Love is the soul of preschool education workers

Zhang Yingjie, No. 2 Kindergarten, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province 075000 Tel. 2032059

As a preschool teacher in the new era, you must not only learn Teaching is more important than educating people. Love is the soul of early childhood education workers. Deep love means respecting, understanding, and being kind to children. Care and responsibility are an organic unity. Love does not mean indulgence, nor does it mean unconditionally meeting all unreasonable demands of children. Strict demands are themselves love. Love and understanding are the entry points of our early childhood education work. We believe that "only in an atmosphere of love can children gain a sense of security and satisfaction, and thus be inspired and feel trust." The premise of educating young children is love. Only with love can there be understanding, with understanding can there be tolerance, and with tolerance can children with different personalities be accepted. Teachers' professional ethics requires that we love children with a broader love that is higher than maternal love and a love dedicated to every child. It requires us to "accommodate both the good and the bad", recognize differences, face them squarely, teach students in accordance with their aptitude, and strive to make Each child achieves a leap on his own basis, and various abilities are developed, so that joy and success accompany every child every moment, and teachers also realize their personal value through dedication. As the saying goes, there are no bad children, only bad education. It may be easier to care for children with a loving mother's heart, but in real work, we often need to care for children who do not understand our work for a while, or even misunderstand their parents. This is even more difficult. It requires us early childhood education workers to have a noble ideological realm, but it is difficult to achieve otherwise.

Three years ago, our class received a child named Xiao Lei. When he entered the kindergarten, although Xiao Lei was more than one year older than other children in the class, his language development lagged behind and he was in the learning stage. In the imitation stage of language, he cannot distinguish person, time, and space when speaking, cannot express his wishes clearly, cannot talk or play with peers, is self-isolated, and is overly attached to adults. When the teacher does not organize activities for children, he grabs the teacher. The hem of his clothes never left his side.

When the teacher was organizing teaching activities in the class, he would either wink, scream, run around, roll around, or keep talking about what he had learned from the TV. If the teacher doesn't pay attention to the advertising slogans he has learned, he will run outdoors casually. For this reason, we have modified the door latch three times in our class, but to no avail. After changing the front door, he ran through the back door. During outdoor activities and games, he was not gregarious, stayed away from the group, and kept to himself. No matter what the teacher said, he ignored it. I go my own way. As a young child, he had no sense of safety, no self-protection ability, and no self-control ability at all. He often launched unexpected and unprepared attacks on children in the class, and often destroyed the environment and facilities inside and outside the class at will. He made no apology for the negative consequences of his actions. For this reason, the teachers in the class have put in unimaginable hardships in their work, but it is still difficult to gain the recognition and understanding of Xiaolei's parents.

Xiaolei's behavior of going his own way has involved a lot of energy from the teachers in the class. The normal education and teaching activities in the class have been seriously disrupted. The learning, life and safety of other children will not be guaranteed. The accident Hidden dangers always exist, and other parents of young children in the class have opinions. Facing a group on one side and extremely special individuals on the other, we feel pressure and helplessness that we have never experienced since we started teaching. what to do? According to past practice, we can definitely return the child on the grounds that "the child is not adapted to collective life." But every time we are about to make such a decision, we still hesitate. We know that an excellent early childhood education worker should accept every child with "understanding and tolerance" so that they do not lose the opportunity to receive education. However, acceptance means doubling down on effort and dedication. After a fierce ideological struggle, the sense of responsibility and mission of the people's teachers has prompted us to strengthen our beliefs and face difficulties. We are willing to cast our dedication and love in ordinary positions and spread our hard work and sweat in the hearts of children. Because, we deeply understand: "The great profession of teachers is the most glorious and sacred profession under the sun. What it needs is a large number of hard-working dedicated people with both ability and political integrity. It takes ten years to cultivate trees and a hundred years to cultivate people." The specific connotation of profession determines that we should be like burning candles throughout our lives, with an open mind of light and dedication. Once we are involved in it, the spirit of dedication will definitely become the station and main theme of life."

Regarding Xiao Lei, a special child, first of all, we communicated with Xiao Lei’s parents many times to understand the details of the child and family, as well as his childhood living environment. Through understanding, I learned that because the child was born with dystocia, the parents took great care of the child. They were unprincipled in educating the child. They dared not give the moon to the stars. In addition, the child's language development was delayed and he did not start speaking until he was four years old. Because his parents are concerned with saving face, they rarely let him have contact with the outside world and children of the same age, so his activities are limited to parents, adults, and television. Due to the narrowing and closing of the scope of activities, coupled with parents' improper education methods, excessive spoiling and accommodation are the reasons for children's willfulness, isolation and autism. To address the root of the problem, we developed an individual education plan.

(1) For this special child, our class held class meetings many times. At the meeting, the teachers in the class unified their thoughts and understandings, taught morality, dedication, responsibility, and counterpoint thinking. With the theme of "If this is my child, what should we do?", they thought from the counterpoint of the role, To deeply feel the mood of being a parent of young children at this moment. Then we held a parent-teacher meeting of special significance to gain the understanding and support of other parents of young children in the class. At the meeting, we reported to parents in detail the work of the first month of school and the detailed situation of each child after entering the kindergarten. We gave detailed answers to questions that parents were generally concerned about. He also told his parents that Xiao Lei’s situation is an individual difference. As preschool education workers, we have the responsibility not to let every child miss out on educational opportunities. Our class has formulated an individual education plan and strives to be “knowledgeable and good at teaching” so that Xiao Lei can Gradually get rid of bad habits and integrate into the group as soon as possible. We hope that parents will understand and support our work. At the meeting, our families reached a mutual understanding. The parents not only expressed their support for our work, but were also moved by our good professional ethics and dedication.

