The famous educator Tao Xingzhi put forward: "Life is education, and daily life is a curriculum." In other words: "We cannot just regard group activities as learning activities for young children, but should treat young children as All aspects of daily life are given educational significance, and life should be educational and education should be life-oriented."?
1. Implement daily life courses to cultivate good habits of children
The so-called habit is a pattern of behavior, a conditioned reflex established on the basis of repeated "operations". That is to say, a solid neural connection is established between stimulus and response due to continuous repetition. Habits become increasingly consolidated with continuous repetition and become less and less easy to change. Chinese educator Mr. Chen Heqin said: "If you develop a habit well, you will benefit from it throughout your life; if you develop a habit poorly, you will suffer from it throughout your life." American psychologist William James said: "Sow an action and reap a habit; Sow a habit and reap a character; sow a character and reap a destiny." It can be seen that habits play a decisive role in the formation of personality. Habits reflect character and character determines destiny. "
Tao Xingzhi, a famous educator in my country, also said: "Most of the habits and tendencies needed in life can be successfully cultivated before the age of six. The period before six years old is an important period for personality formation. , If cultivated well during this period, the habit will become hard to change, the tendency will be fixed and hard to change, and the attitude will be hard to change. "Many famous biographers in the United States analyzed the biographies of celebrities and concluded that there is almost no celebrity who did not receive a good education in early childhood. In short, good behavior habits are the most important thing to cultivate in infants and young children. This is the root Education.
The training goals in the five major areas in the "Kindergarten Education Guidance Outline (Trial)" place special emphasis on stimulating children's interests and developing habits. From this, we can believe that the main task of early childhood education is not. Knowledge education, but cultivation education; the main goal of early childhood education is not to impart knowledge, but to develop habits. Among them, the content and requirements in the health field clearly state that kindergartens should cultivate children’s good eating, sleeping, washing, excretion, etc. To improve living habits and self-care ability, educate children to love cleanliness and hygiene, and pay attention to keeping their personal and living places tidy and hygienic. Therefore, when implementing the concept of "a day's life is a course", "three meals and one meal plus a lunch break" are adopted. Practice carriers to implement the "Outline" to cultivate good habits in children.
For example: We will do this for meal activities: Adequate preparation is the basis for a good meal activity. First of all, teachers will generally start from these seven. Prepare in three aspects:
1. Prepare light music (such as Bandari music) to create an elegant and relaxed atmosphere.
2. Prepare appropriate tableware. It is necessary to use science to help children eat in a civilized manner. Plates and bowls can be used at the same time during meals to train children's ability to eat with plates. Help children learn to eat scientifically (for example, learn to eat dry food and liquid food at the same time or as needed. )
3. Positive teacher status (language, expression, psychology, behavior). The teacher’s movements are gentle and the language is gentle. The language plays a positive role and the behavior serves as a role model. It should be created for the children. Relaxing psychological environment.
4. Things should be placed in a fixed place. Whether the table and chairs are spacious enough for the children to eat, and whether the items needed for the meal are ready and placed in a fixed position. 5. Set up valuable educational content (food, safety, etiquette, themes, etc.)
6. Reasonable division of labor for the main class to organize daily activities in a purposeful and planned manner to make education more effective. The content is more substantial, effective and comprehensive, and other teachers should do a good job in serving food and maintaining environmental sanitation.
7. Teachers and children should be the defenders of the environment, wiping the table, sweeping the floor, and guiding them in a timely manner. If children do not throw away food, they must create a good hygienic environment.
2. Implementing a daily life curriculum to enhance teachers’ awareness of child care
In the past, when kindergarten was mentioned, People will think of childcare work as cleaning and mechanical labor to provide services for children’s eating, drinking, littering, and sleeping. Through kindergarten-level training, on-site questioning, daily supervision and inspection by grades, and weekly class meetings. After the implementation of "Every Day's Life is a Curriculum", everyone realized that while managing children's eating, drinking, sleeping, and drinking, it was a process of observing and understanding the children, a process of having more opportunities to communicate with the children, and a process of giving the children a mother-like care. The process of love is also the process of giving children good behavioral habits, living habits and hygiene habits. Therefore, teachers' care for children is transformed from passive mechanical labor into a sincere expression of love.
