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Once I read an article to the effect that China has had a lot of scientific inventions from ancient times to the present day and quite a number of scientists have emerged, but none of the Nobel Prize winners is a native Chinese scientist. Chinese students have won many international Olympic competitions, but so far no one has won a Nobel Prize. As an educator, I can't help but ponder y what has caused such a situation. I think this may have a lot to do with the current situation of education in China. The author has been engaged in education for many years and has some small experience. Although the slogan of quality education has been shouted for many years, but the real quality of education to understand the essence, through, the implementation of the people but very few stars. To put it bluntly, scientific research relies on the power of innovation, and the new China 60 years of education, from early childhood education to higher education are rote memorization, remember the only standard answer to the test education, which caused a lot of high scores and low ability of the status quo, which is certainly not the purpose of our education.

The fundamental purpose of education should be to cultivate human ability, and among the various abilities, the cultivation of creativity is obviously quite important to the progress of the whole society. And the cultivation of human creativity must start from the baby. In the quality education of young children, the cultivation of creativity has become an urgent research issue for modern educators, because human creativity depends largely on early development. Psychologists have found that every young child is born with a huge creative potential, as long as the development of timely and scientific, let children practice and explore, the creativity of young children will develop in a positive attitude. Mr. Tao Xingzhi also said, "After we have discovered that children are creative and realized that they are creative, we must further liberate their creativity". Fortunately, many people today have realized the importance of fostering creativity in young children. As an early childhood teacher - the child's enlightenment teacher, but also the implementation of quality education for young children, it is all the more important to pay attention to the cultivation of creativity for young children in their daily lives.

The youngest children have the ability to think, have their own opinions and pursuits, have the curiosity of knowledge, the need to create, which is the demand of the development of young children's personality. Ignoring this developmental need of young children, it is easy to make young children's imagination and creativity is inhibited or weakened. The creative potential of young children is innate. In our daily work, we often hear children put forward a variety of issues, they are curious, they want to try everything, love to ask why, break the pot to ask the end, and it is with this curiosity, although their innovation in the eyes of adults is trivial or even childish and ridiculous, but this often innovative spirit of practice is rare (adult innovation is only occasional). The child's ability to innovate is very weak, but their potential to engage in innovation is very great, we have a responsibility to protect and tap.

Nowadays, although teachers pay more attention to the cultivation of young children's creative ability in their teaching activities, in actual teaching, there is often a situation in which young children just repeat their original experience and reproduce their original level, lacking imagination and innovation, which makes us just discuss a certain topic with young children at their original level when we conduct the "Young Children's Creative and Intelligent Games" program.

So how can teachers cultivate children's creative ability? Here are some rough understanding and experience from the following aspects.

One, we must create a relaxed and happy, safe and harmonious atmosphere

Imagine if the children live all day in a tense, depressing atmosphere will have the possibility of innovation? In the face of distrustful eyes, ears to hear the rough reprimand, the child will become frightened, panicked, worried, panicked, their brain sensibility will be reduced. Therefore, the atmosphere conducive to the cultivation of children's creative ability must be relaxed and pleasant, safe and harmonious. In the absence of psychological pressure, children will spontaneously revel in imaginative and innovative activities full of fun. For example, in kindergarten games, they will be unrestrained and relaxed, put on a white coat and pick up the earpiece as a doctor, gently build up with blocks, stacking various shapes. Exactly how to go to camp, create a good creative atmosphere to stimulate children's creative inspiration? I think we should start from the following aspects:

1, teachers should respect the children, including respect for the child's nature and psychological needs, do not all teachers say. To encourage children to participate in the discussion, to express their views, to give children the time and joy of full autonomy activities, only in this way can we effectively cultivate children's creative ability, and lay the foundation for children to have outstanding creative ability in the future.

2. More encouragement, less reprimand. When children encounter unexpected difficulties in the innovation process, they are very much in need of positive encouragement from adults and correct guidance. At this time, the teacher must not be unheard of, disdainful, and even when the head, this will not only be the child immature ideas blocked back, and will lose interest in innovation. Teachers should go deeper into it, organize the children, actively explore, find the reasons, and help solve the problem. When the child in the process of innovation in the wrong or do the wrong thing, the teacher can not be reprimanded, rude treatment, otherwise, you will be blocking the child's source of re-innovation.

3, provide children with safe and free space. Freedom and security is the formation of innovative atmosphere of the soil and climate, teachers should open up more of such a small world. To this end, we create various types of games in the area, from the name, color, layout, etc. as far as possible to make children feel warm, friendly, but also by putting colorful materials to encourage children to play, play a new way, new patterns, enhance the children's innovative activities on the sense of achievement and sense of pleasure.

4, protect the child's curiosity. Einstein said in his answer to why he had such a significant invention: "I have no special talent, but I like to explore the root of the problem." Visible, to protect the child's curious, inquisitive nature is so important. First of all, allow children to be "whimsical"; secondly, change the old concepts, de-emphasize the authority of adults, and correctly evaluate children. Again, teachers who cultivate creativity in young children should first develop their own creativity.

Teachers are the collaborators and guides of young children's learning activities. They should interact with young children in a caring, accepting and respectful manner, listen patiently, and try to understand young children's thoughts and feelings. Respecting individual differences in developmental levels, abilities, experiences, and learning styles, teachers should tailor their teaching to the needs of each individual and strive to make each child satisfied and successful. When teachers are in the process of developing their own creativity, they will understand more about the creativity of young children, be better able to encourage them to be creative, and find suitable ways to cultivate their creativity.

