Summary of the work of teaching protection 1 has gone through another cycle in the busy schedule. Looking back on the past six months, I have no confidence at all. Personally, I don't have much wind and rain. I've been asking myself if I can leave some encouragement and applause for the days to come, or regret and shame. If I compare the kindergarten staff to a group of growers, then at the beginning, there are hardworking and active principals sowing, followed by hardworking and hardworking teachers harvesting, and I am just a coolie who transmits information between the two, and my performance is negligible. But anyway, I also take this opportunity to review and reflect on my work in the past six months.
I. Teaching work
1, daily work management.
Seriously implement the education protection management system, strictly regulate children's daily activities, and constantly find and solve problems in children's lives. Teachers are required to make teaching plans and teaching plans for all subjects at the beginning of the semester. Teachers should hand in weekly plans and teaching plans one week in advance and check them carefully. When problems are found, we should give timely guidance, strengthen evaluation and standardize requirements, so that teachers can have teaching plans and teaching AIDS before class and be fully prepared before class to ensure the solid development of classroom teaching. Organize teachers to attend classes regularly, check the routine management of daily life, and handle problems in time when found. Teachers are required to hand in educational notes, teaching plans, personal summaries, semester summaries, teaching effects and other materials at the end of the semester for inspection and recording, and their usual work should be included in the year-end assessment, so that all work can be institutionalized and standardized.
Warmly welcome the inspection of superior leaders, make careful preparations and pass the inspection smoothly, but continue to strengthen it. Actively complete the work assigned by superiors, such as going out for seminars, town-level public classes, organizing social activities, etc.
2. Teaching and research.
This semester, the focus is on how to better carry out domain teaching, constantly collect teachers' homework, and then pass on knowledge to everyone through teachers' teaching and research, change old teaching methods and strategies by using relevant educational theories, and constantly improve teaching methods, so that children can constantly absorb without pressure. According to the plan of the garden, teaching and research activities are organized every week, and the teachers have carefully completed the open class with the theme of "one class for each teacher", so that they can keep learning, play actively and accept comments from other teachers with an open mind. In the process of teaching and research, we can actively express our opinions and push the teaching and research content to a higher level. At the beginning of the semester, teachers used their spare time to complete the arrangement of children's morning exercises as quickly as possible.
The kindergarten environment has an extremely important influence on children and outsiders. Teachers use their own expertise and clever minds to decorate each class beautifully with the children, giving people a very warm and clear feeling.
Second, children's activities
The potential of children is infinite. How to use these potentials and how to stimulate children's intelligence should start from every corner of the family, kindergarten and society. Kindergarten environment, teachers' understanding of children is limited. As a teacher, even if it is limited, we should try our best to play a bigger and more endless role. In fact, what children learn in class can only be part of it. However, this semester, we held 1, Children's Storytelling Contest 2 and children dance Contest.
3, children's classic recitation competition 4, children's final performance. Of course, these are not enough. We should make constant efforts to create a better learning environment for children and get in touch with more new things.
Third, teacher competitions and activities.
The premise of high-quality teaching quality is to have a high-quality, professional and all-round development of teachers. In order to improve teachers' professional skills and quality, we held teacher activities this semester, including 1, Teachers' Day, 2, Mid-Autumn Festival cake. There are 1 teacher contest and teacher speech contest. 2, faculty karaoke competition. The park organized 1, teachers' reading activities 2, education essay selection, nurse skill competition, and specially organized team training (such as rock climbing and field work). In these activities, teachers work hard with each other, cooperate with each other and run in with each other, thus increasing their feelings and getting close to a better team.
Fourth, the work of parents.
In the process of educating children, the role of parents is more important than that of teachers, so to educate children well, we must first educate parents well. This semester, a parent school was established in our park, and a parent committee and a diet committee were held. If we want to do better, of course we must start from the foundation. During the semester, I use school time to communicate with parents who pick up their children in the park and at home, and report and understand the situation by telephone and shuttle bus. In these processes, problems are constantly found and parents are instructed how to cooperate.
As the saying goes, "it is never too old to learn", especially in the field of education, "learning" must be ahead of others, so in the following days, we should work harder and be more active. The above is the summary of our school this semester.
