In order to further promote the theoretical research and practical activities of high-quality education for English teachers, explore efficient classrooms, promote teachers' professional growth, and help the school's teaching and research work to be carried out more deeply. On December 19, 2023, the "Heterogeneous Teaching with Famous Teachers - New Magic English" Primary School Teaching Observation Seminar" hosted by the Foreign Chinese Primary School Affiliated to Shenzhen University Education Group and co-organized by New Qixiang Books was successfully held. Nearly 500 primary school English teachers from all districts of the city gathered in the lecture hall of the foreign Chinese primary school affiliated to Shenzhen University Education Group.
In this seminar, Mr. Tian Xiangjun, a national famous teacher and English teacher and researcher of Foshan Shunde Education Development Center, and Mr. Guo Jiagall, a teacher from the Foreign Chinese Primary School of the Affiliated Education Group of Shenzhen University, respectively brought the same class heterogeneous class, and the teaching content was "New Magic English" 3b unit 6. Mr. Dong Lipeng, a primary school English teacher and researcher of Shenzhen Nanshan District Institute of Educational Sciences, and Mr. Zhu Weiming, a national outstanding English teacher and academic advisor of Xinqixiang Books, were specially invited to visit and guide teachers to help them grow professionally.
Other leaders and guests who participated in the event were: Teacher Zheng Minjun, Primary School English Teacher and Researcher of Shenzhen Institute of Educational Sciences, Yao Xiaoying, Principal of Foreign Chinese Primary School of Shenzhen University Affiliated Education Group, Teacher Chen Shaoqing, Chairman of Heyuan Guangming School, Chen Zhiming, Principal of Shenzhen Longhua District Zhenneng School, Principal Sha Shanshan of Shenzhen Longhua District Dalang Experimental School, and Ms. Li Jianqiao, Managing Director of Shenzhen Xinqixiang Books. The event was hosted by two teachers, Li Jiahao and Zhang Yanjie.
This time the same class is heterogeneousThe content of the course is "New Magic English" 3b unita bad day.
Teacher Tian Xiangjun, a national famous teacher, brought the first lesson "New Magic English" 3b unit6 a bad day (period 2). Mr. Tian's class is unique, he uses exaggerated tones and expressions to guide children to fully express themselves, and let students perform to visualize boring language learning. The humorous teaching style, profound teaching skills, and superb teaching techniques fully mobilize the children's interest in learning. How to learn English in elementary school
In this lesson, Mr. Nakata still warmed up with the well-known song If You Are Happy, followed by a fun game "Listen to the instructions and do the opposite," taking students to review the key vocabulary of this lesson, and then the teacher-student dialogue Free talk, narrowing the distance with the students, and drawing out Harry's interests and hobbies through their own interests and hobbies. Mr. Tian is good at allowing students to learn through experience, apply in practice, and innovate in migration. For example, guide students to experience Harry's mood in role-playing, explore its psychological activities, help students sort out and understand the content of the story, develop students' thinking, and finally let students express what they have learned from the discourse and think dialectically about how to face a bad day
A Bad Day is a reading passage (diary) in Unit 6 of New Magical English 3b, which tells the story of some interesting things that happened to Harry and his family during their weekend outdoor play.
Teacher Guo Jiajia is good at using more than ** to stimulate students' interest in reading, so that students can realize the learning process from learning and understanding, application and practice, transfer and innovation, and gradually improve their thinking quality. Before reading, Ms. Guo warmed up with the chant part of this unit, which directly brought the children into the situation of outdoor play. During the reading, students will gradually become familiar with the text, obtain basic information about the diary, experience Harry's emotional changes from happiness to sadness, and use the story mountain to help students sort out the text and retell the whole story in small groups. After reading, ask Harry questions in the form of interviews, transfer and innovate into students' lives, and help students be optimistic about the unsatisfactory in life and enjoy every day in life.
After the wonderful classroom presentation, Mr. Zhu Weiming, a national outstanding English teacher and academic advisor of Xinqixiang Books, gave comments and guidance. She believes that this is a real teaching and research that the new curriculum standards have been transformed into teaching behaviors.
The classroom of the two teachers presented the learning process of narrative non-fiction discourse in Primary 4, and the teachers organically integrated the meaning of the theme, the concept of learning activities, discourse learning, and thinking construction into the classroom teaching. The same class is heterogeneous, and the different paths are the same, which illuminates students' passion for learning and accompanies students to understand the discourse and the value of education. Everyone has witnessed good classes, good students, and good schools.
