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In American elementary schools, teachers with low teaching qualifications have twice a year to observe other teachers, this time Mr. Yang was sent to a school in our school district that is good at reading, writing and art to observe, and was fascinated by all kinds of gorgeous classroom arrangements!
These teachers set up the classrooms like home, and each classroom has its own style - ocean style, music style, art style... Not only that, but also music, camouflage lights, and even colored lights on stage to play moving points of light! The teachers told me that each of their classrooms had their own themes, some of which were based on the subjects taught by the teachers.
Unlike most American schools, where a single teacher teaches general subjects, this school adopts a system of sub-subjects. That is, one teacher teaches english reading and writing in the social sciences, and the other teacher teaches mathematical sciences and arts. In this way, each has its own specialization, and the child benefits. The English-learning classroom is quiet and quiet, with comfortable sofas and beds, creating a warm home-like reading and writing environment. The art classroom is a sea of oil painting sticks, paints, and chalk. Math Science classrooms are full of numbers and science books...
After reading it, the biggest feeling is - such a school and environment, can children not love to go to school? Probably what they look forward to most every day is to go to school!
door
It is the sign of the school, and the oncoming face into the school is this colorful door. In this school, teachers paint the doors in a variety of colors. With each quarter will also be changed to a different theme.
The third grade door is the theme of environmental protection: what do you bring to the world?
The first-year gate records what students consider to be the most important events within 90 days of school. There are spring trips, there are first exams, there are visits to exhibitions, there is a favorite class... Every kid has the opportunity to write their own convenience note! The teacher accumulated these convenience strips and slowly pasted them into a tree!
Looking ahead to the 2017 themed doors, added with the unique stripes and stars of the American flag.
It is said that it is difficult to get approval for painting from the school district, so every summer teachers sneak in with paint buckets and paint the classrooms colorful...
To interject, American teachers really decorate their doors with their hearts, and it is cool to send two small green teachers (Snoopy and Turkey) and a small Yang teacher (Harry Potter) classroom door here?
Classroom decoration
The next visit opened Teacher Xiao Yang's eyes and was ashamed of himself! After reading it, my first reaction was to go back to school and tear down my classroom, everything from scratch! Each classroom here has a different theme, this classroom is a Mori classroom, and the teacher is the best at artistic creation.
As soon as you enter, the classroom is decorated with a variety of colored lights. The entire wall was painted with heavy paint to a blue ocean and a scorching volcano.
Tropical fish are found in the ocean using oil sticks, chalk and glue. This fish first draws stripes on black cardboard with glue, and when the glue is dry, it is colored with chalk or oil paint sticks.
To create an atmosphere of the ocean, bookshelves are filled with shells.
Colored lights hung everywhere in the classroom.
In the corner of the classroom there is a small tent for hobbits where children can climb in and read.
The most distinctive feature is that there is a small bed in the corner of the classroom, and there are small pillows on the bed. During free reading and writing time, children can climb into bed to read. It was like home comfortable... No, there's a kid reading a book!
There is also a small sofa under the bed with a sun throw pillow on it.
There are several such leaves on top of every third-grade classroom library here, and the children are like perching, lying under the leaves reading...
On the other side of the classroom are children's work on display.
In the bottom row are small books created by children.
Casually open a small book, the cover is a unique shape made of two cardboards. Each book is a story with six or seven full chapters.
On the other side, children try to create works in different ways of painting watercolors.
Even the hooks are very distinctive. Here if the child needs to go out, he needs to hang this yellow sign around his neck. Back and forth in the hallway were children with signs hanging around their necks. If there is no yellow sign, it means that if you go out without the permission of the teacher, people who encounter the office may be arrested.
Walking to another classroom, the children were writing. The teacher introduced that every time he writes, he will play music for the children, the ceiling moves the light spots that can only be seen in the dance hall, and the children write quietly in the change of music and colors...
Another classroom also has a bed for a pixie. Warm white curtains hang next to it.
The material shelf is decorated with green plants and a warm table lamp.