Summary of the work of ensuring education 2. The quality of ensuring education in kindergartens is related to the development of children and kindergartens. Providing high-quality educational services for children and cultivating their all-round development are the fundamental tasks of early childhood education. Our garden has always attached importance to teaching quality. Our garden was recognized by the society in last semester's work, praised by parents, and its social reputation is getting better and better. The teaching work of this semester is summarized as follows:
First, the full implementation of teaching practice
The overall work plan of kindergarten should focus on the service class plan and the teacher's work plan. Managers should make arrangements in advance, often go deep into the front line, observe activities, understand the current situation of education protection, implement education protection management in a timely and effective manner, pay equal attention to mutual assistance and learning, guide and support, discuss the teaching process and one-day education protection activities, think about and put forward appropriate opinions and suggestions, and manage strictly, fairly and promptly. According to the situation of our garden, we will focus on the cultivation of children's daily life, starting from teachers themselves, training and observing, and gradually forming daily growth. According to the characteristics of each age group, we should strengthen the learning routines of children in large and middle classes, so that children can master the rules of learning and life and cultivate good living habits of children.
Second, the innovation of educational environment.
At the beginning of the new semester, firstly, the environment in the park will be newly decorated and decorated by all teachers, so as to effectively use every corner to establish a warm and happy environment, increase the English environment in the park and increase some contents that parents care about. In the column of children's works, we will show children's weekly works, let parents know about their children's situation in the garden, see their progress, create an English environment, and insist that English teachers communicate in English in class. And carry out strict examination, promote the formation of English environment, and enhance interactive activities with children. Teachers will create an environment according to the age characteristics of the children in this class, and fill it according to the teaching process, continue to extend the theme teaching, and infiltrate the teaching into the theme wall and corner game activities, so that children can gain knowledge from it, operate and use their brains to improve.
Third, the implementation of teaching objectives this semester: the implementation of teaching objectives this semester
1, earnestly study the guiding ideology of kindergarten work, conscientiously implement the Education Law of the People's Republic of China, the Regulations on Kindergarten Management, the Regulations on Kindergarten Work and the Education Guiding Outline, and implement quality education according to local conditions; Further improve various systems.
2. Combine education with protection to achieve the goal, establish a correct view of education and children in all aspects of daily life, and adhere to the principle of paying equal attention to education and combining education with protection, namely; The content of "A Day's Life" is carried out in teaching, which embodies the guarantee of teaching and the harmonious development of children. Especially for the new children in the park, the care and care have been strengthened, and the old teachers in the class are responsible for the division of labor, which shortens the children's anxiety period and makes them like kindergarten soon.
3. Evaluate teachers' teaching quality by evaluating children in a planned way. On the one hand, it is necessary to understand children's intelligence, find out their weaknesses, set goals and make plans for improvement. On the other hand, it is necessary to do a good job in teaching and research, implement case teaching in a targeted manner, and observe children's development level in all aspects. According to the actual situation of children and the specialties and characteristics of teachers in this class, we should carefully choose teaching and research topics, pay attention to the combination of educational theory and teaching practice, and do a good job in teaching and research.
4. Do a good job of parents, establish communication channels with parents, establish a communication network with the monitor as the main body, and timely feedback the situation of children. For new teachers, teach them how to communicate with their parents, explore effective family communication methods, and establish parents' trust in teachers.
Four, strengthen education management, improve the quality of education, strengthen education management.
1. Improve the quality of teachers and create educational activities and environment around educational goals. Special attention should be paid to the creation of children's psychological environment, so that they can feel safe in kindergarten and feel warm as at home. In view of the problems of last semester, we should strictly manage the teaching mode, educate all teachers and write down their feelings after learning, improve their understanding and put them into action. In various assessment activities, teachers should be organized to carry out effective teaching observation activities, learn from each other, stimulate teachers' enthusiasm and creativity, encourage teachers' creative spirit, specify plans, regularly train and assess teachers' skills and skills, and pass the "parent questionnaire" and various teaching activities.
2. Adhere to the principle of combining education with nursing, adhere to the inspection of daily health care system, formulate quantitative recording standards, such as dining, outdoor activities, routine inspection, intermittent exercise inspection, etc., and link the records with the reward and punishment system in the hospital to promote this work to be more solid and steady. Formulate management objectives and specific implementation methods for frail and obese children, and earnestly take responsibility to change the health status of these children as soon as possible. Strengthen children's physical exercise activities, make children reach the standard, pay attention to the improvement of children's ability, develop children's intelligence, organize children's teaching activities, and care for each child's growth.
