Based on the new trend of education internationalization, we will promote the double integration and double promotion of Party building business. The first secretary invites experts from Longhua Education Bureau to help Bromsgrove Mission Hills School to improve the quality of Chinese teaching, and jointly explore how to cultivate Chinese citizens with global vision based on the local characteristics of China.
On October 27,2021,the Chinese group of the Bromsgrove Mission Hills Foreign Language School held the first Chinese teaching seminar of this school year. Teacher Lu Chengshu, head of Chinese department of Longhua District Education Bureau, Teacher Xiong Bo, the first secretary of Longhua District Education Bureau stationed in our school, and President Zhang Chunhui, the teaching supervisor of Bromsgrove Mission Hills School, through on-site lectures, teacher seminars and other teaching seminars, Provide valuable suggestions for the professional development of Chinese teachers and the construction of Chinese courses.
Rooted in Chinese excellent culture , Inspire innovative thinking in teaching
“Wang Rong is seven years old, try to travel with Zhuer..." When we walked into the Silver Oak Building of the school, the members of the research group could hear the children reading loudly from a distance. Classical Chinese learning is one of the main points of learning in the middle and high school years. Teacher Feng uses "Wang Rong not to take the road by Li" as the teaching content and teaching for Class P4A.With the help of group activities, the students not only deepen the learning of the concept of "ancient and modern differences", but also extend from in-class to extra-curricular through case studies. Linking up stories from celebrities that I have learned before further exercises his ability to read comparatively. After class, the students were in high spirits and showed a keen interest in reading biographical stories of celebrities.
Later, the members of the seminar group came to the Chinese class of the P3A. "Why did Teacher Wang come to the classroom with a carrot?" With the students' doubts, homeroom teacher Ms Wang started a self-study journey about "Mr. Carrot's Long Beard" with student .Through the consolidation and supplementary exercises of predictive methods such as contacting life and paying attention to the evidence in the text, Teacher Wang guides students to use reading skills in practice and develop reading thinking through group cooperation and mutual assistance in answering questions.
Teaching interaction promotes new ideas, Experts lead and help growth
After the two observation classes, the district teacher and researcher Lu, the first secretary of our school, Secretary Xiong, and the teaching supervisor, principal Zhang, conducted in-depth discussions and exchanges with the teachers of the Chinese group, and provided a support the professional development path of group teachers indicates the way forward.
Principal Zhang presided over the meeting and invited Teacher Feng and Teacher Wang as teacher representatives to reflect on the two observation classes from the perspectives of their teaching design and teaching on-the-spot response. At the same time, other teachers present also published their own experiences and thoughts after observing the class.
After listening to the self-teaching reflections of the two teachers, Teacher Lu who is the teacher and researcher in district based on the classroom performance of the two teachers,and has made professional comments to them. He also pointed out the predicament of Chinese subject teaching in the current international school education and teaching environment, and led the teachers present on Profound contemplation on the integration of Chinese and Western subject teaching: How can Chinese classes under the background of the integration of Chinese and Western subjects maximize their strengths and avoid weaknesses? Can it not only maintain the vividness of the classroom, but also solidly improve the students' language literacy?
In this regard, Mr. Lu pointed out: “The Chinese subject group established in an international teaching environment needs to inherit the traditional Chinese culture for the construction of the Chinese subject, have China’s persistence, cultivate Chinese genes, and continue China’s lifeline. To lay the foundation of Chinese culture for our children and to be earth people with Chinese feelings."
At the same time, Mr. Lu also made suggestions to Chinese teachers. Teacher Lu talked about "When passing on cultural genes, we must pay attention to using multiple cultural carriers and presenting to our students in different forms, so that students can use different styles and learning frameworks to achieve real understanding." Teachers are required to pay attention to teaching. "Understanding is the foundation of inheritance, and linking is the way of inheritance. If teachers pay attention to cultivating children's sense of language, they are cultivating children's language ability." It is recommended that teachers should "do a good job of ensuring that the bottom line is to read more texts and be correct and fluent. Read familiar texts carefully; read texts intensively to be proficient in intensive reading; do a good job of daily accumulation; implement the language elements of each unit in the national textbooks, and guide students to master basic Chinese learning methods."
Subsequently, Secretary Xiong also based on the country’s hopes for the international development of China’s education and many years of professional Chinese teaching experience, She affirmed the thinking presented by the two teacher representatives in the classroom and the subject group teachers, and encouraged the teachers to ask for Have the courage to try, not be afraid of difficulties, keep moving forward in practice, and take this teaching and research conference as the new beginning of the new school year!
“Xiongguan Mandao is really like iron, and now it has started from scratch”. We believe that a professional teaching team can lead teachers to pursue more excellence, and good teachers can help families and society cultivate healthy and outstanding children. Paying attention to teacher development is our school’s unremitting pursuit of teacher training. We believe that under the professional guidance of the district teaching and research team, and with the sincere efforts of the teaching supervision principal and all teachers, the Chinese teaching of our school is bound to develop a new brilliance blooms in the next stage!
