Key words: quality, interest, innovation and efficiency Introduction Junior high school students are at an important turning point in their lives, and their world outlook and values are beginning to take shape and gradually turn to adults. Music education is an important part of quality education in middle schools, which plays an irreplaceable role in the formation of students' ideological and moral character, intelligence, emotion and physical and mental health. However, it is an urgent duty for music teachers to cultivate students' interest in music. Then, as a music teacher, how can we better make students like music and classes?
First, the importance of music education
(A) Music education and ideological and moral quality
Among people's basic qualities, ideological and moral quality is the most important quality. The formation of high moral quality of middle school students and the establishment of outlook on life and world need careful cultivation and shaping, and music education is an important means to cultivate moral quality. Xunzi believes that music can be healthy, enlightened and beautiful. Indeed, beautiful and noble music contains subtle noble sentiments, which can inspire, purify and sublimate students' spirit, change students' thoughts, morality, character, sentiment and cultivation, and cultivate a moral emotion and conscious moral belief with clear love and hatred.
(B) Music education and emotional quality
In music education activities, we should pay attention to cultivating students' emotional quality, so that students' personality and personality can develop healthily and harmoniously. Music education is the shaping of soul, the cultivation of emotion, the development of personality, and a good helper to cultivate students' non-intellectual factors such as emotion, thinking, interest, temperament, will and perseverance. Music is the most expressive art with strong appeal and attraction. Beautiful and healthy music often makes people feel noble, just and sublimated, which makes people full of hope and pursuit of life, love life, love life and love the whole world, and enhance their self-confidence and strength in struggle. Music appreciation, instrumental performance and song singing in music education can develop students' thinking in images, acquire the ideas and artistic conception expressed by music and cultivate their emotions through infinite imagination and association. For example, playing music or performing programs, in the music practice of continuous training, students not only learn music skills and techniques, but also cultivate their tenacious personality of hard work and perseverance when encountering difficulties and setbacks, thus forming a tenacious emotional quality. This quality will make them have a high sense of self-awareness and responsibility for learning, and make students think, study and survive, which will be of great help to their future career and life.
(C) Music education and intellectual quality
Dutch educator Herbert Zipper said: Every child should receive the most basic music education, and music education is the best way to develop human intelligence. Modern neuroscientists believe that the left brain has the function of logical thinking and the right brain has the function of thinking in images. The right brain is often called the musical brain. The balanced development of the left and right brain in music education plays an indelible role in developing the right brain, developing people's thinking in images and creativity, and improving people's intellectual quality.
In fact, many scientists, thinkers, politicians and writers at all times and all over the world are music lovers, such as Confucius, Marx and Lenin. And the urging effect of music on people's consciousness and death has been magically reflected in them. In school music education, such as instrumental music performance, the coordination of hands, brain, eyes and ears can not only improve the brain's reaction ability and the sensitivity of ears and hands, but also improve students' understanding, observation, memory, imagination and creativity while improving their music literacy. The more complex, flexible and skillful finger movements are when playing, the greater the stimulation to the brain nervous system, thus making the brain more sensitive and smarter. Music education cultivates students' thinking ability and creative ability, which is more conducive to students' learning scientific and cultural knowledge and lays a good foundation for cultivating students' intelligent quality.
(D) Music education and physical and mental health quality
Scientific practice has proved that music can improve health and treat diseases. Students' study and life at school are tense and busy. If we can let them listen to relaxed and happy music between classes, it will help them relax their brains and concentrate more in class, thus improving their learning efficiency.
In a word, music education is one of the important ways of quality education in middle schools, and it is not dispensable. Paying attention to middle school music education is the key to make students' comprehensive quality develop in an all-round, free and all-round way; To realize the modernization of education, it is the key to train talents for cross-century construction.
In my teaching career, I have met many students who are not interested in music learning. How to stimulate their interest in learning has become an unavoidable problem for me. I know that interest is the best teacher. When students are interested in learning music, they will have a strong demand to learn music, and actively engage in learning, and no longer feel that learning music is a burden or a boring thing. So how to improve students' interest in learning music, I summed up some experiences:
(A) infect students with beautiful teacher love.
As the saying goes: learn from your teacher and believe in it. Generally speaking, students often like a subject taught by a teacher because they like him. If every teacher has this charm, then students will be happy in their studies. Where does this charm come from? I think teachers must respect and care for every student, be good at discovering students' little progress, and be good at shortening the gap between teachers and students with kind eyes, subtle movements, cordial attitude and enthusiastic praise, so as to cultivate students' self-confidence. Then students will love and respect their teachers and even fall in love with the courses you teach. If students have no feelings for a teacher and the relationship between teachers and students is not harmonious, they will not be interested in this course, then students' interest in this course will be suppressed. In addition, teachers should have rich knowledge and superb teaching art to attract students, meet their moral and spiritual needs, make them full of strong interest in learning materials, appreciate, taste and think, and get enlightenment from all aspects. Teachers should also love the subjects they teach, dig deep into the teaching materials and study the psychological development of junior high school students, and teach in the most concise and infectious language, so that the teaching content becomes the interest center of teachers and students, thus effectively improving students' interest in learning.
