Capture the spark of innovation in children
Innovation is the soul of a nation’s progress. Preschool education is an integral part of basic education and shoulders the arduous task of laying the foundation for talent cultivation. Therefore, as a preschool education worker, you should stand facing the world and the future, encourage children to be new and innovative, strive to cultivate children's innovative spirit, and train children's innovative potential.
This morning, during the comprehensive and joyful Lantern Festival organized, many children expressed the joyful scenes and feelings of going to the lanterns through art. When I walked up to Jiayin, I found that all her paintings were I seemed a little dissatisfied with tanks, cannons, fighter jets, etc. I thought about how such a joyful and peaceful festival could have such a strong smell of painting. But then I thought about it and wanted to hear what she had in mind. So I asked her softly why she painted it like this, and she said excitedly: "Teacher, this is the uncle of the People's Liberation Army driving a tank and lighting up lights to celebrate the Lantern Festival; this is the Air Force turning on the lights of the fighter jets to light up the sky, and they also Celebrating the Lantern Festival; and...". listen! The child's imagination is so rich. I am really glad that I patiently listened to the good news just now, so as not to hurt her self-esteem, and at the same time, I also allowed myself to listen to her inner language. Therefore, teachers can only discover the bright spots of children by listening carefully. They should not say "Why are you so annoyed!" "Didn't you see that I am busy? Let's go play!" "You are so stupid!" and other words that hurt children's self-esteem. . When your children ask questions or talk to you, you should put down what you are doing, act like you are listening to your children, be kind to your children's curiosity and thirst for knowledge, and encourage them to develop an interest in creation.
Another example: In the innovative theme activity of "Wonderful Rope", the children chose their favorite rope to play with, swinging it in their hands at will, and sometimes it turned into a swaying branch, and sometimes it turned into a small tree blown by the wind. The tree was swaying, turning into children and dancing for a while, and turning into a beautiful picture for a while... In this activity, children are allowed to explore and accumulate while playing with the rope, peeling off the layers layer by layer, imagining from one point to multiple points, and using time to advance layer by layer to allow children to innovate and develop layer by layer, and experience imitation and imitation. The innovative structure combines movement and static, giving children full space for imagination, creation and free expression, fully optimizing the development of children's innovative potential and trying various ways to play with the rope.
Children’s creativity is more driven by curiosity, allowing children to feel that teachers are their most loyal supporters. Therefore, teachers should understand, know and respect children so that children feel that teachers can communicate and fully support and cooperate with them, so that they can boldly create, stimulate children's shining points, and make children more confident and proactive Explore, learn, germinate the passion for creation, and express your feelings.
Second, respect the beauty in children
In the art activity "Birds Go Home", the children had to tear out small leaves with their little hands and stick them on the bare tree trunks. At first, I We prepared colored paper in three colors: red, yellow, and green for the children. Some children were confused, "The leaves are green!" I explained to the children: "There are also x-colored leaves and red leaves in autumn. The colors If there are more, the big tree will be more beautiful, and the birds will prefer such a home, right?” The children happily accepted my proposal. Next, I guided the children to talk about the shape of the leaves. They could all tell the oval shape with pointed ends, so I demonstrated by tearing out green paper pieces that fit the shape of leaves and pasting them on the big tree. The children were very happy. When it was the children's turn to tear off the leaves, the atmosphere suddenly became negative. , It turned out that many children did not know how to tear out "standard" shaped leaves, and some children showed me square and triangular leaves.
The "Guide" points out that the goal for 3-4 year old children to express and create beauty is to paint, paste and paste regularly and have fun doing it. While we create opportunities and conditions for children, we must also support children's spontaneous artistic expression and creation, create a safe spiritual atmosphere, and allow children to dare and be willing to express themselves. During the process of children's independent expression and creation, we must not interfere too much or To impose our own wishes on young children, we should share the fun of artistic activities with young children.
To be honest, when I saw these special-shaped leaves, I rejected them in my heart. Maybe the children felt my negative emotions. Therefore, many children gave up tearing the leaves. Seeing such situation, I suddenly realized my inappropriate behavior, so I began to encourage the children not to give up, appreciate their unique way of expression, and helped the children put leaves on the big tree. Seeing all kinds of leaves decorating the big tree, the children The children also gradually regained their happy mood and actively decorated the big tree with more beautiful leaves. The big tree that originally had only a trunk began to become plump. The children were very happy and shouted, "The birds will definitely like it very much." ”
Three Playing with Plasticine
This morning I organized the children to play with plasticine and let them squeeze whatever they liked. It was really interesting to see how serious the children were. It was very cute. I looked over one by one. Some children were pinching apples, while some were pinching characters in cartoons. Although they were only children in the small class, the plasticine figures they made were quite similar. When I walked next to Hu Cheng's child, I looked at him confusedly and couldn't understand what he was making, so I asked: "Hu Cheng, what are you doing?" What is it? Tell the teacher. "Teacher, what do you think it looks like?" I pretended, "Teacher, I guess it's a kitten." "It looks like an apple, too." Yes, it's an apple." I didn't answer it for a moment, and then asked, "What on earth is it?" "Um... um... um..." He hesitated. A child next to him said: "Teacher, he pinched it randomly."
He immediately put down the plasticine in his hand. I said, "Should we knead it carefully? The teacher believes that the children from Hucheng must be great and be able to knead many beautiful things, right?" I saw him sitting and refusing to do anything.
After reflection, it is indeed not easy for children in small classes to meet the requirements of teachers and parents. Everything must be done slowly. A good start is to develop a good habit first. . To leave some time and opportunities for them to explore and discover on their own, they must first develop their thinking, and thinking must be realized with the help of words and is inseparable from the function of language. At this time, the key to developing children's thinking ability is the cultivation of children's language level. By cultivating children's language ability, the development of their thinking can be promoted.