A Case Study Of Gameplay Intervention In Children's Anxiety About Admission

The game teaching method is an effective way to intervene in children's kindergarten entrance anxiety. Using the game teaching method precisely and scientifically could ease children's kindergarten entrance anxiety and help them adapt to their surroundings. Previous research shows that the game teaching method could help children to overcome their kindergarten entrance anxiety within unfamiliar kindergarten environment to promote their physical and mental development.By drawing the foreign and domestic research results of kindergarten entrance anxiety, the author picked three typical children with kindergarten entrance anxiety behavior from all the new junior classes of a kindergarten in Jinan for study with the author's practical work. The author devised scientific and corresponding games for three types of children with kindergarten entrance anxiety behavior(crying incessantly,reticence and excessive dependence), and used different game teaching methods to intervene and guide them according to the 3 selected children's respective character and their behavior of parent-child relationship, peer relationship and teacher-child relationship. For case 1, Ningning, her kindergarten entrance anxiety is crying incessantly. For case 2, Tongtong, she always displayed reticence after going to the kindergarten. For case 3, Xiaozuo, her kindergarten entrance anxiety is depending on her parents and teachers excessively. According to their different behavior and characters of kindergarten entrance anxiety in the cases, the author devised individualized training projects and intervened in their kindergarten entrance anxiety in the training from the view of themselves by analyzing the reasons of children's kindergarten entrance anxiety in the cases.The result of intervention showed that the individualized intervention projects were effective, and it eased children's kindergarten entrance anxiety in some degree.In case 1, the child could control her temper, cried less and like to go to the kindergarten. In case 2, the child could establish good relation with teachers and companions and express his ideas in activities. In case 3, the child could pay his attention away from his attachment figures and did not depend on his parents and teachers too much.It is helpful for children to adapt to the kindergarten environment by using the game teaching method precisely and scientifically to intervene to children's kindergarten entrance anxiety. This could provide a scientific example for the first line teacher to solve different kinds of problems of kindergarten entrance anxiety.