How to teach dance to young children

1,, the form should be varied Children's daily life in addition to eating, sleeping, the main activity is to play and games, so in the early childhood dance teaching, we can not ignore the importance of the game. You can let the children in the game to feel the wonderful combination of action and music, looking for feeling, rhythm and emotion, to stimulate the interest of young children to learn dance, change the boring training methods for easy, lively, game-like learning activities, such as teaching "flat step", the teacher can play the role of the locomotive, so that the children play the body to set off together, with the rhythm of the music to drive to the beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, and beautiful. The teacher can play the role of the locomotive and let the children set off in the role of the body to the beautiful nature with the rhythm of the music. This not only enriches the children's imagination, but also trains the children's sense of rhythm, thus enhancing the children's enthusiasm for learning. Such a variety of teaching forms, can mobilize the children's whole body organs to express a variety of movements and emotions, so that they feel happy in the dance, and then achieve the effect of exercise, strengthen the body, cultivate temperament and character. Such as the basic training class, a long time students will not be able to hold on, not only affecting the quality of teaching also affect the teaching progress, if the teacher at this time can improvise the basic training exercises combined with games, imitating the animal demeanor, one after another, the enthusiasm of the students can be inspired again, and even reluctant to leave the class. Just like in learning new movements, if only one, two, three, four according to the beat to do the action, the children will be tired, fatigue, if the action into the game, so that the children can produce positive and pleasant emotions, thus improving the initiative to participate in dance training. 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, please baby ducks follow the mother to learn the skills, but also can 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 children's interest and improve their enthusiasm for learning. In addition, as a dance teacher first of all to let the children like you, and then the teacher should be full of spirit in class, the tone of voice to be amiable, randomness, but also have a rich expression to infect the children, so that the children can be relaxed and happy in every class. Therefore, we should seize the opportunity in the daily life of young children, and be good at capturing the flash point of young children to create colorful and different forms of young children's dance. In the early childhood dance activities, but also more and more extensive attention to the physical and psychological characteristics of young children, more effectively rely on the fun to mobilize young children to participate in the dance activities of enthusiasm and initiative, so that they learn in the middle of it, enjoy in the middle of it, the beauty in the middle of it.

2. The language should be beautiful Create a musical mood with language, let the children spread the wings of imagination, so that children are in the scene, learning in the game. Dance is mainly through the body language to convey the meaning, in dance teaching, if you only let the students blindly follow the teacher to imitate, do not use the language to communicate with the students, the students will not be able to understand the specifications of the action where the essentials of the purpose of the training, so not only to cultivate a high level of students, and even more unable to mobilize students to learn, and therefore can not achieve the purpose of improving the quality of teaching. First of all, in the dance teaching not only to give students the visual enjoyment of beauty, in the auditory also want to bring the touch of the heart, the teacher try to use the standard Mandarin and the tone of voice, like a melody as fluent, like a song as beautiful to teach the action. It will attract students' attention like a magnet, thus deepening students' impression of the teaching content. Secondly, pay attention to the sequence of language expression, what is told before, what is told after the content of the children will make it easier to accept, so as not to confuse the children's thinking. For example, when learning the "head ring movement", first let the children master the accurate parts of the head down, tilt the head up, tilt the head from side to side, and then carry out the head ring movement exercises, so that they will be very good at mastering. If the teacher does not have a clear idea when teaching, the students will make mistakes when doing the movement, and then correcting them will affect their motivation to learn, which is counterproductive. Finally, the image of the teacher's language can also make students learn smart, learn fast, learn well, arouse students' interest in learning, mobilize students' passion, prompting students to complete the action in the excitement, reduce the pain component of dance learning. Such as "alternating steps", the two feet is compared to "good friends, you go I also go, always a good friend"; teach arm extension, with "small trees sprouted" to the analogy, and so on, by This will stimulate their interest and make them happy and active in learning. For example, when teaching the rhythm of "Horse Running" in the older class, I let the children play the role of the old horse and the pony, and create the mood of the "prairie" with vivid and imaginative language: "In a beautiful prairie, an old horse with a group of ponies grazing in the grass". Along with the cheerful music, I do actions, while learning the old horse's tone to inspire the "ponies" to learn to run with me. Skilled and accurate movements, coupled with the teacher's infectious words, so that children have an immersive feeling, as if they really became a pony, running on the prairie, in order to allow children to experience the speed of the speed of the amplitude of the changes brought about by the action, I guided the children to envision a variety of situations, such as running quickly means that there is an emergency, we must use the whole body, the action of the repetition of alternating to be fast, and some young children Some children rush to say that he saw in the movie, television, natural imitation, the left hand quickly pull the reins of the horse, the right hand kept slapping their own hips, eyes wide open, staring at the front, all immersed in the situation, the performance of the natural realism; if the speed slows down, it means that the horse is tired to walk and rest, the amplitude of the action to be a little smaller. Combined with the changes in the rhythm of the music, children in a rich state of imagination, naturally improve the feeling of the music and dance expression. Young children's understanding and feeling of things is not only reflected in the expressiveness of the movement, but also the rich expression is also the window of the soul. Therefore, when I see that the children have no expression on their faces, I ask with great concern: "Little horse, little horse, are you sick? Why aren't you happy?" When inspired in this way, the children will smile naturally. In the whole teaching, we do not talk about the essentials and skills of movement, but through games and associations, so that children feel the interest and beauty, and improve the expressive power of the dance in a state of harmony.

