Junior High School History Curriculum And Teaching In The Civilization Of Ancient Political System

The main task of junior middle school teaching is to have the students to actively accept the influence of human civilization development and to feed themselves with the developing fruits, so that they are able to promote their civil attainment and to accomplish the civilization. As a result, they can become the modern citizen who will adapt the needs of society and development as well as making the contribution to human civil accumulation. It is the need of our development and the base for students of junior middle school to become modern citizen.In the new round of curriculum reformation, history curriculum has three main characters: pervasive, fundamental and developing. These characters require history curriculum to avoid specialization and adult tendency. Besides, we should overcome the shortage of emphasizing the knowledge while ignoring the ability, and avoid purchasing the accomplishment of the whole system of history subject. As to the boring and specialized political system civilization, students only need to know the approximately developing progress and to master the characters of main political system as well as its influence towards the human developing and civilization. Therefore, History Curriculum Standard of both compulsory education version and Shanghai junior middle school version has selected carefully for the part of political system civilization.Textbook is the main agency of teaching and learning, and the compiling of textbook will influence the result greatly. Junior middle school's History textbook of East China Normal University version edited by Su Zhiliang is readable and interesting on the telling of political system civilization in Ancient China. Content written in large size covers a lot of knowledge with precise but readable description which meets the needs of students' psychology; while reading materials in small size have rich and interesting stories which is the effective supplement to large-sized content and the strengthening of promoting students' learning interest. Besides, colorful illustration also can make up the shortage of literal description and to empress the students directly, so that their learning interest will grow up accordingly. Apart from that, there are some more columns like discussing area reflecting the requirements of ability cultivation, which accords with the character of emphasizing students' long-range development.However, no matter how perfect the theory, the targets and the teaching resources are, if the teacher doesn't have the actual breakthrough and change on the teaching conception level or change the advanced teaching theory and acknowledge into self-conscious activity of practicing curricular reformation, the target of reformation is hard to be reached. Reasonable teaching strategy and good teaching method are the basic ways of effective teaching and learning. At present, students' developing is said to be the target and principle, so the research direction on teaching should lie on how to make the students learn effectively and put the knowledge into practice. In the aspect of political system civilization in Ancient China, "Question Teaching" and "Activity Teaching" are the effective ways of teaching. "Question Teaching" offers a platform for the students to communicate, cooperate, discover and to make the progress, which makes them know the value and attracting points of knowledge in answering the questions. Using "question" as a clue, students are expected to discover the knowledge, master the skills and to learn how to think, how to study and how to create, so that their creating thinking will boost out. "Activity Teaching" makes the teaching progress established on the base of students' acting and researching on their consciousness. Through the all-round and diversified practicing activity, their characters like self-consciousness, practicing ability and innovation ability etc. can get the all-round development.