Children dance is a comprehensive expression combining children's body movements, language, drama performance and music, reflecting children's life and expressing children's interests. Through scientific and systematic training methods, children's dance can cultivate children's good posture and noble temperament, enhance their physical coordination ability, cultivate their body's sensitivity to rhythm, cultivate their beauty and art, and develop their artistic potential. At the same time, learning children's dance can also cultivate and improve children's attention, imitation, expressiveness and thinking ability in images, laying the foundation for children's all-round development. The Guiding Outline of Kindergarten Education clearly points out that the choice of educational activities should focus on being close to children's lives, and more attention should be paid to stimulating children's interest. As Einstein said, "Interest is the best teacher". Interest is one of the powerful motivations for people to engage in any activity, which is of great significance in various activities. Especially for children, interest can attract them to participate in various activities, think about various problems, and thus develop various abilities. As long as children are interested in dance, they can fully mobilize their enthusiasm, promote their active participation in various dance activities, and let them learn dance conscientiously and consciously. As a teacher, I have been engaged in children's dance teaching 17 years, and I have the responsibility to lay this cornerstone for children, create the key to success with children, and let them go to success and experience happiness. So how to cultivate children's interest in dance activities?
First, infect children with teachers' enthusiasm and pay attention to the communication between teachers and students.
As a dance teacher, your passion for dance and stage performance can directly affect children, and children will gradually love and be keen on dance like you. That is to stimulate children's ability to imitate and surpass. Internalize children's original interest orientation, turn their apparent enthusiasm into the motivation to actively engage in dance, and make them active participants. An excellent teacher should not only have professional skills in rehearsal, but also require concise and accurate language; Flexible mind (whether it is logical thinking in dance, emphasis and difficulty in image, and clear music beat): the demonstration standard is in place, (clear beat and accurate picture position). Every child does actions on a clear basis, and more importantly, it is necessary to infect children with the enthusiasm of the teacher. For example; This year, I took the dance test in sunshine kindergarten Middle School, and the class is full of children aged 4-5. How to divert their attention and stabilize their mood? How to improve children's interest? Make them like dancing. Like you? Before class, I gave the children a dance "Hope". At first, it was two naughty boys. I don't know when the whole class was silent and a pair of small eyes looked at you. When you return to teaching, everyone is infected by the teacher's passion, hoping to study dance as hard as a teacher. Teachers' rich feelings are also attractive to children.
The process of dance teaching is the process of emotional communication between teachers and students. This process is an interactive process with teachers as one pole and children as the other pole. Strive to create a harmonious atmosphere of equality, mutual love, relaxation and happiness until the mutual needs between teachers and students are met, thus stimulating children's interest in dance activities. For example; In the dance activity "Dancing with the doll and the bear", the teacher first demonstrated the lively and lovely movements of the doll to the children, and also showed the innocent image of the bear when demonstrating the bear. In the performance, the teacher's interesting actions guide the children to devote themselves to learning dance. Teachers' emotional input and language infection have undoubtedly become the key to improve children's interest, so that children can change their actions with the rhythm of music and immerse themselves in this unrestrained atmosphere. In order to let children master small steps accurately, teachers can let children chase themselves intentionally. In the process of chasing, teachers ask children to listen clearly and remember firmly, and they can also establish close and friendly teacher-student relationship with teachers.
Second, let children enjoy dancing in various ways.
Appreciation is a kind of spiritual activity when people watch dance. It is a process in which children understand the social life and national culture reflected by the dance images created in their dance works, appreciate their thoughts and feelings, appreciate their beautiful dynamics, rhythms and expressions, and then subtly accept infection, raise awareness and receive education.
In order to inspire children, I use multimedia teaching to appreciate in all directions, so that children can watch, appreciate and truly feel the beauty of dance. In the process of appreciation, children can constantly improve their understanding of various dance languages, thus constantly improving their observation, memory and dance expressive force in the learning process. For example, the dance "Picking Grapes" first allows children to watch the picture of grapes ripening, understand the mood of people picking grapes when grapes are ripe, appreciate the * * * dance, and understand the characteristics and national culture of the * * * dance. Finally learned the dance "Picking Grapes". The appreciation in front paved the way for the later study, and the children's interest in learning dance was fully mobilized, which played a very good role.
