International Perspective kindergarten bilingual education

 International Perspective kindergarten bilingual education bilingual kindergarten
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Wang Jianqi MAG Executive Director of Early Childhood Education Group, the principal of office members.
graduated from Beijing Normal University, went to Canada to study in 1992, after returning to work for many years been engaged .2001 Bilingual Kindergarten teacher training, materials development and education services, translation edited by the United States The research, write > He graduated from Northeast Normal University, early childhood education professional, experienced nursery manager. He graduated from Northeast Normal University, early childhood education professional, experienced nursery managers, pre-school education system in Shanxi University, teaching in the pre-research work of any United States ,2005-2007 Grid bilingual kindergarten director, Director, Centre for the post. working on how to construct the appropriate development of children of Chinese and Western curriculum, and successfully led the development of a number of curriculum research and development projects.
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Ma Teacher: Bilingual Kindergarten MAG was founded in 2002 in August, is owned by a Chinese Canadian founder of the country. From August 2002 to the present total of 5 Direct Park, located BDA in Beijing, Chaoyang, Fengtai three regions. currently has around 160 staff. school children in 400 or so. In the U.S. grid inception mission and slogan has always been China's international school children, the children of China is committed to provide diversification of the International Perspective of the system. prominent international educational philosophy and style. the United States showing a few cells kinds of features: a feature of the whole language environment is the dual language education system, that is, three general bilingual education in general. The second is that each philosophy of education, promotion of school to play, learn and play. hope that through such a way of teaching children a love of freedom, democracy and childhood. Third, the U.S. grid is initiated with the growth of children and parents, and parents to promote interaction between children, spent his happy childhood. from the inception to the present U.S. grid has been considered parents is in addition to another school outside the subject of education. U.S. grid has been convinced that the problem child, parents often question, from a certain perspective, education of parents of school children are equally important.
Moderator : Our teaching philosophy is to play a very important school, learn and play. For this teaching idea is to put forward? should be how to do it in practice?
Ma Teacher: We play school, play-based learning in children learning characteristics and the child's level of development, and children in this age of the characteristics embodied in the initiative. we can learn a lot of Canada's education system, Western education system is very stressed respect for the child's nature, the nature of the process of the children, games the child is actually the only reality of life. In other words, the child's life is his game during the process. If we want to educate their children, in fact, should conform to his level of development and age characteristics and his way of life to the way the game should be. According to the nature of the game children play with our proposed school, learn and play.
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Wang: Because of our high school play, learn and play is actually in the game to learn, to experience joy in learning.
our study and some other main mode of education in the learning process is to let the children learn what he needs to learn. First of all teachers in the education goals to be very clear, even in play, the teacher was very clear, through this What kind of game I want to achieve the learning objectives. For instance, we have regional activities so that children have the right to choose, let him go to his areas of interest inside the game. this game is in the child may appear to be a game, but which contains the fact that many of the value of education. teacher education goals based on his set some content in it, for example, when conducting a subject of teaching, may baby in the family, and perhaps this time our English and Chinese are kind of the theme of learning, the teacher will guide the children to deliberate, for example, to provide some advance on the table cause the child to imagine, to create situations articles. the child into the play which will begin later. In the course of the play he can learn a lot of things, such as the development of social skills, coordination among themselves how such a relationship, cognitive get some increase. If we are just in time, bilingual education, and he hopes the language will more he learned review. So, the children appear in the game, in fact, in the study. this process, we call it the school play, learn and play in the process.
Ma teacher: the entire process from several to reflect aspects of a teaching process in the above are based on the design of our all-day lives of their children's natural attributes of the design. For example, the design of the process of life, from the morning of admission, he began the game started. We learning process in the Learning Center, we provide them with a variety of materials. We provide a valuable approach to the child, for example, we teach children to fire, we will quietly inside the child placed a number of scientific areas materials, such as a bottle of water, a pot of sand, a glass, and some other things. next to put a kerosene lamp. The teacher will alcohol lamp lit, how they try to fire, in the process experience. experience the play in the process of operation. In the course of play to learn the process of fire.
