An Empirical Study of the Effect of Inquiry Teaching on the Development of High School Students'Critical Thinking Under the New Curriculum Standards

The Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China has issued three guideline documents to encourage inquiry teaching to help students develop their ability to question,which is a defining feature of critical thinking.Two of the documents have clearly stated that English subject teaching should focus on building students’thinking capacity.Critical thinking is an essential feature of building thinking capacity and a key element of the core competencies the English subject seeks to cultivate.This research measures the performance of students of two high school classes in the exams conducted at the beginning,in the middle,and at the end of the experiment period during which inquiry teaching was applied to enhance students’critical thinking ability.The experiment results show that inquiry teaching can improve students’academic performance in English study and help them better develop their language skills.The implementation of the inquiry design in teaching listening,reading,and writing conforms to the law that governs the development of critical thinking,and the adoption of inquiry teaching can promote the development of critical thinking.

New Curriculum-Based English Vocabulary Teaching Approaches For Senior High School

There have been some problems in both vocabulary teaching for teachers and vocabulary learning for students.In light of the new curriculum,this paper summarizes specific presenting methods,memory strategies and ways to revise and consolidate in vocabulary teaching,which may help senior high school teachers in vocabulary teaching.

Analyzing the Teaching Strategies for Physical Education in Middle Schools Under the Background of the New Curriculum

In recent years,with the reform of the educational system and the introduction of new curriculum standards,the teaching quality of physical education in middle schools has greatly improved.The education industry in China is now in a phase of high-quality development.In order to further enhance the effect of middle school physical education,it is necessary to strengthen the discussion on teaching strategies.Taking this as the starting point,this paper summarizes the importance of middle school physical education under the background of the new curriculum,analyzes the current teaching situation,and on this basis,proposes several strategies to enhance the teaching effect from three aspects:core literacy,student subject,and information technology.

Innovative Ideas for the Teaching of Guzheng in Colleges and Universities based on the New Curriculum Reform

As a traditional musical instrument,the guzheng holds a very important status in the Chinese traditional culture.In recent years,with the increase of opportunities for exchanges and cooperation between the West and China,guzheng is rapidly favored in the foreign music circle.As the main institute for cultivating high-level talents in the society,the academic discipline of music in various universities should actively promote the education reform of gxizheng based on the new curriculum reform combined with innovations and modifications of the national instrumental music teaching model to efficiently teach guzheng.

A Study on the Instructional Design of Interdisciplinary Thematic Learning in Middle School Physical Education Based on the CASES-T Model

With the deepening of educational reform,interdisciplinary thematic learning,as an emerging educational model,has become a focus of attention in the field of educational research.Based on the STEM(science,technology,engineering,and mathematics)education concept and CASES-T(Content,Activity,Situation,Evaluation,Strategy-Target)model,this study provides a theoretical basis for the teaching design and implementation of interdisciplinary thematic learning in middle school physical education.Through the analysis of specific interdisciplinary thematic learning cases,it aims to provide theoretical support and practical guidance for the reform of middle school physical education through the CASES-T model-based interdisciplinary thematic teaching design research in middle school physical education,in order to enhance students’learning effects,cultivate core literacy in physical education,and promote students’all-round development.

高等师范外语教育与基础外语教育的有机对话——从一个成功的案例说起(英文)

This paper shows how a department in a rural new-University department is making a difference in Basic Education’s New Curriculum programme for the Teaching of English through an implementation of Living Educational Theory Action Research methodology.Through collaboration with departmental colleagues first and then a local Middle School,the authors show how Action Research has enabled them to improve aspects of its Basic Education methodologies in order to improve learning.They provide triangulated evidence of improvements and offer ways in which such projects might be able to be carried out more widely in China in order to enhance the development of education in this developing country.

Research on British and American Literature Teaching Based on Cognitive Poetics

The gradual implementation of the new curriculum reform has led to a particularly severe challenge in the teaching of English and American literature,which still adopts the traditional teaching mode.Interpretation of text is the focus of cognitive poetics,which can effectively combine people’s daily cognitive ability and literary ability,thus enlightening the teaching of British and American literature.Incorporating the concept of cognition into English and American literature textbooks can completely subvert the traditional evaluation and teaching mode in the past.It is also an effective way to improve students’humanistic quality and improve the communication between students’literary cognition and daily cognition experience.

Preliminary Exploration of Integrating Ideological and Political Education Major with Middle School Politics Lessons

The ideological and political education major in colleges and universities mainly undertakes the task of cultivating teachers for middle school politics lessons.The teaching methods and curriculum need to adapt to the new curriculum reform requirements as well as the current teaching idea,teaching content,teaching means,and teaching mode,in order to realize the ideological and political education specialty and middle school politics lessons.

QULITY EDUCATION IN ENGLISH TEACHING IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Quality education may contain more and need higher standard with the nation-wide practice of the new curriculum in senior high school.As teachers of senior English,we should try to study the new curriculum to improve the students' overall quality and the efficiency of English

A Comparison Between the Teacher's Role in the Task-based Language Teaching and that in the Traditional Language Teaching

This paper talks about the different teacher's role between traditional language teaching and task-based language teaching. Atthe beginning we will compare the teacher's role in terms of language theory and language teaching theory. The traditional teaching ob-jective is teaching the grammar. The teacher is the guider of the grammar. In the new English curriculum syllabus, the teaching objectiveis to train students' communicative competence. The teacher is the organizer of the teaching. In the traditional language teaching proce-dure, the teacher is authority and dictator. In the task-based approach, the teacher is equal to the students. In the traditional languageteaching activities, the teaching activities are boring; the teacher is the leader of the class. In the task-based approach, the teacher is thearranger of the task also they are the helpers and cooperators of completing the task.

Humanistic Content in the Chinese Language Textbooks for Nine Year Compulsory Education

In this paper,we employ quantitative and qualitative content analysis to investigate the nature of humanistic value content in the Chinese language arts curriculum and whether or not this varies across old and new versions of the textbooks.Our findings illustrate the various dimensions of humanistic value content in the Chinese language arts curriculum and suggest that there is as much variation across different versions of the new textbooks as there is between old and new versions of the curriculum.