Concept is a systematic reflection of individual knowledge, experience and behavior in the mind. Teachers' educational concept is a rational summary and belief of teachers' personal understanding, experience and behavior of education. The 20th century is an era of "knowledge economy". In the new era, great changes have taken place in all aspects of human society, which has caused many changes in people's concepts. As teachers in the new era, we must update the concept of education and teaching to adapt to the development of education and teaching.
As a brand-new economic form, knowledge economy is essentially different from industrial economy. Our existing education, from system to content, from personnel training objectives to teaching methods, all serve the industrial economy. The arrival of knowledge economy will inevitably have a fierce impact on current education and pose a severe challenge. The core of knowledge economy is innovation. Innovation must be realized by innovative talents, which requires a thorough reform of education, vigorously cultivating innovative talents, paying attention to cultivating students' ability, and striving to cultivate students' innovative consciousness and ability. In the era of knowledge economy, learning will run through a person's life, which can be described as "never too old to learn". Learning is no longer just a patent for students, and education is no longer just a privilege for teachers. A real life-long education and life-long learning era also comes with the arrival of the knowledge economy era. Therefore, education must face up to the reality, adapt to the requirements of the new era, make its forms flexible and diverse, and promote social learning and socialization of learning. In the era of knowledge economy, the renewal cycle of knowledge is getting shorter and shorter, new knowledge is emerging at a high speed, and the amount of information is increasing exponentially. The knowledge needed by the society and the teaching content of the school should be constantly updated. Traditional teaching forms, teaching contents and teaching methods will be challenged. Facing the challenge of knowledge economy, all fields of education must be innovated in an all-round way, including the innovation of educational ideas, educational concepts and educational systems, the innovation of teaching contents, methods and approaches, and the innovation of the whole educational system. But for every teacher, the most important thing is the innovation of educational ideas and concepts. Teachers must establish correct educational concepts and understand advanced educational concepts. Only in this way can we use advanced education and teaching concepts to guide practice. With the renewal of ideas, new educational methods can be created to meet the requirements of the learning era.
Under the influence and promotion of the new scientific and technological revolution, it is of great significance to master the new concept of modern education to meet the needs of world-wide economic competition and comprehensive national strength competition:
First, "the information age has arrived" and "the beginning of knowledge economy" have become our common words. Rationally speaking, language is an objective description of ideas. However, when we use these words, in addition to expressing our psychological sense of urgency and vision for the future, can teachers really understand the difference between contemporary education and traditional education in the process of historical continuation from tradition to modernity and in the process of introduction and absorption from abroad to China?
Second, the majority of teachers have long abandoned the injection teaching method and accepted the heuristic teaching method. Especially in recent years, many imported and self-created teaching methods have emerged one after another, which has played a very good role in promoting the education and teaching reform and the implementation of quality education. However, in the face of these dazzling stylized teaching methods, we don't fully understand which method is more suitable for local reality.
Third, certain ideas affect certain behaviors, and education is no exception. Method is very important because it is the intermediary of thought and behavior. However, methods alone are not enough. Only by deeply understanding the connotation of contemporary educational ideas can we fundamentally solve the problem. We now have a large number of teaching methods, and the teaching methods used now are not entirely based on new educational concepts.
Fourthly, the birth of all teaching methods is related to a certain cultural background and philosophical trend of thought. The influx of western education and teaching methods has provided us with many resources for reference. However, when we learn from these teaching methods, how to make them "localized", that is, how to solve the problem of whether these teaching methods are in line with China's national conditions and reality.
Fifth, traditional education is "hereditary", that is, the inheritance of human culture is based on imparting knowledge. Nowadays, the educational function is undergoing profound changes. Improving students' quality and cultivating students' innovative ability have gradually become the theme of education. Teachers also have great enthusiasm for education and teaching reform. However, the implementation of quality education and innovative education needs to be implemented, and enthusiasm alone is not enough. In this context, the confusion about how teachers teach, how students learn, what teachers teach and what students learn must be well solved.
Understanding the new concept of international education is of great help to the implementation of new textbooks and new courses. The development trend of new curriculum and new textbook reform can be summarized as modernization, foundation, personalization and integration. Through the reform, the new curriculum textbooks have the following characteristics: (1) modernization. Content writing should actively adapt to the needs of society and combine, select and add new content according to the new changes in the development of modern science and disciplines; Teaching methods should absorb and adopt new technologies. (2) foundation. In order to ensure and meet the needs of each student's survival and development and adapt to the needs of future social development, we will provide students with all kinds of basic knowledge so that they can master the most basic learning methods. (3) openness. Emphasize the connection between learning and students' life and social development; Curriculum implementation should embody the principles of democracy and respect for individual development; Advocate the diversity of teaching activities, the openness of teaching time and space, the independent choice of learning methods and the difference of evaluation standards. (4) integration. According to the development of modern society and science, we should re-examine the curriculum of basic education, select and combine the curriculum and content, attach importance to the integration of the curriculum, and design to reflect the integrity of the curriculum. In addition, the course content should be diversified and flexible, and the unity of science and humanity, nationality and internationality should be advocated.
Judging from the trend and characteristics of the new curriculum textbook reform, the reform of the new curriculum textbook is consistent with the advanced education and teaching concept. If teachers don't know the advanced education and teaching concepts, it will directly affect the implementation effect of the new curriculum textbooks. Because teachers who lack the guidance of advanced education and teaching concepts will not understand the spirit of curriculum textbook reform, and it is difficult to achieve the expected results; Teachers who have mastered advanced education and teaching concepts will take the initiative to reform, which will make the reform more effective.
At present, most educational ideas originated from foreign countries, and the new modern educational ideas are generally divided into three levels, namely, macro educational ideas, general educational ideas and teaching and learning ideas. The concept of three-level education plays a very important role in the current education and teaching reform. Macro-educational ideas include: lifelong education and learning society, which are the basis and dominate other educational ideas; General educational thoughts include environmental education, ecological education, cooperative education, ethnic education, constructivism education and other educational thoughts, which are of reference significance to China's education and teaching reform; The concept of teaching and learning has direct guiding significance for guiding teachers to carry out daily education and teaching activities and carry out education and teaching reform. This is a process from abstraction to concreteness. Having a new concept of modern education can enable teachers to understand the new educational concept from a macro perspective and implement it in practical work.