Under the guidance of the double reduction policy, how to effectively reduce the burden and improve the children's enthusiasm for learning and the quality of teaching is the problem currently encountered. On September 8th, Guangzhou Panyu Zhixin Middle School held a seminar on improving the effectiveness of English teaching as a whole under the "double reduction" policy. At the seminar, around the purpose of "reducing burden and increasing efficiency", the purpose of empowering the school discipline curriculum and the construction of quality education system, Huang Zhihong, distinguished professor of the School of Foreign Languages of South China Normal University and former director of the English Department of the Teaching Textbook Research Office of the Guangdong Provincial Education Research Institute, shared his share.
Zhang Xiongji, principal of Guangzhou Panyu Zhixin Middle School, delivered a speech
Job design and feedback are critical
There are two aspects of double subtraction, one is to reduce the excessive homework burden of students in the compulsory education stage, and the other is to reduce the burden of students' off-campus training. As far as the former is concerned, Huang Zhihong proposed to make full use of the main position of the classroom and improve the quality of homework. At the same time, teachers should also study the effectiveness of homework management, design menu assignments, and strengthen feedback functions.
Focusing on "reducing burden and increasing efficiency", Huang Zhihong, distinguished professor of the School of Foreign Languages of South China Normal University, shared
"We must make use of the main position of the classroom, the lectures should be appropriately left blank, carefully arranged, and the feedback information collected during the practice or teaching process should be corrected in a timely manner or fill in the gaps, so as to minimize the written homework after class." Huang Zhihong said that foreign language homework is not "written", but "used". There are scenes with it, not only to write but also to say it, so this homework does not have to be done in writing.
"I want to study instructional design as a topic, and I want to have a job design." Huang Zhihong pointed out that homework research should clearly distinguish what is basic homework and what is hierarchical operation. Each teacher has different levels of students, how to arrange flexible homework and personalized homework according to the differences of students, as well as a variety of open homework, this is a problem worth thinking about every teacher. After studying the curriculum standard, the teacher should decompose into each section, accurately grasp the nature of the discipline, actively develop curriculum resources, design menu assignments, and strengthen the feedback function.
"We want to design the assignment menu in layers and provide a display platform for students to show." Huang Zhihong pointed out that there are several types of innovative homework, including encouraging hierarchical homework, flexible homework, personalized homework, scientific design of exploratory homework, practical homework, exploration of interdisciplinary comprehensive homework, etc. Teachers should strengthen the guidance of homework completion while designing good homework.
"Children will learn to absorb when they are ready"
"Children learn to absorb when they are ready, not when the teacher is ready to teach them." Zhou Xin, editorial board member of the 2001 edition of the primary school English textbook of the People's Education Publishing House, believes that cultivating the desire for knowledge of the next generation and the enthusiasm and ability to learn and master new knowledge is a major purpose of current and future education, and cultivating students' lifelong values and tenacious character should be another major purpose of education. "Many times teachers are ready and ready to teach students, but in fact, I personally think that learning does not mean that teachers are ready to teach, but that children will learn when they are ready."
Zhou Xin shared her suggestions on the English teaching system for primary schools
In the suggestion of the entire primary school English teaching system, Zhou Xin believes that the cultivation of reading ability should be placed in a very important position, cultivating students' experience of reading from an early age, initially developing the habit of reading, so that children can feel English in listening, speaking, singing and playing, like English, and learn English. "For children, teaching materials are actually an auxiliary tool, but if children can read books, can read stories, and can understand the beauty of English through the feelings of this story, I think this is what we like to see."
Implement double reduction and carry out comprehensive language teaching activities
In the discussion session, many guests, including school leaders and front-line teachers, expressed their views on the improvement of the teaching efficiency of English subjects in Guangzhou Panyu Zhixin Middle School and had a heated discussion.
In order to achieve better teaching implementation, the school's A100 teaching system empowers subject teaching, and promotes the implementation of English disciplines and school language quality comprehensive activities through the implementation of the A100 readers' language comprehensive practice activities of "Telling Chinese Stories in English".
Deputy Director Gan Yuchao introduced the A100 language comprehensive practice activities
Director Huang Shuang of Star A100 International Exchange Center and Director Wu Aini, Director of A100 Teaching and Research, respectively displayed and shared the practical achievements of Star A100 Readers and the teaching achievements of A100 Readers' Language Comprehensive Practice Activities in Guangzhou Zhixin Middle School, Guangzhou Zhixin Middle School Pazhou Experimental School, South China Normal University Affiliated Foreign Chinese School, Shimen Experimental Primary School and other cooperative schools. It can be seen from the students' video works that the children confidently introduce the campus culture and Chinese stories in fluent English, which fully reflects that the comprehensive language practice activity of "Telling Chinese Stories in English" plays an important role in improving students' English listening and speaking skills and comprehensive cultural literacy, as well as inheriting Chinese culture and carrying forward campus culture.
Zhang Xiongji, general principal of Guangzhou Panyu Zhixin Middle School, said that it is useless to implement double reduction and just shout slogans, but should effectively improve the quality of children. The key to improving the effectiveness of English classrooms and improving the learning of English lies in the ability to listen and speak. From 2019 onwards, the school has upgraded from "I am the spokesperson of the star" and "the reader of the star of the A100" to telling Chinese stories in English.
Zhang Xiongji said that to do education is to have characteristics, in the full implementation of the "double reduction policy", the whole school will carry out the language comprehensive practice activities of "telling Chinese stories in English", using the afternoon after-class time to open an English corner to provide a platform for students to tell Chinese stories in English and tell the story of the letter. Carry forward Mr. Zhu Zhixin's spirit of rejuvenation and patriotism, and spread the good school spirit, good teaching style, and good learning style of Xingzhi School.