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However, children have been relying on adult assistance and cannot complete their due growth, and cannot control their own lives, educate themselves, and exercise themselves. Without an ideal environment, children will not be able to realize their abilities, and they will never be independent from adults. Therefore, Montessori creates a child-oriented environment based on the sensitive period and absorbent mind of children before the age of six, so that children can live on their own. This environment is a "prepared environment". Its meaning is not only an environment, but also a method and means for children to face the future world and all cultures soon. Therefore, it must meet the following conditions.
1. Give full play to the rhythm and pace of children
There are huge differences in psychology and physiology between children and adults, and the cognition and feeling of adults within one hour are completely different from what children experience. Children perceive the world at their unique pace and obtain many things that adults cannot imagine. The rhythms unique to children have become part of their personality. Adults must increasingly protect the environments that children’s unique “rhythm or pace” are needed when they survive in complex and varied cultural environments.
2. Give children a sense of security
Human children come later than other animals, so they need protection more. When the children's bodies feel dangerous, care for the children with gentle and encouraging eyes can make them act freely and unrestrainedly.
3. Free places and tools for moving
Children must rely on exercise to express their personality, especially their hearts must be combined with exercise in order to fully develop. Therefore, there are need for tools and places that allow children to keep in touch with things - collect, decompose, move, rotate, change positions, and other free movement.
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4. Beauty
Beauty is very attractive to children. Children's initial desire for activities is caused by beauty, so the items around children must have a beautiful feeling regardless of color, luster, or shape.
5. Necessary restrictions
There should not be too many teaching materials or activities around children. Too many things will make children's mental disordered and confused, and they will not know what kind of teaching materials to choose or what activities to engage in. Even if you cannot concentrate your mind on the object. In order to avoid children from doing unnecessary activities that lead to mental fatigue and distraction, the textbooks and activities must be limited to some extent.
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6. Order
Children's sense of order peaks at the age of two. In the following years, the order of children was extremely special. In this period, the relationship between the sense of order and children is like fish and water, houses and foundations. In fact, children will focus on a sense of order, use wisdom to distinguish and compare operations, and internalize the things around them. If there is no order, everything will be confused and children will lose their sense of direction. Therefore, order must exist in every part of a prepared environment.
7. Coherent with the entire culture
The so-called "order exists in every part of a prepared environment" means that order should be included in textbooks that expand children's wisdom. This order allows children to work hard towards real and correct "work", that is, children can truly and seriously carry out "real life". Only children who can independently focus on activities in their own world can truly move in the next stage of the adult world. Order should be manifested in a "prepared environment" and is connected to the adult cultural world.
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Childhood Children's Language, practitioners of high-quality childcare services, trainers of professional international teachers, and advocates of scientific family raising!
Children's Heart Childhood Language is a childcare center created by many infant and young teachers at home and abroad. It is committed to creating a professional environment suitable for development for infants and young children and supporting the healthy growth of their physical and mental health. Provide regular lectures for parents and disseminate scientific parenting concepts and methods. At the same time, this is also a teaching demonstration and teacher internship base, with the purpose of providing high-quality educational and teaching demonstration and teacher training for more community daycare. We have devoted ourselves to creating a multi-level and mature teacher training system, and we have particularly emphasized the practical work ability of teachers. Childhood Children's Language Since its establishment in September 2016, there are 4 physical kindergartens in Beijing, covering community childcare, corporate childcare, commercial physical childcare, and kindergarten childcare integrated models.
Children's Heart and Childhood Language Demonstration Day Care is a Montessori demonstration day care created by infant and young teachers. It is a demonstration day care of the AMS Montessori Association Teacher Certification Training Center and an AMS member school. The childlike child language demonstration day care adopts Montessori teaching, which is children-centered, respects children's nature and primitive power, and the environment is clean, safe, friendly and tolerant. No matter which class type, it has a sense of beauty, design and order. In the environment prepared by teachers, children choose their work independently, explore freely, and learn spontaneously.
Children's Childhood Language The goal of cultivating children is to cultivate the inside and the outside, and to cultivate the inside: cultivate children to become the best self, not only have a good cognitive level, but also have valuable non-intellectual qualities such as optimism, independence, self-confidence, studious, perseverance and problem-solving ability; exercising: cultivate children to become beneficial members of society, learn politeness, empathy, cooperation and behavioral norms, so that children can happily integrate into society, and become a positive social person.
