Experiences on developing the habit of tidying up

People often say: "You see your age at the age of three." The famous saying of American educator John Cairns, "Habits form character, and character determines destiny" also strongly illustrates that the development of good behavior habits can help children throughout their lives. Lay a good foundation for healthy development. Once bad habits are formed, it will be more difficult to change them and more energy will be spent. Moreover, due to "generalization effects", they will develop carelessness and rough habits in the future. The new "Outline" also puts forward in the social goals: "Be able to work hard to do what you can, not be afraid of difficulties, and have a preliminary sense of responsibility." Therefore, as soon as the children enter our kindergarten, the teachers in our class have achieved educational consistency, Now let’s talk about our approach on how to cultivate good tidying habits in small class children in all aspects of the day’s activities.

1. Teachers should set good examples and children should imitate them subconsciously.

The "Outline" clearly states: "Words and deeds should be good examples for children to learn." Here, the role of teachers as a role model is very clearly emphasized. We are determined not to develop the habit of randomly placing teaching toys around due to the large number of teaching aids, operating materials, and waste items collected by kindergarten teachers, as well as the complicated work of kindergartens. Everyone supervises and urges each other and internalizes it.

For example, because of the characteristics of children at this stage, teachers are required to place items in a fixed position in the class, so that everyone knows the fixed position of the items, and stipulate "where to take it, where to get it" The teachers gradually followed the rule of "put it away and put it back after use." The teacher has good tidying habits. The cabinets, the piano, and the activity room are all neat and tidy. There are no unnecessary things. The children inadvertently pick up the tidying up and learn it subtly. Only by rectifying yourself can you rectify your children. It is obvious that children are easy to imitate. Otherwise, if the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked, it will not serve as a good example.

2. Children actively participate in environment setting and have deep memories.

In order to allow children to truly become the masters of the environment and make their impression more profound, guide children to actively participate in the creation of the environment. For example, in the math area, the children are guided into groups to put the designated teaching aids into the designated trays in an orderly manner, and then the children's personally organized teaching aids are placed in the teaching aid cabinet in the mathematics area according to their own wishes. Finally, the teacher helps the entire teaching aid cabinet. Photos are posted on the teaching aid cabinet for reference. In this way, since the teaching aids are sorted by myself and the teaching aid trays are put into the teaching aid cupboard by myself, and there are photos for reference, it is easy to put them away and put them back in place. Once, twice..., after many repetitions, the child's tidying up habit will be developed and internalized. The environment is also more purified and beautified. Looking at the refreshing and tidy activity room that we created by ourselves, every child shows a happy smile every day.

2. Establish rules and develop good habits.

Once you have a clean and orderly environment, you need to maintain it, and this is the most difficult. If teachers often preach, it will cause children to resent or blindly obey. The new "Outline" puts emotions and attitudes at the forefront as the most important aspects of children's development. It permeates "respecting wishes and meeting needs" and highlights the main spirit of "autonomy and self-confidence". Therefore, we advocate letting children establish their own rules and embody Education in daily life. If a child casually throws his coat on the table right after he starts doing exercises, I won't say anything. We are going to draw later, and now the children are chirping anxiously: Teacher, what should I do? There is no place to put the drawing paper or brushes? Why is the teacher's desk so messy? teacher……. At this time, I thought the time was ripe for guidance. I asked everyone a simple question for the children to think and discuss: What should they do with these taken off clothes? The children enthusiastically thought of many ways, and finally reached a unanimous opinion: fold the clothes casually after taking them off (at this time, I also taught the children a simple method of folding clothes in a timely manner: give it a hug, give it a hug. , bend down) and place it outside the pillow on your bed. Another example is to guide the children to discuss how to keep things tidy after eating. The children discussed how to clean the table after eating, put the bowls in a fixed position and stack them neatly, and put the spoons in the same bowl. Put the napkin in the basket. In daily life, I find opportunities with educational value and seize the opportunity of education. In daily life, I casually say, "Your folded clothes are so neat." The bed in the entire dormitory is neat; I say, "Your desktop is so clean." Afterwards, many children will tidy up their own desktops, tidy up the dishes, and some children will act as little teachers to remind other children. There are many and miscellaneous materials in the art area, so we guided the children to use their hands and brains to make stickers of one color on each plastic basket, and stickers of the same color were also placed on the corresponding positions of the cabinets. After the children's activities, put the toy boxes back into the cabinet of the same color according to the color, so that there will no longer be a phenomenon of not knowing where to put them. I think that only by respecting children, allowing them to actively participate in the establishment of rules, and constantly strengthening them can we help develop good habits. Moreover, the clean and orderly environment organized by the children themselves also gives them full confidence and a sense of success. In the process of habit cultivation, teachers' good educational wisdom and educational art have fully played their role.

