About foreign kindergartens
About foreign kindergartens
About foreign kindergartens
When the child's age kindergarten can go to kindergarten, parents need to choose a kindergarten for their children. And the setup of kindergarten is different in different countries of the world, here is a brief introduction to kindergarten in foreign countries!
1, Norway: nothing to teach the kindergarten
Norwegian kindergartens are famous for "nothing to teach" and the world. The general policy of the kindergarten is to let the children go out and play as much as possible, contact with the sun and nature. In kindergartens, children are never given lessons in culture, and they are never asked to do the same thing.
The teachers gather the children every day to discuss what each of them is going to do, and then they go out to play, and afterwards they can talk about their feelings and achievements as much as they want. However, during the games the teacher also teaches the children about Norwegian culture and traditions, and about civilized manners.
2. Munich: Forest Kindergarten
In Munich, there is a natural park that has been turned into a "Forest Kindergarten". The park has a forest of birches and bushes, lawns and clear streams. The children are free to play and observe ants and snails.
Lunch is also eaten sitting around on the grass like a picnic. The children run around in the forest all day and rarely quarrel or fight or get sick. The headmaster has given the children three rules to follow: no eating of wild fruit, no running or jumping with sticks, and they must assemble at the sound of the whistle.
However, some parents complained that their children suffered minor injuries at play and came home covered in mud every day.
3. Vienna: Imagine Kindergarten
Imagine Kindergarten is dedicated to nurturing children's imaginations. The classrooms are designed in different environments, such as "Fairytale World", "Space World", and even farmhouses, kitchens, and workshops.
The children can be immersed in a fairy tale world, design their own stories, simulate space travel, and do arts and crafts. stories, simulate space travel, do manual labor, planting melons and vegetables, spinning and weaving, and so on.
4, Britain
Kom Kindergarten carefully planned and fully develop the rich natural resources in the garden, many natural courses are in the garden, a large kindergarten, very few man-made environment.
Instead, there are uneven stone paths, boulder-lined caves, grassy, steeply sloping hills, movable fallen logs and stone bricks, dense trees and fallen leaves, and a large pond with fish.
At Kom Kindergarten, both boys and girls love to be active, and when they are more athletic and coordinated, it's easier to do so without accidents or fewer accidents.
5, the United States
The prestigious Bank Street Family Center has been trying to create a family-friendly environment for children between the ages of half and four for nearly thirty years. There is no Mozart piano training, no foreign language tapes, and no math homework.
Yet there are big, comfortable chairs for children to sit and read in, cooking utensils for them to cook with, tables to draw at, blocks to build castles with, and stairs to exercise their muscles. The children (about 12 per class) are free to go to other classrooms and play. It's just as free as at home.
In American kindergartens, food tasting and nutrient absorption is also an important subject here. Let the children in the joy of eating to understand the importance of collective life, because eating to the children to provide language communication opportunities, while letting the children appreciate the shape of the food, color, smell, and the rules of the meal, and so on.
6. Italy
The Reggio system of early childhood education is one that has influenced the world. The way young children express themselves and communicate with each other, as well as teachers to determine the level of understanding of young children should not only language symbols, but also include movement, gestures, gestures, facial expressions, painting, sculpture, and so on, a hundred kinds of language.
Reggio does not have a set curriculum. Program activities begin with teachers asking children questions, discovering their interests, and solving real-life problems.
7. Hungary
Kindergartens in Hungary have a very beautiful environment, as artistic as their cities. Many of the kindergarten's furnishings and decorations are made by the teachers themselves, and the materials used come from nature. For example, there are "hearts" made of fallen leaves and dead branches;
dolls, bonsai, boats, and small furniture made of husks; portraits made of dead plant roots; and doll's houses and small worlds made of reeds.
8, Australia
Australian kindergarten teachers spend most of the time with each child to talk individually, rather than with the whole class of young children to talk collectively. Young children are in a relaxed, happy, free environment, no pressure, no fear of teachers, do not have to keep quiet everywhere.
