Zhengdong New District, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province Integrate regional resources and innovative education governance -focus on courses and let the young "nature" connect

In the "Baicao Garden" of the experimental kindergarten of Zhengdong New District, Zhengzhou City, the teacher followed the children's footsteps to explore the mystery of nature. Photo by Xu Lin

■ Focus on young science connection

"To allow kindergarten children to enter primary schools, just like elementary school students who have transitioned without traction and natural connection. The understanding and attention of connecting "connecting" has allowed Zhengdong New District to walk at the forefront of the province's 32 young junction experimental areas.

As the first batch of young junior connection experimental zones in Henan Province, Zhengdong New District has gone through one year of exploration and practice. The district is based on optimizing the educational ecology, integrating regional resources, innovative regional education governance, focusing on curriculum construction, and promoting young connections in the region throughout the district, the entire discipline, whole subject, full element, and whole process, and has embarked on the road of unique young connection.

Based on children, find the starting point of young connection courses

"Many kindergarten teachers teach their children to hold the pens are irregular. It is difficult to correct it in elementary school." "Some children will not organize schoolbags when they first have the first grade. "... Talking about the situation of the child's situation when the young launch was promoted, many primary school teachers vomited bitter water when they were promoted to elementary school.

For a long time, the information barriers between young children have made kindergartens and primary schools fighting each other. Park schools have been studying more problems such as splitting and changing young life. Where should I break through these problems? The answer given by Zhengdong New District is to make the course a starting point and set a transition bridge for the young.

"Doing a good connection, the engine is administrative, the key lies in teachers, but the core is on the course. Because of the purpose and requirements of young scientific connection, you must use course construction to truly implement and make practical results." Zhang Ligang introduced.

How do young children connect science? What kind of course is a good connection course? The Zhengdong New District organized the kindergarten and primary schools in the district to form the five major small schools, and they went in two ways to start the prelude to the reform of the young school connection curriculum.

Based on children's position, Zhengdong New District Longzi Lake Elementary School adopts theme game observation method, picture analysis method, and the children's questionnaire survey method under the assistance of parents to understand the true needs of children in children's connection and lay the foundation for curriculum reform.

The corresponding collaborative park of Longzi Lake Elementary School, Longzi Lake Kindergarten, is a problem -oriented, set up a special action group for young school connection to conduct self -examination from the course goal to curriculum evaluation, and a comprehensive investigation of children who just entered elementary school, focusing on " Four preparations "re -examine the existing course settings.

The blue sky, white clouds, rockets, planes ... Entering the Kunlihe Elementary School in Zhengdong New District, all kinds of models on the first floor corridor are dazzling. Unlike the rules and simplicity of traditional elementary school classrooms, the school's first -year classroom class has a theme, showing and showing, and is loved by students.

"In order to make the environment closer to the kindergarten, we invite the collaborative park -the backbone teachers of the experimental kindergarten of Zhengdong New District to communicate with the school. With their help, the school gradually established the" classroom arrangement of children'sization, cultural promenade life, routine, and routine Manageing flexible and curriculum implementation principles of young connection courses. The familiar environment makes children full of longing for elementary schools. "Meng Xiaoli, president of Kunli River Elementary School, told reporters.

Two -way force to create a young connection curriculum system

"In the connection between our district, we are committed to grasping kindergartens to the" primary school "and primary school 'zero starting point teaching', improve the school courses, build transitional activities, and open a parent course to achieve effective connection." Zhengdong New District Education Education Li Yanxia, ​​the person in charge of the Junior Connect of the Cultural and Sports Bureau, told reporters.

Entering Zhengdong New District Experimental Kindergarten Teacher's Office, a thick large class and young connection series of curriculum resources are particularly eye -catching. 4 major themes, 16 sub -themes, hundreds of activity courses, each corresponding to one connection goal, can be called it "The Children's Children's Treasures".

"We named" from Baicao Garden to Sanyi Bookstore "to these young school -connected curriculum resources. Introduce.