3. Trust your children and do your own thing.

Mr. Chen Heqin pointed out: “Whatever children can do, let them do it; whatever children can think about, let them think about it.

"Children can do many things, but since we are teaching children in small classes, the teachers are always willing to do everything by themselves at the beginning, be cautious in everything, and protect the children under their own wings. After a while, I felt that folding clothes was too difficult. For a while, I felt that tidying up the activity venue would add chaos, but in the end, everything was taken care of. In fact, as long as you trust the children, let them do what they can. For example, if you guide several children to help move the table, the construction toys will be messed up. If a child doesn't know how to deal with it, remind him to ask a capable partner to "help you"... Trust is the prerequisite for doing a good job. Teachers should take back their worries, be their children's counselors, support their activities, and create everything. As long as the conditions are in line with the age characteristics of the children, I believe they can do well. Trusting the children and letting them organize themselves will not only reduce the teacher's workload, but also promote the development of children's abilities, and maintain a good teacher-child relationship and create

4. Continuously strengthen and internalize them

Children forming good behavioral habits in early childhood is an important step in ensuring their personality and mental health development. aspect. If some good behavioral habits can be strengthened in time in early childhood, it will help the child form permanent good habits in this area in the future, because the behavior of the child at this time is repetitive. Characteristics of sexual behavior: any behavioral habits are in their infancy in early childhood, and good habits are easy to develop, and some bad habits are easy to correct.

Skinner believes that most human behaviors are operational. Behavior, any learned behavior, is related to timely reinforcement. Therefore, children's behavior can be shaped or modified through reinforcement. The reason why children do something is to get the attention of adults. "If an adult immediately pays attention to a child's behavior after it occurs, such as praising or scolding, it will have a reinforcing effect. If a child has a bad behavior, such as an angry attack or being unreasonable, the adult can ignore it temporarily. Adopt "cold treatment" and exclude attention from children. The child's bad behavior will gradually subside due to lack of reinforcement. The only criterion for him to measure the appropriateness of his behavior

In practice, we found this phenomenon: a child finally received praise from the teacher for his good performance, but after a period of time, he was praised by the teacher. At this time, the child's performance is not so good. At this time, the teacher will be very disappointed and say to the child: "Look, just a few days after the teacher praised you, your old behavior is back. It seems that you are the same." This person cannot be praised. "Actually, this problem does not lie with the children, but with the teachers. The children are waiting for the teacher's second praise. However, the children wait and wait. In the end, they do not wait, and the children's good behavior cannot be strengthened as it should be. Of course, bad behavior will take the opportunity to rear its head. Can you blame the children? And many teachers will not realize that there is a problem with their own evaluation. Therefore, we believe that as a kindergarten teacher, we must not let the children down:: We must not let the children down. The expectations for encouragement cannot live up to the children's expectations for success, nor can they live up to the children's vulnerable hearts. At the same time, as a teacher, don't be stingy: don't be stingy with a smile of appreciation, don't be stingy with a word of praise, don't be stingy. With a kind touch.

The target of education is young children, and children have their own personalities. Each child has his own suitable way of strengthening. For example, some children like to be praised in public. , rewards, and some children like teachers' private encouragement; some children like teachers' verbal praise, and some children like teachers to give an approving look and a kind smile; some children like material rewards, and Some children like spiritual stimulation, etc. In addition, when using reinforcement methods, teachers should not only consider the children's personality, but also consider the age of the children in the choice of reinforcers. Different. For example, rewarding a candy is a very effective reinforcer for children in small classes.