1 Good preschool education can not only guide children correctly, but also create a good environment for their healthy physical and mental development. It is of great practical significance to attach importance to preschool education, create a good preschool education environment for children and lay a solid foundation for the development of teenagers.
Mental health is an indispensable part of individual health. Today, the importance of preschool education is becoming more and more prominent, and education that follows the laws of children's physical and mental development can achieve the expected results.
With the continuous progress and development of the times, preschool education has been paid more and more attention. Kindergarten is the first school for children and the first place to get in touch with society and knowledge. Therefore, correct and effective preschool education plays a vital role in children's future study and life.
The significance of preschool children's education
1 The goal of preschool education has the function of standardizing the ideas of preschool teachers.
Preschool teachers are organizers and masters of educational activities. Influence teachers with preschool education goals, make them have clear and correct goal consciousness, and use this consciousness to choose educational content, educational methods and means, and design educational environment. Therefore, it can be said that what really points to educational activities is the educational goal rooted in teachers' consciousness.
2 Pre-school education goals for the guidance and production of the education process
The process of preschool education is a multi-factor participation process, a closed system and a relatively open system. Education environment, teachers and children, and class environment, school environment and off-campus environment (including family environment) often need coordination. This coordination is a process of improving efficiency, rejecting and controlling factors that are inconsistent with the goals of preschool education. Therefore, the regulator of the educational process is still the goal of preschool education, which can make the educational process revolve around and point to the educational goal.
The most essential significance of preschool education goal lies in its function of regulating and evaluating (standardizing) children's development.
The goal of preschool education points out the field and basic scope of children's development and depicts the blueprint of children's development. As Ralph Taylor (R.W. Tyler 1902-), an American contemporary curriculum expert, said, "The real purpose of education is not that teachers complete certain activities, but that students' behavior patterns cause some important changes". At the same time, the educational goal is also the standard to measure the educational effect and children's development. Therefore, the goal of preschool education is also the basis of preschool education evaluation system.
On the Importance of Preschool Education
1 Preschool period is the fastest and most important period of human cognitive development, which plays a very important role in the development of human cognitive ability throughout life. Research shows that babies have great learning potential. For example, babies can engage in various learning activities when they are three months old. 1 year-old babies can learn to recognize the number, size, shape, color and orientation of objects; Children have strong imitation, imagination and creativity. Preschool period is also a crucial period for the development of individual psychology in many aspects. In the critical period, it is easy for individuals to learn or form behaviors about certain knowledge and experience, but if they miss this period, it will be difficult, sometimes even impossible, to make up for it later. It is found that 2 ~ 3 years old is the key period for individual oral development; 4 ~ 6 years old is the best time for children to visually recognize images and form shape perception; 5 ~ 5.5 years old is the best age to master the concept of number; 5 ~ 6 years old is the period when children's ability to master vocabulary develops fastest. At the same time, early childhood is also a critical period for the formation of important non-intellectual qualities such as curiosity, thirst for knowledge, imagination and creativity.
Although preschool children develop rapidly and have great learning potential, this developmental feature only shows that infants have great development "possibility". To turn this development possibility into reality, adults need to provide a good environment suitable for children's development, especially a good educational influence. Previous studies have proved that early education has an important influence on children's cognitive development. Monotonous, bad environmental stimulation and lack of appropriate preschool education will cause children's cognitive backwardness, while providing children with rich perceptual experience and giving positive guidance, help and education can promote their cognitive development. The study of the famous American preschool education program "Head Start Program" shows that early good preschool education can make socially disadvantaged children and non-disadvantaged children who receive preschool education program "develop better in cognition, language and thinking operation than those who do not receive preschool education program" and "have a long-term and positive impact on their cognitive and learning development until they reach adulthood". On the other hand, the quality of preschool education is directly related to whether children can form a correct learning attitude, good learning habits and strong learning motivation, which has a great influence on individual cognitive development and lifelong learning.