Improvement of Children's Folk Dance Teaching
Abstract:
I conducted a "Folk Dance Teaching Attempt" in my graduation internship unit, and folk dance is an indispensable teaching material for young children's dance teaching due to its rich connotation and distinctive music melody. However, traditional folk dance education activities for young children often focus on the development of young children's movements, and simply ask them to imitate, and sometimes use the command to train young children's movements, and then match the music after they have learned the movements. Such a teaching process not only neglects the cultivation of young children's sensibility to dance, but also neglects the cultivation of young children's creative expression ability and the inculcation of thoughts and feelings. According to the art education theory learned in the university, in the kindergarten art education, I combined with the reality of early childhood education, and now further summarize the theory and practice, which is summarized in the thesis, which is aimed at exploring how to let the young children understand the splendid dance culture of various nationalities through colorful ethnic dance education, initially learn and master the basic movements, dance styles and characteristics of various nationalities, and cultivate the young children's sense of national pride as well as the preliminary ability to feel beauty, discover beauty and creatively express beauty.
Keywords: young children, folk dance, teaching attempt
For a long time, popular music has influenced kindergartens. Young children in their daily activities often humming: "the girl across the street look over" Jay Chou's "double sticks" and other popular songs, with the music twisted disco, fitness dance, street dance, etc., the traditional folk dance gradually by the cold. Kindergarten dance teaching is an important form of music enlightenment education for young children, it can enrich the life of young children, the development of young children's movement, cultivate young children's aesthetic power, the development of young children's thinking and imagination, which is not only an important way of quality education for young children, but also an important way of realizing the goal of "developing young children's interest in feeling and expressing beauty and skills". It is not only an important way of quality education for young children, but also an important way to realize the goal of "developing young children's interest and skills in feeling and expressing beauty". Therefore, kindergarten dance education activities must be carried out to develop the quality of young children as the fundamental goal. Ethnic folk dance, which contains rich connotations of national cultural background, local customs, living habits and national spirit, and is ultimately expressed in harmony with rich national music melodies, is naturally an indispensable teaching material in kindergarten dance teaching. Kindergarten children, after two years of study in the kindergarten, have a certain understanding of some ethnic minorities. The lively tunes, distinctive rhythms, cheerful moods, and novel and diverse genres of young children's folk dances are in line with their active and imitative character as well as their intuitive, imaginative, vivid, and lively perceptual characteristics, and lay a preliminary foundation for the learning of young children's folk dances. The improvement of young children's folk dance teaching can be done from the following aspects to try.
1 Combination of audio and visual, fully stimulate the interest in folk dance
Interest is the internal drive of young children's learning, in order to make young children interested in folk music and dance, it is necessary to cultivate young children's national music and dance sensibility. Because, good music and dance sensibility is the basis for learning young children's dance, but also the basis for the development of aesthetic quality. The cultivation of music and dance sensibility must be realized through the appreciation of music works, so that children can directly feel the beauty of music melody and dance movements, in order to arouse children's attention and interest in music and dance. The appreciation of music works must be multi-sensory perception, "multi-channel" appreciation is effective. Similarly, young children in the appreciation of folk dance activities, mobilize more sensory organs can be more profound, more detailed perception of the content and emotion expressed in folk dance. Ethnic dance content is rich and colorful, the teacher should be based on the subject matter of style characteristics, to find the appropriate entry point, the use of flexible and varied teaching methods to enhance the children's interest in learning ethnic dance, so as to obtain some dance skills.