second grid in the United States is concerned, after the Free Play, there is a focus on the children sit together and discuss the time, this discussion and not what the teacher told the children, but children together to discuss how this kind of things we want to solve. with the discussion, we have a feature is the group activities, to have the child we are talking about the operation extended to the back. as child with a variety of activities. kids choose buffet such activities as selection. He finished the event in the choice after most of the activity in the form of the game to achieve through the operation of teacher education purposes. For example, if we hope to children study measured, for example, recognize that you want your child is 12 meters long distances. at this time is concerned, the teacher has not got a very simple rule, opened the 12 meters to the wall. but the teacher selection a very meaningful context, so that when the children in the active discussions, the world's largest dinosaurs were long, the children through the search data, found 12 meters. the teacher using a variety of ways to get children experience 12 How long is the meter. The teacher divided the three groups, one group is slippers, how many slippers is 12 meters. The second is the building block and the third one is the chair. We put the same length of 12 meters, let the children think, 12 meters equals how many pairs of slippers, how many blocks, how many chairs.
in group activity, the children's meal time, meal process, we also put on the process of living and playing together. so between the United States have a time frame, we have every month, to give children a home-made meal time, the child will understand his own labor. In the following outdoor activities we have designed a lot of the way through the game to kids show. including the back of reading time, is more the child to life, natural way to show. Most of us will ask the children themselves speaking their favorite books, toys, things, to express it out, to express his emotions. So from the point of view, we learn and play, play school, on the one hand reflects the game of teaching methods, more often implied in our idea of the U.S. grid is very important, is how to provide children with consistent education the lives of his nature. because the child's life is a game, the game is life, both of which can not be separated, can not tell the child that the game time is game time, learning time is learning time, life time is life time. not the case, we tell children to the three-in-one.
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Moderator: The children are very happy in the here and free to learn something, do you not realize what he was in school, he is completely in the game, he will be very happy, for this pleasure can only be for children . We have not met the parents of the misunderstanding? he could not see what we are taught to the children, we let the kids happy, but not the contents of books, mathematics today and tomorrow to learn English. We have no textbooks , some parents may be more conservative.
Ma Teacher: So there is a characteristic of each feature is very important and parents grow together. We have never taught a course for parents that you parents how to be a qualified also be a very educational parents. In this process, China and the U.S. have a parent cell salon every month. parents park in the United States when the grid we will provide parents guide to illustrate our idea. At the same time, every months will be issued a small book for parents, parents continue to deepen the understanding of the concept of education.
MAG office park in the course of seven years, has experienced very difficult indeed adhere to this concept of the road, the beginning Many parents just join in when the child will not make any objection. because kids like the nursery, but once the children into age groups above the middle shift, most parents have some worries. feeling other kindergarten children in school this, learning that, why the kindergarten children are very happy most of the time to do all kinds of activities? but in the process, we learn the one hand, the U.S. grid design, the design of children's education process, not only only just playing. not play without a purpose, but the very purpose of the educational value inherent to the children play in daily life. this will play to the middle shift gradually over a results show, for example, the child will take the initiative to solve some problems, the child will take the initiative to open some books. the child will take the initiative to discuss with others. In this process, which is recognized by most parents of learning outcomes. Second, we will prompt parents of children with learning process, outcomes and process is what kind of relationship. particularly before the age of six, this outcome is far from impossible to estimate. children of education did not produce conflict on the lives of children have not been anxious mood. So from the perspective of MAG, we have been told the parents, the children before the age of six, he was more important development latitude, will be emotionally and socially. his interpersonal relationships, social interaction, ability to adapt to the difficulties with the way communication with strangers, in this regard will be interested. In this process, if you provide such a process of education, his education is bound to produce results.
If we define education, only books have not learned anything on, in fact, most of our kindergarten parents to understand education is higher than this. so we are pleased that our school has gone through so many years, we have attracted so many parents, we have the same group with We have this idea of the parents grow with us. If parents focus only on knowledge of the results, we analyze the one hand with their children in the process, for their future learning and how much development potential, on the other hand, we will use our school's performance in all graduates, regardless of the child showing what kind of state, if not achieved the kind of parents think that the state, these children in the learning process in the future will be even greater potential.
before we have a number of Taipan is very anxious parents. because every time to time in large classes, parents will allow children to preschool. We are the United States every year for primary school graduates cell tracking. fed back the results is that, we graduated from the U.S. grid graduates enter primary school will be showing several characteristics: first, very interested in learning, if a child from the heart of the study as their intrinsic motivation, he naturally will pay attention to the way teachers teach. Secondly, The child is very cheerful, self-confidence. when he has not something the people around him the courage to seek help, including teachers, principals. Third, the child is not in compliance with the only answer. There are many teachers like that students, when the teacher told him the answer, he would tell the teacher, I think not, I think what is what. so the teacher thought the child quite the creativity. we used this case back to the parents, the parents will be recognized by this idea . he will begin to understand, he chose a very scientific way for children to develop. So if a child into our nursery from the age of two until the age of six, I believe their educational philosophy and teaching methods will grow with us.
