Research On The Development And Application Of Junior High School Maker Education Curriculum Oriented To The Cultivation Of Innovative Thinking

With the rapid development of economy and science and technology,the cultivation of innovative talents has become the consensus of The Times.As a diversified and constantly updated curriculum education activity,maker education is an effective way to develop students’ innovative thinking,and the curriculum of maker education is an important carrier to implement it.However,since there is no unified standard for maker education curriculum,the teaching of makers in various schools is scattered and not systematic,the teaching activities are also random and accidental,and the curriculum does not focus on guiding the development design of innovative thinking.Therefore,it is extremely necessary to develop a set of junior middle school maker education curriculum to cultivate the development of students’ innovative thinking.It can not only help guide teachers and students to systematically learn the content of maker education curriculum integrated with the cultivation and development of innovative thinking,but also provide practical reference for the development and application of maker education curriculum.Through literature research,questionnaire survey,interview and action research,this study studied how to cultivate the development of students’ innovative thinking and how to integrate the development of students’ innovative thinking into the development and practical teaching of maker education curriculum.In the maker education course,through the real situation,driving questions,team cooperation,discovery and praise,focus on process,creation,display and communication and other links and strategies,stimulate students’ divergent thinking,improve students’ intuitive thinking,cultivate students’ critical thinking,induce students’ image thinking and so on,ultimately foster the generation and development of students’ innovative thinking.First,on the basis of literature review and according to the theories of constructivism,Dewey’s "learning by doing",innovative education and curriculum development,the cultivation strategy of innovative thinking is integrated into the curriculum development of junior middle school maker education,so as to construct the curriculum development model of maker education,determine curriculum objectives,formulate curriculum structure and content,curriculum plan and design curriculum activities.Construct curriculum teaching process model,design resources and evaluation.Secondly,taking the students of the Maker Science and technology association of the school as the curriculum implementation object,the teaching practice of the maker course focuses on developing innovative thinking for a semester.The students are tested before and after the innovative thinking with the help of the "Williams creativity tendency Measurement Scale",and the students are comprehensively evaluated by the four evaluation measures of classroom observation,work evaluation,practice record and growth reflection during the teaching practice.To verify the effect of curriculum implementation.Finally,the analysis of the course practice effect data shows that the students’ innovative thinking ability has been improved after the course teaching practice,and the scores of the four dimensions of "Williams creativity propensity measurement scale" and the scores of adventure,challenge,imagination and curiosity are significantly higher in the post-test than in the pre-test.The analysis of the students’ comprehensive evaluation results shows that the scores are also higher.Through the data analysis of the questionnaire survey after the teaching practice of the students and the feedback of the interviews between teachers and students,it is also found that the teachers and students are satisfied with the teaching practice effect of the course,and the students show that their innovative thinking has been actively developed and their innovative ability has been improved to some extent.The practical research shows that this course has a positive promoting effect on the cultivation of students’ innovative thinking.In the course of learning,students’ ability of inquiry,cooperation,problem solving and innovation has been gradually exercised and improved.In the process of curriculum implementation teaching practice,teachers’ professional ability and innovation ability have been improved to some extent.This course provides a certain reference for the development of junior middle school maker education curriculum and the cultivation of innovative thinking.