For example, I often in music activities and daily life by reciting the lyrics, playing beautiful tunes, with a pleasant voice often have and can understand the song, dance some simple and beautiful dance, with natural expression, to guide young children to appreciate, to attract their attention, and to inspire their interest and desire to learn, so that young children unconsciously feel the beauty of the music and dance, like the beauty of the music and dance, and based on that Instructing young children to learn dance is conducive to cultivating the qualities of feeling beauty and expressing beauty. For example, when teaching the dance "Ride My Little Donkey" to the older class, it is a Uyghur ethnic dance, with relatively difficult to understand the rhythm of the movement, and a specific sense of wit. In the guidance of this dance, I first tell the story of Avanti, let the children from the heart like Avanti's cleverness and bravery, witty humor, while playing the Xinjiang folk music, let the children enjoy the cheerful and lively melody of the Xinjiang music, feel the beautiful and beautiful Xinjiang folk music, so that young children are interested, and then I put on the national costume, put on a lace cap, put on a small mustache, to dress up as a funny, funny Avanti's image, in order to own a funny, funny Avanti's image, and then I put on a small hat, put on a small beard, and dress up as a funny, funny Avanti's image. Avanti image, with their own beautiful dance, fully demonstrate the Xinjiang national strength, bold, lively, fun, enthusiastic action beauty, the children watched the high mood, very interested, all eager to try, and soon entered the learning role, successfully mastered the basic movements of the dance. We teach children to appreciate the Xinjiang dance at the same time also through the appreciation of VCD and other means to stimulate children's interest in learning dance. Some children can't help but dance to the beat of the music while they are enjoying it. The children listen, look, sing and jump in the process, so that everyone can share their feelings about ethnic dances. Then we invited the children to continue to enjoy the children are very familiar with the Xinjiang Uygur song and dance "little brother up early", the children will be based on the mastery of a few basic movements of their own choreography and dance, we are really for the children's potential to be pleasantly surprised.
2 Create an environment to fully create the atmosphere of folk dance
The impression of the environment on children is profound, implicit and subtle. The Outline pointed out: "to guide young children to contact the surrounding environment and life beautiful people, things, things, to enrich their perceptual experience and aesthetic interests, to stimulate them to express the beauty, create the interest of beauty." In all aspects of kindergarten day life, with young children *** with the creation of a good national music and dance environment and atmosphere, increase young children listening, feeling, expression and communication opportunities, so that young children take the initiative and the environment to play a role in guiding young children in the music and dance under the infection of cultivation of temperament, to promote young children to the understanding of national dance, so as to stimulate young children to love the feelings of the beautiful things in life.
2.1Creating the atmosphere of folk dance in one day's life
Because of the diffuse nature of music, I use the morning reception, meals, before nap, after getting up, and the time of free activities, for the children to play the excellent folk music, such as: Mongolian folk song "Auspicious Three Treasures", the Xinjiang folk song "half the moon climbed up", the Jiangsu folk song "little jasmine", the Kyrgyz folk song "happy flowers happy on", "happy flowers happy on", "happy flowers happy on", "happy flowers happy on", "happy flowers happy on", and "happy flowers happy on", and so on. Happy Flowers Happy on", Sani folk song "I and the motherland close and close", etc., so that the children are always surrounded by ethnic music. At the same time, at any time to find young children interested in things, games and incidental events in the implied value of music and dance education, grasp the opportunity to actively guide, then the organization of deepening young children to spontaneous dance activities.
2.2 Penetration of folk dance culture in regional activities
2.2.1 Music area: put also understand the props of various ethnic costumes, music, etc., to encourage young children to put on ethnic costumes, boldly free and casual performance of joyful folk dance, to give young children their own opportunities to show, to meet the needs of young children's self-expression, and at the same time, more spontaneous music behavior between children will attract At the same time, more spontaneous musical behavior among children will also attract their peers to actively participate and promote each other, providing a stage for young children to entertain themselves.
2.2.2 Cognitive area: put all kinds of ethnic customs, living habits of the pictures, vcd, pictorials, etc., such as: Tibetans wear long robes, oblique open lapels, the waist tied a long belt, a sleeve hanging on the side, the girl's waist tied a seven-color apron, love to drink butter tea, to show respect to the people who often offer a hada and so on. Mongolian people like to ride horses, archery play the horse head qin, live in the vast grasslands, creating them like the eagle as brave, broad-minded as the grassland ------ By understanding the folklore of the various ethnic groups, to help young children a better understanding of the characteristics of the national dances, a better expression of the style of dance of the various ethnic groups, such as: Tibet's robust and strong, Mongolia's bold and exuberant.