Three. Demonstration should be vivid Whether it is adults learning dance, or young children learning dance, the common teaching method is that students imitate the teacher's demonstration. Then how teachers according to the characteristics of dance, children's physical and mental characteristics to do demonstration; choose what kind of time to do the corresponding demonstration is particularly important. 1. Demonstration is the most important means in children's dance teaching, which is determined by the characteristics of dance itself and the level of children's physiology and psychology. Demonstration is the most convenient and effective way for students to get the correct visual image and kinesthetic representation, so it is obvious that demonstration is an important foundation for developing movement skills. Teachers can use their own passionate dance demonstration to infect students, stimulate students' love for dance, cultivate their interest in learning dance, help them better understand the dance works, and perform dance more perfectly. "Demonstration" is intuitive and visual, and children aged 5-6 years old, whose life experience is shallow, are still only on the surface of things, and are very susceptible to hints. Most of their dance movements and the formation of their aesthetic sense come from "demonstration". 2. Teachers should accurately, graphically and expressively perform the dance works so that the children will have a complete and clear impression of the content to be learned. This will arouse the desire to learn, so that practicing won't be boring, and will achieve a better teaching purpose. Demonstration should also be accompanied by verbal explanation, facing the children to do mirror demonstration. Such as children should reach out the left hand, the teacher should reach out the right hand, this method can stimulate the children's desire to learn and enthusiasm. Beginners in contact with a new action, it is inevitable that the hands and feet can not be coordinated phenomenon, often in the previous action and the latter action of the connection of a short pause, which requires the teacher to localized decomposition demonstration. Demonstration is the most important tool in children's dance teaching, and it is one of the ways for children to effectively master skills. Through the teacher's accurate, vivid and imaginative transformation of the dance materials into an infectious demonstration performance, the children are allowed to break down the movements into single movements and practice them repeatedly and alternately, so as to achieve the effect of familiarity begets mastery. In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to the transition between each dance movement, and to demonstrate again at the place of articulation, so that the students can understand the interrelationship between the movements and enhance the flexibility and infectiousness of the movements. The demonstration should be accompanied by explanations to explain the methods and essentials of the movements, so that the children can clearly understand the production, direction, route and the coordination of the whole body movements of each movement. Explanations should be as vivid and easy to understand as possible. For example, if the action of turning the wrist, according to the requirements of the action, the first beat of the wrist from the outside to the inside, the second beat of the 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 the children to stand straight, it may not stand well, then you tell them like a stick or like a pencil, they will do very well. So the verbal explanation method is an extremely important point.

Four. Selection of material should be appropriate Selection of material is a very critical part of learning dance, if the material is not selected properly, it will not achieve the desired effect. 1, the selected dance content should be suitable for children's psychological and physiological characteristics. Young children's dance must be young children's, that is, the portrayal of young children's nature, do not let young children's dance with adult traces, to show the innocence of young children's childishness, innocence and loveliness. 2. The selection of material should take into account the students' physical and performing qualities. Just like a singer choosing the right song for him or her to sing, it should be tailored to fit his or her voice conditions and style characteristics, not too big or too small. For example, you choreograph or choose a beautifully conceived and difficult content, more than the children's ability, will also be botched. 3, and then there are young children's dance and children's dance material selection is also very different, the selection of young children to be lively and lovely, highlighting his movements, expressions of innocence and childishness; while the selection of children's material from the psychological and physiological point of view, the performance of the connotation to be richer, the action of the performance skills to be larger, simple "gestures" will not be lovely, and also not suitable for the aesthetic needs of young children at this stage. This stage of the aesthetic needs of young children. 4, in addition, the overall selection of materials should be novel, with the flavor of the times, from the genre to the form of performance should be innovative, including the creation of dance vocabulary, movement must be ingenious, not adult, dull. In the eyes of young children, the world is full of novelties: flying in the sky, running on the ground, swimming in the water ...... As long as we stand in the perspective of young children to perceive the characteristics of things, analyze and deal with people and things, and then finally express them visually, we will produce artistic children's interests. For example, the dance "grandma's door to see a big show" starts with a nursery rhyme: "pulling a big saw, pulling a big saw, grandma's door to sing a big show ......" tells the story of a group of innocent and lively little girls after the "resistance". The story is about a group of innocent and lively little girls who, after "resisting" and trekking over the mountains and rivers, finally came to grandma's door in high spirits and sat down on their respective seats in anticipation of the opening of the opera. The opening of the opera, the little girls in the theater when each face rich expression, reflecting the wonderful opera. Watching the opera is from the folk of a recreational activity, this dance captures the small children curious, like lively, like to participate and happy to imitate the characteristics, so it is very easy to cause young children's **** Ming and interest. 5, in addition, I think the kindergarten 3-year-old children should be mainly rhythmic movement, simple dance steps, dance games and simple basic training as a supplement. 4-year-old children can be more dance steps, increase the amount of some training exercise, dance games and skits combined. While 5-year-olds can have ground training, step combinations and performance mini-dances.