Reflections on Reading Chen Heqin's Life Education

? Accompanied by a good book and dialogue with classics, I recently had the honor to read the book Living Education by Mr. Chen Heqin, which systematically expounded his educational thoughts. Although more than one hundred years have passed, it still has great guiding significance for us now. In the process of reading this book, I was moved by Mr. Chen Heqin's educational feelings, educational thoughts and persistence in education. I will talk about my understanding and feeling of the whole book from several aspects.

Looking for educational goals from Chen Heqin's life education priority thought

? Chen Heqin's book Living Education summarizes the educational thoughts of living education: three goals, seventeen principles, four steps and five-finger activities.

? First of all, Mr. Chen Heqin put forward three goals of "life education":

? 1. Be a person, be a China person and be a modern China person;

? 2. Nature and society are living teaching materials;

? 3. Learning by doing, learning by doing and making progress by doing.

? Next, Chen Heqin put forward seventeen teaching principles, which are the core part of "living education":

1. Children should be allowed to do what they can.

Children should be allowed to think independently about what they can think independently.

If you want children to learn, you should teach them how to learn.

4. Encourage children to discover their own world

5. Positive encouragement is better than negative sanctions.

6. Nature and society are our living teaching materials.

7. Comparative teaching method

8. Improve learning efficiency by means of competition.

9. Positive hints are better than negative commands.

10. Alternative teaching

1 1. Pay attention to the environment and make use of it.

12. Group study, * * * same research.

13. Teaching gamification

14. Storytelling teaching

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16. Children teach children

17. Precision observation

? Then it expounds the four implementation steps of "living education": first, experimental observation; The second is reading reference; Third, publishing and creation; The fourth is critical research.

Finally, the five-finger activity course of "living education" refers to children's health activities, social activities, scientific activities, artistic activities and literary activities.

Our usual education may only be the goal of an educational activity, and it may be the goal of a semester or even a school year. However, after reading this book, it seems that we have set a great goal for our education, which is also a very practical goal, that is, to cultivate China children who keep pace with the times in the new era and explore children-centered life-oriented teaching materials. When a person has a big goal in mind and connects it with the future of the country and the nation, the education we do is meaningful.

Thought is the forerunner of action, and action is the expression of thought. After having a big goal, the educational principles and material activities put forward by Mr. Chen Heqin build a small goal framework for us to help us implement small goals on these frameworks. Therefore, whether as a director or a front-line teacher, as long as you are an educator, this book is like a beacon of smooth sailing in Qian Fan, guiding us in a clear direction.

From the educational principles shared by Mr Chen Heqin, we have a clear understanding of life education. The content is concise and straightforward, and it is easy to understand through examples. Every article is worth pondering, and every article is worth reading repeatedly and drawing the essence from it.

? 1. Learn to observe children. In the book, Mr. Chen Heqin mentioned the word "observation" many times. In Article 17 of the Principles of Education, he specifically proposed accurate observation, observation of educational phenomena and observation of children's behavior. In addition, Mr. Chen Heqin has followed and observed his eldest son Chen Yiming for 808 days. Since the birth of the child, he has carefully observed and experimented with the child's physical and mental changes and responses to various stimuli day after day, made detailed written and photographic records, and wrote "Research on Child Psychology" and "Family Education". As a teacher, observing children is a basic ability. Short-term observation, continuous observation and follow-up observation can help us understand children more deeply and interpret the reasons behind behaviors, just as doctors can only prescribe the right medicine by looking at the essence through the reasons, and only by sinking down can they teach students in accordance with their aptitude and give correct guidance.

? 2. Be good at using live textbooks. Nature is a living teaching material, the change of four seasons, colorful sky, orderly driveway and strange sleeping posture of animals, all of which contain knowledge and philosophy. Nature is our best teacher. Nature is full of living teaching materials, and nature is our textbook. We should open our eyes and observe it carefully, and extend our hands to study it carefully. As far as our activities in five fields are concerned, each of them can be combined with nature. In fact, the use of this kind of living teaching material puts forward higher requirements for teachers. Teachers must understand and know when teaching young children. Therefore, they need to make more preparations, dabble in knowledge at ordinary times, and learn to be a living teacher who can teach living textbooks.