2.2.3 Handicraft area: teachers and children **** with the collection of various ethnic songs and dances, buildings, musical instruments and other photos, and provide a lot of waste items, so that young children according to the corresponding ethnic music or background, make the corresponding national costumes and props, such as: play the Dai dance "Peacock Dance", guiding young children to make a peacock's crown, with the use of waste plastic bags as a beautiful saree, set of shiny finger ring, can be like a peacock, and then the peacock's crown. The children will be guided to make a peacock's crown, make a beautiful saree out of used plastic bags, and put on a shiny finger ring to dance like a peacock. Another example is that you can use a cardboard box to make a lace hat in Xinjiang, use cotton to make a cute moustache, stick it under the nose, use old newspapers to cut and decorate it to make a lace vest, so that you can unfold a rich imagination, "picking grapes" in the beautiful Xinjiang.
2.3 Share the fun of folk dance in home and family interactions
"Parents are important partners of early childhood teachers", and the growth of young children needs home **** education. The rich educational resources hidden in the family is something we cannot ignore. In the kindergarten folk dance teaching attempts, I can people fighting often involved in the dance, so that kindergarten education and family education advantages complement each other.
First of all, we through the monthly home interaction open day activities, so that parents with their own and their children *** with the creation of folk dance, bring their own design of different ethnic dress, come to the children in the middle of the parent-child interaction, but also with other children to exchange costumes, so that parents and children *** with the game, the same dance, in a good atmosphere, parents and children enjoyable exchanges. Enhance the confidence and fun of young children to feel the folk dance.
Secondly, through the cultural center, the Temple of Culture, the county porcelain art troupe working parents for us to introduce the music and dance, flavor, culture and other knowledge about the nationalities, but also "tea-picking dance", "kite-flying" and other national dances, so that children to deepen their understanding of folk dance.
Thirdly, through the parents' meeting, we help parents to understand the significance of my teaching of folk dance to young children, and guide parents to try their best to create a good atmosphere of ethnic culture for young children, **** with the collection of ethnic materials, and help their children to learn folk dance smoothly. Through home and family interaction, we really let the children feel that there is ethnic music and dance art everywhere in their lives.
3 careful selection of materials, fully perceive the style and charm of folk dance (fully expand the vision of folk dance)
Each regional culture has a strong regional and inheritance, each ethnic culture has its own value of existence and connotation, are indispensable educational resources, but as a young children's folk dance teaching content, but also according to the young children's thinking concrete image of the characteristics and interests of the hobby, to elaborate the content, but also according to the children's thinking of the specific image. characteristics and interests, to carefully choose.
3.1 Must be close to the life of young children's folk music
Early childhood folk dance education should start from the feeling, so that young children first feel the content and emotion of the performance, in order to deepen the understanding, so the choice of close to the life of young children's folk dance, there are young children's life experience as the basis, it will be easy to learn. For example: Mongolian dance "auspicious three treasures" lyrics are simple and clear, lively tunes, free and smooth rhythm, very simple expression of the father, mother, children is the family's auspicious three treasures, expressing the family's happy life of the good feelings.
3.2 Must be the children interested in the national music
In an autumn tour of the activities, through the farmyard, saw an old man is cleaning cows, the children are very curious, chattering and inquiring. It turns out that the old man really wants to milk the cow, watching the old man's milking action and the milk clattering jet into the bucket, the children were delighted to laugh, screaming. Seizing the opportunity to talk back to the park, I proposed to learn the Mongolian dance "milking", the children's interest was high, but also based on the experience of feeling a lot of visualization of the action.