3. Implementing a daily life curriculum, teachers pay attention to the physical and mental health of children
The early childhood period is the period when children’s bodies grow the fastest, and it is also the time when children’s personality and character are formed. The critical period, therefore, as a teacher, you must not only pay attention to the physical health of children, but also pay attention to the psychological development of children. First of all, we should pay attention to the physical and mental health of children in terms of "three meals, one meal plus lunch break". In the past, I often heard words like: "Hurry up, hurry up, everyone has finished eating, but you haven't finished yet." "The teacher has to clean up, go over there and eat." "Lie down quickly and see who it is." Not yet asleep. "Waiting to urge the child like this often makes the child feel unstable and unhappy.
Now, teachers learn about "children's physical and mental characteristics" and implement three meals a day plus lunch break as a curriculum. This makes teachers further realize the importance of eating and sleeping to young children. Therefore, it is the bounden duty of every teacher to create a quiet, relaxed and pleasant environment during children's three meals, one meal and lunch break.
Secondly, in other educational aspects of the day's activities, teachers must first allow children to gain freedom while abiding by the rules. Teachers' language should serve as a role model and should not criticize a child in front of a group of children. When children engage in bad behavior, identify the cause individually and provide positive guidance. Make typical cases for special children and pay attention to their individual differences.
Four. The implementation of "Every day's life is a curriculum" has enhanced the management functions of the hierarchy.
In the process of implementing "Every day's life is a curriculum" in our kindergarten, three-level two-way interaction has been achieved management mode. In the past, education, teaching and research were mainly a one-way process, and education and childcare could not be effectively combined. Under the guidance of the concept of "every day life is a curriculum", thematic courses were used to govern all educational content, and based on the core experience of Japan After implementation, everyone's effective participation in teaching will be achieved, so that education and teaching is a process implemented jointly by all teachers in the class. The class teacher has changed from the main management of class affairs in the past to the class teacher who has the ability to train and guide the teachers of the class, has the ability to comprehensively grasp and coordinate the teaching work of the class, has the ability to mobilize and promote the team spirit of the teachers in the class, and has the ability to drive the class Teachers’ ability to implement educational concepts. The grade director has changed from the past mainly conveying the spirit of the meeting and passive management to a manager with a sense of the overall situation. He can play the role of uploading and declaring information, and can form horizontal interactions. There is also a vertical interaction between the three grade directors.
5. The implementation of daily life as a curriculum has found a breakthrough in teaching and research
Kindergarten courses should be carried out under the cooperation of three teachers or two teachers and one guarantee. Among them, The class teacher is the first person responsible for curriculum management. At the same time, when the class forms the weekly and daily activity plans, it is a process of parallel class discussions, and the daily core experience is a process of three teachers working together. The class teacher can provide guidance during the implementation process. Achieved, there is teaching and research every week, teaching and research every day, and teaching and research all the time. Such a process is a reflection of collective wisdom, a discussion space where all courses can penetrate and supplement each other to achieve a seamless integration of educational content, an opportunity for everyone to understand the course, a process of teachers' simultaneous improvement, and a way for the course to not change due to different reasons. The normal way to proceed with personnel issues.
6. Implementing daily life as a curriculum, realizing the integration of large-scale activities into the curriculum
June 1 activities are almost the central work of every kindergarten in the first half of the year. In the past, they were more designated by teachers. The form and content of good activities should be implemented passively by young children. Our kindergarten organizes the "June 1st" activities in the form of themes and makes theme activity implementation plans according to age groups that are suitable for children. Every day activities are given educational significance, and children become the masters of the activities, and the activities are infiltrated into the children's daily life. , such as: Whose holiday is June 1st? How would you like to celebrate holidays and other events. Letting Children's Day truly belong to children and making children happy because of Children's Day has become a true portrayal of this theme.
Practice is the only way to test the truth. The above are some of our gains and insights in the process of practicing "Every Day is a Course". We firmly believe in the scientific nature of the concept of "Life is Education" , we will also further explore its connotation and value in future work, use practical actions to create their own paradise for children, and give children a happy and meaningful childhood!