Cultivate Students' Comprehensive Ability In Independent Study

With the swift development of science and technology, the arrival of socialinformationization and economic globalization, the society put forward higherdemand to talent's quality in the future. It regards students ability's training andbringing up comprehensive talents with initiative spirit as the common understandingof every countries' demand of talents in the new century. This is also a developmenttrend of an international educational reform. To study independently is a kind of studyway to meet the developing needs of era. Nowadays this is one of the study wayswhich are proposed for course reform . This thesis mainly talks about the training ofstudents' synthetical abilities in independent study.Independent study, with its unique advantage, has irreplaceable functionin the cultivation of synthetical abilities. This thesis defines the definition ofsynthetical ability, composition and the definition of independent study. By regardingquality-oriented education and students as the subjects, also regarding pedagogy,psychology, the theory of ability training as the theoretical foundation, the author,combining his teaching experiences and studying the influence factor of theintegration capability and forming the mechanism, has proposed four teaching tacticsin the independent study.I. Paying attention to the connection and synthesizing among knowledge,enhance the level of structurization and summarizing:1, Elaborating students' subjectivity, strengthening students' understanding ofknowledge2, Elaborating teachers' action as guide, leading students to look for the innerconnection among knowledgeII. Paying attention to activity teaching:1, Launching activity teaching2, Launching investigating activity3, Launching discussing activityIII. Reinforcing testing operation, strengthening students' synthetical abilityIV. Training students' meta-cognitive tactics, teach students how to studyThe author, with the above tactics, evaluates the effect of test teaching in eightmonths by adopting the methods of observation and questionnaire investigation. Itindicates that the students of testing class are more enthusiastic and active than thestudents of ordinary class. They have strong consciousness in the independent studyand raise doubts and difficult questions for discussion, demonstrating some depthwhile pondering over questions. They can control one's own study course and canpropose some valuable questions effectively in the course of study. And they also trytheir best to solve the problems. They put forward supposing and prove it whilesolving the problem. The schemes which are supposed correspond to reality even more.They are more active in discussing with students. The methods that they analyze andsolve the problem are various. The proper arrangement of their thinking is clear, moreflexible at the same time. The conclusion they infer is correct and can be used. And itis developed consciously. Students are good at evaluating one's own study andreviewing one's own learning process. The meta-cognitive skill level is obviouslyimproved. They are good at summarizing knowledge, and making use of the knowledgeand mode of thinking more synthetically while solving the problem. The solutions arevarious. They elect the optimum solution finally. In a word, among high schoolteaching, adopting the tactics of cultivating synthetical abilities in independent studycan improve students' integration capability notably.Finally the author proposes some thoughts and prospects in the teaching processof the synthetical abilities cultivation and promises to try his best to consummate it inthe practice.