American scientist Einstein once said: Interest is the best teacher. Stimulating children's interest in music is a necessary condition for conveying the charm of music to them. This is the famous saying of music educator Kabalevsky. Psychologists also point out that people's emotions and interests have a great impact on people's cognitive activities. If the mood is high and the spirit is happy, the cognitive effect will be good. If you have a strong interest in learning, you will learn proactively, like to learn and persist in learning. It can be seen that increasing students' interest in music plays an important role in cultivating students' comprehensive musical quality and improving their aesthetic psychology. Then, as a music teacher, we should play this leading role in the classroom, so that students can unconsciously improve and develop their interest in music. This article aims to combine the characteristics of the psychological development stages of junior high school students with my own teaching practice experience, and refer to some music teaching papers and monographs. With the theme of how to improve junior high school students' interest in music learning, several aspects of this article were briefly described and explored.
Keywords: quality, interest, innovation, efficiency Introduction Junior high school students are at an important turning point in their lives. Their worldview and values ??begin to take shape and gradually turn into adults. Music education is an important content that cannot be ignored in quality education in middle schools. It plays an irreplaceable and important role in the formation of students' ideological and moral, intelligence, affection, physical and mental health and other qualities. However, cultivating students' interest in music is an urgent responsibility of music teachers. So, as a music teacher, how can we better make our students like music and class?
1. The importance of music education
(1) Music Education and Ideological and Moral Quality
Among the basic qualities of a person, ideological and moral quality is the most important quality. The formation of middle school students' noble moral character and the establishment of their outlook on life and worldview require careful cultivation and shaping, and music education is an important means of cultivating moral character. Xunzi believed that music can straighten one’s conduct, educate others, and beautify customs. Indeed, beautiful and noble music contains subtle noble sentiments, which can inspire, purify and sublimate students' spirits, make students change their thoughts, morals, character, sentiments, cultivation and other aspects, and cultivate a kind of love and hatred. Clear moral emotions and conscious moral beliefs.
(2) Music education and emotional quality
In music education activities, focus on cultivating students’ emotional quality so that students’ character and personality can develop healthily and harmoniously. Music education is the shaping of the soul, the cultivation of emotions, and the development of personality. It is a good helper in cultivating students' emotions, thinking, interests, temperament, will, perseverance and other non-intellectual factors. Music is an art that is best at expressing emotions and has strong appeal and appeal. Beautiful and healthy music often makes people feel a noble, righteous and soul-sublimating emotion. It makes people full of hope and pursuit of life, love for life, life and the whole world, and enhances the self-confidence and strength of struggle. Music appreciation, instrumental music performance, song singing, etc. in music education can develop students' image thinking. Through unlimited imagination and association, they can obtain the thoughts and artistic conception expressed by music, and gain emotional edification and cultivation. Such as playing music or performing programs, in the continuous training of music practice, students not only learn music skills and techniques, but also cultivate a strong personality and perseverance to study hard when encountering difficulties and setbacks, thus forming a perseverance and perseverance. The quality of affection. This quality will give them a high degree of consciousness and responsibility for learning, enable students to think, seek knowledge, and survive, which will be of great help to their future careers and lives.
(3) Music education and intellectual quality
Dutch educator Herbert Zippel said: Every child should have the most basic music education, and music education is The best way to develop human intelligence. Modern neuroscientists believe through research that the left brain of the human brain has the function of logical thinking, and the right brain has the function of image thinking. The right brain is generally called the musical brain. Music education balances the development of the left and right brains and plays an indelible role in developing the right brain, developing people's image thinking and creative thinking, and improving people's intellectual quality.
