It is more convenient for children to enter kindergarten, and kindergarten teachers will also benefit from their growth.

Source: People's Daily - People's Daily

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Various localities continue to introduce measures to optimize childcare services: invest more funds to support rural preschool education, improve The kindergarten enrollment rate of children in rural areas; integrating traditional culture into teaching and enriching early childhood education concepts; carrying out hierarchical and classified professional training to build a diverse learning and development platform for the growth of kindergarten teachers.

Improve the level of software and hardware

Strive to realize one village, one garden

"Whose little hands are good? My little hands are good. Whose little hands are the best?" Obedient? My little hands are the most obedient!” The class bell rang, and in the kindergarten in Anding Village, Huangguayuan Town, Yuanmou County, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, children sang pre-class songs and competed with each other to see who could sit more upright with their little hands behind their backs.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Director Li Ming was filled with joy. Before 2017, there was no kindergarten in Anding Village, and only a local primary school opened a preschool equivalent to a large class. "In many villages, 3-5-year-old children can only be taken care of by their parents or the elderly. Some parents send their children to the central primary school kindergarten or private kindergarten in Huangguayuan Town, which is farther away."

Anding Village Kindergarten is arranged according to age. Duan started 3 classes. In accordance with the county's requirements, "gamification" teaching is adopted, including art area, puzzle area, living area, construction area, performance area... children choose according to their own interests, develop behavioral norms, cultivate interests and hobbies, and improve learning in games. ability.

You have to queue up to go to the toilet, wash your hands before eating, and you can’t whisper in class... After children who have never attended kindergarten enter elementary school, they cannot adapt to the behavioral norms for a while. Teachers in rural elementary schools often have to come up with A lot of energy is spent to regulate classroom order. "After one year in kindergarten, children can quickly adapt to the behavioral norms and lay the foundation for the future." Li Ming said that the children's progress is obvious, the kindergarten's good reputation gradually spreads, and the number of applicants increases.

Today in Yuanmou County, 78 village committees in the county have opened 83 kindergartens (classes), basically realizing "one village, one kindergarten". The county's kindergarten enrollment rate in the first year of preschool is 99.03%, and the enrollment rate in the three years of preschool is 99.03%. The kindergarten enrollment rate reached 96.52%, basically achieving full coverage of preschool education. More and more funds are beginning to be invested in preschool education. Private kindergartens attract children from remote villages by providing school bus transportation, night accommodation and other services, increasing the enrollment rate of children from remote villages.

Integrate traditional cultural elements

Enrich early childhood education concepts

In the bright spring, the fragrance of magnolia flowers is fragrant. In the outdoor activity area of ??Fengdong No. 6 Kindergarten in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, children are doing physical exercises under the guidance of teachers. At the same time, in the classroom of the "Qiqiao Art Workshop" on the second floor of the school, the children's hands-on and brain-using clay making classes, ink painting classes, and paper-cutting classes also started...

"Children can play in the environment I am so happy to spend my childhood in such a good kindergarten." Talking about the Fengdong No. 6 Kindergarten at her doorstep, Zheng Xin, a stay-at-home mother who lives in Runjing Yiyuan Community and grew up in Fengdong New Town, was very moved.

"When I was a child, my neighbor's child came back from college and brought the children in our village together to teach them how to read. This was my early childhood education. Things have changed over the years. My two children are very different. Even at the age of five or six, kindergarten has changed a lot," Zheng Xin said.

Fengdong No. 6 Kindergarten was established in 2015. It mainly accepts children aged 3-6 from nearby Mengbai Village, Xinchang Village and other areas. "Different from ordinary early childhood education, the educational philosophy of our park pays more attention to integrating traditional culture into children's growth education, so that children can carry the genes of traditional culture into the future." said Liu Fengmei, director of Fengdong No. 6 Kindergarten.

Fengdong New Town is rich in historical and cultural resources. The park relies on traditional historical and cultural resources and incorporates traditional cultural elements in everything from hardware facilities to teaching concepts and school characteristics. "The kindergarten will regularly popularize historical knowledge for our students and parents, allowing us to understand the cultural characteristics of Fengdong, and also allowing us to better interact with the children. I think this kind of characteristic education is worth promoting." Zheng Xin said, The teaching building is spacious and bright, and the teaching facilities are fully functional. The school also regularly holds various parent-child activities. Your children will grow up in such an educational environment, and you will feel at ease.

