However, an international kindergarten put forward a different idea. They advocate "let children become children", that is, let children return to nature and do what children should do. They pay attention to cultivating children's personality, independence and habits, cultivating children's desire for active learning, beneficial exploration spirit and aesthetic ability, stimulating, maintaining and developing children's interest and motivation in learning, so that children can form comprehensive literacy in thinking mode, communication mode, way of doing things, cognition of things and desire for learning.
This kindergarten is called Dorothy Kindergarten. Guided by "health, happiness and education", and on the basis of following the new educational concept and modern psychological theory, Taolesi Kindergarten combines the advanced early childhood education system of British EYFS with the needs of children's learning and development in China. After more than 10 years of teaching practice, it has independently developed a scientific and systematic "five senses education" system and teaching methods, which has won unanimous praise from many parents.
The so-called "five senses education" refers to the sense of security, curiosity, aesthetic ability, sense of accomplishment and social ability, that is, to let children learn and develop in different ways in an environment full of love and respect, understanding and encouragement, and relaxed and active interaction. Teachers will always pay attention to children's curiosity, self-confidence, expressiveness, motor skills, social development, reading and writing, and encourage children to share their thoughts, opinions and feelings through art, music, dance, role-playing, design, technology and other activities, so that children can have a sense of accomplishment. At the same time, improve their aesthetic ability and social ability in "moistening things quietly" and guide them to become independent, exploratory and aesthetic children.
In order to practice this concept, Taolesi allows children to fully harvest useful contents for their learning and growth from seven aspects: communication and language development, physical development, personality, social and emotional development, reading and writing, mathematical thinking, understanding the world, performance art and design, and lay the foundation for their later all-round development.
First, promote communication and improve language expression ability.
Taolesi offers a variety of Chinese courses, including picture book reading, story collection, trumpet and so on. In the process of teaching, teachers will listen, observe and guide children, let them learn actively in practice, and improve their communication skills and language development ability. For example, in the small speaker class, teachers will encourage and guide children to speak boldly, communicate with friends around them, "speak" in front of many children and show their language skills. Many children have improved their language skills in communication, and even those shy children have gradually become eloquent, enhanced their self-confidence and gained a sense of accomplishment.
Second, strengthen physical exercise to gain perseverance and cooperative spirit.
In addition to children's sports activities, all parks in Torres have 20 minutes of morning exercises and 2 hours of outdoor activities every day. These sports activities are of great help to improve children's physical fitness, balance ability and sense of teamwork. Of course, children can also go to the growth center to play games. They can exercise and enhance their coordination ability while enjoying the fun of the game by means of platform jumping, rock climbing and trampoline. Take basketball as an example. The teacher will integrate this sport into the game and divide the children into several groups. Children in each group can pass, catch and throw ... children will also cheer each other up and let them learn to unite and cooperate in the process of playing games.
Third, maintain children's personality and improve their social skills.
Taolesi has created an environment full of love and respect, understanding and encouragement, and relaxed and active interaction for children. Here, teachers will fully respect and encourage children to maintain their own personality and freely release their emotions. At the same time, they will also guide children and boys to help each other, be humble and cooperate with each other, strengthen their communication and cooperation skills, and promote their emotional and social development. Taolesi will organize children to play some games to promote communication. For example, they can play the characters in fairy tales according to their favorite roles and perform programs according to the story, which not only shows their personality, but also exercises their children's communication skills.
Fourth, train reading and writing ability and enrich imagination.
In children's world, a leaf and a drop of water will arouse children's curiosity, not to mention a picture book with illustrations. When reading a picture book, the teacher usually shows the cover picture to the children first, so that they can use their imagination to guess the story in the picture and build their own picture story, so that the children can get great satisfaction. Especially when the story content in the picture is similar to the story conceived by oneself, a sense of accomplishment arises spontaneously in children's hearts, and children will like reading more and more. Slowly, children will take the initiative to read and learn to write under the guidance of teachers, and their reading and writing ability will be greatly improved. At the same time, it can also cultivate children to develop good reading habits, improve their reading ability and interest, and enrich their imagination.
Fifth, cultivate mathematical thinking ability and stimulate creativity.
Dorothy's thinking mathematics broke the traditional teaching concept. When children learn mathematics, teachers will integrate abstract mathematical knowledge into interesting games and vivid stories, so that children can acquire mathematical thinking abilities such as analysis, judgment and reasoning in thinking, asking questions, exploring and imagining.
For example, sometimes teachers will bring objects close to numbers to the classroom and let children describe the shape of objects with numbers; It will also inspire children's mathematical knowledge such as number sense, collection, counting and measurement through a variety of mathematical picture books such as Three Little Pigs, Who is Big and Who is Small, and Counting. In this process, children will explore independently, mobilize their rich imagination to think and analyze, stimulate their creativity, gradually develop the habit of autonomous learning, improve their learning ability and competitiveness, and thus truly fall in love with mathematics.
Sixth, encourage the cognition of the world and stimulate the spirit of beneficial exploration.
Taolesi encourages children to actively explore nature and the world. To this end, it has set up 40 monthly activity themes close to children's lives, 160 in-depth exploration sub-themes and nearly a thousand activity plans to provide children with rich exploration opportunities, so that they can learn knowledge through full sensory exploration and grow through experience. For example, in the outdoor education class every week, the teacher will take the children back to nature, teach them to know insects and plants, feel the water temperature and soil, and let them learn knowledge naturally in the immersive experience. In addition, the growth center also provides international cutting-edge technology and equipment, so that children can explore the world that meets international standards, experience and understand the knowledge and mysteries in various fields, enrich their growth experiences, and cultivate their desire to learn actively and beneficial exploration spirit.
Seven, enrich cultural activities and enhance aesthetic ability.
Beauty is invisible. In order to let children discover beauty, feel beauty and creatively express beauty, Taolesi not only offers dance classes, music classes and other courses that can obviously improve children's aesthetic ability, but also allows children to feel the beauty of music rhythm through listening and dance through dancing. Teachers will also inspire children to learn from life.
Discovering beauty and feeling beauty, from simple dressing to enjoying art exhibitions and musicals, are all interesting activities to improve aesthetics. In creative art class, teachers will guide children to discover the beauty of things around them, such as color, texture, layout and structure. And feel the master's interpretation of beauty and artistic charm in appreciating the master's paintings, enrich children's aesthetic expression in clay sculpture, Chinese painting, stippling and architecture, so as to enhance children's aesthetic ability.
At present, children who graduated from Dorothy kindergarten are also fragrant. Many children's parents report that after entering primary school, their children are sunny, happy, positive, friendly and helpful, and they also show a certain "leadership temperament", which can take the lead in various activities of the class group, unite other students and be deeply loved by teachers and students. These qualities should all benefit from living and studying in Taolesi Kindergarten.
As the person in charge of Taolesi said, every child is unique and deserves the best start. In the life and study of kindergarten, it may be more meaningful to stimulate, maintain and develop children's interest and motivation in learning, so that children can learn and develop in seven fields in an all-round way, improve their understanding and exploration of the world's comprehensive quality, and lay a solid foundation for real life and future challenges, which may be more meaningful than premature contact with subject learning.