How to Cultivate Young Children's Creative Thinking in Language Teaching

Engels said, "The thinking spirit is the most beautiful flower of mankind." Language is the green leaf, thinking is the flower, and young children's growth is the fruit. As an early childhood teacher, it is our responsibility to cultivate this green leaf and flower with all our heart, so that the children will bear the healthiest fruits.

In the language teaching of young children, teachers not only need to encourage and inspire young children's language skills, but more importantly, in the process of "saying" to cultivate young children's creative thinking, so that young children to reflect the "creative", in inspiring young children to think to activate young children's creativity. Activate the creativity of young children. According to Torrance, an American expert on creativity research, the development of creativity can only take place in a free and safe atmosphere. The so-called freedom is to minimize the unnecessary restrictions on children's behavior and thinking, and give them the opportunity to express themselves freely; the so-called safety is to refrain from criticizing and picking on children's unique ideas, so that they can eliminate their concerns about criticism, gain a sense of security in creativity, and dare to express their own opinions. Therefore, only in the classroom to create a free and safe atmosphere, young children's colorful thinking world will be displayed in front of our eyes, in order to receive twice the result with half the effort of the teaching effect.

A number of problems in early childhood language teaching

In the practice of early childhood language teaching, the teacher's own language quality has become a bottleneck in the development of early childhood language teaching and creative thinking, that is to say, our teacher's own language ability and creative thinking ability is not pass, affecting the development of young children's language ability and creative thinking.

Many teachers have outdated teaching concepts, one-sidedly focus on "imitation" teaching, do not know "according to the material, according to the local conditions", do not pay attention to create a language for children to use the situation, vivid language teaching in the teacher's operation has become a kind of mechanical The lively language teaching has become a kind of mechanical retelling activity under the operation of the teacher, and the children are required to perform roles according to the given dialogues in the performance activities, thus seriously hindering and wiping out the enthusiasm and creativity of the children. Individual children who perform actions that violate the original text will be corrected by the teacher, this passive teaching and learning is obviously a serious obstacle to the development of the creativity of young children.

The teaching method in early childhood language education is single and confusing. Either a single method of teaching repetition, over time, leading to young children's enthusiasm and interest in learning to reduce, more and more do not like to participate in and learn to think, the teaching of cognitive aspects of the requirements, experience and perception of experience, mechanical repetition, rote memorization, ignoring the enhancement of young children's aesthetic interest and ability. Either a handful of eyebrows and beard, a variety of methods, the surface of the lively atmosphere, the end of the classroom children difficult to distinguish between the main focus, the final effect is very little.

Two, in the early childhood language teaching to cultivate innovative thinking

Cultivate innovative thinking, should be good at using a variety of different ways of thinking. Practice shows that different ways of thinking have different effects on innovation. The shortcomings of our traditional education lies precisely in the neglect of the cultivation of young children's creativity, adults always decide the eyes of young children from their own perspective, adults in ordinary life always "kindly" stifle young children's creative motivation and creative consciousness, in fact, in the teaching of young children's language, the teacher should be back to basics to return to the role of young children!

The most common mistake teachers make in early childhood language teaching is to educate young children to memorize existing knowledge rather than educate them to use their own minds to create, unaware that this "ducking" teaching makes children a container without discernment, but our children are not containers, and even more so, they are not loaded with knowledge. But our children are not containers, let alone rigid tools for loading knowledge. We should overcome the shortcomings of traditional language teaching, innovative language teaching mode, effectively cultivate young children's creative thinking ability, which I have made some attempts from the following aspects:

(a) Carefully select materials to stimulate young children's creative thinking in the form of novel language performances

Educational psychology tells us that young children's interest in learning depends on the choice of language teaching materials, interesting content can stimulate young children's creative thinking. The choice of interesting content can stimulate children's motivation to learn, and at the same time increase their desire to tell the story. Teachers should not only choose content that is familiar to the children, but also eliminate the use of a single dull teaching material, only in this way can the children to compare and choose, so as to tell a creative storyline.

Selecting classroom materials that are of interest to young children and conveying them in the form of novel language performances. For example, the choice of suitable for young children's network animation clips, through the play, the children perform and talk about the animated clips, in the hearing and seeing to do the sensory interaction, so that the children dare to say can say will say, dare to create their own expression, so that the teaching activities carried out sound and colorful, young children in the novel creative activities in the interest of a lot of people, the psychology of also get great satisfaction.

The development of language performance activities for young children is to provide a formal use of language, can cultivate young children in the collective occasions to express their own views on things. In the practice of language performance teaching, I found that the children's thinking ability has been opened up, and their language expression, imagination and creativity have been greatly improved.

