First, the role of art education
1. Art is a way to train children's observation, understanding, thinking and innovation.
When people mention the subject of fine arts, they naturally think of painting. How to draw? In fact, the paintings presented in art are not simply hand-painted. Art is a kind of visual communication art. Only by observing objects, society and life and reprocessing the brain can we create works. Only with good observation ability, perception ability and understanding ability can we draw touching works first. In the process of painting, we pay attention to the thinking of picture layout, which is a whole. The process of painting is also a process of observation and thinking. In art, using the thinking mode and habit of art will give children a design idea, and you will find that the thinking of art designers is very innovative. Doing things creatively is an important quality of doing business in adulthood.
2. Art will give children a unique aesthetic feeling.
In the process of painting, many parents will ask, "My children have been studying art for a long time. How can he judge whether he has made progress and studied well? " ? Do you like painting or can you win prizes in national competitions? In fact, this is a secondary measure, and it is not the only measure. Through painting, if one day, your baby says, "mom, I don't think you are suitable for this dress, but that dress." Mom, the walls in our house are not suitable for this pink and this faint green. So, congratulations, your baby has acquired the initial aesthetic ability, the child has begun to pay attention to the color matching at home, and the mother's clothing matching has been. Achieved an effect of art, that is, beautifying life. Children turn this ability into life and achieve practicality. Aesthetic appreciation is an obvious sign of children's artistic progress, and control ability is the beginning of children's success.
3. Art enables children to have flexible thinking ability and strengthen their ability to communicate with others.
When you mention art, you will see such a scene. Many children are drawing with brushes seriously. But as far as the width and depth of art are concerned, the course of art is not only two-dimensional painting, but also various forms of art. Seen from the two-dimensional plane, three-dimensional relief is the expression of many materials. Some people say: Isn't it just painting? Art can train children's flexible thinking in addition to simple strokes. How to train your thinking ability? Because in art, you can draw even without a pen, for example, fingers can draw, arms can draw, and collage together with different materials is also a very beautiful work of art, so art is not just using strokes, as long as you use your brain and change your mind, the work will have different ways of expression. Therefore, children have flexible thinking ability since childhood, which enables them to master a very important quality, that is, flexibility and creativity. Then there are many different ways to solve things. Let children have flexible thinking ability from an early age, and then their ability to solve problems will be enhanced when they grow up. Language is a way of communication, and art is also a way of communication and expression. Express your views and dreams in words to make communication more lively and interesting.
4. Guide children to participate in social activities in art education.
If children want to be social people, they must actively participate in social life, so as to integrate into the social collective in an individual way. Art activities also provide children with a wide range of opportunities to participate in social life.
Art exhibitions and auctions, as well as participating in national or international painting competitions, are a way for individuals to participate in society and also a way to gain social evaluation and social reflection. Children visiting art exhibitions also communicate with others, make new friends, get to know the master's paintings, understand the creation age and background of the paintings, and enrich their knowledge. All kinds of competitions also need to go through primary selection and final evaluation, so that children can fully realize the importance of' no pains, no gains'. Art education provides a broad space for children to participate in social activities, which is a very intuitive and effective social activity. It plays an important role in the transformation of young children from individuals to social people.
In short, art education is not a single way of learning. Through art, children's potential can be developed and their abilities can be cultivated. Through art, children can be socialized, but the benefits of children learning art are far more than that! As long as teachers can take children as the center, guide children to discover beauty, express beauty and create beauty, and promote the healthy development of children's whole body and mind with artistic activities, our children's art education will surely flourish!
Second, the problems existing in traditional art education in real society.
1. Backward educational concept
In the classroom of traditional education, teachers teach students to learn painting very seriously. Take apples for example. In order to teach them to draw apples well, the art teacher specially sent an apple for everyone to observe. The motive was good, but in the end something went wrong. All the students drew big and red apples, and the teachers were very satisfied with their painstaking efforts. Parents are very satisfied with the lifelike apples drawn by their children. Besides, the apple drawn by a little boy is not round. Is that little boy really wrong?
2. Deviate from the law of education
Many parents stipulate that children should learn sketching at the age of 5/6. In fact, parents don't know what sketch is. When children are 5 or 6 years old and have the strongest creative ability, they put shackles on their children too early, which imprisons their thinking.
3. Lack of emotional training for children.
Whose painting is the most beautiful? This is the favorite thing for teachers and parents to do after class. Every time I see a child with very skilled skills, parents will praise him. It's really nice. It's beautiful. In fact, we should find more children's feelings and emotions in our works. If you pay more attention to children's emotions in your works, you will certainly find out whether children's psychological development is healthy.