In fact, many scientists, thinkers, politicians, and writers in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, are music lovers, such as Confucius, Marx, Lenin, etc. The role of music in stimulating human consciousness and death has influenced them. There was a miraculous manifestation in the body. In school music education, for example, when playing instrumental music, the coordination and cooperation of hands, brain, eyes, and ears can not only improve the brain's response ability and the sensitivity of ears and hands, but also improve students' musical literacy while improving students' musical literacy. Comprehension, observation, memory, imagination, creativity. The more complex, flexible and skillful the finger movements are during playing, the greater the stimulation to the brain's nervous system, making the brain more sensitive and smarter. Music education cultivates students' thinking and creative abilities, which is more conducive to students learning scientific and cultural knowledge and lays a solid foundation for cultivating students' intellectual qualities.
(4) Music education and physical and mental health quality
Scientific practice has proven that music can improve health and cure diseases. Students' study life at school is tense and busy. If they can listen to relaxing and pleasant music during class breaks, it will help relax their brain nerves and enable them to concentrate more in class, thus improving the efficiency of learning.
In short, music education is one of the important ways of quality education in middle schools and is not optional. Paying attention to middle school music education is the key to fully, freely and comprehensively developing students' overall quality; it is the key to realizing the modernization of education and cultivating talents for cross-century construction.
In my teaching career, I have encountered many students who are not interested in music learning. How to stimulate their interest in learning has become a question that I cannot let go of. I know that interest is the best way to learn music. teacher. When students are interested in learning music, they will have a strong need to learn music, actively devote themselves to learning, and no longer feel that learning music is a burden or boring thing. So how to improve students’ interest in learning music? I have summarized some experiences:
(1) Infect students with beautiful teacher love
As the saying goes: dear His teacher believes in his way. Generally speaking, students tend to like the subject taught by that teacher because they like a certain teacher. If every teacher has this kind of charm, then students' learning will be happy and joyful. So where does this charm come from? I think, teachers must respect and care for every student, be good at discovering students' progress, and be good at using kind eyes, subtle movements, affable attitudes, warm praises, etc. to shorten the teacher's time. To bridge the gap between students’ minds and cultivate students’ self-confidence. Then the students will love and respect the teacher, and they will also fall in love with the course you teach. If students have no feelings for a certain teacher and the teacher-student relationship is not harmonious, and they are not interested in the subject, then the student's interest in the subject will be suppressed. In addition, teachers must have rich knowledge and sophisticated teaching art to attract students, meet students' moral requirements and spiritual needs, and make them full of interest in learning materials, appreciate, taste, think, and gain all aspects of knowledge. Enlightenment. Teachers must also love the subjects they teach, dig deep into the teaching materials and study the psychological development of junior high school students, and teach in the most concise and contagious language, so that the taught content becomes the center of interest for teachers and students, thereby effectively improving students' interest in learning.
(2) Encourage students with positive evaluations
Everyone desires success. Success can give people confidence, success can encourage people to strive and make progress. In teaching activities, teachers should promptly affirm and encourage students to inspire their confidence in learning music. Positive evaluation is a good medicine for the disease. Almost everyone likes to be praised, and external evaluation is often indispensable for stimulating or maintaining interest in learning. Especially when students have no confidence, we as teachers should encourage them in a timely manner and give them the greatest help. As long as the students make a little progress, we will give them affirmation. This encouragement is not only reflected in the classroom, but also in the classroom. on students’ extracurricular interest activities.
(3) Use excellent pop music to inspire students
Junior high school students have a strong desire and ability to imitate, and students’ interest in music is also related to the musical works they are exposed to. Great relationship.
Most junior high school students prefer music that is currently popular. The appreciation songs in our music textbooks all select a large number of traditional excellent works, which are not contemporary enough and are somewhat different from the music styles that our current students are exposed to. distance. Therefore, teachers should provide students with more excellent popular music works to better enhance students' interest. For example: students all like Jay Chou, so we should not deny him. The song "Snail" he sang was once adopted as a campus song by Shanghai City. We can educate students to be down-to-earth and down-to-earth by borrowing the spirit of Snail's step by step. . In addition, what deserves the trust and admiration of students is the professional quality of teachers. Teachers show students appreciation through various performances or personal performances, which will not only make students feel very realistic, but also establish the prestige of teachers. Because your image is worth learning and learning from, students will admire you and be influenced by you. Influence and infection, and feel that they are learning from the teacher.
