First, what is early childhood education
Preschool education mainly refers to the education of children aged 3 ~ 6. Pre-school education is the second half of pre-school education or early education, which is connected with the previous O ~ 3-year-old infant education and the subsequent primary education. This is an important and special stage of one's education and development. "Importance" means that it is the foundation period of a person's development, and many important abilities and personality qualities form basic characteristics during this period; "Special" means that this stage is the transition period of children's physical and mental development from the initial amorphous to the basic stereotypes, and then they can start learning and developing according to social needs.
Second, the importance of early childhood education
Childhood plays a vital role in a person's future development. Studies have shown that the development of the brain is inversely proportional to the growth of age. Obviously, the first few years of life are a good opportunity to learn quickly. A child's infancy is like a piece of plasticine. If you twist it into a square, it is a square; if you twist it into a circle, it is a circle. It can be seen that to cultivate children to develop good habits, we must start from childhood and start from scratch. Moreover, children are obedient and good at training, and it is the easiest to cultivate various habits. However, some of our parents think that children are too young to take care of, or that "trees are natural" and older children should be taken care of. When I grew up, I developed bad habits because I didn't manage it well since I was a child. I can't control them if I want to. Therefore, we should pay attention to early childhood education, cultivate children's good habits, and lay a good foundation for their future living habits and studies. In the best period of early brain development, we should enrich children's living environment, and don't wait until children should go to school to consider this issue. At this time, the critical period of learning has passed. As the saying goes: "See the old at the age of three." Children need to store knowledge and information from an early age to build their learning potential. Future learning is based on early learning. Now many families attach great importance to the education of young children. To this end, they let their children listen to beautiful music or their mothers recite literary works for the fetus from the beginning of prenatal education. Even some mothers start reading books about early childhood education one year before pregnancy, because they think these books will help their children's future education. Early education is very helpful for children's future study. It can help children better understand and master all kinds of knowledge they have learned, cultivate reading habits, and comprehend various truths from reading. Children can also receive a good education in kindergartens. Through the guidance of kindergarten teachers, children can study better, and cultivate their interpersonal relationship and social adaptability through communication with many children in kindergarten. Let children better adapt to the world and their own environment.
3. Early childhood education includes both family education and kindergarten school education.
At present, many parents lack communication with their children prematurely, and their children's family education is not well guaranteed, which makes their children have the habit of not loving communication, learning and thinking, and will make their children unable to get a good family education environment. There are many children in kindergarten, and teachers sometimes can't take care of them. Ignoring children's personality and psychological development is easy to make children form a character that is not interested in learning or even withdrawn. In this way, there is a great crisis in early childhood education, which is not only not conducive to the healthy growth of young children, but also makes young children form a bad habit of not loving learning. Therefore, parents and teachers should attach importance to early childhood education, which is not only of great help to children's future study, but also of qualitative improvement to the cultural quality of our people.
Fourth, let children truly become the masters of learning.
Children's thinking is mostly based on concrete images. Therefore, when teachers or parents guide their children to learn, they should slowly change their children from passive learning to active, active and creative learning. Early childhood education should pay attention to the following issues:
1. Create a pleasant and relaxed psychological environment, and keep and constantly develop children's curiosity. Piaget once said, "Children are scientists". Children are naturally curious about the world, and they are eager to explore and understand the world. In fact, it is through their own exploration activities that children gain understanding and knowledge of the world. In children's activities of learning science, teachers should first create a relaxed and happy psychological environment for children and protect their curiosity. When the child's answer is different from the teacher's expected result, we should respect and strive to seek the child's true understanding and its source, and support and encourage the child's exploration activities.
2. Respect children's curiosity and stimulate their interest in learning. Scientist Einstein once said, "Interest is the best teacher" and interest is the driving force. With a strong interest, children will take the initiative to seek knowledge and explore, and they will have a pleasant emotional experience when learning. Teachers should actively cultivate children's cognitive interest in the surrounding things and their positive feelings and attitudes of caring for nature and protecting the environment. Children love to think and have countless problems. Teachers should give them appropriate stimulation to make their thinking active. For example, why is the moon sometimes round and sometimes curved? Why do leaves fall in autumn? Why do seeds germinate? Why are car tires round? Wait, a series of phenomena that children can come into contact with are that children are heading for the ocean of science, and interest is the guide of the voyage.
3. Random education is an indispensable scientific exploration method. In children's daily life, there are often some accidents. Teachers should seize the opportunity to guide children scientifically, so as to seek answers to questions and help children discover the scientific truth contained in them. For example, in an outdoor activity, children found many dragonflies flying very low. "Why are there so many dragonflies? Why do they fly so low? " These children are very interested, so I will guide them to discuss these problems and help them understand the relationship between dragonfly flying low and the weather.
