Reviews about the work of a kindergarten teacher. Why is it necessary to think? Education to work as a kindergarten teacher Is it worth becoming a kindergarten teacher

The Village continues to figure out how the budget of people of different professions is built. Recently, a kindergarten teacher from Perm, Maria Shubina published on his page on the social network, an open letter to the president. She complained about the inefficient work of local officials and trade unions, the excessive demands placed on teachers, and low salaries. According to Maria, even taking into account all incentive payments and additional classes, the teacher receives around 20 thousand rubles. Her Moscow colleague anonymously told The Village what toys are prohibited in kindergartens, what the teacher's income consists of and where the money goes.

Profession

Full day group teacher

Income

53 000 rubles

spending

4,000–5,000 rubles

sports

4 000 rubles

personal care

10 000 rubles

3 000 rubles

cosmetics

education

4 000 rubles

mugs and sections for the child

8 000 rubles

products

4 000 rubles

500–1,000 rubles

10 000 rubles

accumulation

How to become an educator

I am 30 years old and have been a teacher for five years. I got a job in a kindergarten when my daughter went there, but there are no benefits and privileges for parents who work there themselves. If you want to send your child to kindergarten, just like everyone else, you sign up on the public services portal, you stand in a single queue. But for me, the big plus of this work was that I could spend more time with my child. In addition, mothers of young children often have to take sick leave. If in some other places this is treated negatively, then in the state kindergarten they tried to enter into my position and there were no questions about this. My daughter is already going to school, but I stayed to work in the kindergarten.

At first I came to the position of a document specialist, but after a while I decided to switch to working with children. I have two higher educations: economics and pedagogy, but my specialty is a teacher of geography. Still, the methods of working with schoolchildren and kindergarteners are completely different, therefore, like all teachers with non-core education, I took retraining courses. At first I was a teacher in the youngest group, and then I began to work with older children.

Most of the educators are women aged 40–50, about a third are young people under 35. But there are no male educators in our kindergarten, and, as colleagues said, there were none before. Now there are already stories when fathers go on maternity leave, but the profession of an educator remains purely female. Although I believe that children, especially boys, sometimes need to talk to someone like a man.

Schedule

Another plus of my work is the shift schedule. The kindergarten is open five days a week from 07:00 to 19:00, but the teachers change each other. My work day is 7 hours 20 minutes and my work week is 36 hours. If one day I am in kindergarten from morning to afternoon, then the next day I will work in the evening. The teacher also has 42 calendar days of vacation, and, as a rule, we take it in the summer. The garden is open all year round, but in the summer there are fewer children: someone is with their grandmother in the village, someone is relaxing with their parents. Therefore, groups can unite, make one out of two, and not four educators will be needed, but two.

Kindergarten starts at exactly 07:00, and around this time parents start to bring their children. While everyone is gathering, I turn on the audio fairy tale, take out board games, and get ready for classes myself - I select books and handouts. By eight o'clock the assistant teacher arrives, and by 08:20 all the children usually gather and sit down for breakfast. Exactly at 09:00, classes begin, which are scheduled by day. It can be modeling, application, drawing, physical education, music, the formation of elementary mathematical concepts, about the world around and artistic development. From 10:00 am the children have free time to play, then have a second breakfast, after which we go for an hour walk. We return to lunch, followed by the traditional quiet hour. Usually, in younger groups, children get so tired during outdoor games that they always fall asleep, but in preparatory groups, where everyone is already six or seven years old, several people may not sleep. We urge them not to make noise while others are resting.

After a quiet hour, it's time for an afternoon snack, games and activities. Usually children are fond of something for 15-20 minutes, then they get bored, and they need to change the type of activity. The teacher himself decides what to do with the children, but everything must be within the framework of the state educational standard. Sometimes we come up with unusual entertainment - we show experiments or put on skits together. Now I am studying to conduct English physical education minutes in groups: they can introduce children to a foreign language with the help of games and songs.

At 17:00 we are again going for an evening walk, after which we have dinner, and some parents have been coming for their children since 18:00, as now many have additional classes. The kindergarten is open until 19:00, but sometimes teachers have to stay until the parents pick up all the children. We don’t have such that someone is constantly late, but everyone can get stuck in a traffic jam or stay late at work, the main thing is to call and warn about it.

