The graduating class on the clouds broke through in anxiety

Zhang Huili, a junior high school Chinese teacher at Huizhou No. 1 Middle School, gave students online lessons in the bathroom.

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Behind is the washstand, next to the toilet, if it is not this epidemic, Zhang Huili can not imagine that she will be the "anchor" in the toilet, live class for students. She is the director of the third grade of Huizhou No. 1 Middle School and a Chinese teacher. Her experience is a microcosm of the "air" teaching of teachers during online education.

Affected by the epidemic, the battle for the preparation of the middle and high school entrance examinations has shifted from the campus to the Internet. For more than a month, under the pressure of tight time and further education, the "older" teachers and young teachers and post-00 students in front of and behind the screen have constantly sought a breakthrough in the face of anxiety and pressure brought about by the difficulty of grasping the teaching effect and the reduction of class hours.

● Written by: Southern Daily reporter Xie Zhiqing Yu Lei

Collective touch net

Older teachers are "students" again

"Students, today we will talk about the composition that was not finished yesterday, yesterday did 'overturn'..." Before the online class began, Zhang Huili, who was sitting in the bathroom, said helplessly to the students on the other side of the screen. In addition to the "disconnection" of the Network, there are other "troubles" in home classes. The reason why she had to hide in the toilet for class was because "there are two treasures in the family, and in order to prevent the children from making trouble, they have to make this decision."

The graduating class is racing against time, and as the grade director, Zhang Huili also pays attention to the overall teaching progress of the 19 classes. Fortunately, "dropping the line" is not the norm, and through overall arrangement, the online classes of each class are gradually stable and orderly. From the beginning of online teaching on February 17 to the present, the teaching progress of the third grade of the junior high school is within expectations.

There are 60 students in the Chinese class online at the same time, in order to improve the efficiency of interaction, she deliberately learned several tricks with the network anchor, such as understanding can "call 1", not understanding can "call 2". Many things "practice makes perfect", the first day of online classes will be nervous, now she can calmly cope with unexpected situations.

The challenges of online courses are much more than that. Since the suspension of classes and non-stop school, the amount of lesson preparation is much larger than when I was in school. "A 60-minute Chinese lesson a day takes three to four hours to prepare for a lesson." Zhang Huili supervises homework punching in the morning, connects tutoring at night, and has no fixed time for commuting.

Zhang Huili's experience and state are not unique. "We face similar difficulties." Xu Xinguo, director of the third grade of Huizhou School in Huanggang Middle School, introduced that most of the teachers who take live classes at the school are about 30 years old, and the children in the family are not large, and some have second children. Teachers not only stare at their children, but also supervise the students' homework punches.

Older teachers face more obstacles to online classes than younger teachers. Chen Shaoying is the senior class teacher and history teacher of Huizhou No. 1 Middle School. At the age of 54, she became a student again in order to take a good online class. Downloading the APP, debugging audio and video, connecting the courseware with the APP, and optimizing the layout of the courseware, she groped one by one to ask the young teachers and the young people at home for advice.

Because he was not familiar with the class software, Chen Shaoying was also anxious at first. After a period of exploration, she found a suitable way to teach. On the basis of years of teaching experience, Chen Shaoying recorded the knowledge points with more errors in the review as "knowledge capsules" so that students can listen back and watch them repeatedly.

Effect differentiation

Some progress is fast and some are difficult to adapt

In the face of "unprecedented" online education, both teachers and students feel unprecedented challenges and pressures.

"When I heard that the sixth day of the first year of the first year could not start normally, I panicked." At first, Zhong Lin, a senior at Huidong County Senior High School, was not used to attending classes at home and was easily affected by the surrounding environment. "I don't have a printing facility at home, so I can't print review materials." He was worried that his grades would be pulled down by his classmates.

Zhong Linjun's concerns are not unreasonable. Compared with the "zero starting point" teaching after the lower grades can return to school, the current junior high school and senior high school graduation classes have basically entered the review stage, which tests the current learning effect. Many of the teachers interviewed said that the effect of the online classes in the graduating class was not ideal, some students made significant progress, and some were difficult to adapt.

When reading the papers for the third-grade exam last week, Xu Xinguo and the teachers found that there was a big gap between the effect of online classes and the classes in school. "When grading the test papers, we were really anxious, because some of the problems that appeared were very typical, and we were afraid that students would make mistakes again in the college entrance examination."

Considering the current special situation, Xu Xinguo's mentality is still very optimistic. He understands the uneasiness and anxiety of high school seniors, believing that "students can walk into the live broadcast room on time every day, and this is success." ”

In the most recent weekly test, Zhong Linjun's performance rose from the top 50 in the grade to the top 10. A week ago, he also received a courier from the school, which contained a study plan for the next week's special topic review, all written by the teacher.

