Content summary: Art education is the education of students’ basic artistic literacy through learning and using artistic activities. Assisting morality with art and virtue with beauty can help students solidify their good ideological and moral character and the formation of noble social sentiments. Strengthening art education in schools is a very important part of campus cultural construction. Comprehensively caring for the quality of the next generation, improving the quality of life, and cultivating artistic talents have become objective needs for economic development and social progress in this region.
Art education is the education of students’ basic artistic literacy through learning and using artistic activities. It mainly refers to the art courses stipulated in the national compulsory education curriculum plan (mainly music and art courses in primary schools) and the relevant art education content, means and methods in the teaching of other subjects. It also includes various art activities in schools and the campus art environment. Atmosphere etc. It is the simplest way to cultivate students' healthy and rich emotional world. It not only promotes the all-round development of people, but also promotes the full development of people's individuality and the perfection of personality. Assisting morality with art and virtue with beauty can help students solidify their good ideological and moral character and the formation of noble social sentiments. Strengthening art education in schools is a very important part of campus cultural construction.
The rural areas in this region have reached or are making great strides towards a well-off life. In these rural areas, with the improvement of people's material living standards, the requirements for spiritual and cultural life have also increased. Therefore, comprehensively caring about the quality of the next generation, improving the quality of life, and cultivating artistic talents have become objective needs for economic development and social progress in this region.
How to strengthen art education in rural schools? I think there are several effective ways.
1. Strengthen the construction of teaching staff.
The methods for building the teaching staff of art education in rural primary schools are different from those in urban primary schools. In addition to striving for upward efforts and taking the initiative to introduce teachers, they are more based on the town and take the road of on-the-job learning, research and military training. . First of all, we must recruit full-time teachers. For the full-time art teachers who are the leaders of art education, we must create opportunities for them to further their studies, assign them the task of training part-time teachers, and provide a performance stage to promote their rapid growth. The second is to train key teachers. Full-time and part-time art teachers are organized and trained to improve their art teaching skills by opening "weekend schools", "holiday schools" and conducting teaching competitions. Finally, we need to strengthen education on the purpose, significance, and functions of art education among all teachers, help them understand the content and methods of art education, and create a strong atmosphere that values ??art education on campus. Cultivate a group of interdisciplinary comprehensive teachers who are qualified to teach primary school music, art and other subjects, as well as teachers who can better combine art education with the teaching of other subjects.
2. Continuously improve art education equipment.
As society and the government attach great importance to education, and the activities of creating a strong educational county in this region are carried out, the educational conditions of our rural schools are no longer what they used to be, and the educational equipment is becoming increasingly perfect. Pianos and electronic keyboards are all available, and special classrooms for music, art, calligraphy, etc. are spacious and bright, and various art equipment are added every semester. In addition, rural schools should fully mobilize the enthusiasm of art teachers and encourage them to make some art teaching supplies suitable for their own teaching characteristics to supplement the shortage of teaching equipment. In addition, schools must actively strive for recognition and support from all walks of life and parents, invest more in improving equipment for art education, and create a material foundation for art education.
3. Reform the classroom teaching of art subjects.
Strictly implement education and teaching regulations, and provide music and art classes in accordance with art teaching goals and plan requirements. Reform teaching content. Teachers can appropriately sort out the current teaching materials and adopt methods of adding, deleting and merging to make the content of the teaching materials closer to the actual life of students and more relevant to life and the times. Deepen the reform of art education, strengthen art education research, and research and build dominant classroom teaching models. Use action research methods to build a lively classroom teaching model for music and art. We must also give full play to the role of audio-visual education media. Make full use of modern educational technology in classroom teaching to improve the effectiveness of classroom teaching. Make flexible use of a variety of other teaching methods. Various methods such as changing seating patterns, strengthening teaching democracy, and creating pleasant situations are used to stimulate students' interest in learning, improve learning efficiency, and continuously improve the quality of art subject teaching. Art education must also be infiltrated into the teaching of other subjects.
4. Strengthen and improve extracurricular art activities.
With the full launch of the new curriculum reform, rural primary schools have launched extracurricular art interest group activities for students to choose independently. For example, art education interest groups such as singing, painting, dancing, calligraphy, and instrumental music are set up in the lower grades. In the senior grades, students are required to basically master one or two skills. There are two forms of compulsory and elective courses. The compulsory courses include music, art, handicrafts, calligraphy and other courses stipulated in the national teaching plan; the elective art courses are mainly Chinese traditional art forms, such as instrumental music, dance, opera, and fine arts. , paper-cutting, calligraphy, chess, Go, etc., students can freely choose according to their own hobbies and talents. In addition, through works display, regular competitions, and services to society and life, art activities are made effective.
5. Create a good art education environment that promotes mutual promotion inside and outside the school.
Create a good art education atmosphere in the school. The main purpose is to create a good art education environment in the classroom and on campus. Through art education, students are edified by beauty, inspired to master true knowledge, cultivate true feelings, and learn to be real people. Not only music and art classes need to be reformed, teachers of all subjects must infiltrate art education into their teaching, but also infiltrate art education into the entire school life so that students can be infected by art. The four links of "class - tutoring - practice - reporting" have been established and implemented layer by layer with unremitting efforts. Classes hold an art exhibition every semester, and the school holds two art festivals every year, carrying out various forms of art activities such as music, dance, painting, and calligraphy. At the same time, the school also stipulates time for class meetings, film and television art appreciation and other activities. If conditions permit, outstanding artistic talents from outside the school can also be hired as instructors. In addition, students should be organized to actively participate in various county, city, provincial, and even national competitions to enhance confidence, exercise talents, and display talents in the competitions. Through art practice, students’ artistic interests and talents are developed and their spiritual lives are enriched. Schools should create an artistic environment. For example, students' calligraphy, art works and performance stills can be posted on the outer walls of school classrooms, corridors, and art-specific classrooms; the bells for class and after classes can be replaced by famous Chinese and foreign songs. Let students feel a strong artistic atmosphere as soon as they enter the campus, be influenced by art, stimulate their interest in art, and improve their artistic literacy. In addition, we must actively create a good art education environment outside school. The main purpose is to create a good art education environment for the community and students’ families and promote student development.
Although the environment, teachers, equipment, teaching methods, and students’ family education of rural primary school art education are inferior to those in urban primary schools, the starting point of rural primary school art education is not very high, but as long as we insist on starting from reality Let’s set out and take a path of art education that suits the reality of our rural primary schools. Art education in our rural schools will surely bloom with wonderful works, and play an immeasurable role in cultivating students' good aesthetic taste, promoting campus cultural construction, and vigorously promoting quality education!