2019 Educational Innovation 100｜Jingxin Primary School Aesthetics and Creative Arts Class built their own "open-air cafe"!

Breaking the convention of taking home one painting per person in art class, the art teacher of Jingxin Primary School led the children to use colored tape as media to create large-scale collective creations, allowing the children to "walk" into the scenery of famous paintings.

Prepared with colored tape, scissors, and triangular pyramids, the sixth-grade children of Jingxin Elementary School took off their shoes and "stepped" on the more than three-meter-long canvas. Some scissors tape is stuck on the triangular pyramid for later use, and some are responsible for "writing" on the canvas. The attentive expressions on each person's face and the sounds of tearing off tape gathered the children's enthusiasm for creation. They are copying Van Gogh's "Open-air Café" and want to complete a large tape collage "No matter how busy I am, I still want to have a drink with you" together.

Principal Tang Shangzhi believes that every campus space can be an environment for cultivating aesthetics. Therefore, he strongly supports the ideas and concepts of art teachers and hopes that aesthetic education can take root from an early age and cultivate it for a long time. Looking back at Jingxin Elementary School, it has been more than 20 years since the art curriculum innovation was carried out. The driving force behind it was the bravery of Xu Shenghui, the academic director. "When I first came to Jingxin, I hoped to adjust the method of art class." The traditional art class, namely painting class, was changed. Based on this idea, Jingxin Primary School’s art classes do not require textbooks or manufacturer’s material packages, but “self-made” aesthetic cultivation courses to cultivate children’s sense of “beauty”.

Before engaging in large-scale collective creation, the children used the original painting as a template and used the grid diagram to position themselves and compose the composition. Jingxin Primary School provides

The field space and interaction created by art, space and audience are the core value of Jingxin Primary School for the cultivation of aesthetics. Starting from the public art on campus, teachers hope that every corner can be a part of cultivating aesthetic education.

Art teacher Chen Huiyu shared that the development of collective creation started with ideas from children. "Some children proposed a similar collective creation. Our teacher thought this idea was good and made some modifications. Originally, each class worked on its own, but in the end we proposed six classes and 252 students worked together to create a relay." Brainstorming in the team In Henan Preparatory School, instead of displaying single pieces of art, the teachers decided to become creative art navigators and integrate creation into the environmental space, transforming the school into an art gallery without walls; and the children are the art gallery. little artist.

Before making "No matter how busy I am, I want to have a drink with you", the teachers first took the children to try their skills, starting with a small relay to create Van Gogh's "Sunflowers", allowing the children to understand each other through division of labor and cooperation. respect. The groups in the first class completed part of "Sunflower", and the groups in the next class had to complete "Sunflower" in the sea of ??flowers within the framework of the original picture.

"At first, the children would say, "Teacher - what did the previous class do - it didn't look like -" and we would say, "Huh? You can't criticize." Because after you finish, How can you guarantee that the next class will not criticize you for not doing well?" Xu Shenghui shared that in the art class of Jingxin Primary School, children are also taught to respect others. "I tell children to imagine the concept of a person's creation, 'Why did he do this?' Your original drawing is over there, and you can only find a way to face it."

And this time "Sunflower" The flower sea practice not only allows teachers to conduct trial operations for large-scale collective creations, but also allows the children to learn respect and make future productions smoother.

"After the child does this, will he remember the impasto method or impressionism in the future?" Xu Shenghui hopes that through learning by doing, the art appreciation method will be deeply ingrained in the children's minds. Jingxin Primary School provides

Enclosed in the open space in front of the hall, "No matter how busy I am, I still want to have a drink with you" to create in a space that must be passed by when going to and from school every day. Not only the sixth grade children who create, but the whole school also cares about creation bit by bit.

The compact course allows large-scale collages to have a different look every day. In addition to the children's eyes closely following the progress, Chen Huiyu also secretly took time-lapse photography on the ceiling, recording the growth of the painting from different angles. "We want to see it from an invisible perspective, so that all the teachers and students in the school can study together and slowly get to know this painting." Not only visual art, but also the children's actions have become an important part of the art experience.

However, at the beginning of the course, the teacher admitted that he was nervous, and the unpredictable results and developments also contributed to the cohesiveness of the teacher to prepare and observe the class with ***.

"We almost all observe the class in the corridor and support each other, just like the current collaborative teaching. I hope that gathering a team can help this class be successful." After Xu Shenghui shared, Chen Huiyu followed He said, "While other teachers were in class, I watched from the sidelines, constantly discussing and planning tomorrow and the next class, and how to relay them." Creating Solitaire is like putting together a mosaic, recorded through a time-lapse camera The trajectory of efforts becomes clearer and clearer as the outline of the work becomes clearer, and teachers and students become more and more excited.

"Let students feel that even if primary school students are not very professional artists, through collective strength, they can complete a professional-looking work."

And children's feelings about the work My love does not stop at hanging the canvas on the wall, it becomes a momentary excitement in the campus scenery.

Xu Shenghui simulated the situation with hands and feet, "When I completed such a huge work, I felt shocked. The children imagined various plots in this scene and began to act out."

At the annual Meditation Learning Expo, art teachers moved library tables and chairs and made tea, allowing children and parents to enjoy a happy afternoon tea time amid their own works. Seeing the light in the children's eyes and the feedback from parents once again added a pair of wings of courage for curriculum innovation to the art teacher team.

When the time-lapse photography of the production process was replayed, the children gathered in front of the screen and recalled the creative process together. Provided by Jingxin Primary School

"No matter how children grow up in the future, I believe that the aesthetic nutrients in art classes will play an important part in their lives." Chen Huiyu, an art teacher at Jingxin Primary School, firmly believes that There is a sense of pride in the eyes, telling the teachers how much the collective creation of many people has moved them.

In front of the Impressionist tape collage "No matter how busy I am, I want to have a drink with you" which is more than two meters high, I often see children stopping to admire their masterpieces. A team of art teachers from Jingxin Primary School came up with a bold idea and led the children to copy Van Gogh's "Open-Air Cafe" and use colored tapes to collage it into a large-scale installation art work, which became a confident achievement for the children.

The art teacher team of Jingxin Primary School designed the curriculum with art, space and audience as the core, hoping to cultivate children with rich aesthetic knowledge.

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