Dress code and rules

There are quite strict rules in kindergartens, everything is regulated by the federal standard. Although we do not have an algorithm for playing the rattle, we are generally guided by many documents. For example, there is a single standard for what toys should be - without sharp corners, from certain materials. Teddy bears, as in our childhood, are prohibited. This is due to the fact that soft toys are difficult to wash, and we do this regularly. How do children handle things? Dropped to the floor, picked up, hugged, kissed. Everything must be clean. We have a lot of wooden toys, they are warm, pleasant to the touch, smell good and also easy to clean. There are also enough toys made of artificial materials: puzzles, cars, a kitchen with plastic vegetables and fruits, a “beauty corner” with a hair dryer and a comb. For the third year the children have been playing with them, and nothing has broken.

All handouts for children must be laminated, we have lamination equipment in the garden. We generally have no problems with methodological literature, toys and consumables - plasticine, felt-tip pens, pencils. We do not buy anything ourselves and do not ask our parents about it.

There are requirements for the appearance of educators. Ideally, you need to wear shoes with a small heel with a round toe, straight trousers and a pastel-colored pullover. Everything that can somehow injure children is strictly prohibited: high-heeled shoes or with pointed toes, long nails. There should be no short or too long skirts, necklines, facial piercings and bright makeup. Jeans with holes are also banned, but I sometimes, albeit very rarely, still wear them. You can afford, for example, something red, a plain T-shirt, leather sneakers or sneakers.

Semolina and other problems

Very different children go to our kindergarten, including those from wealthy families. But contrary to the stereotype about them being spoiled and depraved, our children treat toys and books with care. Of course, it happens that everyone is running around, standing on their ears and not hearing anything. Usually in such cases we arrange physical culture minutes - this gives an outlet for energy, the children dance, and do not smash everything around. This works well with young children, but with the preparatory group, you need to negotiate, use a stern look and a serious tone.

The legendary semolina porridge is still included in the menu of kindergartens, but, fortunately, it does not appear in the diet so often. Now there are many alternatives: multi-cereal, oatmeal, buckwheat porridge. But one more semolina dish was added - a casserole, which children also do not really like.

Children also have their favorite dishes: usually chicken noodle soup and mashed potatoes are eaten clean. If children refuse to eat, we do not put pressure on them. Even when I was little, we were constantly told: “Lenin was for clean plates”, “Until you eat, you won’t leave the table.” Now there is no such thing, everything is built on the principle of non-violence. Although you can persuade the child, for example, to tell how the chefs tried when they prepared this dish.

We tell parents that the child does not eat well. Some mothers themselves ask the children to feed, for example, to agree first on five spoons of soup, and then the child usually gets involved in the process and eats the whole plate. But there are cases when children do not eat anything. We have a boy who eats only bread and apples and drinks water. What we just didn’t try with him: we asked our parents to bring the usual plates and cutlery from home, we took him to a psychologist. But so far nothing has helped, and for the second year the child has been on a strange diet.

Now parents can complain directly to the Moscow Department of Education, bypassing the leadership of the kindergarten. They actively use this right, only then often regret it. After such complaints, he gets to the director of the garden, and the administrator of the building, and the teacher, and in the end, my mother comes and says: “Sorry, I wrote different things out of emotion, I was wrong.” There are also parents who consider us servants and try to communicate with us in an orderly tone, to teach us about life. Fortunately, these are in the minority.

Sometimes parents encourage what is strictly prohibited in kindergarten. Not so long ago in Moscow there was a case: one child put some small toy in his ear, walked with it for several days, and removed it surgically. After that, for safety reasons, it was forbidden to bring your own toys to kindergartens. If the child still came with something from home, we have to pick it up and hide it in a locker until the parents arrive. And they allow the child to carry toys with them, although they know that this can be dangerous. It turns out that we are bad, and mom and dad are good. We are forbidden to fight, we explain to the children that we are one team, therefore we must explain and agree. And some parents, on the contrary, teach the child to hit back, hit or push back even harder.

If the teacher noticed that the child came in bruises, and not on his knees and elbows, but, for example, on his back, we must first discuss this with the parents. If this is repeated regularly, you need to inform the psychologist and the administration so that they can talk to the parents. So far I haven't come across something like this.

Income

The salary of an educator in Moscow is 46 thousand rubles, there are additional payments for the category - the first or the highest. In order to get the first category, you need to pass the exam. We must constantly attend seminars, webinars, lectures and courses, conduct additional classes. Then all your achievements need to be collected and submitted to the certification commission. She might ask a question about government regulations or recent courses. If the commission is satisfied with everything, the teacher is assigned the first qualification category, for which an additional payment of 10% of the salary is due. In two years, you can defend yourself in the highest category. To do this, you need to have publications on specialized sites for educators, diplomas for participating in competitions of children's drawings and crafts. For the highest category, they already pay extra 16%.

