An Investigation Into Demonstration In Primary School Art Teaching

Demonstration is a very important method in art teaching in primary school.With the development and progress of information technology,demonstration,as a traditional teaching method is gradually forgotten and eliminated.However,just as Piaget has pointed out in his cognitive development theory,primary school students love to imitate and desire to be recognized.Therefore,effective demonstration by teachers in class is an indispensable and important means in art teaching.Intuitive demonstrations can help students to construct cognitive diagrams in their minds.Every coin has two sides.The demonstration teaching method is also a double-edged sword.Ineffective demonstrations will limit students imagination,and may even cause all students in the class to draw "the same sun".If students copy the teachers demonstration completely,they will gradually become too lazy to think.Especially students in the lower grades are likely to be unable to draw pictures despite having a lot of ideas.Fine Arts,as a subject in elementary school that requires hands-on operation and actual practices,needs teaching methods with an emphasis on operability to improve teaching efficiency,and demonstration method is characterized by visualization,vividness,and great pertinency.Through a study of literature on art demonstration teaching and field investigation cases,the author found that some elementary school teachers in China have misconceptions about the implementation of demonstration method in art classroom.At present,two extremes can be seen in the application of demonstration method in elementary school art classrooms: “rigid uniform implementation” and “reckless total abandonment”.The “reckless total abandonment” refers to the situation where teachers completely abandon the demonstration method in the art classroom in order not to put any limit on the imagination of students,while the “rigid uniform implementation” approach means,under the influence of information technology,teachers rely excessively on multimedia micro-lesson demonstration to the exclusion of other ways of demonstration.Neither “rigid uniform implementation” and “reckless total abandonment” is the correct teaching behavior,and the long-term lack of effective teaching demonstration will lead to the failure of art knowledge accumulation and skills improvement of the students.Therefore,it seems increasingly necessary to sort out the development of the demonstration teaching method in elementary school in China,and to explore the application strategies of the demonstration method in relation to the new curriculum and the background of our times.Therefore,this paper starts from specific issues discovered through literature review and teaching cases.Various methods,including questionnaire surveys,telephone interviews,and on-site inspections,are employed to gather data from different perspectives,thereby providing a comprehensive understanding of the current state of using demonstration methods in elementary school’s art classrooms in China.It identifies common issues that arise from using demonstration methods and highlights misconceptions held by elementary school art teachers about teaching demonstration methods.Then,it outlines the less commonly used demonstration methods in the context of contemporary Chinese art education,so as to provide a realistic portrayal of the application of demonstration methods in elementary school’s art classrooms in China.Additionally,the study specifically targets the four core artistic literacy elements and considers the characteristics of new era education to provide feasible operational strategies for the demonstration methods.Typical cases of the demonstration methods under effective strategies have been analyzed.The research.In summary,it employs a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods,including digital analysis,measurement,photo documentation,and textual narration,to conduct a systematic study of the demonstration methods in elementary school’s art classrooms in China.It has yielded practical results and aims to offer practical and feasible recommendations to art teachers of Chinese elementary schools.