How to teach geography in middle school?

Updating the teaching concept Improving geography teaching methods The increasingly fierce international competition is essentially the competition of science and technology and talent. The level of development of science and technology and the use of science and technology is an important factor affecting a country's economy and comprehensive national strength. Whether we can cultivate high-quality talents is directly related to whether our country can be in the 21st century in the international competition in the strategic initiative position. For this reason, the new textbook follows the strategic idea of "education should be oriented to modernization, the world, and the future", and aims to comprehensively promote quality education. According to the basic concepts put forward by the new standard, it is required to learn geography that is useful for lifelong development, and to learn geography that is useful for life, and to change the teaching methods of geography to build an open geography curriculum, and to build a geography curriculum based on modern information technology. geography curriculum, build a geography curriculum based on modern information technology, build an evaluation mechanism that emphasizes both learning results and the learning process, and establish a new talent cultivation model. This puts forward new and higher requirements for geography teaching and brings new vitality to geography teaching work. In the construction of the socialist economy, especially in emphasizing the love of mankind *** with the home - the earth today, geography teaching plays an extremely important role. Geography is the only secondary school subject to human survival and development of the geographic environment, as well as the relationship between mankind and the environment as the basic content of the subject, is to the sustainable development of mankind for the purpose of the subject. Geography teaching materials in the guiding ideology and specific content, must be to cultivate the needs of socialist citizens as a starting point, to the environment, resources, human activities and the concept of sustainable development as the main clues, in the articulation of the relationship between mankind and the earth at the same time, focusing on strengthening patriotism education and national education, emphasizing the handling of the "three directions" and "two directions", and the "three directions" and "two directions". It emphasizes the relationship between the "three directions" and the "two directions". Therefore, how to adapt to the quality education model, do a good job of geography teaching activities, so as to further improve the level of geography teaching is an important topic worth exploring. Geography teaching activities should not only be suitable for the psychological and intellectual characteristics of junior high school students, but also focus on the overall development of human beings and personality development, which makes the cultivation of practical ability is more important than imparting knowledge. To this end, teachers must update the concept of education, grasp the opportunity to study geography teaching materials in depth, the flexibility to adopt and innovate a variety of lively teaching mode, give full play to the role of geography teaching in quality education, and fully promote the individuality of the students to meet the needs of the times for talent. In teaching, the implementation of skills training, focusing on cultivating students' ability to recognize and master the laws of nature and economy, so that students acquire the ability to search for knowledge; to strengthen the scientific way of thinking, so that students can obtain the overall development of intelligence and ability; to cultivate students' scientific spirit of innovation, truth-seeking and sense of responsibility for the benefit of mankind, and to strengthen the cultivation of non-intellectual qualities, which should be used as a key point to improve geography teaching and learning activities. First, carry out inquiry-based learning, cultivate students' creative ability throughout the ages, the classroom teachers speak, students listen, has been a matter of course. This teacher dominates the podium, the students passively accept the knowledge of the situation, a serious constraint on the development of students' thinking and ability, the new textbook to the new form and content of the traditional teaching method has been challenged. It requires students as the main body, so that students become the master of the classroom, requires geography teaching to change the past injection method, emphasizes the inquiry, discovery teaching, encourages students to geographic things, phenomena, curiosity, and cultivate the spirit of students to explore and innovation. This new teaching mode requires that under the guidance of the teacher, students are allowed to have extensive contact with society and seek comprehensive development in a diversified, dynamic and open classroom. This kind of teaching activities emphasize more on the process rather than the results, emphasize a kind of active exploration and innovative spirit of practice, focusing on teaching students lifelong useful knowledge and ability. Such as speaking "we need clean air" this part of the content, in the two weeks before the class, I gave the students a topic "how to control the environmental pollution in Guiyang City, Taijiqiao area", and then the class will be divided into four groups, each group is required to write a paper, and finally exchanges and discussions. Students are excited, they are led by the leader of the group, go to the library to check the information, collect information, digest