Hu Jie, a Chinese teacher at the Third Central Primary School in Hongkou District, is recording lessons
On June 2, the first, second and third grades of Primary School in Shanghai officially returned to school. So far, 1.435 million primary and secondary school students in Shanghai have bid farewell to home learning and returned to campus. From March 2 to June 2, for three months, the "air classroom" that brought together three sections of primary school, junior high school and high school, and more than 5,000 video lessons in 41 sections of disciplines made Primary and Secondary School students in Shanghai truly achieve "suspension of classes and non-stop learning".
Behind these more than 5,000 video lessons, the condensation is that nearly 1,300 outstanding teachers and teaching and research personnel in Shanghai who participated in the recording of "Air Classroom" silently paid months of hard work and sweat.
High-quality video lessons have been seen by everyone, but it is not easy behind it, but few people know.
The "team" assembled in 12 days fought for 4 months
The sudden outbreak of the new crown epidemic has led the entire Shanghai teaching and research team into a "wartime" state since the third day of the Chinese New Year on January 27, so that Everyone's WeChat, video, and mailbox are almost 24 hours a day, actively preparing for this major battle of "suspension of classes and non-stop learning".
At the beginning of February, the Municipal Teaching and Research Office formulated the "Shanghai Primary and Secondary School Online Teaching Video Lesson Resource Construction and Teaching Implementation Plan", which established the basic principles of "one platform, multiple terminals, multiple channels", "unified class schedule, independent choice, dual-teacher teaching", "video teaching, first recording and then broadcasting, timely interaction" and so on. At the same time, the three "teams" are also accelerating their assembly. The team of the online teaching video resource construction center is responsible for the overall program design, work coordination and decision-making of the discipline, specifically guiding the preparation of lessons and shooting of video lessons, and reviewing the revision and decision of opinions. The teaching and research staff guides the team, responsible for lesson preparation and guidance, and the filming site check. The teaching teacher team brings together the city's basic education teachers, senior teachers, backbone teachers and other elite generals, responsible for lesson preparation and teaching.
However, in 12 days, all the teachers and teaching and research personnel involved in the construction of the "Classroom in the Air" video lesson were assembled. Most of them are excellent backbone teachers such as special grade and senior level. Xu Dianfang said frankly that this "long holiday" in 2020 is almost never busy for all municipal and district teachers and researchers and front-line teachers. It wasn't until the beginning of June, when all of the "Classroom in the Air" courses of the semester had been recorded, that everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Most teachers don't remember how many nights they stayed up
In the WeChat of Hu Jie, a Chinese teacher at the Third Central Primary School in Hongkou District, there is a video of the last primary school Chinese video class recorded on May 11 at the Rong Media Center in Minhang District. In the picture, Xue Feng, a Chinese teacher and researcher at the municipal primary school, couldn't help but walk to the blackboard and write down with a stroke of his pen, "This semester is over in the air!" What followed was everyone's hearty laughter and the gesture of V.
The primary school Chinese in "Classroom in the Air", with a total of 5 grades, 40 units, and 427 video lessons, is a veritable "Big Mac". As one of the first Batch of Chinese teachers in Hongkou District to participate in the recording, Hu Jie can't remember how many nights he stayed up for this: preparing lessons, grinding lessons, doing ppt... The lesson plan of about 4,000 words per lesson often has to be polished seven or eight times. Every word and sentence must be repeatedly deliberated word by word. After the lessons are recorded, they must undergo various "examinations" and repeated revisions to ensure that there is not a single flaw. What makes Hu Jie still unforgettable is that before the first recording of the class, the teaching and research staff also sent Hu Jie a "lesson recording treasure book", which recorded the previous recording experience of more than ten teaching and research personnel. "All of them are dry goods, and such a 'treasure book' is very helpful to us, a teacher who is taking photos for the first time."