(2) Recognize differences and teach students in accordance with their aptitude. Days and nights, we have repeatedly studied and deliberated on every detail of individual education, never letting go of any opportunity for education. After a period of observation, we found that although Xiaolei’s behavioral abilities and language expression were lagging behind, and many of his practices were puzzling, when playing with construction toys, Xiaolei was very focused, serious, and good at conceiving. After putting together his works, he Extremely excited, but limited by language development, he cannot express himself well. He often runs to the teacher and says: "What is this?" When the teacher told him that it was like an airplane or a car, he was very excited and would often play in his seat for a long time. After discovering the child's shining point, we gave timely praise and affirmation. In daily life, we found that Xiao Lei often damaged toys, destroyed the well-arranged environment in the garden, corridors, and classes, and often actively attacked children. As time went by, after careful observation, we discovered the problem. The reason is that Xiaolei was autistic at home and did not play with the children after coming to the kindergarten. But when he was involved in the lives of the children in the kindergarten, he began to tentatively want to get into the children and integrate into the group. However, due to language The obstacles cannot be expressed, so they destroy the environment and attack their peers, hoping to attract everyone's attention. So we started looking for some older children to play with Xiao Lei, accompany him to the bathroom, help him tie his shoelaces, etc. We were pleasantly surprised to find that Xiao Lei’s behavior of attacking children and damaging the environment has decreased, so the children Stay away from him, and then take the initiative to approach him, care about him, and love him. He also gradually eliminated his defensive mentality, reduced the number of times he actively attacked children, and slowly got rid of his bad habits of damaging toys and destroying the environment. From being alone and going my own way, I became able to hold hands with children, began to calm down and watch children's activities, and gradually transformed into actively participating in some educational and teaching activities in the class. From this we feel: "Love is understanding, love is tolerance, love is acceptance, love is dedication, thereby achieving spiritual communication." Children come from families with different professions, different social backgrounds, and receive different levels of education. They have unclear concepts of right and wrong, and often do some puzzling and ridiculous things. We cannot treat children with adult standards of right and wrong and only criticize them. No, only when we enter the inner world of children can we find the golden key to open their hearts.

(3) Let Xiaolei fully feel the warmth of collective life, the true feelings of his peers, and the care of teachers, which is another entry point for our work.

When Xiao Lei entered the kindergarten, he was very picky about food. He did not eat vegetables and only ate meat. Whenever he ate stuffed rice, dumplings, fried noodles, fried noodles, etc. in the canteen, the teacher always went to the canteen to adjust the variety of food for him. He loves to eat meat, and often grabs meat, intestines, shrimps and other delicious food from children's plates, which arouses strong dissatisfaction among the children. After the teacher's patient and meticulous education, Xiao Lei gradually got rid of the bad habit of grabbing other people's food. , sometimes children take the initiative to give him some of his favorite food after serving meals. Seizing this favorable opportunity, we affirmed the children's love and education and educated Xiao Lei: "The children care about you, and you should also learn to care about the children. Don't fight with the children, and don't steal the children's food and toys." In the atmosphere of love, Xiao Lei slowly changed. He no longer monopolized toys and snatched food from others. He was also able to help teachers and children with whatever work he could. Deep inside, the desire to be a good child arose. What he often said at the time was: "Teacher Xiaolei, are you good? Praise me quickly." We gave timely praise to the child's subtle changes to strengthen his sense of self-service and his willingness to serve the collective and peers, and enhance his His self-confidence and sense of responsibility allow him to fully feel the joy of loving and being loved.

I remember that one evening in mid-June 2002, I had a heart attack. After taking medicine, I lay on the bed in the child's bedroom. At this time, the whole class of children They all gathered around anxiously, and Teacher Wen had to take the children to the activity room first. When Teacher Wen asked Xiao Lei to go out, Xiao Lei refused to go out despite saying anything. He held my hand and kept crying, And he put a small blanket on my body. When he found that the cover was not tight enough, he took another piece to cover me, "He kept saying, 120, hospital." At that time, my tears of joy and excitement couldn't stop flowing down. I held Xiao Lei's little hand tightly and said, "Thank you, kid." Xiao Lei was very excited at the time and said, "You're welcome, Teacher Zhang." An indelible impression has been left in the long river of my memory. This is the fruit of our careful cultivation, and this is the return of love. This is a compliment to an educator. Isn't it?

In the past three years, through our extraordinary dedication and dedication, Xiaolei has made remarkable progress. In an atmosphere of understanding, trust and respect, Xiaolei has grown up happily, experiencing the joy of success all the time. The parents were delighted with our work and expressed their heartfelt gratitude and affirmation. From incomprehension when I first entered the kindergarten, to understanding, and to sincere gratitude, I wrote letters of praise to the principal many times, praising our work. When the kindergarten graduated, we were cordially invited to dinner many times, but we politely declined them one by one. . I once remembered the educator Tao Xingzhi’s famous saying, “Come with a heart in hand, and go without half a blade of grass.” Time will tell everything. With the charm of our personality, we finally won the trust of parents, the love of children, and the kindergarten. Leadership’s affirmation. Although we have put in a lot of work in the past three years, we have also been highly praised and recognized by the leaders of the park. In the past three years, except for the SARS epidemic last year, there was no evaluation in the park. Our class group won the title of "Advanced Class Group" in the park for two years. . "The career of flowers is sweet, and the career of fruits is precious, but we are still willing to do the career of leaves. The career of leaves will never be earth-shattering, but it is this humble green leaf that makes the flowers gorgeous and the fruits The glory of the human body lies in dedication. Since we have chosen the profession of teachers, we must work selflessly with the spirit of Spring Silkworms, the character of Candles, the state of dedication and selfless dedication