In recent years, with the continuous improvement of China's openness, more and more parents have begun to accept the concept of "early education". In foreign countries, especially in western countries, the concept of early family education has been popular for many years, and there are many things worth learning. Today, please follow us to read the way of early education abroad, and maybe some enlightenment for you parents.
German parents generally believe that training children to have the ability to abstract thinking will lay a good foundation for higher levels of education in the future. Therefore, in German children's early education, educational activities such as number games, chess, maze, building blocks, and Rubik's Cube are the main forms of German early education courses to cultivate children's abstract thinking ability. Drawing a map is a German original, often can be seen on the beach, children inspired by their parents, with a small stick to draw the memory of the home, and in many early education schools, children are also inspired by the teacher began to use graphics to express abstract things, Germany's rigorous style has been cultivated since childhood. END
The concept of early education in the United States has a long history, and the concept of "education from the first day" is deeply rooted in the minds of American parents. The biggest feature of American education is that "emphasis on experience" rather than "knowledge transfer", teachers think that it is more important to give children the ability to learn than to teach him to do a few arithmetic problems. In the United States, the most famous early education school Gymboree is famous for its teaching method of "game + experience = learning". Teachers will not instill knowledge and skills that do not belong to this age group into children, but advocate allowing them to do more, experience more, learn the ability to experience and explore in a variety of puzzle and team games, more active and interactive understanding of the surrounding things, and form healthy values and learning methods. The biggest benefit from this is that children will develop the habit of active learning and exploration from a young age, and become real explorers and masters of knowledge, rather than passively accepting the teacher's indoctrination. END
In Canada, when the baby is a little older, it can be sent to the "play school", not to learn lessons, but to participate in art, labor, music and singing games and other activities there, and the difference is that such early education schools will not set up writing and counting courses. Canadian early education experts generally believe that early childhood is a key period of balanced development of motor ability, but also an important period to cultivate creativity, so it is more important to cultivate hands-on ability, if the child too early to read, write and count, will consume children's physical and mental energy, delay their motor development. END
French parents believe that art education is very important for their children's future. The country's authoritative survey shows that 52% of parents believe that artistic enlightenment and artistic training are the best way to turn students from failure to success; 72% of parents think art should be a real subject in schools. Ninety-two percent highlighted the importance of arts subjects in developing children's intelligence. Because of the French emphasis on art education, France has long been an international leader in culture, giving most companies an irreplaceable competitive advantage in aesthetics, design and creativity. And these education as early as the child's swaddling, parents will subtly influence the child, France's early education class is more like the culture and stimulation of art cells. END
From these different foreign early education models, we can indeed see that each country and different cultures have different ideas about early education, and this also proves that there is no best model for early education, let alone a fixed model, and different education systems will cultivate citizens with different characteristics. At present, China's early education market is still in the early stage of its emergence, and in the collision of various ideas, more and more parents are beginning to realize that different early education brings different results, and how to choose, which requires parents to first clarify their understanding of early education, establish values and parenting concepts in line with the trend of social development, and choose on this basis is the best policy. END