In order to improve the quality of young connection courses, Zhengdong New District Experimental Kindergarten relies on the existing courses of large classes, constructs the theme activity course of the young school, and adopts the form of large -themed leadership and small theme promotion. Barriers provide multiple channels for children's learning and development.

In the past, most of the junior connection work was mainly kindergarten, and elementary school enthusiasm was not high. In order to let the primary school really participate, the innovation of Zhengdong New District implemented the "connection collaboration group, primary school as the team leader" model, which greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of primary schools. All primary schools in the region have taken action to build a transitional activity course to achieve two -way connection.

All -grade teachers in Longzi Lake Elementary School participated in the construction of young school connection courses. Based on the laws of children's physical and mental development, they built the characteristics of kindergarten and primary school education. adapt.

In order to guide parents to change their concepts, eliminate anxiety, and support and participate in young connection work, Zhengdong New District Education and Culture Bureau conducted targeted parent courses. "A 30 -person -size -sized family education lecture group has been established in the district, providing a‘ point -style ”young school education course for primary schools and kindergartens in the district." Li Xiaoyang, head of preschool education in Zhengdong New District Education and Sports Bureau, told reporters. "The kindergarten stage, including most of my parents, neither wants to put pressure on their children, but also worried about other children's children 'grabbing'. Seeing that children in the neighbor will recognize words and write, we are inevitable. Parents' classrooms and districts about lectures on the connection between young are no longer as anxious as in the past. "Zhengdong New District Experimental Kindergarten Da (7) Children Ma Haoyang's mother, Ma Haoyang, is a microcosm of the results of the junior connection work in the district.

Double teacher class, explore the new style of joint teaching and research

In order to improve the joint training mechanism of the park and promote the effective implementation of the young connection courses, Longzi Lake Elementary School and Longzi Lake Kindergarten have established young teachers community, exploring the "dual -teacher system" teaching and research model, and forming a new state of young children's connection classrooms.

Double teacher follow -up experience, primary school teachers go deep into kindergarten, follow the class experience of kindergarten life for at least one day, and understand the differences between children in kindergarten and elementary school in all aspects. Offline and online training community to solve the problems in the process of young connection in a timely manner; double teachers coordinate class, and the experimental park (school) conducts an offline theme course training for one month.

"Formed with me the 'dual -teacher system' teaching and research combination is the teacher Yu Xuanjun of Longzi Lake Kindergarten (2) Teacher. The characteristics of children to better optimize the content and form of teaching. "Just sent a group of sixth grade students to first contact the first grade children. With the help of teaching and research, she is now handy about the first grade.

Zhang Chunmei, the director of the Longzi Lake Kindergarten, told reporters that in the "Double Teachers" teaching and research, the two universities follow the principle of "three fixed together", that is, regular, fixed teachers, class, and themes. Primary school teachers walk into kindergartens. Experience the difference between the teaching methods of elementary school and kindergarten to enhance the familiarity of elementary life.

In addition, Longzi Lake Elementary School and Longzi Lake Kindergarten also innovatively carried out the four -in -one co -teaching and research of the home and school community. Through the combination of online and offline combination, all kindergartens and primary schools in the community were invited to work together Participate and explore the curriculum mode with regional characteristics, and promote the connection of the young in the global, comprehensive, and in -depth promotion.

After nearly a year of exploration, Zhengdong New District's young connection work has achieved obvious results. The pilot park (school) in the area has increased from 10 to 30; more than 180 research results of young connection in each park (school) are produced.

"Over the past year, the concept of young scientific connection in Zhengdong New District has spread to the hearts of every kindergarten and young children of young children. Next, we will further improve the work mechanism of the young school connection, adhere to the pilot demonstration, and promote it in layers to ensure that this fall is fully promoted to enrollment this fall. Prepare and adapt to education, "Zhang Ligang said. (Reporter reporter Zhang Lijun correspondent Fang Hui)

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