Autonomous learning is a challenge to the knowledge economy, and it is also a new way of learning recognized and practiced by the international community. Its essence is to emphasize that learners can actively adjust their activity strategies according to their activity ability and task requirements, so as to improve their comprehensive quality.
The emergence of comprehensive practical activity class puts forward new requirements for students' autonomous learning, which urges teachers to change their original views on curriculum teaching and students, try their best to cultivate students' innovative spirit and practical ability, and then promote quality education in the teaching of various subjects. Cultivate students' ability to find problems, study independently, think independently, judge subjectively and solve problems better; Cultivate students' healthy body and mind, self-discipline, care and sympathy for others' feelings and morality, and the ability to cooperate with others.
As a kind of course, comprehensive practical activity course is actually a new type of course which combines in-class and out-of-school, self-study and guidance, and is open, interesting and instructive. It breaks the oneness centered on textbooks and the closeness of classroom teaching in a strict sense. It puts students' knowledge learning and experience of nature, society and their own lives in the first place, respects individuality and encourages innovation, all of which provide the best soil for autonomous learning. Therefore, this topic attempts to make a positive exploration in this field, hoping to enrich students' learning methods in the process of exploration and let students obtain an open and generative dynamic process of individual development.
Second, the specific process of research work
(a) establish and improve the organization, fully support the research.
In order to ensure the smooth development of the project research, we incorporated the project research into the school work plan, set up a project research leading group headed by the principal, and arranged the director who participated in the distance training of the national comprehensive practical activities to take charge of the project research; Then we set up a research group, selected excellent backbone teachers as experimental teachers, divided the work according to teachers' personal specialties, and established a perfect research system, such as the funding guarantee system and the personnel reward and punishment system, to ensure the research quality of the project from the personnel and management.
(2) Analyze and integrate school resources and build a platform for practical activities.
20xx65438+February, members of the research group analyzed the school resources. Our school, founded in 1983, has a long history and has been rated as an advanced unit of education quality in Rongcheng for many years. In recent years, the school has attached great importance to hardware construction, increased investment, and made the teaching facilities reach the first-class level in the city, and was rated as "Shandong Teaching Demonstration School". In addition to rich material resources, the school also has a large number of high-quality human resources. In addition, the environmental resources of our school are also quite special, and there are rich community resources around the school, such as major shopping malls in Rongcheng, water companies, Jiasheng Dairy and so on. After investigation and study, the teachers of the research group decided to make full use of various resources of the school to carry out comprehensive practical activities, establish cooperative relations with Yatou village Committee, nursing home, Jiasheng dairy, municipal company and other units, and establish a farmland production experimental base near Qingshan Park, which has built a good off-campus platform for students' independent study and research. In addition, the school has also established a wooden workshop and a comprehensive practical activity room, so that the highlight of the new curriculum standard of comprehensive practical activity class really lights up.
(3) Do a good job in teacher training and strengthen teaching and research.
In order to carry out research and form characteristics, our school attaches great importance to teacher training. In training, we should adhere to the principle of combining internal training with external training, lose no time to learn from foreign experience and broaden training channels. During the research period, special study was held regularly in the form of online thematic teaching and research, distribution of learning materials, special training lectures, etc., and a research situation analysis meeting was held every semester to drive the whole school teachers to participate in the research.
We hold lectures and seminars on comprehensive practical activities every semester by means of weekly collective teaching and research. We often invite Mr. Zhang Chunfang from the Municipal Teaching and Research Section to give timely guidance to the school. Organize experimental teachers to seriously participate in various learning activities organized by the municipal teaching and research center, discuss problems in teaching and research in time, exchange experiences and ideas with each other, and open up new ideas. It also strongly supports experimental teachers to participate in the development of the "comprehensive practical activity curriculum resource package" in order to continuously improve their own quality in theoretical research and practical exploration. In these activities, teachers' professional level has been improved, their thinking has been broadened, and teachers have been fully exercised.
(4) Develop a management platform and establish a research website.
