How to cultivate children's innovative ability?
First, let children feel the existence of innovation.
Early education should provide children with a healthy and rich living and activity environment, meet their various development needs, and make them gain experiences beneficial to their physical and mental development in a happy childhood. The atmosphere conducive to cultivating children's innovative ability must be relaxed, pleasant, safe and harmonious. Without psychological pressure, children will spontaneously and unsuspectingly indulge in interesting and imaginative innovative activities. This innovative atmosphere includes:
(1) A relaxed and comfortable teaching environment creates an open and innovative interactive environment and an interesting and magical teaching atmosphere, allowing children to create freely in the space of love.
To advocate freedom, safety and harmony, we should actively provide "soil" and "climate" for the formation of innovative atmosphere, and deliberately create a small world of free and safe activities for children. In this land of Xiaotian, various teaching AIDS and materials can be set up to encourage children to play, discover and imagine. Playing is a child's nature. It is necessary to guide children to play exploratively and differently, to play with new methods and tricks, and to create opportunities for children to communicate. This not only enhances children's sense of accomplishment and pleasure in innovative activities, but also can learn from others' beneficial experience, enhance the spirit of cooperation and create a harmonious atmosphere.
(2) Natural and pleasant scene introduction: diversified scene introduction, including stories, games, music, role-playing, etc. , immersive, interesting teaching, relaxed and pleasant learning atmosphere.
Teachers should often participate in children's activities in daily life and participate in exchanges and consultations on an equal footing, which will enable children to form a good mentality and promote and mobilize their innovative potential. For example, we interspersed some situational teaching in teaching, allowing children to perform live in the learning process, making colorful props with various materials such as waste paper and plastic bags, and the teacher accompanied the children to write, direct and entertain themselves. Encourage children to be unconventional and let them express themselves freely in front of the group.
Intelligence and effective teaching methods:
Task-driven teaching method permeates inspiration and guidance, and cultivates children's abilities such as being good at asking questions, observing and thinking, boldly summing up, uniting and cooperating, and expressing language. We should respect children, give them more opportunities to think independently and make their own decisions, allow them to make mistakes, and express the most authentic experience in combination with their own experiences. In this process, we should give more inspiration and guidance, and encourage them to accomplish their goals step by step through observation, thinking and hands-on practice through rich and interesting thematic tasks. When children use various teaching AIDS to build different models and systems in classroom teaching and practical activities, and show their proud "works" happily, we should take a relaxed attitude and not pay too much attention to the works themselves. Instead, we should encourage, guide and explore their correct way of thinking during the activities, affirm their performance, and make them more interested in creating truly excellent results in the future.
Second, let children experience the joy of innovation.
Children are curious, curious, competitive and confident. We will pay attention to respecting children's psychological characteristics and needs and cultivate their positive attitude and passion for innovation. First of all, we must discover and protect children's interests. Be good at observing, discovering and protecting children's curiosity and interest, appreciate and observe children's exploration behavior with interest, and don't deny children's innovative performance casually. When they make all kinds of animal models with plasticine and build castles with large teaching AIDS, although the quality of these works is not good, we should seize the children's activities and stimulate their passion for innovation. Children will be full of imagination, creativity and passion in these processes, and they will try things that have never been done before. Third, encourage and praise children's works. The source of children's innovation is life experience, and the works they create reflect their lives. We should encourage and praise them. Children should not be restricted by adult's thinking standards and evaluation standards, but should be allowed to behave beyond imagination. In the process of construction and creation, children will use all kinds of teaching AIDS to create all kinds of strange shapes, which is very interesting for them. At this time, we should not hesitate to describe children's works with beautiful language and passion, so that they can be infected and inspired and regard themselves as a small creator. Children like cars, ships and all kinds of buildings. They will use various materials to perform, make, build and other activities, so that their hands-on ability, creativity and cooperation ability can be fully developed. The wings of children's imagination spread, and they further experienced the joy of innovation.
Third, be careful to catch the spark of children's innovation.
Inspiration is the flash of innovation spark, and the flash of innovation spark on children will be ruthlessly extinguished because of improper educational methods. For example, in teaching activities, different shapes are inadvertently created. When they tell their peers excitedly, the teacher gives a negative evaluation, which will suppress children's inspiration and extinguish their sparks of innovation. To protect children's innovative behavior and care for children's innovative imagination, we should pay attention to the following aspects: (1) Follow-up problem solving: face children's curiosity and doubts, correctly guide the thinking of solving problems, cultivate logical thinking in a follow-up way, inspire children to discover the essence of problems, stimulate children's enthusiasm for active learning, and cultivate children's exploration spirit imperceptibly. Treat children's questions correctly. Children will ask all kinds of unexpected questions. Don't rush to erase their unique thinking and deny their imagination. Instead, we should actively and patiently face their bold questioning behavior and follow the traces to inspire and guide them to think from multiple angles. (2) Consciously train children to expand their imagination. Provide more fantasy books, fairy tales, science fiction, fables and so on. These "spiritual food" will help them learn from others' successful innovative consciousness and spirit and provide children with semi-finished game materials. The advantage of semi-finished game material should be that it can reassemble new objects. These materials give children a lot of room for free development of imagination and innovation, and can achieve "one thing is multi-purpose" and "replace things with things", constantly inspiring inspiration and flashing the spark of innovation, so they dare to innovate. (3) Let children touch new things and broaden their horizons. According to children's age, characteristics and living environment, we should always use various opportunities to guide children to contact with all kinds of new things. Understand the facilities such as buildings and transportation from the changes of the city; Understand the growth characteristics of flowers and trees from the pastoral scenery. The more children know about things, the wider the foundation of imagination, and the more likely it is to trigger new inspiration and produce new ideas. The kind of children who keep their children indoors and just want them to write, draw and recite poems will extinguish the spark of children's innovation and it is impossible to cultivate people with innovative ability. Therefore, we not only cultivate children's innovative inspiration in daily teaching, but also organize some outdoor activities regularly to stimulate children's innovative inspiration for nature. Understand nature and explore the laws and sciences that exist in nature.
Fourth, boldly encourage children's innovative practice.
Step-by-step practice of intellectual interest: from easy to difficult, through observation and analysis-guiding construction-inspiring innovation-summing up, guide children to gradually establish a scientific way of thinking and form a correct way of thinking.
Children have an epiphany and a sense of passion, and they must be bold in practice to succeed. In daily activities, we should provide children with rich operational materials and inspire them to explore, try and practice in various ways. For example, in the teaching activities of different models, let them give full play to their imagination, create strange combination shapes with rich teaching AIDS, and even encourage them to design small systems with various "missing" functions; In addition, in some daily membership activities, we will also let children explore boldly and make small shapes of various shapes using various materials common in life. In these teaching and a series of activities in peacetime, children discover and experience through personal practice. Let them learn to cherish and use resources, feel that science is around, and experience that creation can make simple materials play a greater role, so that they are really willing to explore, learn, practice and create.
Children are active learners. In various activities, they are active explorers, researchers and discoverers. What we need to do is, in children's ordinary activities, keenly find things that children are interested in and pay attention to at any time, try our best to create conditions, actively encourage them, let them experience it for themselves, and dare to try to practice it, so as to release their inner innovation impulse and lay a good foundation for their lifelong development.