China News, June 12 (Xinhua) According to the Australian website, since this time, teachers and parents of the New Jinshan Chinese School in Australia have been troubled by a question: how can students not delay the progress of the study during the epidemic? According to Sun Haoliang, chairman of the school's school committee and founding principal, this special period forced Chinese education to "transform and upgrade."
"We always say that Chinese education needs to be transformed and upgraded, but there is no answer to how to do it." Sun Haoliang admitted that the "online method" is now an important direction for the transformation and upgrading of Chinese education. "Online teaching will become an important part of the education field, including international Chinese teaching, and we will continue in this direction."
"Suspension of classes without suspending school"
It is understood that the New Jinshan Chinese School was founded in 1992 and is a community ethnic language and culture school registered under the Australian Community Law. There are currently more than 6,000 students in the school, and nearly 300 teachers are enrolled.
The school was originally scheduled to start on February 1, but in late January, Melbourne was diagnosed with the first case of new pneumonia infection. For safety reasons, the school decided to postpone the start of school. The school time is pushed again and again, the school teachers are very aware of the lack of the school's language environment, and relying on parents alone may not achieve good learning results. Therefore, school teachers collect relevant teaching materials related to Chinese learning and integrate them on the school website to facilitate students to study at home. At the same time, live courses were opened.
What moved Sun Haoliang was that a 78-year-old teacher at the school, Zhang Shiluan, was supposed to teach students in the last school year to catch up with the epidemic. "At the beginning of the live broadcast course, Teacher Zhang will deliberately come to her daughter's home, and ask her family to provide technical support and guarantee for her class."
It is understood that in order to improve the concentration of lower-grade students, teachers will enhance interesting interactive links during live broadcast teaching, such as quiz games, anagrams, music collocation, etc. At the same time, games or activities such as recitation contests, story meetings, textbook drama performances, word guessing puzzles, and appraisal videos are preserved, and "online" guides students to play middle school and learn from it.
From traditional classrooms to cloud classrooms, traditional teaching methods are forced to change. However, in the course of practice, Sun Haoliang found that the online teaching method has received unexpected effects: first, online live teaching hours can be a good aid to school teaching resources; second, students’ learning time is fragmented and more flexible; third, rich In addition to the teaching methods of teachers, some enlightening interactive links can be carried out.
"The further Chinese education goes, the heavier the responsibility on shoulders"
Under the epidemic situation, Chinese literature correction tried to embark on a "new" road. "In the future, Chinese schools will be an integrated education method of online and offline." Sun Haoliang admitted that both parents and teachers recognize the advantages of online teaching and hope to retain such a learning method. However, there are still many challenges on this road. For example, there are technical limitations on interactive methods and class time. In teaching methods, how to take students as the center also puzzles many teachers; in terms of teaching quality, "home" is needed. Cooperate more closely with "school"; in terms of textbooks, how can traditional textbooks better adapt to online teaching...
Along the way, Sun Haoliang felt the deepest emotion: "Chinese education goes farther and farther, but as practitioners, the greater the responsibility we shoulder."
In the early 1990s, Sun Haoliang was engaged in teaching advanced Chinese at Monash University. His original intention to establish the New Jinshan Chinese School was to hope that his children can continue their Chinese education without losing their language and not forgetting their "root". After careful investigation, he found that there was no Chinese school teaching Mandarin and simplified Chinese characters, so he decided to start his own Chinese school.
From school classes to schools, a few children to thousands of children, from the children of friends around me to children in various countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, etc... Sun Haoliang found that the biggest change in the source of students is from having a certain language foundation in China Mainland-born children have increased to many second- and third-generation Chinese-born children born in Australia. "Our responsibility for spreading Chinese traditional culture and language is getting heavier."
In fact, for the local descendants of Chinese descent, their learning of Chinese has become "second language learning". Sun Haoliang introduced: "In terms of teaching objectives, it has become'leading in listening and speaking, keeping up with reading and writing'."
Sun Haoliang’s greatest wish is that Chinese education can be based in and out of the Chinese community. "Before this, we will first strengthen the internal power in terms of localization of teaching materials and online teaching methods." (Ling Yun)