How to make students fall in love with history classes
The content of history classes is complex, difficult for students to master, and they lack interest in learning. For a long time, history classes have been regarded as "memorizing by rote" and "boring". Synonymous with "boring", especially junior high school history courses, many students and parents pay less attention to them. How to change people's prejudices against history classes, truly make students like history, and promote students' all-round development? This is an urgent problem facing every history teacher. Based on my many years of teaching experience, I will talk about some tips for making students fall in love with history classes.
1. Use new history textbooks flexibly and skillfully
History textbooks are the most direct tool for students to study systematically. As the history curriculum reform continues to deepen, I think the new textbooks have lively layouts, clear pictures, distinctive themes, and a strong sense of the times. They no longer pay attention to the integrity of the subject system, and are good at selecting the basic knowledge and basic skills necessary for students' lifelong learning. , advocates new learning methods of independence, cooperation, and inquiry; provides teachers with appropriate teaching materials and information, and provides a broad platform and space, which is beneficial to teachers in opening up their minds, choosing methods, and pursuing classroom teaching under new concepts. But it goes without saying that when using new textbooks, many front-line teachers still follow the textbooks and believe that as long as the knowledge required in the textbooks is imparted to students without reservations and errors, the teaching tasks are completed. This concept is incompatible with the new curriculum reform. Yes, in the long run, our curriculum reform will become a mere formality or even fail. The textbook is not a code, the textbook is not the "Bible", the textbook is just a tool and an intermediary. As front-line teachers, we must re-recognize and understand the textbook, realize the transformation of the textbook concept, and truly establish a new textbook concept of "textbooks are examples", that is, textbooks It is an example that guides students' cognitive development, life learning, and personality construction. It is a "cultural intermediary" for student development and a "topic" for teacher-student dialogue. It aims to arouse students' cognition, analysis, understanding, reflection, criticism, and Sensemaking, rather than objects and content that students must fully accept. At the same time, teachers must be creative when using new teaching materials, grasp the flexibility of teaching materials, and be able to reasonably adjust, reorganize, choose, and recreate teaching materials according to actual teaching conditions to make the teaching materials more suitable for themselves and their students.
2. Establish a harmonious teacher-student relationship
In order to improve teaching efficiency, we must cultivate students' intimacy with teachers during teaching and create a harmonious classroom environment between teachers and students so that Teachers become students' mentors and helpful friends, care about every student, love students as children, listen to students' reasonable suggestions, respect students' feelings and personality, maintain students' self-esteem, and treat students as the same as you, who need personal dignity and need to maintain their feelings. Living people; treat students equally and get along with them democratically. Even if they make mistakes, you must respect them when educating them and create a relatively comfortable and safe psychological environment for students to sit and talk with you; give them to you every day in class A word of encouragement from students, a kind smile to students every day, bringing sincerity and encouragement, care and love, respect and dependence to students, establishing an amiable and respectable teacher image in the minds of students, and creating a harmonious classroom. A harmonious teacher-student relationship will enable students to learn in a pleasant and relaxed mental state, dare to question and argue, and have room to express their individualized thinking, interests, hobbies, and characteristics, and realize self-satisfaction. There are many students who were previously considered "poor students" and were ignored in other classes, but they have performed well in my history class. Their self-esteem and self-confidence have been protected, and they are no longer shy like trees. The seedlings thrive in the sunshine. At the same time, the role of teachers must also gradually change, from a simple teaching imparter to an organizer and guide of teaching activities, training students with scientific methods, so that students' innovation awareness will gradually increase. As history educators in the new century, we have the responsibility and obligation to actively explore the best methods and approaches, cultivate students' innovative spirit, and cultivate talents with ideals, insights, and personality that society needs.
