The New Geography Curriculum Implementation And Teacher Role Changes

Facing the serious challenge that the practice of middle school new geography curriculum has brought to the teachers, this essay suggests that the teacher's role should be changed accordingly. The teacher's role should be of variety.First of all, this essay deals with the basic understanding to the teacher's role, analyzes the teacher's role in traditional teaching and meanwhile shows the new idea to the teacher's role according to the demand of the new geography curriculum.Then, a survey and analysis are made to the problems existing in the locating of geography teacher's role, taking geography teachers of Changchun as an example. This essay analyzes the results of the survey, by means of collecting answer sheets, in the following four aspects: the understanding and acceptance of geography teachers to the new curriculum, observing the problems existing in the teacher's role changing from the way in which they now teach, from the use of way in which they evaluate their students' studies, the extent at which middle school geography teachers understand the important contents of the teacher's role. The result shows that facing the great revolution carried out by the country in curriculum and textbooks of elementary education, the majority possess the idea of role changing in carrying out the new geography curriculum, but quite a lot of teachers are not well prepared for this and thus they still have one-sided views in their minds or their ideas towards education are not suitable. Many geography teachers haven't got rid of the traditional curriculum and knowledge system. They pay more attention to the function of dividing and choosing in students' study evaluation, ignoring the function of promoting the students' developing. They still haven't got out of the role of teaching knowledge only, making teaching and research separated and teaching and curriculum separated.To finish it, this essay puts forward the demands to the changing of geography teachers in carrying out the curriculum on basis of the result of the survey and what new curriculum asks for in the teacher's role of variety:1.Geography teachers must have a better understanding and carry out theideas of the new curriculum.2.In the way of evaluating a change should be made from laying more stress on knowledge teaching to promoting the learning process.3.In relationship between teachers and students, geography teachers must change from power-controllers high above the students to " No. one equaling the students" . That is, change from a manager to an instructor, a participant,from a controller to an active promoter, onlooker.4.Geography teachers must change from users of curriculum to explorers of it.5.Geography teachers must change from teaching tools to teaching researchers.6.Geography teachers must master new teaching skills.7.Geography teachers should actively face the challenge brought by new teaching methods.