Research On Application Of Orff Teaching Method In Piano Lessons Of Higher Vocational School

Nowadays,the occupation of kindergarten teachers has aroused the attention of the whole society.In the field of children’s art education,comprehensive and creative artistic concepts are popular with people.All those bring new challenges to the piano course of preschool education major.Drawing the advanced teaching ideas and teaching methods about piano in higher vocational preschool education major can make the piano teaching more in line with the professional characteristics of preschool education major,which will undoubtedly have a positive practical significance.Higher vocational preschool education mainly cultivates such students who love preschool education,in their all-round development of moral,intellectual,physical,aesthetics and labor education.Meanwhile the students should master the basic theory and professional skills of preschool education,get familiar with the basic rules of preschool education.Finally they can participate in kindergarten teaching activities and management with high quality talents and innovation ability.The piano course is a compulsory professional skill course for higher vocational preschool education students,which requires students to have certain abilities of playing the piano and sing children’s songs at the same time.Through learning the knowledge and skills,the students should improve their comprehensive music literacy,so they can be better qualified for the kindergarten music teaching.But the piano class of preschool education is still using the traditional teaching mode in the teaching philosophy,teaching methods,teaching contents,which cannot meet the current demand for high quality kindergarten teachers.Therefore the piano teachers of preschool education need to research piano teaching theory further and introduce the advanced and suitable teaching method for preschool education piano teaching to make up for the deficiencies of the traditional teaching methods,thus improving the teaching effect and training high qualified students to meet the actual needs of the kindergartens.Orff’s teaching method is one of the most recognized art education systems in the world.It advocates the original nature of art and supports comprehensiveness,improvisation,and creativity in teaching.Orff’s music education was introduced to China in the 1980 s,and hasmade remarkable achievements in our children’s music education.Is it feasible to apply this teaching method to the piano class in higher vocational preschool education? The author makes a deep understanding of Orff’s music education system,and concludes that the innovative teaching methods and unique teaching ideas have a great significance for the reform of piano teaching in preschool education.This thesis took Orff music education system and the piano teaching of higher vocational preschool education as the research objects,aiming to explore the positive effect of Orff music education system to the piano teaching in higher vocational preschool education.The author analyzes the innovative teaching methods and unique teaching ideas of Orff’s music education system and applies them to the piano class teaching of preschool education major in “L Preschool Education College” to solve a series of problems at the piano teaching.Thereby the author finds the updated teaching mode for piano teaching,which not only adapts to the demand of modern kindergarten teachers’ music quality but turns out a positive guidance for the piano teaching reform of preschool education major in similar higher vocational colleges.