Montessori once said: Painting not only gives people the enjoyment of beauty, but more importantly, it gives people a positive and fearless spirit. It not only cultivates people's sentiment, but also gives them a kind of strength and makes them indestructible. Let you be confident and go forward bravely. Painting requires patience and meticulousness, so painting cultivates your good character of striving for perfection and being meticulous. This shows the importance of painting in children's growth. At present, children's art education is mainly concentrated in kindergartens. As a kindergarten teacher, how to have a good art class? Let me start with my personal understanding of children's art education.
In the current art teaching, it is extremely difficult to choose a variety of educational concepts and methods. Some people think that the current art teaching should let children draw whatever they want, because beauty has no domain, and different people have their own understanding of beauty. Kindergarten children are less experienced than adults and have no unified aesthetic standards. Their imagination is infinite, and every child's work carries their dreams. Therefore, no matter what the child's job is, we must give affirmation and support.
Some people think that children should strengthen their painting skills through formal training, while children in middle and large classes will imitate and express themselves by observing things around them. However, due to the lack of painting skills and experience, they cannot express their inner thoughts. The main contradiction between these two educational ideas is whether to standardize children's aesthetics and restrict children's thinking-children's imagination needs to be protected, but at the same time, children's art skills should be improved through the guidance of teachers. The Guiding Outline of Kindergarten Education also mentioned that artistic activity is an emotional and creative activity. Children should have a sense of pleasure and personalized performance in the process of artistic activities. Teachers should understand and actively encourage children's distinctive expressions, and don't turn art education into mechanical skill training. In fact, if the methods and concepts are correct, there will be no contradiction between them, and teachers will no longer be confused about how to combine them and let art activities really play a role in children's growth.
First of all, start with interest.
When choosing art teaching content, we should first understand the level that children of this age can reach, and start with children's interests. For example, children in small classes like food, and it is best to take food as the theme of painting; Middle-class children like animals, and it is best to focus on animals in painting content; Children in large classes like figures, and it is best to take figures as the theme of painting. Einstein said, "Interest is the best teacher." When children are interested in the subject matter, they will interact with the teacher and actively cooperate.
Second, the activation of happy education in children's art
At present, kindergarten curriculum presents theme activities closely related to life. Therefore, art teaching and children's theme activities are inseparable. Teachers guide children to get in touch with beautiful people, things and things in their surroundings and life, and enrich their perceptual experience and aesthetic taste; Instruct children to make toys, handicrafts, etc. Let art truly reflect life by beautifying life or carrying out other activities by using objects or waste materials around you. When carrying out activities, we pay attention to the following points:
Based on children's real life, pay attention to the close combination of life and art education.
In the course of constructivism, we dig out many artistic activities related to life, such as creative vases and long-legged dolls, which are artistic creation activities using some waste materials in life. We also use language activities to guide children to engage in artistic creation activities on the basis of understanding and appreciating beautiful poems and stories. Try different artistic expressions. Children of all ages like to appreciate different painting forms. Therefore, children can appreciate age-appropriate famous paintings or template paintings to improve their aesthetic ability, but they can't be forced to draw exactly the same as famous paintings or template paintings, and it is best to reflect their imagination and ideas. In addition, they prefer to try the fresh painting experience brought by different painting forms, so they should constantly enrich the art forms. You can try to change painting tools and materials, such as cotton swabs, handkerchiefs, paper balls and other things that children can easily operate. The operation is too difficult to achieve the surgical goal, and the child will lose interest and confidence. Painting materials can be cardboard, cartons, tile walls, stones or waste materials, which are easy to collect and display, and can highlight the effect of works. Many materials in life can be used by us. For example, homemade colored clay activity is an activity that children like very much. The teacher made colored clay with flour, salad oil and pigment on the spot to stimulate children's interest and creative desire. At the beginning of the activity, the teacher wanted the children to make some autumn fruits or vegetables with homemade colored mud, but after the activity, many children expressed their hope to make more things with these colored mud, so the richness of children's works can be imagined through the activity.
Third, pay attention to the cultivation of habits.
The definition of the word "habit" is "constantly contact with new situations and gradually adapt; Behavior, tendency or social fashion that is gradually developed over a long period of time and is not easy to change at one time. " It can be seen that habits are formed for a long time. I think every link in an art class should pay attention to habit education.
1, preparation before activities
It may be necessary to design pictures in the activity, so teachers should practice in advance to understand the difficulties in order to demonstrate and guide them in a targeted manner. The materials for the teacher's class and the children's creative exercises should be prepared in advance, so as to avoid temporary additions and deletions.
2. Education in the process of activities
When organizing children's activities, let the children calm down first, attract their attention in the form of games, and then tell them. And let children know that listening carefully to others is not only a respect for others, but also a lot of knowledge and skills. ?
There are some problems in the process of painting. First, some children don't know where to put the watercolor pen cap, some put it in their hands, some put it on the table, and some don't even know where the watercolor pen cap went at last. In view of this situation, I unified the children to buckle the cap of the watercolor pen above the watercolor pen, which is convenient to take and put, and not easy to lose. This problem has been solved for the child, and the child is no longer worried about finding the pen cap. Secondly, children will discuss and communicate with friends in the process of painting. If the discussion is too loud, it will affect other children. At this time, I use the method of listening to music and playing light music to make the child's voice not exceed the sound of music.
3. Arrange in an orderly manner after the end.
After work, carefully organize the works and appliances, and don't leave anything out. Let them observe each other and look at the classroom. The table is dirty, wiped clean, and the scraps of paper are picked up ... gradually, children can do this before class, and gradually get used to it, and the classroom becomes clean and tidy.
The cultivation of children's good painting habits is a long-term process. According to the actual situation, timely and appropriately carry out cross-repeated training, set an example in time, find bright spots, affirm them, and gradually develop good habits. Show your children your own platform, and satisfy your children's love for performance and their desire for attention.
Fourth, enrich the exhibition forms of works and experience happiness.
The exhibition of works of art is also an important link. Children want their works to be appreciated. Praise is the best interpretation of children's psychological activities and can release children's imagination. Teachers should seize this opportunity, try their best to show their opportunities to every child, let the children's hearts be interpreted, and feel the understanding and attention of teachers and the collective. Therefore, teachers should guide children to describe their works boldly, and at the same time learn from the advantages of others to further improve their abilities. Better experience the happiness in artistic activities.
Children's art is a trickle flowing from children's hearts, with joy and sadness. It is exquisite, clear, magical and wonderful ... I will follow the track of the stream to find the source and find the singing from the child's heart. Add a touch of gorgeous color to the child's growth path.