How to write a kindergarten art crafts school situation analysis

I. Background and Definition of the Subject

(I) Background

1. Modern psychological research shows that: the activities of the hand are related to the development of the brain, and the training of the finger movements can have a good stimulating effect on the brain cells. Hand movements are directly linked to thinking activities, information is transmitted from the hand to the brain, and from the brain to the hand. The more the hand activity, the more complex the movement, the more it can stimulate the physiological activity of the corresponding motor area on the cerebral cortex, so that the level of thinking activity is higher and higher. At the same time, the Soviet educator Zankov believes that: modern society needs "hand-brain" people, kindergarten training students, that is, to be good at using the brain and hands, the ability to operate is an important factor in the overall development of young children. For today's young children, of course, is no exception, so young children to carry out art production activities is a good way to make their own comprehensive development.

2. "Kindergarten Education Guidance Program" pointed out that: "should guide children to independently choose the objects around them or waste materials to make toys, handicrafts, etc. to beautify their own lives or to carry out other activities." Art-making activities can enrich children's knowledge, develop children's experience, develop children's hands-on ability, so that children can get comprehensive and harmonious development from it.

3. Our garden by the society, environment, culture, teachers, as well as parental factors such as children's dependence on the strong, hands-on ability is weak. In the past two years, with the continuous improvement of the level of teachers in the park, the teaching funds to increase investment, in order to change this situation, our garden from the early childhood art production, to determine the "art teaching in the manual activities of the case study", in this area of the corresponding practical research, from which to improve the hands-on ability of young children.

(II) Definition

Kindergarten art teaching activities, refers to the cultivation of young children's sense of aesthetics as the goal of young children's painting, handicrafts, appreciation of the main activities. Beautiful colors, beautiful language, beautiful action, always affect the young children, art activities for them to create a free expression of their own kingdom, in the world of art activities, they really become the little master of the activities.

Kindergarten art teaching in the handmade activities is based on the kindergarten teachers handmade education goals, guiding young children to play imagination and creativity, using their hands on the material modeling operations, to produce a rich sense of beauty, the performance of handicraft works of educational activities.

Theoretical basis and significance of the research

(a) Theoretical basis

1. Tao Xingzhi's creative education thought

Creative education is the distinctive and fundamental features of Tao's educational thought and practice, against the feudal education of the students' constraints, he exclaimed, "Break down the hell of young children, and create a paradise for children! "Mr. Tao Xingzhi in many articles repeatedly put forward the "liberation of young children's creativity" of the "six liberation", that is, the liberation of young children's eyes, hands, mind, mouth and time.

2. Bruner's Discovery Teaching

Bruner argues that "discovery in learning does influence the student to become a constructionist." In his essay "The Act of Discovery," Bruner describes this new approach in detail, stating that discovery is not limited to the search for things not yet known to man, but rather it includes all methods of acquiring knowledge personally with one's own mind. That is, under the guidance of the teacher, relying on the teacher and the materials provided by the textbook, so that the learners themselves to discover the problem, answer the question and solve the problem, so that they become the discoverer of knowledge, rather than a passive receiver.

3. Tao Xingzhi's theory of life education points out: life is education, society is school. In this way, educational materials, educational methods, educational tools, educational environment can be greatly increased.

4. Modern Early Childhood Education Theory

The Outline pointed out that: we should make full use of social resources, guide young children to actually feel the richness and excellence of the motherland's culture, and inspire young children to love their hometowns and the motherland's feelings; art is the main way to actual aesthetic education, and to give full play to the emotional education function of art, and to promote the formation of a sound personality in the young children.

5. Reggio Theory

In Reggio preschools, art works, clay sculptures, etc. are able to express young children's understanding of the world around them, elucidating the process of recognizing and constructing the things around them, and thus triggering the natural flow of young children's emotions.

6. Psychological basis

Toddlers are in the stage with the unconscious attention dominant, concrete image memory, thinking is the main stage, in the art and craft activities of young children are very emotional, susceptible to emotional, emotional impression. Therefore, teachers must provide some interesting, novel stimuli to arouse the interest of young children. In order for them to maintain a steady interest in art and craft activities, there must be content and forms of activities that are attractive enough for them to participate in. Through art and craft activities, we can satisfy the needs of young children and attract them at the same time.

