On the Teaching Methods of Tourism Psychology
Abstract: Tourism psychology is the basic main course in the curriculum system of tourism management specialty. Between tourism and psychology. The main content of tourism psychology course is people's consumption psychology, communication psychology and service psychology in tourism activities, which has important practical significance for students' future work. However, as a new course, there are still many problems, which seriously affect the teaching effect. Therefore, the teaching reform of tourism psychology course is imperative.
Keywords: teaching methods of tourism psychology
1. Problems in the Course of Tourism Psychology
1. 1 course content ignores practice.
An important feature of tourism psychology course for tourism majors in higher vocational colleges is its strong theory. There are nearly 60 courses in a semester, but almost all of them stay at the level of book knowledge explanation. They attach importance to theoretical teaching, seldom attend practical classes and ignore practice. The theoretical part of tourism psychology course is important, but it is also essential to help students learn to use theoretical knowledge and lay a good foundation. The course of tourism psychology, which lacks practical training, has poor learning effect and weak application ability, so it is difficult for students to really master it.
1.2 The teaching method is obsolete and rigid.
The teaching method of tourism psychology course in higher vocational colleges still stays? Teachers teach and students learn? In the new stage, the whole teaching process is centered on the teacher's lecture, and students are in a passive position. This traditional teaching method can easily make students lose interest in learning, feel bored, and produce negative emotions such as inattention and weariness of learning. Moreover, the course of tourism psychology is an extremely abstract course, which requires students to think actively and experience personally to understand the truth. Traditional teaching methods make students lose the initiative to learn, rely on teachers, and ultimately the learning effect is not good.
1.3 The assessment system is not comprehensive enough.
The examination method of tourism psychology course in most higher vocational colleges is still the final unified closed-book examination. The content of the test paper is mainly theoretical knowledge, accounting for about 70% to 80% of the total score of the test paper, while the examples to examine students' flexible application ability only account for about 20% to 30%, which leads to the fact that students who can't actually use it can only pass the exam by reciting the key points before the exam. This assessment standard can not really assess students' ability to master, use and understand knowledge, and it is a very one-sided assessment system. Moreover, it will also cause students to take this course lightly, not actively and not seriously.
2. Analysis of several teaching methods of tourism psychology.
2. 1 Develop internalized teaching mode
Implement it in the basic link of teaching.
(1) Teachers assign learning tasks. In the first class of the course teaching, students are clearly informed of the teaching content, teaching schedule, teaching materials, bibliography, performance evaluation and other relevant regulations. In the teaching process, students should be advised to read books and reference materials; And give thinking questions for the material, including preview and review thinking questions, and strengthen the review of the course content after class.
(2) Students learn independently. Students need to carefully study the reference materials, read the bibliography and preview the teaching materials; Carefully review what the teacher has taught; Think independently about the thinking problems assigned by the teacher and prepare for the answer; And complete homework and exercises, aiming at cultivating good autonomous learning ability.
(3) check. Teachers can ask questions, check homework, demonstrate and show the completion of inspection tasks in any form. In the assessment of the course of tourism psychology, teachers can adopt flexible and diverse methods, such as classroom discussion, group activities, classroom tests and so on. In order to check whether the students understand and use the knowledge learned in the last lesson. The investigation session can be conducted in class or after class by using the Internet.
(4) Teaching and counseling. Teaching: In the teaching process of tourism psychology, various teaching methods can be adopted, such as classroom questioning method, classroom discussion, case analysis, scenario simulation, multimedia teaching method, etc., to enliven the classroom atmosphere and improve students' classroom participation, and the teaching effect is very good. For counseling and answering questions: counseling and answering questions in the course of tourism psychology includes two forms: collective answering questions and individual answering questions. The form and place of answering questions can be flexible.
Implementation of curriculum evaluation. The course of Tourism Psychology mainly implements quality examination, which is required to conform to the basic idea of developing internalized teaching mode. In the quality examination, we should highlight the proportion of subjective questions, set up more discussion questions, case analysis questions, application questions and other topics, and focus on assessing students' ability to use knowledge flexibly and operational skills. The comprehensive evaluation should also consider students' participation in the learning process and their usual grades, which makes the assessment methods diversified.