3. Parents should attach importance to family ties and achieve educational consistency. According to the general principle of the outline, "kindergartens work closely with families and communities, connect with primary schools, and make comprehensive use of various educational resources to create favorable conditions for the development of young children." Indeed, many phenomena in real life are enough to make us pay attention to home cooperation, so a parent-teacher meeting was held at the beginning of the semester to introduce the teaching plan and specific schedule of this semester to parents and solicit their opinions. At the beginning (end) of each semester, teachers will visit children's homes to help them get through kindergarten smoothly. Parents are regularly invited to comment on the work quality of teachers in the whole park, so as to promote the construction of teachers, improve service quality and do a good job in family education from a social perspective.
4. Highlight the work of connecting children. When children enter large classes, provide them with preparations for entering primary schools, make good curriculum arrangements for learning, and gradually let children accept the contents of primary schools as planned, so as to make a smooth transition to primary schools.
Fifth, expand teaching and research work to promote teaching through research.
Expand teaching and research work to promote teaching through research. This semester, taking the activities in the music field as the topic, we will gradually improve teachers' music teaching level. Organize teachers to carry out teaching and research activities every other week, discuss Chinese and English separately, recommend observation and evaluation, and promote the development of teaching activities. There are more than 30 in-service kindergarten teachers. This semester, the kindergarten-based teaching and research work will be grouped according to the number of vocational education teachers and their own disciplines, changing the previous grouping form and reasonably dividing teachers into three groups according to their age groups: small class, middle class and large class. During this period, the general direction of our teaching and research work is the research on the requirements of various fields, the dialysis of guiding points and the research on the routine of children's one-day care. The teaching and research team leader should consider that both new and old teachers should grow through teaching and research activities. We hope that through teaching research, we can not only cultivate teachers with multiple abilities and new backbone teachers, but also explore some teaching methods to improve the quality of teaching research, so as to improve the quality of education and teaching through research and achieve the goal of promoting teaching through research.
Intransitive verb parents' work
According to the specific situation of parents, teachers are trained in different ways, and the focus of communication is on the care of children. In particular, new children in the park pay more attention to caring for their children, establish good feelings with them, minimize their chances of getting sick, grow up healthily, reassure parents, strengthen their children's study in large and medium classes, pay attention to the results of teaching, pay attention to their progress and accumulate knowledge. Adhere to the review of poems before and after meals, take advantage of the opportunity of walking after meals and waiting outside the garden to organize children to read aloud the three-character classics, hundreds of surnames, Tang poems and so on. Exercise children's oral expression ability and strengthen their memory. At the same time, it has received good results, been recognized by parents, and the children have made significant progress.
When the new semester is about to begin, our garden is full of confidence. On the basis of summing up, we will find out the shortcomings, continue to do a good job in teaching guarantee, improve teaching guarantee and service quality, and strive to become a garden trusted by parents.
Summary of teaching protection 3 With the arrival of hot summer, we are about to finish this semester's work. Looking back on the work done this semester, with the joint efforts of our teachers, the children in the class and parents, all aspects have made some progress and improvement. The specific situation of half-term class work is summarized as follows:
I. Education and teaching
We studied Chinese, mathematics, science, society, health, music and art by carefully comparing the age characteristics of children in our class and combining the curriculum of the whole kindergarten. Young children have a good grasp. Mathematics, in particular, has made obvious progress than before, and children can basically count correctly. The language development is also very good, the hands-on ability is improved than before, and simple pictures can basically be completed by children.
Second, life nursing and routine education
1, life management In kindergarten work, the work of educating children is important, but the work of conservation cannot be ignored. While paying attention to education and teaching, our two teachers pay more attention to the implementation of saving work, strictly follow the safety and health system, and insist on the ventilation of the classroom and the cleanliness of the indoor and outdoor environment every day. In June, because some children in our class got mumps, we disinfected the teacher every day, carefully observed the situation of the children in the class and isolated them in time, and the infection of mumps was well controlled.
2. Routine management Children feel that they have grown up after entering the middle class. We cultivate good habits such as eating and taking a nap, and actively encourage children to learn to do their own things. Most children will put on clothes and shoes independently and orderly under the guidance of teachers, and their independent ability has been improved.
