Teach students in accordance with their aptitude, keep pace with the times, and trigger independent learning motivation
@TERM0@@, which has been rooted in To Kwa Wan, Hong Kong for many years, takes "confidence, self-care, and self-study" as its schooling purpose and cultivating children's good character. The school sponsoring group promotes curriculum and teaching reforms and advocates that teaching needs to keep pace with the times. It combines the unique "Exploration Partner" characters and thematic teaching chessboards with the hardware and space upgrades of the new school building and comprehensive supporting support to build a warm learning environment for children.
Renovate the school building and optimize the space. Diverse scenarios empower learning.
The new school building focuses on creating a sense of space and giving children more opportunities to carry out physical activities. Principal Ma said: "The school's outdoor venues are equipped with climbing facilities for children to conduct gross muscle training, and the spacious lobby also has a small track for children to play physical games, cultivate teamwork spirit, establish regular exercise habits, and promote gross muscle development and physical coordination. At the same time, the school has multiple corners for children to carry out independent activities. Through personal experience, they can continue to try and improve their independent learning and practical abilities."
In addition, the school has also comprehensively upgraded its teaching equipment and equipped an electronic whiteboard as a daily teaching tool. Teachers can use it to conduct interactive games, classroom exercises, and play teaching videos to enrich the interactive methods in the classroom and attract children to learn. In the writing teaching part, the large-sized screen can clearly display every stroke and line, improving the problem of the limited size of the traditional whiteboard, allowing all children to clearly observe the details of the demonstration.
Original characters accompany growth and inclusive education cultivates childlike innocence
"Exploration Buddy" is a companion and inspirer for children on their learning journey. The entire set of characters is divided into characters with diverse backgrounds, as well as monster characters that symbolize the eyes, ears, mouth, nose, brain, hands and other physical senses. Currently, there are nine characters in the game, and the character design incorporates the concept of racial inclusion, covering Chinese, blond foreigners, South Asians, and dark-skinned African-American children. These characters will be used in the school's original teaching materials. In the books, children can not only see characters similar to themselves and build a sense of intimacy, but they can also get to know other ethnic groups who are different from themselves and learn tolerance and respect.
Cross-media teaching resources enrich learning experience
The school develops, designs and compiles original storybooks, Chinese learning short films, and interactive themed game boards. A series of teaching resources integrate cognitive training, social etiquette, and emotional expression into dynamic activities and multi-sensory participation processes, allowing children to explore independently in reading, video learning, and games, and educate and entertain them. There are four themes in the teaching board, corresponding to moral character, emotion and language expression, social interaction, physical fitness and cognition. The board embodies the educational concept of game-based learning, including answer links, body imitation, facial expression interpretation, and oral expression, etc., bringing children an immersive multi-sensory learning experience.
Principal Ma pointed out: "The moral-themed chessboard concretely embodies behavioral rules and cultivates children's good behavioral habits and social etiquette through situations such as respecting teachers and taking the initiative to clean up. The emotional and verbal expression-themed chessboard guides children to identify emotions such as happiness, fear, anger, etc., and learns to take deep breaths and regulate emotions. It also improves oral expression and pronunciation imitation abilities through singing, imitating animal sounds, etc.
The social-themed chessboard focuses on social etiquette and peer interaction. Through proactive greetings, sharing toys, division of labor and cooperation, etc., students learn to respect others and get along with the group. The physical and cognitive-themed chessboard takes care of both gross muscle coordination and cognitive development. Children complete animal imitation and other actions in the game, and are exposed to body part recognition, shape painting, color recognition, children's song recitation, etc., to comprehensively exercise their observation and cognitive practical abilities. "
Deeply cultivate the community and build bridges, home and school jointly promote the growth of children
Principal Ma shared: "The school plans to resume the parent-child volunteer team. In the future, it will contact different schools and organizations to jointly organize various volunteer activities such as visits and flag selling to further close the relationship with the community and families. At the same time, the school will also hold parenting lectures and various parent-child activities so that parents in the area can understand the kindergarten learning model in advance and gain practical parenting knowledge."