11月19日,协和集团的ELA两位专家Frances Bruce 和 Jane Alston莅临我校,并认真观摩了我校两位英语老师的引导阅读课程,最终对老师们专业的阅读策略、引导技巧、鼓励学生自主和合作学习的课堂气氛给与了高度评价和肯定。 On November 19th, two English teachers opened their Guided Reading lessons for the major ELA trainers, Ms. Fran and Ms. Jane from Xiehe Group to observe their reading strategies and techniques. These teachers made reading come alive in interesting, meaningful and thought-provoking ways that piqued students’ interest.
△专家认真观摩了我校英语老师的引导阅读课程
△专家们与josh老师讨论
△课程标准与教室布置
Ms. Olivia
Ms. Olivia执教的是七年级先锋班英语,开课主题是朗文教材unit 3 Reading Ken’s World的第二课时。 Olivia老师将课堂精心设计成Treasure Hunt,聚焦于英语阅读策略Connecting,在孩子们分组合作完成各项寻宝任务的过程中,鼓励并激发孩子们对于文本与文本(text to text),文本与自身经历(text to self),文本与世界(text to world)之间的理解与认知。Ms. Fran听后,高度评价了Olivia老师的课堂,“It is pretty nice to implement part of our attainment targets into our daily teaching!” (英语课程标准与目标融入教学,更好地指导英语教学) The first teacher to be observed was Ms. Olivia in G7. The main focus on her lesson is the reading strategy Connecting. During the whole lesson, the kids are arranged in 6 groups and encouraged to make connections to themselves, to the similar text and to the world. The highlight is Ms. Olivia integrate our attainment targets into her teaching in a quite skillful way.
Ms. Kelly
第二位开课的老师是7CD 的Ms. Kelly。 她的课侧重于小说类文本阅读,此课程的结构旨在提高学生的英语阅读思维,增进文本理解,鼓励同伴交流与反馈以及培养学生终身阅读的能力。课后,Ms. Fran 和Ms. Jane评价到,‘每次来听Ms. Kelly 的课,都能有新的惊喜,Kelly的课输入量极大,孩子们总能学到不少东西”。 In Ms. Kelly’s Guided Reading open lesson session with 7CD, she grouped students to 7 groups. The theme for her Guided Reading is novel study Smiles to Go and each students takes their role seriously in the group, which keeps everyone on task. Ms. Jane and Ms. Fran were happy to see that all students are participative in the assigned activities and Ms. Kelly’s lesson made her refreshed.
11月24日周六,我们初中部英语组所有中外教齐聚学校开展了为期一天的年度内部培训日。 围绕课程标准,课程设计,日常教学,专业评估,拓展资源等话题展开了工作坊讨论与交流。头脑风暴,小组合作,反馈交流,气氛融洽,成果丰硕,也明确了下一阶段的工作重点和目标。我们将进一步开展中外教课程联动,细化先锋班英语课程建设,将我们的scope与sequence与集团年度达成度要求与标准配套、对照起来,更好的实现课程标准与目标。 On November 24th, we had our middle school English PD day, focusing on our scope and sequence curriculum, the implementation of our Pioneer English syllabus, data analysis for our Map and Scholastic Reading Pro and some educational resources to better guide our teaching and to students’ English proficiency.
△联合考试命题
△蓝思值
△会议资料
△培训者Sarah老师
观摩指导的领导
非常感谢Mr . Paul 校长,中学部主任Mr. Bright 以及美高英语组长Mr. Peter 的观摩与指导,非常感谢英语组老师在英语课程建设上付出的努力,秉承中西融合理念(where east meets west),打造我们独具特色的先锋班英语课程。 We greatly show our thanks to Mr. Paul, Mr. Bright and Mr. Peter for their support and all our English teachers for their effort striving for the construction of our Pioneer English Curriculum.