权威幼教｜期末AISL哈罗幼教交流大会： 园长齐聚首，赋能卓越幼儿教育
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2024 年 3 月，AISL哈罗集团幼儿园园长齐聚北京，参加了为期三天的专业发展活动，深入讨论如何为卓越幼教赋能。此次活动由AISL哈罗北京安贞校区主办，见证参会幼教专家们展开超乎预期的启发与交流。
参加专业学习和发展会议，所获几何，有时是个概率事件——会议日程很难充分反映每个人的兴趣和专业发展需求。如果有 60% 的日程符合意愿，已属难得，因为能够参加一场汇集众多行业专家的活动是非常宝贵的机会。因此，能够有机会设计和举办一次内容由与会者自己决定的会议，既是一种荣誉，也是一项重大责任。
把幼儿园的管理者们聚集在一起，意味着要他们从繁忙的校园事项中拨冗前来。会议成效是关键——我们期望交流活动结束后，代表团的每一位成员都能充分地被赋能、被激励、被启发，积极思考和探索合作、发展、革新和宣扬卓越教育的机会。任何相聚交流的目的，都旨在让大家在结束时深感自己有能力为幼儿的人生带来更好的影响，因为我们知道，幼儿时期的影响是一生当中最关键的。
我们知道，从出生到 5 岁，孩子大脑的发育比一生中任何其他时期都要快、都要多。虽然遗传因素起着重要作用，但科学研究清楚地表明：
1️⃣ 婴幼儿时期，孩子“人生经历”的质量非常重要。这几年的经历，无论是积极的或消极的，都有助于塑造他们大脑发育的方式。
2️⃣ 这些经历对他们的健康以及在学校和生活中学习和成功的能力有着长远的影响。
大脑是人体的指挥中心，也是唯一一个在出生时尚未发育完全的器官。出生时，婴儿的大脑只有成人大脑的四分之一。令人难以置信的是，它的大小在1岁时就会翻一番。到3岁时，它会继续发育到成人的 80%，到 5 岁时则会发育到成人的 90%——几乎完全发育成熟。
新生儿在呱呱坠地时，就已经拥有一生中所需要的所有脑细胞（神经元），但真正使大脑工作的（让我们能够活动、思考、交流和做其他事情的）是这些细胞之间的连接。因此，孩子生命的最初几年是形成这些连接的关键时期——每秒钟至少有一百万个新的神经连接（突触）产生，远远超过生命中的任何其他时期。
" Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world. "
—— Nelson Mandela, anti-aparthei activist
In March 2024, the Heads of Early Years from across the AISL Harrow group of schools came together for a three-day event focussing on embedding quality in early years. The event was hosted by the team at AISL Harrow Beijing’s City Campus and provided an experience above and beyond that expected by any of the attendees.
Attending professional learning and development conferences can be akin to playing a game of chance – you rarely have the opportunity to have a complete schedule that fully reflects your interests and professional needs for development. You may be lucky if 60% of the programme on offer matches your wishes and are content with this as it is a privilege to be able to attend an event where so many experts in one field are present. And so, to be afforded the opportunity to design and deliver a conference where the content is driven by the attendees themselves is both an honour and a considerable responsibility.
To bring Early Years leaders together means pulling them away from their very busy lives in a school, therefore impact is key – every member of the delegation must come away from the experience feeling energised, enthused, inspired and with a mind buzzing with opportunity for collaboration, development, change, and celebration. The aim of any collective gathering is to leave feeling empowered to make a greater impact on young children’s lives, as we know that it is in the early years that impact is most critical.
We know that from birth to age 5, a child’s brain develops more, and more rapidly, than at any other time in life. And while genetics plays a significant role, scientific research has made clear that:
1️⃣ The qualityof a child’s experiences in the first few years of life – positive or negative – helps shape how their brain develops.
2️⃣ These experiences have a lasting impact on their health and ability to learn and succeed in school and in life.
The human brain, the command center of the entire body, is the only organ not fully developed at birth. At birth, the average baby’s brain is about a quarter of the size of the average adult brain. Incredibly, it doubles in size in the first year and keeps growing to about 80% of adult size by age 3 and 90% – nearly full grown – by age 5.
A newborn baby has all the brain cells (neurones) they will have for the rest of their life, but what really makes the brain work – and enables us to move, think, communicate and just about everything else – are the connections between those cells. Therefore, the early years of a child's life are a crucial time for making those connections – at least one million new neural connections (synapses) every second, far more than at any other time in life.
