About the author: Xu Jing, a teacher of Yaxi Middle School in Zunyi County, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province.

First, the importance of cultivating high school students' innovative ability in English classroom teaching

Innovative thinking ability refers to students' creative thinking ability, that is, students' ability to actively discover new things, put forward new ideas and solve new problems. It is not the special genius of a few people, but the characteristics and inner potential of everyone. The key to cultivating creative thinking is to cultivate students' keen insight, rich imagination and thinking ability to break through the mindset. Therefore, it is very important to cultivate high school students' innovative thinking ability.

1. Innovation is the soul of a nation's progress and the way for students to survive in a competitive society. Facing the challenge of the knowledge economy era, in recent years, the educational circles all over the world are advocating innovative ideas. "English Curriculum Standard for Full-time Compulsory Education Senior High School (Experimental Draft)" also clearly points out: "English curriculum in senior high school should focus on improving students' ability to obtain information, process information, analyze and solve problems in English, and at the same time further develop students' basic language application ability; Gradually cultivate students' ability to think and express in English; Create necessary conditions for students' further study and development. "This points out the development direction of English education in China, and makes the majority of English teachers clear the teaching goal, that is, to cultivate qualified talents with innovative ability in the new century.

2. Senior high school students are the stage to improve their logical thinking ability and creativity. After the network is involved in our daily life, a lot of information impacts our original thinking and views. While mastering a lot of information, students are also building their own thinking framework and forming their own opinions. Therefore, while actively exploring and recognizing, they are eager to communicate and affirm, and gradually develop innovative thinking in communication and affirmation.

3. The new round of curriculum reform in China has injected vitality into innovative education, especially the development and discussion of research-based learning in recent years, which has built a platform for creative teaching. However, most teachers think that the main position of innovative education is the classroom, that is, to cultivate students' innovative ability, especially innovative thinking ability, in classroom teaching of daily subjects.

Second, set doubts and enlighten wisdom, and create an innovative atmosphere.

We set an information gap in every teaching step of English classroom teaching, step by step, and design flexible thinking questions according to certain teaching contents or language materials, so that students can explore different answers from the same materials or information sources and cultivate their thinking ability of seeking differences on their own initiative. Designing such thinking questions for students to discuss, demonstrate and debate not only mobilizes students' enthusiasm for using language materials and organizing new language content, but also trains students' thinking ability to seek different answers from the same information source.

When students are interested in this kind of discussion questions, they will not be afraid of difficulties and take the initiative to learn. At this time, teachers should seize the opportunity to create an atmosphere for students to learn English, strengthen the stimulation of language information, and create an innovative teaching atmosphere.

Third, cultivate students' habit of self-reliance and courage to explore, and create opportunities for students to innovate and explore skillfully.

Student-centered classroom teaching is a multilateral activity in which teachers and students participate and communicate together. Equal, democratic and cooperative communication between teachers and students can make the classroom more free and open, more situational and more conducive to students' active participation. Teachers must pay attention to making teaching methods novel and creative in teaching design and arrangement, so as to better mobilize and give play to students' subjectivity and make them truly become the protagonists of learning. In English classroom teaching, teachers can use various methods and channels to guide and motivate all students to actively participate and innovate. In the design and arrangement of teaching process, teachers should also pay attention to give full play to students' main role, respect students' independent personality, stimulate students' desire for exploration, and do everything possible to cultivate students' ability to acquire knowledge independently and creatively.

Fourth, cultivate divergent thinking and improve innovative thinking ability.

A famous person once said, "A good teacher is not teaching, not teaching students, but teaching students to learn". Practice shows that discussion and questioning teaching is beneficial to the development of divergent thinking and innovative thinking. In order to make students have rich imagination, actively explore and seek differences, and insist on independent opinions, teachers should be good at excavating the creative factors contained in textbooks, create situations by setting questions, provide opportunities for each student to participate, and let students actively use what they have learned and boldly make divergent creations. For example, when teaching the present, first show a stick figure, in which a student is studying and his father is reading a newspaper. When showing pictures, we can cover up half of what the students are doing, and then ask: What is the child doing while his father is reading the newspaper?

At this time, students will guess and may produce various answers, which provides them with the opportunity to divergent thinking.

In text teaching, teachers should be good at designing novel and unique questions that can resonate with students, so that students can discuss collectively on the basis of independent thinking. Brainstorm. Teachers can also make use of the knowledge they have taught, so that students can freely seek differences and divergence and write new content. For example, after teaching an article, the teacher writes a few key words on the blackboard and asks the students to make up some contents themselves. This will enable students to inspire and communicate with each other, so as to use language knowledge flexibly with innovative consciousness, and let students explore and solve new problems and master new knowledge by their own abilities. In this process, students' innovative practical ability can be really improved.

Fifth, cultivate divergent thinking and improve innovative thinking ability.

In text teaching, teachers should be good at designing novel and unique questions that can resonate with students. Let the students discuss collectively and brainstorm on the basis of independent thinking. You can also make use of the knowledge you have taught, so that students can freely seek differences and divergence and write new content. For example, after an article is taught, several keywords can appear on the blackboard, so that students can fill in some content themselves. In this way, students can inspire each other and communicate with each other, so as to use language knowledge flexibly with innovative consciousness. Let students explore and solve new problems and master new knowledge by their own abilities. In this process, students' innovative ability and practical ability can be really improved.

Learning to innovate is a kind of adaptability and creativity that can actively change oneself and the environment. To cultivate students' creativity is to ask students to think independently, explore boldly, find a new way, and put forward their own new ideas and viewpoints on the basis of existing knowledge, combined with learning practice and future ideas. How to improve innovation ability and let students learn to innovate? First, we should pay attention to the cultivation of students' observation. Only on the basis of observation can students make new discoveries. Second, pay attention to developing students' imagination. All activities begin with innovative imagination. The third is to cultivate students' hands-on operation ability. Only by personal practice can we see our own innovation achievements and experience the happiness of innovation. For example, when teaching students the structure of stressed sentences, students are required to deduce interrogative sentences and negative sentences. Students can quickly get the correct answer according to the existing knowledge, sum up the four elements of stressed sentences, and then give the following example: "She didn't finish her composition until last night." Ask the students to discuss whether to stress the sentence or not, and encourage them to deduce it backwards. Students can observe that this example is to shift the negation of the predicate verb in the main sentence to the be that emphasizes the structure. In this way, students learn to question, learn knowledge and innovate in the practice of learning activities.

In short, students' learning process is both a cognitive process and an inquiry process. The process of education itself is a kind of exploration and creation. Author: Yaxi Middle School, Zunyi County, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province