Notes on observing classes in Shandong Changle No.2 Middle School

? I started studying today. Arriving at school at 7: 3 in the morning, the teacher who received us gave each of us a blue bag, explained some precautions and began a day of class observation activities. Wen will go to Grade Three, and Dan and I will go to Grade One. One morning I watched a math class, two English classes and a Chinese class.

The first lesson is a math class. When we enter the classroom, it is a discussion session directly. I saw the classroom was in chaos, and every student stood up and talked fiercely. The classroom was very lively, and every student shouted out his doubts or the key to solving the problem with all his strength. After about 5 minutes, some students went to the blackboard to write the solution of the problem that the group was responsible for in the corresponding area, and then a classmate was responsible for explaining it there. Some students who didn't know how to solve the problem approached and listened to their explanations. A paper is divided into 16 tasks, and each group undertakes one task. The classroom is like a busy supermarket, and any student who needs to learn any questions will go to any area to study. There is also a corner on the blackboard to make a difficult area, where students write down the tasks that cannot be solved after discussing with their classmates, and some students will solve the problems. If no one goes up to solve the problem within 5 minutes, the teacher will explain it in class. The learning objectives are written on the blackboard, and the group that has completed the task can preview the next class or write exercises. This math class has completely subverted my understanding of the classroom. In this class, the teacher appeared for 5 minutes, finished writing the learning objectives, and then disappeared into the students after dividing the tasks. All the questions are completed by students through independent inquiry and cooperative learning.

English class is a mid-term test paper. The teacher first analyzes the general situation of this exam, points out the places where students do badly, and praises students who do well. Then write the answers to the questions on the blackboard, and the students will check the answers themselves and analyze the papers. Next to each wrong question, write the reasons and solutions for the mistakes. Ask questions in the group now if you don't understand them. If you can't solve them, ask other groups for advice or raise your hand to ask the teacher. There are also students who write the questions directly to the difficult areas, so that other groups of students can answer them. The wrong sentences in the composition found by the teacher during the inspection of the classroom are written on the blackboard to be corrected and explained uniformly, and then the students are allowed to modify their own compositions.

? The topic of Chinese class is the use of idioms. When I entered the classroom, I had reached the stage of heated discussion. The task of students is to learn to understand the meaning of idioms and then use them correctly in sentences or paragraphs. Finally, the teacher made a summary and expanded some exercises to test the students' mastery. A class time flies, and the children in Shandong are very loud and confident, and they have no stage fright when answering questions and discussing. So many foreign teachers strung around in the classroom, they directly ignored them and didn't even lift their eyelids. I have to admire their tenacious nerves.

? In the afternoon, I listened to the report. A senior high school class teacher told us the methods of group construction and management, which answered many questions in my heart and showed me how powerful a school with top-down curriculum reform is. Listen to the report and observe the class. I also observed a foreign teacher's oral class and a reading class. The reading class is also a self-study class. The teacher asks the students to read a newspaper, say the requirements and tasks and walk away. Students read the newspaper quietly and carefully in the classroom, look up the dictionary and write down the new words, good sentences and complete the relevant connections. The absent-minded students were all called to do ideological work by the teacher who was suddenly killed. The discipline in oral English class is very poor. Although the foreign teacher has tried hard to maintain discipline, the students still can't calm down and listen to the foreign teacher or other students' speeches. This is a failed class.

DAY2

I continued to attend classes today and arrived at school at 7: 3 in the morning. The students were reading early, and the whole first grade was reading English. I didn't know that the students were reciting words until I walked in and looked at them. I read and wrote loudly, and then I wrote it silently. None of the teachers visited the hall for half an hour. The student said that the task had been decided the night before. Early reading is all for students to complete their own tasks. When asked if there are any lazy students in the class, especially those with poor foundation. Students say that no one is lazy, especially students with poor foundation, and they will definitely not be lazy. This makes me feel the urge to worship. The morning reading ended at 8 o'clock, and yesterday's The monitor on duty began to summarize the performance of yesterday's class. Some praised the health work, and individual groups, but also criticized a group that spoke in class. Then today's The monitor on duty took to the podium, released today's inauguration plan, reminded the group that spoke yesterday, and said the key points of today's class management, and then the bell rang. Students prepare for class separately. I walked around without taking English, so I went to the classroom in Grade Two and listened to half a lesson. When entering the classroom, the teacher was correcting the composition presented by the students with the students on the blackboard. After explaining the composition, begin to play listening. Two students do it on the blackboard, then discuss the answers together. The next step is to imitate the recording and read, translate, and finally read freely and recite it. After this class, students practiced a composition and learned a dialogue thoroughly.

