How to Develop School-based Curriculum in Kindergarten

On how to develop kindergarten-based curriculum.

Kindergarten directors and kindergarten teachers

2019 June 16 Chairman of Huaxin Education Company

First, the meaning of kindergarten-based curriculum

What is a kindergarten-based curriculum? Kindergarten-based curriculum is based on laws, regulations and related policies, with the realistic environment and conditions of kindergartens as the background, the realistic needs of children as the starting point and kindergarten teachers as the main body. Refers to the kindergarten-based curriculum based on the reality of kindergarten and consistent with kindergarten resources and teacher conditions. Its purpose is to effectively guide children's healthy growth, form educational objectives, contents, ways and methods that conform to the development of kindergartens, and make education and kindergartens unique.

Second, the significance of curriculum orientation

1. Overcome many shortcomings of national curriculum:

(1) National curriculum is out of line with local educational needs.

(2) National curriculum is out of touch with kindergarten conditions.

(3) The national curriculum is out of touch with the current situation of teachers.

2. Reflect the advantages of kindergarten self-designed curriculum:

Skil Mike, an expert in curriculum theory, pointed out that "the best place to design a course lies in the place where students get along with teachers".

(1) The course has more local characteristics, which meets local needs and students' needs.

(2) Teachers can easily get job satisfaction and sense of accomplishment.

(3) Expand teachers' professional power.

(4) Improve teachers' interest in courses.

(5) arouse teachers' enthusiasm and provide opportunities to display their talents.

Third, the elements of curriculum construction

1. Topic sources and ideas

From the development of children, write down the design intention or theme source and design ideas.

2. Thematic framework network diagram

Preset network diagram: how to build a big framework and a small theme around the theme when the activity begins. Network diagram after combing the theme: with the in-depth development of the theme, combined with children's interests and needs, as well as various activities (generating activities) actually carried out, a perfect network diagram is compiled.

3. Environmental creation and display

Macro-environment: what community resources are around the theme and what park-level game areas should be established.

Class environment: which class game areas should be established, and the names, materials and tools of the game areas should be sorted out.

Class theme wall: which class theme walls are going to be built, and what large and small plates are there.

4. Specific activities

Game activities, life activities, sports activities and learning activities.

5. Observation, reflection and adjustment

It is presented in the form of observation records, case analysis and educational growth stories, with emphasis on evaluating the development of young children. Write out the advantages and disadvantages of this theme activity and suggestions for improvement so that other teachers can promote it.

6. Family education

What kind of home contact work is mainly carried out in this theme activity, and which needs the cooperation of parents.

Fourth, how to develop kindergarten-based curriculum construction?

The form of kindergarten-based curriculum construction: building a comprehensive curriculum with theme activities as the basic form.

(1) Determine the theme.

According to the actual situation of kindergartens and the overall situation of children, resources have been available to determine the theme.

(B) to build a class curriculum plan.

It mainly includes design ideas, class style, theme framework, district angle framework, evaluation and reflection, home and achievement. Among them, the most complicated is the specific content design in the framework, which can be started from the following aspects.

1. Curriculum integration

First: be familiar with garden-based resources. Children's experience, teaching materials, existing teachers' books, school resources (hardware conditions, environment), local characteristic resources (diet, culture, specialties, etc.). ), teachers' resources (skills and specialties), parents' resources (experience and information), etc.

Second, choose garden-based resources.

Excavate all the favorable resources of the park according to the theme.

Third, integrate the main contents of the course.

According to the principle of step by step and deepening around the theme, the selected garden-based resources are effectively combined to generate the main framework of the class curriculum. The specific content is divided into four sections: life, study, sports and games, and the contents of five fields are integrated into it.

2. Curriculum adaptation

According to the theme curriculum design, the form and concept of existing teaching materials are borrowed and adapted into the content needed in the theme.

3. Curriculum development

Expand the personalized content of kindergarten-based resources and increase the depth of the course.

4. The course has been added

In order to make up for the vacancy of subject course content, course addition enriches and supplements the course content through the network and borrows other people's resources to increase the breadth of the course.

(3) Set the regional angle.

According to the needs of the theme course, set the class corner and the garden corner. Garden-level corner mainly refers to the outdoor corner and functional room corner used in the whole park. Class angle is divided into characteristic angle and regular angle. The characteristic corner is mainly built for the content that needs to be expanded in the theme course content, and two or three characteristic corners can be built in each class. This feature can be a newly generated corner point, or a traditional corner point can be deepened in a certain way to become a feature corner point. Positive angle is commonly used in every class, which is suitable for some common angles of all topics. Such as: art design area, language area, building area, living area, etc. Each corner provides and adjusts the material according to the development of the theme. The content of corner activities is to serve the theme, study in groups, apply and deepen theme learning.

Effective use of parents' resources

1. Mining parents' resources.

According to the class theme, tap the effective resources of parents and extract a series of lists that parents can provide together.

2. Make parents willing to provide resources.

Introduce class activities through parent-teacher conferences, individual home visits, individual exchanges, etc., so that she can understand the benefits that resources bring to children, get recognition from parents, and let parents actively cooperate and support them.

3. Let parents provide resources.

If you have sexual needs, please ask parents to provide corresponding resources. Such as: vegetables and bamboo in corresponding seasons in rural areas, and exquisite cosmetic boxes provided by beauty salons in the town.

4. Let parents provide satisfactory resources.

Provide samples to let parents know how to operate and provide useful resources.

(5) Carry out class curriculum activities and constantly reflect and adjust.

According to the class curriculum plan to carry out the corresponding content, we should constantly reflect on it in orderly activities. Some plans may not be applicable, others may be extended, so we should adjust and change them according to the development of our children.

(6) process display.

Mainly through the theme wall and corner to reflect a series of changes in children's theme learning, such as: activity content, wonderful moments, results and so on. , can be reflected in photos, works, records and so on. During the exhibition, the contents of the exhibition should be carefully selected and beautifully displayed according to certain main lines, so that children can actively talk with the environment and develop in the interaction with the environment.

(7) Collection of results.

When carrying out a series of activities, it is necessary to collect them purposefully according to the preset results. Various forms, such as series photos, wonderful videos, children's songs, works, observation records, cases, reflections, etc. Collect and organize to form a class achievement resource package.

(8) discussion and sharing in the whole park.

Every link can be discussed in the whole park, with mutual discussion and suggestions, forming the crystallization of collective wisdom. The final results should be shared by the whole park, which is the nearest platform for * * * to share with learning and resources, and also the value of developing kindergarten-based courses.

Author: Jiang Yan (Guanyin Town Central Kindergarten, Yibin County, Sichuan Province)

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