The reflection of Book4 Module3
Book 5 Module 6 Grammar I
Review the usages of Relative Pronoun
I think I have accomplished my goals very well in this lesson. From students’ response and their exercise, they have already acquired the usages of relative pronouns. However, my reflection is more than that:
I the Reflection of Teaching Objectives In this lesson, I persisted on 3-dimensional objectives，which including：1. knowledge & skills：students can be able to use the relative pronoun in attributive clauses so as to develop the ability to use attributive clauses.2. process & method: this is a grammar lesson of revision type, so I combine grammar process with revision process, which starts from observation, conclusion, memorize the rules and practice. 3. emotion, attitude & value: students can experience some attributive clauses questions from national selective examination so they can get prepared for the coming exam. At the same time, through group work, they can help each other to solve problems from logical analysis.
The above all is my objectives of this lesson. From some comments of other teachers they think I have accomplished these objectives successfully. As far as I am concerned, my objectives of each teaching process are very obviously, and my students can understand each step is to help them to acquire which acknowledgement.
II the Reflection of Teaching Content
The teaching content of this lesson can be divided into two parts: first one is to revise the usages of relative pronouns in attributive clauses and the second one is to develop their ability of use attributive clauses through some exercise including some original questions from national selective examinations.
The first part is about the review of the usages of relative pronouns in attributive classes. As we know, attributive clauses occupy a great amount of our grammar so I have to make sure they understand and acquire it completely, so usually I cut it into pieces. Relative pronouns are large pieces of cake to bite so I only choose to teach them the logical way to analysis and how to choose a correct relative pronoun as my priority goal. I plan to finish first part within 15 minutes. But actually with my familiar and fluent guidance, I finish it in 2 minutes advance. Some teachers suggest that I should make it slower and ask some of the students to give their own conclusion even though they have already known. So after all, I think the best time for me to finish the first part within some students’ conclusion is within 18 to 20 minutes.
The second part includes four types of exercise. The first one is memorizing all the rules of the usages of relative pronouns in attributive clauses. The second one is multiple choices which are base on the exception of only use “that”. Another one is some original questions which challenge their memory, logical analysis and skills. The last one is translation the following Chinese into attributive clauses. The exercise is following the order from easy to difficult and students seem to be very interesting and they master the logical analysis to deal with attributive clauses questions.
III the Reflection of Teaching Process
The teaching process including the following four steps:
Step I lead in
I use Harry Potter to lead in the attributive clause which grasp their attention immediately. Step II review the usages of relative pronouns in attributive clauses
I gave some sentences and ask them to observe all the sentences. What’s more, they should be able to conclude the structure, content, the usage of each relative pronoun by answering my questions. From my observation, most of the students can review the usage of relative pronouns because they can answer my questions fast and easily.
Step III exercise
Exercise is the way to estimate how much the students did master. So I plan four parts of it, which including memorize the each usage of relative pronouns for 5 minutes, choosing the best answer to test whether they memorize them correctly, doing some original questions from national selective examinations just ensure whether they acquire the logical analysis or not, translating the Chinese into English in order to develop their writing skills. Each process all based on the principle form easy to difficult. Students get confidence in the first two exercise so in the third exercise even though it is very difficult but it arouses their interest to solve them which even cultivate their cooperative spirits.
Step IV homework
The homework is bases on their translation. The kill is a little bit harder than the translation so it shows that the principle from easy to difficult completely.
IV the Reflection of Teaching eva luation
I use oral eva luation. I think I am good at that by arouse their interests by asking some funny questions based on their daily life and give them big compliment after they did something great. V the Reflection of Teaching Result
The exercise is the best way to eva luate whether students can be able to master the knowledge of this lesson or not. From the four exercise, they did very well. I am especially surprised that how wonderful they finish their translation by making such small errors. As far as I counted, about more than half of the students can write the structure of attributive clauses within some mistakes. About one third of students can finish 7 sentences correctly. I am very proud of them.
VII the Reflection of the other teacher’s comments
All in all, as one of the new teachers in my school, I know there is still a long way to go. The following are some reflection for me after I talked to some of experienced teachers who are willing to make me become better.
First, the plan of this lesson is boring and not creative at all. I am a new teacher and supposed to think more and practice more. The time is so limited so I only practice once. That is my mistakes for being lazy.