Third, children's learning style-the combination of teachers' various teaching methods
When it comes to children's art education, we have to raise the issue of educational methods and means. In the traditional classroom, we overemphasize mechanical imitation, emphasizing the acceptance of knowledge and the mastery of skills. Kong, a professor at Nanjing Normal University, pointed out in the fourth issue of Information and Research on Preschool Education in 2005: "① In the specific aesthetic education process, teachers focus on artistic texts and instill their own artistic knowledge and material conditions into children, ignoring their own aesthetic perception, imagination and emotional experience. Children's learning is controlled in the process of imitation and passive acceptance, and the enthusiasm and initiative of learning are ignored. Without the process of self-expression, children will soon lose interest. Now many teachers are beginning to pay attention to the teaching methods advocated by quality education. They realize that students are the main body of the classroom now, and teachers mainly adopt active guidance strategies to stimulate children's interest in autonomous learning.
1. Visual demonstration of teaching AIDS to guide students into the scene.
In art teaching, children's way of thinking still stays in the ability of concrete thinking, and concrete action thinking and intuitive image thinking are in an advantageous position because of their small segment. Visual demonstration can be used for entertainment and recreation. In teaching, audio-visual equipment can be used to reproduce the situation of teaching content or collect objects and pictures related to the content to create the situation, so that children can enter the state, learn from the environment and learn independently. For example, in the "Dutch windmill" art teaching activities, teachers can use multimedia slide pictures to guide children to appreciate and observe. I believe that the unique architecture, colorful tulips and white windmills in the Netherlands will stimulate children's interest in learning.
2. Tell stories and create imaginary situations
Children like stories, and teachers can use the charm of stories to stimulate children's interest in learning, so that they can learn knowledge and understand the truth in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere. From interesting stories, children will imagine the story more richly and beautifully with rich imagination. For example, the lesson "Moonlight and Candlelight" tells that people lacked astronomical knowledge a long time ago. When the moon changed into different shapes, people were worried that the Tengu had eaten the moon. . . . . . . The inspiration of stories, the creation of imaginary situations, the timely and further understanding of children's popular science/science, the growth of children's knowledge, the strong inspiration and guidance of children's creative thinking, and the desire of children to perform have all been well stimulated.
3. Create problem situations and interactive classes.
Thinking is the source of creativity, and the interaction in the classroom will greatly improve children's participation and teaching quality. Art classroom is not just a teacher's "one-man show", but a process of interaction and cooperation. For example, let children experience people's emotions "joy, anger, sadness and joy". If the child simply makes an expression, he certainly doesn't have a deep understanding of emotions. If you set up some links, ask: When will they be happy? For example, on your birthday, your mother gave you a new toy. Are you happy? Happiness is joy, so what happens when you are happy? Children can easily express their joy with body language and expressions. In the situation of problems, children naturally imagine problems and naturally participate in activities.
4. Performance and creative experience.
Zhang Guimu, editor-in-chief of Teachers' Reader of Art Curriculum Standards, has a unique perspective on the interpretation of art curriculum standards: focusing on the analysis of art education practice; It pays attention to the realistic pertinence of the content; It pays attention to discovering the educational wisdom needed in the implementation of art curriculum standards, which has good wisdom for teachers. Children have a desire to perform and express. As long as the teacher guides them properly, taking the children to a fairy-tale performance classroom at the beginning of the class will drive them to express their desires on the stage, and at the same time let them understand the characteristics and connotations of things more deeply.
5. Leave time and opportunities to children.
Art is the most important way for children to express themselves. Children can freely express their emotions, feelings and thoughts through artistic activities. In the practical research of "Problems and Inquiry in Children's Painting Guidance" published in this newspaper, Zhang Mei, a teacher of Xingshan Kindergarten in Yichang, Hubei Province, put forward a typical problem in kindergarten art education at present: ignoring children's "spiritual perception". From the perspective of children, each child's artistic expression and level are different. For example, in the comprehensive materials class of Strange Castle, some children assembled a really strange castle with matchboxes and toothpaste boxes, and some children chose a castle assembled with building blocks and screws. After the completion of the castle, some children drew a car next to the castle and stopped there. Some children drew a princess that they thought was the most beautiful and put it in the castle. Free creation always attracts children's attention to the greatest extent, but children here can't pay attention to problems such as inattention.
6. Teach children to enhance their self-confidence with love and confidence.
Appropriate positive evaluation enhances children's self-confidence, but modern education "thumb education" is everywhere. As long as the children do some small things right, the teacher will also give a thumbs up, so that the children will feel that the teacher is dishonest and their encouragement will become indifferent. Teachers should be practical and say positive words to children according to the situation, not necessarily saying "you are great", so that children can feel positive and encouraging information, and teachers should be promoted.
7. Teachers who know their children will become their friends.
Preschool education of professional teachers is the requirement of the times. A teacher with very high professional quality, even with high academic qualifications and rich knowledge, can hardly become a friend and be loved by children if he doesn't understand their psychology. Only by knowing psychology, teachers who like children will be the "stars" in children's hearts, and children will actively cooperate with teachers to carry out various activities and courses, so that teachers can really help children grow up for a century. Education-oriented, let us join hands with * * * to devote ourselves to children's education, and let us devote our caring eyes to romantic fairy tale creation. Where there are children's dreams, there will be children's life sailing, scientific art halls, bold imagination and brave creation, which will benefit our children for life.