Work experience “Innovative technologies in kindergarten”

MAGAZINE Preschooler.RF

Every year preschool institutions are improving and developing more and more.

Currently, more and more preschool institutions are introducing the latest developments and innovative technologies into practice. Thanks to this quality, educational activities improve. This is the main direction for modernizing the entire kindergarten and teaching staff.

The positive aspects of non-standard methods are expressed in the following factors

• Lots of positive feedback from parents
• Improving the psycho-emotional background and learning ability of children
• High effectiveness of teaching work, assessed by professionals

The team at the preschool educational institution becomes united, the relationship between teachers and children improves. Teachers gradually hone their professional skills. A large amount of scientific literature and reviews from the best teachers indicate that a non-standard approach to teaching brings only benefits; educators quickly master new techniques. However, a mass survey revealed that this is not entirely correct. Thanks to anonymous feedback, many educators identified difficulties with their work. Adaptation to the latest technologies is difficult, since such activities are unusual for them. There are industry-specific areas of technology that improve pedagogical and personnel activities in preschool educational institutions:

• creation of new projects;
• research activity;
• improving directions to improve the health status of the children's team;
• gaming activity;
• searching for an individual approach to each individual;
• information and communication direction.

To understand the essence of all methods, it is necessary to consider each of them separately.

Health-saving technologies.

The preschool institution uses the principle of measures and directions that help improve the health of each child individually:

• Habits to maintain a healthy lifestyle
• Increasing your level of physical activity
• Preventive measures to prevent viral diseases

These are just the main guidelines in the work of teachers to improve the health of children. These actions are implemented through several methods:

• the formation of a healthy environment in which each teacher directs his activities to instill in the child the right habits (hardening, performing physical activity);
• power control;
• monitoring of physical and mental indicators in children;
• application of the latest types of therapy - color, artistic, fairy tale therapy.

From childhood, children are instilled with a love and healthy attitude towards sports and any physical activity.

Information and communication technologies.

As various types of information and communication technologies become an integral part of life, they also extend to educational institutions. This strengthens the pedagogical strategy and makes it effective through the following principles:

• children copy their parents’ behavior patterns all their lives, therefore, just like they want to use the latest gadgets and developments;
• Thanks to interactive equipment, the effectiveness and efficiency of lessons is enhanced;
• the latest technologies help to concentrate the attention of preschool children on the transmitted information and involve them in the educational process;
• expansion of traditional teaching practice, improvement of the content of the information provided.

Information and communication practices are introduced into a preschool institution only if the following requirements are met:

• educators and other preschool employees are proficient in working with computers and are knowledgeable in various types of technologies;
• each employee knows the positive and negative aspects of the new method, therefore they combine it in their activities with other approaches;
• parents support the introduction of new technologies into the educational process and understand their effectiveness.

Parents and educators need to understand that information and communication methods are not the only approach. It can be successfully combined with other activities to expand children's knowledge.

Technologies of project activities.

Each project that is developed in a preschool institution is carried out under the supervision of a teacher.

Main goals of the work:

• new knowledge of children in relation to the phenomena of the surrounding world;
• the emergence of relationships between children in the group;
• successful relationship between a child and a teacher, another adult;
• communication skills training;
• the appearance of evaluation in one’s own activities or of other children in the team;
• formation of knowledge about the creative process.

Project activities differ in several categories:

Number of participants

Projects are divided into individual, pair, and group.

Execution Duration

The term can be short, medium, long, long.

Selecting a method

Projects are divided into gaming, creative, informational, and research.

Choosing a theme

The study is carried out to understand family relationships, social aspects, environmental factors, and cultural characteristics.

Project implementation is the most significant area in the innovative activities of a preschool educational institution. If a method becomes ineffective, it means that it was not implemented according to all requests. For example, the choice of topic for project work is not suitable for the age of the students. Or the methodology for implementing the project does not correspond to the personal interests of the students. The result appears if the topic of work becomes interesting to every student, then the learning process is much more effective.

Research technologies.

Thanks to educational research in preschool educational institutions, children develop skills in various areas of life. Each child learns to identify a problem and determine an approach to solve it.

This is achieved through the following areas:

• compliance of the identified problem with the age of the participant in the relationship (to solve the problem, the child must develop a certain base of knowledge and skills);
• the ability for children themselves to identify not only the problem, but also the result of its elimination;
• a creative approach to solving the identified problem, the use of modeling, onomatopoeia, and didactic skills;
• the child’s ability to carry out work assignments not only in the kindergarten group, but also at home.

Thanks to the acquired skills, the psycho-emotional side and activity approach develops.

Personality-oriented technologies

The approach is based on the individual personality of the child. The educational complex must be completely rethought in order to find an approach to the entire group and each individual individually.

There are many software developments to successfully implement this technique:

• "Rainbow"
• "Childhood"
• "From birth to school"

Each of the selected methods is complemented by a personal approach. This helps students understand the world around them. This is especially true for children with disabilities, unstable mental health and other problems. Thanks to the cooperation of each child with the teacher, the psycho-emotional sphere, education, and relationships with each other improve.

Gaming technologies

To make the learning process favorable for the child, play is used. During activity, the child’s horizons expand, and the child’s ability to complete any task appears.

The teacher selects the optimal gaming material that corresponds to the following factors:

• children's age;
• degree of adaptation in the group;
• individual characteristics of each baby;
• interests of the team.

Thanks to the game form, educators introduce additional innovations to improve the learning process:

• projects;
• research activities;
• training in didactic work;
• creative experiments.

Thanks to innovative technologies in preschool educational institutions, the activities of the entire team and each child individually are improved. This requires material, time, and intellectual costs. But this provides the entire team with the necessary skills and implementation of the technical sphere. Otherwise, the qualitative transition of the kindergarten to the new information sphere will be difficult.