I was lucky enough to hear Professor Zhu Xudong from Beijing Normal University share the course "Rural Schools Can Create Beautiful Classrooms - Student Development and Classroom Culture".
Professor Zhu Xudong said: The school classroom space is a kind of classroom culture. The cultivation of imagination, curiosity, concentration and problem-solving ability of creative talents are inseparable from this classroom culture.
Indeed, because the environment is a silent educator.
Environmental creation is of great significance for developing children's intelligence.
Marx said: "People create the environment, and the environment also creates people." Therefore, we cannot ignore the role of the environment in kindergarten.
Both the indoor environment and the outdoor environment have some important effects on children.
From another aspect, the kindergarten environment includes the physical environment and the spiritual environment.
The physical environment provides facilities and materials for children in various places such as learning, living, and entertainment. It is the most basic guarantee for meeting the needs of children for various activities and promoting the all-round development of children's body and mind.
The spiritual environment refers to a cordial and warm atmosphere that is in line with children's aesthetic tastes and makes them relaxed and happy physically and mentally.
These environments not only need to be provided by schools for children, but also need to be provided by teachers according to the situation.
This semester our kindergarten has moved to a newly built kindergarten, so the infrastructure conditions are much better than before.
Therefore, both the physical environment and the spiritual environment have been greatly improved.
Now we have a large outdoor activity venue, covered with fake lawn. The children like to play on this lawn. We often see them rolling around on it, sitting and lying down... having a great time.
, and every time after morning exercises, we would take the children to sit on the lawn and play games while basking in the sun. This was something the children had never enjoyed before.
The classroom is much more spacious than before. In addition to the children's usual activity area, the children's lunch beds can also be set up.
In the past, children crowded into a small bed to take a nap, but now they have their own separate small bed and beautiful bedding, which not only improves the quality of children's lunch break, but also provides a better environment for children.
A safe and hygienic lunch break environment.
The children have their own schoolbag cabinets and can put their belongings on their own territory.
You can organize your belongings better and keep them as clean as possible.
In the past, the schoolbags of 5 or 6 children were all placed in a slightly larger cabinet. When picking up the schoolbags, other children's schoolbags would be dropped on the ground if not careful, which was very unhygienic and not conducive to the organization of items.
We have more things to play with. In the past, apart from a slide and a few rocking horses, we only had a few baskets of toys on the tabletop in the classroom. Fortunately, the children had a lot to play with at that time.
Not boring.
Well now, in addition to larger slides, there are eight climbing walls, swinging bridges and other facilities outdoors. In addition, there are many outdoor sports equipment, such as horn balls, tentacle balls, sunshine tunnels, scooters, and rainbows.
Umbrellas...and other toys that children love to play with.
What we as teachers have to do is to use these resources as much as possible to provide children with a safe, clean, and orderly environment.
In addition, the following environments should be provided for children in our classrooms.
Children are naturally curious about the world, and books are one of the ways they explore the world. Therefore, most children love reading.
I think children who don't like reading should be obliterated due to other reasons.
Therefore, when children like to read and are full of curiosity, we should provide them with a reading environment suitable for them.
Let children enjoy the joy of reading.
Sometimes morning activities will arrange for children to freely choose books to read. They also particularly like to read books. During every activity after lunch, they always ask to read books. It can be seen that the children's love for books is no less than theirs.
Love of toys.
But in the process of reading, I will ask them to follow the necessary reading rules, such as taking good care of books, reading quietly... etc. I think this is the most basic, because children's reading interest is also affected by peers.
When you see a person treating books like treasures and caring for them, you will unconsciously have a good impression of them. When you see everyone reading quietly, like hungry people enjoying delicious food,
Then you will be influenced unconsciously.
If possible, I think a whole room should be provided for children as a reading room, filled with all kinds of books that children love to read. I believe that this kind of environment will bring different experiences to children.
Reading experience affects more children.
It's like walking into a big library. It's so quiet inside that you can hear a pin drop. All you can see are people sitting or standing reading, mesmerized and immersed in the book.
In the ocean of books, it seems that the outside world has nothing to do with them.
This kind of atmosphere should awaken many people to reading.
It is often difficult to keep the environment neat and clean in places with many people.
Especially in places like kindergartens where children are small, but in time, we must provide a clean environment for the children.
The cleanliness of the environment affects a person's hygiene habits to a great extent.