the information, purposeful fieldwork in the district, go to the factory survey, family visits, the passing vehicle statistics, put the white paper in different places in the district, collect the dust, and then on the information to statistics, comparison, generalization, summarization, find the problem and put forward the solution. After two weeks of inquiry, the students of the four groups all handed in papers of a certain quality. The papers put forward a lot of constructive ideas to control the environmental pollution in the district, some of which were asked to be run by government departments, some by factories, and some by families. One of the students wrote in the paper: "Guiyang City, Taijiqiao area, large and small chimneys there are 21, cement factories and power plants have the highest and largest chimneys, chimneys discharged smoke like a black dragon flying in the sky, the sky has become hazy gray, so that people can not catch their breath, seriously polluting the environment of the district, to the physical and mental health of the people to bring great harm. " In response, the student put forward a good idea for improvement. Through this kind of inquiry-based learning, not only do students acquire more knowledge, but more importantly, cultivate students' ability to find problems and solve problems, and cultivate students' innovative spirit and practical ability. Second, pay attention to the extension of quality education in geography teaching quality education in the student-oriented teaching methods and effective teaching methods, can enhance the students' interest in learning, to achieve twice the result with half the effort teaching effect. Quality education in teaching, must give full play to the leading position of the teacher and the main role of the students, through the textbook "activities" "reading materials" and other columns, inspire students' thinking, through the textbook landscape map, color map, cartoon, schematic diagrams, Through the landscape map, color map, cartoon, schematic diagram, news report, data chart and other suitable for students' physical and mental characteristics, enjoyable way, let the students learn to use their brains, hands, cultivate observation, reading, analyzing and problem solving ability, develop students' personality and creativity. Make full use of the various charts and diagrams in the teaching materials, develop intelligence and aesthetic education, strengthen the education of competition consciousness, so that quality education can really be extended in geography teaching. Quality education requires a well-designed and thoughtful arrangement of the geography teaching environment, which requires the content to seek "real", training to seek "live", the method to seek "interesting". Let the students in a relaxed and pleasant geography classroom to learn the knowledge and skills to cultivate their noble sentiments and civilized quality. Third, pay attention to the cultivation of students' geographic learning ability and the ability to use skills in order to enable students to adapt to the rapid development of knowledge and the needs of the information society, we must pay attention to the cultivation of students' geographic learning ability and the ability to use, which is the quality of education emphasizes that "teaching students to learn more important than the learning of knowledge itself," the specific embodiment. Ability to cultivate a variety of ways, a variety of extracurricular activities, fill in the drawing table, homemade geography teaching aids, analyzing charts and graphs, speeches, writing small essays and so on, are good ways to cultivate the ability. Such as through the wall newspaper and other activities for patriotism education and aesthetic education. Students through the study of junior high school geography, find a lot of material to protect environmental resources, after careful editing, writing, tracing, a "love our **** with the home - the Earth," the board was done, so that the blackboard "said words", the students Patriotic education and aesthetic education. In the whole process of blackboard newspaper, not only cultivate the students to read, the ability to collect information, but also cultivate their aesthetic ability, the development of their personality, willpower, and at the same time positive mental quality has been further improved. Through visiting and other activities, students' intelligence, psychological quality and labor quality education can be strengthened. Such as the use of the geographical advantages of the region, leading students to walk, cycling to visit Nanjiao Park, Qianling Park, Huangguoshu Waterfalls, etc., to understand the characteristics of karst landforms, the reasons for the formation of and so on; with a camera to take pictures, the visit process, it is a review of the corresponding geographic knowledge. As a result of walking and biking, it also enhanced the students' physical fitness. In the longer march, students help each other, care about each other, encountered problems on the road, but also to use their brains to solve. Coupled with the hardship of walking and cycling, but also a kind of willpower exercise, competitive students very much like this activity. In short, teachers should update the teaching concept, through a series of flexible and lively teaching methods, to explore ways to cultivate a high degree of self-consciousness and mobility of talents and modes, so that it is conducive to human autonomy, exploratory and creative potential to play, and indeed make the teaching of geography adapted to the transfer of the quality education model, the quality of education into the specific teaching, so that geography education to play its due role in the important.