He slowly realized the convenience of learning at home. "With my family taking care of me, I can put all my energy into studying." According to the school schedule, Zhong Linjun gets up at 5:40 a.m. every day and has 5 online classes a day. Other times, he followed the study plan he had made and prepared for the college entrance examination.

"Although there are fewer hours of homeschooling, students have more free time at their disposal." Wang Tuan, principal of Huidong County Senior High School, believes that for the students of the senior high school graduation class, learning initiative is particularly important. "It's a challenge and an opportunity, and taking advantage of it is likely to overtake in the corners."

However, learning at home is not as effective as at school. "The pace of learning and Q&A tutoring are greatly reduced, and students may accumulate more and more questions." Wang Tuan hopes to start school as soon as possible.

Return to work and school

Teachers and students look forward to returning to school as soon as possible

Although the effect of online classes is not satisfactory, there are still "unexpected gains" for the graduating class.

Online education opens a window into teacher-student communication. In late February, Zhong Linjun received a group chat call initiated by class teacher Song Peipei. Together with three or four of his classmates, he chatted with the teacher about his recent learning and psychological state. "At that time, I felt very warm in my heart." The teacher's concern gave Zhong Linjun great support.

In the past, because they were on campus, many students did not care much about society, or even derailed from society. The epidemic has made students start to care about society and observe society.

The epidemic and online classes have also allowed Xu Xinguo to re-recognize the students he has brought for 3 years. Many of them were born in the year of SARS and are now preparing for the gaokao under the COVID-19 pandemic. This "special coincidence" has stimulated their feelings of home and country.

Xu Xinguo found that their pride in the country and the nation is from the inside out. In the class group and live broadcast interaction, the students will take the initiative to take out the current domestic and foreign events to communicate with everyone. "From a bystander to a concerned and involved." It is precisely in view of these changes that Xu Xinguo, as the deputy director of the school's moral education office, is planning to carry out class meetings and ideological and political classes with the theme of the epidemic after the opening of the school.

Art professional classes should be guided one-on-one, and Zuo Jing, a senior music teacher at Hua luogeng Middle School in Huizhou City, has only one "audience" at a time, so she jokes that she is a "twenty-eight-line anchor". Through online classes, she found that students' professional abilities improved rapidly.

"At school, the children left after practicing in the piano room, and there were not many opportunities to interact with each other." Zuo Jing said that since the online punch card, music students can intuitively see each other's learning gap after uploading homework, but they have the motivation to catch up.

However, with the resumption of work and production, both teachers and parents hope to start school as soon as possible. "There are sisters around who can only supervise their children through monitors because they have to go to work." Xie Ruilan, a parent of a junior high school student, hopes that her child can return to school as soon as possible, and she believes that although she can take care of her children's life at home, it is difficult for parents to help with learning. There is also a more realistic consideration: the lack of exercise at home for a long time will directly affect the child's sports performance in the middle school entrance examination.

Features

"Missing" students in mountainous areas

Break through the barriers to prepare for the college entrance examination

Compared with cities, the road to online classes for rural graduating students is more difficult. Some homes do not have broadband or wireless networks, and even mobile phone signals are unstable in some remote areas. Under the influence of the epidemic, these students have tried every means to "pass the customs" and strive not to be left behind in the sprint period of further education.

Wang Shuang (pseudonym) is a senior in high school this year, and his family lives in Lianghua Town, Huidong. Her school's graduating class began teaching online on Feb. 3, and she didn't really solve the network problem until early March.

Before, there was no broadband installed at home, and she used her mobile phone to watch online lessons. "The mobile phone signal is particularly poor, and the online course video is very stuck." As a result, Wang Shuang has been "missing" on the online course platform for a long time.

The class teacher paid attention to Wang Shuang's situation and contacted the parents. At the teacher's suggestion, Wang Shuang contacted the operator of the mobile phone card. "Because the card can be sent for free broadband for 1 year, but the operator personnel have seen it and said that they can't install it."

There is no way, Wang Shuang purchased a traffic set-top box online. "A box is more than 300 yuan, and the monthly traffic package is 79 yuan." If school does not start next month, it will cost another 79 yuan. She said.

Since the third year of high school has entered the revision stage, Wang Shuang, who has a good score, is not worried about the courses that have fallen behind in the early stage. "Live video lessons are geared towards all grades, and progress can sometimes be slower." Even if the network problem is solved, Wang Shuang also selectively listens to the lectures and follows his own learning plan more.

Wang Tuan, principal of Huidong County Senior High School, said that the school has distributed tablet computers to 44 students from the graduating class of poor families in the province and city. He believes that online classes at home are a test of students' self-discipline ability, and the learning initiative of graduating students is relatively higher. "However, rural parents generally do not attach as much importance to family education as urban parents, and the supervision of students' learning is not in place."