German parents generally believe that cultivating children's abstract thinking ability will lay a good foundation for future higher education. Therefore, in early childhood education in Germany, educational activities such as digital games, chess, mazes, building blocks and playing Rubik's Cube are the main forms to cultivate children's abstract thinking ability in early childhood education courses in Germany. Drawing maps is an original creation of the Germans. It can often be seen that on the beach by the sea, children, inspired by their parents, draw their remembered homes with wooden sticks. In many early education schools, children, inspired by their teachers, began to express abstract things with graphics. Germany's rigorous style was cultivated from an early age.
America: Unleashing Children's Learning Potential through Games and Experiences
The concept of early education in the United States has a long history, and the concept of "education from the first day" is deeply rooted in the hearts of American parents. The biggest feature of American education is that it pays more attention to experience than to impart knowledge. The teacher thinks that it is more important to give children the ability to learn than to teach them to do a few arithmetic problems. In the United States, Gymboree, the most famous early education school, is famous for its teaching method of "game+experience = learning". Gymboree teachers will not instill knowledge and skills that do not belong to this age group into children, but advocate children to do more work, experience more, learn the skills of experience and exploration in various puzzles and team games, and get to know things around them more actively and interactively, thus forming healthy values and learning methods. The biggest advantage of this is that children will develop the habit of active learning and inquiry from an early age and become real knowledge explorers and masters, rather than being passively instilled by teachers.
Canada: Teach writing and counting in advance.
In Canada, babies can be sent to "kindergartens" when they are a little older. They can take part in activities such as art, work, music and singing instead of attending classes. The difference is that such early education schools will not offer courses such as writing and counting. Canadian early education experts generally believe that early childhood is a critical period for the balanced development of sports ability and an important period for cultivating creativity, so it is more important to cultivate hands-on ability. If children are allowed to read, write and count too early, it will consume their physical and mental strength and delay their sports development.
Japan: Cultivate independent personality and learn not to cause trouble to others.
In Japan, parents instill an idea in their children when they are very young: don't cause trouble to others. In daily life, from parents to early education schools, we will pay attention to cultivating children's self-care ability and self-improvement spirit. You will find that in Japan, children always carry a small backpack with their personal belongings when they attend classes or even go out for a family trip. Children have to do many things by themselves, and parents and teachers only give them a little guidance. Although it is somewhat different from the western concept of parent-child interaction early education, the cultivation of independent personality in Japan has indeed played a great role in Japan's ranking among the top in the world. Even after school, many students have to go out to work in their spare time to earn money. They earn their tuition by serving dishes in restaurants, washing dishes, selling goods in shops and being tutors, and these habits have been formed since early education schools.
France: Pay attention to temperament and children's art education
French parents believe that art education is very important for their children's future. An authoritative survey in this country shows that 52% of parents think that art enlightenment and art training are the best ways to make students move from failure to success; 72% of parents think that art subjects should become real teaching subjects in schools; 92% people emphasize that art subjects are very important for developing children's intelligence. It is precisely because the French attach great importance to art education that France has been acting as an international leader in culture for a long time, giving most enterprises irreplaceable competitive advantages in aesthetics, design and creativity. As early as infancy, parents will exert a subtle influence on their children. Early education in France is more like a course to cultivate and stimulate artistic cells.