This year's senior high school teachers "send" students to the college entrance examination in the live broadcast room
The desks in the examination room were gone, replaced by 43 neatly arranged boxes on the computer screen of the head teacher Zhang Yong.
The camera is aimed at the upper body of the students and the test papers. They bury their heads in answering the questions. Different styles of desks are exposed in the camera. Behind them are the beds, bookcases, curtains, and floor-to-ceiling hangers.
This is the last mock exam for the senior three students of Tianjin Nankai Middle School on the morning of June 1. Zhang Yong is in charge of invigilating the exam.
Affected by the epidemic, senior high school students in Tianjin suspended classes and stayed at home.
Mock exams can only be taken online.
Zhang Yong held his watch and glanced at the students wearing masks on the screen from time to time.
During the college entrance examination, students are required to wear masks at all times.
In order to simulate the real state of the examination room, Zhang Yong told the students at home to wear masks to take the test and adapt to the state of the college entrance examination.
At 9:40, the exam is over.
Zhang Yong's microphone replaced the ringtone of the offline exam. "Students take the time to take photos and upload their answer sheets, so as not to miss the submission due to the closure of the platform system."
In the past three years, Zhang Yong has lost count of how many times he has gone through online classes. Classes, exams, and correction of homework have all been put online. He has become a senior high school teacher in the live broadcast room.
The day before the college entrance examination, Zhang Yong and his classmates finally returned to school. Two zongzi were hung high on the door frame of the classroom, meaning "high school".
On the morning of June 7, like every class teacher who sent the test, Zhang Yong and the students met at the entrance of the test room and completed the final high five with them, "Title on the Golden List!"
A day of live class
At 7:00 a.m. on May 23, the online conference room has been opened, and video images have been added one by one.
If it weren't for the impact of the epidemic, the desks for early self-study should be full of students, and the sound of reading lingered in the entire teaching building, while Zhang Yong would walk back and forth around the desks and the podium.
But now, this senior year has started its third "online sprint".
At 7:30, the whole class arrived, and 43 senior high school students took their places in front of their desks.
The bedroom replaced the classroom, and different pictures appeared on the screen.
Some of the cameras were placed upright, and the entire upper body was covered with the lens. Some people could see the door with the word "Fu" behind them, and a corner of the quilt was exposed beside them.
Several people also used the virtual background function, and the night became the background of the whole picture. In the dark purple sky, a teenager wearing black-rimmed glasses suddenly appeared, surrounded by stars twinkling.
As the teenager turned slightly sideways, the camera could no longer recognize the portrait, and the screen was filled with a wallpaper.
Zhang Yong began to observe the screen. If after a few minutes, he still saw no one in the virtual background, he would open WeChat and contact the students or parents, "Why haven't you entered the classroom yet?"
Zhang Yong, who had gained more than 20 pounds at home, wore headphones and let the video frame frame his round head.
Due to the limitation of the frame, he can't make gestures like offline lectures.
The school did not stipulate that the head teacher must be present during early self-study, but Zhang Yong insisted on coming. He observed the status of the students, and then sent the countdown to the class WeChat group, "There are still 14 days before the college entrance examination."
Time is running out, but the state of being at home is always relatively relaxed.
Bao Shuangping is a Chinese teacher in a county middle school in Jilin Province. Not long ago, she also accompanied the senior high school students to experience an online class teaching.
As soon as she opened the video, a student in pajamas popped up from the screen, and he was still lying on the bed with sleepy eyes.
Someone started laughing "haha" in the comment area, Bao Shuangping quickly called his name, "You are about to turn off the camera."
For high school students who are extremely sleep-deprived, the bed a few steps away has become the biggest temptation.
Zhang Yong often goes to the meeting room for spot checks in the first class. In this city's key middle school, almost no students are absent, but occasionally some people oversleep, and they don't go online until the first class.
At ten o'clock in the evening, the evening self-study is over.
Bao Shuangping remembered that in the past, just a few minutes after the get out of class bell rang, the noise began to spread.
Someone took the lead in packing up the schoolbag, moving the drawers and stools to creak, looking like they couldn't wait to finish the get out of class.
And now, after school is about leaving the conference room.
For several days, some students said "Goodbye teacher!" in the comment area, but stayed in the conference room.
They are always holding pens and sketching on the information in front of them.
One student did not quit until after one o'clock at night.
The head teacher couldn't stand it anymore, so he could only send a message to the parents of the students, "If you stay with him, I can't stand it anymore."