3. Teachers must update their teaching concepts
Under the new curriculum reform, we must update our teaching concepts so that students' personalities can be fully developed. Middle school teacher education does not need "finished products", and the future society will not need "monks" who can only chant sutras. The closed, orthodox and rigid teaching management model has long been a thing of the past. It is more important for history teaching to update teaching concepts and develop students' personality. In school teaching activities, teachers should not establish their authority based on students' ignorance and passivity, but should develop students as resources with infinite potential, dare to hand over learning tools to students, and return the psychological history of inquiry knowledge to students. To students; focus on the development and guidance of students' practical abilities. In teaching, teachers should not be a simple guide, but should be integrated into it, using their own knowledge and moral cultivation, so that students have the opportunity to learn independently and have autonomy. The ability to learn, return the classroom to students, and make the classroom full of creative vitality. First of all, it is necessary to update the concept of education and realize that the purpose of history education is not only to master the basic knowledge of objective facts, but more importantly, to allow students to truly understand and master the objective laws of the historical development of human society and form correct historical thinking, so as to To enable students to embark on the correct path in life in terms of emotions, attitudes, and values. Only by consciously updating educational concepts and keeping up with the requirements of the times can we break through the traditional teaching model and achieve innovation and development in educational practice.
Secondly, we must continue to learn and continuously improve our own cultural and professional qualities. Teachers are the most direct, largest, most convenient and most frequently used educational resources for students to learn. Teachers should rely on their profound knowledge, rich experience and good personality to attract and influence students, so that students will like the teacher and like the course. This is a very important aspect in improving the quality of teaching. History is a subject that is most closely related to nature, society, and human activities. History teachers shoulder the major responsibility of students’ moral education. Therefore, their personality and behavior must strive to be a role model for students, which requires them to move towards the "complete type". "Standard efforts.
4. Create effective classroom situations
Teachers must be able to create historical situations, cultivate students' emotional experience, and stimulate interest in inquiry. When teaching ancient Chinese history, ethnic relations between the Qin and Han dynasties, and foreign relations, I asked students to play the role of a Roman merchant, and then asked him: "You want to go to Chang'an, China via the Silk Road. How should you go along the way?" "In order to buy more Silk, what do you want to bring to China to sell?” By allowing students to integrate into the role and experience history, students can truly play their main role. In the teaching of ethnic relations, foreign relations and economic history in ancient Chinese history, teachers can use virtual historical scenarios to stimulate students' interest in inquiry.
5. Use poetry to enliven history classes
Poetry is a messenger that conveys all kinds of emotions and is a wonderful and beautiful work in the treasure house of Chinese culture. There has always been a saying that "literature and history cannot be separated". History without poetry is silent, and poetry without history is pale; history gives poetry content, and poetry gives history vitality. Because there is me in you and you in me, poetry and history make each other flesh and blood and rich in connotation. Since there is an inseparable connection between history and poetry, then as history teachers, who are an important part of the process of teaching history or recreating history, we should make sure that there is poetry in history, and let poetry infuse history, so that history classes can be meaningful. Add a dazzling humanistic aura.
6. We should pay attention to cultivating students' innovative ability
Comrade Jiang Zemin pointed out: "Innovation is the soul of a nation's progress and an inexhaustible driving force for the country's prosperity." Therefore, cultivating students The innovative ability is a basic requirement for the implementation of quality education. First of all, we must stimulate students' curiosity and thirst for knowledge, so that students can change from passive learning to active knowledge seeking. When teaching, teachers should create some problem situations to mobilize students to participate independently. For example, when teaching the "Xi'an Incident", you can create the following problem situation: If you were a member of the Northeast Army at that time, would you advocate killing Chiang Kai-shek? Why? Introduce students into problems and the historical situation at that time, understand history, and express their own opinions. Students have different levels of understanding and different opinions, but they all feel from the heart, which effectively cultivates their autonomy in participating in classroom teaching, thus continuously cultivating their innovative ability. Secondly, we must gradually let go, not only teaching students how to learn, but also making learning methods penetrate into teaching methods, guiding students to question, doubt, pursue doubts, and resolve doubts while teaching students to master historical thinking methods. Teachers should grasp doubtful points in classroom teaching, skillfully use doubt-setting techniques, and timely ask students to discover doubtful points, stimulate their interest in thinking, and cultivate their questioning habits.
In short, the importance of history is undoubted, but it is an indisputable fact that students do not pay attention to history. Therefore, middle school history teachers must work hard to make students fall in love with history classes.