There is also a stimulating part, which each educational institution sets independently. It depends on how many children from the group visited the garden this month. There is a funny name for this indicator - children's days. For example, if 90% of children regularly went to the garden, then the stimulating part will be approximately 30 thousand. This amount is distributed to everyone who works in the group. I receive 9.5 thousand rubles. Of all these payments, a tax of 13% is deducted, as a result, approximately 53 thousand are included.

Costs

In our family, the main part of the money is earned and, accordingly, the husband spends, I usually have small expenses. I do yoga and fitness, I go to the pool, I spend about 4-5 thousand a month on this. Shopaholism and big spending on clothes is not about me. I only go to the store when I need a specific item. I try to buy something practical, I can give 20 thousand in one month, and sometimes I don’t spend anything. This month, I bought winter shoes for myself and my daughter very profitably at a sale, spent 10 thousand on everything.

Cosmetics costs also differ from month to month. It happens that everything is over, then you need to lay out 5 thousand at once, but if everything is there, then you don’t need to spend money. Cosmetics cost about 3 thousand rubles, this also includes my irregular visits to the beautician. I go for a manicure and pedicure about once every three weeks, I give about 4 thousand for everything. Since the educator must constantly improve their skills, I have expenses for education. So, recently I took training courses and paid 3,500 for them.

My daughter goes to additional classes - dancing and tennis. Some of them are paid by the husband, and some by me. This is about 4 thousand per month. I work near the house and walk to the kindergarten. For long trips, we have a car, but the husband took over the cost of gasoline and repairs. Sometimes I use public transport, it comes out 500-1,000 rubles.

I used to go to hypermarkets for groceries, but about a year ago I started buying everything I needed close to home. Large stores tend to be crowded, which is very tiring, and the benefit of stocking up for a week is not that great. In addition, you still have to buy something fresh nearby. I pay attention to the composition and quality of products, so I often buy from the VkusVill chain. Of my money, I spend about 7-8 thousand rubles on them, my husband also buys food home. Another 4,000 goes to cafes.

Now I count my expenses using the banking app on my phone. There is also an opportunity to transfer money to a virtual piggy bank. I save money there, for which I am going to go to Lake Baikal and India in the summer.

If you want to become educator, then you should think carefully, there is always a chance that you will spend years of study and practice in vain, because not everything is as simple as it seems at first glance. Of course, first of all, it is worth noting that this profession is more suitable for those people who love children and are ready to devote their lives to them. You will have to work hard on yourself and learn to restrain emotions.

Many say that before going to work, it is important to think carefully. If you love children, it is not yet certain that you will be able to realize yourself as a successful educator. You have to learn to understand children and love your job, but let's talk about everything in order.

What is special about being a kindergarten teacher?

If working with schoolchildren or as students you can interact quite effectively, then in the case of preschool children, everything is much more complicated. Not all parents bring up children well, so you will have to instill certain skills and teach them the basics of knowledge. It is not a fact that they will understand you, but many simply refuse to listen to the teacher and show their displeasure with all their might.

Sometimes it's hard to find the best methods approach, so at the beginning of your professional path it will be quite difficult. Children can be moody or used to completely different parenting principles, so you have to spend a lot of time to build relationships. Also, many parents believe that only they know how to properly raise a baby, so a kindergarten teacher is not always an authority.

How might this job affect you?

First of all, this stress, which can be avoided by units of educators. Now it seems to you that such work cannot be too difficult, and children bring you only positive emotions, but in reality everything is not at all like that. Many educators are so deeply imbued with their work that life fades into the background for them. You must take care of your moral health, and for this you need to be calm about work.

It is unlikely that you are quick and easy decide all the problems and get rid of troubles, because they arise all the time, and you need a lot of experience. You will have to take each child as your own in order to give him everything. Over time, you will be concerned not only with the problems of the baby, but also with the problems of his family.

Make sure you have a favorite hobby, after all, you will have to take a break from work quite often. There may also be complaints from kindergarten workers, especially if you are a novice specialist. You will be constantly told that you do not know how to raise children. This is not very pleasant, and it will not pass without a trace for your nervous system.

What are the benefits of being a kindergarten teacher?

In fact, there are quite a few of them, but for those who believe that this profession is his calling. If you do not love or are afraid, this activity will not suit you. If you are 100% sure that you want and can raise preschool children, then do not deviate from your dream. Communication with children for a young girl is a great opportunity to gain experience and better prepare for the birth of her baby. The task is not easy, but you can achieve excellent results.

Teachers often become more bearable and balanced, because these qualities are simply necessary for their work. Of course, if initially you are an irritable person, then it is unlikely that you will be able to change this in yourself, but in general, educators become more organized, literate and sociable. This is a great opportunity to get rid of the fear of children, which is typical for many young girls.