Fengdong New City gives full play to the government's leading and overall coordination role, strengthens the joint efforts of various departments, and strives to improve inclusive preschool education services. It is understood that Fengdong New City has built, renovated and expanded 11 public kindergartens, and added 3,300 public kindergarten places, which has comprehensively improved the school running conditions and degree supply capacity of public kindergartens in the area. At the same time, we actively explored preschool education management and school-running mechanisms, converted 14 private kindergartens into public ones, and provided 5,220 public degrees.

Hierarchical and classified professional training

Gradually cultivate famous preschool teachers

Pang Xueyang is a preschool teacher in the Shijingshan Affiliated Kindergarten of Beijing Normal University. When we first met, she was inspiring young children to pick up picture books and find reading pleasure.

After graduating from the Preschool Education Department of China Women’s University 11 years ago, Pang Xueyang has been engaged in preschool education. In 2013, she went to work in the Shijingshan Affiliated Kindergarten of Beijing Normal University and quickly became the backbone of the business. Now she has obtained the title of senior teacher and her salary has been greatly improved. “Participating in the kindergarten teacher training provided by the government every year has broadened my horizons, expanded my thinking, and made me more targeted in teaching concepts and methods.” Pang Xueyang feels that the systematic preschool teacher training launched in Shijingshan District, Beijing It benefited her a lot.

In order to implement the continuing education plan for preschool teachers, Beijing’s Shijingshan District has integrated teachers from various kindergartens into the training plan, and used special funds to ensure the effective operation of the "city-district-kindergarten" three-level training mechanism. "We implement a growth ladder training plan for preschool education teachers and carry out hierarchical and classified teacher professional training." Fan Ludan, head of the preschool section of the Shijingshan District Education Commission, introduced that according to the career development of preschool education teachers, "entry, initial appointment, advancement, adjustment, The six stages of "mature and experienced" have improved its post-entry training system and built a diverse learning and development platform for the professional growth of preschool education teachers. Through multiple measures such as project promotion, topic guidance, curriculum construction, and professional assessment, we cultivate famous preschool teachers and promote the improvement of the overall team.

Since Pang Xueyang came to work in Shijingshan Kindergarten, she has not fallen behind in training at all stages and levels. "Take the district as an example. We participate in various professional trainings at least 3 to 5 times a year." Pang Xueyang said that the length of time varies, but the content is very rich. According to the different growth stages of different teachers, the district will launch targeted The training covers preschool education theoretical knowledge, school management, big data and future education, socialist core values ??and other content related to preschool education.

What made her grow rapidly was participating in scientific research training classes organized by the district. "While doing my job well, I have always wanted to be a 'research-oriented' teacher, and the scientific research class gave me the opportunity to receive systematic training." Pang Xueyang said that in the subsequent teaching process, he discovered scientific research topics and selected research topics. methods, analyze the essence of phenomena, and promote scientific research results, allowing her to study the growth and development patterns of children more scientifically and improve her professional childcare capabilities.

Recently, relying on the "Book Paradise" research carried out in the kindergarten, a project conducted by Pang Xueyang - "A survey on the current situation of parent-child reading for children aged 3 to 6 years old" is nearing completion. . Three years ago, this project was successfully established in Shijingshan District, and is now being finalized and verified. She said that she benefited a lot from the scientific research classes on young children's growth and development organized by the district education department. It is precisely through the study and training in the scientific research class that she has become more and more comfortable in investigating, researching and analyzing the current situation of parent-child reading for children. During the research process, she found that in children’s parent-child reading, mothers participated more and fathers participated less, so she promoted the kindergarten to launch reading activities such as "telling stories to dad" to guide fathers to participate in parent-child activities.

Shijingshan District also promotes "teacher-training", allowing preschool education experts to drive the growth of new and young teachers. One of Pang Xueyang’s mentors is Zhu Jihong, a teaching researcher in the teaching and research section of the Shijingshan District Education Branch, and the other mentor is Ma Bingxia, the principal and special teacher of her kindergarten. She relies on the research position of kindergarten-based training to grow rapidly in her practical work. In addition, Shijingshan District has also strengthened the construction of online training and made full use of the rich online training course resources so that teachers can participate in learning and training more flexibly.

"People's Daily" (Page 13, March 22, 2021)