Third, teach children to dance in the form of games.
In my dance class, according to the content of learning, joining games in time will help to enhance children's interest in learning. For example, when learning dance: kitten, the teacher said, "I am a mother cat, and all the children are kittens." Now you have to play with mother cat! " "Then lead the children to do the actions of kittens in music, so that kittens can learn various skills from their mothers and learn to jump. There are also children who learn to dance "Little Apple", so that they can freely choose the position of different stations. Some children danced around the teacher. I will dance and sing at the same time, and occasionally hi hi when I jump to the climax. In such a pleasant atmosphere, children will always be interested in dancing.
Fourth, pay attention to teaching methods and dance material selection.
As a dance teacher, there are certain ways to take children to dance activities, such as adopting a step-by-step teaching method, that is, from easy to difficult, from shallow to deep. This will not only cultivate children's interest in learning dance, but also make them feel too simple and boring, and will not be overwhelmed and overwhelmed by complexity. Sometimes use some teaching methods, such as inspiration and demonstration; Decomposition and combination method; Observation and modeling methods; Individual teaching methods and so on.
To suit the development characteristics of children of all ages, teachers generally require that music be bright, novel and unique, full of children's interest, which can stimulate children's creative enthusiasm and activate children's imagination and thinking, and has certain educational significance. The whole dance should be full of life breath related to children, which is convenient for children to express their emotions.
Fifth, teach children to learn innovative dance.
Reflecting real life through vivid dance images, children innovate on the basis of feeling and understanding dance images, which is the source of quality education and the soul of national development. "In dance activities, we should not only emphasize the training of skills and skills, but also guide children to express and create beauty. Because dance activities include stages of thinking such as feeling, imagination, understanding and creation, it plays a unique role in cultivating children's creative consciousness and ability. Of course, cultivating creativity does not mean giving up imitation. Imitation is necessary in dance activities. This is the original way of learning. However, if children are allowed to imitate blindly, their participation will only be short-lived, let alone persistent. We must quickly cross this stage and enter the exploration period, and guide children to make bold innovations, think independently and express their unique opinions. Only by constantly creating and expressing themselves can children persist in the end. When I first started learning dance, I asked each child to create a shape; Then ask each child to make up an action, and the teacher will connect the action into a dance; Finally, let the children make up a situational dance, and the teacher will improve. Such as the dance "I am a sapling", let children think about how seeds grow, and then express them with body movements. The children are very active. Some of them are on the ground, holding their heads in their hands and saying, "Teacher, the seeds are going to sprout." Some people jumped up and said, "The saplings have grown tall. "The others stretched out their limbs, held their heads high and opened their mouths, saying," The young tree smiled happily when it saw the sun. "... children take turns knitting the movements of young trees to grow up. I asked them to string the movements together, so that they have plots and contents, and let the children jump over and over again and enjoy it. Although some movements are not good-looking, it is an interest that children have in exploring and understanding activities according to their own wishes, and this interest can greatly satisfy children. In the activity of upgrading from a large class to a new class, the teacher guides the children to explore the use of various creative body movements to express the rolling and smooth movements. The children continued to perform their own movements. Some people hold them in their hands, others become butterflies, jump with the pressure of music, and then rotate. At the end of the dance, the children all expressed their desire to perform again. Only by letting children do it according to their own conditions, methods and wishes can children take the initiative to learn and invest in it. Only by exerting their imagination and originality can they create boldly. Although the children's performance is still very naive, they all reveal their true feelings and reflect their unique imagination.
In dance activities, we should not only let children feel the joy of their own creation and composition, but also let them establish their own sense of responsibility, so that children can know from an early age that everyone has tasks and responsibilities in every dance activity, and every child is an important role in the dance troupe, and everyone should stick to his "post". Gradually cultivate children's sense of responsibility and good study habits, and lay a good foundation for them to meet the challenges of the team behind them.
Children are born artists, and children are born with a constant relationship with dance. How to train children to learn dance well is our unshirkable responsibility. As the new "Outline" said: "Dance is an important way to implement aesthetic education, so we should give full play to its educational function. I think this is also an exploration of cultivating children in dance teaching and education! Dance is the art of beauty, beauty is in it, and fun is in it. Dance is the art of emotion, in which emotion and intention are involved. Let's make continuous efforts for children to learn dance well.