A Research On The Infiltration Of STS Education Into Biology Teaching In Senior Middle School

STS Education, marked with its modern trait, is a new scientific educational theory based on the relations between science, technology and society. In the wave of reform in the fields of basic education in China, STS Education is considered as an orientation of the reform of science education in Chinese middle schools. In this article, I intend to probe into the methods and ways of the infiltration of STS Education into middle school biology teaching. It includes some theoretical research on STS Education and also some experience in my teaching practice. I hope that it may be of some help to other senior middle school biology teachers.This essay consists of three parts: introduction, dissertation and conclusion. The introduction intends to put forward the thesis, while the dissertation is the main body of this article, which includes three parts.The first part is a theoretical summary of STS Education. It analyses, theoretically, several aspects of STS Education, including:1. The definition of STS Education.2. The background of STS Education and its development.3. The essence of STS Education.4. Theoretical bases of STS EducationThe second part concerns the significance of STS Education infiltration into middle school biology teaching. First of all, it is pointed out that the modern society calls for the adoption of STS education; this is based on an analysis on status quo of our basic science education. Secondly, some advantages are listed about STS Education infiltration into senior middle school biology teaching. And lastly, it discusses some practical value of STS Education into biology teaching, namely,1. It enhances the function of moral education in the course of biology teaching.2. It has positive effect on the implementation of quality education3. It fosters students' ingenuity.4. It improves the makings of biology teachers.The third part of this article is about how to effectively infiltrate STS Education into the practice of biology teaching. This part discourses upon my own comprehension about STS Education and plenty of examples arelisted as well. Here are the points:1. Set the teaching goal of STS Education infiltration. Teaching goal is the starting point of STS Education infiltration as well as its destination. This teaching goal, which should be set beforehand, predominates all the other aspects of STS Education.2. Choose appropriate STS matter. This part details the STS matter that is related to the current senior middle school biology textbook. It also puts forward some principles that should be followed in choosing STS matter, namely,1) the principle of adaptability2) the principle of modernization3) the principle of practicability4) the principle of educability.3. Approaches to STS Education infiltration includes in-class filtration and outside-class filtration. In-class filtration is the main approach for STS Education to filtrate into middle school biology teaching, and therefore, the discussion focuses on in-class filtration, which involves teaching principles, teaching procedure and teaching methods. Furthermore, I have proposed some teaching principles, such as systematicness, flexibility, elicitation, main body effect, etc. Some teaching methods are also recommended here, such as the method of question detection, the method of discussion, the method of experiment and the method of investigation. Thus, I have tried to make it practical to filtrate STS Education in classroom teaching practice.STS Education is the orientation of senior middle school biology teaching. It has transcended traditional science teaching, indicating the demands of quality education. In senior middle school biology teaching, STS Education infiltration is a problem that is worth both attention and research.