3.3 Choose a variety of genres, distinctive ethnic music
Ethnic music and dance is colorful. Such as: Yao dance "copper drum dance" rhythm far-reaching and melodious, Han dance "tea dance", Dai dance "Peacock Dance" lively and cheerful, Yi dance "A Li Li", Alpine dance "Alpine Green" fun and cheerful, Korean dance "Rustom Ballad" heavy and dignified, Mongolian dance "Horse Racing" free stretching bold and unrestrained. Let the children feel the various nature of the music, experience different emotions of the dance, in order to enrich the children's emotions, the children will be able to more vivid, more natural expression of the characteristics of the various ethnic dances.
4 Effective organization, fully understand, create, express the beauty of folk dance
4.1 Intentionally inspired thinking, feel the expression of the work of music and dance beauty.
Intentional, that is, in the dance teaching of young children, teachers should have a strong sense of cultivating young children's feelings, to feel the activities and the cultivation of feeling ability as a starting point, strengthened at any time. For example: the beginning of the early childhood dance teaching, I first have to consciously create a musical situation, through listening to the recording, listening to the teacher singing, let the children feel the tune, understand the lyrics, and interest, and then inspire the children to express themselves with movement, this free expression is the performance of young children on the basis of feeling, and is also a kind of creativity. This changes the previous dance learning, simply require young children to model the teacher, step by step with the passive phenomenon, young children's initiative, creativity is played. For example, in the teaching of Kyrgyz folk song "happy flowers happy on", I first some conscious guidance of young children to observe the natural environment, to observe the growth of small trees, flowers change process, and guide the children to think of their own and small trees, small flowers, as the same as the daily growth of happy, so that the children have a wealth of practical experience, from which the corresponding image of thinking, their minds will appear rows of saplings dressed in green and a group of colorful The more image thinking they have, the more they will be able to feel the connotation of the dance works, and the more they will be able to take the initiative to play a creative way to express the dance movements, so that young children can express the beauty of the quality of the creation of beauty has been subconsciously improved.
4.2Organize and guide in an orderly manner, turn the difficult into easy, understand and express the beauty of the music and dance works
Orderly refers to the gradual guidance, so that the children from easy to difficult, in the play in the middle school, the game in the middle school, and from this to understand and express the beauty of the music and dance works. For example, in the teaching of Fujian folk dance "picking tea pouncing butterfly" teacher to make a colorful butterfly, with a long stick holding, first let the children play with the music to catch butterflies game, and consciously in the game into the dance of the basic movements, so that the children in the excitement of the chase, naturally learn the dance movements, to solve the difficulties, familiar with the study of the "picking tea pouncing butterfly" will be very easy. Another example, in the study of dance "Beijing Yaxi", although the action is very simple due to the age of young children, the coordination of movement is poor, first let the children familiar with the music, feel the rhythm and atmosphere of the train rumbling, and then the teacher as the locomotive, so that the children to do the box, one by one, young children followed the teacher to learn the "locomotive" action, just like the carriage! A section of a section of the combination, it is easy to complete the spring step and other dance movements, so that children quickly understand and image of the performance of the work of music and dance beauty.
4.3 Organic guidance to feel, create movement, express the beauty of the work dance.
Movement is a good way for young children to feel and express the beauty of music, and the process of young children's movement is the process of listening, feeling and performance. Young children feel the musical works, understanding, will not be a simple copy of the sample, but a new idea, in the performance of the brain has a context, there are associations, new and old representations of the recombination in order to have re-imagination, in order to have creativity. Such as in the playback of the "small Gesang" music is, the children are alive to do step, salute, swing grab, look away, blowing the horn, horseback riding and other actions, are like a small liberation army, these are the music melody in the young children's emotional reflection of the young children's potential to feel the beauty of music and the ability to embody the beauty of music.
Organic is to grasp the opportunity, then education, I often take children into the nature, guidance to young children to observe, perceive the reality of life, or let the children to appreciate the video program, beautiful pictures, and so on, and then inspired the children to use the action to show their own seen and heard. Such as young children from the video program to appreciate the holidays, people twisting rice-planting songs, shaking the colorful fan to remove the borrowed scene, in the guidance of the "rice-planting dance", young children will be able to recall to appreciate the scene, self-editing action, vivid expression of the beauty of music and dance.