Music teaching methods and means are facing major reforms. The new music curriculum must adopt a democratic, open, student-centered, and inquiry-focused teaching method. The new situation has put forward newer and higher requirements for primary and secondary school music teachers.
1. Good professional ethics
The ultimate goal of the new curriculum is to respect students’ personality and cultivate a new generation of qualified talents with strong bodies, healthy minds and rich knowledge. This requires teachers to be people-oriented, respect students, care for students, and "learn with reason and move with emotion" in the education process. Therefore, the professional ethics of teachers is like a spring rain to students, which has the effect of "sneaking into the night with the wind and moistening things silently". Every teacher should have noble ideological and moral sentiments and should love his or her educational career. , have a strong sense of educational professionalism and mission; they should also have a deep love for students.
(1) The spiritual quality of loving music education
As a music teacher, you must first love music, have a special perception of music, sing with full emotions, and appreciate There must be a strong interest. Only when teachers themselves are moved can they guide students to be infected and achieve the purpose of teaching; secondly, they must love music education. Although the famous music educator Miao Peiyan has not received systematic music education, he has Very passionate about music education. He has achieved many results in music education research and has had a positive impact on the reform and development of basic music education in my country. These are all due to his unremitting efforts in music education research and his lifelong pursuit of education. Practice has shown that the reason why many teachers are successful is first of all because they love education, love students, and are willing to devote their lives to the growth of the next generation. They are not afraid of hardships, regardless of gains and losses, and are diligent in hard work. Therefore, they have outstanding achievements and are popular among people. On the contrary, if he does not love the career he is engaged in and lacks a sense of responsibility for the career, then he will lose motivation and will not be able to fulfill the responsibility of cultivating the next generation.
(2) Deep love for students
Education is the sound of love and the echo of heart to heart. Only when teachers love students can they educate students well and make education play its maximum role; only by using their own love can teachers win the love of students and build an emotional bridge between teachers and students. Of course, this kind of love is not obedience or doting. Teachers' love is reflected in fair treatment of each student, strict requirements, trust, respect, expectations and correct evaluation of students. It requires teachers to completely abandon teaching without teaching. People, the old concept of teacher-centered, must establish a new idea of ??students as the main body.
Therefore, music teachers must love music, love music education and love students, so that they can quickly enter their roles under the concept of the new curriculum, exert their greatest creativity, and create a pleasant learning environment for students. Stimulate students' interest in learning and cultivate their love of learning and ability to learn.
(3) Good moral cultivation
The main means of teachers' work is "teaching by precept and example", which is highly demonstrative. Young people with strong plasticity and imitation have a direct influence and edification, which determines that teachers must become role models for students in terms of thought, moral character and style. Students often "learn from their virtues". Only by teaching by one's own example and being a role model for others can teachers establish their prestige and status in education and teaching. Therefore, whatever students are asked to do, teachers should do it first. Many famous educators in the history of our country have advocated and advocated that teachers should "set an example and be a role model for others" and practice it personally. Confucius, a great educator in the Spring and Autumn Period, said: "If a person is upright, he will do it if he is not told; if he is not upright, he will not follow orders." Dong Zhongshu, an educator in the Western Han Dynasty, said: "Those who are good at being teachers are both beautiful in their ways and cautious in their actions. "In modern times, Mr. Tao Xingzhi advocated: "Teachers should set an example" and "he who teaches others teaches himself." Only when teachers have good moral cultivation can they effectively persuade and infect students. Otherwise, teachers will not only lose their prestige, but may even lose their qualifications to educate people.
2. Comprehensive professional music skills
In the field of music disciplines, "singing, playing, and jumping" are the three basic skills that all music teachers should possess. "Singing" refers to the ability to sing and to play and sing by oneself. "Singing" has a strong demonstration and motivational role in music teaching. Singing teaching is one of the most effective ways to train students' sense of music. In music teaching in primary and secondary schools, teachers singing with emotion and emotion can bring students the most direct feeling of beauty. "Play" refers to the ability to play the keyboard and improvise accompaniment. Only by having the skillful improvisational ability to accompany songs of various styles can we organize the class well and create a good classroom atmosphere. "Jump" refers to the ability to perform dance. The "New Curriculum Standards" emphasize the interaction between teachers and students, making the entire classroom a relaxed, pleasant and lively atmosphere. The dance performance ability of music teachers is particularly important for primary school music classes. Teachers should grasp the characteristics of primary school students who are lively and like to imitate, so as to guide students to experience music and perform music through their own body language, and establish a harmonious and equal teacher-student relationship. Music is a highly technical subject, so music teachers must have excellent professional skills.
However, music is a very special art. It is not a plastic art like pictures, nor is it an audible and visible comprehensive art like movies and dramas. It is a kind of sound movement. It evokes associations in people's hearing and obtains an image that seems to be felt. Therefore, the "New Curriculum Standards" have changed the original content of music classroom teaching in primary and secondary schools focusing on "singing, music knowledge and appreciation", and proposed new content standards focusing on "feeling and appreciation, performance, and creation". Therefore, it turns out that the view that someone who can "play the piano and sing" can become a music teacher is one-sided. In addition to paying attention to their original professional skills, music teachers must also gradually master complex professional skills such as chorus conducting, instrumental performance, and music composition. A teacher's single skill cannot meet students' ever-expanding music needs. At the same time, a music teacher is not just about giving good classes, their task also lies in extracurricular artistic practice. Almost every school has its own wind band, folk band, drum and bugle troupe, dance team, chorus, etc. These team organizations not only cultivate students' professional abilities, but also cultivate their teamwork spirit. The task of guiding and organizing the rehearsals of these activity groups is inevitably borne by music teachers. If a music teacher does not have the comprehensive professional skills such as the ability to form and train drum and trumpet teams, the ability to arrange dance teams, and the ability to organize rehearsals for choruses, etc. If so, how can one be considered a qualified music teacher? This is why music education in normal colleges offers professional elective courses such as chorus conducting, dance choreography, and wind ensemble.
Therefore, in addition to possessing solid professional skills of "singing, playing and jumping", primary and secondary school music teachers should strive to explore other related skill areas through self-study and training, so as to become A comprehensive teacher with comprehensive music expertise.