As a children's dance teacher, you must have professional dance literacy, and make corresponding teaching methods according to the age and degree of the teaching object and the content and requirements of the teaching materials. Children's dance integrates teaching, rehearsal, performance and management, and it is far from enough to have the ability of professional dance. Lack of acting skills will make children lose interest in boring basic training classes; Without the ability of editing and directing, there is no creativity and the whole process of teaching cannot be completed; If there is no organizational management ability, it will lead to loose classroom discipline and affect the teaching effect. These four abilities and qualities complement each other, just like a closely linked teaching chain. Therefore, the teaching characteristics stipulate that a children's dance teacher must be able to dance and teach-in the demonstration of dance dynamic image, the movements are standardized, the language expression is cordial and accurate, and the classroom is lively; Can edit-have the ability of children's song and dance choreography and children's activity counseling. This "three meetings" runs through the organizational management ability from beginning to end.
As a children's dance teacher in a cultural center, in addition to the above basic conditions, we need to further explore its teaching rules. Only by mastering the teaching rules can we train dance talents in a targeted way. First of all, the cultural center is not a formal dance school. Students learn dance in their spare time, which gives them great freedom. Secondly, because dance is a dynamic art of human body, training is very hard and there are no hard and fast rules. It is easy for students to be afraid of difficulties or even give up halfway by relying on their interests and personal wishes. Therefore, the children's dance teaching in the cultural center has its own particularity, which is embodied in the following four aspects:
First, the leading role of teachers
Dance teaching is a step-by-step process. From unfamiliar to skilled, teachers need to guide gradually, and teachers play a leading role in the whole teaching process. This feature arises because dance has its own characteristics, and the basic knowledge is embodied in the teacher. Therefore, when teaching new movements and combinations, teachers are required to memorize and clearly explain the specifications, essentials and rhythms of movements, explain the forms and methods of exertion of movements, guide and inspire students with vivid images in teaching, and give them repeated demonstrations of movements. Teachers should have abundant feelings and enthusiasm when demonstrating, and the demonstration should be accurate and the rhythm should be clear. Because students are often preconceived, if the teacher's demonstration actions are different today and tomorrow, students learn to remember the actions, but the teacher modifies them, which causes confusion in classroom teaching and makes students feel at a loss. However, when an action is a beginner, the problems are very stubborn and difficult to correct. If teachers are busy correcting actions in class, the teaching work will be in a passive state and the teaching effect can be imagined. Teachers should not only demonstrate actions in a standardized way, but also not use gestures casually when guiding students' actions, because children's imitation ability is stronger than their understanding ability, which students think is the requirement of actions. Even if you are strict with students, they will be confused. Of course, if the teacher's own teaching action is not standardized, it can only be a misunderstanding. Therefore, teachers must improve their artistic accomplishment and professional quality, take teaching seriously and try their best to demonstrate their actions accurately, rhythmically and attractively. Make students impressed, eager to try, and have a strong imitation impulse, thus cultivating their enthusiasm for dancing and mobilizing their enthusiasm for learning.
Second, patient and meticulous teaching.
Dance training gives children physical beauty, and enhances their audio-visual reflection ability and coordination ability of all parts of the body. Facing the naive children in the class, the teacher is both a strict teacher and a loving mother. Active is a child's nature. If a class is not finished, some children will lose their concentration and start to be lazy. At that time, it was useless for you to raise your voice. Faced with this situation, teachers can't be impatient, and children's perception and understanding ability is sometimes limited, which is often manifested as slow action and not good at consciously correcting actions according to teachers' requirements. Teachers should give students repeated action demonstrations and patiently and carefully correct their various problems one by one. This teaching method seems to be slow and laborious, but it has an effect that cannot be ignored in essence. This is a very fast and effective teaching method, which has a significant effect on improving teaching quality.
Thirdly, flexible teaching methods.
Our teaching object is children, full of childlike innocence and innocence. They learn to dance with fun and curiosity. Of course, there are also factors that parents want their children to succeed. Dance has a strong skill, and in children's dance education, basic skills training will inevitably become a very important link in the teaching process. Learning dance must start from the basics, lacking psychological preparation for training, and many children are sissy. In addition, physiological factors determine their ability to pay attention for only 20 minutes. After a class, the child will lose his smile and everything will not be as good as expected. "Why do you have to practice dancing, and it hurts and is stiff?" "Why didn't you dance for children?" Although the teacher has repeatedly stressed that you can't dance well without practicing basic skills, you still can't raise your children's interest in learning dance, and even have a feeling of "fear of learning". In my opinion, in order to stimulate and mobilize children's "interest" in the teaching process, so as not to make them feel bored, teachers need to start with their interests, attract students' attention with lively and childlike movements, avoid some permutations and combinations of the same, similar and similar movements, overcome boring and monotonous training methods, and let children learn, innovate and seek difficulties in dancing. You can also insert some light and lively games or sing a children's song or tell a dancer's story in the training class. Secondly, you should put forward new requirements when you practice your movements repeatedly. Teachers should not only teach new movements every day to arouse students' interest, but also attract students with new movement requirements, so that they feel that they have new requirements and new gains every day, thus improving their interest in learning. At the same time, we should strengthen the difficulty of movements and establish the spirit of overcoming difficulties and making progress.
Fourth, the rehearsal and performance of the play.
Dissatisfaction is a normal psychology of children's logistics. After a period of training, children will be full of enthusiasm when they see others performing on the stage. Teachers should grasp this psychology and rehearse some performance dramas that are not too far away from children's acceptance, with various forms, appropriate movements and full of childlike interest, so that students can create performance opportunities for them while training and cultivate their courage and performance ability on the stage. Every time the children rehearse a performance, they are in a particularly high mood and always want to express themselves in the performance, so they are particularly serious. Teachers should be more strict, establish a sense of responsibility for art, nourish children's hearts through dance works, and make children richer and smarter. Use their simple performances to express the incomparable and irreplaceable artistic interest and pure feelings of adult dance. Through such guidance, students can overcome difficulties and persist in training. No matter whether it is cold or hot in the four seasons, they have a closer relationship with dance and become a very important content in children's lives.
Children's training in cultural centers should not only cultivate talents, but also undertake the necessary performance tasks of children and the organization and planning tasks of various activities in the region. The work has a strong demonstration nature. And the basic training of any art category, the final destination is always to be implemented in the artistic performance on the stage. There is a great difference in function and effect between the rehearsal of performance tracks and the simple training of basic dance movements. The effect of this teaching mode is to enhance children's organizational discipline, overall concept and imitation ability through dance rehearsal. Through dance performance, children can exercise their ability to perform on different occasions, which can cultivate their artistic and spiritual beauty, broaden their horizons and enhance their self-confidence. As individual members of the performance, we gradually cultivate their coordination ability, cooperative spirit and group consciousness, and take pride in their value in the group.
In a word, these four characteristics of children's dance teaching in cultural centers are interrelated and inseparable. Children's dance education is an important means to improve children's comprehensive quality and an effective way to cultivate their all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique.