Last time, Teacher kinder and the children discussed what willpower is and some available strategies to overcome difficulties and achieve goals in the group time last week. The children also posted the second newspaper "Egg". (Australian kindergarten handicraft activities! If you play like this, your child's adaptability will improve quickly.
Last week was the last week of this activity. Children were asked to paste the last layer with white paper and then doodle. Children's interest has been greatly consumed when they put up the first and second floors, so on this floor, they began to avoid doing this activity and began to find excuses to shirk it. Of course, all of them were done in the end, just asking "is it okay?" Or start naughty "I'm finished" and then want to run. No matter what they do, the teacher needs to constantly remind them to "have willpower" and "this is the last layer" or imagine with them how they will doodle the egg and what kind of egg it is (dinosaur egg, bird egg ...) to encourage them to finish.
For most children, under these strategies, it has been completed. Once I interacted with a child, which is worth writing down as a summary of my experience.
R shirked it three times, and finally I dragged him to the table and began to paste the third layer. He posted some papers, and he agreed. I asked him if he could still read the newspaper. He said yes. I said that meant that the newspaper needed a blank cover, so he posted a few more and asked, "Can you still read the newspaper?" He replied, "I can't see it." I said, "I can still read the newspaper. Please cover it with white paper and don't show it to me. "
I tried to turn this into a game like hiding things, and he went all out to post more. Then he said, "I don't want to post it. Too boring! " I replied, "Yes, it's really boring, so it's a good time to exercise willpower." He started posting again, and at the same time he was mumbling "willpower, willpower, willpower".
The good times didn't last long. After sending a few copies, he began to chat with other children at the same table, and then no matter how I interrupted, he stopped sending them. I'm starting to lose patience. I interrupted their chat and then encouraged another child to continue posting, trying to get both children to continue posting in this way. As a result, R still didn't post it. He smiled and tried to escape quietly. I must stop him, or the other children will follow him. So I stood up, pulled him back to the table and said, "If you can't finish it, you can't go out to play!" " "-I threatened him.
He smiled at me and began to poke the ball with his finger. I'm a little anxious. If I poke it, he will do the first two floors for nothing. I also told him what I thought, but he was obviously provocative and retaliated against my threat to him. So I began to threaten even more fearfully. I said, "If you prick him, I'll blow another balloon for you. You have to stick to it from the first floor to the third floor! " Hearing this, he was scared, but at the same time he was angry. He became serious and said, "I don't want to do it!" " ".I didn't respond immediately, because I realized that I had done something wrong-I used my authority to do something unfair to him, and only to suppress his resistance to me, not to solve the problem he didn't want to post.
It happened that another child needed my help at this moment. I told R that I would help the child first, and then we would talk about it. When I was helping my child adjust the stickers, I saw R's dejected and worried about how I could help my child. Suddenly I feel that R seems a little lonely and helpless. I also understand why I can help other children finish, but I have never helped R, just constantly encouraging him to do it by himself and forcing him to do it by himself. Every time I encourage and force him, he does respond.
I calmed down and stayed with R. I said, "I can help you if you like." Do you need help? " He nodded, and I went on to say, "I can post it with you, but I can't do it instead of you, because it's your egg and you need to do your best." He answered "Yes". I said, "How about this? You post one, and then I post one with you to see if I can catch up with you. " He was very happy because it was like a "catch-up" game. I said, "Ready, let's go!" He posted it quickly, so did I. His mood is getting higher and higher, and in a short time, the eggs are finished. Actually, I only posted a few, and most of them were made by R himself.
To sum up the whole process, I adopted the following strategies:
Painting cake: You can paint your favorite color after pasting. What kind of egg do you think this is?
Zan: This piece is neatly pasted and great!
Encouragement: This is a good opportunity to exercise willpower.
* * * Love: It's really not that interesting, it's really tiring.
Threat: You can't go out to play until it's finished. Poke it and then blow it!
Alienation: interrupt the chat between the two children, praise them constantly, and remind them of the stickers.