Australian kindergarten class sizes and teacher-child ratios are generally standardized:
0-1 year olds, six children, teacher-child ratio of 1:3;
1-2 year olds, eight children, teacher-child ratio of 1:4;
For the 2-3 year old group, 10 children, the teacher-child ratio is 1:5;
For the 3 year old group, 16 children, the teacher-child ratio is 1:8;
For the 4-6 year old group, 20 children, the teacher-child ratio is 1:10.
Kindergarten in Australia encourages children to feed themselves and serve themselves; provides children with
About Kindergarten Abroad 2What do kindergartens abroad really learn?
1, Japanese kindergarten: practice physical fitness, cultivate self-care ability
Japanese kindergarten a class of 10-30 people, but the class teacher is only one. A single person to take care of, manage 30 children, think about it for the teacher sweat. However, self-care is an important part of learning for Japanese children from the age of 3 in kindergarten.
At lunchtime, children are expected to move small tables and chairs from outside the classroom door into the classroom and set them up; in middle school, children are expected to be able to change their clothes independently; and in the older classes, they are given all the chores they need to do on a regular basis.
As for physical fitness, the girls are still in short skirts when it's cold in Japan.
Kindergartens also promote and encourage parents to give their children "one less thing to wear", and even the first thing they do is to take off their shoes and socks and put on loose play clothes, and then go to the well-equipped gym for almost two hours of free time.
And these sports do have the effect of "brutalizing their bodies", in addition to slides, swings and other play equipment for young children, as well as bars, flat ladders and other equipment that require high strength for children. In addition, Japanese children learn to play soccer from kindergarten, to the older class to participate in the inter-school soccer tournament.
In a day of kindergarten life, children drink all the cool straight water; lunch is prepared by the parents of the lunch box, in May (the temperature of about 20 degrees Celsius), the young children's lunch is no longer heated, but directly eat cold food. The Japanese hope that this can exercise the children's gastrointestinal function and enhance their ability to adapt to the environment.
As an early education professional, I am most envious of the fact that Japanese kindergartens have so many festivals. Kindergarten festivals are not vacations, but rather, they bring children to learn about these festivals, customs, and organize various activities based on this theme. We're advocating for thematic education, and festivals are a great theme."
2. German kindergartens: mixed-age classes, with a "quiet corner"
German kindergartens enroll children 0 to 10 years old, including infants and toddlers 0 to 3 years old, 3 to 6 years old, and 6 to 10 years old students. The kindergarten is similar to the "small dinner table" in China for elementary school students: they go to the kindergarten to eat after school;
After school, they come to the kindergarten to do their homework; and after doing their homework, they can play games in the kindergarten. Usually there is a form on the wall of each class in the kindergarten, recording the time of each student after school, where the school, contact phone number, etc., so that the class teacher to manage them.
German kindergarten educators believe that "mixed-age classroom" is conducive to mutual learning and the development of young children's social skills.
Despite the fact that zone play has become very common in early childhood education in all countries, Germany has its own distinctive style - in kindergarten, children can read books, participate in group activities organized by the teacher, play with toys independently, and also have the option of being alone.
Each classroom has a small space called a "quiet corner". The quiet corner usually has a soft mat with lots of cloth, soft dolls and cushions with interesting images.
Children who don't want to participate in group activities can go to this corner and sit quietly; naughty children can also do somersaults and vent their excess energy here.
In addition to respecting children's need for solitude, the Quiet Corner is designed to provide teachers with observable signs of understanding children. When a child comes into the Quiet Corner frequently, he is already calling out with his behavior - he needs psychological help.
In terms of respecting children's individuality, German ECE is very thorough. In addition to the design of the quiet corner, children also have the right to make decisions about lunch and nap - some kindergartens offer three lunch times: 12:00 noon, 1:00 pm, 2:00 pm, so that children can decide for themselves when they want to eat.
