Aiming at the three aspects of problems that exist in practice teaching such as more confirmatory contents, less designing contents, etc., this paper pointed out three questions which are not applicable to students in the reform of practice teaching such as emphasizing theory, ignoring practice, etc. Four aspects of practice teaching reform plans are designed and made for it, including changing the concepts of practice teaching reform, adjusting the practice teaching course system and so on. The specific content of practice teaching reform contains seven aspects which can be listed as adjusting the practice teaching content, reforming the practice teaching method, reforming the experimental teaching evaluation methods and so on. After nearly three years of practice, the practice teaching reform has obtained the good construction effects. This reform is mainly aimed at the characteristics of local colleges and universities as well as key majors in Geography, puts forward the ideas of constructing practical teaching system of one goal, two modules, three levels and four combinations, focuses on analyzing the contents of the reform of heuristic and discovery teaching method in the practice teaching. Practices show that the heuristic and discovery teaching method can give full play to students' subjective initiative. It is an effective teaching method of professional knowledge that obeys the law of students' cognition and memory, and it has played a good role in promoting the skills for the innovative talents’ training.
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