Why should you think carefully before you become an educator?

You will have to dedicate children a lot of time, because you will have to both teach them to read, and tie their ponytails and clean up after them. An excellent school for a young mother, but the activity is quite difficult. Often young girls who have just graduated from a pedagogical university decide to go to work, and there they face many difficulties.

in institutions and universities you are not taught that you have to help the child go to the toilet or what to do if the baby has a stomachache, and he cannot tell you about it. Salaries in government institutions are low, so be prepared for the fact that you will have to look for a job on your own.

Of course, the salary private kindergartens high, but there are much tougher requirements, so you will have to follow all the instructions not only from the manual, but also from your parents. Often wealthy parents in high positions want the teacher to be completely subservient to them, so any attempt to prove their case will be inappropriate.

Feedback on the work of a kindergarten teacher

1. Margarita, Moscow. It was quite difficult for me initially to establish a common language with the kids. They are very sweet and give me a lot of joy, but we did not get along so quickly and not so easily. The first couple of months on the job were terrible. It seemed to me that they were on two different icebergs, between which there was ice water. Now it’s easier for me, but don’t forget that I have been working towards this result for 11 years.

2. Oksana, Kiev. I don't understand who likes this kind of work. The worst thing is when children begin to act up and become completely uncontrollable. I recently graduated from the Pedagogical University, but I already regretted choosing this position. It is very difficult to get into a prestigious kindergarten, but in the state one we are paid a penny. Now I'm thinking about going to some courses and changing the type of activity.

3. Elvira, Kazan. Even at school age, I clearly understood that I wanted to raise kids, so there were no questions about entering a university. I clearly decided to go to work in a kindergarten and to this day I do not regret it. It's easy and pleasant for me with kids, even when they show their character. I come to work and forget about my problems, because next to me are the sweetest and kindest children with whom I spend a lot of time.

The work of a teacher in a kindergarten is a responsible occupation, because in his care there is a whole group of children with different characters and temperaments. Of course, such a person must love children very much, be patient, attentive, tactful, responsive, show high communication skills and the ability to manage a team. Moreover, in order to work successfully with children, you need to have an inclination for this occupation.

In addition, it should be remembered that the work of a kindergarten teacher is accompanied by constant psycho-emotional stress, requires a strong nervous system and increased resistance to stress, the ability to control one's emotions and behavior.

You need to spend a lot of time with children, indoors and outdoors, which is often associated with unforeseen or even traumatic situations, and the educator needs to be able to anticipate an emergency development of events, respond to it in time, and, if necessary, apply first aid. After all, he is responsible for the health and life of children.

Required Education for a Kindergarten Teacher

To work, you must have a pedagogical education. You can get it in pedagogical colleges, pedagogical or humanitarian universities. Today, in addition to state educational institutions, private institutions are engaged in relevant training. Such institutions should have an appropriate level of accreditation, confirming their right to conduct educational activities to obtain the necessary qualifications.

To work as a teacher in a kindergarten, it is enough to get a secondary education by graduating from a teacher training school or college. But still, to work with children, it is preferable to have a higher education, because in order to effectively work with children, you need to gain knowledge in psychology and pedagogy, you need erudition, a general culture, and competent speech.

Basic knowledge of a PC and a foreign language is only welcome, giving advantages over a lower-skilled specialist, and allowing you to quickly find and assimilate information that helps you better cope with educational work.

To improve pedagogical skills and acquire new knowledge, there are refresher courses and specialized seminars where you can exchange experience with employees of other preschool institutions.

Since children are the future of the nation, their first educator bears a great responsibility, which can only be fully handled by those for whom this profession is a vocation, and who are at least hypothetically confident that they are able to educate a person (especially given the low wages of these workers).

Sometimes it happens that I can't fall asleep for a long time at night. Then I lie down, listen to Semyon's sniffling and Kisuni's snoring, and mentally compile various lists and lists in my head. Lately it's "10 Facts About....". I ask myself a topic - school, childhood in the countryside, first love, at the dacha with my grandmother, etc., and I observe with great interest what exactly pops up in my memory. If I somehow systematize these memories, then I remember best of all:
- something very pleasant
- what happened the first time
- unpleasant, evil, when someone offended or scared
- cases after which you begin to better understand people, the motives of their behavior

Here, for example, are my "10 facts about how I worked in kindergarten for 2 years."

