Texas Local History Curriculum Resource Utilization

At present, the curriculum reforming of the middle schools is being carried on and the ultimate goal of new curriculum lies in promoting each student to develop comprehensively and coordinately. The local history teaching close to the new curriculum is extremely prominent in status and function of the new curriculum. But, in reality, the local history teaching is not very booming as a whole. Therefore, this author believes history teachers of middle schools must be fully aware of the importance of the local history teaching. And at the same time, teachers should combine the resources of local history curriculum and history teaching material of the middle school and use it in the history teaching automatically in order to achieve the teaching goals of new history curriculum completely and impel the reforming of history curriculum efficiently.This thesis first elaborated the reasons for selecting the topic, the purposes, theoretical support and the present situation in using resources of local history curriculum in middle schools at home and abroad. Then, based on this, the author carried on the concept limits and the classification to"the resources of local history curriculum". In the following part, from seven aspects this author analyzed the significance and the function in using the resources of local history curriculum in the history teaching of middle schools. After this, the author introduced the rich resources of history curriculum of Dezhou area in details and further analyzed the existing question, the origin and the solution to solving the problems in using resources of local history curriculum in Dezhou area. The author thinks inefficiency in using resources of local history curriculum universally exists in the various schools of Dezhou area, but this situation resulted from exam-oriented education. Finally, the author explored principles and the approaches to using resources of local history curriculum in Dezhou area and thought using the resources of local history curriculum should follow the some basic principles such as sense of purpose, the scientific nature, the representation, flexibility, and so on. The study about how to use resources of local history curriculum can be carried on by many channels: the classroom instruction, the extracurricular activity, the Internet and so on.