Improvement of Children's National Dance Teaching
Content summary:
I made a "national dance teaching attempt" in the graduation practice unit. National folk dance is an indispensable teaching material for children's dance teaching because of its rich connotation and distinctive musical melody. The traditional children's national dance education activities often focus on developing children's movements, simply asking children to imitate, sometimes training children's movements with passwords, and then matching them with music after children learn to move. This teaching process not only ignores the cultivation of children's sensibility to dance, but also ignores the cultivation of children's creative expression ability and the edification of thoughts and feelings. According to the theory of art education learned in the university, in kindergarten art education, I combine the reality of preschool education, and now I further sum up the theory and practice, which comes down to my graduation thesis, aiming at exploring how to let children know the splendid dance culture of all ethnic groups through colorful national dance education, initially learn and master the basic movements, dance styles and characteristics of national dance, and cultivate their national pride and the ability to initially feel beauty, discover beauty and creatively express beauty.
Keywords: Children's National Dance Teaching Attempt
For a long time, pop music has influenced kindergartens. Children often hum in their daily activities: "Look at the girl opposite", Jay Chou's "nunchakus" and other popular songs, as well as disco, fitness dance, street dance and so on. With the twist of music, traditional folk dance has been gradually neglected. Kindergarten dance teaching is an important form of children's music enlightenment education. It can enrich children's life, develop children's movements, cultivate children's aesthetic power and develop children's thinking and imagination. It is not only an important way to carry out quality education for children, but also an important way to realize the goal of "sprouting children's interest and skills in feeling and expressing beauty". Therefore, the development of kindergarten children's dance education activities must take the development of children's quality as the fundamental goal. As a folk dance with rich connotations such as national cultural background, local customs, living habits and national spirit, it is naturally an indispensable teaching material in kindergarten dance teaching. After two years of study in kindergarten, the children in the kindergarten class have a certain understanding of some ethnic minorities. The lively tune, lively rhythm, cheerful artistic conception and novel and diverse genres of children's national dance conform to children's active and imitative personality and intuitive, vivid and lively perceptual characteristics, which lays a preliminary foundation for children's national dance learning. The improvement of children's national dance teaching can be tried from the following aspects.
1 audio-visual combination, fully stimulate the interest in national dance.
Interest is the intrinsic motivation of children's learning. To make children interested in folk music and dance, it is necessary to cultivate their sensibility to folk music and dance. Because a good sense of music and dance is the basis of learning children's dance and the development of aesthetic quality. To cultivate the sensibility of music and dance, children must directly feel the beauty of music melody and dance movements through the appreciation of music works, thus arousing their concern and interest in music and dance. The appreciation of music works must be multi-sensory, and the "multi-channel" appreciation is effective. Similarly, when children appreciate national dance activities, by mobilizing more sensory organs, they can perceive the content and emotion expressed by national dance more deeply and carefully. The content of national dance is rich and colorful. Teachers should find a suitable entrance according to the characteristics of theme and style, adopt flexible teaching methods, improve children's interest in learning folk dance, and thus acquire some dance skills.
For example, in music activities and daily life, I often recite lyrics, play beautiful tunes, dance some simple and beautiful dances with sweet voices, and cooperate with natural expressions to guide children to appreciate, attract their attention, stimulate their interest and desire in learning, and let children feel and like the beauty of music and dance unconsciously. On this basis, guiding children to learn dance is conducive to cultivating the quality of feeling and expressing beauty. For example, teaching the big class dance "Riding on My Little Donkey", which is a Uygur dance, is relatively difficult to understand and has a certain sense of humor. When I choreograph this dance, I will tell the story of two generations of love first, so that children can sincerely like the intelligence, courage and humor of two generations of love, and at the same time play Xinjiang folk music, so that children can appreciate the cheerful and lively melody of Xinjiang folk music, feel the beauty of Xinjiang folk music and get interested in it. Then I put on my national costume, lace hat and two moustaches to dress myself up as a funny image of two generations of love. It fully shows the beauty of vigor, boldness, liveliness, humor and enthusiasm of Xinjiang nationality. After reading it, the children were in high spirits and interested. They were all eager to try, and soon entered the learning role and successfully mastered the basic dance movements. While teaching children to appreciate Xinjiang dance, they also stimulate their interest in learning dance by appreciating VCD. Some children can't help dancing to the beat of music while enjoying it. In the process of listening, watching, singing and dancing, children can share their feelings about national dance. Then we invited the children to continue to enjoy the Xinjiang Uygur song and dance "Little Brother Get Up Early" that the children are very familiar with. Children will compose music and dance according to the basic movements they have mastered. We are really surprised at the potential of children.
