This morning, the Ministry of Education held a press conference to introduce the compilation of textbooks for three subjects in senior high schools. At present, the compilation of textbooks for ideological, political, Chinese and history in ordinary senior high schools has been completed. It will start in September this year and will be first used in the beginning grades of senior high schools in six provinces and cities, such as Beijing, Tianjin, Liaoning, Shanghai, Shandong and Hainan, and other provinces will gradually push it out. The textbooks have been tried out in 412 schools in 13 provinces in the east, middle and west, and the suitability of the textbooks has been tested through classroom teaching. In the future, training at the national, prefecture and county levels will be implemented, and experts will be organized to systematically and deeply interpret the teaching materials to ensure that all teachers will be trained before attending classes. At the same time, we should establish a monitoring platform for the use of teaching materials, pay regular return visits to the teaching materials, make good use of the feedback platform for the three subjects’ teaching materials, listen to the opinions and suggestions from all walks of life in real time, study the new situations and problems encountered in the use of teaching materials in time, and revise the teaching materials regularly, so as to continuously improve the teaching materials.
High School Ideological and Political Textbooks: Innovative Presentation Mode, Setting Comprehensive Exploration Content
The textbook of ideological and political unification in senior high school runs through the main line of educating people, namely, the supreme leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era. By enhancing the pertinence and readability of the textbook and innovating the presentation mode, the textbook has also set up the content of "comprehensive inquiry" to highlight its comprehensiveness and practicality.
Overall construction and arrangement of teaching materials in blocks
There are 7 complete sets of textbooks on Ideology and Politics in ordinary senior high schools, among which the compulsory textbooks are divided into Socialism with Chinese characteristics, Economy and Society, Politics and Rule of Law, Philosophy and Culture, and the optional compulsory textbooks are divided into Contemporary International Politics and Economy, Law and Life and Logic and Thinking. The total score of the four required textbooks is adopted, and Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the overview and foundation, which gives students an overall understanding of the formation and development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. "Economy and Society", "Politics and Rule of Law" and "Philosophy and Culture" are deeply explained in different fields, so that students can specifically understand how to uphold and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics. The three optional compulsory textbooks focus on cultivating students to understand the development trend of human society from a global perspective, deal with daily problems by legal means, and explore and understand the world with scientific thinking.
As for the key learning content, the whole set of teaching materials systematically tells the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, and elaborates it from the aspects of economy, politics, rule of law, culture, nationality, religion, society, ecological civilization, national security, national defense and army, diplomacy and party building. In the aspect of rule of law education, the legal contents of marriage and family, employment and entrepreneurship, social dispute resolution and so on, which are closely related to students’ future, are included. In addition, revolutionary spirits such as "Red Boat Spirit", Long March Spirit, Yan ‘an Spirit and Chinese excellent traditional culture are also included.
Innovative forms highlight comprehensive practicality.
The textbook of ideological and political unification has also innovated the presentation mode, striving to enhance pertinence and readability. The textbook includes unit lead, lesson lead, text, various columns interspersed in the main text, and comprehensive inquiry. Efforts are made to improve the way of teaching and learning. Through the nesting of activities and text, the creation of problem situations, and the design of comprehensive inquiry activities, students’ interest in learning is stimulated, students’ cooperative learning and inquiry learning are promoted, and their practical ability is improved.
In order to highlight the comprehensiveness and practicality, the textbook has set up the content of "comprehensive inquiry". There are two compulsory courses, and each unit of other textbooks has one. "Comprehensive Inquiry" allows students to analyze and solve problems by creating a variety of situations, focusing on topics in various forms, and comprehensively applying the knowledge and skills of related disciplines. For example, taking "national security and core interests" as the topic, the textbook has designed a comprehensive inquiry, explaining "national security is everyone’s responsibility", telling the content and significance of the overall national security concept, and cultivating students’ awareness of the overall national security concept. In addition, the textbook pays attention to the selection of cases and materials related to students’ lives, which is convenient for students to understand theoretical problems with practice and solve practical puzzles with theory.
Chinese Textbooks for Senior High School: Designing Learning Task Groups for the First Time to Guide Autonomous Learning
There are 5 sets of Chinese textbooks for senior high schools, including 2 compulsory textbooks and 3 optional compulsory textbooks. The textbook innovatively designs two learning clues, namely, humanistic theme and learning task group, and refines some humanistic themes, such as "great rejuvenation", "mission and ambition" and "youthful excitement". It is divided into 28 learning units based on the 12 learning task groups stipulated in the curriculum standard, of which 22 units are built with the text as the core, and the basic columns include unit introduction, text selection, learning tips and unit learning tasks, which changes the common one-way learning tasks in the past. The textbook also has two whole book reading units and four activity units. These units take the learning task of integrated design as the core, and promote the reading or practical activities of the whole book.
