Scientists there are more than five hundred different methods that can be used in the education of children, so need a way to organize them in a certain system, which indicates where, in what area and for what purpose, these methods can be used by teachers.
In the process of knowledge transfer preschoolers use the most common classification of methods of education, which consists of three groups:
1. Verbal methods - where education is based on the verbal form: conversation, narration, explanation, clarification and instruction.These methods are used for the education of pre-school briefly, clearly.The word carries the emotional component.Thus, the prohibition of action should be colored emotions of fear for the child, to have a categorical ban, and should not be used often, so as not to become commonplace.
2. Practices - a play, exercise, workout, with the help of which there is consolidation of the material studied.Children of preschool age are capable of competitive activity that education is important, becausethe goal of education achieved by a child on their own, with minimal adult support.
3. Object methods.When a pattern of behavior demonstrated by an adult or by way of illustration, film, analyzing the behavior of another child.This lesson uses the picture, audio, presentations, excerpts cartoons, illustrations for the works.Particularly evident with preschoolers - is to avoid showing incorrect behavior becauseAll children tend to repeat after the adults do not consciously assessing the correctness or incorrectness of the act.
This classification methods of education in kindergartens is used with priority use of visual techniques, asThey are the most common in work with younger preschool children due to the fact that their thinking - visual-effective, and they learn the requirements of the outside world only through the display and verbal confirmation.The older the children are, the more often the teacher applies the practices, coaching skills in children, or a positive habit.
Another classification methods of education, which is used for constituting a division structure of the human personality, becausefor the formation of socially significant behavior of a group of methods need to work on all the structures of personality:
1. Methods of consciousness - is the basis of the child's world, its intellectual base, knowledge of the norms and rules of behavior in society.The more rich and diverse this area, the more the child the opportunity to make the selection of options for socially correct behavior.This group includes all verbal and visual techniques from the previous classification.
2. Methods of forming socio-positive behavior of preschoolers - is the use of knowledge not only in the games and in the classroom, and their application in practice, repetition in different situations.Initially, this is done under the supervision of an adult, and then train the children life skills.
3. Methods of stimulation (or the formation of the senses) - that urge a more rapid absorption of the action with the help of effects on the child's feelings.Therefore, using praise, disapproval, approval, created a situation of success.Children react to even a slight disapproval meaningful for them human: mom or dad, or grandma's beloved tutor.Forms of educational work using a variety of becauseincentives are applied in conjunction with the methods of development of consciousness and the formation of behavior.The emotional response of parents to the child's actions - an effective method of education.
This classification methods of education is most often used in kindergartens, it is best to contribute to the education of preschool children.Emotional preschoolers is unstable, labile, is characterized by swings in the mood of the children, so often recommended to use positive feelings preschoolers, asexperience the fun of the action once the kid will want to repeat it again.