How to Teach Children in Large Classes to Learn National Dance —— A Special Summary

First, enrich children's cognitive experience, appreciate national dances, and stimulate children's desire for learning.

Interest is the driving force of learning. In national dance, teachers first introduce the knowledge about ethnic minorities to children with cognitive content, help children understand national costumes, living habits and folk customs, enhance their perceptual knowledge, and know that Mongolians, Uighurs and Miao people can sing and dance well. Secondly, we should often take our children to watch the videos of children's and adults' national dances, understand the action characteristics of national dances, and enrich children dance's vocabulary. Uygur dances often express their joy by shaking their heads, turning their wrists and ringing bells. Chinese dance often uses towels and fans to express the mood of celebrating the harvest. In the process of watching, children often can't help imitating exercises. Teachers should encourage and support in time, and often take advantage of small opportunities in daily life to jump on a paragraph for children to enjoy, thus stimulating children's desire to learn.

Second, learn basic dance steps and movements, guide children to combine movements according to the law, and develop their creativity.

1. Learn the basic dance steps and movements with vivid forms and vivid language.

Every national dance has its basic steps and movements. According to the essentials and characteristics of dance steps, teachers should demonstrate big moves in the teaching process and explain the language visually. Contextualize the content of dance performance and explain the essentials of action with visual language. For example, in the dance of Yalasu, the music structure and nature express the dance content by enjoying the beautiful grassland and dancing happily, and their hands are open from their chests to express their appreciation of the beautiful grassland; Hold one hand up and open it, just like watching the weather. These visual languages not only highlight the difficulty of basic dance movements, but also facilitate children to remember dance movements.

2, according to the nature of music, rhythm characteristics to guide children to combine actions according to the law.

Dance is an action accompanied by music, which is inseparable from music or songs. In teaching, teachers and children feel and analyze the changes of music in rhythm, speed and strength together, and then guide children to combine actions in a certain direction or by changing the range, speed or posture. Mongolian dance "Little Cavalry", the basic dance steps move from the original place to the original place, rolling in the original place means immediately, and marching forward means riding. In every national dance teaching, we should focus on changing one aspect, so as to effectively help children master the law of combined movements.

3. Provide conditions, encourage guidance and develop children's creativity.

In the teaching of complex dance, we always consider providing children with a creative space. Basic movements and dance steps are based on imitation learning, and then on mastering basic dance steps and movements, children are guided to create movements according to certain plots. This is their active participation in learning, which greatly improves their enthusiasm, initiative and creativity in learning dance.