Keywords: music literacy misunderstanding solution
1. Misunderstandings and Solutions in Music Activities
(A) Misunderstanding: Pay attention to the acquisition of music knowledge and skills.
In a sense, one of the important criteria for judging the success of a kindergarten music education activity is whether the children have learned the songs taught by the teacher, whether the rhythm is accurate, whether they can perform the dances taught by the teacher and so on. Ignoring children's acquisition of musical sensibility, appreciation, expressiveness and understanding, these are often hidden and have a quantitative accumulation process, which can't be shown immediately, but these are often indispensable for cultivating children's real artistic ability and literacy. What's more, in the process of education, teachers often instill some knowledge of music theory into children. If you watch carefully, you will find that in many music activities, the teacher will take pains to say "this is called 2/4 beat, and the children will tell me" and so on. Even if the child remembers it at that time, can he understand the true meaning of "2/4 beat"? Of course, simple knowledge of music theory can be taught to children, but teachers should learn to explore teaching methods and artistry instead of teaching blindly.
(2) Solution: Respect children and stimulate musical desire.
The essence of infant music education is music enlightenment education. Enlightenment education needs vivid, intuitive and lively teaching contents and forms to cultivate and develop children's interest in music. Children of different ages should choose different music textbooks. Small classes can choose game songs to enhance children's interest in learning, so that children can understand and master the rhythm of music in the whole body movements of clapping and stamping. Middle and large classes can guide children to feel the artistic conception of music, remember the melody of music, and let children really complete the game process with the changes of music content and artistic conception.
When choosing music teaching materials, we must give consideration to both educational significance and interest, which is called "sugar coating" abroad to attract young children. The interest of music material is not only reflected in the lyrics, but also in the melody. It should be said that it is reflected in the combination of lyrics and music. With the growth of children's age, the enhancement of activity ability and the development law of curiosity, we can choose some riddle songs for children to guess while singing and add interest. You can also choose some songs with plots and roles, such as "A goat steps on a rooster", so that children can feel the connotation of the songs in combination with their own life experiences, understand that children should be considerate and humble to each other, be polite and friendly to others, and educate their children on manners.
(C) Misunderstanding: overemphasizing the forms of expression in the process of music education activities.
I remember watching such a music teaching activity: in a music appreciation activity, the teacher first let the children learn to cross their legs (about 5 minutes), but this process has nothing to do with the content to be learned later; Then teach children to sit cross-legged in a chair and perform music rhythm (about 10 minutes); Next, let the children do momentum exercises (6 minutes); Stories about children's music appreciation (2 minutes); Teach children to take off their shoes and cause children to quarrel (5 minutes); Finally, let the children learn to draw pictures and perform them (6 minutes). The educational activities in the small class lasted for nearly 35 minutes, but the teachers who visited the whole class were asking what the content of this class was. What are the key points and difficulties?
I think the biggest deficiency of this course is that it pays too much attention to the form of teaching activities, and the whole teaching process is blindly "integrated", ignoring the main body of activities and failing to achieve scientific and reasonable infiltration of other disciplines. However, what this teaching activity shows us is only the excitement of the process, and the teaching effect and teaching goal have not been well realized.
(d) Solution: Cultivate musical taste by means.
If the teacher's teaching methods are improper, children will easily lose interest in music, thus killing their thirst for knowledge. Conversely, unique teaching methods and fresh and attractive teaching methods are the premise of cultivating children's interest in music. There are usually the following methods:
1, introduce games and learn scientific vocalization.
When learning the song "Chicken Broke Out of its Shell", I first tell the story of "Chicken Broke Out of its Shell" in vivid language to help children understand the content of the song, and then give a vivid demonstration with the toy "Chicken Broke Out of its Shell" when singing this song for the first time to stimulate children's interest in learning. When Sang Song "got a little head in a round eggshell", I suddenly opened the cracked eggshell and immediately a cute and furry "chicken" head got in. The rich and interesting props demonstration immediately attracted the attention of children, who immediately entered the scene of learning songs, opened their eyes wide, listened attentively while watching and enjoyed the teacher's performance.
