Some preschool teachers and parents believe that children are too young to understand patriotic education, so it is too early to carry out patriotic education. They even think it is unnecessary to educate their children in patriotism. It is this wrong educational concept that makes adults lack educational awareness and enthusiasm. In the process of education, some preschool teachers only pay attention to the empty preaching and blunt indoctrination of knowledge and skills, and only seek to cope with teaching tasks, ignoring children's psychological and emotional experiences, which makes children feel confused and uninterested in patriotic education. Parents, on the other hand, tend to take an evasive attitude and avoid answering sensitive topics such as "Diaoyu Island" raised by their children, or not explaining or responding. Over time, children lost interest in such problems.
How to carry out patriotism education in kindergartens
Second, the traditional patriotism education is divorced from reality, which is difficult for children to understand.
With the development of society and the change of international situation, the content of traditional patriotism education presents historical stages and limitations. Traditional stories such as Lei Feng, Huang Jiguang and Dong Cunrui. If children really want to understand the educational significance of stories, they must combine their historical background, but many teachers can't do this. So many teachers give up the choice of these educational contents. Over time, the lack of patriotism education content has been formed.
Third, the concept is abstract and the teaching method is single, which affects the teaching effect.
For young children, "patriotism" is a very abstract concept, and patriotism education is more likely to be empty and unrealistic. As far as we educators are concerned, there are many problems in themselves. In terms of patriotism education for young children, kindergartens often have a single teaching method and monotonous content, and the educational effect often fails to reach the expected goal.
For the above practical problems, the following solutions can be used:
First of all, we should establish a new concept to meet the needs of the times.
The purpose of children's patriotic education is not to cultivate children's concrete and feasible patriotic behavior, but to cultivate children's cognition of society, hometown and motherland through various senses, to stimulate children's feelings towards society, hometown and motherland, and to enhance their inner experience. This kind of experience and emotion is the foundation and source of patriotic behavior in a person's growth process.
Second, we should supplement new textbooks in real life.
In our real life, many things have become very popular news topics for children from time to time: manned spacecraft to the sky, China winning medals in the Olympic Games, protecting the Diaoyu Islands and so on. These are all good examples of patriotism education, and children should learn to pay attention to what is happening around them. It should be the need of the development of patriotism education to increase the content of the new era which is rich in the characteristics of the times and easy for children to listen and accept.
Third, carry out patriotic education in diversified ways.
To carry out patriotic education in kindergartens, we should pay special attention to following the psychological laws of preschool children, starting with the things that children are most familiar with and interested in, and adopting various educational methods and modern teaching methods such as situational, gamification, activity and networking, so that they can gain concrete and vivid knowledge about the motherland and get good emotional experience.
Fourth, integrate educational resources and carry out family education.
Take patriotism education as the key subject of parents' school, and introduce the purpose, significance, methods and requirements of patriotism education to parents; Carry out home interaction and parents' open day activities, report on patriotism education in kindergartens, and simultaneously carry out home education. At the same time, as far as possible, use various social channels to cultivate children's patriotic consciousness, and even guide them out of kindergarten, into the community, into the society, and stimulate their true feelings of loving their hometown and motherland.
It is the sacred duty of every kindergarten teacher to educate children in patriotism. I believe that through our activities, children will become real "China people". Childhood is a critical period for patriotism to sprout. Parents and teachers should sow "seeds of love" in their young hearts.