NCSEC Collaboration for Early Childhood Engineering and Inquiry Science Professional Development for Teachers Across China
国家幼儿科学中心为中国各地的教师提供幼儿事务和探究科学专业发展。
2008 年，美国国家幼儿科学中心 (NCSEC) 创始主任 William Ritz 博士受邀来到中国，分享关于科学奇观的想法，并提供专业发展，旨在帮助幼儿教育工作者理解、重视和融入科学。快乐的科学体验建立在孩子们对自然世界与生俱来的好奇心之上。这最初的努力带来了长期且富有成效的合作；促成与国际 HSOS 幼儿教育联盟在北京建立了科学启蒙 (HSOS) 实地中心、另外数位 NCSEC 培训师代表团前往中国与当地的教育工作者合作，以及将教师指南「科学的领先地位：鼓励惊奇感」翻译为中文。
从那时起，我们为中国各省的数千名幼儿教育工作者提供了演讲和专业发展流程，并接待了多支教育工作者队伍，希望更多地去了解如何设计和实施有意义的、以儿童中心的科学和事务学习体验。我们在中国的大部分工作都是在一年一度的 HSOS 和国际幼儿科学教育 (IECSC) 会议上进行。在这次为期 3 天的会议中，我们与幼儿园教师合作，分享让幼儿参与科学和事务设计的策略和活动。该会议每年在不同的省份举行；如需了解更多信息，请访问我们的 IECSC 官方微信 微信账号：kexueqizhi。
除了通过 IECSC 会议支持中国教师外，我们还直接与中国各地的学校合作，为其教师提供深度培训。例如，2020-2025 年，我们与北京启明幼儿园的老师进行了在线培训。在我们的工作中，我们帮助教师认识到，促进孩子的好奇心以及帮助培养他们的科学调查技能是幼儿科学最重要的目标，并参与能达到这些目标的课程计划。通过实践和指导，启明老师们在编写教案和实时调整教案方面表现出色，发现并遵循孩子的兴趣，并在整个学年的课程计划过程中快乐地研究各种科学主题来强调出使孩子们培养出自主性的科学调查技能
我们非常感谢与中国各地幼儿园优秀的教师和领导者进行这些有意义的合作。如果您想了解更多关于我们如何为您的老师提供服务的信息，请联系我们。
In 2008 Dr. William Ritz, founding director of the National Center for Science in Early Childhood (NCSEC), was invited to China to share ideas about Sense of Wonder Science and provide professional development designed to help early childhood educators understand, value, and incorporate joyful science experiences that build upon children's innate curiosity about the natural world. This initial effort has resulted in a long-standing and productive collaboration; leading to the establishment of a Head Start on Science (HSOS) field center with the International HSOS Early Childhood Education Alliance in Beijing, several additional delegations of NCSEC trainers traveling to China to work with educators there, and a Mandarin translation of the teachers' guide, A Head Start on Science: Encouraging a Sense of Wonder.
Since that time, we have provided presentations and professional development to thousands of early childhood educators in provinces across China and have hosted several contingents of educators looking to learn more about designing and implementing meaningful, child-centered science and engineering learning experiences. Much of our work in China takes place at the annual HSOS and International Early Childhood Science Education (IECSC) Conference. During this 3-day conference, we work with Kindergarten teachers to share strategies and activities for engaging young children in science and engineering. This conference is held in a different province each year; to learn more, please visit our official IECSC WeChat/Weixin account: kexueqizhi.
In addition to supporting Chinese teachers through the IECSC Conference, we also work directly with schools across China to provide in depth training for their teachers. For example, from 2020-2025, we have met online with teachers of Qiming Kindergarten in Beijing. In our work, we have helped teachers to appreciate that promoting a child's sense of wonder, along with helping to develop their science investigation skills, are the most important goals for early childhood science and to engage in lesson planning that represents these goals. With practice and guidance, Qiming teachers have excelled in their ability to write, and make real-time adaptations to, lesson plans that discover, and then follow children's interests, and emphasize children’s science skills as they joyfully investigate a variety of science topics throughout the year.
We are so grateful to have these meaningful collaborations with the amazing teachers and leaders in kindergartens across China. If you'd like to know more about how we might serve your teachers, please contact us.
