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What are the nature and characteristics of kindergarten education?
Kindergarten education is an important part of basic education and the basic stage of school education and lifelong education in China. Kindergarten education should respect children's personality and rights, respect children's physical and mental development laws and learning characteristics, take games as the basic activity, pay equal attention to education, pay attention to individual differences, and promote each child's personality development. First, the understanding of the nature of kindergarten teaching. Characteristics of Kindergarten Teaching 1. Understanding of the Essence of Kindergarten Teaching 1. Teaching and Kindergarten Teaching Teacher Zhong Qiquan said: "In a nutshell, teaching is a process of teacher-student communication with classroom as the main channel, and it is a unified activity of teachers' teaching and students' learning. Through this kind of communication process and activities, students can master certain knowledge and skills, form certain abilities and attitudes, and develop their individuality. Teaching is both science and art "[4] From this concept, we can see that teaching emphasizes the unity of teachers' teaching and students' learning, and teaching and learning are both different and interdependent. The difference is that leaders are externalized behaviors, while learning is mainly internalized behaviors; At the same time, teaching and learning are mutually based, mutually oriented and interdependent. Teaching is a multi-level concept, and there are different levels of teaching relative to each level of education. For example, kindergarten education corresponds to kindergarten teaching and primary education corresponds to primary school teaching. It can be seen that teaching and kindergarten teaching are inclusive and inclusive. Understanding the meaning of teaching is the basis of clarifying the meaning of kindergarten teaching. The significance of teaching emphasizes the unity of teachers' teaching and students' learning, so kindergarten teaching should also be the unity of teaching and learning, and should be composed of the common activities of teachers and children. The significance of teaching emphasizes that students can develop their knowledge, skills, abilities, attitudes and personalities through teaching, so children should also develop in all aspects through kindergarten teaching. Through the above analysis, we can draw such a concept of kindergarten teaching: kindergarten teaching is a means of children's all-round development education. Through purposeful and planned learning activities organized by teachers and children's relatively free and spontaneous learning activities, children can acquire knowledge and experience in life, society, nature, mathematics and art, form simple concepts, develop children's intelligence, enable children to master the methods of intellectual activities, cultivate children's initial learning interests and habits, and promote children's emotional, will and personality development. From the concept of kindergarten teaching, kindergarten teaching is the combination and unity of teacher guidance and children's activities. The essence of kindergarten teaching is activities, including purposeful and planned teaching activities organized by teachers and spontaneous activities of children. The purpose of kindergarten teaching is to let children acquire knowledge and experience in all aspects, so as to promote the all-round and harmonious development of children's body and mind. (B) Analysis of the relationship between kindergarten teaching and curriculum There are two concepts in the relationship between curriculum and teaching, one is