Common Dance Teaching Methods for Young Children
Curiosity, inquisitiveness, mobility, and love of imitation are the age and psychological characteristics of young children. Young children's thinking is image thinking, young children's dance can precisely adapt to these characteristics of young children, but also to meet their specific requirements. Different teaching methods should be adopted in the teaching of early childhood dance. The following take a look at the teaching methods of early childhood dance!
Early childhood dance is the use of movement, music and art and other comprehensive means to reflect the young children's thoughts and interests and life, is to promote the healthy development of young children's minds and bodies a kind of educational art.
1, integrated teaching method
Because young children are naturally active, have been able to do something according to their own consciousness, it is difficult to do what he is not interested in.
So at this point in time, the first thing that dance teachers have to do is to use your teaching content to attract these young children with a sense of randomness, random into intentional, then you can use a comprehensive teaching method, to say, sing, dance combined together, the content must be vivid image.
2, demonstration method
Teachers should be accurate, image, expressive performance of the dance works, so that children to learn the content of a complete and clear impression. The demonstration should be accompanied by a verbal explanation and a mirror demonstration for the children.
For example, if a child reaches out with his left hand, the teacher reaches out with his right hand, and this method can stimulate the children's desire to learn and enthusiasm.
3, language explanation method
Language explanation should be vivid image, easy to understand.
Such as turning the wrist of this action, if the action required to speak, the first beat wrist from the outside to the inside, the second beat wrist from the inside to the outside of the palm. Young children learn to do that is not interested and very laborious.
But if you tell the children, now you go to the orchard to catch a big apple on the tree, want to pick the apple must turn the wrist twist. Or when practicing standing, if you tell a toddler to stand straight, it may not stand well then you tell them to act like a stick or like a pencil and they will do fine.
So the verbal explanation method is extremely important. One point.
4, the game method
The game method is a method of counseling using the form and tone of the game.
Dance learning should also make children feel that it is a game activity, a kind of entertainment. Such as learning duck walk, the teacher can play the role of mother duck, let the children when the duck baby, duck baby follow the duck mother to learn the skills, but also wear headdresses or costumes. There is also a small step, the available chicken mother with chickens to practice. Bouncing step, rabbit mother with rabbit baby practice. This method can arouse the interest of young children and improve their enthusiasm for learning.
In addition, as a dance teacher, the first thing you need to do is to let the children like you, and then the teacher should be full of spirit in class, the tone of voice should be kind, random and strong, but also have a lot of expression to infect the children, so that the children can be relaxed and happy in every class.
5. Incentive method
The children are active, have a strong comparative psychology, and are attracted to small rewards, if the teacher can properly take the form of small gifts, small competitions, small performances, and small lectures in teaching, I believe that it will make your course more full of passion and learning atmosphere.
6, quantitative practice method
For some of the more difficult movements that require constant repetitive practice, it is more appropriate to take the quantitative practice method. For example, the basic step of the Latin dance rumba, you can put forward to the students to practice the quantitative number of times or time, so that the students will be more active and positive participation.
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