一九五三年七月中央人民政府教育部颁发了中学教学计划修订草案,对於中学历史课程的科目编排,参照着苏联的先进学制作了调整。调整後,初中历史课的质量将大为提高。因为新计划既避免了高初中历史课科目的重复,中学历史课每一科目的教学时数就得到了增加,这就要求教师进行更细致更深入的教学,要求教学质量进一步提高。特别是担任初中世界史的教师,比去年的任务更重了,因为按照新教学计划,初中世界史增加的时间最多,而四年来,据我们所知,初中历史教师对世界史尤其是古代和中世史教学研究做得最少,因之现有基础也较薄弱。所以在新教学计划的要求下,集中相当力量研究初中世界史教学问题,恐为目前初中历史教学研究工作最迫切的任务之一。今年寒假,人民教育出版社已编印了新的初中世界古代史课本第一册。这个课本是根据苏联五、六年级的历史课本缩编的,对於我们的教学一定有 In July 1953, the Ministry of Education of the Central People’s Government issued a draft revision of the teaching plan for secondary schools, making adjustments to the subject arrangement for the history curriculum in secondary schools with reference to the advanced academic system in the Soviet Union. After adjustment, the quality of history lesson in junior high school will be greatly improved. Because the new plan not only avoids repetition of subjects in the high school history curriculum, the number of hours of teaching in each subject in the history school of secondary school has increased. This requires teachers to conduct more detailed and in-depth teaching and to further improve their teaching quality. In particular, the task of serving as junior middle school history teacher was even more serious than that of last year because junior middle school history increased the most according to the new teaching plan. In the past four years, as far as we know, junior history teachers are very concerned about world history, especially ancient and Studies in the history of the Middle Ages have done the least, and their existing foundations are also weaker. Therefore, at the request of the new teaching plan, concentrating considerable efforts on the teaching of junior high school history teaching is probably one of the most urgent tasks for junior high school history teaching and research. This year’s winter holiday, People’s Education Press has compiled the first volume of the ancient history books in junior high school. This textbook is based on the historical textbooks of the fifth and sixth grade of the Soviet Union, and for our teaching there must be