7. Physiological basis

①Toddlers have a natural need for art activities. Toddlers' hand movements gradually begin to become more complex, while showing a keen interest in hands-on activities. Toddlers enjoy making, and the fine movements of their fingers develop quickly during this period.

②The neurological development of young children is not fully developed, the coordination between the brain, eyes and hands has not been well established, the brain and visual control of the hands is poor, the hand's bones and muscles are not well developed. Therefore, through art and craft activities, can you practice and exercise the coordination between brain, hand and eye, and thus, promote the healthy and harmonious development of young children.

From the review of a number of data can be seen in the previous research, more response in the painting, for the art of art research is relatively small. At present, there is the phenomenon that young children's art activities pay too much attention to skills training, activity content is single, boring, detached from life, lack of fun. Therefore, the integration of art and craft activities into kindergarten activities, promote the development of hand coordination, language expression, cognitive ability and other abilities of young children, better implementation of the spirit of the "Outline", so that young children get the overall development.

(2) significance

Sukhomlinsky mentioned in the "Advice to Teachers": "Handicraft is a modeling activity that relies on the skills of the hands and the use of simple tools to process materials. In the childhood and adolescence of a person who does not rely on the fine, dexterous movements of the hands to activate the region of abstract thought, will affect the future development of the person throughout his life." Handicraft activities have such a great impact on a person's life, and they are an important and indispensable way to educate 3-6 year old children. The Guidelines for Kindergarten Education (for Trial Implementation) states that teachers should "guide children to make toys and handicrafts using objects or waste materials around them to beautify their lives or carry out other activities." This shows the importance of handicraft activities in early childhood education as one of the important contents in the field of kindergarten art teaching.

The research of kindergarten art teaching in manual activities by the majority of early childhood education workers, its research gradually deepened, the relevant research results have been introduced, such as "in the kindergarten manual teaching activities to cultivate the good quality of young children", "how to improve the quality of kindergarten manual activities", "waste resources in the kindergarten manual activities in the development and utilization of the" and so on. Throughout the relevant theses, most of them study its application value, although there are references, but from the point of view of case study, there is still a lack. In relation to the actual handcraft teaching in our school, there are some practical problems encountered in the process of carrying out the activities, such as the single form of handcraft activities, insufficient materials, teaching evaluation is hollow, and the parents' sense of cooperation is weak, etc. In order to make these practical problems solved properly, we need to make sure that the parents are aware of the importance of handcraft activities. In order to make these practical problems can be properly solved, enhance the level of handmade teaching activities in the whole garden, comprehensively improve the quality of education in our garden, we chose this topic, from the perspective of case study to carry out in-depth and detailed research.

The improvement of the quality of kindergarten manual activities provides a great space for the development of young children's imagination, thinking and creativity, stimulates young children's interest in art activities, experiences the joy of art activities, allows young children to appreciate and feel the beauty of the image of the art works, and at the same time cultivates the good qualities of young children. As a garden with rich experience in handicraft activities, a team of teachers with high handicraft skills and a good atmosphere for handicraft activities, our garden strives to make "handicraft activities" become a major educational feature of our garden through the development of this subject, improve the level of education and teaching, and enhance the quality of education.

Three, the subject of the research objectives

1. Research, explore the good form of art and craft teaching activities suitable for our children's actual.

2. Stimulate children's interest in art production, spontaneous, active production, and improve their own production capacity.

3. Renew the teachers' concept of education and teaching, and improve the teachers' ability to reflect on teaching and scientific research.

Four, the subject of research methods

This study is mainly qualitative research methods, using action research. Specific methods are:

1. Literature method: by consulting books and materials, the Internet to collect domestic and international development of early childhood art education, the use of learning, borrowing, and abandonment of the approach to improve our educational methods at the same time, digging the practical value of this research.

2. Survey method: on the one hand, through the investigation of teachers, parents' views and attitudes towards art and craft activities, as well as kindergartens, families and the community of young children's current situation of art and craft education. On the other hand, the investigation of young children's interest in art and craft activities and the characteristics of young children's activities. From the above two aspects to grasp the basic situation of early childhood art education, in order to constantly adjust the education and management behavior, to create a good research atmosphere, and to promote the smooth progress of the study.