Library books are clearly categorized. Some are divided according to the level of reading, and some are divided according to the type of reading. The teacher carefully wrote "Library Purchasing Rules" next to him. It also details the steps to choose the right book for you, in short - too difficult and too easy is not suitable, only choose the book that suits your level!
Another classroom also teaches general subjects, but the theme of the classroom is music, and the walls are covered with CDs.
Teacher Yang also stumbled upon the teacher's exercises with mind maps – why did we come to school?
Children brainstorm all sorts of reasons: learning to write, learning to read, getting smarter, getting a job in the future, becoming a fun and lovely person, wanting to go to Harvard University...
Reading corner
Of course, the best thing about this school is writing and reading! Reading and writing studios were introduced throughout the school, and every step of reading and writing was made by the teacher and pasted on the wall. The Reader's workshop is covered with a dense array of reading techniques.
This poster is mentioned by Teacher Xiao Yang before, just like reading a marathon, accumulating reading time. Each child has a different height, and each height corresponds to a different minute. See where the kids climbed to the coconut tree.
How can I improve my reading skills by communicating and sharing with others?
Share a passage you've read and think about what touched you very deeply Share a passage that keeps your mind stretching your mind out Share a paragraph that puzzles you Talk about what happened to the protagonist Share a sentence that makes you happy, sad, touching, and excited Talk about what you think of the protagonist
How do you understand what you read by asking questions? Think about it:
Who is described in the book? What happened? Did this content happen before? Or is it new?
While reading, I ask myself how to think
This passage speaks... One detail that I think is very important in the text is... This text reminds me of... One of the strange things is...
Determine the perspective in the text from non-fiction books
The author seems to feel very much (negative, sympathetic, concerned)... My evidence is... This author chose... In fact, it could have been... This passage makes me feel like the author... I agree/disagree with the author...
Writing corner
Another wall is the writer's workshop, where there are various ways to write. Because Mr. Xiao Yang and this school use the same set of teaching materials for writing, and participate in the same training, the content of this writing corner is the same. One of the posters is a writing checklist.
Children's works are hung in the classroom.
These sticky notes are available for purchase along with the textbook.
Four different writing structures were written down and pasted on the wall by the teacher in great detail, and this little Teacher Yang was also teaching exactly the same content, and would talk about it in detail later.
The four structures on the figure are mainly divided into:
Boxes and Beanstalk: A big box that outlines the theme. There are a few small content branches below. Causal problems, solutions. Good vs bad The same and the different
Each classroom has a word wall, and the teacher tapes the cabinet into 24 squares, each of which is filled with words that may be used or newly learned in writing.
American teachers like to emphasize the most important words in class - Fat and Juicy words! Fat and juicy words! In Chinese, it is called - gorgeous and advanced rhetoric.
Math Science Corner
In another classroom, I saw posters of all kinds of math. This teacher is best at teaching small groups in mathematics. Each group is ten minutes long, for a total of four groups. One group is doing math BINGO games, one group is writing stories with math, one group is doing math computer games, and one group is learning math with teachers.
This is third grade math and the kids are learning histograms. Histogram trilogy:
Investigate a question Collect data Make a column chart
Kids at Science Corner are learning about a variety of different weathers. So the books on the whiteboard are all about science.
Campus environment
Teacher Xiao Yang was observing in the classroom when suddenly the whole school was practicing earthquakes. Before I could react, the children all hid under the chair, holding their heads in one hand and the corners of the chair in the other. The teacher and I quickly fell down, and the whole campus was silent... Soon after, the whole school was evacuated, and the children carried first-aid kits to the playground, not in a hurry, well-trained. Before leaving, I passed by several walls of the school and found some works that surprised me.
At the end, walk through an exhibition and see the children's work – what would you do if I were on a snowy planet? One child wrote: "I want to share my money with those who want more money..." What a warm kid!
After visiting this school, I always think of the smiles of the children in the classroom, they are so enjoying the learning process! Writing and reading does not seem to be a painful thing. Teachers don't just provide academic guidance, they can create an environment where what kid doesn't love to learn?
Without further ado, I went back to my own classroom and demolished the wall...