3. Summarize the laws of education. Both Mr. Chen Heqin's educational law and Freud's law on children's mental development are worth learning. In the process of implementing education, we should also sum up the laws of education in time so that education can be traced, such as grasping the age characteristics of middle-class children and starting to complain in peer communication. If we master this law, we can realize it and deal with it in time. For example, Osaka children's awareness of competition is enhanced, and we can add competition links to game activities to satisfy their competitive desires and improve their participation in activities. Being good at summing up the laws of education can make education easy.

Awaken the initial heart of education from Chen Heqin's exploration of preschool education

? At the back of the book, there is a kindergarten teacher in the pine forest who tells the story of Mr. Chen Heqin's hard and indomitable way when he founded the school. There is a passage in the book: From 1944 to 1945, the experimental kindergarten in Jiangxi, which was founded by Chen Heqin himself, experienced two relocations because of the Japanese occupation of Jiangxi. I moved from Taihe to Ganzhou for the first time, and then Ganzhou was in danger. The authorities ordered the school to be dissolved immediately. Only the kindergarten teacher decided not to dissolve. Chen Heqin said: "I am the principal of a school. I will take my students with me. Even if I beg, I will never leave one." He led more than 200 teachers, students, employees and their families. After many hardships, he moved to Ganzhu Township, Guangchang County and founded a new kindergarten again. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Heqin applied to the Ministry of Education to move the national kindergarten teachers to Shanghai, but it was not approved. So he wrote an open letter from Shanghai to his classmates who stayed in Jiangxi. He said in the letter: "I am your client, and I am willing to carry a camel for you in the desert. I will try my best to find an oasis for you to rest, study, work and develop. As long as I exist, I will not slack off in education. " After reading this article, I have been thinking about what drives Mr. Chen Heqin to never back down in the face of difficulties. This should be his initial educational intention, an educational intention to devote himself to the national education. Whenever I think about this, I think of Zhang Guimei and Zhang Yugen around me. The reason why they persist in education is that their initial educational intention still exists in the new era and still needs to be adhered to.

Exploring the way of growth from the content of Chen Heqin's preschool education

The growth of teachers is the first step to promote the development of early childhood education. What enlightenment does this book have for our teacher growth?

And then what?

1. Learning ability. Before putting forward life education, Chen Heqin had deeply studied Dewey's and Montessori's educational thoughts and studied in the United States. Finally, he put forward the thought of life education according to China's reality. When he founded the school, in order to save money, he began to learn building materials. Mr. Chen Heqin has been on the road of continuous learning all his life. As a new era, with the rapid development of information and the continuous innovation of education, we need to accept new knowledge with a learning attitude and cultivate children in the new era with new ideas.

2. Research ability. Research is an important way to promote teachers' professional development. As researchers, teachers need comprehensive abilities such as observation, reasoning, induction, speculation and summary. Teachers should learn to study children, textbooks, teaching methods and learning methods. In this regard, Mr. Chen Heqin put forward many research methods, such as group research, comprehensive research and so on. I believe that in the process of research, our professional quality has made a qualitative leap in imperceptible influence.

? 3. Integrate theory with practice. Cars have wheels to keep moving forward, and good ideas can spark enthusiasm. Under the influence of Chen Heqin's life education thought, how to put children's ideas into daily life, how to apply life education methods into classroom activities and how to apply life education implementation methods into practice needs to be summarized in continuous practice.

If you get a good book, if you get a treasure, this book will bring me more than that, because every time you read it, you will have a new understanding and feeling. I hope it can accompany you and me on the road of education and become the source of our inspiration.