In December 2023, the Ministry of Education issued the Notice on the Full Implementation of the School Aesthetic Education Infiltration Action. This is a major deployment for in-depth study and implementation of the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, further improving the quality of aesthetic education in schools, and highlighting the function of aesthetic education.
The main front of aesthetic education is in the school. In recent years, Jilin Provincial Institute of Education (hereinafter referred to as "the college") has taken the Department of Physical Education and Aesthetic Education Teaching and Research as the main body, giving full play to the leading role of the college in the province's teaching and research work, driving the four-level teaching and research system of "province-city-county-school", deepening the teaching reform of aesthetic education courses, and strengthening the role of the school's main position and classroom main channel.
Implement the new curriculum standards and promote the reform of teaching methods.
Organize the selection of high-quality courses and the promotion and application of excellent teaching achievements, and give full play to the radiation function of high-quality teaching and research resources. Art teaching has distinctive practical, experiential and creative characteristics, and the teaching method emphasizes more to highlight the main position of students, focusing on "learning by doing", "learning by use" and "learning by creation". The college carries out the activities of the provincial teaching art festival, cooperates with the teaching and research fronts at all levels, guides all schools in various places to leverage the core literacy goals with teaching method reform, displays the typical teaching cases selected from all over the world, and conducts in-depth discussions through "online + offline" to carry out theme-based research and debate activities. The Department of Physical Education and Aesthetic Education Teaching and Research and Training has launched the teaching and research achievements of "Student Learning Mode Reform" and "Large Unit Teaching" of Fine Arts, and has made innovative attempts and explorations in guiding students to experience the learning process of gaining direct experience, and establishing a close connection between their own experience and real life and social practice.
Coordinate and integrate local cultural resources and optimize the structure of aesthetic education courses. The Department of Physical Education and Aesthetic Education and Training guides schools in all regions to develop and construct characteristic art curriculum resources, incorporates city (state) resources such as Liaoyuan Pipa and Yanbian Korean Elephant Hat Dance, as well as county (district) resources such as Dongfeng Peasant Painting and Lishu Duorenzhuan into the curriculum system, organizes teaching and research activities based on special topics, and widely builds platforms to promote typical experiences. For example, the Huize Primary School of the Experimental School Affiliated to Northeast Normal University has developed and implemented the school-based lesson "Northeast Yangge", which not only has systematic class time arrangements, activities and performances, but also sets up a Yangge Hall to enhance students' embodied learning experience with environmental courses. By supplementing and enriching the content of art courses, the college continuously optimizes the organization and presentation of course content, injects fresh water into aesthetic education teaching, and explores and inherits the excellent local traditional culture.
Guide the design and implementation of art practice activities to achieve the immediate transformation of classroom teaching benefits. Through periodic and continuous teaching and research activities, the Department of Physical Education and Aesthetic Education and Training guides all localities to gradually improve the teaching mode of "basic knowledge of art and basic skills + artistic aesthetic experience + special expertise in art", and advocates the combination of knowledge and action.
1. Combine learning with application, and use artistic practice activities as the carrier to transform the classroom teaching benefits in real time. For example, in the process of guiding students to appreciate ancient Chinese circle chairs, French 18th-century rococo style chairs, and modern different types of chairs, students can feel the cultural connotation of chairs from the perspectives of structure, shape, color, and function, and further understand the relationship between art and life, and then guide students to improve their cultural understanding, aesthetic perception, and other activities such as painting chairs, designing chairs, making chair models for specific groups of people, and conducting exhibition evaluations. Core literacy such as artistic expression and creative practice.
Carry out interdisciplinary special teaching and research to promote comprehensive learning.