2. Conduct rhythm training to cultivate music interest.
For some fairy-tale songs, such as bunny, counting ducks and so on. The lyrics are colloquial, so that children can perform while singing, thus stimulating their interest in music. Only in music activities with strong hobbies can children really enjoy participating in music activities and feel the fun of music. Therefore, in music education, we should adopt happy music games. For example, "animal's cry", let children imitate animal's cry and walking posture, and let them have a hobby to play games with the rhythm of music. Guide children to play games accurately with the change of music, so that they can feel the happiness in sports and the beauty in silence. In listening, moving and playing, cultivate and develop children's musical hearing ability, musical memory ability and coordination ability.
3, contact life, improve the interest in singing.
Children's songs come from and reflect children's lives. Guiding children to understand the knowledge related to the content of songs can not only broaden their knowledge, but also help them understand the content and emotion of songs and improve the quality of singing. For example, before teaching the song "Bubble Gone", the teacher made small models with different shapes such as triangle, trapezoid and circle, tied a small rope, and let the children do experiments in a basin full of soapy water. After taking it out, the small model is as transparent as a mirror and has a strong three-dimensional effect. Then it inspires children to think about what can be blown with water and do experiments. The conclusions are soap, washing powder and shampoo. Then let the children play with their toys and blow bubbles. On this basis, they can learn Bubble Gone, which not only broadens their knowledge, but also feels their sense of accomplishment in making toys, and also feels the joy of singing the song Bubble Gone. Of course, in teaching time, it is often not a single mode that is used at the end, but a combination of various means, which not only improves children's interest in music, but also benefits children in many ways.
Second, let children enjoy the music.
Finding out the misunderstanding is to better change the form of our current music education activities and cultivate more and better talents with good music literacy. Therefore, as pre-school educators, we must do the following:
(A) to strengthen the research and exploration of kindergarten music education
Teachers, as teachers of kindergarten music activities, should actively explore the teaching structure suitable for the design of music teaching activities according to certain educational goals and under the guidance of certain pre-school music education theories and principles, and optimize the combination with relevant teaching strategies to form a relatively stable and generalized kindergarten music teaching curriculum model.
Therefore, we should actively participate in the reform and exploration of kindergarten music education, vigorously support, encourage and investigate, and carry out the selection activities of related music teaching activities, including collecting papers and teaching cases on the reform of music teaching activities. On the whole, a good atmosphere of attaching importance to the scientific exploration of kindergarten music education will be formed, which will promote the continuous improvement of the curriculum model of kindergarten music teaching activities and guide the scientific exploration of kindergarten music education to a higher level.
(2) Pay attention to the constant updating of teachers' musical literacy and theoretical knowledge.
It can be said that the teacher's attitude towards music determines the development of children's musical literacy and ability. Therefore, actively improving kindergarten teachers' music literacy and knowledge of music theory plays a decisive role in the development of kindergarten music education activities.
As a kindergarten, teachers should be actively encouraged to go out for further study and study, learn from children's music education experts and kindergarten music masters, and improve the overall music literacy of kindergarten teachers. At the same time, teachers should be organized to carry out multi-level and all-round training and music teaching observation. Only by accepting advanced kindergarten music education in theory can kindergarten music education activities be carried out pertinently and its teaching activities be guided and embodied. Kindergartens can organize regular observation activities of music education in the whole park, select excellent teachers and test the development and reform achievements of music teaching activities.
(3) Actively reflect on teaching and improve the teaching level.
Reflective teaching and how to cultivate teachers' reflective ability are often mentioned by experts and supervisors in recent years. After learning the advanced concept of music education, teachers should be able to "discard it as useless" and actively reflect on teaching. Reflection is the only way for preschool teachers to improve their professional quality and educational practice. Therefore, under the guidance of advanced kindergarten music education theory, teachers should learn to constantly reflect on their own music education practice with the help of action research, actively explore and solve the problems existing in education practice, strive to improve the rationality of kindergarten music education practice, and gradually grow into an expert teacher.
Kindergarten music education activities are the language to guide children to express their inner and psychological feelings. For children, music can promote the healthy development of intelligence, sociality and body and mind, improve the ability to feel and experience emotions, cultivate children's sentiment and improve their cultural and musical literacy. As kindergarten educators, we should actively explore the curriculum model of music education activities in kindergartens in the future, and explore all factors that are conducive to the healthy development of children's physical and mental health, so that children can grow into people with good music literacy and adapt to the needs of the future society.