First, the significance of middle school art education
Art is a beautiful art, a person's perception of life and the pursuit of beautiful things. The purpose of middle school art education is not to cultivate painters, but to cultivate students' moral consciousness, aesthetic taste, cognitive ability and will quality. The influence of art on people is subtle, not overnight. Long-term artistic edification can make people have outstanding temperament, elegant speech and civilized behavior. Laval Smith said in the article "Artistic Feeling and Aesthetic Education": "By improving students' aesthetic comprehension, they can better grasp the meaning of art and fully realize its potential significance, thus enriching their lives and making their lives more valuable. "Mr. Feng Zikai, a famous art educator and cartoonist in China, once said:" I teach art, and I advocate not seeking direct effects, but paying attention to indirect effects; Students are not required to make direct and useful paintings, but to cultivate their love for beauty. You can handle life with a heart like painting. Handle life well, life will be beautified, and the world will be peaceful. This is the greatest utility of art. "
Second, the middle school art education confusion and difficulties
As an art course, art is of great significance in the history of human development and human artistic creation. Art class is also a compulsory basic course in ordinary primary and secondary schools in China, especially in the context of promoting quality education. Today, science and technology and culture are equally important, school education should respect art education, but this is not the case.
First, the influence of society and school environment. In China's junior high school education and teaching, due to the influence of people's thinking habits and examination system, society and schools still rely on the score lever to determine the teaching results, while the art curriculum as a quality education has not been paid attention to in essence, so that many times the art curriculum makes way for other examination subjects, and the art discipline is marginalized.
Second, the constraints of economic reasons. Limited by objective economic conditions, the school has little investment in art education, insufficient art teaching conditions, and lack of support from venues, equipment and funds, which leads to many art courses not being carried out normally.
Third, human factors. At present, the research on the cultivation of young people's aesthetic consciousness is relatively weak in junior high school art education and teaching in China, and the pressure of further study makes many students have no time to take care of art courses. As for teachers, due to the neglect of subjects, teachers are not enthusiastic and lack enthusiasm for their work. In addition, many teachers' teaching methods and concepts are traditional, teaching is limited to textbooks, knowledge expansion is not enough, and modern teaching methods cannot be used. This makes the original colorful art classroom monotonous.
Third, implement art education in middle schools.
1. Art teaching is closely integrated with students' real life.
The purpose of education is to live a better life, and the content of art classroom learning should be close to students' lives. Teachers should guide students to understand art from life, connect artistic works with real life, and let students learn to discover beauty and create beauty from life. This is the significance of students' study of art. In art teaching, students should not blindly stick to the subject matter stipulated in textbooks, but should look for tools and materials that can be used in life according to their own reality, make use of the situation, teach students in accordance with their aptitude, and reasonably complete teaching tasks in combination with classroom content.
2. Open the classroom activity space and guide students to nature.
Beautiful nature is all-encompassing, and it is fertile ground for art to take root and sprout. The pleasant scenery provides us with creative materials, the vast world allows us to think freely, and the natural changes give us artistic inspiration. Only by returning to nature can we find the truth of art, and such works will have more vitality. On sunny days in spring, I will organize students to walk out of the classroom and sketch on campus, so that they can observe the rhythm of life, learn to express it in artistic language, and experience the new meaning given to art by nature.
3. Cultivation of students' creativity
Einstein famously said: "Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited, and imagination sums up everything in the world, promotes progress and is the source of knowledge evolution." Compared with other disciplines, the most prominent feature of art class is the cultivation of students' creativity. Art does not need the same imitation, but breaks through the tradition and dares to innovate. Paying attention to blind plagiarism in class will imprison students' perception and reduce their creativity. Therefore, I often encourage them to boldly try novel and unique painting methods to tap students' potential, which is also in line with the goal of cultivating innovative talents that China is now vigorously advocating.
4. Adopt diversified evaluation methods
Evaluation plays a guiding role in art teaching. Proper evaluation can stimulate the interest in learning and the desire to create, and make the work better. In the evaluation mode, we should change the single evaluation mode, enrich the evaluation means, pay more attention to the process evaluation rather than the result evaluation, and guide students to find problems in time, make up for deficiencies and give full play to their specialties.
Ron Feeder, an American educator, said: "The main contribution of art education to our education system and society is to emphasize the potential of individual and self-creation, especially that art can harmoniously integrate everything in the process of growth and create healthy people." It can be seen that art education affects students' moral concept and aesthetic taste, and promotes students' intellectual development, which plays an irreplaceable role in other disciplines. As an art teacher, we should feel the pressure on our shoulders, make full use of our knowledge and ability and make contributions to the development of aesthetic education.