4. Grasp the pulse of the times and expand the content of science education. Let our children constantly receive a lot of information, so the content selection is in line with children's understanding and development level, close to children's lives, pay attention to and respect children's current interests and needs, meet the needs of children's development, and properly arrange the content that reflects the characteristics of the times and modern technology, so that children can initially understand modern technology. Knowing that technology is constantly developing will bring more convenience to people. Broaden children's horizons and satisfy their desire to explore scientific mysteries. Such as "magic computer" and "capable robot" ...
In a word, preschool education is paid more and more attention by society and parents. As a preschool educator, we should constantly explore and innovate in preschool education! Early childhood is an important period of individual socialization development. Children's experiences and experiences in this period, as well as their social development on this basis, will affect their lives. Therefore, we must attach great importance to early childhood education.
Expanding: On the Importance of Family Education to Children
As the saying goes, "parents are children's first teachers". Family education is not only cradle education, but also lifelong education. Because of its special status and influence, family education plays an important role in our huge education system project.
In recent years, due to the disharmony of family education, as an educator, I have a lot of puzzles: Why do many children study well now, but their practical ability is poor? Why are many children versatile now, but their psychological quality is poor? Why are many children now "good babies" at school but "little bullies" at home? All kinds of phenomena that happen to students cannot but arouse our educators' deep thinking.
First, the status quo of family education.
The formation of students' good behavior habits must be the result of close cooperation between good school education and good family education. But teachers often feel that the school has worked hard for a week, and the negative education of the family is hard to resist for a day.
One of the status quo: the method of teaching children is biased. After in-depth analysis and study of parents' mentality and behavior, it is not difficult to find that the current family education methods mainly include the following:
(1) "Ambitious" type. This is a typical family education with China characteristics, which occupies a considerable proportion. Because of historical reasons, parents often put all kinds of "regrets" in their growth process on their children with the best "hopes", so they have high expectations for their children to become talents. Specific performance in:
First, pay attention to scores. Children don't study hard, which is the biggest headache for parents; Children's homework performance is the most concerned and sensitive topic for parents. "Learning" and "rewarding" excellent students have become a common means for many parents to encourage their children to learn. "Learning first, grades first" is their only goal. As a result, parents arranged housework instead of their children. First, they care about their children and refuse to put the blame on them prematurely. The second is to disdain to let children do "chores" for fear of affecting their studies. If the child gets a good grade, the home is "sunny"; If the child fails the exam, the parents will stop laughing for several days.
Second, willing to invest. Many parents invite "tutors", buy "reference books" for their children, or tutor them in person. They are willing to endure hardships with only one purpose-all for children, all for learning and all for grades. In addition to telling children to learn school lessons well, they also accompany their children to take composition classes, calligraphy classes, English classes, art classes and music classes in their spare time ... In the eyes of parents, this is completely a "responsibility".
(2) "let nature take its course" type. This is an educational method adopted by parents out of their own values after the emergence of the one-child phenomenon. Undeniably, some parents rationally adopt this kind of education because they know how to follow the laws of education. But more often, they are too busy to care about their careers or give up because of their own limitations. The specific performance is as follows:
First, the phenomenon of "surrogate parents" is more common. Many parents give the way of educating their children to grandparents and other "generations". Therefore, the life of elders in their later years is centered on their children. "What to eat", "What to wear" and "What to use" always affect the hearts of elders. The "special love" of elders makes children generally lack life experience and have poor self-service ability; Enthusiastic about self-design, lacking sense of responsibility. Many children's bad behavior habits are bred in the meticulous "care" of their elders.
Second, "the heart is willing, but the strength is insufficient." Parents want their children to grow up. However, there is a big gap between the strong "hope" and the "method" of education. In the eyes of parents, children have become "familiar faces and unfamiliar hearts". In real life, an entrepreneur who can lead thousands of people can't persuade a "baby" in his family to go to the teacher to "complain" and "describe suffering". Parents often lament that in front of children, education is "unable to start" and "nerve-racking".
The reason is that the surreal and inconsistent family education is the main crux of the family education model of "wishing children success" and "letting nature take its course". The so-called "surrealism" means that parents treat their children "strictly" and "abnormally". They cannot treat and educate their children correctly and objectively; They often have high evaluation and hope for their children, and often judge the success or failure of their children by the advantages of their neighbors and colleagues, which leads to psychological imbalance.
The so-called "inconsistency",
It means that parents educate their children to be "strict" and "unqualified". Emotionally, parents attach importance to their children's education; However, in real life, the dribs and drabs of education are often ignored. Such as "talking back", "selfish", "not greeting guests" and "not honoring the elderly", some parents often relax their strict requirements for their children. In the long run, children develop some bad behaviors, and once parents wake up, they can do nothing. So there is an abnormal phenomenon that the "good baby" at school has become the "little bully" at home.
The second situation: the child's performance is not satisfactory. Children in real life, influenced by bad families and social atmosphere, show various worrying "strange circles" in their study and life.
