Children’s dance teaching: Several methods of teaching young children to dance well Children’s dance teaching In the garden of dance art, children’s dance can be called a delicate, lovely, naturally interesting little flower. It blooms in all parts of urban and rural areas. Among the red bricks and blue tiles, under the green mist and green shade, there is a pleasant fragrance. Children are the most beautiful period of life. They have lively personalities, are curious and imitative, and have a strong desire for knowledge. How to cultivate their ability to distinguish between beauty and ugliness according to their characteristics? How to cultivate their beautiful thoughts and conceptual sentiments? This is the key to children's dance teaching. Therefore, in children's dance teaching, we should pay attention to the use of lively and lively dance images that are suitable for children to accept, and cultivate the beauty of life, natural beauty and artistic beauty. How to carry out effective children's dance teaching? Let's talk about my teaching opinions. 1. Music selection in children’s dance teaching. Dance music should be pleasant to the ear, with smooth melody, educational and interesting. It can inspire children to develop rich associations and develop children’s sensibility, memory, imagination and expression of music. Cultivation of children's temperament and character. The rhythm of the music should be clear and strong, which can arouse children's sense of movement. The intensity of rhythm, movement, pauses, etc. should all be distinct. The musical image should be vivid and concrete, and the phrases should be neat and orderly, which is conducive to children's expression and expression of dance images and emotions. Moreover, children's thinking needs to be more concrete, and their love and hate for things are directly reflected in their words and deeds. For example, the children's dance "One Penny" narrates through the child's mouth the small incident of picking up a penny and handing it to the police uncle. The tune is innocent and lively, full of childish elegance. The melody of the song is complete and has no preaching flavor, but it very naturally embodies the virtue of picking up gold without being ignorant. Musical images arouse children's yearning for beauty, thereby achieving the edification of beauty and the cultivation of sentiment. In the performance of artistic works, children's sense of morality, sense of reason, sense of practice and sense of beauty are enlightened to various degrees. Therefore, choosing noble music that has a clear image, short music, simple and easy to understand, strong rhythm, beautiful melody, infectious, easy to be accepted by children and stimulates their emotions is an important prerequisite for doing a good job in children's dance teaching. 2. Movement design in children's dance teaching When designing movements for children's dance performance, the age characteristics of the children should be taken into consideration, and the physiology and life of children's dance should be paid attention to. Understand children's physical and psychological characteristics and their actual movement development and acceptance levels. Children are in the period of physiological development. Their bones are soft and easy to deform, their muscles are slender, their elasticity is small, their contraction force is poor, and they are prone to fatigue. These characteristics determine that children have poor balance and control over their movements, so they should choose simple and vivid movements. It is bright, bright, full of children's interest and life atmosphere, and is vivid, which can reflect the children's innocent, lively character and inner world movements. They are active, curious, and imitative, and sometimes have subconscious gestures. Therefore, children's dance should also focus on imitation, rhythm, song performance, and group dance movements to express their inner emotional changes. For example, a duck swaying, a bunny jumping, clapping hands, stamping feet, and jumping are the prototypes of children's dance movements in life. These actions come from the children's own lives, and are also familiar to children. Another example is the children's dance "I Have a Little Wooden Gun". This dance shows a group of lively children imitating the People's Liberation Army's drills, target shooting and other military activities in a happy game. The teacher based on the children's image movements in daily games and what the children like. Imitate the psychological requirements of the People's Liberation Army such as training, shooting, and fighting, and refine the movements to become lively and exaggerated. When designing children's dance movements, we must also take into account the children's natural qualities, overcome their shortcomings, strive to be stretched, open, bright and cheerful, plump and energetic, and fully grasp the concreteness, curiosity, fantasy and imitation of children's thinking images. Make use of their strengths and avoid their shortcomings to make their performances more appealing. 3. Arrangement of formations and roles in children’s dance teaching. Dance is an overall art, and children’s dance is often rehearsed or performed in a neat formation with unified movements. Therefore, the formation changes in children's dance teaching are simple and obvious. Whether it is a performance dance or an entertaining group dance, it should not be too cumbersome or complicated. If a child is not serious and his movements are uncoordinated, it will affect or even destroy the beauty of the picture. For example, adding a small counterclockwise circle within a large clockwise circle, or advancing horizontally or vertically, etc. are all acceptable to children. , try to use less irregular shapes such as crooked and oblique shapes. The arrangement and changes of roles should be simple and easy to remember, and the roles should be single. The storyline and characters should not be too many, so that the dance formation is rich, clear, simple and reasonable.
