Keywords: innovative ability; Character; Exploring desire
Innovation ability is the need of social development, the symbol of a country's comprehensive strength and the guarantee of social sustainable development. The new curriculum standards and the spirit of quality education have repeatedly stressed the need to cultivate students' innovative ability, which also shows that innovative ability is an urgent need of social development! A country or nation without innovation ability has no future and will eventually fall into a passive position. Children are the future of the country and the nation, and it is the common responsibility of families, schools and society to cultivate children's innovative ability from an early age. When children's innovation ability is improved, there will be hope for the country and the nation, and the innovation ability of natural countries will go up and their competitiveness in the world will be enhanced! So how to systematically cultivate children's innovative ability from an early age? The following is my humble opinion.
First, stimulate children's desire to explore by creating interesting situations.
Confucius said, "Knowing is not as good as being kind, and being kind is not as good as being happy." Children in primary schools are young and inexperienced, mainly because they don't concentrate on their studies. Only those interesting teaching contents can easily catch their eyes. In the teaching process, teachers can create interesting situations, stimulate children's curiosity and interest, and arouse their interest in exploration. The author creates some problem situations in the teaching process to stimulate children's interest in inquiry through practical problems. For example, predict how much water will be wasted in a day if the faucet is not tightened. The specific steps are as follows: First, 20 grams of water is injected into the paper cup. Make a small hole in the bottom of the cup with thin wire. Then, let the water leak into the box and start timing. First weigh a paper cup to about 2g with an electronic scale, and then add water to the cup until 22g is displayed on the electronic scale, indicating that there is 20g of water in the cup. At this time, I arranged for a student to open the stopwatch and shouted, "Ready, go!" " "At the command, I pressed the stopwatch and a student pulled out the thin wire. The water in the cup is dripping, and the numbers on the stopwatch are changing rapidly. The water drops are falling more and more slowly. At this time, I told the students that it was because there was less water and less pressure. I squeezed the cup to keep the water at the same pressure. I pressed the stopwatch for 2 minutes when the water leaked! It only takes 2 minutes to leak 20 grams! If the faucet leaks at the same speed as the paper cup, then/kloc-0 leaks 600g/hour and 4,800g/8 hours, which is 1 4,400g/day! At this time, I told the students: "The mineral water we usually drink is about 500 grams per bottle. How many bottles of water do you think will be wasted in a day? "14400 divided by 500, I really don't know, 26 bottles are 400 grams more! The students all said, "We must save every drop of water! "
Second, respect children's personality and cultivate their innovative ability.
Influenced by traditional educational ideas, we are often used to strict management and preaching to students in teaching, and don't let them cross the line. For a long time, it has seriously bound children's thinking and dampened their creativity. As a result, different children tend to be consistent, have no personality differences, have lost their characteristics, and have smooth edges and corners, becoming little sheep who can only do what they say. In fact, the spirit of quality education requires us to create different development spaces for children with different talents and potentials, so that each child's potential can be stimulated. Therefore, in the teaching process, we teachers must deeply realize that different children are different in intelligence, personality, interests and specialties. We should adopt different strategies according to children's personality, tailor-made learning methods suitable for each child's development, fully stimulate their learning potential, and thus cultivate their innovative ability.
Third, cherish children's curiosity and stimulate their creative enthusiasm.
Curiosity is a sense of novelty and excitement about things that people don't understand. Curiosity is often manifested as a concern for novelty. In order to find out their reasons, we put forward "why". The more curious you are, the more eager you are for knowledge, and at the same time, you always want to try your best to find the answer. Aristotle said, "It is human nature to seek knowledge." Curiosity and thirst for knowledge are children's nature and the starting point of their innovative ability. Only when you are curious about things will you think and explore, and gradually develop into the ability to innovate or create. Einstein once said, "I don't have any special talent, but I like to trace back to the source." Therefore, in our teaching work, we should pay special attention to stimulate children's curiosity and arouse their interest in teaching content. When their curiosity is aroused, they will actively try to find out the truth. In this process, their innovative ability will be greatly stimulated, the sparks of wisdom will be splashed, and whimsy will emerge one after another, creating many innovative thinking that surprises teachers.
Fourth, cultivate children's innovative ability through hands-on operation and practical activities.
How to cultivate children's innovative ability? As the saying goes, "the mind is handy." Pupils' language ability is not very strong, so let them do more. We teachers should not be afraid of trouble in teaching, but must guide children to learn from experience and lessons in practice, gradually improve their hands-on ability, and then improve their innovation ability. At present, the content of education is constantly updated, and some original teaching instruments can not meet the needs of education and teaching gradually. In order to stimulate students' interest in learning in class and obtain more intuitive and accurate mathematical information, teachers must learn to make full use of the resources around them and guide students to make their own teaching AIDS in combination with teaching materials. For example, when teaching the knowledge of "volume of cylinder and cone", they came across an application problem: a steel plant has a cylindrical billet with a bottom radius of 4 cm and a height of 6 cm. In order to feel the principle of "steel only changes shape but not volume" more intuitively and deeply, I teach students to make a simple and effective teaching aid, take out the prepared plasticine, pinch out a cylinder and imagine it as a billet that needs casting. And then melted and cast and kneaded into a conical steel block. At the same time, ask the students: "What did you find?" Through hands-on operation, students can easily draw the conclusion that plasticine has changed from a cylinder to a cone, and nothing has been removed in the whole process. So in the process of casting steel, only the shape has changed, but the volume has not changed. Then, I asked the students to knead it again with the plasticine in their hands to see what shape the cylindrical billet can be kneaded into and whether its volume has changed during the process of changing the shape. Finally, the students themselves concluded that in the process of casting steel, no matter how the shape changes, the volume is constant.
Fifth, encourage children to be unconventional and cultivate their innovative consciousness and thinking.
Teachers should encourage students to think independently when they encounter problems, give full play to their imagination, be not satisfied with their existing achievements, dare to be original, and even be whimsical, and think about the problems they encounter from the opposite direction. Don't be bound by textbooks and teachers' thoughts, but dare to question and ask why. Soviet scientist Pavlov once said: "Doubt is the thought of discovery, the driving force of exploration and the premise of innovation." Finding problems is far more important than solving them, because only by asking questions can problems be solved. Therefore, teachers should cherish children's reverse thinking and divergent thinking in the teaching process. Although some of their ideas seem unrealistic, these novel and unique ideas are actually the seeds of their creative thinking. In this regard, we can't stop them, but we should encourage them and give them more opportunities to try, so that their innovative consciousness and innovative thinking can be constantly stimulated and their innovative ability can be continuously improved.
In short, children's innovative ability can not be improved overnight, it needs long-term training from teachers. Teachers should stimulate children's desire to explore by creating interesting situations in their daily teaching work; Respect children's personality and cultivate their innovative ability; Cherish children's curiosity and stimulate their creative enthusiasm; Guide children to operate and cultivate their innovative ability; Encourage children to be creative, cultivate children's innovative consciousness and thinking, and constantly develop new channels and methods, persevere, gradually stimulate children's innovative thinking, and cultivate more innovative talents for the country.