The "Art Teaching Standards" of the National Compulsory Education (Curriculum Teaching Standards) clearly states: "Through art teaching, students' observation ability, image memory ability, imagination ability and creative ability are cultivated." Cultivate students' Imagination is one of the four abilities. As long as imagination improves, students' creative inspiration will continue to increase. With the rapid development of science and technology, we are likely to turn these scientific imaginations into reality and cultivate more innovative talents for the motherland. Therefore, we should start from children's physical and mental characteristics, get close to life, stimulate creative desire, expand thinking space, make correct evaluations, pay attention to the process, and give children artistic space for imagination. So, how to improve students' imagination? I think we should start from the following aspects: 1. Increase emotional education and inspire students' imagination. The new "Curriculum Standards" proposes to "strengthen the comprehensiveness and exploratory nature of learning activities, pay attention to the close connection between art courses and students' life experience, so that students can improve their imagination and creativity, and improve their aesthetic awareness and aesthetic ability in positive emotional experiences. Enhance the love and sense of responsibility for nature and human society, and develop the desire and ability to create a better life. “Life is rich and colorful, with characters of different personalities, beautiful and poetic scenery, and lively and lovely animals. But only characters have typical emotional tendencies and personality traits. We can judge the characteristics of characters through their varied facial expressions and body movements. At this point, we can guide students to transplant these different expressions and movements to animals and plants. When conducting the lesson "Plants in Space", I first asked the students to collect some encyclopedia knowledge. For example, pitcher plants eat small insects, and mimosa plants shrink their leaves when touched. Then let the students answer what will happen to the plants in the magical space? Students can think of singing trees, smiling flowers, big trees shaped like octopuses, the sap in the trees can be squeezed to make drinks, etc. based on the pictures the teacher asked them to see. Plants have emotions like humans, and students create with these beautiful emotions, making art classes both vivid and varied. 2. Pay attention to the training of divergent thinking and expand students’ imagination. Everything in the world is connected. If it can be summarized as geometric characteristics, there are circles, rectangles, rhombuses, etc. Only with the difference in shape can the appearance of objects be distinguished. Divergent thinking refers to associating one aspect of things to multiple aspects. Teachers' training of students' divergent thinking is conducive to improving their professional reasoning ability, and their mental flexibility is greatly improved. Through comprehensive learning and inquiry learning, students are guided to explore and discover in specific situations, find connections between different knowledge, develop comprehensive practical abilities, and creatively solve problems. 3. Use various forms to cultivate students’ imagination. Teachers should guide students to feel in many aspects, experience it wholeheartedly, and fully mobilize their vision, hearing, and touch to enrich their imagination. In art activities, I often combine art activities with activities in various fields to stimulate students' emotional experience, let students listen to music and paint, and combine painting with music, prose, stories, and poetry to mobilize students' hearing. Activate children's imagination based on the associations and imaginations they hear. 4. Practical activities create materials to improve imagination. Teachers encourage students to participate in more extracurricular practical activities, such as visiting art galleries, taking pottery handicraft classes, housework, physical exercise, theatrical performances, traveling, etc. Let students gain rich image understanding from various channels and accumulate painting materials, thereby enriching their imagination and laying a solid foundation for creation. Only when the horizons are expanded can the imagination continue to develop.
5. Positive evaluation methods promote students’ free development of imagination. The special psychological characteristics of primary school students determine that they attach great importance to teachers' evaluation of them. First of all, I think we should encourage the uniqueness of their works, such as beautiful colors, bright colors, and obvious contrasts. Or the composition is full and atmospheric, the brushwork is vivid and contagious, etc. We first appreciate this work from the perspective of students, praising the details without pursuing the perfection of the picture, so that students can experience the joy of success. First let the student explain his unique ideas, and then the student will comment on his painting. This of course requires training the student's ability to evaluate and appreciate the work, and finally the teacher will make comments and supplements. In this way, the comments between students and teachers and students promote the active atmosphere of the classroom and students' understanding of other people's paintings. We also need to provide children with a space to display their works, guide students to communicate with each other, appreciate each other, evaluate each other, encourage each other, and improve together, so that they can experience the joy of success. Under the guidance of new teaching concepts and teaching methods, through their continuous practice, students' desire to explore new knowledge has been strengthened, and their performance has become bolder, more active, and more proactive. Students' imagination and innovation abilities have also been improved. Improvements to varying degrees. Moreover, many students use their spare time to perform artistic expressions after class, further extending art education. Only by knowing how to respect children's personality development, fully understanding children's growth characteristics, and updating our own educational concepts along with the new curriculum reform trend can we make primary school art education develop faster and make greater progress. .