2.2 Bi Bo platform problem-based learning method
Integrating supplementary teaching materials, combining knowledge points to find problems and design problems, tourism psychology understands how tourists know the tourism world from a psychological point of view, what factors will affect tourists' psychology and behavior, and what psychological qualities and skills practitioners and managers should have. There are many knowledge points involved. How to stimulate students' learning motivation, improve their learning enthusiasm and improve their autonomous learning ability? So the traditional problem-based learning and teaching mode is to improve students' enthusiasm and design questions according to knowledge points, such as? How to apply perceptual principle in tourism industry? If we use Bi Bo's platform, we can reform the traditional problem-based learning mode: from asking questions to doing problems, designing questions for students, exploring what knowledge points these questions may involve, and how to explain them with what we have learned. For example, the line products of travel agencies, such as the 5-day tour of Xinmatai, the 5-city tour of East China and related travel websites, are all hung on Bibo's platform for students to read. Think about what psychological principles these tourism products use to explain and so on. The same is the application of perception principle in tourism psychology, but compared with the traditional problem-based learning and teaching mode, the problem-based learning and teaching mode based on Bi Bo platform allows students to preview and learn relevant knowledge in the early stage, and then use the theory they have learned to find and even design problems themselves, thus greatly stimulating students' enthusiasm for learning.
2.3 the use of problem-based learning teaching mode to design the teaching process.
Before, during and after class, students are assigned questions related to what they have learned, so that students can train their thinking ability and master the knowledge and theory of tourism psychology in the analysis and discussion of the questions.
The teaching process is a process of mutual learning. Improper design of teaching process not only dampens students' learning enthusiasm and initiative, but also depresses teachers. Therefore, the design of teaching process is very important. In the traditional teaching of tourism psychology, students are in a passive position. Through the combination of Bi Bo platform and problem-based learning and teaching mode, through reading a large number of teaching materials on Bi Bo platform before class, students' learning motivation is stimulated, and through the design of problem-based learning and teaching mode in class, students are actively guided and inspired to think and absorb relevant knowledge of tourism psychology. After class, use the course management tools on Bi Bo platform to monitor, communicate and answer students' questions immediately. Fully guide students to devote themselves to the study of tourism psychology.
3. Other suggestions to improve the teaching methods of tourism psychology.
3. 1 Flexible use of various teaching methods to optimize the classroom teaching mode.
The subject nature, course characteristics and teaching purpose of tourism psychology determine that the teaching mode of tourism psychology is by no means single. "Teaching should adopt various methods such as classroom discussion, students' speeches, case analysis, psychological tests, role-playing and teachers' lectures, fully mobilize and give play to students' enthusiasm and initiative in class, inspire students' thinking, and improve students' ability to analyze, deal with and solve problems.
3.2 Improve the level of professional knowledge and strive to improve teaching skills.
A solid study of basic theory and the improvement of professional quality are the basic conditions for the teaching of tourism psychology. "On the basis of strengthening the basic research of tourism, teachers should also pay attention to absorbing valuable knowledge from other disciplines, pay attention to the frontier development of disciplines, update them in real time, and enhance their experience and understanding of tourism psychology; Teachers' professional quality can also be improved by actively participating in academic seminars, continuing their studies, and exchanging and cooperating with scientific research institutions and universities related to this field.
3.3 Student-centered, inspiring thinking and improving interest.
Classroom teaching should be student-centered and designed around students' learning status and needs, from knowledge guidance to teaching until the final summary. In the classroom, we should fully embody the teaching concept of teacher-led and student-centered, pay attention to students' classroom response, and improve teaching effect.
3.4 Flexible use of a variety of teaching methods to optimize the classroom teaching mode.
The subject nature, course characteristics and teaching purpose of tourism psychology determine that the teaching mode of tourism psychology is by no means single. Teaching should adopt various methods, such as classroom discussion, students' speeches, case analysis, psychological test, role-playing and teachers' lectures, so as to fully mobilize and give play to students' enthusiasm and initiative in class, inspire students' thinking and improve their ability to analyze, deal with and solve problems.
Conclusion:
With the rapid development of tourism in modern society, new requirements are put forward for the professional level and ability of tourism professionals. Many tourism courses came into being, and tourism psychology is one of them. This course is helpful to improve the psychological quality and professional ability of students majoring in tourism. This paper discusses the teaching methods of tourism psychology, hoping to have some reference function.
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