In order to realize the process management, efficient management and scientific management of the research, we organized the backbone teachers to develop the special research website of this topic-"Along the Way". The website has set up columns such as "project overview, project research and online discussion", which provides a good environment for effective project management. This platform is beneficial for teachers to communicate and learn from each other, and it is convenient for teachers to find relevant information at any time and conduct in-depth research through case studies; This platform is beneficial to the process management and scientific evaluation of scientific research. We ask the experimental teachers to keep the research materials during the research process, and the teachers can upload them to their own documents in time for each step, so that the research group can monitor the research stage of each experimental teacher at any time and give process guidance at any time. Finally, the authenticity and integrity of the research results can be guaranteed.
Third, the effectiveness of the research work.
In a few short years, our school, guided by teaching and scientific research, has taken various effective measures and vigorously carried out various experimental research work. At present, the experimental work has been carried out very smoothly and achieved practical results.
(A) to cultivate students' ability to observe independently.
Observation ability is an indispensable ability for everyone. However, the ability to observe is not innate, but is gradually cultivated in the practice the day after tomorrow. In the comprehensive activity class, teachers cultivate students' good observation habits and improve their observation ability in actual observation activities. Out of curiosity about milk, some classes did learn the comprehensive practical problem "Into the world of milk". Under the guidance of the experimental teacher, the students walked into Jiasheng Dairy Co., Ltd., visited the whole production process of bagged milk, took the photos they wanted, and consulted their doubts with professionals, from which they gained a lot of knowledge about dairy production.
(2) Cultivate students' ability of independent coordination.
Comprehensive practical activities can mobilize students' multi-sensory participation and develop harmoniously. At this time, the students are not the passive audience under the podium, but the masters of the activities. We opened an experimental field in Qingshan Park, and the children harvested some vegetables through hard work. What about the harvested vegetables? After discussion, the students finally agreed: some of them will be given to grandparents in nursing homes, and it is agreed in advance to write couplets of blessings, prepare wonderful programs, clean up for grandparents, and bring their filial piety and love to grandparents; The other part goes to the market to sell, change the money into spring seeds and experience the feeling of selling vegetables at the same time. Therefore, the expanding theme of comprehensive practical activities: Thanksgiving to the society-walking into nursing homes and feeling life-I am a small vegetable farmer, which came into being under the careful design of children.
(3) Cultivate students' ability to do things independently.
The form of comprehensive activity class is flexible and diverse, and the content is not limited to textbooks. Can also be carried out according to local conditions, timely dissemination of the latest information to students. Activities also allow students to choose freely according to their own interests and specialties, and educational methods give full play to students' main role. The school reorganized and configured the labor skills classroom. The clean and bright classroom is refreshing, and the high-standard woodworking tools are bright and orderly, and everything is available-this is a "good horse". According to the actual work, the carpentry team is in charge of teachers Zhang Xiaona and Peng Juan. With their joint efforts, the activities of the woodworking group have been on the right track. The neat activity room is becoming more and more lively. Under the immature hands of the students, we have seen gratifying results: there are basketball stands made in proportion, beautifully designed small wooden cabinets, and labor-saving garbage dumps ... The billboards they made for the experimental field have been inserted in the ground, causing adults to stop and watch; The two love nests in the tree are now the homes of several birds and become their warm little homes; Although the small coffee table given by kindergarten to small classes is immature, no one can deny the children's care, love and patience. ...
(4) Cultivate students' ability to think independently.
Learning begins with thinking, and thinking begins with doubt. The comprehensive practical activity class not only provides rich problem situations for students' thinking, but also effectively regulates students' brain function and fully taps their brain potential. Students operate by themselves, seek answers and exercise themselves with their hands and brains. The most valuable thing is that students observe and analyze in the experimental operation and gain direct experience. After coming back from the winter vacation, our school held the exhibition "Entering the New Year Culture". Students collected cultural customs for many years, and took photos of people wrapping jiaozi, watching lanterns, steaming jujube buns and kneading noodles lanterns during the Chinese New Year, which gave them a better understanding of the price and lucky money. They know how to use the lucky money in a reasonable plan, and many people have made pocket money consumption cards. "A year's plan lies in spring". At the beginning, children produced so many works, and I believe that they will become more and more solid on the road of comprehensive practice in the future.
(5) Cultivate students' ability to create independently.