On a Friday morning in March, Hu Jie received a call from a municipal teacher and researcher saying that several clips of a class needed to be re-recorded in advance to the same day. At this time, not only had the teaching aids plates not yet been made, but even the shirts worn during the previous recording were washed off. What moved Hu Jie was that her 10-year-old son "stepped forward" at that moment, not only to help her change the printer ink at home, to dry the shirt with a hair dryer, but also to help her paste the homemade plates and re-record the completion, Hu Jie, who was afraid of "extraneous branches", simply sat next to the editor on the scene, frame by frame watching him finish editing the supplementary part, and when Hu Jie left the recording scene, it was the early morning of the next day.
Wei Yunsheng, a history teacher at Qinghewan Middle School, served as a community anti-epidemic volunteer for 42 days while recording lessons. On the first day of recording, due to nervousness and insufficient preparation time, his first appearance failed. "At that time, I almost wanted to give up, but fortunately, the teaching staff and other teachers encouraged me to help me think of a way, and worked overtime for several days until midnight, and when I went again for the second time, I finally recorded three classes at once."
Teacher Wang Xiaoyan of Pengpu New Village No. 1 Primary School in Jing'an District is recording lessons
For younger students, these eye-catching tricks work
For lively and active primary school students, whether they can effectively attract video lessons through TV and IPAD is the key to the "success or failure" of video lessons. Wang Xiaoyan, one of the recorders of the unified edition of "Ethics and Rule of Law", teacher Wang Xiaoyan of the First Primary School of Pengpu Xincun in Jing'an District, and his companion Qian Xukai designed a happy bird wearing a hat and full of Shanghai characteristics according to the content of the textbook. "The theme of the course is to learn to be a happy bird, so we might as well simply draw a bird and let the children follow the bird to experience joy and sorrow." Because for lower school students, the so-called happiness is mostly a subjective experience. ”
In the subsequent game unit, in order to let the second-grade students lift the traditional games other than video games, Wang Xiaoyan also integrated the traditional Shanghai games full of Shikumen atmosphere such as jiuzi games, flip rope, and hopscotch into the curriculum. "In fact, this unit is mainly to teach students to distinguish whether the game is healthy, pay attention to game safety, understand traditional games and innovate on traditional games." Lead students to experience the lifelike and interesting side of the course Ethics and the Rule of Law. ”
In the primary school English video, in addition to the vivid cartoon character image, the teacher team also added a set of eye-catching graphic logos to the courseware, including "please say", "please read", "please sing", "please you act", etc., prompting students to carry out autonomous language expression activities according to icons at different learning stages. "This set of childlike and meaningful icons, combined with the teacher's audible discourse instructions, runs through the whole process, greatly helping first-grade students to adapt to the classroom freely and actively in the new environment, participate in expression, and better realize the 'air interaction' between teachers and students." Teacher Qin Xia of Daning International School in Jing'an District said.
Behind these "effective", in addition to brainstorming among teachers, it is inseparable from the pouring of teachers and researchers from the city and district.
The reporter found in the interview that although most of the teaching and research staff are "behind the scenes", almost every teacher will repeatedly mention the real help that the teaching and research staff bring to themselves.
Without the "audience", the practical content effect is better?
For teachers, the most difficult thing for teachers is that there are fewer face-to-face "listeners" and "audiences". Compared with the pure cultural classes such as Chinese and mathematics, which are completed by sitting and listening, sports, music, labor skills, art and other classes that require "practice", it seems more difficult to "interact in the air" through the screen. But the reporter interviewed a number of teachers and found that the real feedback they received from the students was much better than expected.
Xu Jiangdong, a physical education teacher at Shanghai World Foreign Chinese Middle School, was pleased to see that the children in the "interaction" had mineral water bottles with different capacities at home, replacing dumbbells with different loads for equipment exercise.
Chen Mengqian, an art teacher at Fengxian Experimental Middle School, used online VR technology to take the students to visit several exhibition halls. Unexpectedly, soon some students used "Minecraft", hand-drawn and other forms to build their ideal exhibition scenes and hand-drawn and hand-drawn homework.
Tao Xiaoyang, an art teacher at Shanghai Jianqing Experimental School, is recording lessons
Tao Xiaoyang, an art teacher at Shanghai Jianqing Experimental School, is a member of the "science class" of the Beijing Dance Academy. In the art class of the first year of high school, he cleverly integrated the two examples of traditional folk dance, Yangge and Peacock Dance, so that students could see that folk art originated from life and was higher than life. "After class, many Shanghai students said through interactive feedback that they discovered the beauty of life from these folk dances for the first time."
