The cultivation of children's attention is a very important thing, which is related to the development of children's intelligence and affects the effect of children's learning. In particular, the attention of large-class children directly affects their physical and mental development and academic performance after entering school. I constantly explore strategies to cultivate children's attention in my work, mainly from the following four aspects.
First, design an introduction that can attract children's attention.
Comenius, a famous Czech educator, said: "At the beginning of teaching, teachers either arouse children's interest or explain the materials they want to talk about, or encourage children to systematically talk about the current materials by asking them what they have said in the past, or make children feel ignorant of the new textbooks, so they listen to the teachers explain the contents of various subjects with interest." This sentence illustrates one point: a good lead-in is conducive to strengthening children's attention. For example, before you know something, introduce the topic by guessing, so that children will be very interested. Before showing the picture, cover it with a cloth, then ask some questions to test the child, sell it, and then open the cloth after the child answers, so that the child's interest will be strong, his mood will be high, and his attention will of course be concentrated.
Second, cultivate children's attention in game activities.
Preschool children's activities are mainly games, and children's activities should be cultivated in games and gradually trained in games. If a child can't concentrate on playing games, how can he concentrate on reading and studying in primary school in the future? So, how to cultivate children's attention in the game? First of all, we must ensure enough game time, and don't interrupt the children's game activities at will during the children's game. Secondly, don't supply too many toys to children. If you provide too many toys at a time, your child's interest will keep shifting. We only need to provide a few toys for children to play in each game activity, put most of them away, change them after a while, keep children's interests in the same direction for a while, and then give them new stimulation to develop the habit of concentration. Games play the most important role in music activities. Music education is carried out through games, so that children can experience the same feelings as "playing", voluntarily, tirelessly and unconsciously participate in activities, perceive music in the process of singing, jumping, playing and patting, and satisfy various sentiments and good personality emotions in interesting game-based music activities.
Third, combine the cultivation of children's interest and attention.
Interest is the best teacher. No matter who is doing what he is interested in, he will always be devoted and focused, and so will the children. If children are exposed to too much book knowledge before entering the park, and after entering the park, they find that the teachers are teaching what they are familiar with, then most children will wander around involuntarily, look around and make some small moves. In life, you often see some children who are always coping or absent-minded when doing something according to their parents' requirements, but they can concentrate on what they are interested in. For young children, their attention is directly controlled by interest and emotion to a certain extent. Therefore, we should pay attention to combining the cultivation of children's extensive interests with the cultivation of attention. To cultivate children's interest, we should take the way of induction to stimulate. For example, to cultivate children's interest in literacy, we can take advantage of the characteristics that children like stories and buy some picture story books with text prompts for children. Let children read books while listening to stories. Tell them that these beautiful stories are written in books, which will arouse their interest in literacy, and then know some simple hieroglyphics, so that their attention can be cultivated in interesting literacy activities. Interest is the main condition for generating and maintaining attention. The stronger a child's interest in things, the easier it is to form a stable and focused attention.
Fourth, the teacher's posture, expression, language, voice and other important factors that affect children's attention.
Body language can express emotions better than spoken language, especially for young children. The main reasons are: First, for young children, actions are easier to understand than words. A teacher's smile, a thumbs-up gesture, nodding and so on can make children feel the teacher's care, encouragement, expectation and affirmation better than words. Second, children need physical contact. Children's skin and muscles are thirsty, and adults' hands can meet the needs. Physical skin contact is conducive to stabilizing children's emotions, making them feel warm and safe, and eliminating tension. Body language is not only a means for teachers to communicate with children by using body language, but also a positive and effective affirmation of children's activities by teachers using non-verbal means such as gestures, postures, expressions and body movements. This affirmation goes far beyond the scope of words and gives children great confidence. From their own point of view, it inhibits their habit of inattention, arbitrariness and lack of persistence. Let children get more satisfaction and encouragement while feeling warm and affectionate. Cultivate their self-control and promote the healthy development of personality. For example, the voice is relatively loud, giving the impression that this person has enough confidence; On the contrary, it is weak. However, in the face of low-level children, what they often need in class is a lively and passionate atmosphere in which they will actively participate in teaching activities. The teacher's loud voice will stimulate children's senses and make them feel that the teacher is full of passion. But this kind of passion is most easily infected, and it is easier to concentrate children's attention. Some teachers are too quiet in class and have some inappropriate behaviors, which easily distract children's attention. Therefore, teachers, externally, should be trained or guided by others until children can accept them.
Through research, I found that to apply the above teaching skills freely, we should not only have certain educational psychology and rich scientific knowledge, but also constantly exercise ourselves in the teaching process to raise the attention of organizing and cultivating children to a new height. In daily life education, there are many ways to cultivate children's attention, and the specific implementation methods are not the same. According to the characteristics of children's age development, training can be carried out in a planned and purposeful way to cultivate children's attention according to local conditions.