How We Learn in ECE丨幼教部的学习是如何生成的

Volume 2 

Educational Benefits Beyond Academics

第二集-超学术的收获

Last week, we took you on an academic learning journey with our K4 students who eagerly set up and ran their own play restaurant. Please read on here to explore how our young learners extended their connections with the world around them and how their soft skills grew with their project.上周我们一起分享了四岁班孵化和运营餐厅的学习之旅。现在我们想和您介绍孩子们如何将餐厅学习跟周围的世界联系起来，并且如何在学习过程中提升软技能。

Understanding the world (UW) – Making real-world connections

认识世界-和真实世界建立联系

Our ECE operates under the EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) framework and understanding the World (UW) is one of its learning areas. UW guides the children to make sense of their community and the physical world around them. To connect their learning to the real world, the children took a field trip to the school’s cafeteria, with lots of questions prepared to ask our cafeteria manager, Alan Chang. Meeting Chef Jack Wong and buying food at the cafeteria also broadened the children’s experiences and enriched their understanding of how an eatery functions.我校幼教部使用幼儿早期教育指南，认识世界也是其中的一个学习单元。认识世界引导孩子理解社群和周围的真实世界。为了将学习和真实世界联系起来，孩子们去到了学校的餐厅进行实地考察，去餐厅之前还准备了一系列问题提问餐厅经理张臻豪先生。同时，他们还会见了餐厅主厨王文喆先生、体验在餐厅购买食物，增加他们的经验并丰富他们对餐饮运营的理解。

Embedding our five soft skills-

Be the best you

融入五项软技能-成为最好的自己

The K4 restaurant learning story is a treasure trove of educational benefits. Our children not only enhanced their academic skills but also displayed our school’s five ‘Dimensions of Learning’. One of these dimensions, ‘critical thinking’, was immanent to the project from the very beginning. The children realized that they had to follow standard pricing as four-digit numbers would simply not work with their play money. When a customer was short of cash, the children designed their own QR codes. For kindergarteners, every small problem can create a big challenge. They showed ‘perseverance’ by staying with their problems until they found a solution, keeping their restaurant up and running for months. The role of the restaurant manager was very popular, and the children had to be smart in their ‘collaboration’ of creating shifts and learning to rotate in assigning the roles of manager, servers, customers, and chefs. In aspects of ‘self-regulation’, the children had to learn to be considerate as waiters in addressing customers, and as customers, they had to be patient especially if they had to wait in line. It was a project of ‘innovation’ for the young learners throughout, and they were particularly proud of inventing the name ‘Sweet Restaurant’.四岁班餐厅学习故事是一个珍贵的生成课程的果实。孩子们不仅提升了学术技能，还展示了我校的“五个学习维度”。其中的一个维度“批判性思考”在生成课程的开始部分就已融入其中。孩子们意识到自己必须遵守标准的定价（因为四位数的价格无法在游戏中实现）。此外，考虑到顾客没有足够的现金，孩子们还设计了属于自己餐厅的收款二维码。对于每位小朋友来说，每个小问题都会是大挑战。在解决问题和让餐厅开始运作并能持续运行的过程中，孩子们展示了“坚持”这一软技能。餐厅经理这一角色非常受小朋友们的欢迎，孩子们必须非常善于“合作”。在餐厅运营的过程中，孩子们设计轮班制、尝试轮换担任餐厅角色--经理、服务员、顾客和主厨。在“自律”方面，孩子们在当服务员的时候学会为顾客考虑。与此同时，当孩子们扮演顾客时则需要耐心地排队等候。在“创新”方面，孩子们展开自己的想象力把餐厅取名为“Sweet Restaurant’”(甜甜恭喜餐厅)。当餐厅的名字被正式启用后，孩子为自己的成就感到自豪。

When our Head of ECE, Margaret Zhang, is asked to summarise the K4 restaurant project, she speaks of her children with utmost pride and respect, “Children are born with incredible creativity and with the belief that anything is possible. It is the role of the school and of the teacher to recognize the diverse possibilities in each child. The kindergarten is a special place in which a child may deeply investigate the world and their own nature. Children’s own curiosity will drive learning. When supported by and partnered with the teachers, their own ideas about learning will emerge. When supported in an environment in which they are respected, children will construct new ideas deeper than those that the teacher has considered. In this way, children have acquired many new skills and gained more confidence. This is how they grow up – in learning and in character.”

当我们请幼教部主管张蕾老师总结本次生成的“四岁班餐厅”课程时，她情不自禁地表达了对孩子们的尊重和骄傲之情，“孩子们与生俱来就有着不可思议的创造力，他们相信任何事情都是可能的。学校和教师的作用是识别每个孩子不同的发展可能性。幼儿园是一个特殊的地方，孩子在这里可以深入地探究世界和他们自己的天性。同时，孩子们的好奇心会驱使他们去学习。当得到教师的支持和合作时，他们自己关于学习的想法将出现。当他们在受尊重的环境中得到支持时，儿童将建构新的想法，这些想法比教师所考虑的更深入。在这个过程中，孩子们也会获得更多的自信以及习得更多的技能。而这正是孩子们如何在学术和品格教育中成长的方式。”

If you want to better understand how teaching is put into practice in YCIS Beijing’s classrooms, you are welcome to make an appointment to explore the campus and witness such lively and exciting teaching and learning.如果您想更好地了解教学是如何在北京耀中的课堂上得以实践，欢迎预约校园探索、亲眼见证如此生动有趣的教与学。

Please scan the QR code above to sign up Meet Our Principals on March 27th.

请扫描上方二维码报名3月27日的校长见面会。