Click here to join the : Because we are philosophy of education MAG raised from 2002 to 2009, has been a very new concept, is also a very advanced concept. so our young link, also with us in the education of other age Like, in order to conform to the child's nature of their argument. because we raised the slogan of the U.S. grid is a child of the international schools. On the one hand we want with the international standards, but also integration with China's national conditions.
the face of China's current primary school enrollment status of graduates each year with our tracking and investigation, we regard the young convergence is not simply just the teaching, I like the pre-school special, like a section of the class to come on. We also put the young link In the children's learning and life to do. every child into primary school, there will be quite different. We believe that before the children enter primary school ready to do a good job, not just knowledge of the preparation, more importantly, the emotional and social aspects. According to this emotional and social aspects of the preparation, emphasizing the children before entering elementary school do a good job based on three aspects: first, the basis of motivation, the second, interest base, third, habits basis. If this child into the school before he came to enter primary school do not particularly strong desire to learn is not particularly strong desire. If parents say, if you do on the school, and achieved good results, my mother gave you this gift , that gift, it is very short stimulus. so we converge in the design of young concern for the establishment of intrinsic motivation children, concerned about the child's interest in learning, attention to children good study habits.
basic class of our simulation on September 1 from the large class, we will begin to show the form of classroom simulation. Simulation class is designed to allow children to teach the way of collective experience, just experience. Therefore, only one hour each week just let the children experience the time. In is simulated classroom, we will give them some experience, for example, pull them to primary schools to visit, telling them in another year you will like these as big brothers and big sisters. children are not tried all the things that are very curious. We raised a good child of the collective sense of class. So we will begin to simulate the classroom. We basically basically teaching will focus on some reading, literacy, mathematics, writing,. In addition, we start from 2006 We added some aspects of the English FONIX. simulated classroom teaching methods are often started from reading, because the U.S. grid with particular emphasis in literacy from reading, reading experience. triggered by reading a child's interest for the characters, causing children to read . by simulating the classroom literacy and language courses we hope to achieve this aim: let the children and parents to understand that literacy is not the purpose nor the purpose of reading, like reading is the purpose.
mathematics more of our emphasis on mathematics of life concept. the child to the large class after the interest in mathematics and the understanding of life, more volume, we will simulate a variety of classes presented to him on the mathematical scene, in the process of solving mathematical problems. we are young an increase of the classroom simulation convergence speed calculation part. For example, there developed in teaching addition and subtraction within 20, the speed of calculation, not for children to practice addition and subtraction math, more sensitive to the child's thinking is the exercise.
convergence aspects of young We provide the latitude is the second reading. We provide children to read a hundred books, of which twenty are teachers and parents and children read together, and the remaining eighty is child to read.
Third, we will provide in terms of convergence young social practice. the process of convergence in the young, and we will try to provide children with life, his motivation and the process of language learning, language and mathematics content. So we offer Some social activities include hiking, require that children can not sit any means of transport, half an hour walk with us. Second, we will bring the child to the supermarket, ten dollars to the children, let him ten dollars for five consecutive days to goes. exercise his financial and computing power. Third, we will design with the primary school visit and the friendship with the students. including a requirement for our graduate students before the reading is still in large classes with children about how much fun school and primary school problems may be encountered in the process.
Fourth, the daily habits of convergence. We demand that large classes of two students on duty to send their children to do every day reception. He has to face all the parents and the teacher said, Hello, welcome to MAG kindergarten. This is the exercise the child's self-confidence. We will ask the children into the large class, let him prepare a pencil box, let him learn to organize pencil boxes, books and newspapers.
addition to these, we in the United States There is also a writing course grid. The writing courses, we give children the operation was designed with a topic every day. This is a very playful, for example drawing the maze, along with a word of this figure, the majority of type of work the game. This job every night, we will ask the child home, finished. the next morning to the nursery to. the design of the job we ask children to write their own name, its own operations to be a judge . is for the children entering primary school for the sudden increase in psychological operations to have a good habit.