1. Let's start with pleasant moments. The kindergarten was (and is) across the street from my house. Therefore, I was often late for work. On the first shift, I had to be at 7-30 in the morning, my alarm clock was at 7-15. To wash, get dressed, comb my hair, go down from the third floor and cross the road - in general, I had enough time. But sometimes in the morning I wanted to lie around for another five minutes :)

2. I got a job in August (like all graduates of pedagogical universities), and when December 31 came, I was told that I - as a "newcomer" - should be on duty that day. All the children were dismantled somewhere by one o'clock in the afternoon. I had to sit until 17-00 and wait for the arrival of the watchman grandmother. All the teachers handed over the keys to me and ran home, and I sat in an empty group on the windowsill and looked out the window. At first there was nothing. But then I began to feel more and more strongly that I was in an EMPTY large room, that I was ALONE here. It got quieter and quieter. In this silence, sounds were sometimes heard, usual for any building - something crackled, tapped, fell or creaked. Each time it crackled and creaked, I jumped and almost fell. I am very afraid of being alone in empty rooms. Gradually twilight deepened. My fear deepened as well. When once again something rumbled somewhere, I could not stand it, grabbed clothes, a bag and a box with keys and, with a bouncing heart, ran through the empty building down to the first floor, and out ... There, on the porch, I and stood for about two hours, admiring the snowfall and waiting for the watchman. I felt cold. But it's not scary.

3. Before working in kindergarten, I was firmly convinced that the teachers eat with the children, that their portions are included in the menu, and that all this is free. In fact, it turned out to be a little different. You could eat porridge in the morning and soup in the afternoon, yes. But those who wanted the second one had to sign up in the kitchen the day before, and then they deducted the cost of a sausage or cutlet from their salary. And the salaries in those days for educators were miserable. Therefore, in our kindergarten, almost no one signed up for the second, but everyone ate. Some ate openly, in a group, in front of the children. Some bashfully hid with a plate in the washing room or even in the toilet. The most humiliating in this situation were the visits of the Methodist. A methodologist is a woman who is responsible for the "teaching methodology" in the kindergarten, she goes to groups and checks whether the teachers teach children well, and also collects money from the teachers to buy "educational" books. So, this methodologist was very fond of running around all the groups at exactly the time of breakfast and lunch, and when she caught the teacher chewing, for some reason she looked very pleased, and her face read "I found you at the crime scene!".

4. Matinees. For two years I happened to be once a gnome, twice Baba Yaga and once a snowman. They didn’t give me a snowman costume, so I made it at home myself - from a long white sheet, on which I sewed small multi-colored Christmas balls and white paper snowflakes. I put on a "snow" mask on my face, also in the form of a snowflake. Everything was fine, but when I appeared in the hall, the kids quieted down. No one recognized the snowman in me. I don’t know who they recognized, the Snow Queen or the Ku Klux Klansman, or maybe “the best ghost in the world, wild but cute,” but when they started to shy away from me, I realized that the costume didn’t work out for me. Or vice versa, very successful. I had to take off my mask.
In general, jumping in a stupid suit and with a painted face, grimacing, laughing - I can do it.
But when I needed to be the host of the matinee for the new year, I got scared, saved and cowardly went on sick leave.

5. Parents. I was not lucky, I got a few inadequate parents in the group. I sadly remember that myself, a timid and terribly polite 22-23-year-old girl who still did not know how to stand up for herself when various nasty things were said to her face. What I didn't get to hear. Even my appearance and style of clothing was criticized by one "mother". And that fool that I was then, only silently listened, and then sobbed at home, retelling all that dirt to her husband ... It is still unpleasant for me to remember this. I'm very sorry for that me. And I rejoice, I am very glad that now I am not like that and would not allow anyone to talk to me like that.

6. Nannies, that is, "caregiver's assistants," as they were officially called. I don’t know how it is now, but then they received a beggarly salary. At first I could not understand how it is possible to work for such money. Then, little by little, I figured out the motives that motivate women to choose this job. A pensioner, a village aunt, worked with me. She liked the work - it's warm, you can eat deliciously, and then you can also take the waste home to your piglets. Then a student girl, fashionable and beautiful, worked with me, she needed this job so that there was a reason to transfer from full-time to part-time education. Many more women went to nannies, then to go on maternity leave, then this gave some advantages. But there was also a category of women who worked as a nanny "just like that." Simply because they considered such work to be the only convenient one. They gathered in a quiet hour in an empty group and drank tea with the remains of a morning loaf and homemade jam, gossip, and washed the bones for the teachers. They weren't shy about me because of my age and my "pettyness". They discussed prices, life, children, they complained that everything is so expensive that they pay little. But never once did any of them even think about changing something in their lives - or accepting and not grumbling. They - what struck me most - were not interested in ANYTHING in life. It was at that time a new type of people for me, people who were not interested in anything but to eat and lie on the couch in front of the TV. When I mentioned some book or artist, etc., in front of them, they looked at each other and giggled. It was very interesting to listen to their conversations. They reinforced me in the thought that I had to run away from the kindergarten, otherwise this swamp would suck me in too...

