November 3, 2018? Cloudy Saturday

In the past few days, the piano teacher’s circle of friends has been flooded with a video of the piano teacher being so angry with a child that he cried. The video roughly stated The content is as follows...

Question: So why is he angry with you?

Teacher: He doesn’t play la la so fa so23 at all

I watched it several times and laughed several times. This teacher is really angry. He looks very young. As a teacher, I think about how when I first started teaching, I was often annoyed by various students. For young children, inexperienced teachers really can’t control them. For a teacher who teaches elementary piano courses, if you look at it from a traditional perspective and think that "the elementary stage is the easiest to teach" or even think that "anyone can become an elementary teacher", you would be totally wrong! Those who engage in elementary teaching abroad not only need to have outstanding professional skills, but also need to have relatively comprehensive musical abilities and understand children. As an elementary piano teacher, in addition to piano proficiency, the teacher also needs to know vocal music (singing), rhythm (dance), good music theory, and composition. In particular, he must "understand children" and understand all the children at this stage have and do not have. Possess the ability.

? This is actually the first requirement for enlightenment teachers, to understand children. Understanding children sounds easy but is difficult to do.

First of all, teachers must understand the physiological development characteristics of children of the age group they teach. That is to say, for example, a four-year-old child's muscular ability, language ability, coordination ability, social ability to get along with others, and his preferences, etc. Only by understanding these can we truly guide our children step by step and understand what details children can do and what details children cannot do. For example, when a child enters the classroom for the first time, the child may be taught a song using the roll call "mi re do". For teachers, this is taken for granted and very simple, but for children, he may not be able to sing because he is not familiar with do re mi, he may not like the course because he cannot sing, and he may reject the course because he does not like it. Music learning... Therefore, when teachers design courses and guide course teaching, they must be based on the real abilities of children, rather than taking it for granted that children should or already have this ability.

Such classroom design capabilities require teachers to have corresponding theoretical foundations and a large amount of teaching practice, or they can only be achieved after relatively comprehensive training.

For the piano teacher, the second requirement is that she needs to know how to build a child's comprehensive musical ability from scratch.

? In the primary stage, what really needs to be done is to first establish the child's listening habits, and then learn to distinguish different sounds. This is called "listening and discrimination". The listening content should also start with familiar sounds in children's daily life, such as the sounds of animals, so that children's hearing ability can be gradually built up.

Enlightenment teachers also need to know the true direction and goals of children after the enlightenment stage. In other words, in addition to being comprehensive, the teaching in the enlightenment stage also needs to be targeted and provide targeted training for later goals and directions.

For example, in the field of piano skills, traditional teaching methods often highlight children’s solo abilities and ignore children’s concerto and band coordination abilities. Therefore, when a child with good skills is following the accompaniment of a piece of music, he may not be able to keep up. When a performer with superior skills performs orchestral concerts, it is completely impossible. Even when the child plays his own music, it is very easy to play with one hand, but it becomes very difficult to cooperate with both hands.

Summary:

Teachers engaged in enlightenment education must clearly understand where they have shortcomings and where adjustments need to be made, and study hard, learn from experience, practice, and summarize , will slowly improve and become better and better.

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