China Overseas Chinese Network, June 15 Question: In order not to delay children learning Chinese, this group of people really broke their hearts...
In 2020, affected by the new Coronary Pneumonia epidemic, many overseas countries have implemented "home quarantine" epidemic prevention measures. Work and classes are suspended, and teachers and students are unable to attend school.
Naturally, overseas Chinese schools are unable to start classes normally. In order not to delay the children's Chinese learning, the school and the teachers are simply heartbroken.
Teacher becomes "Anchor", students and parents teach together
Many Chinese teachers have never imagined that they still have the opportunity to be "network anchors."
Chilean Chinese teacher Chen Xiaofeng is one of them. In her view, there is a certain difference between online courses and classroom teaching. It is not easy to teach "online courses" well. In order to make the online class more vivid, Chen Xiaofeng and other Chinese teachers did not think of ways. "We made a lot of teaching videos, such as correcting audio and video. The students liked it very much after watching it and found it very practical." Chen Xiaofeng said.
Data map: Sun Yingshuang, a teacher of the China Culture Center in Seoul, is giving online courses to Korean students. (Photo courtesy of China Cultural Center in Seoul)
Some schools have also integrated Chinese education into their daily lives in light of the suspension of parents’ work and the suspension of students’ classes. For example, using WeChat public account, we recommend animation short films suitable for overseas Chinese children to watch and promote Chinese culture. Knowing that it is not easy for Chinese parents to bring a baby at home, they also came up with a way for parents to train their children's concentration at home through mahjong, which not only draws closer to the family, kills time, but also gains.
Data Map: Korean students learn Chinese through online courses. (Photo courtesy of China Cultural Center in Seoul)
The Cambodian Duanhua School quickly opened the "cloud model" after the epidemic was controlled. Teachers carefully crafted online classrooms to guide students in learning, and even some parents also learned Chinese with their children. "My child is very interested and often replays the teaching content. We also learn together. The content of the course is novel and we are very satisfied." A mother expressed her gratitude to the teacher.
At the same time, the school also provides parents with knowledge of epidemic prevention and control, and guides parents to provide children with life care, learning supervision, and psychological care during the isolation of the epidemic at home.
Expand teaching channels and create "fancy" classrooms
Online classroom is not just "dry talk". The teachers used their ingenuity and ingenuity, and came up with various ways to play the "Hua'er" in the online Chinese classroom.
Chen Lingyu is a teacher at the Confucius Institute at Scottish Elementary and Secondary Schools in the UK. Considering that the students in the class are young and Chinese learning is still in its infancy, she chooses to use fairy tale performances to teach, that is, to record the fairy tales of her performances on her mobile phone, and then use the video The editing software plus bilingual subtitles and some lively special effects are finally transmitted to the school social platform. She prepared for her students the "Panda Series" rich in Chinese elements, and later the special story of "Little Pig Page".
"During the epidemic, students spent more time on social media." Chen Lingyu uploaded the produced video to the social media of the Confucius Institute at Scottish Primary and Secondary Schools. Some students left a message: "The teacher's little panda is so cute, I hope it will be available next week. See you again."
Data map: Xu Yueping celebrates birthday with children from Italy-Italian School. (Photo courtesy of the interviewee)
Teacher Xu Yueping from the Early Childhood Department of the Italian-Italian School in Italy opened the "Ms. Xu Micro Classroom" because her students are only 3-5 years old. "It is too young. If they are online, they will have difficulty concentrating."
"Micro Classroom" is presented in the form of video, about 5 minutes per class. Xu Yueping used vivid narratives and multicolored picture books to produce a series of courses that were popular among students, such as "The New Coronary Pneumonia Prevention Course for Children" and "Earth Day".
Liang Chengmei, a teacher at a Confucius Institute in the United Kingdom, broadcast a Tai Chi class online, hoping to help everyone exercise and improve immunity.
Data Map: Overseas Chinese teenagers learn Tai Chi. Photograph by Wu Junjie
"There is a big difference between remote live classes and face-to-face lectures, especially teaching Tai Chi and Qigong. Due to the small teaching space, it is difficult to achieve the effect of face-to-face lectures." In order to give students a better learning experience, Liang Chengmei Move the living room furniture so that the movements can be fully presented, so that the students can follow up.
In order to ensure the learning effect, she also uses a combination of live broadcast and recorded video. "Sometimes I will record some videos of my practice and upload them to the Internet to discuss related issues with fans."
From novelty to like, "cloud" brings a new experience
During the epidemic, in addition to books, paper and pens, computers became essential learning tools.
From the face-to-face communication in the past, to the little avatar and the communication across the screen, the students have changed from being initially unfamiliar and novelty to slowly getting used to it and even like it.
"Cloud" teaching does not alienate teachers and students, but is more intimate than before.
Data Map: Thailand Chinese youth group Lanzhou to learn Chinese. (Photo/Nanru Dolma)
Teacher Liu Hong of the Indonesian Surabaya Xinzhong Trilingual School in a shared class with the theme "Days of Online Classes at Home", let students tell about their lives in Chinese. "Someone shared their own meals, some introduced family members, and even the children who rarely talked in class talked about it."
Liu Hong said: "Before I paid more attention to children's learning, and in the online class, we began to share each other's life and mood."
Wang Bingzhang, who teaches Chinese in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, also said, "When I was in the classroom, there might still be students who were late for the class. Now the online class, the students are very punctual." He will talk about some of the life in class Content, such as talking to everyone about life under epidemic prevention and control, feels "there are many common languages."
In addition to "Cloud Classroom", a series of colorful cultural experience activities are also launched online. "Cloud" gathering has become a new experience for many overseas Chinese teenagers this year.
Figure: "Cloud" debate among overseas Chinese teenagers. (Photo courtesy of Shanxi Overseas Chinese Federation)
Hu Jing is the mother of a 16-year-old Canadian Chinese boy. Her son is participating in the "Family of Love" online summer camp. Every day in the punching diary, he shares the new things in the day of learning: such as copying the copybook, Braised pork, discussing the etiquette on the Chinese table with campers, and sharing the experience of visiting Leshan Giant Buddha in China a few years ago...
The epidemic situation cannot stop children's enthusiasm for learning Chinese; the epidemic situation also does not affect the children's personal experience of the charm of Chinese civilization; under the epidemic situation, the story of teachers and students connecting in the cloud and learning together is still wonderful!
(Source: China Overseas Network, the China News Network, "People's Daily Overseas Edition," "South China Press" etc, Author: Wang Qin, references: xxx, ID: qiaowangzhongguo)