drawing good or bad conclusions for children, we should look for meaningful events (such as skills and interests) in their growth and development. Therefore, the collection of growth files should be children's spontaneous and real works. 3. Support "child-oriented" learning. Through the collection of children's works, one-on-one conversation and observation with children, teachers can discover the characteristics of each child's physical and mental development, how children learn, and their unique interests, abilities and needs. According to these findings, teachers can think about reshaping classroom culture and curriculum to meet the development needs of children, and this kind of thinking and change can also improve teachers' professional quality. Files can make children think about their progress. Research shows that children who have experienced sorting out their own experiences, examining their own works and thinking about their own progress will gradually learn to evaluate themselves and set learning goals for themselves. This ability is very important for children's growth and development. Of course, most children can't acquire this important ability without the guidance and practice of teachers. Second, the content of the growth file "Children's Growth File" is a true record of children's growth process. Through it, we can see the children's family members and their hobbies and specialties; You can see your child's little progress and growth in various activities; You can see the setbacks suffered by young children in their study and life; You can see the care of adults for young children; You can see all kinds of works that reflect children's creative ability; You can also see the footprints of kindergartens, teachers, parents and children growing together. There are activities among children, between teachers and children, and also between children and parents in Children's Growth Archives, which is a process of comprehensive utilization of various educational resources. The "children's growth file" is divided from the user's point of view, including teachers' articles, children's articles and parents' articles; From the mode of operation, it can be divided into charts, words, works and movies; Content can be divided into recording, dialogue, evaluation and communication. Through a variety of recording forms, participants in the "Children's Growth File" can choose according to the preset observation focus (goal), activity demand, activity form, teachers' own operating ability and activity habits, or they can design the contents of the "Children's Growth File" by themselves. The content of children's growth record file covers many development fields such as children's body, sports, cognition and emotion, and its specific forms are rich and diverse, which can be summarized as: (1) materials reflecting children's specific growth and development: these materials mainly reflect children's growth and development in all aspects, such as body length, weight, vision, teeth, sports, hemoglobin and other indicators. Its sources are mainly regular or irregular physical health surveys in kindergartens and spot-check data from the competent department of children's health at the next higher level. (2) Materials reflecting children's intellectual development: This part of materials mainly reflects the level of children's intellectual development and is a record of various intelligence tests conducted on children. It should be noted that these materials come from professional and standardized intelligence tests, so there are not many. In addition, as mentioned at the beginning of this paper, standardized testing and evaluation has its inevitable defects. These materials alone can't make definite conclusions about children's intellectual development, and must be used and explained together with other materials. (3) Materials reflecting children's operational ability: Children have the most hands-on activities, so this part of materials in children's "files" is the easiest to collect. Teachers can selectively take photos of children's homework activities in different periods (such as plastic insertion, plastic accumulation, small building blocks, homemade toys, etc.). ), and then put them in each child's "file". (d) Materials reflecting children's language development: Since spoken English is instantaneous, it is difficult to compare and evaluate children's oral development in different periods if children's words cannot be effectively recorded. Teachers can record children's stories, recitations, peer dialogues, question answers and other materials that can reflect children's language development. (5) Materials reflecting children's cognitive development: There are too many materials related to children's cognitive development, so it is easier for teachers to choose in this respect. Some representative materials should be selected, such as children's cognition of logarithm, object shape, time-space relationship, children's outdoor natural exploration activities and other materials that can represent children's scientific cognition; Reflect the child's duty and cooperation between peers. Mutual counseling activities can represent the information of children's social and social cognitive development. (six) materials reflecting children's artistic activities: mainly including children's artistic activities in different periods, such as paintings, paper workers, masons and other works; Information such as singing, dancing and reproduction of children's literature works. Third, the principle of establishing children's growth files. The file of children's growth is not a collection bag, and children's works and photos can be stored at will. When establishing files for children's growth, we mainly follow the following principles: 1. The principle of comprehensiveness integrates factors such as teachers' operational needs, parents' understanding needs and children's development characteristics to create a "children's growth file" that can meet the needs of teachers, parents, children, kindergartens and education. 2. Practical principle The so-called "practicality", including "children's growth files", can help to explore kindergarten curriculum resources and enrich children's life and teachers' education and teaching activities; Convenient for teachers to use, parents to operate and children to participate; It has promotion and other aspects. 3. The principle of family synchronization. Children's growth records can be used as important materials for family communication, and families can reach an educational consensus and cooperate closely. Taking children, parents and teachers to participate in the creation of growth record files can form a strong educational synergy. At the beginning of creating children's growth records, we let parents realize the value of growth records. In the process of creation, we encourage parents to record some anecdotes about their children at home, and bring them to kindergartens to add files, so as to enhance teachers' understanding of their children at home. At the same time, we should also do a good job of sharing with parents, regularly show and analyze the materials in the growth files, hold exhibitions of works, and invite parents and children to review the works together so that parents and children can share the joy of growth together. The way of home synchronization can help parents better understand their children, understand kindergarten activities and adopt effective family education methods. Fourth, the main achievements after the establishment of the children's growth record file. The establishment of children's growth record files has achieved remarkable results in discovering individual differences of each child, tapping the potential of each child, making educational evaluation scientific and correct, reaching a consensus on home, and promoting home cooperation. 1. Children's growth record has become one of the important resources and materials for kindergarten education and teaching activities, enriching kindergarten curriculum resources. The process of creating, making and using children's growth files is itself a process of education and teaching activities. 2. Recording children's growth has become an effective activity to help parents understand their children's development, their education and establish regular family contact. In the process of constantly making and adding materials to children's growth files, it not only promotes the communication between teachers and children, but also promotes the cooperation and communication between teachers and parents. Teachers can use children's growth files to vividly describe their efforts, development and achievements in the garden. Parents can learn about their children's performance and progress in kindergarten through their children's files, and guide their children's life in the family on this basis; Parents can further understand and care about kindergarten education and teaching by participating in the production and supplement of children's files, and promote parents' attention to early childhood education and early childhood growth. The growth file image describes the process of children's growth and development. There are children's works in different periods, teachers' observation records and children's growth footprints in the growth files. These materials provide teachers and parents with rich information about children's growth and development. 3. Growth files can dynamically assess the development level of children. Whether children's development level has improved in various fields, whether they have reached the prescribed or expected development goals, and what advantages and disadvantages they have need to be evaluated by scientific and reasonable methods. Traditional assessment methods mostly use tests, which are convenient to use, but only pay attention to the results and ignore the process. Using growth files can collect and accumulate children's works and related materials, and provide comprehensive, rich and vivid information for improving children's development level. Teachers evaluate children's development level through various works accumulated in the growth files for a period of time, and combine summative evaluation with formative evaluation to ensure the accuracy of evaluation. 4. The establishment of growth files has enhanced teachers' understanding of children and further promoted their development. By collecting children's works and talking with children, we can find out the characteristics of each child's physical and mental development and understand children's unique interests, abilities and needs, so that teachers can reshape their own methods and organizational forms, make their activities more in line with the needs of children's development, and correspondingly improve each child's different abilities. In short, through the establishment of children's growth files, we feel that: growth files can adjust teachers' teaching strategies in time, thus effectively providing personalized guidance; The growth file allows parents to know the kindergarten education and children's development in a timely and objective way; Growth files can further promote the improvement of children's self-awareness and self-evaluation ability.