Discovery teaching method was put forward by Stilwell, a famous German educator, and advocated by Jerome S. Bruner, a famous American psychologist and educator. As one of the founders of German normal education in the19th century, Dostoevsky, a famous German educator, put forward the view that "scientific knowledge should not be taught to students, but should guide students to discover and master independently".
Discovery teaching method generally refers to discovery learning, which refers to the process that learners start from problems or tasks, explore and discover facts, laws and methods to solve problems through various forms of inquiry activities, so as to acquire new knowledge and form a cognitive structure.
The main theoretical basis of discovery teaching method is the construction principle and epiphany theory of cognitive constructivism school. As a teaching method, both the teaching process and the teaching goal pay more attention to students' learning. In this sense, "discovery learning" is characterized by students' independent exploration and cooperative learning. In the learning process, students can actively and effectively participate in their own metacognition, motivation and behavior on the basis of their original cognition.
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1. Stimulate students' interest in learning: The discovery teaching method stimulates students' interest and curiosity in learning by providing challenging questions, situations and experiments. Students gain a sense of accomplishment in the process of exploring and solving problems independently, and then cultivate a positive learning attitude.
2. Cultivate critical thinking and problem-solving ability: Discovery teaching method emphasizes students' active thinking and exploration. Students need to observe, think, reason and experiment, find laws and summarize them, and cultivate critical thinking and problem-solving ability.
3. Promote deep understanding: By allowing students to build their own knowledge system, explore the nature and internal relations of problems, and discover the connections between knowledge, students can better understand and remember what they have learned. This profound understanding contributes to the long-term maintenance and flexible application of knowledge.