Teacher’s Professional Course 4: Regular Teaching Inspections: Lecture Records, Homework Corrections, and Monthly Examination Summary

Being on the front line of teaching, you will inevitably face routine inspections of teaching. Generally speaking, there is a thorough inspection once a semester and an inspection once a month. This is basically a general rule for all schools. Routine teaching work includes: planning, lesson preparation, teaching, homework assignment and correction, tutoring, teaching research and teaching reform, and teaching summary. Today, I will talk to you about the three items that are often used: lecture records, homework correction, and monthly exam summary. methods and standards.

First of all, everyone needs to know why we need to conduct routine teaching inspections? Inspecting teaching routines is not just a formality. It is more like "supervision" than "inspection". "Supervision" refers to supervision. As the saying goes, "If there are no rules, there will be no success." Since there are standards for everything, they should be implemented according to the standards. Supervision is to standardize the work process and manage the results of the work. "Guide" means guidance. When problems are discovered, correct them in a timely manner to help everyone find working ideas and methods as soon as possible.

Therefore, please understand that whether it is taking notes in lectures, writing lesson plans, correcting homework, or analyzing monthly exams, these are all basic skills and professional courses for teachers. Doing these well is not to cope with inspections. But to make myself a qualified teacher.

So, what should be recorded in the lecture notes?

1. Basic points of lecture records:

Lecture records mainly include two aspects: one is teaching records, and the other is teaching comments

1. Teaching records Including:

(1) Lecture time, subject, class, instructor, topic, class period, etc.:

(2) Teaching process: including teaching links and teaching content, and Methods used in teaching

(3) Time arrangement of each teaching link

(4) Student activities

(5) Teaching effect

2. Teaching comments

Teaching comments refer to the listeners’ preliminary analysis and evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of the teaching of this course, and their suggestions. Including:

(1) Teaching material processing and teaching ideas and goals

(2) Teaching focus, difficulties, and key points

(3) Classroom structure design

(4) Selection of teaching methods

(5) Application of teaching methods

(6) Basic teaching skills

(7) Teaching ideas

(8) Others

The following two methods can be used when writing teaching comments: one is intermittent evaluation, which records the feedback generated after bilateral activities between teachers and students at any time. The second is the general evaluation, which means that the opinions and suggestions formed after analyzing the inter-evaluation are recorded in the record book and communicated with the students after class.

From what aspects can we think about class evaluation? You can start from the following aspects:

1. Evaluation time allocation. During the lecture, keep a record of how long each part of the teaching steps takes. Because time records can be used to determine whether the time allocation of the class is reasonable, whether the key teaching content can be highlighted, and the teaching objectives can be completed.

2. Evaluation of language evaluation. Explain whether the language is standardized, organized, vivid and vivid, and whether there are obvious slips of the tongue; whether the instant classroom evaluation is in place in a timely manner, whether it can mobilize students' enthusiasm for practice, and provide effective ideological and moral education to students based on reality.

3. Evaluate teacher and student activities. How teachers participate in teaching activities, effectively solve classroom incidents, and promptly solve students' problems during exercises. This can reflect the teacher's ability to control the classroom, give play to the teacher's leading role, and enable students to effectively participate in classroom learning and activities and always be active. state of learning.

Whether the teacher’s demonstration is correct and reasonable is the key to the success or failure of a class. Therefore, you must learn from the strengths of others and make careful teaching records.

4. Evaluate and organize teaching links. Remember every teaching link of the entire class. How teachers organize each part of teaching, introduce new lessons, review and consolidate, etc., how to complete new teaching in groups, how to practice in groups, and how to let students gradually master skills at several levels. Can students' learning be the center, and teaching methods and teaching methods be selected and determined around students' learning methods such as autonomy, cooperation, inquiry, and acceptance?

5. Evaluate the teaching organization method.

Carefully record how the lecturer organizes teaching, the form of group rotation, the number of times students practice, how to introduce new lessons, how to transition between various parts of the teaching content, etc. The selection of teaching methods must have a clear theme and conform to the teaching materials and students' actual conditions to ensure the integrity and smoothness of the teaching process of a lesson. The design of each teaching link must focus on the overall teaching goal and be simple and practical.

6. Evaluate the venue layout. If you think that the venue layout is scientific, reasonable and safe, the equipment can be used for multiple purposes, existing teaching resources can be effectively utilized, and the multiple functions and effects of existing sports venue equipment can be brought into play, you can write down the main arrangements.

In addition, you can also write down problems that you cannot understand or judge at the time, and humbly ask others for advice. If you achieve these aspects, learn from others' strengths, and take notes on lectures, you will improve your teaching level and classroom efficiency.

Lesson preparation, homework, and unit tests are collectively called the three major links of teaching routine. Homework is an opportunity for students to practice what they have learned in class. In other words, whether students have really learned how much they have learned in class should be able to get objective feedback through the completion of homework. For example, today we talked about the power of rational numbers in class. I will check on my homework whether the students have mastered the knowledge points summarized in class. If there is a problem, I will know if it will happen again next time? Do I need individual tutoring or group explanation? I will take appropriate measures based on the results of homework correction.

During this month’s homework inspection, the main problems discovered are:

(1) Homework corrections are not timely. Due to various reasons, there was a serious delay in correcting and writing students' homework in September. Students write a lot but the teacher corrects very little. The problems that arise in the homework cannot be solved in time, the correct ones cannot be reinforced, and the wrong ones cannot be corrected in time. In fact, the information value of the corrected homework has been lost. This has affected Teaching quality.

