The Application Of Task-driving Teaching Approach In Information Technology Education Of Junior High School

With the development of modern information technology and the implementation of further reform of compulsory education curricular, the information technology education enters a new era of overall construction and rapid development. Especially the information technology education at junior high school, which takes the responsibility of connecting primary school education with junior high school as well as the responsibility of laying a solid foundation for senior high school education, is facing a great challenge and has come into the spotlight in this field. Therefore, educators has carried out studies based on both theory and practice and put forward teaching approaches and procedures based on Task-driving theory to promote students'information quality, meet the requirement of the development of information technology education and fit the requests of learners in this field.Task-driving approach is based on Constructivism Theory. It represents Students Centered Teaching theory and emphasizes that students should accomplish active discovery and construction of knowledge through specific tasks. In the course of curricular reform, many educators has concentrated on the study of Constructivism Theory and adopted Task-driving teaching approach in their teaching practice. However, the lack of theory and experience in this area leads to many problems such as one-sided understanding of task driving, the unoriginal design of the task, the expanding usage of task-driving, and the simplistic appraisal and thus, bring unprecedented doubts towards the theory.Guided by the scientific and systemic theory out of the teaching practice, this research adopts experimental study method and achieves further study and practice on the application of task–driving teaching in Information Technology education of junior high school. We obtain brand new understanding about Task-driving Teaching through analyzing the current situation based on Constructivism theory, Multiple Intelligences theory, Learning Motivation Research and the Leading status– Subject status teaching theory. Moreover, on the basis of daily teaching experience and the learners'characteristic of junior high school, we systemically design and improve Task-driving Teaching Method on aspects including teaching content analysis, learners'characteristic analysis, task design, task situation design, learning resource design, initiative, learning design, co-operating learning environment design and appraisal design so that it can fit for information technology education in junior high schools and can be tested and improved in the teaching practice further. The result of the research shows the application of Task-driving teaching in junior high school's information technology inspires the learners'interest , shifts learners'attitude towards study in an optimistic way, improves their initiative study effect , strengthens their ability to obtain information and solve problems in reality with information technology, sets up co-operation spirit, narrows the gap between excellent students and students feeling difficult in study, achieves the aim of overall development of all the students'information quality. This research furthers the application study of task-driving teaching in the fields of theory as well as practice, provides brand new teaching concept and methods, reforms current classroom teaching on information technology education at junior high school and contributes precious reference to the improvement of overall education quality.