(Source: Guangming Daily 2025-10-07)
[Expert Viewpoint]
Ideological and political courses are key courses to implement the fundamental task of cultivating moral character and cultivating people. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has attached great importance to the construction of ideological and political courses in schools, issued a series of important instructions and instructions, profoundly answered a series of major theoretical and practical issues in the construction of ideological and political courses, pointed out the direction and provided fundamental guidelines for the construction of ideological and political courses in colleges and universities in the new era.
In recent years, with the joint efforts of the whole Party and society, the Party’s leadership in the construction of ideological and political courses has been comprehensively strengthened. The direction of socialist education in schools at all levels and types has become clearer. Teachers of ideological and political courses are more confident in being willing to teach well and devote themselves to educating people. The spirit of the majority of young students has been high-spirited. The development environment and overall ecology of ideological and political courses have undergone overall and fundamental changes. However, the construction of ideological and political courses still faces new situations and new challenges, and there are many shortcomings. It is still necessary to be upright and innovative, and make greater efforts to improve the quality and efficiency of ideological and political courses, especially in creating a good atmosphere for students to take the initiative to learn ideological and political courses well.
Fully understand students and enhance teaching relevance
The first prerequisite for teaching ideological and political courses well is to prepare the lessons well. In addition to preparing in-depth, clear, clear and thorough course materials and the latest results of the Party’s theoretical innovation, socialist practice with Chinese characteristics and Marxist theoretical research reflected in the teaching materials, teachers of ideological and political courses must also work hard to fully understand their students.
In ideological and political teaching activities, teachers are the leader and students are the main body. Youth in different eras have their own characteristics. In the new era, young people have more active thoughts, more diverse forms of expression, are exposed to new things more quickly, and their degree of personalization exceeds that of any previous era. In this case, if teachers in class only follow the instructions and deal with errands, the students' "attendance rate" and "head-up rate" will be greatly reduced, let alone guiding students to actively learn ideological and political courses.
Therefore, teachers should fully understand students' needs and consider students' background, knowledge level and learning characteristics based on in-depth study of teaching materials; they should fully understand students' ideological status, grasp students' ideological realities, ideological confusions, and demand pain points, and use these as important basis for lesson preparation. Teachers should also consider that students may ask some sharp questions and compare foreign affairs with domestic situations. These doubts of students are the focus of ideological and political courses. When preparing lessons, teachers of ideological and political courses need to be fully prepared in this regard, anticipate students’ confusion, collect domestic and foreign factual cases and teaching materials, design more targeted teaching content and methods, and form a teaching plan.
Optimize teaching organization and enhance teaching interest
The key to teaching ideological and political courses well lies in teachers. How teachers organize teaching activities is crucial. The author's research found that many colleges and universities are now exploring the reform of the teaching model of "large class teaching" plus "small class discussion" - "large class teaching" is teacher-led, focusing on teaching cutting-edge theories, grasping the key points and teaching difficulties of the curriculum, and teaching theory to students; "small class teaching" "Seminar" takes students as the main body, connects the international situation and economic development and changes, domestic reform and opening up, college students' thoughts and other practical and social hot spots, guides students to discover problems, analyze problems, think about problems, and allows students to draw conclusions naturally through continuous inspiration.
On the basis of systematic indoctrination in large class teaching, small class discussions are added, and topics are selected under the guidance of teachers. Students are divided into groups by independent choice or teacher coordination. They conduct discussions in an orderly manner in groups, collect information, fully communicate, and finally draw conclusions, which are discussed and shared in the large class teaching classroom. This kind of teaching organization can allow students to fully participate in classroom teaching activities, fully unleash their potential, and allow students to make the best of their abilities in different aspects such as understanding problems, collecting information by sections, and sharing and displaying. This can not only trigger students to truly think and understand, but also promote the overall improvement of students' knowledge, abilities, and qualities.
Enrich teaching content and enhance the novelty of the content
The essence of ideological and political courses is to teach truth. It undertakes multiple functions such as political guidance, value guidance, theoretical shaping, and knowledge transfer. The truth must be explained clearly in class. Therefore, ideological and political courses should give full play to the leading and guiding role of main channel classroom teaching, constantly enrich teaching content, focus on goals, problems, paths and other elements to clarify target navigation, carry out problem guidance, design path guidance, and truly provide a platform and help for students to actively learn ideological and political courses.