7. Acceptance. This is when, at the end of August, a special commission visits kindergartens and schools and checks whether everything is ready for the start of the school year. The acceptance did not frighten me, and the educators of pre-retirement age, who were afraid of losing their jobs, were very nervous, rushing about, pinning up some posters, sweeping away cobwebs on the verandas, painting, washing, etc. That reception was very memorable for me in one episode. In the garden, of all the teachers, I could only talk with one on topics close to me - about books, creativity, psychology, in a word - about matters that are far from household and financial needs. I really fell in love with her, intelligent and pleasant, and considered her a friend. And when, on the eve of the reception, this woman attacked me angrily and angrily because of some old flower pots that someone had left on the veranda many years ago - I don’t even remember the details, I only remember her angry face - and my amazement . Now, years later, I no longer fall so naively for a pleasant smile and competent speech. People are nice to you as long as you do not affect their interests - or until it seems to them that you can somehow harm them, ruin their relationship with superiors, etc. - and when it seems to them, they do not consider it necessary to continue smiling at you .

8. Musical classes in kindergarten were conducted by a quiet woman who could not stand up for herself, who had three cats at home. After dinner, she went around group after group and looked searchingly into the eyes of the nannies, begging for scraps for her cats. Even the nannies were rude to her. She endured everything in silence. She spoke joyfully to me (I also had many cats), and often complained about life.
Another person who was not respected was one believing teacher. I don’t know what religion she had, but this religion allowed her not to use deodorant, to take her small child to kindergarten in dirty or torn clothes, not to prepare for classes with children. Both the methodologist and the head of the kindergarten were openly rude to her. And she went completely happy and did not notice anything.
Looking at these two women, I thought about what is worse - to understand that the team despises you, or not to guess about it ...

9. Open lesson. Every year, all educators must hold one open lesson, to which all other educators and all the kindergarten authorities come. They prepare for this lesson in a month, draw scenery, prepare inventory, distribute to children to learn their roles and answers. I haven't had a single session like this in two years. The Methodist pressed me, demanded. And a wave of horror rose in me at the thought that so many people would look at me, and I would not be Baba Yaga or a dwarf, but like a serious and correct educator. In general, that's why I quit kindergarten. The open class was too scary for me.

10. When I was 2 years old, I ran away from kindergarten - I just opened the gate and went home. When I was 6 years old and they brought me from my grandmother's village and began to take me to kindergarten again, I sobbed non-stop, I felt very bad there. When I had to work there, I quit exactly on the day when it became possible (I had to work for 2 years, because the state taught me for five years and paid me a scholarship). I never liked kindergarten. And it seems to me that if it is possible to leave a child at home, then you should not drag him to a kindergarten, where children are taught only one thing - to “walk in formation”, to perform the same actions at the command of the teacher. And frankly, I would prefer that my child did not go to kindergarten. Well, will it work out - life will show ...

Due to numerous requests from gossips, I also decided to contribute to the common cause and tell about how I worked as a kindergarten teacher for a whole year.

The story will be somewhat chaotic, I immediately apologize for this, since more than 10 years have passed since this experience, but the memories still remain.

I will start, as usual, from the beginning, namely, how I came to such a life.

It was 2002 and I had just graduated from the Pedagogical College, I didn’t want to go to university right away and decided to take a break for a year, and since I had to live on something, I got a job as a kindergarten teacher without hesitation.

But not simple, but private. They took me, despite my young age, pretty quickly. This kindergarten, by the way, still exists, it is located in the Chertanovo district in Moscow.

The first few days I was an assistant teacher in a group with older children, they were somewhere around 3-4 years old. My duties were not the most difficult - to dress, put on shoes, make sure that no one poured soup on his head and ran away from the garden during a walk. I remember that on the very first day, one child fell from an iron ladder and hit his head, I was on the veranda with other children and there was a senior teacher nearby, she basically didn’t finish watching when I said that the child needed to go to the emergency room, she me - "What are you? We'll be fired for this." Mine was in shock, as they say.

A few days later, our methodologist Yulia came up to me and said that tomorrow they would attach their own group to me, which made me incredibly happy.

So, I come to work and they take me .... they bring me into the room and ten pairs of eyes of little ones look at me, who still don’t really speak, and some even barely walk.

