On the harm of "primary school" in kindergarten education.
On the harm of "primary school" in kindergarten education to children's growth
[Abstract]: In recent years, under the influence of the popularity of not letting children lose at the starting line and parents' ambitions, kindergarten education tends to be primary school. This paper briefly expounds the concept of kindergarten primary education in recent years and the harm of kindergarten primary education to children's growth. The "primary school" of kindergarten education is harmful to our children. This practice, which violates the laws of pre-school education and harms children's physical and mental health, must attract the attention of leaders at all levels, educational administrative departments and the majority of kindergarten teachers, and return children to a healthy and happy childhood.
[Keywords:] harm to the growth of primary and kindergarten education
Kindergarten education is an important part of basic education in China. The task of kindergarten education is to follow the laws and characteristics of children's physical and mental development, implement the principle of combining scientific conservation with education, and educate children for the comprehensive and coordinated development of body, intelligence, morality and beauty, so as to promote their harmonious development of body and mind.
First, the concept of "primary school" in kindergarten education
The so-called "primary school" of kindergarten education refers to the bad tendency of some kindergartens to bring some teaching contents of the first grade such as Chinese Pinyin, Chinese character writing and mathematical operation into kindergarten teaching activities in advance in order to meet the wrong needs of some parents, so as to educate their children in advance. In most private kindergartens and quite a few public kindergartens, the tendency of primary school education in kindergarten is becoming more and more serious and accelerating. This educational method of replacing kindergarten education with primary education is a typical "pulling out seedlings to promote education" and "repeated education", which seriously violates the laws of early childhood education and harms the physical and mental health of young children.
Second, the phenomenon of "primary school" in kindergarten education
1. In order to meet the needs of parents and the limitation of teachers' professional ability, in the choice of educational content, literacy and writing are used to replace the language in preschool education, and several math problems are used to replace mathematical cognition in the cognitive field. It is believed that kindergartens are used for learning, and children must learn several Chinese characters and math problems every day to measure the quality of kindergartens.
2. In the organization of educational activities, instead of following the law of children's physical and mental development, the teaching activities are organized by games, but the teaching method of "blackboard+chalk" is adopted, which seriously violates the characteristics of children's physical and mental development.
Case A kindergarten teacher did this when organizing large class language activities. Without any information and teaching AIDS, he directly let the children sit in their seats and listen to the teacher's story. The teacher read the previous story "Golden Rooster" with a story book and asked the children, "What's the name of the story we heard today, little friend?" A child replied, "A rooster with a golden crown." So the teacher wrote the name of the story on the blackboard, then pointed to the words on the blackboard and asked the children to read the name of the story repeatedly.
3. In the way of evaluating children, the individual level of children in health, language, society, science and art is not measured according to their age level and individual level, but the level of a child is measured and evaluated according to the score of the exam, which seriously stifles the development and personality of children. For example, when children come home, what they say most to their parents is: how many points did I get in the exam today, how did I write, and so on. Use scores to measure children's performance in the garden.
4. Leave homework for children
Homework, a word that seems to appear only in primary schools, has quietly become popular in kindergartens in recent years.
Case 1 In front of a kindergarten parents' advertisement column, parents who came to the kindergarten to pick up their children were copying their homework.
Tip: Today's homework
Small class: Pinyin B, P, M and F, each written 10 times.
Middle class: Write people, mouth and hands 20 times each.
Big class: Write 10 times, and pinyin "ao, ou, iu" 20 times.
From the content of homework, the so-called kindergarten homework mainly refers to the activities and cooperation that children and family members should complete together outside kindergarten. For example, parent-child happy reading, parent-child manual operation, parent-child games, storytelling and so on. Kindergarten homework emphasizes parent-child cooperation and parent-child interaction.
Third, the harm of kindergarten education "primary school" to young children
1, resulting in weariness of learning, which is not conducive to the cultivation of learning interest.
The development of preschool children's brains and various organs and tissues is not perfect, which determines that they can't sit down and study formally like primary school students. As educators of children-parents and teachers, we should ask them like primary school students. The negative impact of this kind of infringement on children can be imagined. Children, no matter how young, are required to write and count. If they can't write well (which is inevitable, because they are not old enough to write well), parents will scold, beat and scold, and teachers will criticize. In this process of primary education, children are not happy, but often get negative emotional experience. They will naturally think that learning is a painful thing, so they will have fear and disgust for learning, and as a result, their children have not.
2. It stifles children's nature, which is not conducive to children's creativity and personality.
Children naturally love games, and games are the most basic form of learning for children, which is determined by their age characteristics. Therefore, as a specialized preschool education institution, kindergartens should conform to the nature of young children, and all activities should be carried out in games. Otherwise, it is against the law of early childhood education. However, regardless of children's age characteristics, preschool education in primary schools only makes children write and count monotonously, depriving children of opportunities to play, lively nature and happiness. In essence, the preschool education mode of primary school makes children lose the opportunity to learn, create and explore, and genius is strangled in the cradle.
3. It harms the health of children and is not conducive to the normal development of children's bodies.
Preschool children are in the stage of growing up, and their body and nervous system are still weak, which determines that they are not students in the sense of "sitting down to study". If the child is forced to concentrate for a long time, the brain is prone to fatigue, causing damage to the menstrual system and dull expression. Too early and too much normative learning is not conducive to the development of children's musculoskeletal, which will lead to physical symptoms such as myopia, hunchback and emaciation, and bring serious harm to children's health.
4. It damages children's mental health and is not conducive to the formation of children's sound personality.
Pre-school education "primary school" prematurely carries out primary education for children, which exceeds the level of children's psychological development. The practice of asking children to study and complete homework according to the standards of primary school students violates their cognitive level, cognitive ability and cognitive law. Let children write and calculate, and force them to learn. They are deprived of "playing" time, and without freedom, their initiative, enthusiasm and creativity in learning cannot be brought into play. Children become as stupid as "little adults". Children are burdened with heavy schoolwork prematurely, forced to study under the abuse or even abuse of adults, their lively personality is suppressed and destroyed, and their hearts are traumatized, so it is difficult to form a sound personality such as cheerful, positive, optimistic, self-reliant, confident and self-respecting, which seriously damages their mental health.
In short, the "primary school" of kindergarten education is harmful to our children, which needs to be paid attention by leaders at all levels, education administrative departments, kindergarten teachers and parents to give children a happy, healthy and meaningful childhood.
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(Author: Wang Shuhua)