The development of children's education should go with the flow.
Children's brains don't need special development.
Professor Hong Lan is a doctoral student in experimental psychology at the University of California, Riverside. He is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Neurology, University of California, Irvine College, and a research professor at the University of California. Later, he taught at the Central University of Taiwan Province Province, engaged in brain science research.
Facing various interest classes, art classes and brain potential development classes, Hong Lan said that parents will know that their children's brains don't need to spend a lot of money to develop. Einstein's mother didn't buy him some expensive Rubik's Cube to play with, but he also won the Nobel Prize.
Hong Lan further explained that for thousands of years, babies grew up in the most natural environment. The eyes see the environment in which he will live in the future, and the ears hear the language he will speak in the future. When he has a sound mind and a happy outlook on life, he can face any challenge. This is how our ancestors came, and they left us countless amazing treasures of civilization.
She thinks that parents don't need to develop their children's intelligence at all. As long as they give him a normal family environment, his brain can develop well. Parents should not restrict their children too much, set too many goals for their children and let them explore at will.
The more you play, the smarter you grow up.
Hong Lan introduced that children's brains are not fully developed. Games in this period can promote the density of neural connections in the brain, and our knowledge of wisdom is determined by the density of cranial nerve connections.
Nowadays, many parents believe that the purpose of childhood is to take exams and go to school, and there is no need to do things unrelated to exams and go to school. Therefore, many parents will give up attending large classes when their children arrive at kindergarten, and choose to go outside to attend preschool classes or young bridging classes of early education institutions. This kind of thinking of adults will stifle children's imagination, creativity and independent learning spirit, especially for young children.
Hong Lan analyzed that memory and imagination are the basis of creativity. No imagination, no creativity. The idea that China people have always advocated in the past is that "hard work and leisure" should be changed, because the era of reciting has passed, the resources in 2 1 century are brain resources rather than natural resources, and the competition in 2 1 century is creativity. The memory of the computer replaces the memory function of the human brain, releasing the resources of the human brain to do higher-level integration and innovation.
Through the research of brain science, Hong Lan told parents and teachers to respect every child, because the child's brain will respond to all details. For example, a childhood trauma, even if it is just a horrible picture, is not easy to recover and forget. We can't insult children at will, even a casual word will have an impact.
Hong Lan has a deep research on the differences between men and women. She once gave a speech on this topic on Tedtalk (translated as "TEDTalk" in Chinese), and received more than 65.438+0.7 billion hits. She believes that appropriate educational activities should be designed according to different personality differences, so that each child can find his own way, not the way of other children. Because the human brain is tragic thinking, we should encourage and give more positive affirmation, so that children can face the future life confidently.
Hong Lan compared the human brain to a "thrifty housewife". She never wastes any energy in order to survive. According to the principle, idle neurons will be pruned and replaced immediately, so many people say that the human brain is only 10% developed. There is no situation that brain cells are underdeveloped and occupy space.
What kind of experience can make children's brain neurons become active and dense? Hong Lan thinks this is a game. She further explained that the behavior and experience of children running around and playing around in the game promoted the connection of brain neurons. This kind of active learning will promote the changes of brain cells. Because the brain constantly meets the external needs and changes the distribution of neurons in the brain, autonomous learning is far more conducive to the development of the brain than passive training.
Fell down and got up somewhere else.
How to treat children's mistakes? Hong Lan told everyone the correct answer through his school-running philosophy: In my school, I don't ask you to be perfect, I ask you to study. When you make a mistake, what matters is not how serious the mistake is, or whether it is your fault. The important thing is to turn mistakes into experiences.
She strongly opposes beating and corporal punishment of children. "No matter what the child did wrong and how badly he did in the exam, you can't hit the child and let the child hit a wall. Because of forebrain injury, people's personality will change. " She also pointed out that caring for children's ears and not slapping children, especially girls, is related to caring for children's self-esteem; Second, because noise will reduce children's IQ (Chinese translation "IQ"), hearing cells will die if they exceed 128 decibels, and slapping will directly lead to the decline of children's hearing and cannot be recovered.
