What are the obvious shortcomings of preschool education in China?

Zhou Zhou

The most obvious deficiency lies in the indiscriminate imitation of foreign parenting concepts and the loss of the charm of local education.

After so many years of tempering, China's preschool education has long been self-contained.

There are also many teachers who have very good ideas, such as Li Yueer, the founder of "Ba Xue Yuan". I quite agree with her concept of parenting. Everything in the park is as beautiful and free as the Eight Snow Gardens. If you are interested, you can watch the documentary Lilliput. Record some children's problems in the garden and the teachers' solutions.

There is also the English teacher Cai Yun, who has high attainments in kindergarten collective teaching. Many excellent courses have been introduced, which are regarded as the treasures of new kindergarten teachers.

Forgive me, I'm really not advertising.

Look! What excellent pre-school education talents! ! Although we are humble China people, we must have full confidence in the education in our country! I grew up under such education. If I feel bad about myself, isn't that a slap in the face?

Note that we are talking about preschool education. I think the labels chosen for the topics are kindergarten, parenting and preschool education. Let's talk about the difference between the two.

Preschool education refers to all the education of children aged 0-6, and preschool education refers to the education of children aged 3-6. Kindergarten education is the kindergarten education for children aged 3-6.

The relationship between them is preschool education > preschool education > kindergarten education.

Speaking of which, I think you all understand. A kindergarten with a healthy concept is of course important, and it is still very important for parents to accept ideas and methods that are conducive to their children's development.

People who mix preschool education are more popular. As soon as their children were born, they began to receive audio-visual training, tactile training, grasping training, large muscle group and small muscle group training, and their language ability, imagination, creativity, sense of music and rhythm were also trained simultaneously, and even began to cultivate their lifelong habits. With this, when I go to kindergarten at the age of three, I will ... brain tonic-

After all, it is a creature.

* * * Encourage.

Published on 2014-12-31

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Tangyuan teacher

As a primary school teacher, I still have great feelings about preschool education.

The preschool education in the eyes of many parents includes: a good kindergarten and a good training class. It's gone.

In today's Shanghai, the tentacles of training institutions have already extended to preschool children, and there are endless training courses for children in kindergartens, and some even need to queue up to find seats. In all kinds of early education institutions, there are babies who can't sit still and stand still, and even some children are just born. Parents have booked training courses for their babies for several years.

A friend of mine, Jogo, has a well-off family and is strict with his 4-year-old child. In order to be admitted to a boarding bilingual primary school in Shanghai, their baby's weekend routine is more intensive than that of workers on Foxconn production line:

Saturday morning: English training class, learning letters and grammar;

Saturday afternoon: music-invited a teacher to tutor the piano;

Saturday night: oral English-foreign teachers to guide pronunciation;

Sunday morning: math-training class, teaching addition and subtraction within 100;

Sunday afternoon: Sports-well-known football schools train football.

Brother Qiao calculated an account. Until the child graduated from college, his total investment in his son's education was around 5 million, regardless of inflation. My father's declaration is: "This is the way my parents raised me, and I will raise my son in the same way!" " "

Even so, he is very anxious and worried that his children will be screened. I'm also worried that he will be disappointed in the end. Because his parents didn't spend much time with him except spending money on the way to train him. And he seems to be the same. The reason why he wants to send his son to boarding school is because he doesn't have to take his baby at ordinary times.

In the view of teacher Tang Yuan, this kind of kindergarten training class is not to create a first-Mover advantage for children, but to dig holes for children!

Today's primary school interview examines not only a few words in English, but also several musical instruments. Students' soft power is an important aspect of teacher assessment, such as:

Ability to adapt to unfamiliar environment, whether it is stage fright or natural and graceful;

Understanding ability, whether to understand the teacher's question;

Communication skills, whether you can clearly express what you want to express in a few words;

Team life ability, whether you can quickly become one with friends;

These soft powers are very important!

