How to Cultivate Children's Thinking in Language Activities

Creative thinking refers to original thinking, that is, thinking can not only reveal the essence and internal relations of objective things, but also guide people to obtain new knowledge or new explanations of unknown problems, thus producing novel and unprecedented thinking results. Children's creative education is the main theme of educational reform, and children's creativity has its unique essential characteristics. On the one hand, teachers need to correctly understand the basic connotation of children's creative education, on the other hand, parents need to establish children's educational concepts and create an environment conducive to children's creation, thus cultivating children's creative spirit. Early childhood is the fastest period of intellectual development. Children at this stage are full of energy, curiosity, thirst for knowledge and imagination, which is a good opportunity to cultivate creative thinking. We should seize this best opportunity, combine the characteristics of children's thinking, adopt appropriate methods in various fields, implement correct education, and make them develop better. Let me talk about how to cultivate creative thinking in educational activities: First, create creative thinking in teaching activities. 1. Creative cultivation in artistic activities. In art activities, we ask children to add pictures (we can add circles such as the sun, globe, panda and watermelon). ), complementary painting (square, semicircle, house, etc. ) and painting changes (theme paintings, poems, stickers, artists, etc.). When evaluating children's works, we don't look at them unilaterally, but pay attention to their creative consciousness. In the activity, children are encouraged to paint freely first, and then guided by teachers, so that children's paintings will be full of childlike interest. 2. Creative cultivation in language activities. Language activities are a world where children spread their colorful imagination wings. We cultivate and develop children's creative imagination through activities such as imitating poems, creating poems and continuing to write stories. Imitating the poem "Do you like summer?" By the large class of children, teachers first guide children to understand and feel the artistic conception of poetry, then encourage children to observe the summer in nature and experience its characteristics, and finally guide children to imitate the sentence structure in the original poem and express what they have observed and experienced. At this time, the child's imagination is particularly rich: "I like fan-shaped leaves in summer, which can fan the wind and enjoy the cool"; "I like small fish and water"; "I like running in summer, because there is no wind in summer and I can run very fast"; I like snails in summer; I like to wear skirts in summer; I like summer fruits, because summer fruits are especially sweet ... The teacher compiled a beautiful poem from what the children said, and here we can see that the children's speeches are extremely rich and full of creative sparks. 3. Cultivate creative thinking in scientific activities. In the future, some children will draw a reminder for the dustbin, and when they see who is littering, they will remind him to pick it up and throw it into the dustbin. Some children will install a camera for the dustbin. If someone litters, they will take pictures of him ... It is an important way to cultivate children's innovative consciousness and ability to connect things with real life. Everything in life, as long as we have the heart, can be the fuse that touches children's association, thus cultivating children's interests and habits in association and improving children's imagination and creativity. 4. Cultivate creative thinking in health activities. The development of children's creativity is also reflected in children's movements, because movement is the basic expression of all activities, and children's development cannot be separated from sports. The liveliness of children is the greatest opportunity to cultivate their creativity. Therefore, it is necessary to cultivate children's creative quality in health education activities. In organizing teaching, teachers should fully understand children's hobbies and flexibility of thinking, so that children can choose their own activities according to their own abilities and interests. Teachers should be good at observing children's breathing, face, sweating and so on. And specify the amount of exercise and time. Only by scientifically arranging the exercise process can they play a powerful role in fitness and promote the development of individual creative thinking. Second, teachers create creative space for children. 1. Actively create an equal and harmonious educational environment for children. Let children be in a relaxed, harmonious, equal and free environment, and let children's thinking always be in an open and active state, so as to cultivate children's positive attitude. When children's bizarre ideas transcend the objective reality, teachers should not use adult thinking mode to restrict or deny children, but should use scientific methods to guide them. For example, in art activities, the teacher saw a child draw an apple into a square. The teacher asked the child, "Is the apple round or square?" "Round." "Then why did you draw it as a square?" "I like the square, and the square won't roll down." At this time, the teacher immediately praised the child for being good at using his brain and encouraged him to become an agricultural scientist and cultivate square apples in the future. In such an environment, children get full respect and trust, get the desire to express themselves, and actively participate in the activities of exploration and thinking. 