How to choose Australian kindergartens?

In Australia, kindergartens are divided into three types:

The age of receiving children is from 6 weeks to 6 years old, which is generally divided into nursery, small class (toddler) and large class (preschool). The daily schedule is slightly different, but the average private kindergarten will open early and close late every day, totaling about 1 1 hour, which is convenient for parents to pick up and drop off from work.

Nursery: 0-2 years old

Children: 2-3 years old

Preschool: 3 years old to preschool (5 or 6 years old)

Distinguish between teachers and children, Xinzhou's ratio is:

Under 2 years old, 1 teacher has more than 4 children.

2-3 years old, 1 teacher with more than 5 children.

Over 3 years old, 1 teachers have more children than 10.

National Quality Standard (NQS) is a graded evaluation system formulated by Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Administration, which is the official institution of early childhood education in Australia and used to monitor and improve the quality of early childhood education institutions in Australia. Australian countries stipulate that every Australian kindergarten must pass this audit and get a certain grade score.

The origin of the score is the following seven items. Mothers can learn seven requirements that kindergartens must meet in quality in official website: teaching content and practice; Children's health and safety; Hardware environment; Distribution of educational teachers; Teacher-student relationship;

Basically, parents can directly relate NQS scores of kindergartens to their strengths and weaknesses. When judging the performance of a kindergarten, ACECQA gives five grades: excellent performance, excellent performance, generally satisfied, close to just reaching the standard, and needs to be improved further.

* Recommend a useful website, startingblocks, where you can search for kindergartens near your area, and at the same time, you can check their scores, whether they have achieved their goals, whether they have reached the standards, and whether they have exceeded them.

For example, the comprehensive score: exceeding NQS indicates that the overall level of the kindergarten is very good.

There are various reasons for the uneven scores and grades, but it is basically understandable that kindergartens, like primary schools, also have public and private concepts. Councils, communes and churches belong to public or semi-public kindergartens, and families belong to private day care. Understand the nature of the school and basically understand their strength.

Indoor and outdoor environment investigation is clear at a glance. If it is a full-time kindergarten, it is necessary to observe the scale and facilities of the kindergarten, the activity plan posted by the kindergarten and the teacher's introduction. If it is a family kindergarten, we should pay attention to whether the activity area used by children is clean and tidy and whether there is enough outdoor activity space.

The large school area gives children more space to exercise, which is conducive to children's exercise. The aisle is spacious, and children's schoolbags and bookcases can be placed outdoors or in the open space, so that children will not be crowded or collided when taking things or entering or leaving. Some schools are small in size, leading to congestion, and the probability of collisions and accidents will increase. On the contrary, if the kindergarten's software and hardware are unqualified, the teachers are imperfect, the space is narrow and the children are crowded, the probability of accidents will be higher.

From the overall environment of kindergartens, we can see whether the management of kindergartens is strict and safe. Most public kindergartens and some private kindergartens don't include lunch at noon. You should ask whether lunch is provided, know your eating habits and inquire about the menu.

Conditional CC will make a class for children under three years old, a class for children aged three to four, and a class for children aged five to six. There is a certain relationship between the class placement and the size of the school. There may be only two classes in kindergartens with insufficient or small conditions.

Usually three-year-olds are with two-and-a-half-year-olds Although it seems that there is a gap of only a few months to six months, in fact, three-year-old children are much more sensitive in action and reaction than younger children. Older children are with younger children, and the chances of younger children being hit and having accidents will increase. What's more, a three-year-old child has a part of Todd, which is more unsafe in action and more difficult in management.

The curriculum of early childhood education in Australia is different from that of the school system. There are no fixed teaching tasks and no teaching indicators. But the teacher's words and deeds, every grass and tree in the kindergarten, all affect the children's absorption of knowledge. Carefully observe whether the relationship between the teacher and the child is tense, whether the teacher is willing to slow down and listen to the child, and guide the child towards the teaching goal instead of imposing orders. Consult the time of children's outdoor activities every day, and investigate whether the way to manage children is factory-style operation (assembly line, each child should obey the teacher's arrangement) or whether the teacher will arrange meals and lunch breaks for children at the right time according to their independent work and rest. The management mode of public kindergartens in China is one-size-fits-all and streamlined management, which is not recommended by Australian education.

The minimum requirement for general parenting is 10. Children need two teachers to take care of them. If the kindergarten is short of funds, the salary for teachers is limited, the teachers are not fixed and mobile, and teachers are often changed, which will make children forget their teachers, and it is difficult for new teachers to understand the needs of each child immediately, which is not conducive to the cultivation of feelings.

When the baby is over two years old, he begins to train how to go to the toilet. The competent kindergarten will inform parents to help their children grow up in this respect.

In addition, children also began to learn basic mathematics, counting, puzzles, singing, dancing and telling stories at school.

When I was five or six years old, I began to learn to recognize simple words and even write my own name.

For example, conditional CCs will be equipped with cameras. When there is an accident or an event that cannot be judged at the first time, it can be reviewed through the camera.