How to create a good ecological environment for the independent development of preschool teachers

Creating an environment suitable for education, providing opportunities and conditions for children's activities and performances, using the environment to cultivate children's sentiments, influence children's behaviors, and promote children's all-round, healthy and harmonious development are the development trends of preschool education today. The Guiding Outline of Kindergarten Education (Trial) points out: "Environment is the synthesis of material, social and psychological conditions on which people depend for survival and development, and it is the resource for children's development", and "we should make full use of educational resources and natural resources to expand children's living and learning space".

All along, our garden has been adhering to the purpose of "children's development-oriented" and has always adhered to three "further steps": first, to further clarify the importance of environmental construction; The second is to further clarify the relationship between environmental creation and quality education; The third is to further clarify the influence and role of environmental creation on children's development. Attach importance to creating a sustainable ecological environment, so that a good environment can cultivate sentiment and purify the soul.

First, under the guidance of green concept, create a harmonious ecological environment between man and nature.

(A) careful planning of gardens, highlighting the beauty of the ecological environment

Over the years, our garden has carefully designed every environment and strived to make the kindergarten an "elegant paradise of wisdom, art and education". There are many kinds of trees in the kindergarten. There are 38 kinds of shrubs, including kapok, bauhinia and mango. ***26 1 plants in kindergarten. We put a brief introduction card of different colors on each kind of flowers and trees, indicating the name, place of origin, environmental protection function and so on. , enriched the children's knowledge of plants.

The garden is lush, shaded and full of vitality. Everywhere is "a touch of green, a piece of sunshine, a few wisps of breeze, a few birdsongs ...", so that children can always feel the beautiful picture of "the road is in the tree, the garden is in the forest, and people are in the scenery".

Kindergarten has also continuously increased investment and built an elegant goldfish viewing pool; Build a "Ruichi" with unique cultural stones and exquisite cast iron fences, so that children can watch lovely turtles of various sizes every day; We also use various stones to pave the corners of the garden into garden paths and boulevards with different patterns, so that the beautification of the kindergarten can be reflected in the details. My garden invites parents who are the chief engineers of landscape design to help us design and create a first-class educational environment with first-class planning and first-class standards. Living in a harmonious environment, children fully feel the beauty and changing process of nature, stimulate their curiosity about nature, meet their development needs in many ways, and enable them to gain experiences beneficial to physical and mental development in their happy childhood.

(2) Carefully design the "small ecological park" to increase the cultural and educational functions.

According to the development characteristics of children's cognitive level, our garden has built a "small ecological park" of more than 300 square meters, which is divided into tropical plant greenhouse, shady plant shed, shrub area, flower area, Chinese herbal medicine area, children's plantation, melon shed, playing canal and so on. For children to watch and carry out various practical activities. In the greenhouse, the children talked curiously: "tomatoes planted without soil climb so high!" " ""There are strange thorns on tropical plants in the sand! " "How can parasitic orchids get out of the thick trunk?" "Why is hibiscus white in the morning, pink at noon and red at night? "Discoveries and a series of problems have triggered the desire to explore buried in the hearts of young children. On the plantation, green and pollution-free vegetables grow on the side dishes of each class. After the rice was harvested, the children immediately waited to plant wheat. In summer, children can walk barefoot on pebbles, catch small fish and loach in the water, and feel the difference between fine sand and coarse sand along the winding canal with their feet ... In the harmonious and happy "small ecological park", children can play and enjoy the happiness of planting, growing and harvesting crops.

(C) "sculpture" modeling, diagnosis and interpretation of the true meaning of education

Every grass, tree, brick and stone in the garden are purposefully shaped into "teachers" to educate young children. Sculpture also fully shows the role of "educating people everywhere". For example, the park has a "cradle" statue symbolizing children's growth in the warm embrace of kindergarten, a "star, moon and sun" statue representing teachers and children's joint exploration of scientific development, and a "colorful world" sculpture representing children's continuous growth and soaring in a colorful environment ... When children are placed in this artistic shape, their hearts can be influenced by beauty.

(four) the construction of sports venues to promote the healthy development of children's body and mind.

According to the outdoor environment of the park, it is a highlight of our park to make a reasonable layout and create a sports area suitable for children's independent sports. In the sports area, our park has set up Superman large toys and tropical forest adventure combination toys. Multifunctional combination and vivid and lovely modeling greatly stimulate children's interest in sports, and effectively promote the coordinated development of children's big muscles and small muscles, upper limb movements and lower limb movements. Spread high-quality and colorful PC glue on the wide and flat sports ground to improve the safety of children's sports; More than 200 square meters of wind and rain playground has been built by using the first floor of the building, so that children can play freely and happily regardless of wind and rain; Use the retaining wall with a drop of more than 5 meters to build a water curtain waterfall with the function of playing with water for children to exercise in "three baths"; Transform more than 50 square meters of bushes into a "green maze" and become a happy holy land for children to "treasure hunt" and "hide and seek".

Second, create an indoor ecological environment with the characteristics of "interaction" and "participation"

(1) infirmary-guided by care and gentleness, providing humanized services and health protection for children. The walls of the oral health care room, amblyopia treatment room, general ward and isolation ward of the medical room are coated with pink, light blue and light green toners respectively, so that the sick children are placed in the fairy tale world and the warm and comfortable feeling of the medical room is increased. The medical room also has functional areas such as doll house, building area, reading area and art design area. Equipped with novel and lovely toys, colorful decorations and the doctor's gentle and friendly smiling face, it greatly relieves the fear and pressure of children entering the medical room.

(2) Function room-fun-oriented, with the goal of increasing wisdom, flattering beauty and exploring physical fitness.

