How to cultivate students’ creative ability in primary school music classes
As an important form and carrier of human culture, music contains rich cultural and historical connotations. It has its unique The artistic charm accompanies the development of human history and meets people's spiritual and cultural needs. Music teachers are responsible for passing on human literary theory. The mission is to develop people's musical literacy and improve students' aesthetic quality. Teachers should respect the individuality of each student, give full play to the characteristics of each student, protect the spark of students' different thinking, and give full play to students' subjective initiative. Music teaching should take music aesthetics as the core. The teaching content should be lively, interesting, colorful, and have a distinct sense of the times and nationality. Students should be guided to actively participate in music practice, respect individuals' different music experiences and learning styles, and improve students' aesthetic abilities. , develop students' creative thinking, form students' good humanistic qualities, and lay a good foundation for them to love music, learn music, and enjoy music throughout their lives.
1. Establish an innovative teaching concept with students as the main body
Students should be the main body of teaching and the masters of learning, as well as the objects of teachers' services. As the organizers and guides of teaching, teachers should focus on awakening students' subjective consciousness, guiding and cultivating students' initiative and creativity. It should not be a one-man show for teachers, with students rarely participating, becoming passive listeners, imitating mechanically, losing their independent learning psychology, and losing interest in learning. The teaching process of music class is the process of music practice, and different students have different understanding and imagination of musical works. Mr. Tao Xingzhi once said, “The best condition for creativity is democracy.” It can be seen that democratic methods are a prerequisite for promoting students to innovate. Teachers should create a democratic, equal and harmonious relationship based on students' different characteristics, living environments and experiences, clarify students' dominant position, demonstrate students' individuality, correct the teacher-student relationship in teaching, and transform teachers from the role of "teacher" to The main body of music practice uses reasonable and effective methods to enhance students' confidence and courage, stimulate learning enthusiasm, let more students participate in music activities, and effectively achieve teaching goals.
2. Create an open teaching environment to enrich students’ emotional experience
Music education takes aesthetics as the core and takes students’ pleasure and active participation as the starting point to improve the aesthetics of all students. Basic quality education for the purpose of ability and aesthetic cultivation. In the teaching process, teachers should pay attention to students' life experience and emotional experience, create a harmonious and pleasant psychological environment, and enable students to dare to innovate. Because an equal and harmonious teacher-student relationship enables students to be active in thinking, dare to think, dare to speak, dare to ask, and dare to express opinions. Teachers should love, trust and respect each student in music class, satisfy students' desire to perform, skillfully use motivational language, movements, and demeanor to stimulate each student's desire for innovation, and encourage students to be bold in innovation. Guide students to have an overall grasp of music expression forms and emotional connotations, and strive to reveal the role of music elements in life. When students' creative ideas are obviously wrong or incomplete, teachers should first affirm their innovative consciousness so that students can have a positive Emotional experience to maintain enthusiasm for innovation.
Edison once said, "Interest is the best teacher." Without the interest and emotion in music, the purpose of music education cannot be achieved. Only when students have a strong interest in music can they have a strong desire for knowledge and then learn music proactively and without fear of difficulties. Therefore, in the classroom, it is necessary to create a pleasant and harmonious teaching atmosphere to cultivate students' interest in learning, so that students can be cultivated, infected and inspired by a pleasant and harmonious atmosphere, so that their innovative consciousness can be well stimulated.
3. Pay attention to and use creative music teaching activities
1. Creative Singing
Singing itself is a second creation. Teachers can guide students to analyze and imagine how to process songs based on the background of the song, the content of the subject matter, the author and other relevant content. For younger students, singing songs can be handled directly based on the pictures. The single project of "just singing" must not be regarded as the focus of the class.
2. Creative Music Appreciation
Appreciation teaching is a practical activity that allows students to perceive, experience and understand art. In addition to cultivating students' ability to feel and appreciate, appreciation teaching also requires students to express the beauty they feel. Actions are further expressed. In fact, being active and loving beauty are two major personality traits of students. They are active and like to express their thoughts and feelings through certain movements. When appreciating, let them try to express their feelings about the music in words or language, and combine vision, hearing, movement and creation to understand and feel the music. It helps to improve students' agility in music appreciation and perception of the melody and rhythm of music, and cultivates the ability to create beauty.
3. Creative Art Practice
Develop the fluency of creative thinking through association. In music teaching, students can be guided to develop the fluency of creative thinking through thinking methods such as similar association, contrastive association, and causal association. For example, you can choose short songs based on the lively characteristics of the students, allowing them to use their imagination to express the artistic conception and content of the songs, imagine the image of the music according to the development of the music, tell stories, and design actions along with the songs.
Cultivate the flexibility of creative thinking in seeking differences.
In music teaching, different tunes can be created using the same rhythm or the same lyrics, so that students can improve their creative thinking ability while seeking differences.
Cultivation of multiple levels of creative thinking in games. In music teaching, some music game activities can be carried out according to the age characteristics of students. When they learn a song, students can make up their own movements to perform on stage and play various roles that suit the situation, making the music more vivid and rich. The sense of reality allows students to constantly discover new ideas during exploration, understand and experience creating music through "playing", and cultivate their various expressive abilities.
4. Create a group environment for cooperation and communication, and cultivate students' cooperative innovation ability
Every student must study in a certain group. Even the independent innovation activities of individual students often fail. It is also inseparable from the help and influence of other people. Therefore, the role of groups on innovation capabilities cannot be ignored. It is conducive to the development of group innovation capabilities and can produce a series of effects, mainly synergistic effects and complementary effects. The synergistic effect refers to the combined force of students' innovative abilities to produce greater effects. Complementary effects can include many aspects such as knowledge complementation, ability complementation, character complementation, and advantage complementation. In an ideal collective of cooperative communication, the innovative abilities of individual students and groups are likely to be fully developed. In music teaching, students should have enough self-study time, enjoy a broad space for association, and cooperate together without being restricted by the teacher's "preconceived" ideas, so that they can burst out new sparks from time to time.
In fact, our music classroom education can change the condescending approach in the past to having a heart-to-heart talk or even getting along with the students, understanding their thinking characteristics, interests, personal hobbies and other characteristics, and using encouraging language in teaching to create harmony. , democratic teaching atmosphere, protect their various creative desires to stimulate creative impulses and achieve certain teaching effects.
In short, facing the successor of socialism, music educators must fully understand their role, while developing and cultivating innovative talents, choose good teaching methods and implement them in specific education. Focusing on music aesthetics as the core and hobbies as the driving force, we vigorously develop students' imagination, creativity and ability to participate in cooperation, making music teaching relaxed and enjoyable, and cultivating more outstanding talents for the motherland who can contribute to the cause of modernization. Contributed innovative talents.