Two, must stimulate the child's creative consciousness and potential

The teacher speaks, the child listens; the teacher arranges, the child carries out; the teacher makes the rules, the child obeys the constraints; the teacher judges what is right and wrong, and the child obeys the verdict.......This teacher-centered model invariably stifles the children's most valuable This teacher-centered model inadvertently stifles children's most valuable creative ability. Therefore, we emphasize the development of young children themselves and the value of individual development. The cultivation of young children's innovative consciousness should focus on the process, i.e., young children's curiosity, inquisitiveness, strength and self-confidence, young children's attitude and enthusiasm for innovation, young children's interest in innovation and so on, rather than the pursuit of results. Focusing on the process of innovation is the first step in the cultivation of innovation ability.

The second step is that we should fully stimulate children's passion for innovation. How do we go about this step? Correctly treat the child in the innovation process of various problems, is the key to walk this step. Although the child is imaginative, but due to the limitations of the level of knowledge, lack of experience and unskilled operating skills, its innovation in the eyes of adults will seem childish, simple, but as long as the young children are full of interest, active exploration should be more praise, more tolerance, do not use adult thinking standards and vision to measure the child's innovation, we should be good at the use of language, the amazing power to choose a meaningful, positive, positive language! We need to use the amazing power of language and choose meaningful, positive and positive language, for example, we can say this: You have a great idea! You're awesome! That's so smart! You can try, continue to work hard, you will be successful and other concise language to the young children to send out hints, the teacher's encouragement and praise will greatly stimulate the child's desire and passion for innovation, encouragement and praise is the child to spread the wings of the imagination of the spirit of the driving force that can help young children to establish the belief that "I can also create". In the face of young children's curiosity, exploration and risk-taking behavior, teachers should be good at discovering, actively protect, never pour cold water or too much interference and restriction, otherwise it will stifle young children's passion for innovation, young children's passion for innovation can only be stimulated by adults in both bold and careful circumstances.

The third step is to be good at capturing the spark of innovation. In the teaching activities we often encounter such a situation: music activities, young children will create a shoe on the finger, or socks on the top of the head; Another example is in the painting teaching, a young child to draw the apple into a square, the teacher found that the teacher asked: "apples are round, why do you draw a square?" The toddler replied, "I saw my mom put the apple on the table at home, and when I was not careful, the apple rolled to the floor and broke, so I thought how nice it would be if the apple was square!" The teacher encouraged, "You are really good at using your brain, I wish you to cultivate square apples soon." Drawing an apple as a square is obviously out of touch with reality, but the teacher guides the children to tell the reason for drawing a square apple and encourages them to cultivate a square apple soon; they will give creative answers when answering the teacher's questions, but there is a distance from the teacher's standard answers. At this time, if the teacher can give a positive evaluation, praise the child's willingness to use their brains, praise the child's new and different, I believe that will greatly stimulate the child's inspiration, and timely capture the child's innovative spark. So in capturing the spark of innovation in young children, teachers should do: the correct treatment of children's questions, and even ridiculous questions, because the question itself shows that the child is thinking and study, teachers should be correctly guided; through the provision of books rich in fantasy color, semi-products of the game materials and carry out a multi-play and other activities to consciously train the child's imagination; let the child participate in more practical social activities to increase knowledge, broaden their horizons, because knowledge is the basis of all abilities, and to improve the quality of life. The reason for this is that knowledge is the basis of all abilities.

Three, must pay attention to innovation method

Once there is a sense of innovation and inspiration, must be realized through certain methods. Teach children a variety of innovative methods, so that they can establish a subjective, independent, dare to innovate methods for children's future learning or work are helpful. There are three most commonly used in kindergarten. First: Multiple play with one object. In sports games we often organize similar activities, such as: teachers will encourage children to use a circle to play a variety of patterns, rolling, throwing, jumping ...... one person to play or two to two cooperation, etc., this one-object multiple play not only can improve the children's interest in the activity, exercise, but also stimulate the desire for innovation. Second: combination method. Different combinations are also innovative. In our daily life, we are more familiar with building blocks, the same set of blocks, different combinations will change a variety of different shapes, children in the activities can really experience the fun of creating new "products". This shows that kindergartens can build blocks, arrange cans and other games to cultivate creativity. Third: association method. According to the usual life or study encountered in the incidental events, triggering creative inspiration, spread the wings of imagination, through association and a new breakthrough. Like Newton's deduction of gravity, Watt's invention of the steam engine, etc. are from the ordinary life of the little things that are not noticed to associate and form. It can be seen that the kindergarten should let the children think, try, do a do, take a look at, when to do the heart, at any time in the association. I often carry out the following activities such as: drawing associations. Teachers can draw triangles, let the children add their favorite points, lines, etc., and say like what; observation association. Teachers lead children to pick up fallen leaves, and intentionally guide children to use the leaves to spell patterns, give the leaves a certain image; another example is the teaching of origami "funny little man", "dog", "Pagoda", the teacher will be the children folded small pants, small lab coat, a small pavilion provided to the children, asked the question "what can you combine them into? Teachers leave enough time for children to use their brains and think about the problem, and encourage children to dare to solve the problem in a way that no one else has used before. After thinking, discussion and teacher's inspiration, the children can tell that they can put together funny man with little pants, little lab coat and little pavilion, they can put together hound dog with three little pants, and they can put together pagoda with many little pavilions ...... Through these activities, we can stimulate the children's creative intelligence.

The futurist Nabis said, "In a time of great change, we need creativity and innovation the most". In short, every young child is born with a huge potential for innovation, depending on how you find, dig, protect, which is also the current quality of education concerns. In the implementation of "quality education" project, and strive to cultivate innovative talents of this century today, as early childhood educators, in teaching should always strengthen the innovation education, and strive to make themselves active advocates of educational reform and actors, with innovative educational ideas to cultivate talents with innovative qualities. Let us *** with efforts to explore newer and better ways to improve the innovative ability of young children.