When it's time for lunch, if the toddler hasn't fallen asleep after lying down for 20-30 minutes, he can get up and go out to play. Is it not very enviable for those who experienced tossing and turning in their kindergarten cot as a child and were afraid to make a sound?
3. British kindergarten: protect the child's curiosity and self-esteem
British kindergarten arrangement of all the educational content is closely linked to the child's activities.
For example, in the science class, to make the child to recognize the characteristics of sand, cement, lime, the teacher led the child to the flower garden to build a flower wall.
Through the labor of building a flower wall, children learn how to mix sand, cement and lime in a certain proportion; understand the properties of these materials; and learn some simple labor skills and concepts related to balance, horizontal, vertical, and so on.
To let children gain knowledge of electricity, teachers will place wires, buzzers, and high-powered batteries on the table for children to try to connect the lines on their own, and if they are connected correctly, the buzzer will beep; and if they are not connected correctly, he will have to think of his own ways and find tricks until he gets the lines connected.
Similarly, British children in kindergarten are free to choose their own activities; because the government's financial investment is large enough, they have more choices, in addition to the common reading books, drawing, building blocks, but also play with water, play computer. Every kindergarten in the UK has a computer in every class;
Unlike the iPads that are thrown at children at home, school computers offer a variety of educational games and the ability to draw.
Sometimes teachers respond to children's curiosity by creating games that seem absurdly boring.
Once, when an early childhood teacher opened a newly acquired toy for the children to play with and they were attracted to the shockproof plastic bag with little bubbles on the outside, the teacher used scissors to cut open the plastic and gave everyone a small piece to squeeze and play with. Some people ask what the educational purpose of this is.
The teacher smiled and said, "It's fun to let the children listen to the sound of the bubbles popping when they are pinched one by one!"
In addition, British educators have a knack for protecting children's self-esteem.
In an elementary school (with nursery) held a harvest celebration assembly, the children have brought a lot of items related to the harvest, such as fruits, vegetables, bread, etc., handed over to the principal one by one displayed in the hall. At that moment a child presented a water tap and all the other children present laughed.
Only to hear the principal kindly said, "The faucet may not seem to have anything to do with the harvest, but it can wash vegetables, fruits, wash hands, and wash many things, and it can make things clean, and it is very appropriate that the faucet appeared in the harvest meeting." After the principal said this, the children who laughed stopped laughing, and the children who were laughed at showed great pride.
4, New Zealand kindergarten: teach children how to play
In New Zealand, the class time is like a plugged-in advertisement, generally in the use of, afternoon tea and before lunch, so that the children gathered and sat on the ground, the teacher used different teaching aids according to different ages of children to carry out the teaching of the simple letters, numbers, songs, movement. This time is usually 10-20 minutes.
In addition, there is a lot of free time indoors and outdoors, and kindergartens in New Zealand are like a small world. Outdoors, there are slides, swings, gardens, sandboxes, water tanks, rock climbing, woodworking lathes, tricycles, and so on. Indoors, they are usually divided into several areas, similar to Chinese kindergartens' corner games.
For example, the "doll's house" for playing house has everything from an oven and refrigerator to vegetables and bread, and from dolls and clothes to strollers.
In addition to the usual dolls' houses, small libraries, blocks and puzzles, there is also a nature corner with a variety of natural products, including shells, volcanic rocks, pebbles, leaves, dried flowers, bark and so on.
For small children in New Zealand, there is only one thing that is compulsory, and that is art. Both the indoor and outdoor teachers are responsible for their own art classes, allowing children to experiment with different ways of drawing, using different tools, or making other 'art'.
When they paint, the children bring special aprons and use washable paints. Interestingly, 90% of the Asian kids were careful to protect their bodies and clothes from color, while the other kids didn't care about making their hands, faces, and bodies colorful.