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How to create a life-oriented history classroom
Middle school history teaching should be based on students' reality and close to students' life, which is not only the requirement of curriculum standards, but also the ultimate goal of history education-"serving life". There are a lot of resources in our history curriculum that are urgently needed to be developed by our front-line teachers. Select some vivid materials from life or some vivid materials from history, break the boundary between history and reality, provide a new perspective for historical interpretation, promote students to experience, reflect and explore in life-oriented history classes, and help students learn to recognize, do, live and survive together in historical scenes.

The new curriculum's concern for social life is also reflected in the compulsory course 2, Economic History, which has set up a special topic on modern social life history in China. By understanding the course of social life changes in modern times, introducing typical aspects such as food, clothing, housing, transportation, communication and mass media, we can feel the great changes in China people's lifestyle, discover the deep-seated social factors behind life phenomena, cultivate students' ability to participate in social life, and form values and outlook on life in line with the development of the times, which is of far-reaching significance to students' future development. Nowadays, social life history has gradually entered the research field of historians, and the number of questions in the new college entrance examination has gradually increased. From the perspective of coping with the exam, it has also become an urgent problem for us to solve. We found a bright spot in Jiangsu college entrance examination questions in recent three years, that is, the first question of non-multiple choice questions for three consecutive years effectively linked social life with social economy, and linked students' cognition of history with real life style. The breakthrough point is small, the design is exquisite, and the historical materials are selected from the notes of people at that time, which are authentic, reliable and original, so that students can feel that history does not refer to the distant past, nor is it just a stage for great people, so that they can pay more attention to the fate of small people in the big background and be different.

First, use pictures to show social characteristics intuitively.

The illustrated history is very attractive to teenagers, and even the least diligent students will carefully read the pictures in the book. In such an era of reading pictures, can we let students enjoy such a pleasant study? Can we make history more vivid and interesting?

These deformed feet gave the students a great shock. They have long heard of the "three-inch golden lotus", but they have never really seen it. This painting makes students more deeply aware of the persecution of feudalism on people's body and mind, and thus feel the beauty of our life today.

This is Feng Ru and his plane. Some students easily misinterpret the start of China's civil aviation industry as 1909, the first airplane made in Feng Ru. As soon as this picture is displayed, students will understand how such an airplane is used in civil aviation. It can only mark the beginning of aviation.

Second, promote the experience based on the real life around you.

According to modern cognitive psychology, the process of learning is a process in which we actively explore and use our existing experience to construct our own cognitive structure, which requires us to create situations and carry out various experience activities in classroom teaching according to students' existing life experience, so as to promote students' clearer and deeper understanding of historical issues.

For example, when modern western-style houses began to appear, I cited Mr. Zhang Jian's another firm in Haonan on Haonan Road next to our school, which is a western-style building that every student will see when he goes to school. Speaking of the highway bridges built in China after the founding of New China, many students invariably think of Nantong people's pride-Sutong Bridge. When talking about the development of water transport, I also combined the rise and fall history of our Nantong port. In the 1980s, Nantong Port was extremely busy. In the 1990s, under the impact of expressway traffic, night flights between Nantong and Shanghai were cancelled, leaving only a few high-speed passenger flights. After 2000, with the change of urban planning, the surrounding area of Nantong Port became sparsely populated. It can be said that the rise and fall of Nantong Port reflects the development history of new China water transport. For another example, when talking about the change of clothing, we mentioned our blue calico. It can be said that the local history itself originated from life. The development and utilization of local resources, combined with social life history, can not only deepen the understanding of social life history, but also stimulate students' love for their hometown.

In today's society, film and television and the Internet have entered the homes of ordinary people. Our topic involves the development and popularization of film and television and the Internet. Why don't we use the information that students already have in teaching? For example, when I was explaining the European dress, I mentioned the 13th Aunt in the movie Huang Feihong, which brought the students into the era when the old and the new were alternating. When talking about the simple furnishings of our home after the founding of the People's Republic of China, I introduced that Xiaogang Feng, the director, collected home furnishings from all over the country when shooting the Tangshan earthquake, so that students could understand the respect of film and television artists for history. When talking about the changes in transportation, I asked my classmates to recall the transportation used by the protagonist in "People on the Road" to go home for the New Year, which is simply a big display of modern transportation. The students all smiled knowingly. When I mentioned China and history of film, I told my classmates about the "tall and complete" characters created by revolutionary war films from the perspective of characterization. Later, after the mid-1980s, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and other works fully explored human nature, showing the maturity of China's films from one side. Four great classical novels have been put on the screen. I asked the students to express their views on the remake of famous books. I have always thought that students prefer new fashions, but most students think that the new version is more shocking, while the old version is more classic.

For another example, when it comes to braiding, I first introduced Dourgen's "Shaving Order" to students in the early Qing Dynasty, so that students can understand the seriousness of hairstyle problems from the blood shed in that year, and then students will naturally understand that braiding during the Revolution of 1911 had the color of anti-Qing revolution, and at the same time they can understand the rationality of the school's regulations on students' hairstyle problems. I didn't expect my class to regulate students' words and deeds!

I deeply realize that the classroom is a place where teachers and students grow together. Students always come into the history class with their own cognitive background and unique individual feelings. We should seize it, inspire it and make students learn more happily.

Third, the combination of social hotspots leads to deep thinking.

History is by no means cold, life has given the history classroom a certain temperature, and social hot issues have also made the history classroom full of vitality. We should guide students to observe life with their own eyes, study life in their own way, form their own opinions through phenomena, and cultivate historical consciousness through guiding reflection.

For example, when I talked about the "vegetable basket project" after the reform and opening up, I mentioned that the people have paid close attention to food safety recently, which made students realize that science and technology are a double-edged sword and cultivated their ability to look at things dialectically. Some students said that those who add melamine, Sudan red and dyed steamed bread to food should have certain scientific knowledge, but due to the serious moral decline, we put ourselves in a very dangerous situation. When talking about the "housing project", I mentioned the very sensitive housing price issue today. Maybe students can't fully understand this problem, but my class can arouse their concern about people's livelihood issues, thus strengthening their sense of social mission and responsibility. "A thousand buildings are peaceful, and all the poor in the world are happy", and a lofty ideal of life is established.