(2) Encourage students with positive evaluation.
Everyone is eager for success, success can give people confidence, and success can promote people's struggle and enterprising. In teaching activities, teachers should affirm and encourage students in time to stimulate their confidence in learning music. Positive evaluation is a good medicine, almost everyone likes to be praised, and external evaluation is often indispensable to stimulate or maintain interest in learning. Especially when students have no confidence, our teachers should encourage them in time and give them the greatest help. As long as students make a little progress, they will be affirmed, and this encouragement is not only in the classroom, but also reflected in students' extracurricular interest activities.
(C) to inspire students with excellent pop music
Junior high school students have a strong desire and ability to imitate, and students' interest in music is closely related to the music works they are exposed to. Most junior high school students prefer the music that is popular now. The appreciation songs in our music textbooks are all selected from a large number of traditional excellent works, which are not contemporary enough and have a certain distance from the music style that our students are exposed to now. Therefore, teachers should provide students with more excellent pop music works in order to better enhance students' interest. For example, students like Jay Chou very much, so let's not deny him. His song Snail was once absorbed by Shanghai as a campus song. We can educate students to be practical people step by step through the snail spirit. In addition, what is worthy of students' trust and admiration is the professional quality of teachers themselves. Teachers show students through various performances or personal performances, which will not only make students feel realistic, but also establish the prestige of teachers. Because your image is worth learning and learning from, students will worship you, and then be influenced and infected by you, feeling that they are learning from the teacher.
(D) Set questions to let students think in learning music and stimulate their interest in learning.
In the class of appreciating the reorganization of rivers and mountains to be young, I first set up a few small questions for students to find the answers in appreciation, such as: Why the song sings a thousand miles of light and hates the sky to burn the nine cities, which shows how people feel to see why people don't go home and why the land of flowers on a full moon night is not peaceful. I let the students discuss, and the whole classroom atmosphere is very active. Sometimes I divide a few small problems into several groups, and each group chooses a representative to speak in front of a large group of people, which not only exercises their minds. At this time, teachers should carry out patriotic education in time, so that students can truly appreciate the hard-won life, cherish precious time, study hard, and aspire to become useful talents for the motherland in the future.
(E) Modern teaching methods to assist students.
Modern auxiliary teaching methods mainly include: multimedia equipment, video editing, microcomputer and so on. Appreciation course in music course is an essential course to improve students' aesthetic ability and level and cultivate students' sentiment by appreciating excellent music works. It is very important whether teachers can provide students with more other works by the same composer and satisfy the appreciation taste and level of most students. However, most school textbooks simply cannot meet this demand, and network resources can greatly make up for this deficiency. Teachers can collect all kinds of works through the network and arrange them for students to enjoy, which can effectively expand students' horizons, improve students' interest and develop their aesthetic ability.
(6) Unite students in the form of group cooperation.
Group cooperative learning refers to a form of teaching organization in which students are divided into several groups according to their hobbies or knowledge level, and then studied in groups. Its advantage is that it can greatly stimulate students' interest in learning, give full play to the initiative of all students, gather the wisdom of all students, and make students' advantages and disadvantages complement each other, thus achieving the best classroom teaching effect. In the classroom, students can freely form study groups, and they can freely discuss and choose the best scheme or answer, whether in appreciation class or singing class. After class, teachers or music class representatives can organize music interest groups, explore music creation activities beyond the curriculum requirements through the guidance of teachers and students' free activities, expand students' thinking and cognition, and cultivate students' sense of unity and cooperation. Modern society needs more and more people with strong sense of unity and cooperation, which can not be obtained casually. They need to be cultivated slowly in people's life, and junior high school is an important stage of life, so it is every teacher's unshirkable responsibility to cultivate students' unity spirit and collective consciousness. In a word, interest is a tendentious psychological feature. When a person is interested in something, he will actively, actively and persistently explore it.
Zankov believes that interest is a catalyst for developing intelligence. Practice has proved that students will be tired of learning if they have no strong interest in learning. If you are not fascinated by interest, you will not be inspired, let alone creative thinking. Therefore, in the process of music teaching, teachers should first stimulate students' strong desire to explore. Secondly, in order to stimulate students' cognitive interest, teachers must love the subjects they teach and work hard to make them become their own interest centers, thus effectively stimulating students' cognitive interest. With strong interest, students' spirit will be rich, and their thinking will be flexible and fluent.
3. Conclusion The process of music education is also the process of intellectual education. There are many ways to cultivate students' interest in music. Only by attaching importance to the cultivation of music interest can music teaching be completed smoothly and better, students can truly feel and embody beauty, and teachers can truly achieve the purpose of educating people.