"After hesitating, testing, challenging and trying again, the children finally overcame their inner fears and challenged success. Many children like games that need brave challenges, such as glass trestle and climbing giant tires. Every day when I go home, I will tell my parents the story of kindergarten games and become the master of my own games. " Li Xiaoxue, business director of Dongguo Kindergarten, said.
All kinds of game materials can be seen everywhere in Dongguo Kindergarten. The park divides the outdoor venues into five areas: south, middle, east, west and north, and sets up six kinds of game materials: life, performance, adventure, architecture, art design and sand water.
"We put suitable, durable and adjustable game materials that children can control, solve the problem of having something to play, provide more space for children, let children explore independently, think and create with experience, and really let children go to the center stage." Hou Qingying, vice president of Zheng Wen Education Group and director of Dongguo Kindergarten, said.
Since the establishment of 20 17, Zheng Wen Education Group has defined the educational concept as "let children grow up in independent games".
Adequate venues, facilities, equipment and suitable game environment are the first moves to promote the smooth development of kindergarten game activities. In recent years, Zheng Wen Education Group has invested 4.838 million yuan in game materials to transform the game environment. In 2020 alone, the Group invested nearly 2 million yuan in game materials for each park in three times, and nearly 300,000 yuan for the outdoor environment of Jianqiao Kindergarten.
Yang, director of the Teaching and Research Center of Education Group, said that through the design and layout of the space, as well as the launch of game equipment and materials, the autonomy and creativity of the game have been greatly increased, allowing children to enjoy themselves in a "prepared environment".
Nowadays, game materials such as water tanks, tires and various building blocks can be seen everywhere in Dongguo Kindergarten, and game scenes such as wells, kitchens, ditches and hillsides are set up according to the wishes of children, which provides a material basis for the game.
Great changes have taken place in the outdoor environment construction of various parks, showing a new trend of letting a hundred flowers blossom. The "Challenge Castle" in Dongguo Kindergarten and the "Wisdom Wood Workshop" in Jianqiao Kindergarten have become good places for children to linger.
The game is not to prepare the game space and the game material, the teacher can simply let go, it needs the professional observation and reflection of the teacher, the support and guidance of wisdom, so the growth of the teacher is particularly important.
Zheng Wen Education Group regularly carries out activities such as "the director talks about games" and "the case interpretation of business directors", which restores the process of children's game activities through cases, interprets children's actions and thinking in autonomous games from multiple angles, and greatly improves teachers' ability to observe, interpret and guide children's autonomous games.
Starting from the head of the school, focusing on the key minority, improving the game leadership of the head of the school, establishing a three-level teaching and research mechanism of group-garden-teacher, and building a teacher learning community.
The group regards business teaching and research as an important starting point to boost the spirit of kindergarten teachers, focusing on video interpretation teaching and research, problem teaching and research, on-site observation teaching and research, and special topic teaching and research.) By playing back the video explaining the game, the group followed up and observed it, and repeatedly discussed the problems encountered by teachers in the process of game organization, which promoted all kindergarten teachers to improve their teaching level. "Game activities allow teachers to play together and want to be together, which not only relieves the work pressure, but also strengthens the professional confidence of common growth. Many teachers are not satisfied with' takenism' and begin to explore independent development of game activities suitable for class children. " Hou Qingying said.
Zheng Wen Education Group takes the problem as the center and "understanding and supporting children's games" as the starting point, focusing on the creation of environment and the diversity, suitability and richness of materials, as well as the effectiveness of teachers' guidance and intervention, and organizing teachers to carry out "in-depth teaching and research" to solve problems, reflect on and improve children's game level and quality.
On the road of game promotion, Zheng Wen Education Group strives for perfection, and through the form of deconstruction-practice-reflection-reconstruction, teachers' professionalism spirals up. "We believe that children are capable learners, but we also believe that they are game supporters with ideas and practices." Yang said to him.
The growth of children is the ultimate goal of game activities. Seven kindergartens of Zheng Wen Education Group liberated children and released their nature through effective game activities. Dongguo Kindergarten has a vegetable greenhouse, where vegetables such as oil wheat, celery, rape and cucumber are planted. Here, children can not only enjoy the fun of vegetable planting games, but also experience the happiness brought by labor, and you can see the realistic version of "thinning vegetables in one garden". Frozen sounds more like the name of a movie, but in fact it is an ice and snow course independently developed by teachers and children in Dongguo Kindergarten. According to Hou Qingying, the teacher of the park made full use of the characteristics of low temperature, much snow and easy freezing in winter, led the children to make their own skating rinks and snow trails, and developed ice and snow games such as "playing ice hockey" and "bumper cars on ice", which were deeply loved by the children.
Nowadays, children's independent game activities independently developed by Zheng Wen Education Group, such as circular zip line, land occupation and building blocks, are deeply loved by children and praised by parents.
"The infinite possibilities of children at the game site remind every teacher to discover the development contained in it and support its achievement. Innocent smiling faces are also strengthening every teacher's heart: let the children have fun, play freely and play smart. " Hou Qingying said.