Finally, we will give kindergarten children's characters offer interesting projects, in fact, we designed a hundred Chinese characters, the hundred hundred stories behind the characters, the story children can read in the reading area. The teacher brought the child line up in the transition part of the time to tell the children to hear, let him on the origin and meaning of Chinese interest in him in primary school When there is a basis for learning.
the next part of the content is in English, which is unique MAG, MAG has been working for creating a bilingual education system. children enter primary school after the break, what kind of English do Please talk about Wang.
Wang: The U.S. grid is concerned, he's bilingual teaching is a very prominent feature, but also we have been pursuing one of the international section. We emphasize the teaching of English language learning not a goal, but let the child have an open international attitude, more exposure to different cultures, multi-cultural acceptance in a very young age. so our English is very unique, first of all we emphasize three half and half:
First, our teaching time is half Chinese, half in English.
Secondly, our teachers are the teachers in half on the Chinese, the other half are English teachers. including English teachers in China and foreign teachers teaching English together.
Third, our teaching courses above, our curriculum is also a theme of course. We may in the morning time is available in English in this part, in the other half in Chinese so we use a theme. For example, the theme of the spring, we are such a form.
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Wang: whether living or outdoor activities, all in English.
we there is also a convergence of young FONIX (audio) content, but also we try to do in recent years, more than two years came into contact with the child in English, until the rise to large classes, we believe that in many ways he has done enough prepared to enter into the literacy process. Therefore, we also used in Europe and America, mainly in North America, particularly popular way is called FONIX, translated into Chinese listening and reading is called the natural law. in this way is actually in use A native of the English way to make us like kids in China learn English.
in foreign countries, children do not learn phonetics, he is by FONIX to learn this way. So the children into the Intermediate When we started to recognize letters. when you enter the time in large classes, the teacher will lead them to learn in a different pronunciation of the letter inside a word, we will use a different metaphor, for example, the teacher will get a bell and let the children see what is ? kids would say that this is the bell, it will issue what kind of sound? a jingle bell sound. in a very systematic study after this, the children know, in the words inside, what each letter should be sent tone, when he saw such a word when spelling out the natural can. For example CAT, he naturally came out. So we converge in the young of the year, we will progressively guide the children from learn the basic elements of FONIX, until they can simply listening and reading three or four words, short sentences and then into the reading, or even a small book to read.
we are guided by the children in different ways on this content of interest. to be skilled to use, we have FONIX matching the content of teaching, teaching in the classroom. Meanwhile, we still read the content accordingly, we have some books, the teacher will take the children to read, These are very fun stories, so that children are very interested. At the same time, the children can take home these books to read together with their parents, on the one hand is to let them show their confidence in the results, and also in the continue to learn together with their parents, growing up in communication with the parents.
Ma Teacher: We hope that through this way from all aspects of life, before entering primary school from the child's physical, mental, for his ability to make a sufficient preparation. So said the preschool with the outside is completely different. most of the time, the process of our preschool, we will play by the normal exercise of the teaching to go.
Moderator: We are at the upper afternoons to create an environment for the children?
Wang: Yes. so we hope that we are pure English language environment for the children, we call it into English teaching. This is the first one originated in Canada teaching mode, after decades of research and follow-up survey of scientists to prove that it is a very good way of learning a second voice. So we will absorb the room. the so-called entry-type, that is when half the children inside, His first step into the nursery from the beginning to have entered into such an English environment inside, regardless of the teacher on his morning greetings to sign the part of the children, until his half-day teaching and living environment are all in English. this process have high demands on teachers. so we use the training through a variety of ways to achieve. but the child is concerned, he has immersed himself in the language environment, which, when prompted him to have the desire to learn. Meanwhile, we during the time course design is to provide children with a lot of links. In this process, we emphasize the purpose of learning English is not, but only learning tool, language is just a background. either English or Chinese, our study achieved through language learning. Therefore, we in bilingual teaching process, the whole purpose of teaching is very clear.
Moderator: I do not know if I have mentioned this problem parents, and we were completely the child into a language environment. Is it possible to speak Chinese because of the morning, afternoon, in English, may be confusing, leading to conflict with the child will have two languages, or accept too was not so good?