Help pilot areas and schools to take the lead in the trial, provide models, and do a good job of demonstration. Interdisciplinary learning is a difficult and hot spot in the implementation of the new curriculum reform, and it is also an area where front-line teachers are generally confused. The Department of Physical Education and Aesthetic Education and Training has explored a number of pilot experimental areas and experimental schools to conduct intensive discussions on interdisciplinary theme courses and teaching. For example, the primary school affiliated to Northeast Normal University has launched teaching and research activities on the integration of art and art courses with other courses, and opened them to the whole province through online methods, with an effective path and implementation strategy for interdisciplinary theme courses and teaching with special teaching and research.
Organize teaching and research staff to take "water classes" to provide cases for interdisciplinary teaching. The Department of Physical Education and Aesthetic Education and Training organizes interdisciplinary teaching and research classes for teachers and researchers at different levels. For example, provincial-level teachers and researchers carry out on-site simulation teaching, providing practical cases with strong operability and mobility for guiding junior and senior high school teachers to build an aesthetic education curriculum system that is coordinated with other disciplines. Municipal first-class teaching and research staff integrate Chinese, art and other elements to teach seminars for front-line teachers, and conduct case-based teaching observations, and deepen the multiple possibilities of interdisciplinary teaching. Such measures not only provide a vivid case for promoting interdisciplinary teaching, but also allow faculty members to further enhance their understanding of curriculum reform.
Promote collaborative teaching and research in different disciplines, and explore the connection between aesthetic education and moral, intellectual, physical and labor education. The Department of Physical Education and Aesthetic Education and Training regularly organizes cooperative teaching and research in disciplines such as fine arts, physical education, language, science, ethics and the rule of law, etc., and the different implementation carriers and forms of expression adopted by different disciplines in cultivating students' ability to feel, appreciate, express and create beauty, summarize and sort out the effective strategies and personality characteristics of aesthetic education functions in different disciplines, seek commonalities in the process of comparing differences, so as to find interdisciplinary integration points, explore and apply moral beauty, humanistic beauty, social beauty, health beauty, Aesthetic education resources such as natural beauty and scientific beauty help art courses maximize the value of aesthetic education. For example, in the teaching of the "National Anthem", the teachers of the disciplines of Chinese, morality and the rule of law first design the teaching from the nature of the subject, and then think and reconstruct from an interdisciplinary perspective. The interdisciplinary teaching and research has enabled front-line teachers to have a clearer understanding of the connotation of interdisciplinary theme teaching and master relevant practical strategies.
Strengthen the connection between different school stages to achieve integrated development.
Relying on the advantages of systems and mechanisms, we should revitalize various resources. The functional scope of the Department of Physical Education and Aesthetic Education of the College covers physical education and health, and the first art discipline, which runs through the three stages of primary school, junior high school and high school, which is convenient for reasonable arrangement of teaching, research and training work for the effective connection of different school periods, and strengthens the continuity and advancement of aesthetic education teaching in different school sections. The college advocates breaking down the barriers of departments, sections and even disciplines, integrating the faculty of the college, and forming a training course construction team in several disciplines or teaching and research, training, management and other fields, so as to further revitalize and unify various advantageous resources, provide more possibilities for interdisciplinary and cross-field practice in different school sections, and provide a strong guarantee for the integrated development of aesthetic education and teaching.
Driven by scientific research projects, deepen the construction of connotation. The college follows the internal logical context of the development of aesthetic education, takes scientific research projects as the carrier, strengthens the scientific research of aesthetic education, increases the academic content, and vertically integrates the teaching of aesthetic education in different stages in terms of objectives, curriculum, content, and methods, which provides an important academic basis for scientifically promoting the connection and transition of aesthetic education in different school stages. The project team took the lead in exploring and gradually realized "results on the point and blossoming on the surface".