Second, I have learned so much from my guide. The basic step of teaching grammar are observation, discover, conclude and practice. Grammar type lesson should be serious and clear. Teachers only need to elaborate rules and ask them to remember, the last thing that teacher need to do is to wait and harvest students’ fruit. Teachers are supposed to talk less and ask students to practice more.
Shaanxi Normal University Shawna
Anyway, this is a tough lesson for me to learn. Next time, I need to practice more than 3 times and invite a lot of experienced teacher come to my class.
Reflection on Teacher-centered and student-centered
strategy in English Classroom
For centuries, education and curriculum designers emphasized English curriculum on teacher-centered learning. In recent years, although student-centered teaching method has been developed and been approached in real learning environment, the decision such as selection of language contents, ways of learning, assessment and eva luation of learning outcomes are still being made by teachers or educators. Traditional teacher-centered teaching and learning was the main way how students learned and teachers taught when I was a student. Normally, in the initial stage of English study, learners learned new rules and some vocabularies firstly, and then during the period of the practices imitation, learners practiced their pronunciation, exercised about the grammar, recited vocabularies. And after some English structures have already been acquired, sentence patterns and grammatical features were acquired gradually.
Teaching features of traditional teacher-centered method Teacher-centered English learning environment in Chinese classroom for me at each English lesson can be a picture of those teachers specifying class objectives, highlighting entry and learning behaviors, selecting and sequencing learning activities, and then eva luating the outcomes and behavior of students at the ending process. The activities which teachers choosing were general answering question, reading together with classmates, listening to tapes, dialogues study, playing and using flash cards. The teacher may barely used discussion and some student activities from students sides. There also might be little interaction between students and the teacher and few group works in the classroom. The methods to assess and eva luate the language learning outcomes was the form of examination. The only role of a student was merely a listener.
Advantages of teacher-centered method:
This traditional English teaching -learning method in Chinese classroom as a foreign language focuses on input of knowledge and structures of language itself and grammatical system. To beginners of English learning or inexperienced learners, it is often necessary to begin by teachers instructing enough fundamental knowledge and making most of the decisions as the foundations of learning. Also learners from the teacher -centered English classroom may cover more topics during the same period and for teachers, they could achieve their objectives efficiently and control the class effectively.
Shortages of teacher-centered method:
Learners who exposed in a long listening environment as listeners rather than participants will feel bored, fatigued, tired, undisciplined and sleepy. Teacher -centered English learning situations in Chinese classroom also are less tolerant toward the expressed students’ viewpoints, and it is more restrictive, critical in valuing the behavior and motives of the students. This will constrict the creativity of students and they will less bring forth new ideas. Besides, one of the aims for learners to learn another language is for social interaction (Long, 1981). Students need to gain language communicational skills, need to carry out real world tasks and what they do with the language. While teacher -centered English teaching -learning style may block and less focus on the development of students ability to listening and speaking in English.
Student-centered learning has advantages for both students and teachers. Students develop learning and other skills and gain meaningful knowledge that will help them throughout life. The relationship between rights and responsibilities is learned.
Students discover that learning is interesting and fun and they learned more because they were involved. Teachers have less traditional work to do, especially in the upper level classes. Students are more attentive and willing to participate in the class.
Complaints about irrelevance and unfairness decrease. Teaching is interesting and fun. Disadvantages:
One disadvantage is that there are students who do not relate well to student-centered learning in spite of a teachers best efforts. This is most preva lent at the lower levels but can occur in upper level classes. Another disadvantage is that the students have to work in teams. They complain about being on teams. Also students find it difficult to work in teams because they have not been taught team skills. Since student-centred learning places much more reliance on the active role of the student than does traditional teaching (where the student has a relatively passive role), student commitment and motivation must of necessity be very high. Thus, it may be less appropriate for use with young or inexperienced learners than with older, more mature learners. Indeed, some people are never able to adapt to a student-centred style of learning.