4. Children’s dance teaching should pay attention to integrating poetry, music, and dance. Children’s dance is a comprehensive art that combines poetry (literature), music, and dance. The common mission of the three is to express children's thoughts and feelings, and to impress children's emotions through this expression. Therefore, in children's dance teaching, teachers should integrate music, dance, and literature, and supplement them with language when necessary, so that song, dance, and language are interdependent and complementary to each other. The reason why singing performances are so popular among children is because of this point. For example: in "Mouse Draws a Cat": "Little mouse, come and draw a cat, oh, the eyes must be small..." The children sing and draw the cat with a brush, and at the same time imitate the cowering movement of the mouse to walk, so that the movements become concrete and vivid. ization and vividness. It supplements the shortcomings of monotonous performance, integrates children's language, music and dance, and achieves a high artistic appeal. To improve children's dance education, we must also extensively strengthen other artistic accomplishments. Such as art, music, children's literature, etc. Art is good for dance composition, color, costume design, makeup, etc. Good lyrics and music are also very beneficial to the content and emotional expression of children's dance and help children understand dance. Children's dance is like spring breeze and rain, subtly cultivating children's hearts. We must carefully gain insight into the beautiful childlike world of children and understand their naive emotions. Extensively collect and refine their innocent and vivid movements, and absorb them as basic materials for children's dance. Only in this way can the dance created be liked and accepted by children, and children's dance teaching can be innovative and continuously improved. Dance and love education for young children. Children's hearts are as pure as water, and children's lives are carefree. This is the best time to provide love education to young children. Integrate love education into the form of dance, so that children can truly feel the beauty of life through dance. , and then let the children express the infinitely beautiful life through dance, thereby stimulating the children's beautiful emotions of loving relatives, loving everyone, loving society, and loving life. For example, the dance "Clay Doll" describes a clay doll that has no father, no mother, and no home. Who will care about and care for it? Through this dance, children can realize that they have a father, mother, home, and people. Caring, being loved, how happy life is, and how pitiful the clay doll is, thus stimulating children's sympathy and spontaneously showing caring and loving emotions. In the performance, you can see the natural expression of children's loving emotions, similar There are many kinds of dance, which can influence children subtly and have a good educational effect, making children understand that they have received care and love from many people and from all aspects of society, and they can also care and love everyone. Learn how to repay and give your love. Several ways to teach young children to dance well. Children's singing and dancing use comprehensive means such as movement, music, language and art to reflect children's thoughts, interests and lives. It is an educational art that promotes the healthy development of children's physical and mental health. Curiosity, inquisitiveness, activeness, and love of imitation are the age characteristics and psychological characteristics of young children. Children's thinking is image thinking, and children's singing and dancing can adapt to these characteristics of children and meet their specific requirements. Different teaching methods should be adopted in children's dance teaching. 1. Comprehensive teaching method. Because children are naturally lively and active, they can already do something according to their own consciousness. It is difficult for them to do things that they are not interested in, so the first thing the dance teacher does at this time is to use your In order to attract these children with casual consciousness and turn randomness into intentionality, the teaching content can use a comprehensive teaching method that combines speaking, singing and dancing. The content must be vivid and vivid. 2. Demonstration method: Teachers should perform dance works accurately, vividly and expressively, so that children can have a complete and clear impression of the content to be learned. The demonstration should be accompanied by verbal explanations and mirror demonstrations for young children. For example, children should extend their left hand and teachers should extend their right hand. This method can stimulate children's desire and enthusiasm for learning. 3. Language explanation method: The language explanation should be vivid and easy to understand. For example, if you follow the movement requirements of turning your wrist, you should turn your wrist from outside to inside for the first beat, and turn your palm from inside to outside for the second beat. It is neither interesting nor difficult for young children to learn to do it. But if you tell young children, now you go to the orchard and grab a big apple on the tree. If you want to pick the apple, you must turn your wrist and twist it. Or when practicing standing, if you tell a child to stand up straight, he or she may not be able to stand well. Then if you tell them to stand like a stick or like a pencil, they will do well. Therefore, language explanation method is extremely important. 4. Game method Game method is a method that uses the form and tone of games to provide guidance. Dance learning should also make children feel that it is a game activity and a kind of entertainment.
For example, when learning a duck to walk, the teacher can play the role of the mother duck and let the children be the baby ducks. The baby ducks can learn skills from the mother duck, and they can also wear headdresses or costumes. There are also small steps that can be practiced by the mother chicken with the chicks. Jumping steps, mother rabbit taking baby rabbits to practice, etc. This method can arouse children's interest and improve their enthusiasm for learning. In addition, as a dance teacher, you must first make the children like you, and then the teacher must be full of energy during class, the tone must be amiable and random, and you must have rich expressions to infect the children, so that the children can enjoy every class. All can be done easily and happily. Let the baby dance. It is intuitive, vivid, lively and is an activity that children love very much. Dance can play a variety of roles and is of great help to the improvement and development of children's body and mind, physique and skills. 1. Dance helps improve children’s personality. When parents lead their children to dance activities, they should choose some beautiful, lively, and popular music as accompaniment, such as: "Health Song", "Northern Shaanxi Yangko", etc. Use games to choreograph dances, such as "Throwing the Handkerchief", "Monkey Catching the Moon", etc. All these allow children to have fun and learn happily, and are very beneficial to children's development of lively, cheerful, optimistic and positive characters. 2. Dance can exercise children’s will and quality. Training of basic dance skills is boring and arduous. It is difficult to achieve results in the short term and requires hard work. If you let your children learn dance, you have to ask them to overcome difficulties and persevere in order to master the correct basic postures. After a period of training, your child will no longer feel bitter or tired, and will become conscious and passionate about dance learning. It will also develop a personality of self-esteem, self-love, self-improvement, and self-confidence, which will be established from an early age. The spirit of overcoming difficulties and forging ahead. 3. Dance can cultivate children's attention. It is children's nature to be playful and active. But when it comes to studying, it requires relative concentration. When doing dance moves, children have to carefully memorize a series of complex and diverse movements, flow routes, beats, etc. These are impossible without a high degree of concentration. If children receive this kind of training regularly, they can develop the habit of paying high attention. Children who are focused will be able to learn other knowledge more easily in the future. 4. Dance helps to strengthen the body, promote bone development, and can also change bad postures and make movements more coordinated and graceful. Children's bones are very tender and highly plastic. If you start dance training from an early age, you can correct some physical problems caused by bad habits, such as concave breasts, hunchback, O-shaped legs, X-shaped legs, obesity, etc. Of course, the exercise effect of dance training on the body cannot be ignored. People who practice dance tend to have upright bodies and coordinated movements in daily activities, which is difficult for people who don't practice dance to do. It is not difficult to see from the above points that it is very important to provide children with appropriate and correct dance training during childhood. Parents may wish to let their children learn dance. Through dance, they can become smarter and develop good qualities and sentiments.