School-based Curriculum Of Mental Health Education Course In Primary School -Part One

Youth is the future of the country and the hope of the nation. They do no only need to learn necessary knowledge of science and culture, but also should have strong bodies and healthy mental quality. The suitable mental health education method at primary school period is to have mental health education course. Based on the situation that currently most of primary schools do not have school-based curriculum textbooks to aim at own school's students' characteristics, the author is now performing research and development of the school-based curriculum textbook for mental health education with name of Happy Growth on the basis of his undertaking the research work on related mental health education of primary school students during the Ninth Five-Year Plan & Tenth Five-Year Plan.The Mental Health Education Research Center in our school first organizes teachers to refer to following two textbooks:The Mental Quality of Pupils (compiled by the Primary & Secondary School Mental Quality Education Research Center) and the Activity Book of Mental Health Education (compiled by Zhang Jinglian), then combined with self-compiled mental eduction activity course with students' actual situation, thus accumulated a number of teaching plans. The task of the primary school mental education course is then defined as:to improve students' self-awareness, self-identification and self-acceptance, to nurture students to be a person with healthy personality and with creativity and adaptability, learn to learn, learn to think in different way, learn to fit the society, and to establish proper view of value.Then to perform qualitative research based on open questionnaire investigation and interviewing method, thus determined the compiling principles of the mental health education school-based curriculum textbook Happy Growth are:scientific and systematic, interesting and flexible, full participation and experiential, collaborative and consistence. The specific target is:self-awareness, learn to communicate, learn to learn, learn to create. It is divided into six age groups according to different grades, there are 10 lessons in each age group, and altogether there are 60 lessons for 6 age groups.The feather and value of this textbook include following:to emphasis the transfer of correct society value, to highlight the characteristic of school-based and tailor-made, to strength the combination of contents and the mental age, to promote understanding and application by the students, to insist the contents of the textbook should be life-oriented and questioning guided, to assure that the students are the subject, to pay attention to the completeness and continuous of the textbook structure, to take into the account both the generality characteristics and individual difference, in addition to emphasis on non-intelligent training, also to emphasis on intelligent training. This textbook has already been praised by the Moral Education Section of Kunshan Education Bureau, the Propaganda and Education Section of Suzhou Education Bureau and the Academy of Education Sciences of Nanjing Normal University. It was presented at annual meeting of Jiangsu Province Psychology Association, Educational Psychology Committee, also was presented at national new education annual meeting. This textbook is already become a model school-based curriculum for our Kunshan primary school mental health education.