Art education is a special subject in the education system. It can not only impart artistic knowledge and cultivate artistic skills, but also enable students to develop their intelligence and improve their aesthetic innovation ability. In art education, we cultivate students' ideas of discovering beauty and creating beauty, so that students can be good at discovering the beauty of the world. Through the cultivation of creative thinking in art education, students' creativity and innovative consciousness can be stimulated, laying a foundation for the cultivation of compound talents in the future society.

First, the position and role of art education in middle school education

1. Art education is the cradle of cultivating students' national cultural awareness.

Children like doodling and doodling since childhood, and teachers have taught painting since kindergarten, not to train students to become painters in the future, but because it is a universal education. Painting from an early age is a manifestation of children's nature, which is easy to stimulate children's interest in learning. It plays a vital role in cultivating their healthy psychology, cultivating their thoughts and sentiments, and educating their noble personality.

China's traditional art culture is extensive and profound, and the traditional art forms of the Chinese nation are also diverse. Today, with the continuous development of globalization, students are increasingly influenced by foreign cultures, which makes many younger generations sneer at their own culture, and the traditional national culture is in danger of being lost. Therefore, the education of traditional culture and art should start with students, and middle school is the best cradle to cultivate students' national cultural awareness. Through the opening of art education courses, students can appreciate China's traditional art works, feel the profoundness of China's traditional art, deeply like it, consciously protect and inherit it, draw nutrition from traditional art and re-create. In this way, attaching importance to our national art education and strengthening the cultivation in this respect can not only improve aesthetics, but also improve national cultural awareness.

2. Art education is the medium to cultivate students' creativity.

Art is ever-changing, and there is no fixed framework and fixed thinking. For art education, teaching is not only a kind of knowledge, but also a creative spirit. Middle school students are the most creative and creative thinking, and we must not destroy and stifle students' creative talents. Middle school art education plays an important role in enlightening students' aesthetic ability, practical ability, innovative consciousness and national concept, which also corresponds to the three-dimensional teaching goal advocated by curriculum reform. And we can also see it in the basic idea of curriculum reform? It is necessary to guide students to have a deep understanding of China's excellent national folk arts and enhance their recognition of China's excellent culture? . It can be seen that art education in middle school is irreplaceable by other education.

3. Art education can cultivate students' aesthetic ability.

Life is beautiful, everything in the world has its beautiful side, and it takes some aesthetic ability to discover these beautiful things. With the improvement of people's living standards, the aesthetic requirements are getting higher and higher, and the design requirements for clothing, accessories and home environment are getting more and more critical, and the appreciation and requirements for art are getting higher and higher. And this aesthetic ability is the embodiment of one's artistic temperament and cultural connotation.

Art education can develop students' intelligence.

Art education is also an important channel to cultivate and develop students' intelligence. Students can understand the world through art and form a world view with personal characteristics. Understand the objective world through artistic perception and feel the objective world. In middle school education, through art education, students are constantly influenced by beauty, trained in art and cultivated in artistic consciousness, and their creativity, observation and logical thinking ability are constantly developed, so that students can develop intellectually.

Second, the outstanding problems in art education in middle schools at present

In the current school teaching, middle school art education has not received due attention. Class hours are repeatedly pressed, teachers are aging, and teaching methods are outdated, which affects the development of art education in middle schools.

1. Concept problem

Art education is misunderstood by many people as just a subject of learning painting. No matter how good the painting is, it will not have any influence on children in the future. This is a wrong idea. Art education is not only a subject of drawing, but also a subject of pursuing and discovering all beautiful things. His aim is to cultivate students' ability to discover beauty and appreciate all the beautiful things in the world. However, in the reality of middle school education, many schools set up art education courses in response to the policy, and art courses are often taken up by teachers from other disciplines to make up lessons. This kind of education stifles the all-round development of students, and also hinders the development of some students with artistic talent.

2. Social problems

There is such a phenomenon in society that some parents regard studying art as a kind of utility. In order to get their children into college, some parents want to take learning art as a shortcut, thus forcing their children to learn art, regardless of whether their children have the ability and interest to learn art, art has become the devil of some students, rather than enjoying it.

3. Lack of teachers and outdated education methods.

In the middle school campus, art teachers are very scarce, and even there are no art teachers in some rural areas. Not only the quantity can not be guaranteed, but also the quality of education can not be guaranteed. Because there is no test requirement, art education has become a game course like a house, with teachers perfunctory and outdated teaching methods.

Third, the countermeasures and suggestions to improve art education in middle schools.

1. Focus on cultivating students' all-round development

Art education should focus on cultivating students' aesthetic ability, practical ability, innovative consciousness and national concept, and give them an opportunity to fully develop themselves and choose their own path. In this context, teachers should change their previous ideas and pay attention to the all-round development of students. Under the national curriculum regulations, it is necessary to offer enough art courses.

2. Strengthen communication between schools and parents.

In the environment of exam-oriented education, parents of students with good grades think that art is unnecessary, while parents of students with poor grades think that they can take a shortcut to college through art study. Both of these views are wrong and ignore the all-round development of students. While doing a good job in student work, schools should strengthen communication with students' parents, let them see their progress, share their joy of success, win their support, strengthen their confidence and create a good learning environment.

3. Strengthen the construction of teaching staff and change the old teaching mode.

Adequate teachers are the basis of running a good education and the guarantee of teaching quality. Art education must strengthen the construction of professional teachers, actively introduce outstanding graduates from professional colleges, and inject fresh blood and vitality into art education in middle schools. To change the old teaching mode, the old way will always be eliminated. Art education should constantly innovate teaching methods and pay attention to the integration and communication with other disciplines. Strengthening students' intellectual development, creativity cultivation and aesthetic ability improvement is the teaching purpose of art education in the new period.

In short, in today's comprehensive implementation of quality education, we should realize the importance of art courses and attach importance to art education in middle schools. Fully understand the importance of art education to the development of middle school students, so that art education can truly become an important part of middle school teaching.

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