Third, the work of parents.
Communicate with parents through Family Contact Handbook and Family Education Column this semester. This brings us closer to our parents. In the celebration of June 1 ST, with the strong support and cooperation of parents, the activities of our class were carried out smoothly, which narrowed the distance between parents and teachers and really satisfied parents.
Fourthly, the cultivation of children.
Every class will have special children, and my class is no exception. Fan Jinhu is a child with poor hygiene and behavior habits. Because he always likes to hit others and influence others in his studies, children don't want to play with him, and he doesn't like children, always attacking others. At the beginning, we have been using the method of critical education to contact parents and tell them about this bad habit of young children, hoping that parents can educate more. But this method has little effect. Our kindergarten should cooperate with the nurses in the morning check-up every day. He didn't want to. On one occasion, he actively cooperated with the morning check-up. After the nurse told me, I praised him in front of the whole class. I found him very good that day. I will encourage him by praising him in the future. He has made a lot of progress than before, and the way I educate my children has changed.
The Shortcomings of verb (the abbreviation of verb) and the Direction of Efforts
Although we have made great efforts in educational methods, there are still some shortcomings that need our further efforts.
1, some children are picky eaters, others are inattentive, eat slowly, and their eating habits need to be improved.
2. Strengthen the cultivation of children's study habits, encourage children to speak boldly, listen carefully, and cultivate children's good reading habits.
3. Most children have poor coordination ability, so in the future teaching work, we should carry out more sports activities and train the coordination of movements.
In the new semester, two teachers in our class will seriously reflect on their own shortcomings, determine the direction of their efforts and continue to carry forward the spirit of unity and cooperation. Strengthen theoretical study and practical exploration, devote yourself wholeheartedly to work, and make class work better!
Summary of teaching protection work. Our pre-school class three is like a big family, let the children in the class grow up happily under the care of the teacher! Through the training and education last semester, the students in this class are learning English. Society. Science. Art mathematics is healthy. Handwork and other aspects have been improved to varying degrees. The children have been together for two months, although the time is short, but their hearts are full of gratitude. We want to thank the children in our class. They made me feel the growing happiness in my work! And confidence in yourself. It is they who let us find the support point for teachers' professional development! They have given us many sparks of education.
I. Teaching work
Good education, first of all, from the behavior of serious implementation; "All for the children. Everything is for children, everything is for tomorrow! " In class management and ideological education, I try my best to be serious, responsible and meticulous. I like these lovely children. Although some children are naughty and disobedient. But I still feel very happy with them! I feel younger. I will build love, care for them in my study and life, and encourage them to make progress. At this time, I am not only a teacher, but also an aunt. It's mom. Teach them to be good children. Unity and friendship. And educate them to develop good living habits and hygiene habits. Have a healthy mind. A healthy body. Healthy self-care ability!
The attendance rate this semester is very low. Courses are conducted in multiple languages. Mathematical science. Society. Art, health, handicrafts, etc. The child has made remarkable progress in all aspects. The teacher carefully prepares each class so that the children can learn knowledge in relaxed and happy activities. Master skills. They are active in thinking and receptive. Cheerful personality. Lively. Autonomy. Full of personality. On the whole. Good diplomatic skills. They are expressive in language, but their listening habits need to be strengthened. They learn from each other, improve their manners and perform well in art. Coordination of basic movements. Strong sense of rhythm. I like dancing and painting. Learning enthusiasm is greatly improved, and there is a certain degree of discipline in class. Answer the questions positively, but the sitting posture needs to be strengthened. I also pay attention to the use of English, carry out the activities of small monitor, stimulate their interest and exercise their courage. Develop language skills! Reasonable arrangement of their lives, alternation of activity and static, and integration of various ways and means have improved their interest in learning, and the overall quality of this semester is better!
In mathematics activities, children can perceive the addition and subtraction numbers within 20 through various games, and know clocks, cubes, rectangular cuboids and so on. Provide rich operating materials for children to operate and encourage them to speak out boldly about the operation process.
Second, the environment
1, provide opportunities and conditions for children to participate in a variety of sports, so that children can fully feel the happiness and benefits of sports and know that people have their own favorite sports methods.
