Want it. At present, there is a general upsurge of creative education in preschool education in China, and there are various activities to cultivate creativity. However, there are many serious misunderstandings in these education, which makes creative education not only unable to stimulate and cultivate children's creativity, but also likely to stifle children's creativity. For example, many educators believe that creativity can be "taught" and creative thinking can be "cultivated"; In the subconscious of some teachers, practical ability and creative ability are equivalent to some extent; Some teachers think that creative thinking is the thinking of seeking differences, and extremely train children to be "unconventional" in activities. In fact, creativity can neither be equated with general knowledge, nor can it be acquired through "indoctrination" and "giving". Don't equate the cultivation of creativity with the cultivation of creative skills, but blindly ask children to "answer differently"; The form used to develop creative thinking has become a means for children to get praise. Curiosity and joy in the creative process deviate from the original track, and children will not know how to think and listen to other people's opinions in activities, and ignore collectivity in order to show their uniqueness. So, how to cultivate children's creativity?
I think we should start from the following aspects:
First, master the characteristics of children's creative thinking.
Because of the particularity of physiology and psychology, children's creative thinking also has its own characteristics. (1) Due to the limitation of children's physical and mental development, children's creative ability and willpower are weak, so children's creative activities are not easy to last, and their creative wishes come and go quickly, often fleeting. If there is timely guidance and encouragement from adults, children's creative ability will develop forward.
(2) Children like fantasy and are full of imagination. Their creative thinking is often caused by creative imagination, but their psychology is more random and greatly influenced by interest. Interest can stimulate children's intelligence and creativity. Therefore, teachers should be good at maintaining children's interest and mobilizing children's interest. (3) Children's creative thinking level varies greatly due to the different roles and influences of environment, education and heredity. For example, some children are good at creating stories, while others are good at artistic creation. If we can discover and cultivate these children's creative talents as soon as possible, it will be very beneficial to their development. Generally speaking, as long as the environment and education play a positive role, their creative thinking will develop greatly, but not according to their temporary performance.
Second, strive to create an atmosphere and environment to promote children's creativity.
Early childhood education, which lays the foundation for cultivating creative talents, must emphasize the creation of dynamic characteristics conducive to the formation of children's creative motivation, interest, consciousness and spirit. Psychological research shows that when children have a sense of psychological security and freedom, it is most conducive to their creative development and performance. First of all, let the children know that the teacher understands and respects him very much, without fear and anxiety, thus producing a high degree of psychological freedom and relaxed and happy feeling, and showing more energy and creativity in the activities. Therefore, teachers should say "no" to children less, which will easily lead to negative emotions in children. Children in this atmosphere will be nervous and anxious, and the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of activities will be inhibited. Suhomlinski once said: One of the mysteries of educational skills is that children seldom hear prohibition from a good teacher, but often hear praise and encouragement. The task of educators is to find the best in every educated person, instead of restricting them with school rules and regulations and encouraging independent work creation. Say "let's try" and "of course" to children, encourage, praise, support, affirm, admit, accept and appreciate, and create more atmosphere for children. The second is to cultivate harmonious, harmonious and healthy interpersonal relationships, which can make children happy and good at expressing or exchanging thoughts and feelings, maintain their own personality and give play to their great creative potential. Finally, children are extremely sensitive to the teacher's attention. The teacher's words, actions, expressions and eyes will have a suggestive effect on children. We should always treat children's innovative behavior with a tolerant attitude, and let them dare to think, speak, explore and create. Teachers constantly ask questions about children's ongoing activities and show strong interest, which is also very important for forming and maintaining a positive environment conducive to children's creation.
Third, promote children's creative development through creative activities.