Lu Jian, a labor technician at the primary school affiliated to Jiading No.1 Center, is recording lessons
Lu Jian, a labor technician at the Primary School Affiliated to Jiading No. 1 Center, found that the students in the classroom had a hands-on production session of up to ten minutes, but there was no restraint in the "air". Bubble blowing machines, mask racks, drying racks... The sophistication of many works is far beyond Lu Jian's imagination. In addition to children, there are also parents who strive for excellence in this regard.
"In the past, when dissecting crucian carp in school, the best conditions were only one for 4 people to dissect one." Shen Wei, a life science teacher at the Yangjing Juyuan Experimental School, told reporters that after assigning this homework to the eighth grade students through the "air classroom", the students responded enthusiastically, and even the "tricksters" in the eyes of the teachers also sent dissection videos. "Some students' videos are better and better cut, and the municipal teachers and researchers can't help but forward the circle of friends when they see it."
In a limited time, benefit more graduating students
"In the math 'aerial classroom' of the third year of high school, we hope that all students will be clear at the beginning of the class, what to listen to and what level to achieve in this class." Zhang Yadong, a mathematics teacher at Datong Middle School, told reporters that in each video, he first let the students feel the relevant knowledge through the training of several small knowledge points, and then through the explanation of two or three small questions, comb and summarize the basic knowledge, and finally through two or three typical example problems, let the students further refine their ideas and methods, not only to learn how to do it, but also to understand why they do it.
Yu Fangxi, vice principal of Songjiang No. 2 Middle School, is recording lessons
Yu Fangxi, vice principal of Songjiang No. 2 Middle School and chemistry teacher, specially bought a new computer in order to facilitate recording classes at home. "I stumbled when I first recorded it, but then I completely forgot that I was taking a video lesson." Yu Fangxi said that he hopes that the "classroom in the air" can make all Shanghai students have income, "In fact, I think this combination of online and offline forms is very good, if there is such a systematic online course in the future, teachers can first look at the video before preparing for the class to understand why excellent teachers will take classes like this." It is believed that the overall level of chemistry teachers in schools in Shanghai will be greatly improved. ”
As the main designer of the political unit of the high school ideological and political class, Meng Xiangping, vice principal of the Second Affiliated Middle School of China Normal University and political teacher, clearly knows that in the case of the college entrance examination approaching, what the teachers want to present in the "air classroom" must be the most accurate content. Courseware should be accurate, problem design should be accurate, and methodology should be accurate. "In the 'classroom in the air,' we want students to learn to use methodology to analyze a variety of problems, not just solve one or two problems in front of them. Through the 'classroom in the air' that concentrates the city's superior teaching resources, we are confident that we can benefit more high school students in a limited time." ”
Meng Xiangping, vice president of the Second Affiliated Middle School of China Normal University, is recording a lesson
In the view of Xie Zhongxin, director of the Education Information Center of pudong Education Development Research Institute, in the face of the information technology class on the screen, although there is less computer-based practice in the classroom, the teaching scene has changed greatly, but in fact, the teaching organization method of the teachers is also changing: "In the 'air classroom', compared with the simple technical level, we pay more attention to cultivating students' ability to solve problems with computers. Xie Zhongxin pointed out that the production of "Classroom in the Air" has formed a positive interaction between teachers. "Now many teachers are used to holding video conferences online, and online teaching and research have slowly become popular. I believe that in the future, integrated teaching such as "classroom in the air" will become the norm, and the joint collaboration between teachers will also become the norm.
According to Director Xu Dianfang, to this day, although primary and secondary school students in Shanghai have returned to campus one after another, the story of "classroom in the air" may not be over. He said that at present, the relevant departments have begun to study how to continue to let the "air classroom" play the advantages of integrated education in the future, and inject new momentum into the promotion of the high-quality and balanced development of basic education.
Author: Wang Xing
Editor: Gu Jun