First, teaching content sometimes hurts children's psychology.
In the choice of teaching content, if we don't pay attention to its adaptability, it is likely that some teaching content is beneficial to the healthy development of most children's psychology, but harmful to a few or a certain child. For example, we teach children to learn dolls' songs. The lyrics of this children's song are written like this: "A doll with big eyes and small mouth is really beautiful and cute." This may hurt children with "small eyes and big mouth"; We teach young children to sing "Only mothers are good in the world", which may hurt children who have lost their mothers for various reasons and further strengthen their lost mentality that "children without mothers are like grass". Therefore, we should improve our awareness of mental health care. When children choose educational content, they must consider its influence on all children, and can't let it promote the mental health development of the vast majority of children and hurt a few other children.
For example, from the difficulty of teaching content, if the teaching content is too difficult, children or some children or a child will often fail in classroom learning (rarely learn the teaching content arranged by the teacher), which not only means that they lose the corresponding cognitive basis in future learning, but also means that they lose their internal motivation in future learning. What's more, these children who often fail to learn will completely lose confidence in themselves, and they will feel that they are not "expected" to learn.
Therefore, when we choose the teaching content, we should not only consider whether it conforms to the relevant teaching principles, but also consider its influence on each child's mental health.
Second, the psychological harm to children is sometimes difficult for us to realize.
Because our awareness of mental health care is not strong, we often hurt children's psychology in educational activities, but we don't realize that this is a kind of harm.
For example, a teacher, after seeing others group children according to their abilities, also implements the so-called "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude" when organizing educational activities. Before the official start of the educational activities, she loudly said to the whole class, "Please ask the children with poor ability to sit here and the children with strong ability to sit there", and then put forward different teaching tasks and requirements for them according to their "location" ... She had no idea that this practice violated.
For another example, when I was a trainee, I once saw an example: when a child couldn't answer the question, the teacher on duty kindly said to the child, "Sit down and think about it first and listen to what other children have to say." But when I saw the child sit down, I felt very uncomfortable. Because the teacher's words made him feel inferior. When I pointed out her shortcomings to the teacher, the teacher felt very wronged and said, "I don't blame him, his attitude is so gentle!" " "She doesn't know that her words have deeply hurt the child's self-esteem psychologically.
For another example, many teachers think that in order to promote the development of children's speech ability and make introverted children more lively and cheerful, children who are more unwilling and afraid to answer questions should be given more "roll call" answers, so that they can have more opportunities for exercise and development. In my opinion, if a child with weak ability and serious inferiority is unwilling to take the initiative to raise his hand to answer questions in order to protect his self-esteem and face, our teacher should definitely protect his right to remain silent, otherwise, his self-esteem and self-confidence will be hit again and become more introverted and inferior. For children who feel inferior because of their poor ability (some are not necessarily poor ability, but poor knowledge base) and are unwilling to raise their hands to answer questions, the key is not to force them to "exercise" more to solve problems, but to create opportunities for success and establish their self-confidence.
Thirdly, intentional psychological injury does exist in kindergartens, but it really shouldn't.
If we observe carefully, we will find that our teacher's psychological harm to children is not only unintentional, but also intentional. Some of our teachers intentionally hurt children psychologically for various reasons, which is really intolerable, but it is indeed an objective reality in our early childhood education. This can not but attract the attention of our preschool education managers and researchers!
In a kindergarten, I once saw an old teacher who thought he was quite experienced and often called on the whole class to stay away from the children who were at fault. For example, during the break, one child cried another child. In class, the teacher pulled the "beating" child to the front of the podium without investigating the reason, and said to other children, "Today, XXX is not good, and everyone is ashamed of him." So the children gestured with their hands, making the children who made mistakes feel ashamed. Then, the teacher shouted to the children, "Everyone doesn't want him. Tell him to go out." Then, all the children shouted, "Get out, get out! We don't want you! " Finally the child was kicked out of the activity room.
We also know that this teacher is to "educate" the child who made a mistake so that he won't make the same mistake again in the future. Whether this kind of education is effective or not is not discussed here for the time being, but what is certain is that this kind of education will definitely hurt children's psychology, which is not a good thing for other children who have not made mistakes. This will mislead them-we can humiliate others when they make mistakes.
I've seen such a thing. A naughty child accidentally fell down in the process of educational activities. After seeing it, the teacher not only did not give sympathy, but also said to the child, "Did you fall?" ! Who told you to be so naughty! Now fall down! I am very happy! ! "When the child needs comfort, we sting him with bad words. Really inhuman! This inhuman practice may make the child's heart hurt forever!
Fourth, teachers' careless words sometimes cause psychological harm to children.
I take my students to kindergarten.