Toddlers are undoubtedly the most gentle and trustful creatures on earth. Their open and tender glance catches every breath, every movement of the teacher, so only the most sincere behavior of an adult contributes to the rapid establishment of good relations with the kids.
What will help the child to adapt to the lessons?
A clear age falls in time from one to two years. Many children in the second year of life begin to attend kindergarten or classes of developing groups, i.e. gain the first experience of socialization. But the need to communicate with peers, most of them do not. It appears only in the third or fourth year of life.
In order for the child to feel comfortable in an unfamiliar environment, it is best to conduct the first few lessons together with the mothers of children, or with other close relatives. So the kids will pass a kind of adaptation and will be able to continue to participate in the classes independently. In dealing with so many adults and children at the same time the music director needs to be friendly and open. Then the warm atmosphere of the lessons will help the kids to get acquainted with the new place and other people and will speed up the adaptation process.
The game is the main assistant teacher
Starting from the age of toddlers, the main educational tool of the children is the game. Delving into this complex process, kids will learn everything about the world and society. By participating in music games, they, in addition to knowledge, acquire the skills of singing and dancing, as well as develop the hearing, intonation and rhythmic data that are inherent in nature. The benefits of music games are so great that every teacher-musician, planning to conduct classes, should take the games as the basis of the whole process. And to work with toddlers, the game is an indispensable and most important teaching material.
The speech of children up to two years old is only being formed, and therefore they cannot sing their own songs yet, but with great pleasure and enthusiasm they depict what the teacher sings. And here the irreplaceable quality of a musical worker is performing artistry. Skills of playing songs will also be very useful. And to help in organizing such games, you can safely connect the necessary phonograms and musical recordings of children's songs.
Dance skills and playing noise instruments develop a sense of rhythm
The development of tempo-rhythmic abilities of children is positively affected by the play of noise musical instruments. In addition, engaging this learning technique organizes the hearing of the children and disciplines them themselves. And for a good result of learning to play musical instruments, the teacher, undoubtedly, himself must master the simplest methods of playing them.
Another important component of musical activities with children is dance, which with such kids is likely to be veiled with songs with movements. Here the teacher’s creativity is not limited to anything, but for a start it’s enough to get acquainted with several simple and clear kids “dance steps”.
Undoubtedly, every teacher who teaches music to babies has his own character traits and skill level, but by working on himself, strengthening his bright sides, namely sincerity, openness and goodwill, he, thereby, has a positive effect on the development of children with whom . Forming good in himself, he passes it to those who trust him completely - the little ones. Only by constantly developing his musical abilities, the teacher will achieve good results from his players.
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