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婴幼儿时期，最初几年的经历将对孩子的一生影响深远，这一点已被广泛接受：
鉴于我们已经知道儿童早期发展、神经科学研究、大脑发育等相关理论，以及幼儿早期经历的力量，举办一场促进高质量教育经历的会议势在必行。这也正是我们有能力、有信心办成的。得益于一支经验丰富的幼教团队，我们能够保证每个人都能从这次会议中收获他们想要的东西。
当一群拥有共同愿景和目标的人聚在一起，思想碰撞的力量不容低估。只有当每个人都渴望实现同一个目标时，才能开展丰富而有意义的对话；只有当彼此之间互相高度信任时，才能进行开诚布公而又具有挑战性的对话；只有当大家在一起工作了相当长的一段时间后，对话才能顺畅地推进，因为初次见面时的拘谨早已不复存在。
拥有一支经验丰富的幼教团队是一大幸事。我们能够召集全集团的专家来支持我们的目标，或是帮助我们打磨目标。同时，我们也邀请了不同实践领域的专家为大家提供启发性的专业发展，以补充会议主题 “赋能卓越教育”。
It is widely accepted and undisputed that the earliest years of a child’s life will have a significant impact on the:
· personal
· social
· emotional
· psychological
· academic
· trajectory
that their life will take. Therefore, the importance of quality early years educational experiences plays a critical role.
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think. "
—— Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist
Knowing what we know about child development in the early years, neuroscience research and brain development, and the power of the experiences a child is exposed to, creating a conference that promotes high-quality educational experiences is therefore imperative. And that is what we were able to successfully do; because we have such a wealth of experience within the early years team, we were able to guarantee that everyone got exactly what they wanted from the experience.
The power of a coming together of minds that share a collective vision and purpose can never be underestimated. The rich and meaningful dialogue that takes place can only happen when everyone has a desire to achieve the same goals, the open, honest and challenging conversations can only occur when there is a high level of trust between the attendees, and when they have worked together for a substantial period of time, it flows, as the reservation of meeting someone for the first time is long gone.
Being privileged in having access to the level of experience that we have within the team, we were able to call upon experts from across the Group to support and challenge thinking around our purpose, whilst also inviting experts in specific aspects of practice to provide thought provoking professional development to complement the overarching conference theme of embedding quality.
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评估：有意义的评估之目的和影响，确保所生成数据的严谨性。
数据故事：让评估得出的数字产生意义——在规划学习和进步时，我们学到了什么，下一步该往哪里走？
通过高质量的教学设施最大限度地提高学习效果：确保我们提供所有素养和领域的学习机会，让小狮课程融入每个学习空间。
通过Greg Bottrill进行文化素养学习领域的专门培训。
以课堂为基础，考虑如何将AISL小狮幼教课程的所有学习素养和领域更好地融入到环境和实践中，从而最大限度地发挥每个幼儿作为独特个体的学习潜能。
确定下一学年幼教交流的主要优先事项——下一步应该做什么？
我们对哈罗的幼儿教育特色充满信心；我们有明确的愿景和目标，而这次思想碰撞的机会再次强化了这一点。教育界在不断发展演变，我们的职责是顺应变化，确保在与时俱进的同时，保持我们的愿景和特点。要实现这一目标，并不总是需要外部专家，而是要最大限度地利用我们已有的内部专家。值得庆幸的是，我们能够为内部专家们喝彩，互相分享有实证依据的实践。
每一秒，孩子都在成长（他们的大脑中，每秒都在产生上百万个新的神经连接），而我们必须充分把握与孩子一起的分分秒秒，充分赋能他们的卓越成长。
“教育不是人生的预备阶段。反之，教育贯穿我们每个人的一生。"
Within the three-day period, we were able to deep dive into the areas of :
Assessment: the purpose and impact of meaningful assessment, ensuring rigour of the data produced
Data stories: making meaning of the numbers produced from assessment – what do we learn and where do we go next when planning for learning and progress
Maximising learning through quality provision: ensuring that we provide access to all learning disciplines and domains, and promote the Little Lions curriculum in every learning space
Literacy-specific training in the learning domain of literacy by the inimitable Greg Bottrill
Classroom-based sessions to consider how best to thread all learning disciplines and domains of the
Little Lions curriculum into the environment and practice, so that we maximise the learning potential for every unique and individual child
Identifying key priorities as an Early Years Network for next academic year – where do we go from here?
We have confidence in our Early Years identity; we are clear in our vision and purpose and the opportunity to gather our collective minds serves to reinforce this. The world of education evolves continuously, and our role is to be responsive to change, ensuring that we remain relevant and current whilst maintaining our vision and identity. To do so doesn’t always mean the need for external experts, but rather maximising the use of the internal experts that we already have.
Thankfully, we are able to celebrate our experts and share best and evidence-informed practice, so that we ensure that when we are with the children I our charge, that we make the most of every second (and every million new neural connections).
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. "
—— John Dewey,
philosopher and educational reformer
在未来，哈罗教育专家还将为您带来
一系列前沿幼教干货，记得密切留意哦！
Moving forward,
our education experts will be sharing more
insightful tips on early years education, so stay tuned!
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