"May Day" 4 days holiday just passed, the working people return to their nests, the size of friends began to go to school. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the total number of Chinese tourists during the holiday reached 192 million, setting off a small upsurge in outbound tourism. Family trips, such as those for parents and students, have become the new hot spots of tourism this season.
Why are parents so keen to take children to "play" and "wild" together?
STEAM Education "Popular Facts"
Back in 2018, Jack Ma was blunt in his "Back to Class" speech: "In the next 30 years, the world's education will face great challenges, scientific and technological revolution, artificial intelligence, the rapid development of robots, the future of our children than who recite much, not who is fast, the future is the competition of creativity, imagination competition, children only have imagination and creativity, in 30 years they will not be depressed, will be easy to employment."
And this batch of "rebellious generation", "self-awareness of the generation", that is, after 85, 90 have boarded the "parents" this new role stage, how can in the education of the next generation "follow the rules", they use practical action firmly expressed their education concept: let the children grow up in play, let the children improve their ability in play.
STEAM education, which focuses on improving children's imagination and creativity, has also become popular in China and has been sought after and recognized by tens of thousands of teachers. STEAM is an educational concept first proposed by the United States government. This educational concept emphasizes the learning and application of multi-disciplinary and cross-field knowledge, and enforces stronger practical ability requirements than traditional educational concepts. In the United States, STEAM stands for the comprehensive education of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics.
Compared with the exam-oriented education in China, STEAM education pursues the comprehensive development of children and has a more flexible and diversified education model. Nowadays, knowledge such as artificial intelligence and information technology is increasingly included in the curriculum of primary and secondary schools, which reflects the country's increasing emphasis on quality-oriented education.
As a pioneer representative institution of STEAM education in China, Tim has been integrating STEAM education concepts into its classes since its inception. The courses cover wood art, electronics, science and technology, 3D printing, model aircraft, programming, leather art, folk art and other topics, integrating teaching materials, teaching AIDS, curriculum development, education and training. It provides hands-on science experiential learning and interesting subject situational learning for children aged 6-12 years old, so that children can learn and think while playing, and experience real happy learning.
In addition, Stim not only strictly follows the American STEAM courses in China to ensure the integrity and system in the implementation process, but also integrates a lot of traditional Chinese handicraft production, so that the next generation can experience and inherit the long and profound Chinese culture, cultivate cultural confidence from an early age, and then truly combine Chinese and Western.
"When we promote and guide entrepreneurs to implement the program, we put a special emphasis on stimulating children's creativity and learning ability, which is why the Stim program has produced dozens of entrepreneurs in two months, mostly young parents. Stim is not a cheap investment compared to other small projects, but it has an empathy for all families raising children, and the future return is more than just money." Mr Zhang, who has two children and is in charge of the national rollout of Stim, told reporters.
Tim: To cultivate children's independent personality
As Mr. Zhang said, the current "4+2+1" family structure in China results in children having basically six hands to help them solve problems in life. The accumulation of surrogate behaviors leads to the habitual thinking of every child: there is always someone to help them do things or others to urge them to do things.
The scary thing is that this kind of inertia will naturally extend to learning. Classroom homework needs teacher supervision, homework needs parents supervision, winter and summer homework until the last day to start all night with parents to complete, encountered problems do not want to think directly skip... As time goes by, the ability to complete the study independently is getting weaker and weaker, and the ability to think independently is getting weaker and weaker. How to achieve an "adult" with independent personality?
Mr. Zhang himself has taken the lead in practicing Stim's educational philosophy and curriculum system, and has indeed brought great changes to children's learning habits, parent-child relationship and family atmosphere.
"Influenced by its educational philosophy, I will try my best to spend more time with my children to complete the Stim course, because STEAM's educational philosophy strongly advocates the company and inspiration of fathers in hands-on creativity activities. Based on this, we employ all male teachers in the operation of the project. This is just to fill the current family education, early childhood education is dominated by female workers, we call it "male education." Mr Zhang said.
The launch of "male education" makes Stim project unique among all quality education sectors.
According to the White Paper on Family Education in China, 60.7 percent of people think there is a lack of paternal love in the family, while only 13 percent think there is no lack of paternal love, and 40 percent say the lack of paternal love is due to lack of time to accompany them. American philosopher Eric Fromm also wrote in The Art of Love that Mother represents nature, the earth and the sea, and is everyone's hometown. The father is the other extreme of human existence, the world of ideas, the world of law, order, discipline and so on.
A healthy and healthy child needs not only the warmth, peace, delicacy and love of his mother to gain a sense of security, but also the courage and masculinity, rigor and creativity of his father to have more sense of value, so as to determine a broad and lofty direction and goal of life.
To help Chinese families to cultivate children with independent personality is the core advantage of Stim Program, which is different from other programs. It is also the top-level logic of the program.
Mr. Zhang said that Stim is not only in line with the American STEAM education in the cultivation of six abilities, such as logical thinking and creativity, but also in the cultivation of learning ability and creativity. It guides children to learn actively in the process of making handmade goods, and inspires children's creativity by holding offline activities with different themes. Let the children take the products made by their own hands to participate in the competition, excellent members can also become the club craft Medal members, enhance the enthusiasm of the children to participate in the practice.
Tim: Let more children enjoy the STEAM education dividend
So far, more than 20,000 students have participated in Stim's activities, and Stim has more than 1,000 registered members. In addition, 15 high-quality primary and middle schools in Changchun, such as the Affiliated High School of Northeast Normal University, the Affiliated Primary School of Northeast Normal University, the Affiliated Primary School of Ketai University, and provincial and municipal experimental schools, have set the Stim Club as the practice base, and social growth institutions such as Xinhua Little Journalists and New Culture Newspaper little reporters have set Stim Club as the practice base or cooperation unit.
In response to the national policy call, Stim will actively cooperate with the national policy. According to the documents released by the Ministry of Education, such as Science Curriculum Standards for Compulsory education in primary schools and Artificial Intelligence Innovation Action in Colleges and universities, it will actively implement the introduction of artificial intelligence into universal education in primary and secondary schools, and establish a public service platform for popular science of artificial intelligence for teenagers and the public.
As a young and dynamic educational institution, Tim always adheres to the education concept of "multidisciplinary integration and interdisciplinary practice", and always maintains a heart of awe for children's education. Tim is committed to spreading STEAM education model to tens of millions of families in China, so that more children can enjoy the dividends of STEAM education model. To promote the upgrading of quality education for the whole people, the achievement of the future society of great talents to contribute their own strength.
