A Study On Historical Figures' Teaching In High School

At the beginning of 21st century, our country launched the new curriculum reform at the elementary educational stage. The Ministry of Education issued the new curriculum standard for each discipline of the elementary education. The core of the new history course standard is to let student not only master basic history knowledge by learning history course, but also develop the ability to obtain new knowledge and to analyze or solve historical problem, at the same time cultivate humanistic spirit and creative spirit, mold a good personality quality . Teaching the historical figures in class can get rid of the uninteresting teaching method, and make students know the real history through the fresh image of historical figures and personage activities. Meanwhile, teaching the knowledge about historical figures in the classroom , still can carry on moral , aesthetic and intellectual education to students. Knowing the present situation of the historical figures'teaching in high school, summing up experience, and then making some suggestion to improve it, is the important significance to implement the objective of educating people comprehensively.The present thesis adopts the questionnaire method and literature analysis approach to research the situation of historical figures'teaching in high school at present. Use the purpose sampling and convenient sampling method to extract 310 students of senior one and senior two from three middle schools, that are the first and the second affiliated middle school of Beijing Normal University, and the experimental school of Xicheng District, to carry out questionnaire investigation. The investigation result indicates that, the majority of historical teacher paid attention to the historical figures'teaching in classroom at present, most teachers can adopt the comparatively rational method to teach, and it makes students generally have the positive attitude towards launching the historical figures'teaching. Meanwhile, the investigation result reflects that there still has some insufficient in the historical figures'teaching at present time, such as the historical figures'teaching in classroom is still having some certain limitations, and the content about the historical figures in the textbook remains simplification. Directing against the problems that were present in launching historical figures'teaching at present, this thesis gives some suggestions to develop the classroom teaching and textbook writing from two respects. Proposal points out that in the classroom instruction , the historical teacher should choose the content of courses carefully , design the good teaching course , pay close attention to students' results of learning, such as the acquired knowledge, the analysis ability and the spiritual character. Meanwhile, the history textbook should organize the well content, and make itself become the important study materials and learning tools.