Hong Lan, for example, said that cellist Yo-Yo Ma's mother once said when sharing Yo-Yo Ma's success that she never scolded Yo-Yo Ma for playing the cello badly when he was a child. Because scolding will make children afraid of cello, after a long time, children will resist learning cello and stay further away from it. In the same way, if we beat and scold our children every day because of their grades and knock things over when they are learning and exploring, their children will become timid because they are afraid of learning.
Hong Lan believes that a good parent should not just say "no", but should point out a way for the child after saying "no".
"In the traditional concept of China people,' where you fall, you get up' seems to have become an iron law. We should allow children to make mistakes, but where they fall, they must get up. Why? Because frustration is a bad emotion, and children's growth can be' long and short'. " Hong Lan believes that parents should learn to make rules and let their children know the boundaries and rules exist. These rules will not make children feel uncomfortable, but will make them feel safe and find a reference for not making mistakes again.
Hong Lan pointed out that emotion is the most effective factor to change the neural settings in the brain. The most suitable place for children's brain development is a warm family; Our nutrition is a sense of security; Stimulation is the company of parents. Hong Lan pointed out that adults should not be too eager to do something about their children's education, but should keep a "let nature take its course" attitude.
Seven key points of preschool education
1, the most important thing in early childhood is not to learn knowledge.
The most important thing in early childhood is not to learn knowledge, but to form the quality, attitude, emotion and ability that will benefit children for life. Of course, we should also master some necessary knowledge and skills, but this is not the most important task in early childhood.
2. The most appropriate way to train children is to "play".
The method of preaching is not suitable for cultivating children, and the method suitable for children's age characteristics is "game". Children can learn to discuss with others while playing games.
3. Introduce social hot topics into the classroom.
Social hot topics can be introduced into the senior high school entrance examination questions in time. Children will also publicize to their parents when they go home. If they see their parents littering, they will tell them that it is wrong and that garbage should be classified. Even many parents say that the game of garbage sorting has benefited them a lot. They didn't know that garbage should be classified before. What is recyclable garbage? What is non-recyclable garbage, harmful waste?
There is also the education of "caring for others", organizing children to go to nursing homes and enlightened schools to express their condolences, and performing puppet shows, so that children can understand compassion and care for the weak from an early age.
4. Pay attention to children's development potential.
As a basic education, preschool education should pay attention to children's sustainable development. What kind of children have development potential? Warm and generous, will care about peers. Such children are more popular and will have more opportunities for exercise in the future. At the same time, such children are eager for knowledge, active in thinking and have good study (behavior) habits. Early childhood education is to cultivate children's sound and beautiful hearts in a subtle way, so that children can grow up healthily and happily.
Early childhood education is to let children develop good study, life, behavior and hygiene habits. Children have great potential. Children in small classes often play traffic safety games, and they already know the traffic rules such as walking on the sidewalk, walking on the right, crossing the road and taking the zebra crossing.
If parents want their children to do it, they should do it first.
Children's education can't rely solely on schools, but families and society will have an impact on children. Family has a greater influence on children. Because children like to imitate adults, but don't know how to choose, they imitate and express all the phenomena they see and hear in their families and society in the game. For example, some children will imitate the drunkenness of adults.
Whether parents say or do, they are actually teaching their children how to do it. Parents often tell their children to be polite to others and not to lose their temper. But parents often make a hullabaloo about when they speak for themselves. How can we keep children unaffected? If children want to do it, parents must do it first. Some parents say that if you know this earlier, you can let your children develop good habits early.
6. It's hard to correct after missing childhood.
Some people say that children are not sensible, and they will teach slowly when they grow up. Don't underestimate children, they already know a lot. It is more acceptable to teach children from an early age. If you miss early childhood education, it will be difficult to correct it later.
7. Many parents like to arrange things for their children.
Parents often pay lip service to their children's education, but when it comes to trivial matters, they can't do it. Now most families only have one child, so try to meet the needs of children. If you spoil your child too much, your child will not know modesty.
Early childhood education can only be effective if it starts from real small things. Many parents also like to arrange things for their children. For example, kindergarten invites parents to watch their children tie their shoelaces together, but some parents say "very simple" to their children and tie their shoelaces for them. Parents should let go more, let their children get exercise, and don't let him rely on everything.