How to cultivate students’ imagination in art teaching

Primary school art class is a compulsory art education course at the primary stage of compulsory education and an important way to provide students with aesthetic education. It plays an important role in enlightening wisdom, cultivating sentiment, and promoting students' all-round development. The "New Art Curriculum Standards" points out: "Enable students to improve their imagination and creativity in the expression of positive emotions." How to enable students to show bold imagination and innovation in every art class, and then achieve the educational goal of comprehensively improving students' quality, is worthy of research and discussion by every art teacher. The famous educator Mr. Chen Heqin believes in the principle of "living education" that "whatever children can do by themselves should be allowed to do it by themselves, and whatever children can think by themselves should be allowed to think by themselves. Children should explore and discover by themselves, The knowledge he seeks is the real knowledge, and the world he discovers is the real world. "Nowadays, many people simply understand children's art education as teaching children to "learn to draw", that is, from not being able to draw to being able to draw. Painting, from not being like a painting to being like a painting. There is an example of this: A student from a key primary school in China immigrated to the United States and took their first art class. The teacher asked them to draw a Christmas tree. This Chinese child’s painting skills amazed the American teachers and children because The painting he drew was so similar to the one posted on the wall. But when the teacher asked him to create a picture of his own, the child struggled for a long time and couldn't write. This classmate’s art level is relatively good among domestic schools. People say that "Chinese children have strong copying abilities but poor creative abilities." Why does this happen? There are several factors. Social factors: People are accustomed to evaluate the quality of a child's painting by "resemblance", while ignoring the relationship between the child's physical and mental development and cognitive things. Teaching problems: Many teachers in art classes only teach students to copy works due to lack of information or to save time. There are also parents who buy copied picture albums for their children too early, which limits the students’ thinking development. Psychological research shows that children often understand things and the world through cognitive means such as seeing, touching, listening, and smelling. Hegel pointed out in his "Aesthetics": "The most outstanding art itself is imagination." Therefore, it is meaningful to give full play to children's imagination, cultivate children's thinking ability, and improve their artistic accomplishment in current art activities. Big job.

1. Understand children and develop imaginative consciousness in life. Imagination is not restricted by natural knowledge, scientific certainty, traditional concepts, moral habits, rules and systems, etc. It can also break the real restrictions in real objects. It is by no means a mechanical copy of reality, so teachers cannot evaluate children's works based on "similarity". The amount of imagination in a child's work depends largely on the teacher's evaluation. This time the teacher used "likeness" as the standard. Next time the children's paintings will be closer to "likeness" and lose their imagination. During painting activities, teachers can try to ask questions to allow students to change their thinking and affirm their imagination, so as to avoid forming a rigid and fixed thinking pattern. For example, in "Swimming in Space", you can first ask the students: Today we are going to travel in space. How are you going to go to space? Please don't rush to answer, use your brain more, and then draw their own ideas. Come down. At this time, you will find that there are various scenarios: some students take a spaceship; some take a hot air balloon; some fly with a pair of big wings; some use a long ladder... In short, ten students There are ten unique ideas, all of which are their own paintings. The teacher continued to ask the students: So, what did we see when we went to space? They developed rich imaginations and drew exaggerated and distinctive space objects. If teachers affirm children's imagination, they will be more exaggerated, and their imagination will be more expanded. Therefore, in painting activities, teachers should ask more questions and affirm students more, and guide them to arbitrarily exaggerate, dislocate, deform, combine, disrupt, and change real objects... thereby germinating each child's imaginative consciousness. Children's imagination potential is huge, and their innocent childishness and unique ideas often give people new inspiration.

2. Use nature as a living teaching material to inspire children's imagination. The famous educator Mr. Chen Heqin believes that "nature and the big society are our living teaching materials." He advocates letting children "explore more of nature" Go learn directly and get direct experience. "Let nature inspire your children's imagination." Therefore, teachers should often take students out of the classroom to look for beautiful flowers, touch big trees, observe small animals, etc. on campus, so that children's interests will be activated and their imagination will burst out. For example: when learning "The World of Flowers", you can ask the children to search for various flowers outdoors, and then ask them to freely tell what colors they saw, what kind of flowers, what branches and leaves, etc., and reproduce the observations through the students' memories. Objects, teachers can also summarize them through various multimedia means such as pictures, physical projections, and computers, and connect them with geometric figures, exaggerated deformations, etc., so that children can understand the differences between various flowers. But they have different rules. Using activities, teachers can encourage children to create a work about flowers according to their own imagination. As a result, the teacher will find that the children drew a variety of flowers. On this basis, teachers can ask students to add paintings to their own paintings, and children will be more interested. Not only are flowers common to us, but dynamic scenes can also be drawn by children through their own imagination.

Of course, the various animals in the animal world are also our living teaching materials. When seeing cute animals, children will be more active in expressing their images. In nature, children actively explore knowledge and actively participate in activities. It can be seen that nature not only adds to children's knowledge and experience, but also promotes their intellectual development and enriches their entire spiritual world. The scenes in nature are diverse and beautiful. Nature is the best classroom for children's painting activities. Appreciating the scenery of nature opens the door to imagination for students, discovering beauty, and creating beauty.

3. Mobilize various senses to cultivate children’s imagination. Teachers can organize activities of various forms to fully mobilize students’ various sensory systems.

Eighty percent of the information in the human brain comes from vision, and "seeing" is an important way for students to understand the world