Innovation is the soul of national progress. Preschool education is an organic part of basic education, which undertakes the arduous task of laying the foundation for talent training. Therefore, as a kindergarten teacher, we should stand at the height of facing the world and the future, encourage children to be innovative, and strive to cultivate their innovative spirit and train their innovative potential.
This morning, when organizing a comprehensive activity-Happy Lantern Festival, many children showed their joyful scenes and feelings by artistic means. When I walked beside Jiayin, I found that her paintings were full of tanks, cannons, fighter planes and so on. I seem a little dissatisfied. I wonder how your paintings have such a strong flavor in such a happy and peaceful festival. But on second thought, I'd better listen to her thoughts. So I asked her softly why she painted it like this. She said excitedly: "Teacher, this is the uncle of the People's Liberation Army who is driving a tank to light a lamp to celebrate the Lantern Festival; This is the air force that turns on the lights of fighter planes to light up the sky. They are also celebrating the Lantern Festival. And ... ". Listen! How rich the child's imagination is. I'm really glad that I listened patiently to the good news just now, without hurting her self-esteem and letting myself listen to her inner language. Therefore, the teacher can only find the bright spot of the child by listening carefully. Don't say, "Why are you so annoying!" " "Can't you see I'm busy? Go and play! " "You are so stupid!" If you hurt your child's self-esteem. When children ask you questions or talk to you, they should put down what they are doing, make a gesture of paying attention to their words, be kind to their curiosity and thirst for knowledge, and promote their creative interest.
Another example: in the innovative theme activity of wonderful rope, children choose their favorite rope to play around and swing in their hands at will. In an instant, it becomes a swaying branch, a small tree swaying with the wind, a dancing partner, and a beautiful picture. In this activity, children are allowed to explore and accumulate in playing rope, which is spread out layer by layer, from one point of imagination to many points. By using progressive time, children are allowed to innovate layer by layer, to experience the combination of imitation and innovation, to give children full space for imagination, creation and free expression, to fully develop their innovative potential, and to try various ways of playing rope.
Children's creativity is more driven by curiosity, which makes children feel that teachers are their most loyal supporters. Therefore, teachers should understand, recognize and respect children, so that children can feel that teachers can communicate and fully support and cooperate, so as to boldly create, stimulate children's bright spots, make children more confident and actively explore and learn, sprout their enthusiasm for creation and express their feelings.
Respect the beauty in children's hearts
In the "Birds Go Home" art activity, children have to pull out small leaves with their small hands and stick them on bare tree trunks. At first, I prepared red, yellow and green colored paper for the children. Some children don't understand, "The leaves are green!" I explained to the children: "There are also X-colored leaves and red leaves in autumn. With more colors, trees will be more beautiful and birds will like this home more, right? " The children accepted my proposal happily. Next, I led the children to talk about the shape of the leaves, and the children could all say that they were oval and pointed at both ends. So I demonstrated how to tear off a piece of green paper according to the shape of a leaf and put it on a big tree. The children are very happy. It was their turn to tear the leaves, and the atmosphere suddenly became negative. It turns out that many children don't know how to tear out "standard" leaves, and some children show me square and triangular leaves.
It is pointed out in the Guide that the goals of expressing and creating beauty for children aged 3-4 are painting, pasting and enjoying. While creating opportunities and conditions for children, we should also support children's spontaneous artistic expression and creation, create a safe spiritual atmosphere, and let children dare and be willing to express their performance. In the process of children's independent expression and creation, we should not interfere too much, nor should we impose our wishes on children. We should share the fun of art activities with children.
To tell the truth, when I saw these leaves with special shapes, my heart refused. Maybe the children felt my negative emotions. As a result, many children have given up tearing leaves. Seeing this situation, I suddenly realized my misconduct. So, I began to encourage children not to give up, appreciate their unique expressions, help children stick leaves on trees, and watch all kinds of leaves decorate trees. The children gradually recovered their happy mood and actively decorated the Christmas tree with more beautiful leaves. Only the trunk of the tree began to plump up, and the children shouted happily, "The birds will love it."
Three play with plasticine
This morning, I organized the children to play with plasticine and let them pinch whatever they want. It's really cute to look at the children carefully. I watched them one by one. Some children are pinching apples, while others are pinching cartoon characters. Although they are all only children in small classes, the plasticine they squeeze out is really similar. I walked next to Hu Cheng's child, puzzled, unable to understand what he was pinching, and asked, "Hu Cheng, what are you pinching? Tell the teacher. " "What do you say, teacher?" I pretended to say, "The teacher guessed it was a kitten." "Yes, just a kitten." "Like an apple" "Yes, yes, it's an apple." I didn't answer for a moment and asked, "What's that?" "Hmm ... hmm (expressing hesitation, etc.) ... hmm ..." He faltered. A child next to him said, "Teacher, he pinched it."
Suddenly, he put down his plasticine. I said, "Do you want to pinch it? The teacher believes that Hu Cheng's children must be great and can pinch out many beautiful things? " I saw him sitting and refusing to start work.
After reflection, it is really not easy for children in small classes to meet the requirements of teachers and parents. Everything should be done slowly, and good habits are a good start first. To leave time and opportunities for them to explore and discover, we must first develop their thinking, which is realized through words and cannot be separated from the role of language. At this time, the key to developing children's thinking ability is the cultivation of children's language level, which can promote children's thinking development.