One of the "strange circles" is money worship. In today's highly developed market economy, students are more and more eager for money. In students' pockets, pocket money is more or less filled. According to the survey, more than half of the students have personal savings, ranging from hundreds to thousands. With money in hand, invite students to eat snacks, give gifts, play billiards and play video games. The phenomenon of paying people to do homework and clean is not news; In particular, the phenomenon of "underground violence" has aroused widespread concern in the whole society. The appearance of these unhealthy phenomena is closely related to the social ideological trend of "money worship".
"Strange Circle" Part II: Waste of money and things. After investigation, we found that the main sources of students' economic benefits are:
(1) "extra points" after the test results are "up to standard";
(2) the "broken bill" left when buying things for parents;
(3) The breakfast fee and bus fare that parents give their children every day;
(4) The children of the self-employed also have "helper wages";
(5) Money and materials donated by relatives and friends ... In the eyes of students, all this is "something for nothing", so the phenomenon of wasting money and things is very serious. They can waste food at will, change stationery at will, and enter the "cold palace" if clothes, shoes and hats are not fashionable and trendy. The stall at the school gate is as lively as the market. Few students claim all kinds of clothes found in school.
The third "strange circle": the public enjoys that some students are very picky about life: they should eat fine nutrition, wear fashionable and high-end clothes and use novelty and beauty. Boys play four-wheel drive, video games, Transformers ... Girls carry exquisite bags, wear exquisite hairpins and read exquisite comic books ... Some students must be picked up and sent to school after school. Some students simply use money to rent "great" backpacks; Some students are too lazy to walk, so they take a taxi home and let their parents go downstairs to give money. At home, I live a life of "my mouth is full of food and my clothes are stretched out".
The fourth "strange circle": xenophobic students have already called their parents "hello" at home. It can't be said that he doesn't love his parents, and he doesn't respect his elders. Maybe, in his (her) heart, maybe he (she) loves himself more and values himself more. Nowadays, the only child only knows how to be loved, but not how to love others. Lack of mutual love and indifference to others and collective affairs; They lack the consciousness of equality and justice and are indifferent to things that harm the interests of others. They only have the interests of "me" in mind.
All kinds of "strange circles" among students truly reflect that some bad consciousness in the real society is imperceptibly polluting students' minds. Eliminating the "strange circle" requires the joint efforts of schools, families and society. For the healthy growth of children, we must give guidance and help to family education.
Second, the family education countermeasures
One of the countermeasures: pay attention to the formation of educational synergy
School education and family education form a joint force, and our education can get twice the result with half the effort. Therefore, schools should make full use of parents' schools and parents' open days, and comprehensively guide family education from the perspectives of modern education and quality education.
1, guide parents to "trust their children". Children are a new force. To believe in children is to believe in yourself. Every parent should have confidence in their children.
2. Guide parents to "appreciate children". In family life, children are in choices since childhood, and they have their own choices almost every day.
Children's interest is to explore the world. The less he can do it, the more he wants to do it. If he can, he will quit. Children are the object of education. Don't treat children as pets, and don't deprive them of their rights. Appreciate everything that children have paid, appreciate the little progress that children have made, and even learn to appreciate their failures, so that they can
I feel that my parents have always supported him. On the basis of raising parents' awareness, we should adopt the same content and unified standards for education and evaluation. Schools focus on "how to do it" and families focus on "how to do it". Schools and families work closely together, pay attention to practice, give timely feedback, set an example, find out the gap, re-educate and re-practice, and fundamentally overcome the passive situation that "education depends on schools to win the world".
The second countermeasure: pay attention to the development of family activities.
Lively activities are what children are most interested in. Teachers can take traditional festivals as an opportunity to carry out colorful family activities. For example, during the Spring Festival, the practice of "welcoming small guests and praising small hosts" was carried out; Carry out emotional activities such as "Hello Mom" and "Blessing the elderly" during Women's Day and Double Ninth Festival; During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the "I love my family" series of activities will be carried out ... Through the activities, parents will educate their children in time with the bridge of "emotion" and the bond of "affection", which will certainly receive unexpected results.
The third countermeasure: attach importance to the establishment of a harmonious family.
Parents should be very careful to create a family humanistic environment for their children's physical and mental growth. Parents should bathe their children in a harmonious, civilized, healthy and relaxed family atmosphere with their words and deeds and every detail of life created in their lives. Cultivate children's lively, cheerful, brave and enterprising personality, cultivate children's good sense of citizenship and social responsibility, cultivate children's modern consciousness of equality, contract, tolerance, innovation and symbiosis, and let children know that to become talents, they must first become adults.
Paying attention to family education is the necessity of modern education, and it is also the key to the success or failure of implementing quality education in schools. As a school, it has the obligation and ability to give timely and appropriate guidance to family education. In order to achieve a common goal, we must "think in one place and work hard in one place", so that our education will be effective and there will be hope.