1. Development and utilization of on-campus curriculum resources
1. Teachers and students make good use of library materials together. To give a high-quality art class, teachers need to do a lot of preparation work before class, and these require rich art education resources. For example, when teaching Chinese painting, I went to the library to find books on this subject, as well as some VCD films for lesson preparation and class. In the past two years, in order to create a provincial experimental primary school, our school has basically equipped some hardware facilities. This greatly facilitates my art teaching work. There are more books in the school library, and the student borrowing system is functioning normally. When the next art class requires students to know what knowledge, I will guide them in advance to borrow relevant books from the library. For example, in the appreciation class, I ask students to find relevant information on their own, so that more students will speak actively in class, which greatly improves class efficiency.
2． Reasonable use of school windows and corridors. Art works can beautify the campus environment and create a good artistic atmosphere. Our school has display windows and an art room. The display window will be updated every issue, and a column for exhibition of outstanding children's art works will be opened, including Chinese paintings, handicrafts, and drawings. Students will see it after class, which greatly improves students' interest. Our school’s hallways also have excellent student work scanned by an advertising company so that students can see it as they go up and down the stairs. Secondly, a picture frame is arranged in front of each classroom with children's excellent art works posted inside, so as to improve the art learning atmosphere in the school.
The art content in our art room is even richer, including paper-cutting, clay sculptures, famous paintings... Students will improve faster when they draw in such an art classroom. The school not only displays outstanding art works by students, but also displays works by art teachers, including oil paintings, traditional Chinese paintings, etc. In our dance room, there are calligraphy works written by teachers. Every time students enter the dance room, they will be influenced by art.
3. Equipped with dedicated art classrooms. Schools must have dedicated art classrooms, and schools with conditions can have multiple dedicated classrooms. Whenever there are paper engraving, Chinese painting, and handicraft classes, I usually take the students to the art classroom, because the art classroom has complete water and electricity. The table is large and suitable for students to draw large pictures, such as Chinese painting. It is convenient for students to use water, which greatly facilitates students' art class learning.
The art room can also be used as a venue for art interest groups. Our art room has plaster geometry, plaster statues, easels, etc., which provides good conditions for improving the art level of the overall students in our school.
4． Utilize educational resources across a variety of disciplines. For example, connect art with other subjects, especially sister arts such as literature, music, calligraphy, etc. Art is interlinked, which means we cannot turn art classes into simple classes. For example, when I taught the lesson "Point, Line, Surface" in the lower grades, after I finished talking about the characteristics of lines, I played some melodic songs to let What students feel music expresses are also lines, but in different forms. Students understand from an early age that there are interconnections between subjects. Stones from other mountains can attack jade. When thinking about a problem, we must understand it organically.
2. Development and utilization of off-campus course resources
1. Resources for living facilities, environment and social practice activities. Art teachers should make full use of local cultural buildings and residential buildings as teaching resources. At the same time, environmental art and public facilities will be included in art teaching. For example, in a design class, ask students to pay attention to store billboards on the way home. This allows students to learn basic art knowledge and at the same time understand that art must ultimately serve life and become practical art. Another example is when teaching "Picturesque Scenery" to senior students, you can take students out of the classroom to experience patches of grassland, patches of woods, river bends, rows of roofs... In this way, from inside the classroom to outside the classroom, it is even more exciting. Lively art class. In terms of environmental design teaching, because our Yudong Town happened to have a leisure fishing city built, I took the students to visit there. There are rivers, pavilions, and winding corridors, and the scenery is very good. This allows students to experience the beautiful scenery and learn environmental design knowledge at the same time. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
There is a Dongyue Temple in our town. Because it is not far from us, the school often organizes students to visit it. When I asked the Chinese teacher to ask the students to write travel notes, I also assigned art homework to let the students record their visit in the form of pictures.
Every year, the school organizes some students to go to our local primary and secondary education bases and to participate in social practice activities at Happy Forest Villa. Whenever there is an activity in this area, I will assign drawing homework before the activity. Usually children always say that they don’t know what to draw, but such practical activities can give them a theme to draw. Just like a painter, if you want to create paintings with certain ideas, you must collect more styles from life. The same is true for children's paintings. Although children's paintings are mainly based on imagination, the faces drawn based on imagination alone are pale and weak.
2． Cultural relics resources and natural environment resources. Our town is a thousand-year-old town with a long history, also known as Fengcheng. Now people call it "Zhouzhuang" in northern Jiangsu. This year our town was rated as a provincial cultural relic protection unit. In art teaching, I often use this content to conduct life drawing classes for students. For example, when teaching the lesson "Old Houses" to the third grade, I took the whole class to visit the old streets and asked them to sketch from life while learning about the historical stories of our town. The students completed their homework very well, and I also organized the students to hold an art exhibition at school with the theme of "Beauty of Hometown".
Of course, the natural environment is also a good resource. When teaching the class "Into Nature" to the first grade, I took the students out of the classroom to feel the beauty of nature while I was explaining. Blue sky, white clouds, clear river water... and then return to class, so that students can express their own feelings on paper through brushes and complete the learning tasks with the highest quality.
Similarly, when teaching Chinese tree painting to middle and high school students, students are also asked to first see what trees in life look like. For example, touch the tree with your own hands to feel its texture, different leaves, and different shapes... Then combine some of the pen-using methods taught in the class, so that students' feelings will be more real. and profound.
3. Arts venue resources. The town where I live has produced many artistic talents. Not far from the school lives an old teacher who is a member of the Provincial Book Association. He opened his own calligraphy studio. When I read about Chinese painting and calligraphy, I took my students to visit his studio. Let students understand the principle that calligraphy and painting have the same origin, as well as relevant knowledge of painting materials such as pens, inks, paper, and inkstones, and at the same time let them feel the artist's dedication to art.
3. Information resources
With the development of the Internet, art teaching should develop and utilize information-based art course resources according to the school’s favorable conditions. Use computers, projectors and other facilities to make information resources more convenient to use and develop.
Art teachers should use the Internet to continuously obtain information about art education, understand new art education ideas, and change their teaching methods. Teachers can use the Internet to make students' works into web pages, and let experts evaluate them through the Internet. At the same time, artistic exchanges between students and schools can be carried out. Teachers can also build a "virtual studio" through the Internet so that students can learn more art knowledge in this studio. In short, the utilization and development of information resources can make art teaching more lively and vivid.