"Invisible" classroom
Halfway through the class, the number of people in the conference room suddenly "+1".
It was Dai Zhou who appeared. She is a senior high school head teacher in Heilongjiang Province. She appeared in the classroom window suddenly. During the online class, she would suddenly appear in the conference room and look at the videos of the students.
Dai Zhou faced a group of students studying in the provincial model high school.
Just after six o'clock, people joined the electronic conference room one after another and started early self-study in advance.
In the small squares on the screen, the students dressed neatly in their school uniforms and sat in front of the desks. Through the microphone, the sound of reading was transmitted from the computer.
Like in offline classes, discipline is not something Dai Zhou needs to worry about, but when the class becomes "invisible", she is always afraid of mistakes.
According to the requirements of the school, students should turn on two cameras, one facing the front of the body and one facing the side of the body.
This gave Dai Zhou a chance to spot checks.
She would appear in the live class unexpectedly. "Being a head teacher is to fight wits and courage with the students."
But Qin Runfang had to find a way to deal with the children at home first.
Qin Runfang is a senior high school teacher in Hebei. During the home teaching period, children who have just started elementary school are also suspended.
Sometimes the child would suddenly break into the camera, and along the microphone, the cry of "Mom! Mom!" spread to more than 20 students on the opposite side.
Qin Runfang was embarrassed.
When teaching offline, her class was never interrupted by life, but now, the boxy video screen directly connects her life.
She could only quickly lead the child out of the screen, find a cartoon, and restrain the child.
Some schools do not require students to turn on cameras, opting instead to use software to record students' online time.
But Bao Shuangping felt that this method gave students the opportunity to take advantage of the loopholes. She did not feel that all her students were listening to the class. Otherwise, when she asked someone to answer questions, she would not be greeted with silence.
"Teacher, I don't have a microphone." "Teacher, my signal is not good." There are always many reasons for students, and some simply don't speak.
Bao Shuangping looked at the computer screen, unable to guess what happened on the opposite side.
In order to attract the attention of the students, Bao Shuangping will increase the interaction. She asks everyone, "What do you choose for this question? Everyone leave a message in the comment area." But as long as there is the first "C", a series of "C" will appear, no One chooses other answers.
Classrooms without face-to-face communication become unmanageable.
"Teacher, why am I wrong about the second question?" "What about the sixth question?" A classmate kept asking questions.
He turned on the microphone for a while, and typed in the comments for a while. Bao Shuangping was about to give a lecture when the next question appeared.
Computers can also have accidents.
One day, Bao Shuangping just cast the PPT screen to the conference room, the computer broke down, and the screen was stuck on the screen casting interface.
The students were chatting in the comment area, "Teacher, you order this and that, but it doesn't work, it's gone in 25 minutes."
The exams that senior high school students face at intervals have become the most worrying part of online teaching.
Liu Huaiyuan is a senior in Shanghai, and his school found a software that can randomly shuffle the order of questions when distributing test papers.
For the same set of test papers, each student gets the questions in different order, and each question must be uploaded within the specified time, and the next question will appear after completion, preventing students from sharing answers through the Internet.
But for Chinese dictation questions, it is more difficult to guard against.
The few seconds of taking pictures and uploading the answers gave the students the opportunity to flip through the book.
During the online class, Bao Shuangping's students could get an average score of 6 points for the dictation questions, but after the resumption of classes and returning to offline, the average score immediately dropped to 2 points.
"Let the students guard the computer in class, just like Sun Wukong guarding the peach garden." Bao Shuangping has always been worried about the quality of online courses. "Every day I rack my brains and think about how to teach." She also thinks before going to bed, and also thinking about eating. , Washing the vegetables also thought, with more than ten years of teaching experience, textbooks are not a big problem for Bao Shuangping, but now, she does not know how to face the computer in front of her.
Occasionally, Bao Shuangping will watch the live webcast, trying to find the law of the anchors to attract traffic.
"No 998, no 398, no 298, no 198, or even 98, 68 yuan and 8 will give you instant seconds!" , she thought, "This may be based on counting and arranging sentences to stimulate people and generate desire."
Bao Shuangping sighed when comparing her class.
"The gentleman said: Learning can't be stopped. A gentleman is a learned person, and he has stopped." She started to panic when she said the second sentence. She couldn't be sure whether the owners of those online accounts were on the computer or not. Sitting in front.