As well as being the producers of learning materials, teachers have another new role in a student-centered learning system. They are no longer the primary conveyors of information, but adopt a more supportive counselling and tutorial role. This function may be difficult for some teachers to fulfill effectively (or even to accept) and, in many cases, it may be necessary to organize in-service courses and other staff development activities in order to help teachers to carry out their new role effectively. Teacher-centered method can give students lots of knowledge and information in a limited time. Student-centered method makes learning less stressful and more enjoyable. However, personally speaking, maybe the teacher-centered method is better for Chinese students. This method is more suitable in China, which has a large population and has a large number of students at school. Firstly, it is quite common that each class has more than 50 students, which makes the class hard to control. Such a large number makes the student-centered method almost impossible. Because the teacher doesn’t have enough time to organize any teaching activity, such as pair work, group work, and role-play. So class time is the first barrier of using student-method. Secondly, in China students’ seats are mostly set in a relative small space so that it is inconvenient for them to change their seats when a teaching activity is proceeding. Finally, the teacher-centered method can give students more knowledge and information in a limited time. That’s to say, this method can make our class as informative as possible. On the other hand, college students are eager for knowledge and ability so they prefer to learn a lot from their teachers and professors. I can’t deny that student-centered strategy is a trend in teaching-learning environment but teacher-centered one is more applicable and feasible in China of course we shall spare our great efforts to make adjustment to it.
Time flies, full and happy education and teaching work in tension and busy in a semester. This semester under the correct leadership of the school leaders, our comprehensive group of teachers to carry out teaching and research in-depth education reform work, from the students to cultivate the spirit of innovation and practical ability to start to improve the cultural quality and aesthetic ability of students to reform and optimize the classroom teaching process , Improve the efficiency of classroom teaching, better completion of the semester of teaching work.
This semester, we have a comprehensive teaching and research group to carry out a series of disciplinary activities. We launched the music art, sports eva luation class. Mrs. snow on behalf of the school took part in the countys English quality class selection, and achieved good results.
1, conscientiously implement the various tasks of conventional teaching
The whole group of teachers to seriously study and understand the school teaching work plan and the system requirements, implemented in practice. In the routine teaching inspection, lesson plans, preparation of full. The content is complete. Comprehensive group of teachers in the teaching process, infiltration of new ideas, through the new spirit, the use of new methods, each class has new discoveries and new progress. In the review stage, in accordance with the curriculum requirements, carefully developed test program. The whole group of teachers to listen to the task have reached the school requirements.
2, the introduction of high-quality open class
This semester we have conducted several open classes, to 40 young people under the age of one per semester a public course. These open classes have been tried again and again, carefully prepared to focus on the collective wisdom of the whole group of teachers, so as to achieve good teaching results, also received peer praise, fully demonstrated our teaching and research group strong overall strength level. Students personality is fully demonstrated and training, teacher-student interaction, interaction,
Organizational interaction, environmental interaction, in a limited time, every student has been more adequate exercise and performance opportunities.Classroom is full of mobile sunshine, equality, harmony and communication coexistence, discovery, challenges and meditation in the classroom with no cold dark "dead corner". Thinking of the active, frequency of the flash point, so that students become the real master of the classroom.
The ancient philosopher warned me that if we want to teach good people, we must first do a good job, "as a teacher, Houdezaiwu", I always admonished his motto, peoples ability may have size, talent may be different, but I alwaysI believe that the pay will be more than return, so I love the cause of education, love every student, always pay attention to a knowledge, the quality of the image of teachers to show students.
In the usual teaching, careful lesson preparation, diligence and reflection, dedicated to the students, but also to win the students love. Although the computer class is a deputy class, but can affect the future of students, students often like the game, how to correctly guide, become the direction of my efforts, let the knowledge and joy to share the self-eva luation of teachers teaching and research.
When dealing with people, I sincerely treat every colleague, when my colleagues have difficulties, timely help, especially for change of course, while listening to the leadership arrangements, conscientiously complete the task, an open mind to colleagues to their recommendations. Attendance, not late, class does not hit the phone, not in school and teaching has nothing to do teachers
Teaching and research, serious and open-minded to ask other teachers to pay attention to lectures, especially the master teacher Ouyang classes, weekly lectures of not less than three, carefully write lectures, analysis of this lessons teaching highlights. Tao said, education theory and practice only, is the real knowledge, so that teaching and research together to grow, so that theory and practice with the internalization.
I think, find a job with a sense of accomplishment, is not easy, they should cherish, to tell the truth, he still has a lot of deficiencies, I remember an old Chinese saying, "afraid of slow, afraid of the station" Even if the gap from a good teacher still exists, a small progress every day may be a big progress in the teaching of teaching and research self-eva luation of self-identification.
The road is long, I will be up and down and search, as long as their continuous efforts to strengthen business learning, improve their teaching level, improve their work efficiency, improve their cultivation, do good people, do more good deeds, will be successful.
Finally, I would like to thank all the school leaders for their support and affirmation of my education work in the past year. Please believe that I will redouble our efforts in the future to become an outstanding soul engineer, and strive for Guangzhou X School honor!