1. American Better Things Music Garden Course (International Parent-child Class):
Better Things music education is a “sensory learning model of listening and singing” for infants and young children. The designed natural music teaching method combines the essence of Orff, Kodaly, Gordon music teaching, and Dacroze rhythm teaching methods, and scientifically and systematically arranges music courses based on the characteristics and needs of children of different ages in the critical development period. The content of the course mainly trains children's basic musical abilities through singing, listening, pitch, rhythm training and body rhythm, cognition, musical instrument performance, interpersonal relationships and creative abilities. Open every weekend!
2. HighScope Curriculum (Kindergarten):
HIGH/SCOPE is the abbreviation of High Scope Educational Research Foundation (High Scope Educational Research Foundation), founded by American child psychologists , founded in 1970 by David Waykart, director of the Perry Preschool Education Research Program. After thirty years of hard work, HG has become an open and multi-functional institution. It combines researchers, trainers, educators and propagandists.
(1) The guiding ideology of active learning
The High/Scope curriculum is based on Piaget’s cognitive development theory and draws on the research results of modern education and psychology. A unique cognitive development course for young children, active learning is the core of the High/Scope preschool education program. Its leading idea is to allow children to learn and develop through active activities. Main points:
① Knowledge is generated neither from young children nor from objects, but from the interaction between children and objects. ②Teachers learn how to treat children and handle classroom activities in daily plans, and strive to discover children's skills and interests. This course retains Piaget's theoretical assumptions and emphasizes the importance of children's initiative in learning;
Both teachers and children play an important role in determining learning experiences.