2. Pay attention to cultivate children's good sports, life and hygiene habits in daily life. Help children understand the handling methods of some emergencies that may occur around them and accumulate common sense and experience in dealing with emergencies.
3. Provide a variety of materials and carry out the theme activities of "diverse costumes".
4. Encourage children to actively participate in sports in their daily activities, so as to improve their ability of running, jumping and throwing.
5. Create a festive atmosphere of "Christmas": hanging flower chains, making Christmas trees, Christmas gift boxes and so on. And guide children to invest in making Christmas-related items.
6, collect all kinds of information, inspire children to choose a variety of materials, decorate the classroom environment for the New Year, observe each other, and fully enjoy the joy of welcoming and celebrating the New Year.
7, encourage children to visit the surrounding environment, observe the roadside shops, units and the way people greet and celebrate the New Year.
8. Collect all kinds of calendars (old and new) with children, feel that one year has passed, make window grilles and hang red lights, and feel the fun of the New Year.
Three. public health work
1, in health care work, focus on cultivating them to establish scientific life and rest rules and good eating, sleeping and hygiene habits. It will also coordinate the development of class health work and be responsible for observing and recording the health situation of class health. We should also cultivate their good habit of washing their hands before and after meals!
Some children are very active and take an active part in daily life. We often help children to correct bad habits and improve their self-care ability. Nowadays, children can "do their own things" and are willing to help adults!
3. Our class strictly implements the disinfection system and isolation system, and insists on disinfecting blisters in the morning, exercising and washing hands before and after meals.
4. Insist on outdoor activities for 2 hours every day, actively lead children to exercise, and carry out colorful sports activities such as skipping rope, hula hoop, hoop rolling, walking on stilts and games. , thus enhancing the child's physique. Most children have been able to jump rope, and many children have learned to turn the hula hoop.
5, to ensure that children get enough sleep, (12: 00-2: 50) remind children to wear appropriate clothes for a nap, change their pajamas, change sweaty clothes in time, adjust their beds for frail children, put sweat towels at hand, and nurses and teachers wipe their sweat.
6. Remind children to drink plenty of water, at least six times a day, and take care of weak children.
7. Introduce recipes to children every day to promote appetite and ensure that every child is full. Children's meals, vegetables and soup are separated to ensure children's intake. The children in our class can finish every meal according to the quantity, and there is no leftovers. Teach children to chew slowly and ensure that children have 30 minutes to eat. For children who eat fast, the teacher constantly reminds them to chew slowly, chew it badly and then swallow it.
8. Give medicine regularly every day to reduce the incidence of illness.
Fourth, safety education:
Children's outdoor activities are important activities to strengthen children's physique and improve their disease resistance. It is necessary to ensure the time and quality of children's activities and enhance their physique. Insist on bringing towels to children before activities, wipe sweat for children in time during activities, and increase or decrease clothes for children according to climate change. Especially when practicing skipping rope and hula hoop, remind children to pay attention to safety and keep a certain distance during activities. Usually let children know some common safety signs in life and know some simple self-help methods when encountering difficulties. Teachers should have a high sense of responsibility, always keep their children within their own sight, eliminate all unsafe factors, and at the same time give children random education to cultivate their self-protection awareness and high adaptability.
Verb (abbreviation for verb) Parents' work
Inform parents to register their children in the community in time and provide parents with the required registration materials.
Summary of teaching protection work. It has been four months since our small class entered the park when the spring is strong. Blink of an eye, it's hot summer again, and the final term is coming. In these few months, they have changed from crying and noisy hooligans to lively and sensible good babies, gradually adapted to kindergarten life, learned to get along with children, and more and more like this collective life. In my work, I adhere to the guidance of "regulations" and "norms", take the actual situation of children as the starting point and promote the all-round development of children as the goal. Now I will summarize my work as follows:
(1) protection
1, at work, do a good job of entering and leaving the park, receive warm and polite, do a good job of entering the park, eliminate unsafe hidden dangers, let children have fun at ease, and create a good living environment for children; I love students, treat every child equally, follow the characteristics of children's physical and mental development, encourage them to participate in various activities, patiently guide their words and deeds, let them feel the care of teachers, and create a good teacher-student relationship; What happens at school, I always contact my parents in time, try to get their help and educate my children.