2. Allow children to communicate with each other and stimulate the thinking of their peers. Make use of opportunities to communicate with peers and adults to promote the innovation of children's thinking. Peer interaction is one of the important ways for children to learn. Peer communication and learning can promote the development of children's thinking. In communication, children will mobilize their existing experience and use language skills to solve practical problems in life. In the process of communication, both sides will choose strategies according to each other's attitudes and behaviors, and adjust their own language to communicate with others in order to achieve their own goals. Therefore, teachers should provide opportunities for children to communicate with their peers, so that children can feel the fun brought by language communication in communication and effectively improve their language ability. 3. Give children enough time and opportunities to give them a correct evaluation. Children can't gain enough experience by drawing a picture or collage a picture. They need to continue to manipulate materials and constantly develop their own thinking and emotions. It is for this reason that teachers should arrange enough time for children to participate in or leave activities of self-expression materials according to their own needs. When children engage in creative activities, teachers' effective evaluation can encourage children to continue creative activities and make them more enthusiastic about such activities. However, it is a great failure for teachers to evaluate children's creative products by guessing what children are creating, or letting children say what they are creating. This is because children's creative activities often can't think very carefully about what they want to express through these materials, although they try to create in this way, and no one may know this. Another mistake that teachers make when asking children to name their works is that teachers pay attention to children's works instead of the dynamic process of their creation. Third, parents should also create a creative environment for their children. A suitable family environment is an important factor in cultivating children's creativity. German scholar gottfried Heinert pointed out that parents are important factors to promote innovation, and a relaxed, unrestrained and lively atmosphere in the family is conducive to the development of innovation activities. In the process of children's growth, the influence of family education on children is very critical. In fact, many children's creative thinking has a wide range of performances in the family, but the bud of this development is sometimes ignored by parents. Therefore, inspiring parents to pay attention to the cultivation of children's creative thinking at home is an important educational environment for the full development of children's creative thinking. 1. Create a harmonious family atmosphere for children. A person's creativity is gradually cultivated in the living environment. People with strong creativity are generally naughty and dare to imagine boldly when they are young. Excessive majesty and coercion, too much interference and prohibition will inhibit children's personality and creativity and hinder the development of children's creativity. Parents should also stimulate their children's curiosity. Children are curious about things and observe them carefully, so as to find problems creatively in a large number of complex phenomena. You can also inspire children through various forms and cultivate their ability to draw inferences from others, thus activating their thinking. 2. Let children think independently. When encountering any problems, parents should let their children think actively and independently, which is very important to cultivate their creativity. Don't limit and deprive children of the opportunity to think and act independently. When children ask questions or use imagination to explain objective things, they should be actively induced to create conditions for children to give full play to their imagination. 4. Encourage children to be independent and ask more questions. To cultivate children's opinions, we must encourage them to pursue, explore and touch all kinds of things in their own way. Parents should let their children freely express their thoughts, feelings and wishes, and dare to put forward their own unique views and ideas. Every child likes encouragement and praise. Parents should learn to appreciate their children, encourage them more and say "you are really good", "very good" and "you have made progress". The diversified evaluation of children should be objective and fair, with positive incentives as the mainstay. When evaluating, don't always focus on the children's mistakes and failures, but pay attention to the process of creative activities, find the seeds of creation, and give positive affirmation. In the evaluation method, we should be targeted, give positive affirmation to children's activities and questions, and promote the development of children's creative thinking. In short, in order to cultivate children's creativity, teachers should try to be less involved, less disciplined, more open-minded and more open-minded. They should not care too much about the results of children's creation, but should emphasize the process of creation, create a free, safe and relaxed spiritual environment, give children more space and time for free expression, and make creative education truly implemented and achieve results.