(The following article ** in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Daoxin School).
In order to strengthen the research on the new curriculum standards, explore efficient classrooms, promote inter-school exchanges, promote the more in-depth development of regional teaching and research work, and jointly lead the professional growth of teachers, on November 27, the ESL teaching and research team of our primary school and the new Qixiang teaching and research team led by experts Zhou Xin and Zhu Weiming, the English teaching and research team led by Li Jun, principal of Foshan Shunde Yangzheng School of Guangdong Diocesan Group, and Liu Yunyan, principal of Shenzhen Guiyuan Middle School, focused on "New Magic English" Teaching and research activities were launched, and representatives of Chinese and foreign teachers from the two schools carried out 4 high-quality public demonstration classes, and Mr. Zheng Cheng, the head of the English teaching and research team of the primary school, presided over the joint teaching and research introduction meeting.
Since the promulgation of the new curriculum standard, our school, like many schools, is also thinking about how to implement and practice the new curriculum standard in combination with the positioning of the school and the teaching and research model of English teaching, and further show the characteristics of English teaching in the internationalization Xi of China's basic education。
As an international characteristic exploration school and a characteristic school of international understanding education, the school has been exploring how to further implement the localization practice of Dalton education and the international innovation of China's basic education in the past seven years, based on the principle of "integrating into the world and creating the future of global outstanding citizens" Xi The curriculum development center and the primary ESL teaching and research team have been taking the "contract system" as the starting point, and through a curriculum system, a variety of curriculum strategies, value-added growth evaluation, etc., the formation of a Chinese-foreign joint multi-curriculum and personalized English teaching model.
I am very grateful to the new Qixiang teaching and research team for the close interaction with our teachers in teaching materials and teaching in recent years, and today we have ushered in the linkage of the three schools, I believe that we will be able to use the "high-quality lesson discussion" as the carrier to work together in mutual learning Xi exchange and continuous exploration and innovation.
In order to let the visiting experts and teachers feel the teaching environment and educational and teaching achievements of the school more closely, Principal Zhang Li, Director of the Curriculum Development Center Lu Jing and Director of the Teaching Management Center Li Jinlong led everyone to visit the school's art and sports building, art and other subject classrooms and golf, table tennis and other functional venues.
In the performing arts center, the teachers and experts were very curious about the international ** classroom full of musical instruments, and communicated with Mr. Jerry about "** curriculum and teaching", and when they learned about Mr. Jerry's comprehensive ** skills and the implementation of different ways of personalized teaching for students in 6 grades, the experts humorously praised: You are a musical genius!
In the art classroom, the experts and teachers were attracted by the students' works on the wall and had an intimate interaction with the children.
After the visit, Qu Yiming, a third-grade teacher, Gao Liumei, a seventh-grade teacher, Allen, an international teacher of Yangzheng School, and Xiao Chaozhong, a Chinese teacher, respectively brought four public lessons of primary English.
My Calendar Dao New School Teacher Qu Yiming.
The theme of Qu Yiming, a third-grade ESL teacher, is "My Calendar", Unit 4 of New Magical English, which is one of the contents of our school's special integrated subject PBL project. Project Design**Director Wei Guojun of the Academic Affairs Administration Center invited the school to design the New Year's Desk Calendar, combined with the current unit knowledge, the third-grade teachers and students jointly designed and implemented the PBL project of Mathematics, Art (Chinese and foreign), and English - designing the New Year's Calendar for the school.
Accompanied by a strong sense of rhythm believer, the class was full of interactive laughter, the children were very flexible in thinking, combined with the knowledge they had learned in the past, the group cooperated to complete the calendar of the month they selected, and assumed the positions of planner, designer, illustrator, copywriter and other positions in the group, and completed the first draft of the calendar design in the classroom with a clear division of labor, and had their own views on the problem and had the courage to express it. In the final presentation session, the children confidently and generously displayed the group work and explained it, showing the excellent demeanor of Dalton students who are happy to learn and talk, and also took a step forward for the PBL project of the whole grade.
Painting Faces Xiao Chaozhong, a teacher at Yangzheng School.
Mr. Xiao Chaozhong from Foshan Yangzheng School and the children from the third grade of Daoxin brought us a picture book open class "Painting Faces", which was a new magic English graded reading book, and Mr. Xiao drove the emotions of the children who cooperated with the class for the first time with a humorous style, and the children actively participated in every activity, and the Xi atmosphere of the whole class was particularly strong.