(2) The amount of feedback information is too small. Most of the assignments submitted for inspection this time are homework books. The homework books for junior high school students still focus on basic knowledge such as words. The homework that the teacher comprehensively corrects is only the dictation content. The amount of information in such homework is too small and too Simple, the operation has little value.

(3) Inadequate corrective measures. Because corrections are not made in a timely manner, some assignments are useless without effective supervision. In addition, due to the heavy academic burden or students being too busy to take care of themselves, students simply do not have time to review old lessons and correct problems in their assignments before starting the next stage of study. This creates a legacy of problems and goes against the step-by-step learning process.

How do we usually correct homework so that we can get better practice results?

First of all, let’s talk about what homework the teacher must correct.

All assignments that are specially arranged in the class schedule and assigned uniformly after review by the superior department must be modified.

For example: composition, calligraphy, exercise books, after-school questions, etc. These training contents, which are clearly specified in textbooks, timetables, and documents, are "officially assigned" and must be carefully completed through the process of correction, feedback, error correction, and review.

Others such as dictation, copying, weekly journals, excerpts, and error booklets... all belong to their own teaching design and can be arranged and corrected selectively.

The principles of homework assignments are: typicality, authority, effectiveness, and flexibility

The so-called typicality means that the types of homework questions assigned should be consistent with the teaching focus of the class. Compatible, so that students can complete it independently through classroom learning;

Authoritative refers to being helpful to students’ long-term sustainable development. To put it bluntly, it means that students can improve their grades by completing homework. , so that students will feel that the homework they write is "useful";

Effectiveness means that if there are arrangements, there must be inspections, and if there are inspections, there will be feedback. If problems are found, they will be pointed out in a timely manner and let students master the correct ideas. and methods are an effective work cycle. If you only arrange and do not check, then don’t arrange.

Finally, let’s talk about flexibility. When I participated in group teaching and research activities, I heard that there was a large gap between students in the class, and some students were always unable to complete the uniformly assigned homework. This is actually not a phenomenon in individual schools or classes. We should accept that students have individual differences.

However, the "official assignment" homework mentioned earlier is the lower limit and the most basic thing. If a student has difficulty completing it independently, the teacher can help him complete it in class. Secondly, if there is an error in the homework, he must correct it. After correction, he must ask him to correct it. There are marks to let him know which areas he has corrected and passed, and which areas are still problems; thirdly, for students with stronger abilities, they can implement layered homework and give them some challenging homework individually to push them to perform better than other students. Learn a step early or practice a little more.

Remember: Don’t complain about a child or family that is a pain in the ass. I remember that teacher Jamie Ekalrant (the one who sent 400 gangsters to Harvard and Yale) said: "Students have no hope, teachers give them hope!" I have also suggested before that everyone should take into account the things they encounter in teaching work. Study problems as subjects. Students will look at these problems from another perspective and it will be your wealth.

What is the fixed pattern for homework marking?

The first step is to correct the marks. Mark the correct ones, but it is not allowed to check the whole page. Wrong questions must be marked. If a word is wrong, you can circle it. If a sentence is wrong, you can underline it. Draw a small error mark or half an error mark next to the horizontal line, draw question marks on the unwritten areas, and fold the unwritten areas for students. This is a reminder.

The second step is the correction and evaluation. There should be grades, and even better, there should be comments after the grades. Give students some encouragement or suggestions and they will know that the teacher is paying attention to them.

The third is the date. Note the date of correction next to the grade. This is proof that the teacher has corrected several assignments and is also a feedback record of daily teaching content.

The fourth is to have error correction and review. If there are errors in the homework, the teacher should immediately send it to the teacher for correction. Is it correct after the correction? Therefore, teachers must review these incorrect assignments. After passing the re-examination, new marks should be made, such as the word "passed", or a different color pen mark, etc.

Timely correction, clear symbols, correct standards, complete process, and authoritative content are the standards for the next inspection of the homework correction project.

Why are teachers required to arrange monthly exams? The monthly exams are equivalent to actual combat exercises. The effectiveness of normal classroom teaching and how much students have truly mastered after homework feedback should be able to be tested in the monthly exam. Nowadays, every school attaches great importance to monthly exams, because a monthly summative test will not delay too long until the end of the semester and accumulate too many questions, nor will it be too frequent and teachers are overwhelmed. Therefore, preparing carefully and facing the monthly exam with a positive attitude are the professional qualities that every subject teacher must possess.

What is the normal procedure after the monthly exam? Teachers should analyze their teaching results: what is the accuracy of each question in each class, what are the reasons for the errors, what are the countermeasures, what should be paid attention to in the next stage of teaching... This is the monthly The purpose of the exam is to grasp students' academic situation, plan their own teaching direction, be targeted, and avoid blindly exerting force.

Our school’s teaching team is mainly composed of young teachers. Teacher Wu Fei proposed that “the best time for professional learning is within the first ten years of joining the profession.” Therefore, strengthening the regular management and supervision of teaching is to help teachers They grow up as quickly as possible. Growth not only means increasing age, but also includes the positive improvement of abilities in all aspects. If young teachers can become the backbone of teaching in a few years, you will definitely thank yourself for your hard work today.

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