2. Regular education
Teachers in our class attach great importance to children's daily training. From the beginning of the semester, the teacher let the children practice eating by themselves. Under the guidance of the teacher, all the children in our class learned to eat with spoons by themselves. At the same time, we also teach children to take off their pants and shoes, put the shoes neatly on the windowsill, put them in the designated position, and then go to bed by themselves, cover the quilt and sleep; Organize children to go to the toilet and wash their hands in an orderly manner, help them develop good hygiene habits, language habits and behavior habits, and gradually cultivate their self-care ability; Children should not only know what to do and what not to do, but also know why they can't do it.
(2) teaching.
1, prepare lessons before class. On the one hand, I carefully analyze the teaching materials, make monthly, weekly and daily plans that are in line with children's reality, make the teaching plans standardized, concrete and detailed, guide teaching methods, and make diverse and practical teaching and toys for children to operate. The second is to fully understand children and formulate corresponding teaching methods and learning methods according to their characteristics.
2. Take a good class seriously. I use flexible teaching methods to attract students' interest, cultivate children's interest, develop children's ability, carefully organize classroom teaching, pay attention to all children, pay attention to information feedback, mobilize children's intentional attention, keep it relatively stable, stimulate students' emotions, make them have a happy mood, create a good classroom atmosphere, make classroom language concise and clear, overcome recurring problems, and strive to explore a set of teaching methods suitable for children in this class.
3. Summarize in time after class and write down the teaching experience, so as to sum up the experience and lessons and improve the teaching quality. In practical work, I pay attention to communication and cooperation with other teachers, learn teaching methods from peers with an open mind, and learn from others, so as to modify and adjust my education and teaching work and improve teaching quality.
There is no end to learning. I will keep learning, sum up my experience, learn from other teachers with an open mind, strive to accept new teaching methods faster, learn good teaching experience and master new teaching rules, so as to better do my teaching guarantee work.
Summary of Teaching Protection 6 During my internship, under the guidance of xx kindergarten leaders and teachers, I not only mastered the basic contents and characteristics of kindergarten teaching protection, but also gained a new understanding of the importance of teaching protection. Moreover, he successfully applied his theoretical knowledge and skills to practice and successfully completed the task of educational practice. Below, I will make a simple self-evaluation of my internship and teaching practice during this period:
First of all, the trainee nurse.
The purpose is to be familiar with the basic situation of the practice garden and the class, accept the guidance of the instructor, understand the basic situation of the class while doing a good job as a nurse, contact and communicate with the children, establish a good relationship, and initially understand the characteristics of each child. In addition, with the help of the instructor, after being familiar with the classroom teaching methods and teaching plans, write your own detailed and complete teaching plans, and communicate with the instructor to confirm them before formal classes. During this period, I not only studied and did a good job as a nurse, but also created a class environment independently, which was well received by teachers and leaders.
During my internship, I learned a lot of knowledge and skills, and had the opportunity to combine theory with practice, which benefited a lot. In the future, we will conscientiously sum up, reflect in time, learn more from others, and make ourselves progress and improve day by day. At the same time, we will keep in mind the truth that "no matter what difficulties you encounter, don't lose confidence in yourself" and gradually mature.
Second, teachers practice.
This is the task in weeks 2-4. The garden where I practiced belongs to the countryside. Their teaching concept of self-identification of accounting interns is not quite the same as that in the city. They pay more attention to the cultivation of children's knowledge and hardly touch ordinary art classes, resulting in children's low enthusiasm for learning and often unwilling to come to the park. In view of this, after consulting with the instructor, I will teach them in my own way, either dancing, playing music, using the computer, telling stories or playing games. In this way, students can learn knowledge, attract their attention and improve their attendance. Of course, I will talk to the teacher in detail before and after each lecture to find out the advantages and disadvantages so as to do better next time.
One month's internship self-evaluation of internship education has given me a comprehensive and systematic exercise and learned a lot of knowledge and skills that are not available in books. I have the opportunity to combine theory with practice, which has benefited a lot. After seeing the self-evaluation points of excellent physical education interns, I still have some shortcomings, mainly because the class status is unstable, ups and downs, and sometimes I am nervous, depressed, not loud enough, and so on; In the future, we will conscientiously sum up, reflect in time, learn more from others, and make ourselves progress and improve day by day. At the same time, we will keep in mind the truth that "no matter what difficulties you encounter, don't lose confidence in yourself" and gradually mature.