The main age of the children in my group was 1 year and three months, there were, of course, children and older - 1.6 and 1.8. The oldest were 2.3, but there were only three of them, and the rest were small fry.

I will never forget my first day in this group - I was in such a shock from changing a diaper, which I had never held in my hands in my life and did not know which way to approach it. I had to learn everything on the go, on the run, i.e., because while you alone are changing a diaper, 13 more people are jumping around you. According to the list, there were 12 children in the group, but there were always more of them, and since the kindergarten is private, they brought any children - snotty, wild, hysterical.

The most difficult thing was in the morning when you met them (the shift started at 8 am). Children not getting enough sleep, hungry, you literally tear them away from their parents by force, the horror is shorter.

In general, on this topic, I can say that if a child goes to kindergarten all the time, without missing, and his parents mentally prepare him for this, then the adaptation time passes quite quickly - 2-3 weeks and that's it, he already runs to the group himself :)

In general, during my educational experience, I learned a lot - not only to change diapers, but also to feed children, lay them down, rock them, play and talk with them. What is the difficulty here, you say? And try to spend with the child 12 hours without a break! What if he's not alone? And don't just feed / take a walk, you still need to deal with them - the alphabet, drawing, arithmetic, English.

The first person I think of when I think about this period of my life is Lily.

Lily had her first day in the garden on my first day in this group. Little, fragile, such a bald princess.

She was a late child for her parents and, of course, they spoiled her as much as they could, but they needed to work and therefore had to send her to kindergarten. From the first day I took a liking to this child with all my heart, constantly strove to take her in my arms, play with her, and if we went somewhere, for example, for a walk, I always walked with her by the hand))

So if you ever hear from a teacher or educator that he loves all children equally, you should know that this is a blatant lie. Everyone has favorites. Lilya was my favorite for a whole year of work.

And it was all the more pleasant for me to read reviews on the Internet about this kindergarten a couple of years later, that her parents also remembered me, and they really liked me.

It's funny by the way that none of the children ever learned to pronounce my name and patronymic completely together, usually they called me either Lena or Viktorovna)) One way or another, Lily appeared in kindergarten at a year and three months and got used to it faster than other children, although the first days I had to literally tear her off in hysterics from her father, then everything quickly improved and she no longer wanted to leave us.

The next one was Nikita, he was the same age as Lily and they appeared in the group at the same time, probably this brought them closer, because they always played and hung out together, we jokingly called them the bride and groom. Nikita was a funny blond kid, a little capricious, but in general there were no problems with him. When he arrived, he did not yet know how to hold a spoon and fork, but he quickly learned by looking at other children. And looking at Lily, he also began to ask for a potty and constantly strove to remove the diaper.

In general, despite the fact that many may be shocked that children are sent to kindergarten at this age, there are positive aspects to this. Children very quickly socialize and learn everything by looking at each other.

By the way, I taught Lily the first to go to the toilet, don’t ask how, but it was a frenzy, because I had to always hold her hands so that she wouldn’t fall in there, because there was no child seat.

Next, I remember Danya(Daniel). This kid came to us, it seems, even earlier in age than Lilya, he was a year and two months old. But there were never any problems with him at all, I have never seen such a calm child. Here I will allow myself to note that children, especially at this age, are a complete reflection of their parents. And Danka's parents were wonderful - young, beautiful and easy-going. Danka constantly fell, almost always on purpose, and then lay and waited for me to pick him up. Once we were walking on the playground, and it was winter, and then Danya came up to me in one shoe. I ask him - "Where's the pancake boot?". And he sits on the snow and laughs. In short, I came up with a new exciting game for our entire crowd, called - "Find a shoe!". Found, thank God! He put it in a snowdrift))

While writing, remembering about pots and diapers, I remembered (sorry for the tautology) one funny incident. We had a girl Alyona, it was given only for half a day. So, somehow her mother comes to me and says - “Do you take all the children to the toilet together? Both boys and girls? My daughter came home and said she wanted to pee standing up! What it is?".

I stand and do not know whether to cry or laugh. I had to promise that we would take her daughter to the toilet separately, which, of course, never happened.

Well, for a snack, I want to tell you about one child who I remember the most. It was Pasha. Pasha turned a year old and they immediately brought him to us.