2 create an environment, and fully create the atmosphere of national dance.
The environment has a profound, hidden and subtle influence on children. The "Outline" points out: "We should guide children to get in touch with beautiful people, things and things around them, enrich their perceptual experience and aesthetic taste, and inspire them to express and create beauty." In all aspects of kindergarten life, we should create a good environment and atmosphere for national music and dance with children, increase the opportunities for children to listen, feel and express their communication, let children actively interact with the environment, guide children to cultivate their temperament under the influence of music and dance, and promote children's understanding of national dance, thus stimulating children's feelings of loving the beautiful things in life.
2. 1 Create an atmosphere of national dance in daily life
Because of the pervasiveness of music, I use the time of morning meeting, eating, taking a nap, getting up and free activities to play excellent national music for children, such as: Mongolian folk song "Lucky Three Treasures", Xinjiang folk song "Half Moon Climbs Up", Jiangsu folk song "Little Jasmine", Kirgiz folk song "Happy Flowers Opened My Heart", Sani folk song "I am Close to My Motherland" and so on. At the same time, discover the educational value of music and dance implied in children's interesting things, games and accidental events at any time, seize the opportunity to actively guide, and then organize and deepen children's spontaneous dance activities.
2.2 Infiltrate national dance culture in regional activities
2.2. 1 Music Zone: Put in the national costumes and music that you are familiar with, encourage children to wear national costumes, boldly and freely perform cheerful national dances, give children opportunities to show themselves and meet their needs for self-expression. At the same time, more spontaneous musical behaviors among children will attract peers to actively participate and promote each other, providing a stage for children to entertain themselves.
2.2.2 cognitive area: put pictures, vcd, pictorial, etc. For example, Tibetans wear robes, skirts are slanted, a long belt is tied around their waist, and a sleeve is hung on their body. Girls wear colorful aprons around their waist, love to drink butter tea and often offer Hada to show their respect for people. Mongolian people like to ride horses, shoot arrows and play Ma Touqin, and live on the vast grassland, which makes them as brave as vultures and as broad-minded as grasslands. By understanding the folk customs of all ethnic groups, children can better understand the characteristics of national dances and better express their styles, such as vigorous Tibetans and unrestrained Mongolians.
2.2.3 Handmade area: Teachers and children * * * collect photos of songs, dances, buildings, musical instruments and other ethnic groups, and provide children with a lot of waste materials to make corresponding national costume props according to the corresponding national music or background. For example, when playing the Dai dance "peacock dance", guide the children to make a peacock's crown, make a beautiful gauze skirt with waste plastic bags, and put on a shiny ring to make them dance like peacocks. For example, in Xinjiang, a cardboard box is used as a lace hat, cotton is used as a lovely moustache, which is stuck under the nose, and an old newspaper is cut and decorated to make a lace vest, so that you can imagine picking grapes in beautiful Xinjiang.
2.3 Share the fun of folk dance in family interaction.
"Parents are important partners of preschool teachers", and children's growth needs family education. We can't ignore the rich educational resources in the family. In the attempt of national dance teaching in kindergarten, I can often participate in dance, so that kindergarten education and family education complement each other.
First of all, through the monthly family interaction open day, parents can bring their own national dances and different national costumes to their children for parent-child interaction. You can also exchange clothes with other children so that parents and children can play games and dance on the same stage. In a good atmosphere, parents and children can communicate happily and enhance their confidence and fun in feeling folk dances.
Secondly, parents who work in cultural centers, Confucian temples and county porcelain capital art troupe introduce us to folk music and dance, customs and cultural knowledge, and also perform folk dances such as tea and flying kites, so that children can deepen their understanding of folk dances.
Thirdly, through the parent-teacher conference, I can help parents understand the significance of children's national dance teaching, guide parents to try their best to create a good national cultural atmosphere for their children, collect national data, and help children learn national dance smoothly. Through family interaction, children can truly feel that there are folk music and dance arts everywhere in their lives.
3 Carefully select materials, fully perceive the style and charm of national dance (fully expand the vision of national dance)
Every regional culture has strong regionality and inheritance, and every national culture has its own value and connotation, which is a rare educational resource. However, as the teaching content of children's national dance, it should be carefully selected according to the characteristics and interests of children's thinking image.
3. 1 must be folk music close to children's lives.
Children's national dance education should start with feelings, so that children can feel the expressed content and emotions first and deepen their understanding. Therefore, it is very easy to learn folk dances that are close to children's lives and based on their life experiences. For example, the lyrics of the Mongolian dance "Auspicious Three Treasures" are simple and clear, the tune is lively and the rhythm is free and smooth. It is very simple to express that mom, dad and children are the auspicious three treasures in the family, and to express the beautiful feelings of the happy life of the whole family.