First of all, we encourage children to choose freely, because children's creativity is induced from the inside, not from the outside, so self-selected activities are the easiest to induce children's creativity. Increasing selectivity can induce children's creative games and improve children's creative ability. When designing various activities for children, we should provide them with choices as much as possible. Children have the right to get help to get the materials they need for creative activities, and teachers should help them prepare the materials for activities. In order to avoid children's failure and frustration and ensure that children can meet their own creative needs, it is necessary for teachers to provide key technical guidance, but they should not be deprived of the right to make creative choices, and at the same time, they should be provided with enough time to complete the selected tasks to ensure that they can get a comprehensive and satisfactory experience. Children are immersed in a creative activity and need enough time to complete their plans. In terms of materials, the teacher's help should be reflected in providing children with sufficient activity materials and a lot of opportunities to use them. Children should be allowed to use a certain material or carry out an activity many times, and the materials provided should also be suitable for children's self-expression activities. The variety of activities is also important to stimulate children's creativity. Because change is the easiest way to attract children's attention, even the same activity can attract children again by changing the location of the activity. Therefore, teachers should constantly change the environmental layout, activity materials, activity contents and methods. The richness and diversity of activity materials are particularly important for inducing and promoting children's creative development.
Fourthly, the quality of teachers plays a very important role in children's creative education.
Teachers play a vital role in cultivating children's creativity. Without creative teachers, it is difficult to cultivate creative students. The reason is that the types of teachers directly affect teachers' educational views and talents, thus affecting teachers' educational attitudes and methods. Creative teachers are born with the concept of creative education and like to create an environment conducive to creativity and implement creative education. Such an environment and education just meet the needs of creative students and can make them feel at home. Similarly, creative teachers also like creative students and will try their best to develop their creativity, so creative students will not be suppressed, but children will have the opportunity to give full play to their talents. Under the guidance of curious teachers, children will have more opportunities to engage in creative activities. On the contrary, if teachers lack creativity, students' creative activities will be few.
Innovative teachers should be good at redesigning educational activities, selecting activity materials and creating activity environment under the guidance of innovative ideas, and do everything possible to improve their innovative ability. At the same time, we should further arm ourselves with innovative educational ideas, form creative personality characteristics and make ourselves a creative teacher. Teachers should also be good at asking children some questions, so that children can find problems first and then give guidance, so that children can learn to solve problems creatively; We should actively create an environment, encourage children to actively guess and explore, and let them experience the joy of success; Children should be inspired to put forward different views on the same issue from different angles.
Inspire children to solve problems in new ways, or to re-recognize what is known from a new angle; Encourage children to go beyond existing knowledge and study in unknown fields, and encourage children to explore complex and difficult problems with confidence; Encourage children to fabricate fantasy scenes; Cultivate children's broad interests and hobbies; Praise the spirit of daring to try and not being afraid of setbacks, and reward all kinds of novel and unique creative behaviors; It is our important duty not to laugh at children's seemingly absurd views. And always remember to protect children's curiosity and cultivate their creative spirit.
Family is also a good place to cultivate children's creativity.
To carry out creative activities in the family, we should not only stimulate children's creative interest, broaden their knowledge and develop their creative thinking, but also cultivate their adventurous spirit and make them have creative personality. Parents should create a relaxed and happy environment for their children, so that their creative thinking activities are in the best psychological state. They should affirm the children's whimsy in time. Parents should not only care about children's communication activities with people, but also pay attention to children's operation activities on things. They should pay attention to constantly changing the content and way of children's activities. Toys are children's close companions. They provide children with space for free exploration and bold imagination, which is conducive to the cultivation of innovative ability. They should be provided with toys that are conducive to developing children's imagination and creativity. Parents should pay attention to the influence of their own factors on the development of children's creativity. No matter which parent should love creative activities, actively participate in creative activities and set a good example for their children.
Educator Cabo once pointed out that childhood fantasies led to all creative activities in the future. Under the background that the whole country is paying attention to knowledge innovation and technology update, how to develop children's creative potential to the maximum extent and make more children become creative talents in the future is a problem that every preschool teacher should think about, and our preschool education is ultimately to help children become creative talents to adapt to society and create the future, and high-quality talents needed by 2 1 century!