A Study On The Current Situation Of Regional Games In Kindergarten

Content:Since Guide of 3- 6 Year-old Children’s Learning and Development was issued, a hot wave of regional games has been raised in the Kindergarten and regional games have been considered to be the excellent carrier of children’s free activities and active learning exploration. Guide points out that “Young children’s learning is based on direct experience, which can be gained in games and daily life.” Regional games,which are focused on differences in of children’s personalities with games as the basic form, operation and experience as the ways of activities, are the new type of organization activities to promote the children’s individual development. Moreover art activities, which is focused on the unique art expression, can encourage children to express individuality, so that young children can benefit from fine tastes of art fora lifetime.This study of the current situation of the games played in the middle class in Benxi Experimental Kindergarten selected 30 cases of activities in which the teachers’ guidance and children’s performance were analyzed. The results showed that in the content structure of art regional games, most played by the middle class in Benxi Experimental Kindergarten are high structure and higher structure art regional games, while low structure art regional game is only 1 case in them. The problems existing in the guidance of teachers are—First, teachers is the leader on preparation, teachers only paid attention to the target oriented usage in the stage of environment creation and material preparation,and the method of how to use the materials; Second, during the lead-in link of activities, teachers focused on the presentation of methods and skills, and emphasized on the methods and steps of operation too much, which limited the children’s creativity; Third, in the process of activities, teachers intervened ineffectively too much and paid too much attention to the mastering of methods and skills in the guidance, in which target guiding role is obvious, leading in the phenomenon of excessive guidance and no guidance; Fourth, as the conductors of the evaluation of sharing activities, teachers evaluated the work itself but neglected children’s emotion.The main factors affecting teachers’ guiding behaviors are: from the exterior factors, the restrictions of activity themes, time shortage of regional games and the overlarge of class size; from the internal factors, teachers’ understanding insufficiency and limited energy, both of which can cause the deviation of observation and guidance of the teachers for the regional art games.Finally, five educational opinions or suggestions are put forward based on the analysis in the thesis—First, start with the environment and materials to arouse children’s desire to explore; Second, lower the game structure to give more space for children to explore; Third, establish children’s subjective status and reduce teachers’ ineffective intervention; Fourth, pay attention to the artistic expression and despise the skills to master; Fifth, carry out effective sharing evaluation.