There are many functional rooms in the park, such as science palace, art room, pottery room, knitting room, chess room, reading room, psychological room, sensory integration room, cooking room, chess room and so on, to promote the healthy and harmonious development of children's body and mind. Simulate the real social scene, and build a game city in the form of 1: 1 (including doll's house, Huaguoshan restaurant, small supermarket, fruit and vegetable shop, small hospital and other game areas). In the game, children can creatively reflect their personal sales experience by playing the role of H, which meets the needs of children's physical and psychological development. In the interaction with materials and peers.

(3) Class environment-let children experience and explore in the environment.

According to the theory of environmental education, environmental education should not only impart knowledge about the environment to children, but also let children experience and feel various environmental problems in the environment through exploration activities in various environments, so as to develop practical skills and positive attitudes to solve problems and achieve the purpose of strengthening environmental awareness. It is a good platform for children to learn, and it is also a good opportunity for children to gain knowledge and personal experience. They build and improve their experience by making, drawing and collecting materials with their parents. They raised many interesting questions about environmental issues of common concern. Teachers take problems as the starting point and lead children to discover, observe and explore.

For example, every class integrates the infiltration and education of environmental awareness into teaching activities. Through a series of theme activities, children can learn, develop and acquire environmental knowledge in operation, form good environmental habits, and thus form a strong desire for environmental protection. Each class also carries out special activities in conjunction with the Environmental Remembrance Day. "Earth Day" and "Environment Day", in various forms such as environmental protection small production, painting competition and children's drama, carry out special series activities such as "Green Dream", "Painting Green Guangzhou" and "I am a civilized angel" to stimulate children's love for the surrounding world and nature; "Arbor Day" and "Water Day", to carry out the activities of "striving to be a small guardian of environmental protection and practicing green commitment", so that children can discover, explore and learn in the real natural environment; "Food Day" is an activity such as "How much do you know about food" and "Food Tasting" for the large class to experience the relationship between the environment and people's daily life. Children actively participate in and practice environmental protection. For example, by doing experiments on which turf and soil are easily washed away by water, we found that the roots of turf hold the soil tightly and the soil will not be washed away by water. The vivid and intuitive experiment made the children understand what soil erosion is at once, which inspired them to plant a variety of trees and care for the grassland environment.

Create an environment and culture that interacts with children.

A good environment edifies children and exerts a subtle influence on them. For example, we created the wall decoration of who is right and who is wrong, so that children can use some symbols to operate and express. In the creation of wall decoration in the process of plant growth, children can master knowledge in interaction with the environment by cutting and pasting painted roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits and arranging them. In the creation of wall decoration of garbage classification, children can really play and learn through various online game scenes of garbage and trash cans, so that they can become the masters of the environment.

Third, build an ecological management system to promote multi-party coordination and interaction.

(A) highlight the characteristics of environmental education in kindergarten-based curriculum management

Combine conventional environmental education to cultivate everyone's environmental behavior. After the weekly flag-raising activities, we launched the "Green News Anchor" activity. We have created a platform for children and parents to send green information together with the collected environmental protection content to the whole kindergarten teachers and children, so as to cultivate children to pay attention to the environmental problems around them. Each class has set up a garbage sorting box for many years, and children have developed a good habit of consciously sorting and storing garbage. At the same time, encourage children to use recycled waste materials to create, and cultivate children to optimize the use of resources around them.

Incorporate environmental awareness into teaching activities

Each class of environmental education course shall be no less than 2 hours per week. Teachers consciously integrate environmental education into the teaching of various subjects, such as sports activities such as "carrying garbage", artistic activities such as "interesting bottle dolls" and scientific activities such as "compressing garbage", which enrich children's environmental knowledge and experience and enable them to obtain a lot of environmental protection information, thus forming a strong desire to protect the environment.

(3) Holding cultural performances with the theme of environmental protection.

A singing competition was held in our garden, and a number of children's dramas with distinctive themes and rich environmental education significance were created, such as Stories in the Forest, Where Should We Go, Helping Small Animals, We Are Together with You, etc., which profoundly expressed the desire of people and animals to live in harmony with each other naturally.

(four) to carry out research and explore new ways of environmental education.

In recent years, the main research topics in our garden include: carrying out themed activities with the clue of environmental memorial day, exploration and practice of independent activities of environmental education in kindergartens, practical research on the combination of scientific education and environmental education for children, and attempts and practice of environmental education for children of different ages and different emphases, so as to promote environmental education from point to point.

(5) Energy conservation and emission reduction, and strengthening energy conservation management.

Our park has a large scale and high operating costs. We vigorously build an intelligent, digital paperless office system, create a green web page, build an online resource exchange platform, realize online resource sharing, information exchange and communication, reduce material consumption and practice economy. Energy-saving fluorescent tubes are used in the whole park, and special personnel are responsible for lighting and timing switch everywhere; The staff of each class should turn off the lights and fans in time when the classroom is empty; The office computer is set to power-saving mode, which will be turned off when it is not used for a long time; Turn off all kinds of electrical appliances after work; Transform and update solar water heaters to save electricity; Replace the water-saving faucet and sanitary ware, and turn them off after use; Carry out the action of saving a piece of paper; A kind of water heater using heat energy is designed by using the heat energy of kitchen chimney, which solves the problem of washing dishes with hot water in the kitchen and recovers heat energy resources. Renovation of air conditioning drainage pipes in some teaching buildings, and irrigation of green belts with air conditioning drainage; And so on, these have become the conscious behaviors of teachers and children, and teachers and parents have also contributed to the creation of "smoke-free schools".