Research on the Integration of Thematic Teaching of Middle School History Units and Excellent Classroom Construction

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  • Jianlong Mao Chongqing Jianshan Middle School, Beibei District, Chongqing, 400700, People's Republic of China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6918/IJOSSER.202607_9(7).0018

Keywords:

Middle school history; unit thematic teaching; excellent classroom; historical core literacy; classroom construction.

Abstract

Under the background of the continuous promotion of new curriculum reform and the continuous strengthening of the core literacy of history subjects, middle school history classes are no longer satisfied with the teaching of a single knowledge point, but pay more attention to the comprehensive construction of students' historical development vein, historical interpretation methods and value judgement ability. Unit thematic teaching takes the theme as a clue, and systematically integrates the content of textbooks, historical situations, learning tasks, historical resources and evaluation activities, which helps to change the problems of fragmented content, shallow activities and scattered goals in traditional history classes. The construction of excellent classroom emphasises the high quality, high efficiency and high educational value of classroom teaching, and requires teachers to realise the unity of knowledge learning, ability improvement and literacy development in limited classroom time. The two have strong consistency in teaching philosophy, goal orientation and implementation method. Based on this, this article analyses the integration of thematic teaching of middle school history units and excellent classroom construction, and explores its inherent value, real problems and practical path, in order to provide reference for improving the quality of middle school history classes.

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2026-07-13

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Mao, J. (2026). Research on the Integration of Thematic Teaching of Middle School History Units and Excellent Classroom Construction. International Journal of Social Science and Education Research, 9(7), 154-161. https://doi.org/10.6918/IJOSSER.202607_9(7).0018