Early education is the education that adults give to babies. This is the enlightenment education of life, which has the significance of laying a foundation. 0-7 years old is the fastest period of children's brain development. If we can enrich children's life at this time and give correct education according to their age characteristics, we can accelerate children's intellectual development and lay the foundation for the formation of good behavior habits and personality quality.
The principles and methods of early education are based on the theory of early childhood development. Educators should not only consider the objective educational requirements, but also attach great importance to children's maturity and development possibilities.
It is generally believed that early education can be carried out from the birth of a child. At different ages, the emphasis of education is different. For example, children under one year old mainly focus on sensory function training, motor training, language pronunciation training, parent-child communication and so on.
In addition to the above training, children aged one to three should also be trained and cultivated in perceptual action thinking, coherent action activities, language, playmate communication and personality formation.
Early education is an interactive activity between 0-6-year-old infants and their parents or caregivers, which is conducive to the coordinated development and healthy growth of body, emotion, intelligence, personality and spirit.
Early education is not the same as learning.
Children learn to read within 1 year, and learn foreign languages within 3 years. Reading and reciting poems is just a simple memory imitation, and it can't represent a child's true intelligence and ability.
Children aged 0-3 are in a critical period of emotional and language development. Therefore, the focus of early education is to master the order and laws of seven children's physical and mental development, such as language, intelligence, physical fitness and senses, adopt encouraging learning, create a happy environment and develop their own potential.
Entertainment classes to develop physical fitness, imagination and social skills; Music lessons help memory and improve language ability; Art classes to improve imagination and physical fitness are more suitable for children at this stage than simple learning and mechanical memory.