3. Action Research Method: Teachers in the practice of art and craft education in the research and revision, observation and collection of materials, to understand the activities of young children's performance, and constantly adjust the teacher's educational behavior, improve the early childhood art and craft characteristics of the garden-based curriculum

4. Case method: from the life of young children, the teacher to look for young children's interest in the point of carrying out the independent art and craft generating class, through an event of After the display, teachers for this course of case study, summarize the process of children's production, the course of growth, the highlights of the design of the activities; reflect on the shortcomings of the activities, and actively improve.

5. Works evaluation method: collect, organize, summarize and analyze children's art works to understand children's development, and continuously organize the curriculum content and research methods.

6. Summary of experience method: through the stage summary, analyze the stage of the research results and implementation of the problem, and constantly adjust the next stage of the research strategy, the formation of the final research report.

V. Steps of the research

(I) Preparation stage (2012.9)

1. Investigate the current situation of kindergarten art education.

2. Collecting relevant domestic and international information on early childhood artwork education.

3. Collect tools and materials related to art and craft activities.

4. Set up a working group for the small topic, implement the main members, and clarify the division of labor and tasks.

5. Preliminary formulation of the objectives and teaching plan of art and craft education, and initial practice in our school.

(2) Implementation stage (2012.9-2013.4)

1. Improve the art education curriculum for young children, and form a more complete art education curriculum program for young children.

2. Teaching cases, curriculum design and observation of related educational activities.

3. Discussing handcraft teaching design, carrying out teaching design competition activities, focusing on excellent handcraft products of young children, improving teachers' evaluation, and carrying out parent-child handcraft activities.

4. Collecting and analyzing materials by analyzing and comparing works.

5. Training, research and communication. Regularly invite experts to guide the curriculum, organize teacher training and carry out exchanges. Display, research activities.

(3) Summarization phase (2013.4.30-2013.5.30)

1. Teachers writing cases, organizing teaching materials and so on.

2. Organize materials and summarize the results of the teaching activities of art and craft characteristics.

3. Summarize the results and write a research report. Declare the results of the subject.

Sixth, the subject of research content

(a) create a strong artistic atmosphere to stimulate children's interest in art and craft activities.

The Outline states, "The environment is an important educational resource and should be created and utilized to effectively promote the development of young children." Kindergarten art activity environment should be based on the needs of young children's lives, constantly create, change the place of learning, guide young children lively, lively, active activities to promote the development of young children. Therefore, our garden in the creation of the environment at the same time, constantly adding elements of art and craft to stimulate children's interest in art and craft activities. For example, when creating the environment of the building, we have created "paper-cutting art gallery", "colorful clay sculpture", "waste big transformation hanging decorations" and other content, close to the lives of children, stimulate the desire of children to participate. In addition, in order to give the children a better space for art operation, create an atmosphere for art operation, and avoid the restriction of materials in the classroom activity area, our garden fully develops the resources in the garden, and opens the children's art room.

(2) Choose the materials in life, inspire young children to create

The art and craft activities of young children are valuable to create, many things in life that seem to be waste products in the eyes of adults are often the children's favorite and most precious source of creativity, such as scraps of paper, empty bottles, small stones, colorful bags and boxes, etc., which are the intermediaries and bridges of children's learning and creation, and the use of special materials will make young children have the opportunity to create a better artwork. The use of special materials will make the children produce a stronger interest in creation. For example, in the activity of "change of hands", the parents brought the waste paper, shells, buttons and other materials to the kindergarten, and made a piece of beautiful work.

In addition, the teachers also opened their minds to the waste Lulu cans, cardboard boxes, oil drums and other paper into "stilts", "caves", "cars" and other children's favorite outdoor These toys are not only materials from life, more can really be used in life, but also enriched the garden outdoor game toys.

(C) Carry out rich activities to promote the diversified development of home

Speaking of cooperation - parents to participate in parent-child art and craft creative activities

In the early stage of the activities, parents do not support the kindergarten art and craft activities, they are always confused about the collection of materials. In order for parents to better understand the importance of kindergarten art activities, we use half-day open time for parents and children to work together to make crafts, we teachers and actively explain the art activities carried out by the child's changes, parents ah in the weekdays after careful observation found that the child's changes are very big, active thinking, imagination, dare to hands on the production of the progress of the parents feel very happy! We also had a parent-child observation session. We also carried out parent-child observation activities, making "lanterns" parents to participate in the activities said, "the original handmade activities, the baby will always say, "Mom, you do it for me, and now say, "Mom, you see what I do pretty? From the children's words we can see that our children's hands-on ability to develop very well, but also won the recognition and support of parents, and promote the effective cooperation between home and abroad.

