Ten days have passed since the acceptance inspection. During these ten days, we have passed many kindergartens, including rural kindergartens with rural characteristics, urban kindergartens with complete facilities, and private kindergartens with a long history.
Among the kindergartens promoted through this evaluation, how do I feel about interpreting the evaluation standards? How to highlight the characteristics of the garden? How to organize data scientifically? It is the key point for the success of promotion. Moreover, my biggest feeling is that the principal’s ideas, overall planning ability and work plan are very important. When a principal is thoughtful and creative, the environment in the kindergarten, the ideas for running the kindergarten, the spirit of the teacher, or the activities of the children will be full of agility. Therefore, this also verifies the famous saying “A good principal is a good kindergarten”.
The former Soviet educationist Suhomlinsky once said, "A good principal is a good school." For kindergartens, "a good principal is a good kindergarten." This is also the favorite saying of several of our acceptance members during this acceptance process. This is enough to show that the principal’s ideological positioning and value guidance are crucial to the development of kindergartens.
So, what qualities should the director have in the development of the kindergarten?
The principal is the leader in the development of kindergartens
The key to the development of a kindergarten depends on the principal; the key to the development of a kindergarten is a good principal. The principal is the soul of the kindergarten, and the cultural atmosphere is the same as his thoughts. From my own perspective, as a principal, I need to be passionate and thoughtful in my work, actively participate in the development of the kindergarten with an innovative spirit, and give strength to the work of teachers. As a principal, you must study and think hard, use your own thinking on education to form advanced and unique kindergarten concepts, scientifically plan and lead the development of the kindergarten, and give the kindergarten direction. As a principal, you must pursue unremittingly and persistently, calm down and work carefully and concretely, without wavering or tossing around, so as to give the kindergarten strength.
The principal’s true leadership of the kindergarten is value leadership. The principal should bring out the spirit and quality of the kindergarten, thereby forming the brand of the kindergarten. The brand can establish the image of the kindergarten, the brand can unite the morale of teachers, and the brand can promote the development of the kindergarten. Only when kindergartens achieve brand development can they truly highlight their value and be full of vitality and vitality.
The principal is the designer of kindergarten development
As the ancients said: "If you don't have long-term worries, you must have immediate worries." As a leader and decision-maker of a kindergarten, you must have a far-reaching vision. , it is necessary to design a grand blueprint for the development and future of kindergartens, to set up short-term development and medium- and long-term development plans, and to gradually implement them through a variety of measures until the plan is completed and the expected goals are achieved.
The principal is the implementer of kindergarten development
What is sometimes lacking in education is not ideas, but the methodology for implementing the ideas. Education needs to be guided and implemented.
The principal should focus on making activities more effective. Currently, kindergartens have many regular activities, including daily regional and outdoor activities, activities to celebrate Children's Day, and graduation ceremonies to send off children. To a certain extent, there is not much difference between doing or not doing, but what matters is whether there is effect and value. Effectiveness is the basis for educational activities. We must continue to innovate the activities we carry out every day and every week, make them practical and achieve results.
The principal should highlight the connotation and provide cultural guidance. What an outstanding principal cultivates is spirit. Culture is a kind of permeation and infection that can only be understood but not expressed in words. The characteristic of kindergarten culture is its unique cultural heritage, which is the core value and spirit formed by history. The development of kindergartens ultimately depends on the guidance of culture. Only with excellent kindergarten culture can there be excellent kindergartens.
The director must persist in highlighting the characteristics. Characteristics are not special, and characteristics do not mean that others do not do what we have done, but that a certain job or a certain aspect of the job is better and more perfect than others. Characteristics are persistence in work, characteristics are the accumulation of routines, and real characteristics should reflect the essence of education. Education needs innovation, but innovation does not mean changing its essence, but rather adhering to its essence and innovating methods to make it more consistent with the essence. Therefore, do not rack your brains to think about features, but calm down and do your best to do practical things and do the most fundamental things. You cannot be special for the sake of being special, but build your own characteristics. Only in this way can you have the most connotative characteristics. The most meaningful features, the most essential features, and the most vital features.
Facts tell us that characteristics reflect the philosophy of running a kindergarten and the principal’s inheritance of kindergarten culture. Therefore, when we create the characteristics of a kindergarten, we must be different from the so-called “specialty training”. Characteristics are a main thread, which must run through the entire process of kindergarten work. It cannot be passed down in a flash, but must be passed on unremittingly, so that characteristics can truly become the soul of the kindergarten and running a characteristic school become the brand of the kindergarten.
Mr. Tao Xingzhi said in the article "The Whole Principal": "The country has handed over the whole school to you, and requires you to use your whole heart to be the whole principal." This is the principal of the school. The heavy responsibility that one bears.
I hope every principal can become the soul of the kindergarten and fulfill his mission and responsibility!