What she feared did happen.
After the class resumed, the students roared under the podium, "Teacher, I didn't even listen to your online class!" Bao Shuangping was so angry that she didn't know what to say, "You are really the worst class of students I have ever taught!"
extra work
In these days of online classes, Zhang Yong has become accustomed to using a handwriting board instead of a blackboard. While lecturing, he writes and draws on it. Occasionally, he frees up his hands and uses the mouse to click on PPT to turn pages.
On the side is the Gao Pai Ji, which is his backup device. If there is a problem with the tablet, he will write it on the paper and present it through the Gao Pai Gai.
Today, a computer, a high-speed camera and a tablet have become Zhang Yong's "three-piece online teaching set", and he takes it wherever he goes.
The epidemic always strikes suddenly, and three years of experience told him that he should be prepared to switch between online and offline at any time, otherwise, if he is suddenly isolated, he will not even have time to return to pick up things, "This is the final stage of senior year after all. "
Dai Zhou still remembers that the first time he received a notice of suspension this semester was one morning in March.
At 6:10 in the morning, Dai Zhou put on his clothes and was about to rush out, when a phone call came in, "Hurry up and inform the students, don't come to school today." She called the parents of the students one by one, "It's time for online classes again. ." Then he went to the empty school, took out the teaching aids, and when he returned home, it was less than eight o'clock.
After entering the house, Dai Zhou began to cooperate with the school to do the transfer work.
When I received the call from Dai Zhou, a parent was repairing the patient's teeth. He was a dentist and could not guarantee to be online all the time.
However, the time for each investigation is limited to 20 minutes. Seeing the passage of time, Dai Zhou can only call parents who have not responded.
At noon, Dai Zhou swallowed the two buns that his mother sent into the study, and then began to send out forms and make phone calls.
It was not until six o'clock in the evening that she ended the day's transfer work and began to prepare for the online class the next day.
This semester, Heilongjiang stopped classes three times in total.
Every time the class was suspended, Dai Zhou would start a flow survey, which would last for several days. Sometimes at eleven o'clock in the evening, Dai Zhou still didn't dare to sleep.
She said with a smile, "The person who knows your whereabouts best is not your other half, but your child's head teacher."
The normal teaching progress still has to be pushed forward.
When Bao Shuangping lectured on topics to the students, she was most afraid of encountering reading comprehension. She always had to sit in front of the computer and type word by word with a large piece of material in her hand.
When grading the test paper, the composition has become the most time-consuming item.
Word count is an important grading basis. Students do not have answer sheets with well-drawn lines. Papers with different appearances are photographed and uploaded, so it is difficult to judge the word count of the composition.
Bao Shuangping could only zoom in on the picture, get closer to the screen, count out several lines and columns against the densely packed words, and then roughly estimate the number of words to give points.
The little bee loudspeaker in the offline classroom can no longer be used, and the throat can rest.
But her eyes were exhausted and she stared at the screen for too long. Bao Shuangping first tried eye exercises, and later bought steam eye masks and massagers.
But after a long time, she still got conjunctivitis, and it has not recovered until now.
Liu Huaiyuan, who lives in the sealed-off area of Shanghai, has more important matters.
Throughout April, the alarm clock was set to 6 o'clock in advance. As soon as the alarm clock rang, Liu Huaiyuan would turn on his mobile phone and rush to buy vegetables online.
If he didn't grab the food, he could only turn to various WeChat groups to find community group purchases.
The order of the space is disrupted, and some family conflicts are also stimulated.
Liu Huaiyuan once received a call from a parent. The caller was angry, and his voice was mixed with a little grievance.
After being sealed off at home, parents found that during the live broadcast of online classes, their children played with their mobile phones for a while and walked around the house for a while.
The parents couldn't help scolding, until the two became more and more arguing.
In desperation, he turned to Liu Huaiyuan for a solution.
"You cook at home every day and take care of him. If he thinks you are a good father, you have successfully completed the task, and the classroom education will be handed over to us." Liu Huaiyuan is always kind and comforting.
But he thought to himself, "You finally know how difficult it is to manage your own children."
All for the college entrance examination
On the morning of May 7, it was announced at a press conference on epidemic prevention and control in Shanghai that according to the current situation of epidemic prevention and control, the Shanghai Autumn College Entrance Examination will be postponed to July 7-9.
After studying at home for a long time, the number of students who came to chat with Liu Huaiyuan increased significantly, even though he was not the head teacher.