Teacher Tian Xiangjun's class is methodical, warm and interesting. He integrates "speaking, singing, acting, and playing" into the English classroom, and each teaching link is unique, reflecting the innovative classroom that closely follows the theme, students' positions, relates logic, and maps life. The children were immersed in a relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere of learning English, which was well received by everyone.
Ms. Guo Jiagall's teaching skillfully uses the problem chain and multi-modal and multi-channel teaching activities to strengthen the learning and evaluation of narrative discourse characteristics, discourse structure, and discourse function.
A variety of teaching methods are created in the classroom to mobilize students' enthusiasm, form a thinking structure, guide students to deeply understand the text, and construct the discourse in the context, from understanding to memorization to application. Using the question chain of when, who, and where to ask questions, layer by layer, to cultivate students' higher-order thinking ability, students can actively participate in the classroom, teachers and students cooperate tacitly, and the teaching effect is remarkable.
At the same time, Mr. Zhu Weiming took the 2022 version of the new curriculum standard as the theoretical basis, and brought the experience of "literacy classroom, discourse analysis" to the teachers, and analyzed the logical starting point of discourse study and the core goal of effective teaching design according to the curriculum standard. She also introduced the discourse characteristics and structure of narrative teaching and the tools that can be applied in the teaching of reading strategies, and analyzed and interpreted them in combination with the lesson examples of "New Magic English" 3B Unit 6, and took teachers to carry out ABC** in discourse teaching design from "what, why, how". Her teaching anchor sheets, question strategies and question lists provide a practical starting point for teaching higher-order thinking classes.
At the end of the activity, Mr. Dong Lipeng, a teacher and researcher in Nanshan District, made a summary and evaluation.
First of all, Mr. Dong praised the wonderful classroom presentation of the two heterogeneous teachers in the same class, as well as the students' confident and fluent expression in the classroom, excellent English comprehensive language literacy, thanked Principal Zhu Weiming for his comments and guidance, and affirmed the outstanding achievements of the Foreign Chinese Primary School of the Affiliated Education Group of Shenzhen University in the past three years.
Teacher Dong said that the design of the curriculum system of "New Magic English" is in the same line, from the interrelationship between the units to the sections within the units, and gradually paves the way for grammar knowledge and thinking ability training. Each section in the unit sets the stage for the main task that follows. For example, the main task of this unit requires students to use what they have learned to write an online diary, and the topics in the previous units are related to the children's life and experience, and there are also ways to use the past tense, so that students can write it easily in this unit.
At the same time, Mr. Dong put forward three suggestions: first, based on the overall unit of the class, the main task of this unit is to write an online diary, then the teacher should pay attention to the structure and tense of the diary in the process of discourse teaching, and teach students how to write a diary;The second is the implementation of thinking classroom based on the new curriculum standards: the design of teaching activities should be based on the teaching materials, in-depth teaching materials, and beyond the teaching materials, guide students to observe and analyze, go deeper, find contradictions and conflicts, and focus on cultivating students' critical thinkingThe third is to streamline the teaching process and shorten the amount of language used by teachers in the classroom's talk), focusing on guidance: through pointing, bridging, etc., let students self-** and draw conclusions.
This activity has built a platform for teachers to display and exercise, and created a good atmosphere for mutual learning, mutual communication and mutual promotion. I hope that teachers will precipitate in learning, improve in display, reflect in practice, continuously improve the quality of teaching, and strive to create more excellent quality classrooms!
New Qixiang will carry out teaching seminars from time to time to help more teachers optimize teaching methods, improve the quality of English teaching, and help schools improve students' English ability and core literacy.
The New Magic (now renamed Enlightenment English) series of books is a series of books introduced by Shanghai Education Publishing House from Oxford University Press for use by domestic primary school students, and was officially published in the fall of 2019. The book is rich in themes and authentic language, and improves students' language skills through real scenes. The book adopts a spiraling learning design to encourage innovation and imagination, and effectively improve students' logical thinking skills. Its interdisciplinary and cross-cultural theme learning can inspire students' thinking and cultivate comprehensive language skills.
The "New Magic English" series of courses has complete supporting resources for teachers and rich and interesting activity design, which is well received by foreign language schools. Up to now, "New Magic English" has been used in more than 300 schools in China, with a cumulative sales of more than 2 million copies, and is one of the most popular primary school English literacy courses in China.