Secondary School Economic Geography The Progressive Teaching Model

With the development of professional education in China, technical secondaryschools have gone through the period of low-development. There are more and moremajors and students. However, influenced by the enrollment enlargement of the highschools, it's hard for them to enroll examinees of high scores. The scores of the studentsare quite different when they enter the schools. Through the survey we find out that notonly their scores are different but also are their learning motivation, methods and habits. Inthe traditional class-teaching mode, the "marching together" teaching style is adoptedwhich ignores the differences or treats the differences passively, and this results in thesituation of the following: " students have nothing to do in class", " cannot follow theteacher in class" and low teaching efficiency. In dealing with the contradict betweenteaching requirement and the learning possibility of the students, layer progressiveteaching mode is one of the most efficient and rational teaching style to improve theteaching quality greatly under the system of class-teaching. Layer progressive teaching mode is that the students are divided into different layersaccording to the individual differences and they are made foreign learning groups withoutbreaking the original class. Different tasks and teaching methods are planned at everyteaching step to make every student to be involved in learning actively, this will improvethe individual development and then all the students will make progress together.Except for the support of the ancient theory of "teach students in accordance of theiraptitude", layer progressive teaching mode gains the theoretical basis from Lev Vygotsky's"zone of proximal development", Bumbansky's theory of "optimization of learningprocess", J. S. Bruner's theory of "mastering what is being learned", and "coorperativelearning" of constructivism.The author puts forward that layer progressive teaching should follow the basicprinciples of separation and combination, silence and movement, all-member participationand making progress together. Corresponding teaching method for teaching goals shouldbe designed according to the characteristics of students from different layers. There arethree steps that we should pay attention to: 1. Preparation: There are preparations fortextbooks and for students 2. Teaching: there are six points: context making, goal making;directional self-study, cooperative exploration;layer question design, layer question andanswer;diagnosis and compensation, simultaneous teaching;layer exercise, instructing fordifferent groups;teaching adjustment 3. Evaluation on different layers, feedback andremedy. The dynamic adjustment is realized through the shape of evaluation and theprocess of it. There are corresponding methods for each point. It is highly practical.Giving scientific analysis on the process and result through the method of comparison,the author educes that layer progressive teaching is an efficient way for the students toincrease their scores and improve together. It satisfies the requirement of the presentquality education. The author puts forward that it is practical to carry out layer progressiveteaching in technical secondary schools according to the present situation. The authorthinks that layer progressive teaching mode is a new mode in accordance with moderneducational theory, educational and teaching law and quality education spirit. It hastheoretical implications as well as practical implications.