"Why am I so unlucky, I have encountered so many things in my third year of high school." Some students complained on WeChat, "It's over, I have no books to study." In this round of exams she just went through, her grades dropped by 27 places. , the English that was originally good at also scored 15 points less than usual.
And there are positive cases in her community, she is worried, "What if I don't let me take the test?"
After seeing the news, Liu Huaiyuan began to organize the language and answer her questions one by one, "I just told her repeatedly that this kind of situation will be encountered by senior high school students in the whole city, not only by her, in the case of competition in the whole city. , just use this month to review one more round." While replying to the message, he informed the head teacher of the matter, and they decided to relax the management a little in the following days, so that the students could face the college entrance examination in a more relaxed state.
In Bao Shuangping's school, some students accidentally passed the wrong order of questions during an online exam, which affected the students' grades and their overall rankings dropped.
The head teacher is afraid that the students will be lost, so he can only talk to him again and again, and communicate with the parents again and again.
Some students also came to "turn themselves in".
After a class resumption, some students approached Dai Zhou and said that they had missed an online class a few days ago.
Dai Zhou, who was accustomed to "catching" students, was a little surprised, "Why did you come and tell me this?" The student was a little embarrassed, "After I told you about this, I would feel ashamed, if I go online again one day class, you won't be slipping away."
Sometimes Dai Zhou would ask in class, "How are you feeling?" When facing the epidemic for the first time in 2020, these students were still in their freshman year.
At that time, the subjects had just been divided, and faced with unfamiliar students and teachers through the Internet. Several students could not listen to the class. They asked Dai Zhou, "When can we resume classes?"
With a video call from Dai Zhou, he can learn about their current situation and comfort them with various policies and news.
In the third year of high school, when Dai Zhou asked everyone how they were feeling?
The students answered happily.
There are no students who are worried about being at home anymore, and no one asks Dai Zhou to talk about it.
Epidemic prevention has been integrated into everyone's life. Dai Zhou found that in the composition materials of some classmates, there were doctors wearing protective clothing doing nucleic acid testing for everyone, as well as volunteers who took temperature scans for everyone in the community.
Dai Zhou would occasionally say, "I don't know when the epidemic will end, but I know when your high school will end." The college entrance examination has become the most important thing in life. Students contact their teachers to inquire about the knowledge points of the college entrance examination.
Parents are also working hard for their children's college entrance examination.
These days, "Have you left the city within 14 days?" on WeChat, and more than 40 parents of students have responded with "No", and before that, their itineraries would always keep Dai Zhou busy for a long time." It's all for the college entrance examination, for fear of increasing the risk to the child."
At eight o'clock in the morning on June 6, Zhang Yong's students returned to the classroom, and the countdown slogan stopped at "17 days until the college entrance examination."
Zhang Yong gave his final instructions to the students: pay attention to weather changes, pay attention to a light diet, and don't worry, "Insomnia is normal, even if you can't sleep at night, you can still take the test the next day." After sending the test commitment letter and barcode, The students began to take off their school uniforms and asked their classmates to sign their names on the uniforms, and then took a group photo.
"Three years, three years, another three years." Zhang Yong posted a group photo in the circle of friends.
In the last lesson, Zhang Yong was a little reluctant to give up, but the college entrance examination was imminent, he did not want to set off the atmosphere of parting and affect everyone's emotions, and only said, "Take it seriously, but don't be too nervous, this is not the only test in life, road It's still growing."
Zhang Yong didn't tell the students that if the epidemic allowed, he still looked forward to the opportunity to meet after the college entrance examination, and sang "The Crossing of the Phoenix Flowers" for them, "The river of time flows into the ocean, and finally we split up, no one A port is a stopover forever."
On the last day before the college entrance examination, there was a cake on Dai Zhou's podium, two boats set sail on the blue sea, the students divided it up, and then smeared cream all over his face.
Holding the flowers and greeting cards sent by the classmates, Dai Zhou stood behind the podium and cried, thinking of the three years of coexistence in the past, she said, "I will treasure it in the future."
For her, another three years has come to an end.
The college entrance examination is like a street sign with a short pause.
After the summer vacation, she will go to the next three years.
(Bao Shuangping, Dai Zhou, Qin Runfang and Liu Huaiyuan are pseudonyms in the text)
A08-A09 edition collected and written / Beijing News reporter Wang Chang intern Wang Yixin