(4) Set up questions to allow students to think while learning music and stimulate their interest in learning.
When appreciating the lesson of "Reforming Rivers and Mountains for Future Students", I first set up a few small questions for students to find out the answers during the appreciation, such as: Why does the song sing about the light and shadow of a thousand-mile knife, and hatred burns the nine cities? It shows what kind of mood people feel. Look at why people don’t return home on a full moon night. Look at why there is no peace in the land of fragrant flowers. I asked the students to discuss. The whole class atmosphere was very active. Sometimes I divided several small questions into several groups. , each group chooses one representative to speak in front of a large number of people, which not only exercises their thinking ability, but also exercises their expression ability. At this time, teachers will conduct patriotic education in a timely manner, so that students can truly realize that life today is not easy. They should cherish their precious time and study hard, determined to become useful talents to the motherland in the future.
(5) Modern teaching methods to assist students
Modern auxiliary teaching methods mainly include: multimedia equipment, video clips, microcomputers, etc. The appreciation class in the music course is an indispensable class type that improves students' aesthetic ability and level and cultivates students' sentiment by appreciating excellent music works. A very important point is whether the teacher can provide students with more works of the same composer. Other works can meet the appreciation taste and level of most students. However, the materials in most schools cannot meet this need at all, and online resources can greatly make up for this shortcoming. Teachers collect various works through the Internet and classify them for students to appreciate, which can effectively expand students' horizons, improve students' interests, and develop students' aesthetic abilities.
(6) Unite students in the form of group cooperation
Group cooperative learning refers to dividing students into several groups according to their interests, hobbies or knowledge levels, and then studying in groups. A form of teaching organization whose advantage is that it can greatly stimulate students' interest in learning, bring into full play the initiative of all students, gather the wisdom of all students, and complement each other's strengths and weaknesses to maximize the classroom teaching effect. good. During class, students are freely organized into study groups. Whether it is an appreciation class or a singing class, they can let them discuss on their own, make choices and choose the best solution or answer. Music interest groups can be organized by teachers or music class representatives after class. Through teacher guidance and students' free activities, music creation activities beyond the curriculum requirements can be explored to expand students' thinking and cognitive aspects, and cultivate students' sense of unity and cooperation. Modern society increasingly needs people with a strong sense of collective consciousness and solidarity and cooperation. However, collective consciousness and solidarity and cooperation consciousness are not just available. They need to be cultivated slowly throughout a person's life, and the junior high school stage is an important part of life. stage, so it is the unshirkable responsibility of every teacher to cultivate students' spirit of unity and collective consciousness. All in all, interest is a psychological characteristic of people with tendencies. When a person becomes interested in something, he will actively, actively and persistently explore it.
Zankov believes that interest is the catalyst for developing intelligence. Practice has proved that students will be tired of learning without a strong interest in learning. If the interest is not to the level of obsession, there will be no inspiration, let alone creativity in thinking.
Therefore, in the process of music teaching, teachers should first stimulate the strong desire to explore deep in the students' hearts. Secondly, in order to stimulate students' cognitive interest, teachers must love the subject they teach and strive to engage in discovery, research, and exploration. Make it the center of your own interest, so as to effectively stimulate students' cognitive interest. With strong interest, students' spirit will be rich and their thinking will be flexible, changeable and fluent.
3. Conclusion The process of music education is also the process of intellectual education. There are many ways to cultivate students' interest in music. Only by paying attention to the cultivation of music interest can music teaching be completed smoothly and better, and students can truly feel and embody beauty, and soar and gallop in the space of art. , teachers can truly achieve the purpose of cultivating people.