We should teach children to observe first. If you don't teach children to observe, you can't adapt to the ever-changing world and you can't carry out aesthetic education. Only when children observe things by themselves and master the main characteristics of objects can they have a more complete, vivid and vivid understanding of them. In a day's life in kindergarten, teachers can find out children's interests by observing children and communicating with them. At the same time, teachers consciously cultivate children's observation ability, start from the aspects that children are interested in, improve children's attention, guide children to experience it personally, and feel the sense of movement, strength, rhythm and harmony in the real world, thus forming children's keen choice ability for these characteristics, preventing children from turning a blind eye to some things or browsing, and allowing children to continuously discover beautiful things in life. In addition, teachers should pay attention to the accumulation of children's life experience, feel the diversity of artistic creation and better cultivate children's aesthetic ability.
Second, teachers should provide children with a relaxed and happy creative environment.
Piaget, a psychologist, emphasized: "Under the influence of the surrounding environment, children get psychological development through the interaction between the subject and the environment". In the practice of kindergarten art education, teachers should provide children with a relaxed and happy creative environment. The creation of artistic activity environment should strengthen the playfulness, so as to cultivate children's interest in artistic activities, reduce boredom and frustration in the process of painting, and make painting truly a favorite game for children and games an indispensable life for children. For example, arrange some children's favorite game situations, put some toys that children are interested in, all kinds of art materials, and children's favorite art works and arrange children's works display walls. Mr. Chen Heqin, a famous early childhood educator, once said: "Children are naturally active, and games are life." "Love games" is the most important nature of children, and games are their basic activities. Children "study" and work in the game, and their body and mind can be fully and healthily developed in the game. Only in a pleasant game environment can children fully feel and express beauty and have a strong desire to create.
Third, properly teach children to master the artistic knowledge and skills necessary for artistic performance, and adopt various forms to improve their painting ability.
There have also been some discussions on art education, that is, to cultivate children's creativity, so should teachers teach children? What does the teacher not teach? As we all know, in painting activities, there are several phenomena: some children have a strong desire to create, but due to the lack of certain skills, children's strong desire to create can only be expressed by simple color blocks and symbols, which inhibits children's desire to express to some extent. Therefore, I think that although it is not the purpose of art education to let children learn art knowledge and skills, certain art knowledge and skills are tools for children to perform art performances smoothly. Therefore, we combine imparting knowledge and skills with cultivating ability, without overemphasizing skills, but let children actively learn and master skills through exploration.
Take coloring, pasting, printing, clay sculpture, origami, carving, weaving and other forms to enhance children's interest and continuously improve their painting ability. In the process of art teaching, in addition to organizing children to make up short stories according to their own paintings, teachers can also carry out art activities in combination with educational activities in various disciplines, and pay attention to guiding children to flexibly use what they have learned in different disciplines. For example, after telling a story, guide children to express the content of the story with art (painting, clay sculpture, small production); For example, when you come back from a visit, let the children use paintings to show the scene during the visit. Kindergartens can also set up art exhibition columns in classroom corridors; Carry out children's art interest classes, so that children can adopt different methods in their creation, accept their different creative achievements and affirm them from different angles; Every art interest class has an art exhibition. Through exhibition and comparison, art has become an important way for children to express their knowledge and feelings, experience the fun of painting and stimulate their interest in painting.
Fourth, in painting activities, we should adopt positive reinforcement methods to stimulate children's self-confidence.
(1) language reinforcement, such as "You are so smart." "It's really interesting." Wait a minute. (2) Action strengthening, such as smiling and nodding. (3) Physical strengthening, such as rewarding children with brushes. (4) Appreciation is enhanced, such as letting a child show his work in front of the whole class. Through these methods of strengthening creative behavior, and effectively combining with appropriate skills practice, children will be interested in painting activities and build their confidence.
Fifth, do a good job of parents and let them appreciate their children's works with their teachers' eyes.
Painting is a expressive creative activity, which has great imaginative creative space. Although painting in kindergarten has no special artistic value, painting itself plays an important role in promoting the development of children's perception, memory and imagination. Teachers should appreciate children's paintings from their perspective. Every child's paintings are different, full of imagination, and all have innocent and lively childlike beauty.
However, at work, I often hear parents comment on their children's works like this: "What are you drawing? Do you see how well people paint? " Therefore, I think teachers should help parents improve their understanding of children's art through various channels, such as parent-teacher conferences and children's art exhibitions. Let parents and teachers work together to strengthen children's love for painting in an encouraging way. It is a long way to go to do a good job in parenting, and it is also one of the problems we will study in the future.
In a word, art education is a beautiful landscape. Through this tool, art education can effectively promote the all-round and harmonious development of children's body and mind, promote the improvement of children's comprehensive quality, enhance children's ability to discover and feel beauty, and make their future life colorful and full of fun.