A Study On The Utilization Of Local Resources In The Teaching Of Ideological And Political Courses In Senior Middle Schools

With the proposal of the concept of curriculum resources in the new-round curriculum reform,the experts and scholars in the field of education and teaching,as well as a batch of first-line teachers have conducted comprehensive and systematic researches on it. In the recent years,with the deepening of the understanding and study of the curriculum resources, local resources, as an integral part of the curriculum resources,has gradually received attention in the field of education and teaching.The local resources refers to any resources that own local features of native teachers and school and contribute to the realization of teaching goal and the successful implementation of teaching process. Local resources is with the characteristics of vividness,specificity and easy access etc. The local resources owns unique status and advantages during the teaching process. For the ideological and political course,the local resources with local features can fully stimulate students’ attention and enthusiasm during the teaching process so as to strength the teaching effects. Therefore,it is quite important and necessary to apply local resources in the teaching of the ideological and political course. Shanghai,the hometown of the author,owns large number of local resources on economy,politics,culture,technology,etc. If teachers can pay attention to local resources in regular life and then combine it with the ideological and political course,which will comes out unexpected results.This paper takes Shanghai as an example,and conducts certain exploration on application of local resource in the teaching of the ideological and political course. At first,the author clarifies the significance of the application of local resources in the teaching of the ideological and political course by combining the three-dimensional objectives of the ideological and political course,including helping students to understand the theoretical knowledge by linking with life experience, helping students to strength subject capacity by changing learning method and helping students to build the awareness of social responsibility by focusing their own hometowns. Next,the author puts forward the relative principles of local resources,including compatibility principle, living principle, diversity principle and economy principle. At last,according to own teaching practice and the relative teaching cases,the author links the theory with practice and puts forward the strategy of the application of local resources in the teaching of the ideological and political course,including using local resources to conduct classroom lectures,using local resources to conduct group inquiry learning,using local resources to design class and after-class exercises,using local resources to organize extracurricular activities.This paper studies the significance,principle and strategy of local resources in the teaching of the ideological and political course.The aim is to attract the attention of wide educators on local resources,apply the local resources to promote the teaching effect and provide reference and enlightenment on the application of local resources for high school political teachers,particularly the political teachers in Shanghai.