listen to children
grow together
The "Guidelines for the Quality Assessment of Kindergarten Childcare Education" point out: It is important for children to express and represent the games, reading picture books, observations and other activities they have experienced through drawings, narrations, etc. Teachers can listen one-to-one and truly record children's thoughts and experience. The 2023 National Preschool Education Publicity Month "Listening and Children Grow Together" also focuses on the keyword "listening". In order to help teachers further understand the purpose and significance of "one-on-one listening" and improve teachers' ability to "one-on-one listening and recording". On June 8, Yuncheng City Dayun Kindergarten carried out a special teaching and research on "Listening to Children's Growth". Party branch secretary and principal Jia Xiaohong and deputy principal Xue Yingxia attended. Li Yunna, head of the research and training room, presided over and all teachers participated.
Jia Xiaohong, secretary of the party branch and director of the kindergarten, spoke highly of this teaching and research. She pointed out that this special teaching and research was well prepared, focused on issues, in-depth exchanges, and effective. She hopes that everyone will always maintain the motivation to learn, the enthusiasm for work, the ability to listen, and the motivation to accompany, help children button the first button of life, and become "people with ideals, beliefs, moral sentiments, solid knowledge, and benevolence" Four are "good teachers."
Dialogue and exchange have their own meaning
"What is one-on-one listening and why should we listen one-on-one?" The teachers spoke freely based on their actual experience and from different perspectives, and clarified the concept and significance of one-on-one listening in dialogue and communication.
Teacher Chai: "One-to-one listening" refers to the communication between teachers and children in kindergartens. Teachers communicate with individual children and listen to children's subjective understanding of things in games or life.
Teacher Zhang: "One-on-one listening" can awaken teachers' insight and discovery abilities, help teachers establish correct concepts about children, and achieve educational equity in communication with each child. It breaks the observation limitation of "you come into my field of vision, and I will judge you". It is an effective way for teachers to enter the inner world of children and promote their in-depth learning and sustainable development.
Teacher Wang: Children have a hundred languages. In the process of listening, we will have a more direct understanding of the children. With an attitude of understanding and empathy, we can deeply communicate with the children and learn from each other. In this way, we can get closer to children, understand children, empathize with children, and support children.
Group discussions on wisdom sharing
In the early stage of the activity, we conducted a survey and summary on the problems and confusions encountered by teachers in primary, middle and upper grade groups during the implementation of one-to-one listening. In the group discussion session, everyone focused on common issues in the practice of "one-on-one listening", collided with ideas, and refined experiences. Based on their own teaching practice, everyone expressed their opinions and sorted out the group's research results in the form of a mind map. During the discussion and sharing, the method, content, time, key points, etc. of "one-to-one listening" became more comprehensive and clear. understanding.
Apply what you learn by observing cases
Everyone watched two videos: "Children's Representation in Anji's Game and Teacher's One-on-One Listening Record" and "Ministry of Education's 2023 National Preschool Education Publicity Month Video Case – A Different Children's Day".
12 class teachers combined teaching and research activities and excellent case study experiences to share the practical practices of "listening to children and growing together" in their classes, and reviewed their experiences, practices, deficiencies and improvements in the process of writing and recording the theme cases of this publicity month. Reflective communication.
Backbone leads and points the way
Deputy Director Xue Yingxia provided professional guidance for this event. She explained in detail the use of the "Mosaic Method" in listening to young children, and explained various research tools such as interviews, children's photography, map making, and kindergarten tours, and encouraged teachers to try to use the various research tools provided by the "Mosaic Method" Tools for listening to young children in practice. Children will explore the world through seeing, listening, smelling, touching, singing, dancing and other ways to express their attitudes towards things and their understanding of the world. As long as teachers respect, listen, tolerate and allow, They can grow naturally and reap the power of growth.
This teaching and research activity promoted the change of teachers’ educational concepts and the improvement of their professional ability to listen to children. Everyone said: In the future work, they will calm down, stay curious, and use the appropriate "one-to-one listening" method to enter the spiritual world of children's whimsical thoughts with an attitude of respect, empathy, and appreciation. Discover and feel the growth and changes of children, and be a patient listener, a warm recorder, and a strong supporter.