| Children at kindergarten spend most their time on daily interactions with their teachers.As children have diverse individual personality traits,and their psychological development is unintentional and figurative.In such case,preschool teachers should employ multiple approaches to showing care and love,thus making emotional bond with children.Basically,teachers apply two approaches during teacher-children communication:verbal and nonverbal behaviour.The former is more frequently utilised by teachers while the latter is more acceptable to young children.Children are prone to drowsiness and poor concentration under the action of the single sensory system,if we can make use of non-verbal behavior in a scientific,rational and effective way,and communicate with children's thoughts and feelings through body language,such as movement,posture,expression etc.It will stimulate the children's interest in learning and the initiative of knowledge acquisition,and help the teachers to seize the process of activities efficiently and arrange the time reasonably.And exploring various teaching forms to help children discover,acquire and apply knowledge;in addition,helping teachers and children communicate emotionally,making children to understand the signals transmitted by teachers and participate in activities,so as to effectively improve the quality of teacher-child interaction.Education is nurturing mindset in an invisible way,and a conducive relationship of teacher-children interaction is established on an equal heart-to-heart communication between teachers and children.As such,it is pivotal to acquire the art of non-verbal behavior expression.This case-study research is conducted by sampling a proficient teacher and a novice teacher with the methods of observation and interviews.The data are analysed to reflect the real situation of using nonverbal behavior in teacher-children interaction with the purpose to shed light on constructive suggestions for front-line preschool teachers. |
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