| The teaching theories under the new curriculum reform think, students are not passive containers to accept education, but the subjects of teaching activities and living persons with subjective initiative. The whole activities of the teaching must mobilize students' activity and positivity as point of departure, guiding students to investigate initiatively, think actively and realize the regress of students' subject. The new curriculum of ideological and political lesson of the senior high school is established in students' real-life experience, has students' development need in mind, makes the elaboration of ideology in the topic of social activities, and emphasizes the practicality and opening of the curriculum execution. However, many teachers still teach textbook knowledge as their tasks, limiting the ideological and political lesson studying in the classroom, which ought to have vast spaces. This paper is based on the subjective demands of extending and implementing the new curriculum, and inherent demands of the new curriculum characteristics. It elaborates exertion of inquiry teaching in the new curriculum, that is, introduction, problems-raising, theories of inquiry teaching, meanings of implementing it, concrete execution of it, and rethink of elementary practice.Under the new era, teaching mode reform of ideological and political lesson in senior high school should meet the need of the time. Currently, the teaching mode has many shortcomings, for example, the rate of time using is low, students' subjectivity does not develop sufficiently, and teaching effect is not satisfactory. The new curriculum reform puts forward new demands for teaching. It is necessary to implement inquiry teaching, in favor of students' sustainable development, and cultivating their innovative spirit and practical ability. The teaching mode is the more stable framework of teaching activities and activity procedures, which is set up under the guidance of certain teaching idea or theory. The inquiry teaching is centered on inquiry. It is based on teachers' enlightenment, and students' independent study and cooperative discuss. Its basic content is existing textbooks. It is characteristic of independence, interaction, humanity center, and so on.Problems-raising researchs the definition and research status quo of teaching mode. The theory of inquiry teaching includes the connotation, characteristics and essences of it. Viewing from the generalization and execution of new curriculum reform, students' sustainable development, and the characteristics of the new curriculum, we hold that it is necessary to implement inquiry teaching. The concrete... |