The "Nondirective Teaching's" Illumination To The Chinese Reading Teaching In Senior High School

The twenty-fist century is the times of China's going to the globalstage and going into the world's trail. How does Chinese education go outof its hell and realize it's modernization? And how can make Chinesebecome the force which benefits to prompting the storing andtransmission of high science and technology and the power whichbenefits to the development of social and economic culture and scienceand technology. Then, we must rescan Chinese education on the whole.And open the area of Chinese education and absorb the good theoreticalachievement in order to enrich itself and to make Chinese educationobtain all-round progress. The author tries to probe the outlet of Chinesereading teaching in senior high school on the basic understanding of"Chinese Curriculum Criteria for Ordinary Senior High School" (Draft)by using "Nondirective teaching" for reference.The whole paper consists of four parts:The first part: The explanation and evaluation to the Nondirectiveteaching. "Nondirective teaching", proposed by Carl Ransom Rogers, ahumanism-psychologist of USA, who emphasizes on the students'self-actualizing, is a typical "student-centered" theory. Carl thoughtstudents have potential and can bring their own potential out."Nondivective teaching" can be enlightful to the Chinese curriculumreform;certainly the negative influence should be avoided.The second part: Further discussion about the theory. "Nondirectiveteaching" comes directly from humanistic psychology and alsoexperimented by many theories such as Marxist philosophy, post moderntrend of thought, consructionism, and cooperation pedagogy etc.Nondirective teaching has its basis in our country. It is in accordance withthe development of society, the reform of Chinese curriculum in seniorhigh middle school, and the most important, it is suitable for theparticular period in the development of senior high school students.Part three: The "Nondirective teaching's" illumination to theChinese reading teaching in senior high school. In our current readingteaching in senior middle school, teachers often emphasize on students'respect and obedience to the instructor. They are used to conveyingknowledge to students, and ready to ask students to memorizemechanically or recite what they have read, so it is easy for students tolose interest in reading and experiencing what they are reading. Thus theyaren't likely to gain a lot from reading. Therefore it's important for theteacher to have new concept and change their old role in the relation withstudents. Teachers should raise their own aptitude continuously, beprovided with wide knowledge of pedagogy and teaching theory as wellas establish the democratic atmosphere in the class. They can organize thestudents to discuss about the required reading and try to be a helper tothem.Since teachers are no longer the authority who just conveyknowledge and reading experience to students, the students are no longthe ones who just accept passively. They should be motivated when theyare reading, and thus they can bring their potential out, and becomeautonomous learners. Then they can get the real meaning of reading.What's more, students need to develop the good habit of analyzing whatthey have read and drawing some conclusions by themselves. As a result,they will be able to master the strategies of reading. During the process oflearning reading, students also need to learn how to communicate withothers, and cultivate the consciousness of cooperation and collectivity.Part four: The concrete utilization of "Nondirective teaching". Thispart investigates what principle "Nondivective teaching" should follow insenior high school. In the practical teaching, we adopt the process of"Introduce the context, determine the object, discuss about and appreciatethe context, and show the result." We'll do it in a student-centered way. Inthe process of evaluating the reading teaching, we should focus on thereading process, students personality, give them more encouragement andtry to make every student attain a good harvest.