The teaching methods of the Suzuki music education system are as follows:
The six steps of the Suzuki teaching method are: contact → imitation → encouragement → repetition → increase → perfection.
Suzuki is a famous Japanese violinist and music educator. He was born into a family of violin makers. In the 1950s, Suzuki devoted himself to the construction of the "genius education system" and the "talent movement" by teaching children to play the violin. His music education system has also received widespread attention from the world's music education community and has become another important system in the field of children's music education.
Basic ideas and viewpoints of the education system:
1. Create a good environment for children to learn music.
Suzuki believes that talent does not depend on genetics. Rather, it develops through the influence of acquired effective environment and education. In the development process of children's musical talent, environment is the first important condition. He firmly believes that people are affected by their environment. Therefore, when he taught children to learn violin, he did not teach children at first.
Therefore, when he taught children to learn violin, he did not teach the children at first, but only taught the mother, in order to let the child feel an environment full of music every day in his life and listen to his mother or Demonstration performances on recorded records. In this way, children's musical sensitivity can be improved.
In his view, for children to learn music, first of all, they should create an environment for children to learn dance in their mother tongue, so that beautiful music can surround children all day long like their own language. This way any child can get into music learning. And this kind of music learning can be more effective. Therefore, people also call the Suzuki teaching method "native language teaching method".
2. Stimulating children’s interest The environment provides important prerequisites and conditions for the development of children’s musical talents.
In an excellent music environment, children are also required to make hard efforts, and the motivation for hard work and unremitting practice comes from the stimulation of children's positive emotions.
Cultivating and stimulating children's interest in music is the unique feature of any effective children's music education system, and the Suzuki system is no exception. He believes that "interest is the source of ability" and the fundamental role of an educator is to make the educated develop hobbies.
To this end, Suzuki created the unique "mother participation method" and "group teaching method".
3. Promote perseverance and perseverance in practice.
When children become interested in music and musical instrument playing, they are required to carry out a lot of persistent and repeated practice. This is another important point of the Suzuki education system.
4. Pay attention to the cultivation of listening habits and skills.
Suzuki believes that keen hearing and intuitive response abilities are based on the acquisition of a large amount of listening experience. Therefore, the cultivation of listening habits and skills is another major goal of children's music education.
For this reason, Suzuki requires children to start by memorizing music scores when learning to play musical instruments, strengthen their hearing and memory, and gradually learn to intuitively judge the quality of sound and discover their own performance through repeated listening. Make mistakes and correct them to achieve better performance.
5. Advocate the "six steps of teaching".