The second class is biology, and I will comment on the examination paper. The teacher commented on the whole paper on the blackboard, and the students listened for 45 minutes with their necks crooked. The teacher's teaching method is traditional, and the knowledge is very detailed, but there is not much new idea. Several students were so distracted that they forgot to take notes.

? Sections 3 and 4 are listening to the report. The director of a third grade group told us the general situation, operation mode and teaching concept of Changle No.2 Middle School. This report will not help us much, but is more like propaganda. He used a large number of videos and pictures to show us the activities that the students of No.2 Middle School participated in and the achievements made in these years. It also introduced us to the concept of running a school. I agree with their educational philosophy, especially the first one: "There is no child who can't learn well." Interpretation of this sentence. He said that they understood it this way. Our society is like a forest. There are towering trees, thick shrubs, lush grass and bright green moss in the forest. The existence of each species has its significance and necessity. The task of our education is to cultivate trees into the tallest trees and moss into the freshest green moss. We should affirm the significance of education and acknowledge the differences of students' learning ability. Accept that some children are lacking or extremely bad at something.

? This understanding is consistent with my idea. In my opinion, education is to educate people before nurturing them. First, cultivate children's quality, give full play to students' specialties, and finally correct the optimization of cultural classes. Instead of focusing only on students' performance in cultural studies, they ignore the cultivation of students' personality and the quality of a qualified citizen.

? It was shocking to introduce the 65 km zipper. Walk 65 kilometers in 12 hours, including climbing a mountain. Everyone did it, and some classes insisted on running exercises the next day after the training. This kind of activity exercises students' willpower very much, and also enables them to see their own potential, giving them the belief that as long as they persist and work hard, they will certainly achieve their goals.

I chose music class in the first section in the afternoon. It is also interesting for teachers to attend English classes in groups. First of all, the teacher let the students enjoy a song with short notes, and then teach them to beat the time according to the rhythm of the score. Teach the students to sing music after the beat. When the students can basically sing, let them practice in groups. The next step is to sing the lyrics. The students sing by themselves first and then sing along with the music. The students are very enthusiastic and the songs are boiling for a while. After learning the short tune, the teacher taught the long tune in the same way, and then guided the students to appreciate the short tune and the long tune, and guided the students to express it in the right language. This detail is very helpful in cultivating students' artistic accomplishment.

The communication time with the subject teacher is 2: 4pm. When I went to the lecture hall after the first class, the communication activity was already in the middle. I didn't hear the previous content, but I was still in time to ask two questions that I was most concerned about: vocabulary and composition. This teacher is a high school teacher. She said that vocabulary can't be relaxed, which is no different from the traditional practice. It is still necessary for the teacher to grasp it in his hand and solve the vocabulary problem, so that other problems can be solved. On the issue of composition, their practice is the same as that of building block teaching method. First, they input relevant vocabulary and model essays for students to recite in class, and then they immediately let students practice writing, show and revise in class.

I appreciate their method of memorizing the main parts for basic accumulation in every lesson, but the lack of extensive training in flexible application in English class leads to students' high problem-solving ability and poor oral expression ability. This practice does not meet the requirements of English teaching in the Pearl River Delta.

DAY3

Today's highlight is to exchange class management methods with the head teacher in junior high school. This teacher is in Grade Three, and he is very sincere. He gave detailed answers to all the questions we asked. In order to get the most direct and greatest information in this exchange, we also held a special meeting last night, and three people got together to make careful deliberation and consideration on the questions to be asked by the head teacher in today's exchange. Finally, several core issues are determined:

1. What is the basis for establishing study groups, especially for freshmen? Without knowing the students' situation, how to make the group construction scientific, is there any adjustment halfway, and when?

2. The work content of group leader training, how to control the group, and specific measures and methods.

3. How to score and deduct points? What are the main functions of the evaluation department? How to achieve fairness and justice in scoring, and how does the discipline inspection department operate?

4. Who manages several functional departments in the class, how to operate and how to form them?

Mr. Liu gave a detailed answer to this question, and gave a detailed introduction to the The monitor on duty system which he used best. Such rich communication made us discuss again and again on the way back to Zhongshan, and finally decided to take Class 1 (4) of my class as an experiment, which took two months to see if we could establish a cooperative learning group that was most suitable for our school.

Before we left Changle No.2 Middle School, there was another lecture about the construction of campus culture and class culture. This topic is being talked about all over the country, and there is not much new idea. In short, culture can only be effective if it is done with heart, and it is useless to just shout slogans verbally. I noticed that even the toilets in this school were plastered with all kinds of slogans that are pleasing to the heart, nourishing and inspiring. It can be seen that this school has invested heavily in cultural construction.