3.2 Children must be interested in folk music.
An autumn outing, passing by the farmhouse, saw an old man cleaning cows. The children were curious and asked. It turns out that the old man really wants to milk. Watching the old man's milking action and the scene of milk spraying into the bucket, the children laughed and cried happily. Seize the opportunity to talk back to the garden, I proposed to learn the Mongolian dance "Milking", and the children's interest was high. According to their own experiences, they vividly created many vivid movements.
3.3 Choose a variety of genres and distinctive folk music.
Ethnic music and dance are rich and colorful. For example, the rhythm of the Yao dance "Bronze Drum Dance" is profound and melodious, the Han dance "Tea Affairs" and the Dai dance "peacock dance" are lively and cheerful, yi dance's "Li Ali" and Gaoshan dance "Gao Shanqing" are humorous and cheerful, the Korean dance "Orange Zhao" is dignified and dignified, and the Mongolian dance "Horse Racing" is free and unrestrained. Let children feel all kinds of music and dances with different emotions, thus enriching their emotions, and children can show the characteristics of national dances more vividly and naturally.
4. Effectively organize, fully understand, create and express the beauty of national dance.
4. 1 is intended to stimulate thinking and feel the beauty of music and dance in the performance works.
Intention means that in children's dance teaching, teachers should have a strong awareness of cultivating children's sensibility, and start with the cultivation of sensory activities and abilities, and strengthen them at any time. For example, in the primary stage of children's dance teaching, I should first consciously create a musical situation. By listening to the recording and the teacher's demonstration singing, let the children feel the music, understand the lyrics and get interested, and then inspire the children to express themselves with actions. This kind of free expression is the expression of children's feelings and also a kind of creativity. This has changed the passive phenomenon of simply asking children's model teachers to follow step by step in previous dance learning, and children's initiative and creativity have been brought into play. For example, when teaching the Kirgiz folk song Happy Flowers, I first consciously guide my children to observe the natural environment, observe the growth and change process of small trees and small flowers, and guide them to associate themselves with the happy growth of small trees and small flowers every day, so that children can have rich practical feelings, from which they will have corresponding image thinking. In their minds, rows of saplings dressed in green and a group of colorful flower fairies will grow together in the sun. The more you think in this image, the more you can feel the connotation of dance works, and the more you can actively and creatively express dance movements, thus subtly improving children's quality of expressing beauty and creating beauty.
4.2 Organize and guide in an orderly way, and make it easier to turn the difficult into the easy, and experience the beauty of music and dance in the performance works.
Orderliness refers to the gradual guidance, so that children can understand and express the beauty of music and dance from playing middle school and playing middle school. For example, when teaching Fujian folk dance Tea Picking and Butterflies, the teacher made a colorful butterfly and held it with a long stick. First, let children play the game of catching butterflies with music, and consciously infiltrate the basic dance movements into the game, so that children can naturally learn dance movements and solve difficulties when they are eager to chase. It is very easy to learn Tea Picking and Butterflies after you are familiar with it. For another example, in learning the dance "Jia Kexi", although the movements are very simple, because the children are young and have poor coordination of movements, they are familiar with the music and feel the rhythm and atmosphere of the train, and then the teacher becomes the locomotive and lets the children be the carriages. One by one, they will follow the teacher to learn the movements of the "locomotive", just like the combination of various sections of a carriage, and easily complete dance movements such as spring steps, so that children can quickly understand and visualize them.
4.3 organically guide feelings, create movements, and show the beauty of dance.
Action is a good way for children to feel and express the beauty of music, and the process of children's sports is a process of listening, feeling and expressing. When children feel and understand music works, they will not simply copy them, but have new ideas, artistic conception, association and the recombination of old and new representations can produce imagination and creativity. For example, when "Little Ge Sang" music is played, the children swaggered, saluted, waved and grabbed, looked into the distance, blew the horn, rode horses and other actions, all like a little PLA. These are the emotional reflections of music melody on children, which shows that children have the potential to feel and embody the beauty of music.
Being organic means seizing the opportunity and educating immediately. I often take my children into nature, guide them to observe and perceive real life, or let them enjoy video programs and beautiful pictures, and then inspire them to express what they see and hear with actions. For example, children can enjoy their holidays from video programs, and people dance yangko and shake colored fans to borrow money. When guiding yangko, children can recall the scenes they have enjoyed, write their own movements, and vividly express the beauty of music and dance.