School education is the sacred cause of cultivating children, and teachers are the mainstay of this cause", and it has always been the unremitting pursuit of our school to attach importance to the professional development of teachers.
In particular, school-based teaching and research is an important way to enhance the professional capacity of teachers and improve the quality of education and teaching in schools.
Under the leadership of Professor Zhang, the Chinese teachers in our school are actively engaged in various teaching and learning activities and are exploring the new dynamics of Chinese teaching in the context of international education, based on the objective rules of subject teaching and the real learning situation and teaching environment.
Inter-school collaboration
On 17 May 2022, Professor Zhang and the Chinese teachers went on a teaching visit to Guanlan Central School.The teachers observed the lessons in Grade 2, Grade 3 and Grade 4 of Prep School and Grade 7 of Senior School respectively and communicated after the lessons.
After returning to school, the teachers who participated in the lesson observation were organised and guided by Professor Zhang to discuss and share their experiences and gains.
Make good use of the 'genre study' unit within the textbook to increase reading time and improve reading efficiency, so that you can progress from a book to an author, from an author to a style of writing, and from a style of writing to a category of books.
Explore learning resources in-class texts, summarise learning methods and guide writing tasks around specific learning tasks.Language knowledge should be accurate, helping students to develop concepts of 'genre'.
The study sheets are innovatively designed with connotative content, and the different modules correspond to texts within the unit. For example, '叶圣陶先生二三事' is presented in a table format; '爱莲说' and '陋室铭' use visual guides to assist students in sorting out the textual information within the texts.
Encouraging students to brainstorm and then present their findings based on their brainstorming makes the discussion more considered and valuable.
The teacher links poems on the same theme, enhancing the depth and breadth of content in the lesson and adapting to the current requirements of teaching group poetry reading.
The teaching design is modular and clearly layered. From reviewing to the exercises, from identifying topics to reviewing writing skills, and finally to the appreciation of article fragments and writing of article fragments. It reflects the orderly nature of the teaching content from easy to difficult and from low to high.
The teacher's teaching balances fun and knowledge. For example, at the beginning of the lesson, the teacher designed a fun quiz to guess the poem through the hints given. A picture of a green lotus leaf was put on the blackboard to decorate it, and the students were asked to put the lotus flower with the Chinese characters on it to form a beautiful picture of a summer lotus, which echoed the theme of the poem and was also fun for children.
Since the start of the new academic year, the core objectives of teacher training in the Chinese team have been to consolidate teachers' basic skills and enhance their professional development based on the key points of teaching.
With a series of projects such as personalised growth corner activities for young teachers, regular teaching and research exchange and display week activities,and sequence display activities, so that teachers at different stages of development can truly become developers and builders of education and teaching in schools, and become the masters of their own lives and professional growth paths.
*Professor Zhang holds one-to-one meetings with young teachers to customize their professional development programmes based on their individual characteristics.
It is said that "education is the art of love, while teaching is the art of regret". In the actual teaching, different students' learning conditions, different learning contents, different teacher and student states will add unknown variables to the teaching. It is in these variations, beyond the expected, that the wisdom of teaching and learning ideas creeps in.
With the support of the school and the active guidance of the experts, all teachers in the Chinese team will continue to uphold the original intention of doing "real education", with the teaching mission of "speaking Chinese well, using Chinese characters well, tasting Chinese feelings well and reading Chinese hearts", and work together to forge ahead. We will continue to move forward on the path of professional growth and bring a new professional, broad and solid Chinese education to our students and their families.
