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New Zealand preschool education syllabus Te? Whāriki, what kind of mystery is hidden inside?
The framework of Te Whāriki course, as its name implies, consists of five main clues: health, belonging, contribution, communication and exploration, and each clue is interspersed with basic skills and knowledge. Its concept is divorced from the traditional school curriculum with physiology, psychology, intelligence, society, skills and other disciplines as the unit, but is defined by the important issues that children at three different stages are concerned about.

Oblique rows are clues, goals and learning achievements. It includes five dimensions: physical and mental health, belonging, contribution, communication and exploration.

Oblique arrangement is four basic principles, including empowerment, all-round development, family and community, and relationship.

According to what I saw and felt in New Zealand Garden, combined with the actual teaching practice, let's discuss the application and presentation of the five dimensions in actual teaching.

1. Happiness

Health means a strong body. In addition to the pure natural environment, New Zealand also enjoys the reputation of "outdoor sports paradise". Outdoor sports is not so much a sport as a way of life for New Zealanders. Throughout the city, wherever you go, you can see public sports facilities and large areas of forest coverage and beaches suitable for children to explore, providing children with rich opportunities for mountaineering, jungle exploration, boating, cycling, skateboarding and other outdoor activities. Not to mention the equipment in the kindergarten, which is rich in climbing, balancing, bouncing and space exploration.

The more children move, the more they know; The more children want to learn, the more they need to move.

When we took our children to explore the jungle for the first time, we couldn't help but be impressed by their superb sports skills such as climbing and jumping, and were shocked by the scene of children jumping up and down. Indoor parks advocate free activities, indoor and outdoor activities can be freely switched by children according to their interests, giving them enough space and trust, and giving them different guidance and support according to different months, so that children can not only get physical exercise, but also get spiritual affirmation and satisfaction.

But as long as there are children outdoors, the garden will ensure that at least one teacher is present and the children can move within the teacher's field of vision. If there are many outdoor children, an indoor teacher will be flexibly deployed to assist. Teachers should not only observe children's activities at all times, but also be very alert to the environment. Once they find the potentially dangerous environmental factors, they should adjust the environment promptly and quickly. However, we will also find that children's bumps are inevitable in parks and in life. If there is no experience of failure, children will never learn to grow up. Then, why not relax and take your child's failure or mistake as an opportunity for him to learn and grow?

2. Accessories

In Childspace, we found that teachers created many interesting "magic weapons" to help children build a sense of belonging, such as genealogy trees, stones and calendars with children's names and birthdays, photo walls, growth files and so on. And the teacher made his own "thinking &; Talking books are really eye-catching.

Step 3 contribute

Short story: "Our table is our master"

It's time for dinner. After the teacher invited all the children to clean up, we saw Rylee, Bella and Alice naturally go to the place where the food was prepared. A person carefully selects the shell decorations for dinner time, a person places a man named Qiuhua who has just picked it, a person silently places transparent glass, and a person counts the number of chairs "1.2.3...8" and puts it on the table. Although we divide children's development goals into five dimensions, these five dimensions are often intertwined. While children participate in meal time and contribute their own ideas and abilities, they actually develop mathematical logic, aesthetic feeling and social skills. More importantly, they enjoy this process of cooperation and dedication, and then build self-appreciation and understanding of the surrounding environment and people in this process.

If your child doesn't like eating, have you ever thought about involving him in food preparation, tableware selection and even table preparation? Let's look forward to the magical changes brought about by children's participation and contribution.

Step 4 communicate

Children can experience an environment in which they can learn various language communication skills and get in touch with stories and symbols from local and other different cultures. Children learn to communicate with different symbols and actions in different situations, learn to express their thoughts, experiences and ideas through words, pictures, printed matter, numbers, sounds, shapes, models and photos, experience stories and symbols, digital symbols and concepts of different cultures, and explore their own creative expressions. The communication between teachers and students permeates every interaction all the time. When picking up the children, they asked, "Can I hug you?" Describe his body parts and feelings when changing diapers, share the names of food when eating ... enough input can produce enough output.

Park Story: Little Mediator

One day, two 2-year-old children in the garden had a conflict over toys. Suddenly, a 4-year-old girl appeared among them and separated them. The little girl grabbed the toy and said, "OK, this one is for you and the other one is for you, OK?" Teachers usually deal with contradictions. Children's communication skills are not deliberately taught how to express what they can learn, but absorbed and internalized in our usual words and deeds.

Step 5 detect

Children's spontaneous play is considered as meaningful learning. By controlling your body, you gain self-confidence, learn to explore, form your own opinions and exercise critical thinking, and initially form and show a set of cognitive theories about the natural, social and material world. Children are fascinated by their bodies, and they are eager to develop various motor functions every quarter to face their extraordinary ability and learning ability.

Holly saw the railing outside the classroom, and made a difficult movement confidently and smoothly, with her hands on the ground and her feet hanging on the pole. This "move" made other children so happy that they couldn't help imitating it. Some children can't succeed at once and don't feel discouraged. They tried again and again, fell down, tried again and again, and fell down again and again until the picture we saw captured the "great victory."

With this flexible and scientific national lesson plan, it is no wonder that New Zealand's early childhood education is so famous internationally!

It can be seen that the New Zealand syllabus "Te Whāriki" gives a complete and scientific interpretation of children's abilities and goals to be developed throughout their lives, but it also gives New Zealand kindergarten teachers enough space and freedom to create educational methods and teaching methods suitable for children, which are flexible and rigorous. What we see is a small New Zealand, but the field of early childhood education is full of flowers: the types of early childhood education institutions are rich and colorful, including public/private kindergartens, early childhood education centers, preschool classes, game centers, family trusteeship, hospital trusteeship, and immersion learning centers with a certain language as the carrier; Education schools are also very diversified, and the mainstream parks are mostly centered on Reggio, Montessori, Waldorf, Picler and RIE. Under the guidance of diversified New Zealand syllabus, preschool education is also full of diversified colors!

What kind of teaching methods, what kind of teaching ideas and what kind of environment to create are not the most important. What matters is whether it is child-oriented, whether it gives children more possibilities and more respect. We should not be limited by any system or conceptual framework, but should follow the interests of children. When encountering problems in teaching practice, we should learn to ask ourselves "Who is it for?" As long as the answer is really for children, that is the best answer.

(Some case information is selected from Ziliwende)