Build a high-end think tank for aesthetic education and provide strong intellectual support. The Department of Physical Education and Aesthetic Education Teaching and Research and Training selects famous teachers and professors in aesthetic education across the country, sets up an expert database, coordinates and integrates social resources, provides services for aesthetic education teaching and research training in the province, and gradually builds a team of part-time experts with high academic attainments, familiar with the laws of aesthetic education, and passionate about aesthetic education. Through the construction of think tanks, the college has constructed teacher training courses for the integration of aesthetic education at different school levels, developed a series of activity resources, launched teaching cases based on different fields, different themes, and different school stages, and regularly released the results to aesthetic education teachers from different school stages in forums and lectures. At the same time, relying on expert resources, the Department of Physical Education and Aesthetic Education has identified a number of teaching practice bases such as orchestras, theater troupes, art galleries, and museums, providing a high-level research and practice platform for the integrated implementation of aesthetic education.
Improve the professional level of teachers and consolidate the basic skills of teaching.
Build a platform for publishing and displaying achievements to stimulate the enthusiasm and creativity of aesthetic education teachers. The college holds the province's first-class, art teachers' basic teaching skills competition, in response to the current curriculum reform of the new requirements for the professional skills and teaching skills of art teachers, such as solo, solo, self-playing and singing and choral conducting, drama and film and television appreciation, handmade art production, color proposition creation, computer design and on-site simulation teaching of various disciplines, classroom observation and other development of competition programs, hold on-site competitions, and open to the province through online methods, to promote training, to promote teaching, to promote research; Establish a normalized and serialized aesthetic education teaching and research activity mechanism to promote the daily, diversified and characteristic development of aesthetic education in the province; Carry out thematic and serialized teaching and research results release activities, display and exchange typical experiences of the province's aesthetic education curriculum teaching reform, guide teachers to strengthen the awareness of attaching importance to teaching and professionalism, strengthen the training of basic teaching skills, further consolidate the foundation, and effectively improve teachers' teaching ability and curriculum reform ability.
Organize cross-regional and inter-school joint teaching and research to help the quality and balanced development of the teaching team. The college has established a "one-to-one" assistance mechanism, carried out high-quality district schools to help schools in weak districts and schools in aesthetic education, and established a long-term cooperation mechanism to regularly carry out activities such as sending teachers to the countryside and joint teaching and research, so as to realize the sharing of high-quality aesthetic education classroom resources. Provincial teachers and researchers have contact with point schools, teachers and researchers go deep into the point schools to ask the needs of teachers, plan to the actual situation of teachers, absorb the resources of high-quality schools, carry out activities such as teaching observation and special lectures of famous teachers according to needs, "one-to-one", "point-to-point" and "real" personalized guidance and services, and establish a long-term cooperative relationship between high-quality schools and weak schools, and promote the improvement of teachers' professional quality through periodic and continuous collaborative teaching and research.
Design special training for weak links. Relying on the annual "National Training Plan" and "Provincial Training Plan" projects, the Department of Physical Education and Aesthetic Education and Training collects training needs from front-line teachers to enhance the pertinence and effectiveness of training, carries out demand-oriented curriculum implementation ability training, takes evaluation ability and curriculum ability as the focus of training, pays full attention to curriculum teaching reform problems such as the implementation of literacy goals and the reform of teaching methods, and organizes special training for the actual needs of rural areas and weak schools; Give full play to the advantages of the college's "integration of research and training", organically integrate teaching and research resources into the training classroom, and carry out training in the way of teaching and research, which enhances the experiential and practical nature of training, helps teachers accurately grasp the direction of curriculum and teaching reform, updates concepts, changes teaching behaviors, and enhances the comprehensiveness and balance of teaching and research supply. At the same time, guide the participating teachers to do a good job in training, return to the local area, the school will carry out the "secondary transmission" of the training results, and realize the transformation of training benefits in a wider range. The special training confronts the key and difficult problems of the teaching reform of the aesthetic education curriculum, concentrates on overcoming difficulties, avoids the generalization and randomization of aesthetic education teaching, and ensures that the teaching implementation is more scientific and rational.
Author: Sun Shimei is the director of the Department of Physical Education and Aesthetic Education Teaching and Research and Training of Jilin Provincial Institute of Education, and is a doctor and professor of education