Not only primary school interviews, they lay the foundation for children's lifelong learning career; But these soft powers can't be taught in training courses! Who can teach? Only parents.

In my opinion:

The biggest deficiency of preschool education in China is that it focuses on vocabulary, mathematical calculation and other subtle aspects, while ignoring the really important big pattern-those skills that can benefit children for life and help them adapt to school life quickly.

For example:

concentrate

Children's inattention and desertion in class often occur in primary and secondary schools. In fact, when children are young, parents have every opportunity to help them train their concentration.

My personal experience can be summarized as three ups: show up, shut up and cheer up.

When a child concentrates on what he likes to do, whether it is jigsaw puzzles, painting or having fun. ...

Show up: play with him by his side; Make him feel safe; Create an environment that helps him concentrate;

Shut up: shut up, watch him play quietly, don't disturb him, and don't nag too much. Don't correct your mistakes, and don't ask him if he wants to drink water or eat fruit. Let him concentrate on playing.

Cheer up: encourage and help your child when he is in trouble or unhappy, so that he can continue to enter a state of concentration.

Concentration can be cultivated through childhood parent-child moments. Even if parents send more training classes, it is difficult for children's concentration to be significantly improved.

There is a boy in Mr. Tangyuan's class, because he seldom gets his parents' company before he is three years old. After entering the kindergarten, when the teacher told the child that his concentration and sense of rules were extremely lacking, the child's mother felt that she owed him too much before the child was three years old and had no requirements for the child at all. She hopes that the teacher can let the children release their nature and let nature take its course. As a result, the child entered the first grade and had no idea how to communicate with other children. If he doesn't agree with a word, he will take a fancy to other people's things and rob them. Learning is also a completely natural state. When giving lectures, the teacher always holds a pen in his hand, shows his painting talent on any plane that can be drawn, and repeatedly draws his favorite train.

Before the age of three, it is a good time to accompany children and cultivate intimate relationships; Kindergarten after the age of three is an opportunity to establish rules and order for children.

Parents should not throw their children to schools or kindergartens at will; We shouldn't send children to training classes just because they feel indebted to their peers.

courage

Compared with the first batch of children brought by teacher Tang Yuan more than ten years ago, today's children have no courage to challenge difficulties.

Nowadays, most children live in a 4-2-/kloc-0-family environment, which is well protected and rarely encounters difficulties and challenges. Even if they do, they will soon have elders to help them solve their problems.

To be sure, I don't think parents should not help their children. In fact, when children get help, parents can also give them some advice and teach them how to deal with problems.

However, the help of elders should not always be timely. On the one hand, it will lead children to lack patience when they encounter difficulties, on the other hand, it will also lead children to lose their brains to think about how to solve problems when facing difficulties and obstacles, and then enjoy the sense of accomplishment brought by solving problems.

The teacher's steamed buns grew up under the care of grandparents.

Although it is rampant at home, when it comes to children's paradise, Xiao Tangyuan is still quite timid. Because I usually encounter various "challenges" in the community, my grandmother will always escort me for the first time. So there was a scene where my little brother grabbed my face and cried, and some people took away the toys that were playing well and just looked at my parents.

Mr. Tangyuan and his grandparents had a long talk several times before they changed a little. Glutinous rice balls Baba is also actively recreating the scene of small glutinous rice balls at home-how to deal with them if someone tries to grab toys. Gradually, Xiao Tangyuan began to know how to deal with these sudden "situations", and I believe she also cultivated a lot of self-confidence in the process of dealing with these problems.

independence

In addition to facing various external challenges independently, it is also important to learn to be independent in life, which is the most easily overlooked. It is not surprising that teacher Tang Yuan, who is struggling in the front line of primary schools, often appears the satirical news that "college students send clothes home to wash their mothers".

