How to teach the course "Basic Knowledge of Tour Guides"

1. Carefully analyze the characteristics of the course

The "Basic Knowledge of Tour Guides" course has the following outstanding features. First, it has a wide range of knowledge and many knowledge points: the course content covers many aspects such as tourism, history, geography, religion, architecture, gardens, literature, etc., and there are several knowledge points in each knowledge aspect, so it is a tourism The most comprehensive course among all courses in the major. Second, the content is complex: at the vertical level, the content of each chapter of the course has become a special topic knowledge with an independent structure; at the horizontal level, the chapters have almost no connection, so the overall content constitutes a huge knowledge group. Third, it is easier to understand but more difficult to remember: most of the content covered in this course is common sense content that does not involve profound meanings and comes from various aspects of our daily lives. Although students have heard about most of the knowledge, they do not know it. It is detailed. Students think it is very simple and easy to understand, but difficult to memorize.

2. Carefully clarify the teaching objectives

As a certification course, the "Basic Knowledge of Tour Guides" course is different from ordinary professional courses. Its teaching objectives generally have two: First, to help students Passing the exam successfully is also one of the main purposes of most students' studies; the second is to enable students to master sufficient knowledge and pave the way for future work and study, because as far as the role of this course is concerned, it is the future guide for tour guides. The source of knowledge for the explanation content (astronomy and geography knowledge are both covered in the course) is also an indispensable basic material for the explanation in the actual work of the tour guide. Of course the relationship between these two goals is mutually reinforcing.

3. Carefully designing teaching plans

Carefully designing teaching plans is the key to improving teaching quality. It mainly includes two aspects: preparing lesson plans and formulating teaching methods. Based on the above teaching objectives and combined with the characteristics of this course, the author believes that the "three good things" must always be achieved in the process of carefully designing the teaching plan.

1. Be good at classifying. In view of the large, broad and complex content of this course, the course content can be divided into three levels: mastery, familiarity and understanding in the lesson plan. The mastery part is what students should know and master, and it is also the most basic common sense for future tour guide work: for example, in the chapter "China's Main Cuisines and Famous Snacks", it is necessary to master the main characteristics and main representative dishes of the "Eight Major Cuisines", Famous snacks from all over the world. The familiar part is content that students should know relatively clearly but cannot master. It is also content that needs to be further studied in future tour guide work: For example, in the chapter "Ancient Chinese Gardens", students must be familiar with various types of gardens. The distribution and characteristics of representative gardens. The understanding part refers to the content that students only need to know a little bit but are not familiar with. It is generally expressed as background introduction or knowledge extension: for example, in the chapter "China's Four Major Religions", it is necessary to understand the background of Chinese people's religious beliefs, Chinese religious beliefs distribution, the origin and development of China’s four major religions and their spread in China.

2. Be good at summarizing. The first is the summary of methods, which mainly refers to the summary of learning methods. Based on the survey conducted by the author on the learning methods of students who passed the exam over the years, the author found that the "three-time reading method" is generally adopted by many students and has good results. The "three-time reading method" refers to: the first time, read the catalog carefully and read the textbook intensively; the second time, read the book while doing the questions, which is to check for omissions; the third time, read the reading notes and read the textbook extensively.