The main feature of Pasha was that he was tame. Not in the sense of gullible, but he did not walk, he just sat on his hands. Which was simply physically impossible for me, since running after 15 more children with a one-year-old butus in my arms is very problematic. Our nanny came to the rescue (who was, it seems, already the 6th in a row and she stayed the longest). It was such a fighting masculine woman, her own to the board and very active. She immediately took Pashka in her strong hands, because after sipping it for three days, I broke my back. At first, Pashka screamed all 12 hours, like a cut, because the nanny did not take him in her arms, but led him by the hand. After two weeks, Pashka stopped yelling and began to walk holding the nanny by the hem of her long skirt. Where she is, there he is. He still roared from time to time, but not so intensely. He ate only standing up and only sausages. In a quiet hour, he never slept, I just laid him down and sat with him for 1.5 hours, counting the crows, and he lay and smiled. It took us 2 months for this child to move away from us at least at arm's length and start playing with other children. But then pi *** happened.

Surely mothers who are shaking over their children and blowing dust off them are reading me, and if they come to kindergarten for their little blood, they suddenly find it all pasted over with plasters, then they probably want to kill the teacher.

But, damn it - educators are people too! You don't allow it?

In short, what happened - we were having dinner, all the children at separate round tables, me and the nanny separately. Pasha was next to us, and then someone in the garden turned on the music, and Pasha, who by that time had finally settled down, wanted to dance. And during one of the pas, he caught his sandal on the edge of the carpet, knocking his nose on a free chair. Oh, yoyo, the squeal was so, I thought that he was killed ... Grabbing him, I immediately rushed to the very emergency room where the nurse examined him. Nothing serious, just tore the skin off my nose. It's gone. But I still had a conversation with my parents, what to say to them, I had no idea, so I said it as it is - I didn’t watch it, it was an accident.

Thank all the gods, Pashka's parents were quite adequate, after listening to me carefully, they said - "It happens" and went home. But that day, I really became five years older.

I don’t even know what else to remember, I can give, as a hardened teacher, a couple of recommendations to young parents who are going to send their children to kindergarten:

1. Prepare your children mentally for kindergarten (and yourself, by the way, too). Very often, problems with adaptation in a child come from the parents, because they constantly repeat - “Kindergarten is evil! How will you go there?" Try to instill in your child, at least for the first time, that kindergarten is great, he will have many new friends and interesting toys.

2. Raise your children at home too. Very often I hear from young parents that I gave the child to the garden and let him be brought up there, but I don’t know anything. You know how! At least you know how to hold a fork and how to take a child to the bathroom. In my practice, there were cases when a child came to the garden after the weekend and refused to eat on his own, because his mother was too lazy to wait for him to eat at home and she fed him quickly from a spoon herself. Well, if you also read some educational literature, since there is enough of it in our age of the Internet, you can generally become Anton Semenovich Makarenko for your child. Moms, this primarily concerns you, because giving birth to a child is not everything, he must also be raised as a person.

3. Remember that your child is your reflection in everything. Yes, yes, I had children who, at 1.5 years old, spoke all sorts of bad words, smoked (pretend) and bit other children. One such, I almost knocked down when, for no apparent reason, he rushed at my Lily and bit her cheek.

4. And I’ll tell you purely about myself - educators are not magicians and they are people too. Anyone who dreams of an individual approach to raising a child - forget about it. Even if it's a private garden. I loved all my children and each was for me for these 12 hours of shift, like my own, but there are 15 of them, and I am alone! 15 Carl! After such a working day, I could hardly crawl home, so it’s not surprising that after a year of such work, I decided that my nerves were more expensive and wrote a letter of resignation.

I never returned to this area.

P.S. I didn’t know where to put it, but in short there were a couple of cases in our garden, one in my group, the other in the older one, it’s just for you to understand that a private garden is not a panacea and anything can happen there.

The first - a boy from the older group did not want to eat a sandwich and threw it into the trash. The teacher saw this, made him get it and eat it. The child told his parents there was a scandal. By the way, it was the teacher with whom I worked for the first days. Finally she was fired.

The second one is already in my group. I had some kind of terrible fever, I didn’t have a nanny, the children all left, and so that I wouldn’t go crazy, my shift, a teacher, with whom I worked every other day, was called to help me. There was a quiet hour, I was putting Pasha to bed and we had one girl, she was already 2 years old, and she rarely slept, she was quiet and always just lay, sucking kefir from a bottle (who will say now - she could choke! we followed her and mom was aware of everything and instructed us). What really happened - I’m sitting, putting Pasha to bed, Lizka (this girl) turns over two beds from me and then another teacher comes up, and, covering her with a blanket with her head, begins to choke me in front of me. It's good that I haven't covered it with a pillow yet. I was in shock, yelled at her, but God only knows what happened during her shift in the group. So keep in mind, no matter how many flattering reviews you hear about the teacher and no matter how experienced he is, this still does not say anything. Both of these teachers had a very rich experience and were very much appreciated by the management, but this is how they behaved with the children while the parents were not watching.

I have everything, thank you for your attention!