Ancient poetry accounts for nearly half of the texts.
在选文上， 精选了反映中华优秀传统文化的经典名篇，注重题材的多样性和体裁的覆盖面，从古风、民歌、绝句、律诗到词曲，从诸子散文到历史散文，从两汉论文、魏晋辞赋到唐宋明清古文，从文言小说到白话小说，均有呈现。共选入古代诗文67篇，占全部课文数（136篇/首）的49.3%。其中古诗词33首，古文34篇。
选文：突出革命文化和社会主义先进文化
高中语文统编教材还注重突出反映革命传统和革命精神的作品，其中，有毛泽东的《沁园春·长沙》《改造我们的学习》等5篇（首）文章，鲁迅《拿来主义》《纪念刘和珍君》等5篇文章，还有《长征胜利万岁》《大战中的插曲》《百合花》等多篇作品。同时，还注重选取了反映社会主义建设和改革开放时期的作品。
展现祖国日新月异变化的，如《哦，香雪》，讴歌时代楷模的；如《喜看稻菽千重浪——记首届国家最高科技奖获得者袁隆平》《青蒿素：人类征服疾病的一小步》，反映党在新时期的理论探索；体现出理论对实践的巨大指导作用的，如《实践是检验真理的唯一标准》。 此外，教材也选入了十多篇外国文学文化经典作品，有《复活》《百年孤独》《哈姆雷特》《致云雀》等。
Teaching materials of history in senior high school: strengthening thinking on the combination of history and theory
There are five complete sets of textbooks on History in senior high schools, including two compulsory textbooks, Outline of Chinese and Foreign History, and three optional compulsory textbooks, National System and Social Governance, Economic and Social Life and Cultural Exchange and Communication.
Set up novel columns around five core literacy.
The textbook combines historical facts with historical theories, general history with special history, and presents the outstanding achievements of human civilization in many dimensions. The textbook should set up columns reasonably, and design the content and columns around the five core qualities of historical materialism, time and space concept, historical evidence, historical interpretation and feelings for home and country. Each lesson in the textbook takes the text as the main body, supplemented by some functional columns. Among them, "unit introduction" summarizes the main historical contents and learning requirements involved in this unit, "introduction diagram (language)" vividly and concisely leads to the content to be told in this lesson, "learning focus" prompts the learning focus, "reading historical materials" briefly supplements and expands relevant literature materials, "historical horizon" further supplements and expands major historical events and people, and "thinking point/learning window" is strengthened. In addition, each textbook has an activity class.
引导学生认同中华5000多年文明史
教材内容涵盖了中华优秀传统文化所包含的核心思想理念、传统美德和人文精神，共涉及历史文化名人100余位，思想、科技、文学、法律等著作80余部，四大发明、天文历法、医学、数学、农学、地理学、水利工程等重大发明创造50余项，书画、音乐舞蹈、雕塑、器物等艺术作品40余件，引导学生形成对中华文化的认同感，树立正确的文化观。
强化国家主权、海洋意识
教材介绍了中国人民170多年斗争史和中国共产党90多年奋斗史，并强化国家主权、海洋意识，以史实为依托，讲述西藏、新疆、台湾及其附属岛屿、南海诸岛等作为我国领土不可分割一部分的历史渊源，增强学生维护国家统一和国家主权安全的意识，形成正确的国家观。
Integrate into the education of national unity and progress
At the same time, the teaching material also integrates the education of national unity and progress, tells the history of the Chinese nation, which has been formed by the exchanges and exchanges of various ethnic groups in the history of our country, introduces the policy of regional ethnic autonomy in China, guides students to establish a correct view of the country, nationality, culture and history, enhances national self-confidence and pride, and builds a strong sense of community of the Chinese nation.
The textbooks compiled by the three subjects of compulsory education will cover the whole grade in September this year.
In 2017, the textbooks of compulsory education ethics and rule of law, Chinese and history began to be used uniformly in the beginning grades of primary schools and junior high schools nationwide. This fall semester, all grades will be "fully covered", and the main replacement textbooks are 4-mdash; Sixth grade.
It is understood that after the three subjects of compulsory education are put into use, the Ministry of Education has established a tracking mechanism for the use of textbooks with full process and wide coverage. From the follow-up situation, teachers and students are satisfied with the teaching materials as a whole, and nearly 90% students like the new teaching materials, which are rich and interesting in content, beautiful in language, illustrated and inspiring. Teachers’ overall satisfaction with the textbooks reached 92%, and they thought that the textbooks had high ideas, strong value orientation, accurate content selection, lively presentation, novel design, and were suitable for teaching and learning. In the process of using the teaching materials, some opinions and suggestions have also been collected, and valuable opinions will be actively absorbed and revised. (CCTV reporter Gao Chenyuan)