? Now many students like history, but they don't like history classes. Reciting, dictation, dictation and examination seem to be the whole history class. ? The fourth annual meeting and academic seminar of the National History Teacher Education Committee was held yesterday. At the meeting, many experts expressed their concerns about the current history teaching in middle schools. How to cultivate students' historical literacy and make them fall in love with history has become the focus of discussion among experts.
Depressing situation: Most middle school students don't like history class.
Many middle school history teachers have found a frustrating phenomenon: although students like reading history books and historical dramas, they don't like taking history classes!
Chu Chu, a junior high school graduate, has just gone through the review of the senior high school entrance examination and the final sprint. ? My favorite subject is history. Chu Chu said,? The rules and regulations of history make people feel really boring! Before the exam, the school issued an outline and many special topics, and I followed them every day. Finally, I did well in the senior high school entrance examination, and got 59 points (out of 60), but I still didn't like history class. This kind of history study is boring. ?
? Reciting, dictation, dictation and examination are all middle school history classes. ? Chen Hong, a special history teacher in Ninghai Middle School, said yesterday that it is very common for teachers to ask students to memorize knowledge points, but students don't like this kind of history class, because the combination of simple time and events has brought great frustration to students who don't want to memorize.
? We made a survey to ask students to list their favorite subjects, and history class always came last. ? A teacher who attended the seminar at the scene said that nine out of ten middle school students read history textbooks and took exams. On the contrary, outside the classroom, many middle school students are still interested in history, such as reading some history books and historical dramas.
Cause analysis: the textbook lacks story, and the teaching process becomes knowledge point recitation.
History was originally an interesting subject, but when history education mutated into exam-oriented teaching, the problem came. A high school history teacher said that because teaching is based on the examination syllabus, the syllabus corresponds to knowledge points. Once these knowledge points are learned, you can cope with the exam. ? Therefore, history teaching has become a narrow knowledge point recitation. ?
The lack of stories in the compilation of teaching materials is also an important reason for not arousing students' interest. ? Nowadays, history textbooks are written more for historians than for students, lacking interactivity and storytelling. ? Liu Jun, a professor at the School of Social Development of Nanjing Normal University (Weibo), said? The history textbook is very thin. As a liberal arts textbook, there are too few stories. Former vice premier * * * once said? History should be a story-telling subject? And now the history textbook is still the same, and? Tell a story? Run counter to each other. ?
Experts also believe that the professional level of teachers also affects students' interest in history learning. ? Although there is an objective reality of taking the exam, a good teacher can still combine the baton of the college entrance examination with the cultivation of students' historical literacy. ? Chen Hong said,? Students don't like to listen to the teacher's lecture by the book, and so does history class. If you want to stop middle school history class? Bored? Teachers should improve their teaching ability, speak well and listen well. ?
Expert opinion: Students should not only memorize, but also explore and think more.
? Historical literacy is the most important content of middle school students' humanistic literacy. ? Li Zhiyong, a professor at the School of Humanities, Shanghai Normal University, said that middle school students' study of history is conducive to broadening their horizons and cultivating their ability of logical thinking and problem analysis. ? From the most basic historical era, this includes the concepts of time and space. If students can straighten out the times, they can see everything in the world clearly and have the most basic views when thinking and analyzing problems. ?
To cultivate students' historical accomplishment, the classroom is the main position. ? In recent years, the examination methods of senior high school entrance examination and college entrance examination have been reformed, such as minimizing the requirements for simple memory and increasing the weight of subjective questions. These also force teachers to carry out reforms in teaching, so that students can explore and think more besides memorizing. ? Li Zhiyong said.
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Of course, the cultivation of middle school students' historical literacy can't be confined to the classroom. Students are exposed outside the classroom? History? There are many opportunities, such as books and TV, but Li Zhiyong also pointed out? At present, there are not many books and televisions that respect historical facts and are suitable for students to watch. How to make historiography popular is exactly the direction of our efforts. ?