(2) Careful design, scientific methods and forms of training young children's creative thinking

A great deal of teaching experience tells us that teachers should adopt training methods and forms that break through the inertia of young children's thinking in language teaching activities. Edison said that we should observe the novel ideas that others use in reaching success, and only by doing so can we generate unique ideas when solving problems. Creative thinking is an important support for divergent thinking, in the early childhood period, the most rapid development of intelligence, this time to strengthen the training of young children's divergent thinking, can broaden the thinking of young children.

In language teaching activities, I often use the method of continuing the storyline to develop children's divergent thinking. For example, after telling the children the fairy tale of the Princess Pea, I asked each child to continue the story, give play to their imagination, the children's interest in language expression is very high, and in the oral expression of the formation of interaction, collision of many fresh creative thinking. Children in this class is very active, have to put forward their own ideas, open up the idea of creating a story, and at the same time improve the level of language expression.

Life is the source of language, rich outdoor life, can provide good material for the language of young children. Such as I took the children to participate in the cultural performance competition, I will let the children one by one review each program, the children through the review, not only the language ability to improve, but also the ability to discern, creative thinking ability has also been improved.

(C) do innovative discovery-type teacher, guide the development of young children creative thinking

do innovative discovery-type teacher, guide the development of young children creative thinking, improve self-teaching ability, dare to adopt a new method of new ideas. Teaching creative thinking training, not do not prepare for the class, on the contrary, due to the teaching process requires teachers and students **** the same brainstorming, teachers will face more intellectual challenges, therefore, as a teacher, we must continue to acquire new knowledge, and constantly enrich themselves, to be a knowledgeable teacher, in order to be more effective in the organization of teaching activities to improve the level of teaching to achieve the cultivation of young children's creative thinking. The purpose of this is to improve the level of teaching and to achieve the goal of cultivating creative thinking in children.

In language teaching activities, a failed teacher plays the role of indoctrination, while a successful teacher is a guiding inspiration. A good teacher will always use vivid and graphic teaching language, as well as graphic teaching aids, according to the age characteristics of the children, to create vivid and interesting scenes, so as to let the children describe and perceive the images more intuitively, and then expand the contents through free imagination. Teachers should not impose their own ideas on children's different opinions, and should not hurt children's self-esteem. An innovative teacher knows how to tolerate and guide, and the essence of education is to let children become who they are, not who they are in the eyes of the teacher.

(D) Compensate for each other by using various methods to carry out all-round thinking innovation training

In order to cultivate innovative thinking in early childhood language teaching activities, the first thing we need to do is to break through the inertia of young children's thinking, so that the children can freely imagine without being restricted to a certain point, line, surface and body. Make up for each other using a variety of methods for all-round thinking innovation training, which requires the development of young children's convergent thinking, divergent thinking, intuitive thinking.

Aggregative thinking, also known as homogeneous thinking, centralized thinking, is a kind of creative thinking, is the problem of providing a variety of information to focus on a correct or best answer to the thinking. I often give the children some descriptions in my teaching and let them discuss and answer orally based on the descriptions, which exercises their language skills and improves creative thinking.

And divergent thinking is a kind of open thinking, is a kind of creative thinking. Divergent thinking training broadens the thinking of young children and enhances the fluency, adaptability and uniqueness of their thinking development. I often provide children with some open-ended questions in teaching, such as what happens when the tadpole finds its mother, so that children can spread the wings of imagination to think, the effect is very good.

Intuitive thinking is the thinking that quickly makes reasonable guesses, assumptions, or sudden realizations about the answers to questions without gradual analysis. The famous psychologist Piaget said: "Children's thinking begins with action, cut off the link between action and thinking, thinking can not be developed". In fact, in classroom teaching, intuitive thinking is the most common exercise children do, which is also the most relevant to children's lives, so the classroom atmosphere is very active.

Teachers in the classroom a variety of modes of thinking, flexible use of multiple perspectives to ask questions, so that the children's intelligence to get the maximum development, problem-solving ability to get the maximum improvement. Just as the famous educator Mr. Tao Xingzhi advocated the "differences in the same, differences in the same" method of thinking, we have to find the best in the children, not to limit them to the school's rules and regulations, to encourage children to work independently - to create.

In short, teachers should be good at language teaching to explore educational resources, the development of a variety of methods, based on theory but not subject to theory, to seize the interests of young children, is committed to cultivating young children to say more, think more, think more, is committed to cultivating young children's ability to think creatively, so that the language into a leaf thinking into a flower to grow the results of our early childhood education into a real education.