What is usually taught in a comprehensive practical course?

Integrated practical activity courses refer to comprehensive learning activities carried out by students independently under the guidance of teachers. Comprehensive practical activities are learning activities based on students' experiences, closely related to students' lives and social realities, and reflecting the comprehensive application of knowledge.

Comprehensive practical activity courses pay particular attention to students' diversified practical learning methods, transforming the kind of students' single knowledge transfer as the basic way, to the acquisition of knowledge as the direct purpose of learning activities, emphasizing the diversified practical learning, such as investigation, survey, visits, study tours, operation, service, labor practice and technical practice, and so on.

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Unlike the strong goal-oriented nature of traditional practical activities, comprehensive practical activities put more emphasis on the synthesis of multiple themes, multiple task modes, and multiple research methods, and this composite does not come from the artificial complication of teachers, but from the process of deeper understanding and digging out of the theme of the practical activities of individual students.

In foreign countries, the comprehensive practical activities of education are broken down by scouting organizations, civic public welfare organizations, community management organizations, and the school only plays a supporting and channeling role. In China's elementary school, comprehensive practical activities through the curriculum reform was promoted, attached to the curriculum system of the standard textbooks, closed practice base, quality report took on more practical responsibility.

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