VII. Research results and effectiveness

(A) Teachers

1. Accumulation of rich experience, promote the professional growth of teachers

Although the teachers of our park are not graduates of art majors, but through the development of this subject research, the teachers continue to use the books for self-education, network recharging, training and practice and other means of learning, and accumulate a wealth of professional knowledge and teaching experience, stimulating the teachers to research. Teaching experience, stimulate teachers' enthusiasm for research, and promote the professional growth of our teachers.

2. Tapping teachers' artistic potential and improving their environmental awareness

Teachers, in carrying out life-oriented art and craft teaching activities, collect waste materials, reuse various material resources, improve teachers' own sense of conservation and environmental awareness, and tap their own artistic potential while creating on various materials.

3. In-depth teaching practice, the development of garden-based curriculum

Through the practical research of this subject, the teachers' teaching practice ability has been strengthened, and the teachers' creativity in formulating the objectives of teaching has been demonstrated, so that the teachers' ability to carry out the seminars in the garden-based curriculum has been improved. Highlighted the distinctive ideas of our garden, the advanced concept of sustainable development.

(II) home **** education

The development of this subject has transformed the educational philosophy of parents and gained the recognition and support of parents. The integration of home and family education has been realized.

(C) Early childhood aspects

1. Development of young children's unique creative ability

Toddlers in the process of participating in the practice of art and craft activities, teachers use the beautiful things in nature and social life to young children for the revelation of the beauty and education, so that the feeling of beauty can be deepened, internalized into their own performance of the beauty of the things and through a variety of different art and craft activities, so that young children to put their own Through a variety of different art activities, the children's own experience of beauty and true feelings poured into the artistic creation, the formation of creative works of art, and gradually develop the children's unique creative ability.

2. Enabling children's personalities to develop naturally

Young children express their personal feelings through the visual arts, from which they experience happiness, success, and determine their own intrinsic nature and value. Art and craft activities provide children with the best form of self-expression, thus promoting the natural development of their personalities.

3. Developing children's sharp thinking

Through art and craft activities on a variety of materials, children can form a unique visual observation of things and materials in life, and in the design and creation of activities, they not only develop the coordination of the brain, eyes, and hands, but also promote the ability to think sharply.

(4) Research

In the practice of research to gradually enrich the garden-based curriculum, the formation of the garden's art and craft characteristics. Our garden art teaching in handmade activities case study, based on children's favorite toys, animals, daily use of objects to create, greatly compensated for the artwork just for the beautification of the environment, so that parents can see the effectiveness of the children to play with their own toys to experience a sense of success and a sense of joy.

(E) results

1. The garden self-edited lesson plans, children's works, parent-child works, teachers' works.

2. Formation of empirical articles: 15 teaching case studies, 4 seminars on art and craft activities, 2 essays on teachers' art and craft education, 5 teaching designs.

3. Participate in the 29th National Children's Quality Cup Children's Painting and Calligraphy Competition, mid-term in this activity, won the 29th "Quality Cup" National Children's Painting and Calligraphy Competition Winning Units 100 (Grand Prize), 100 outstanding teachers (Grand Prize), 15 teachers were awarded the Outstanding Teachers' Guidance Award and awarded the "Outstanding Teachers in Quality Education". "Outstanding Teachers in Quality Education". The young children's entries, **** 140 children won awards, of which 47 won the Gold Medal, 39 won the Silver Medal, 35 won the Bronze Medal, 19 won the Merit Award.

VIII. Existing Problems and Reflections

(a) In the implementation of the "case study of handcraft activities in art teaching", the implementation of the content and the cultivation of young children's art and craft ability, and the evaluation of young children's art and craft ability is relatively weak. Teachers need to further explore the evaluation strategy of art education.

(ii) Teachers are not good at summarizing and summarizing their good experiences in practice in a timely manner, and their awareness of collecting and organizing information needs to be improved. It is necessary to further develop the ability to summarize and improve the timely organization and retention of activities.

(c) From the perspective of the long-term development of kindergarten, through the research of this topic, only focus on the prominence of kindergarten characteristics, the research is relatively superficial, single, did not rise to the level of building a garden-based culture.