The room was suddenly quiet, and the child must be "being a demon". At home, parents can also control the scene. But once a child enters a relatively free and unfamiliar environment, from kindergarten to elementary school, the child not only has to face a new learning environment, but also countless challenges awaiting them. Gerststein said that stem education can help preschool children to exercise their abilities.
STEAM education is an education that cultivates children's comprehensive abilities, which can basically cover all the important abilities of children. Robot programming education, as a very comprehensive STEAM education project, can help young children to improve their systematic ability.
In kindergarten, the teacher will arrange the children clearly when and what to do, and every step will not fall. But in elementary school, children's degree of freedom can be higher. Except for class, the teacher no longer specifies what the child must do and how to do it. Children will increase a lot of time and space for free activities, and their social radius will gradually expand. Some children can adapt to this environment well as soon as they start school, and they are like a fish in water, but some children will be at a loss, and in serious cases they may even feel tired of studying.
In fact, how children deal with the new environment and new challenges in the elementary school stage has already laid the groundwork in the kindergarten stage, but many parents have not paid attention to it! Many parents think: Before school age, children should learn some subject knowledge in advance, so as not to catch up after going to elementary school. As a result, many parents only focus on their children's learning, but ignore the cultivation of some "practical" abilities, including but not limited to learning and knowledge reserve ability, practical action, communication and social skills, innovation and creativity, concentration and endurance. It is precisely these abilities that can help children quickly integrate into the new environment.
Stem education helps children shape learning and knowledge reserve abilities. The level of learning ability is not only closely related to a child's grades, but also one of the most basic abilities of a child's entire academic career. It can help children complete school courses efficiently and enrich their knowledge reserves. In addition to subject knowledge, this also includes common sense of life, children's vision, cognition of the world and society, etc. These things are not only "standard equipment" for adults, but also for children. Good learning ability can help children expand their "ammunition library".
Practical action is usually behavior guided by theory. With sufficient knowledge reserves, you must also have the ability to put your ideas into action. For most modern families, this ability of children is relatively scarce, and the reason that prevents children from developing this ability is "overprotection." Communication and social skills seem to be the most common skills, but they are actually the most difficult to master. Whether a child can quickly establish contact with the new environment and adapt to the people, things, and things in the new environment is closely related to this ability. In the 21st century, the ability to innovate and create will have a significant impact on children's entire academic career, not to mention elementary schools. In terms of various policies and documents promulgated by the Ministry of Education, innovation and creativity are not only high-frequency words, but also the top three most valued abilities throughout the children's academic career.
Being able to sit quietly, being able to work tirelessly to complete tasks, being able to withstand a certain amount of pressure, being able to complete tasks within the specified time, etc. are all manifestations of concentration and endurance.