Wang : This is the question some parents. For children, two to three years in this age there is no mother tongue interference. as we adults learn language interference is very serious purpose. children have such a talent learn two languages. Our experience shows that these children will not be in chaos. When you give him create a pure language environment, they both told him in English, he could not be any expression, he was not conscious to the Chinese expression of the teacher to his back or English, he will be to adapt such an environment. When the period of time over, if he fully understood the contents of the teacher. so our teaching is the step by step spiral. After very detailed design. for children of different ages, we are not the same as the content of teaching. And the focus of teaching is not the same. For example, our child care classes is the accumulation of vocabulary so that children can correspond to the interest . But by the time we have large classes more focused on dialogue, the children's interest in reading, drama, expression, and so active. Different is not the same age. For the children concerned, because we give them language content is controlled, not to say that the age of two children into nursery which is a full-up English, he will be very confused. This is some of the characteristics of our program.
bilingual education for the U.S. grid for Our first in the curriculum and teaching in the form of a theme first. We themes in English and Chinese is more consistent. We also carry out five major areas to reach children learning objectives. this time, our English as a tool to use. s Second, we attach more importance to the learning of English in daily life. learn English is to use, in order to communicate. so we in everyday English, we have a month of different ages have to learn some of his statements. teachers Some will follow this statement to the children. In this process, the same things, like the toilet, the expression of different ages is not the same teacher. So in this process, children are as easy to accept, such as That said, the children of small age, PP, literally, the children to the toilet very understood. to a larger age, teachers must use complex language to the children. is a process of increasing circulation. < br> We also read the contents of some, every day we tell the teacher will be more stories to the children, we believe that the process of reading the story, the children most likely to learn some of life's everyday language. At the same time, we to a large age group, in addition to the story, there are the contents of drama, which is to create some opportunities for children to take the initiative to say. At the same time, we have fun cartoon time. so that children get in touch with some of the original cartoon, in this Children learn to process language expression. So the whole design is concerned, we are the children every detail of every day activities can make to express in English, so learning English is more daily life.
Click here to join ; group of kindergarten teachers in China species is the leading teaching and learning environment. Parents can be involved? because some parents may still not meet, or even if he got, he did not know how to adapt to our kindergarten education.
Ma Teacher: We the United States more than seven years in this grid form a characteristic, that is, the interaction with parents. From the perspective of kindergarten education now, the past is the nursery teachers, parents and also children. But now, with the improvement of the quality of people, in fact, many parents also There is also a very unique educational philosophy. He often does not understand education teachers worse than kindergarten. We hope to form a very interactive in the kindergarten parents relationship. So we have many parents and kindergarten interactive way. For example, every morning, and we In the evenings, our principal must be to stand in the doorway. principal every morning and evening welcome every child sent to kindergarten, parents can at this time there are many opportunities to talk about the principal of the kindergarten.
Second, we will monitor the daily communication with the parents of the time. Every day squad will take time to communicate with parents.
Third, we have a parent salon every month. Parents will focus on the last stage of selecting topic, please some well-known experts and relevant to parents who come to do presentations and discussions. The salon we also have a say in the parents of the parents speak. We started this year parent volunteer system, kindergarten parents to volunteer as a nursery volunteer, there are several aspects about the role: first, to participate in the work to the teacher's teaching, for example, share the role he can do, such as my husband is a soldier, is the study of the aircraft. He did Kindergarten a military and aircraft display area for the children a bit, showing the meaning and content of his uniform. Second, kindergarten parents can become a teacher's assistant, to help teachers manage nursery library, helping teachers with many teaching suggestions. s Third, the parent volunteers to plan the work of kindergarten and parents. For example, when the weekend, kindergarten to go out and make a very useful activities, the site selected, the production process, paid by parent volunteers all do. to So far, very active parent volunteers, and sometimes a lot of parents have a lot of complaints in kindergarten, but his real work in the kindergarten, he suddenly discovered that education is so complex, he would understand us better, and he is willing to Kindergarten children work together to participate.
Fourth, we have an open to parents, usually in the month we are open to parents last week week, every month. every parent can choose the time he came to the kindergarten, for example, if he wanted to see our Chinese language courses, English courses, you can register in advance booking, reservation is done, you can go directly to the nursery for observation. In the process of observation, he can choose to volunteer become a part of a leading teacher. For example, when parents open weeks, we will ask parents and children together to do an outdoor activity, he will design these outdoor activities. In this process, because the parents really participate in the work of kindergarten to , the parents and form a nursery with the door, not just a customer and service role. In this process, both with each other to guide, support and help each other, mutual understanding. Parents will be more accepted concept of kindergarten, kindergarten concept will also be more parents to accept, so that more children benefit.
Moderator: Will work to participate in the kindergarten parents demanding to do?
Ms Ma: No ...