In ideological and political courses involving ideology and morality, legal foundations, modern Chinese history, and excellent traditional Chinese culture, teachers must "carefully craft" the teaching content of each course, clarify the teaching objectives, and establish the teaching focus of the course based on the course standards, academic conditions, and teaching content. During teaching, teachers should fully integrate theoretical knowledge points with practice, raise questions or tasks, and carry out classroom teaching by solving "problems" and advancing "tasks"; they must formulate the content, methods and strategies for module guidance at each stage, and timely integrate the history of the Communist Party of China, the history of New China, the history of reform and opening up, the history of socialist development, the historic achievements and changes of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, etc., into the classroom teaching modules scientifically and skillfully to provide students with a learning path. Only through vivid, in-depth, and specific vertical and horizontal comparisons in class can the truth be explained thoroughly, and students can truly learn, truly understand, truly believe, and truly apply.
Expand teaching venues and enhance practical interactivity
Ideological and political courses must adhere to the unity of theory and practice, break through the limitations of traditional classroom teaching, rely on the ideological and political teaching practice base, carry out rich and colorful practical teaching activities, connect in-class and extra-curricular, in-w88 casino and out-of-w88 casino, promote the close integration of small ideological and political classes and large social classes, so that students can go out of the classroom and campus and enter the large classroom of social practice activities. It is necessary to create "walking ideological and political courses" for students through visits, inspections and surveys, volunteer services, internship training, performance creation, special interviews and other methods, so that they can deepen their understanding of theory and improve their skills and talents through personal experience.
First of all, we can select a good practical teaching base for ideological and political courses through multiple themes such as inheriting red genes, promoting excellent culture, building a China ruled by law, co-building ecological civilization, empowering technological innovation, and revitalizing a beautiful hometown. "A museum is a university." City museums, memorial halls, rural field workshops and other places are important places for university education. Students can be organized here to carry out practical inquiry-based learning and trigger young students to think deeply about regional culture and Chinese civilization. Secondly, on-site teaching can be scientifically designed and arranged so that historical relics, real scenes, and respectable figures can present rich charm, fully mobilize students' enthusiasm and initiative to participate in learning, and allow students to have a deeper understanding of why our country must adhere to people-centered development ideas and implement new development concepts, help students enhance their sense of social responsibility, and better devote themselves to the great practice of socialist modernization. In addition, teachers can also guide students to determine research topics, so that students can change from passive listening to active observation, thinking, argumentation, and creation, and continuously enhance students' innovative spirit, practical ability, and social responsibility, so that students can increase their knowledge, talents, and confidence in practice, and have a sense of achievement. Only by impressing students can we guide them. When ideological and political courses become more flexible, we can turn "the most difficult to teach" into "the most exciting" and turn "talking on paper" into "practice".
Integrate the power of home, w88 casino and community to enhance the coordination of education
“Only when we work together can we work together, and when we work together can we educate together.” Colleges and families are two important positions for ideological and political education for college students. We should actively give full play to the advantages of the home-w88 casino collaborative education model, fully integrate the “three-round education” of colleges and universities into family education, build a bridge for mutual understanding and exchange of student information between colleges and students’ parents, and realize information exchange quickly and targetedly.
Only by continuously integrating multiple social resources, establishing a working idea that complements and promotes social atmosphere, family tradition construction and education and teaching, actively exploring the establishment of a home-w88 casino co-education mechanism, and building a systematic collaborative model of the trinity of family, w88 casino and students, can we finally form a strong educational synergy. Colleges and universities should teach students in accordance with their aptitude according to their w88 casino conditions, and give full play to the professional, systematic and standardized teaching characteristics; families, with their unique family atmosphere, ethics and affectionate education methods, fully integrate ideological and political education, family education, labor education, etc., so as to subtly allow young students to form good ideological, moral and behavioral habits in colleges and universities, at home and in society, truly strengthening ideological and political education and better promoting the all-round development of students.
(Authors: Zhang Xiaofeng and Li Huanhuan, respectively deputy secretary of the Party Committee, dean and professor of the w88 casino of Marxism, w88 casino; secretary of the w88 casino of Law, w88 casino)
Attached original text link:https://app.gmdaily.cn/as/opened/n/5e987336a5d64a1695df25b5133b772b
