Art education is a special subject in the education system, which plays an important role in cultivating students' sentiment, enlightening their wisdom and promoting their all-round development. However, due to one-sided understanding, some new problems will inevitably appear in teaching. This paper analyzes the main problems existing in junior high school art teaching at present, and tries to explore the coping strategies in order to look forward to the healthy development of art education.

First, the main problems in junior high school art teaching

1. Want "art and culture" instead of "knowledge and skills"

"Curriculum Standard" points out: "Art learning should be improved from simple skills and techniques to art culture learning." Therefore, some teachers think that the fine arts discipline pays attention to the study of fine arts culture, knowledge and skills are not important, or knowledge and skills can be completely excluded. In teaching, as long as students are guided to appreciate according to a large number of pictures and video materials collected before class, teachers and students can experience the experience together in happy games, encourage students to show boldly, and do not require teachers to demonstrate in class; It is believed that being an art teacher only needs to know a certain knowledge of art culture, and does not need professional art skills and techniques. Even some teachers do not participate in the teaching of art skills, and even when students ask questions about skills and methods, teachers do not give positive answers. There are many reasons for these phenomena, but the fundamental reason is the misunderstanding of curriculum standards.

2. The teachers are weak and the teaching mode is outdated.

In middle school art education, teachers are the guides for students to learn art, enlighten their wisdom and improve their aesthetic ability. However, at present, there are relatively few art teachers in ordinary middle schools, and the number of rural art teachers is not only seriously insufficient, but also the level of teachers is uneven. The quality of art teachers is generally not high, and it is difficult to complete the teaching tasks of art subjects, which affects the quality of art teaching. This has a negative impact on students' learning initiative, which makes the art curriculum completely deviate from the original intention of curriculum setting and cannot undertake the teaching goal of improving students' quality in an all-round way.

3. Exam-oriented education is still dominant, and the awareness of art courses is weak.

Under the current education system in our country, although we talk about quality education, it is undeniable that exam-oriented education is still a mainstream of education in our country. Many schools regard art classes as "flexible courses", but they can be attended or not. The weak curriculum consciousness makes the art class exist in name only in ordinary middle schools, which is ignored by teachers and students and can only kill time and become a mere formality. In such a big environment, art classes that have nothing to do with exams are of course regarded as "chicken ribs", which cannot be discarded and tasteless. In many places, art education, as an important part of quality education, is always in an awkward position.

4. Art curriculum lacks comprehensiveness and diversity.

According to the characteristics of learning categories or subject groups, it is a trend of education in the world to develop and set up comprehensive courses and reduce sub-subject courses. But in theory, many teachers don't think this new course can promote students' development, but think it disturbs the systematic teaching of subject knowledge. There are many reasons for this situation, some may be that the theme or concept is beyond the students' life experience and understanding, some may be that the relevant knowledge of design is far-fetched, lacking internal natural connection, and there are also problems in detail teaching operation.

5. Cognition of learning activities

Learning is the process of acquiring knowledge, technology, attitude or value, and the purpose of acquiring knowledge, technology, attitude or value is not just to show off with a diploma. Learning is meant to be used, but few parents have imagined their children's future careers during their studies. After each senior high school entrance examination and college entrance examination, it is always parents' favorite thing to discuss whose children have been admitted to the key points and whose children have been admitted to prestigious schools. These are actually parents' cognitive biases towards students' learning activities, which will definitely affect students' subjective learning attitude.

Second, the art education problems coping strategies

1. Improve students' interest in learning

When students are interested in something, their learning efficiency is generally higher. This is especially true for art study. Only by calming down to study art and fully integrating yourself into art study can we truly appreciate the charm and essence of art.

2. Strengthen communication with students, parents and schools.

Influenced by exam-oriented education, many parents think that art is useless and can't help students to go to a good university and find a good job in the future, which requires teachers to communicate with parents constantly. You can often talk to students and patiently give individual counseling to let them know the future of their hobbies and how to win the support of their families. Keep close contact with parents of students through parent-teacher conferences and telephone calls, so that parents can see the progress of students, share the joy of students' success, win the support of parents, strengthen students' confidence and create a good learning environment.

3. Completely change the concept of education and actively explore new learning contents and methods.

The new curriculum reform fully embodies the times, foundation and selectivity of the curriculum and meets the development needs of students. The new curriculum reform pays attention to students' learning process and methods, implements credit system management with modular curriculum structure, and provides students with the possibility of independent choice and personality development. After the concept of new curriculum reform has changed teachers' educational concept, teachers should actively explore and try their own classroom teaching, from traditional indoctrination to teacher-student interaction, so as to make classroom teaching full of vitality.

4. Use multimedia to enliven the classroom atmosphere

Multimedia teaching is a brand-new teaching mode in classroom teaching, which makes it easier to closely link the classroom with real life. Multimedia teaching is an important means in junior high school art teaching, which can better help students understand the meaning, style and characteristics of works, thus cultivating correct aesthetic ability and noble sentiment.

5. Use a variety of methods to let students ask questions.

Teachers pay attention to setting questions in the teaching process, and its other function is to let students learn to question. In daily teaching activities, teachers should fully affirm students' questions and answer them patiently, and affirm and encourage students to ask questions in different ways to cultivate students' self-confidence. Teachers should enhance students' awareness of problems in teaching. Specifically, it is to encourage students to dare to ask questions when explaining new lessons, to dare to respond when comparing knowledge, and to keep asking questions when summing up knowledge.