Children are the future and hope of the motherland. Education that loves the motherland and hometown must start with children. Only when children are engraved with "Motherland" from an early age can they grow into successors who love and build the motherland. However, for children, the motherland is an abstract concept, but their thinking is concrete. Therefore, patriotic education must put forward educational requirements, determine educational contents and choose educational methods according to the characteristics of children's physical and mental development and cognitive structure. This semester, we have actively explored this, and the main methods are:
First, around the theme of "love the motherland, love my hometown", formulate educational activities:
Love for the motherland and hometown needs to be purposeful and planned, from shallow to deep, from near to far, and run through children's activities at multiple levels, so that children can truly feel their love for their hometown, the friendship of the people and the greatness of the motherland through personal experience, and sprout their initial patriotic feelings.
We mainly focus on education. First, through regular training and courtesy education, children are trained to love their parents, know the contribution of their parents' labor to society, and to love teachers, peers, staff around them and know their relationship with their own lives. Under such edification, children's emotions will gradually expand to social significance. Although these are not directly related to the concept of the motherland, this kind of love is the emotional basis for loving the motherland. Suhomlinski once said, "If a child doesn't even love his parents and his partners around him don't want to help, it is impossible to love his hometown, people and motherland? Our practice also proves that middle-class children love their parents, their peers and kindergartens, which is an indispensable basic work of patriotism education, and it is easy to understand and do.
Then, cultivate children from loving their parents and peers to loving their hometown, knowing the beauty and beauty of their hometown, and extending from loving their hometown to loving their motherland.
Second, love the motherland and hometown in traditional festivals.
We often make use of our traditional festivals to carry out patriotic education, such as Teachers' Day, Double Ninth Festival and National Day. We love teachers, the elderly and the motherland. By giving our own greeting cards to our relatives, friends and parents, we can help our families to do some small things within their power, so that children can know how to love others and people worthy of love from an early age, and only when they grow up can they have the spirit of dedication to the people.
On New Year's Day and Mid-Autumn Festival, children can get a preliminary understanding of China's traditional culture and customs.
Thirdly, patriotism education should be integrated into daily teaching.
The concept of the motherland is abstract and patriotism is complex, but it is induced by specific things, things and circumstances. If you know the national flag, the teacher should first let the children know why the color of the national flag is red instead of other colors, then tell the story of Liu Hulan's heroic sacrifice under the enemy's hay cutter and the victory of Qian Qian's thousands of martyrs in exchange for blood, and then tell the children why the national flag should be raised, so that the national flag, martyrs and the motherland can be linked together in their hearts.
In the education of painting activities, when the teacher takes the children to Zhaobaoshan to overlook their hometown, there is an endless sea in the north, and big cranes are arranged on the beach; Looking at the high-rise buildings rising in the south, the Yongjiang River leading to Ningbo shuttles ships. The teacher asked the children, "Is Zhenhai beautiful?" "beauty." "Shall we draw it?" Perhaps it is because the emotion of loving hometown has sprouted! Children's paintings are colorful. A child confidently told the teacher with a picture book that the 20-story building he painted is no longer in Zhenhai. When he grows up, he will build a tall building as high as he painted and love his hometown. The seeds of building his hometown have been planted in his young mind.
Fourthly, integrate education into random education.
Autumn outing activities let children visit Huangpu River and Century Park in their hometown, and let them feel the beauty of their hometown concretely. The children also brought photos taken during their autumn outing, which were taken on a cruise ship and were chrysanthemum exhibitions in the world park ... The tourism photo exhibition not only inspired the children's feelings of loving the motherland, but also broadened their horizons and knowledge. It also inspired the children's desire to visit all parts of the motherland and even inspired their patriotic feelings. When we came back from the autumn outing, we asked the children to draw what they saw and heard. Tall ships, dense tall buildings, spacious streets, beautiful parks and colorful chrysanthemums have all made children further aware of the development and beautiful scenery of their hometown.
Although the special activity of loving the motherland and hometown has only been carried out for one semester, practice tells us that loving the motherland and hometown should start with dolls. The experience that educational practice gives us is:
(1) The education activities of patriotism and love for hometown should create corresponding teaching environment and form a strong atmosphere. The influence of this atmosphere is infectious. Every child develops under the interaction with the surrounding environment.
(2) Educational activities should break the empty preaching, strengthen children's affection, fully mobilize children's enthusiasm and subjective initiative, so that emotional education can induce the feeling of "love" and sprout the concept of "love". Our "Love the Motherland and Love the Hometown" educational activities, whether it's taking children for an autumn outing by car or letting them do it by themselves.
Elders always focus on the word "emotion" when doing what they can. According to children's psychological characteristics such as plasticity and imitation, I think there are three ways to influence children's emotions most: first, vivid images and vivid language make children feel; Second, the situation, emotions are always generated in a certain situation, and all factors in the situation will play a comprehensive role in inducing children's emotions, thus truly blending the situation; Third, activities, children's personal events and activities are hotbeds for budding emotions, and the experience of the activity process is the condition and basis for emotional changes.
(3) Educators receive education first. Teachers call it "the engineer of human soul". People who shape the human soul should have noble moral sentiments, and the core of morality is patriotism and love for the people. Therefore, we have always regarded loving the motherland and hometown as the basic content of political study.
1, to stimulate teachers' patriotic enthusiasm. Lenin said: "Patriotism is a deep affection for one's motherland that has been consolidated for thousands of years." All our teachers carried out Jin Weiren's activities to see Jin Wei, compared the past and present of his hometown, and looked forward to the bright future of his hometown, which made us more aware of the great achievements of contemporary China, further improved our patriotic consciousness and inspired our patriotic feelings.
2. Pay attention to creating an educational environment of love. Let teachers live in a beautiful and comfortable material environment and a relaxed psychological environment; Being in a warm and elegant garden culture will sprout love for work, children and the collective. Only in this way can I devote myself to my work and create achievements. A loving teacher can create a loving world for children. Let the children sprout the affection of loving the motherland in a loving environment.
"Beauty is not beautiful, hometown water". Hometown is the source of our life, and we should build our hometown. The motherland is the root of our life. As long as we are sons and daughters of the Chinese nation, as long as we are descendants of the Chinese people, we will use our intelligence to build the motherland more prosperous.
Love the motherland and hometown, starting with children.