The form of comprehensive practical activity class reduces unnecessary discipline. Class is not limited by 40 minutes, leaving more room for students to play freely. At the same time, students are encouraged to have different methods and ideas to avoid unified answers and methods. Students began to be good at actively collecting some information. In addition to the small knowledge cards on loose-leaf materials, students will browse related materials, and some even search all the popular science knowledge involved in Chinese books online. Students learned to take the initiative to dabble in popular science books outside textbooks. For example, in order to study how much flowers and trees know, many students buy popular science books to study the flowers and trees around them, not only knowing their characteristics, but also knowing their functions, which improves their initiative to protect flowers and trees. Compared with the passive protection in the past, they sincerely care for everything in nature.
Fourth, the research results are fruitful.
Pragmatic research and rich labor practice have opened up a vast world of "the stage is as big as the heart" for the growth of our students.
At the first exhibition of quality education achievements in primary and secondary schools in Rongcheng, our school had 15 inventions, making it the school with the largest number of exhibits. Among them, the high apple picker won the second prize for scientific and technological invention of primary and middle school students in Shandong Province, and the myopia-preventing chair and drip timer won the first prize for scientific and technological invention in Weihai City. In addition, scientific essays such as "The Secret of Snail Crawling" and "What do ants like to eat" won provincial and municipal awards; Newspapers often report students' compositions. Seven practical experience diaries written by students, such as Growing Vegetables, were published in Rongcheng News, Xiaojin Star and Weihai Evening News respectively. The communication written by Liu Yating, Xu Dan and other tutors on this topic has been reported by Rongcheng News, Rongcheng Radio Station, Weihai TV Station and Shandong Satellite TV for many times, and the results of our school's project were also broadcast on the Central International Channel in 20xx. In the first half of xx, the scenery here was unique, written by Director Dong Yanyan, who was in charge of the specific work of the project, and was adopted by Rongcheng Education Network and New Thinking Network's comprehensive practice column successively, and the click-through rate was once leading. Teacher Ning Ning's thesis "Specimen making activities, highlighting the charm of science and technology" won the second prize of the fourth Shandong Science and Technology Tutor's thesis; Teacher Lin Ying's thesis "More Ruler, More Hope" talks about the curriculum evaluation of comprehensive practical activities, and obtained excellent results in the key topic of "Practice and Innovation in Primary and Secondary Schools" in Weihai; The article "Experiencing in" Moving "and Gaining in" Living "written by President Zhang Jinping, the chief project manager, was published in Modern Education News. The research results of comprehensive practical activities in our school have been highly praised by the superior leaders, and exchanged twice at the experience exchange meeting organized by the municipal training center, which was popularized in the whole city.
The research of comprehensive practical activities in our school is based on the growth needs of students and focuses on cultivating students' autonomous learning ability and inquiry ability, so it has been widely praised by parents and all walks of life.
On June 5438+ 10, xx, Rongcheng TV also made a special follow-up report on the farmland practice activities of our school. In the same month, a series of activities of "World Diligence Day" carried out by the students of Class 3, Grade 5 in our school were broadcast in the "News Live Room" column of Rongcheng TV Station and Weihai TV Station.
Since March of xx, our school has received 8 visits and study activities from brother schools, which have been widely praised by the people who came to the school. Our school has received 8 visits from leaders above the municipal level in Weihai. Among them, Zhang Zhiyong, deputy director of the Provincial Department of Education, and Sun Jing, director of the Provincial Office for Women and Children, and other leaders visited our school successively, and fully affirmed and spoke highly of the development of comprehensive practical activities in our school.
V. Experience in research work
Through more than two years' research, we realize that to ensure the smooth progress of the research, we need to do the following: school leaders should pay attention to it, personally participate in the planning, organization and implementation of the research, and ensure the human and material resources input of the experiment. Schools should create a strong scientific research atmosphere and mobilize the enthusiasm of school teachers to participate in scientific research in various ways. Schools should actively seek the guidance of experts and provide theoretical support and help for teachers. Form a relationship with relevant units, establish an off-campus practice base and build a platform for students' practical activities; Hire off-campus tutors from the society and establish a contact manual for off-campus tutors. Establish effective contact with parents, attract parents to participate in activities, and get strong support from parents.