Since primary school, parents have entered a misunderstanding: children don't need to worry about things in life, but should devote themselves to learning. As a result, more and more children can't button their clothes, little books can't guarantee them, and some even can't eat. Forgetting things is a common problem for children now-more than 30 children in Mr. Tang Yuan's class can't do anything in a week, and only a handful of them forget everything.

The recently released "20 16 China Family Education Focus Survey Report" mentioned that:

What worries parents in China more than reading now is their children's self-care ability.

This is a report that reveals the family education problems faced by parents in China at different stages of their children's growth through the investigation and tracking of 6529 families in different regions.

It can be seen that if children's self-care ability is not paid attention to in the transition period from infancy to infancy, with the growth of children's age, self-care ability will increasingly become a major factor hindering their all-round development.

To sum up: As a teacher, I have seen too many children, even those with extraordinary qualifications and talents, and even those who have established a "first-Mover advantage" before kindergarten, because of lack of concentration, courage and self-care, their grades are gradually declining, and even they are tired of learning and afraid of learning.

For children,

When he needed affection, you left him to his grandparents;

When he needs to establish a sense of order, you throw him into the training class;

Children may not say anything.

But when he grows up, he will realize: I must have met false parents. ...

Edited on 20 17-03-22

An Huang

I'm sorry it took so long to answer the invitation. Because the topic is a bit big, it is a bit difficult to remember. In fact, until now, I have never thought about it.

I think preschool education is not just a matter for government education departments, schools or institutions, parents and street communities ... these are all one-sided, and I think it is everyone's business. So if we want to talk about the deficiency of preschool education, I think it is about the overall educational concept and atmosphere. I think it can be said from two aspects.

One is whether preschool education is needed, and the other is how to do it.

First, do you want preschool education?

Everyone still has a unified idea about the age of 3-6, because traditionally children will go to kindergarten at the age of three. As for 0-3 years old, it is controversial. Many parents think that children as young as 0-3 years old have nothing to teach, just let them play. I agree with the saying that "it is good to let children have fun", but in fact, playing is something that universities ask. Play is learning, and play is education. The key is how to play and what kind of growth environment to create for children is what they need. Regarding whether children aged 0-3 need early education, please refer to my other answer:

Therefore, the lack of understanding of the necessity of preschool education, especially education before the age of three, is a deficiency we are facing. As a result, the government and all walks of life have insufficient policy guidance and resource support for preschool education, especially for education before the age of three.

Second, how to pre-school education.

There are many problems in this regard, but I just want to say two things here:

First of all, education stifles creativity. This is a question of teaching people to fish or to teach people to fish. The habit that has been settled for too many years is to instill and fill ducks. Of course, now more and more parents have a more open concept. Learning, the most important thing is to experience and create, rather than simply recite and imitate, so that children can know and understand the world through experience, find answers through trial and experiment, learn to think independently and solve problems by themselves. Children are born with unlimited creativity, and education should help children maintain and continue this ability, not stifle it. Here I want to share a video: TED Talk-Education stifles creativity. (Thank you @ 丫丫丫丫丫丫丫丫丫丫丫丫丫丫丫丫𰶯𰶯𰶯20001 )

Second, I think education is teaching children, but in fact, what should be learned most is parents. The best teachers in the world are parents, and the best playmates in the world are parents, at least in the early life. Parents' attitudes, behaviors, emotions and beliefs will have a lifelong impact on their children. If you observe carefully, you will find that parents with a healthy and positive attitude can often grow up well without how to teach them. Educating children to grow up is actually what parents do. This topic is too big to discuss in detail here. On the one hand, parents should be aware of their important role in children's growth and actively study and grow. On the other hand, society provides a positive environment and resources for parents' growth, and this deficiency will gradually become smaller.

Although not enough, more and more positive voices have appeared in our ears, more and more parents with new ideas are paying attention to the growth of their children, and more and more people who care about education are actively sharing their experiences and contributing their modest efforts. So I believe these shortcomings will be enough one day.