Effective History Classroom Activities, Under The New Curriculum Philosophy

In order to implement the new curriculum reform on changing students' learning methods, make students actively participate in classroom learning, and foster the students' ability of practicing and exploring, activities in history classroom have come into been. In history classroom, to develop a variety of activities manifests the teaching methodology that "activities helps the development of the students, such as telling historical stories, compiling and acting historical dramas, organizing history competitions, discussing history events, carrying out group work study, making history tabloids, producing charts and historical chronology of major events, simulating historical events, learning to write history essays, and exploring the answers to problems etc. The history classroom activities enormously arouse the students' interests in learning history as well as change the students' learning manners and the traditional "spoon-feed" way of teaching. The variety of classroom activities helps a combined action of the students' four sensory organs, which is also advantageous for the students to improve their ability. They not only help improve the students study, but also help in future development. The interactive process between teachers and students is a foundation of harmonious and democratic relationship between them which helps achieve the goal of progress both teachers and students. However, not all historical classroom activities can have the positive effects mentioned before as we have expected. Some basic principles must be observed while carrying out historical classroom activities, like moving target's definition principle, active procedure's scientific principle, the active way's appropriate principle, teacher's leading principle, student's independent principle, the active interactive principle, form of action's originality and creative and so on. Obeying these principles, the historical classroom activities can be called effective historical classroom activities, so can it truly achieve the teaching goal comprehensively, and establish the foundation to promote the students' full-scale and lifelong development.