put sheep out to pasture " With " give a special mess " (1)
–Combine with Chinese and Western styles
The loose educational environment of the school, has offered the space of development of freedom to child. To me, do not appreciate blindly American primary school " puts sheep out to pasture " The education of the type, but seize the opportunity to open " the special mess " .
I appreciate U.S.A.’s primary school education is open, loose and act on one’s own, treasure, develop the advantage of China’s traditional education. Train in the appropriate question sea, possess better " take an entrance examination " The ability can’t be ignored, " take an entrance examination " The ability is a kind of very important quality too in a sense. Utilize and develop intelligence and the most valuable childhood for the creative thinking, make the best use of time, take the lead in " get up to run " ,This kind " combines with Chinese and Western styles " Method successful wonderful recipe.
The daughter often says to me, the school of U.S.A. is better than that of China, it is to play to go to school, not studying a lot of things as the kindergarten of China, studying will not punish well.
The school of U.S.A. and the making a world of difference of China, Mrs. Wayne never embarrasses the children, she lets everybody play in the classroom easily. For example, let the children cut various forms out with the paper of color. Can cut a flower, and then write or draw to the children and think the interesting thing, stick arrive heavy paper of piece them, next door write flower (spend) ,Bird (bird) Wait, write one’s own name, even if finish a copy of homework. Unless what is interesting is, look like no matter the patterns something those,as,Wayne Mrs., always in sticking by pieces of starses light. The daughter tells me, this expresses good. What is interesting is, cut into a round with a piece of yellow paper, stick on the paper, no matter mark out it is sun, moon, gives and sticks to a star. The American teacher is really funny, in any case, encourage first. However, if add several more a piece of lines dispersed at edge of those ball outwards to, mark out sun, say the sun to be bright than the moon, can take more first star. Mrs. Wayne is the satisfaction expressing her with the number of the stars, but a few stars of often in order to get more the daughter’s are very excited.
Besides paper-cut, another skill studied from the school is tinted with the wax crayon. Child of different pattern paper spread color with the wax crayon well in Wayne India that Mrs. take place, apply some colors, give play to one’s own imagination with each one. Leaving school and going home every day, the daughters should all turn over the thing in the schoolbag for us to see. Inside except that there are scissors, wax crayon, one one paper-cut pictures on the wall and have the picture of the color yet. The wife has looked, can’t help talking in whispers directly worrying: "This school has really put sheep out to pasture, it seems that nothing is taught. The child of China, begins to carry ‘ the bright moonlight in front of the bed ‘ at 3 years old, such a big child, should study two -figure number addition and subtraction early. " My view is quite different: You think she will come down in several months, English has already been spoken very fluently, a succession of sentences rise from in the mouth frequently, let you take place for a long time distracted to realize. Besides, the paper-cut, seem not to " study " Reach something, in fact has trained the child’s outsight and creativity. The forms of the birds and flowers which the children cut or other animals were not all taught by teachers, it was oneself that observes or figures out. You say leaves are sharp, some children say the leaf of a certain tree is round. You say tail of squirrel stick up up always, but some child say he house squirrel of backyard tow flagging tail run, move when being angry. Everybody say tank should getting green mask color, high Qian paint not golden yellow tank. She says, the color that she scribbles, it was the tank before the setting sun that displayed, did not believe, you go out to have a look, it is golden yellow that the setting sun shines the car under.
I appreciated such education method very much. It has trained the child’s outsight, gives full play to the child’s imagination and creativity, it is better than several sentences of poesy of reciting. Though the teacher did not teach two -figure number added or subtracted, even did not teach mathematics seriously, came down in several months, daughter look through overlap upon overlap paper-cut pictures on the wall and picture that wax crayon colour that, toss about several Wayne Mrs. stick to in above little stars, pondering that gives that figure by oneself " Let it be " Come out.
There is not a textbook like this, there is no teaching goal " Put sheep out to pasture " ,Have achieved the pretty good result too. What furthermore made me glad is, daughter’s emotion to the school is strengthened day by day. She always looks forward to going to school every day. Leave school and get home, make the telephone to my office, and always begin like this: "Dad, do you know? " Then, report to minor matters happening in the school dwelling upon with great relish, the school becomes her happy source.
However, if I appreciate blindly this kind " puts sheep out to pasture " The education of the type, the daughter will certainly not make today’s achievement. The primary school in U.S.A. is even the stage junior middle school, the basic one, facing the expecting much of the masses’ universal education, a lot of students and parents have not realized, only reach the basic education degree of these schools, it is not enough to reply the competition that is aggravated day by day absolutely. Much Chinese parents not qcquainted with U.S.A.’s education, " A " one by one taken back easily by the child Confused, after ten years and eight years, did not awaken from the dream, it’s a pity that late.
I, while being loose, open and act on one’s own in what has been already appreciated U.S.A.’s primary school education, treasure the experience of developing China’s traditional education too, has carried on much repetitiveness, training for virtuosity to the daughter, for example practise solving the mathematics question in a large amount. This kind of thinking once of mine is called " Combine with Chinese and Western styles " Educational pattern.
The advantage that totally denies China’s traditional education while appreciating U.S.A.’s educational way is not very scientific. On the contrary, should combine experience and characteristic which China and U.S.A. educate together.
By the look of mathematics, skilled hardworking to it practises to be only method during the course of studying in background mathematics nearly, though I do not think the method that this kind of mathematics trains trains the so-called logical thinking, however, train in the appropriate question sea, acquaint to helping children in training at certain pressure, possess the better one " Take an entrance examination " The ability can’t be ignored, in a sense, " take an entrance examination " The ability is a kind of very important quality too. Must admit, my daughter’s early mathematics study totally adopts the exercises-stuffed teaching method of Chinese style. She studied in the primary school, participated in regional mathematics and matched and won the one, second place in junior middle school, go in the first two years of high school, still one to four who obtained the state mathematics match five times. All these are the training benefiting from the exercises-stuffed teaching method, practise a lot of topics to see, can answer without thinking thoroughly. Later, her mathematics was more leading by several years than that of general students, went to grade 11 of high school to finish calculus and pass the whole country " general examination for students from various schools " ,Course for two terms that it is equivalent to the university, so that avoid majoring in mathematics in university.