In this lesson, Mr. Xiao introduced the children to two new words in the picture book through some interesting methods, and guided the children to further Xi learn the main content of painting faces through interesting hands-on activities in the picture book.
Teacher Mei Takayanagi of Fun With Food Road Shin School.
After leading Class 7 (1) to Xi Unit 3 "Fun with Food", Grade 7 ESL teacher Gao Yanagi took this joint teaching and research opportunity to carry out a project-based learning Xi with the core goal of "how to better recommend restaurants for non-local teachers who visit our school".
With the joint efforts of the teachers of English, information technology and art, students practice the cultivation of "4 characteristics and 4C abilities" at every step, from collecting information on the Internet, conducting field trips, working in groups to make PPT, and finally designing and creating handmade brochures.
In this lesson, the student group presented the results of the cooperative project, introduced their own store visit experience to the teachers in the core language of Unit 3, and wanted the experts and teachers present to recommend good stores. After that, the group members conducted self-evaluation and mutual evaluation, and the on-site teachers voted and gave positive comments and personalized suggestions on the children's reports.
Fun With Food Allen teacher at Yangzheng School.
With the theme of "Fun with Food" in the third unit of New Magic English, Allen, an international teacher from Yangzheng School, used vivid descriptions and charismatic expressions to attract students' attention. In the class, Mr. Allen asked students to guess English through the description of food, and asked students to answer the name of the food step by step, to the reason for liking food, to the division of labor in home cooking, the difference between home cooking and restaurant dining, etc., and finally the students achieved the Xi goal of food evaluation.
Allen encourages students to communicate loudly in English in pairs with humorous expressions, and the classroom atmosphere is relaxed, allowing students to train their English expression skills in an immersive English learning and Xi atmosphere.
Expert: Teacher Zhou Xin.
At the expert review and guidance meeting of the primary school, Zhou Xin praised the wonderful and interesting class of Mr. Qu's "My Calendar", saying that the whole class showed the quality and teaching quality of Dalton students, and the activity of the classroom and the cooperation of the group reflected Dalton's English characteristic teaching philosophy. At the same time, on the basis of professional classroom teaching, Ms. Qu proposed that she could directly use the calendar definition to teach, give children specific Dalton Calendar design for years, months, and weeks, and record videos in advance in the group presentation link.
Mr. Zhou expressed his appreciation for Mr. Xiao's painting faces classroom design, and the combination of English and art made the classroom practice more vivid and diverse, and it can be seen that the children also showed a strong interest in painting operations. At the same time, she suggested that if the order of the class links is appropriately adjusted, painting faces before the start of the class to attract children's interest, this effect may be better, and the most important thing in the picture book class is to design it easily and let students enter the immersive reading.
At the same time, the teachers consulted experts on questions such as "how to better carry out PBL project-based learning Xi and "suggestions on curriculum setting in the first grade" and received answers. Teacher Zhou concluded that English teaching currently needs to make children have a strong interest in reading, expand the amount of reading, and the accumulation of reading can cause quantitative to qualitative changes. Every teacher is a good classroom designer, and the wonderful classroom of the two teachers presents us with a lot of new ideas, let us see the hope of future education, and let us all the teachers here collide with the spark of different educational ideas.
Expert: President Zhu Weiming.
At the junior high school expert evaluation guidance meeting, Principal Zhu Weiming said that after listening to two classes, it was like enjoying an English feast, and the PBL course designed by Gao Yanagi Mei and other subject groups created a real situation and a meaningful learning Xi in the process of solving problems.
Teacher Allen is able to quickly close the distance with the children in the face of the new class, creating a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, using games to stimulate children's interest in class, and a series of questions are designed so that students can use language knowledge in real contexts.
Principal Zhu also borrowed the educational ideas of educator John Dewey to encourage all teachers to try more, so that students can effectively learn and Xi in the process of solving real problems.
The new Qixiang expert team awarded the honorary certificate of "Quality Demonstration Class" to the 4 teachers, encouraging them to do more exploration and innovation on the road of English teaching.
The inter-school and cross-regional joint teaching and research has built a platform for the three schools to communicate, display and discuss, which has triggered teachers to have a deeper level of thinking about classroom teaching under the new curriculum standard, and the on-site comments and guidance of English teaching and research experts have helped teachers improve their professional teaching ability and accomplishment more professionally, and the teachers of the three schools have also achieved complementary experience and resource sharing in the exchange and communication, and promoted the development and innovation of personalized English teaching in the collision of ideas, so as to improve the quality of English education and teaching.