China News Service, Changsha, August 30th, title: Overseas Chinese teachers are busy in online teaching and stick to the "cloud"
Author Liu Man
Compared with the anxiety when he first received an online lesson task, Zou Xingfei, a Chinese teacher who has been teaching online for nearly half a year, now looks much more relaxed.
Zou Xingfei traveled from Hunan to teach at the Overseas Chinese Catholic Church Education Group in Sao Paulo, Brazil in January 2019. Before the epidemic, he was in charge of the Chinese teaching tasks in five classes from preschool to large classes in the tool street kindergarten under the group.
Affected by the epidemic, the group’s school has been closed from March 16, and the kindergarten teaching has been temporarily suspended, but the group’s elementary school and the kindergarten class of the Ciyou School have been teaching Chinese, but the format has been changed to online teaching. Zou Xingfei, who was "in danger", took over Chinese teaching in two elementary school classes and a kindergarten class, completing 15 online classes a week.
"I haven't taken online classes before, so I spent my spare time thinking about how to use the platform, how to make courseware, and improve while exploring." Zou Xingfei said that since starting online classes, the teacher's workload has been even greater. To help students understand the content of the text and attract children, she spends a lot of time every day carefully preparing vivid courseware, and occasionally designing games and rewards.
In the face of young children in kindergarten classes, Zou Xingfei more often cooperates with parents to complete the teaching, that is, let parents prepare in advance visual teaching media such as physical objects and word cards. Online teaching is carried out in the form of parents and children playing games. "For example, to teach 5 counts, I will preset a situation-five dolls come to the home as guests, parents should help children prepare the corresponding number of toys, bowls, spoons and food, so that the children learn to take things by number and One-to-one correspondence."
What moved Zou Xingfei was that online classrooms broke time and geographical restrictions. Under the epidemic, the enthusiasm of Chinese students to learn Chinese has not diminished, but has increased.
At present, Brazil's epidemic prevention and control situation is still not optimistic. As the school season approaches, the school day of the group campus where Zou Xingfei is located has not yet been determined. However, she and several other Chinese teachers cheered on each other when they rarely went out. Whenever they were free, they gathered together to study online classes and enjoy the fun of online teaching.
Zhang Shuyan, a Chinese teacher who teaches at Xinghua School in Wanxian County, Chunfu, Thailand, also experienced the unique fun of online teaching during the epidemic. "Most of my students are 3 to 5 year olds. Using various pictures, objects, music, imitations and stories, the children can experience it firsthand and stimulate their interest in Chinese."
Sign-in, interaction, teaching, questioning, review... Zhang Shuyan's online class has increased from more than 10 participants to more than 30 people, and the class has changed from once a week to three times a week. Her persistence and dedication also moved the parents. When masks were most scarce in Thailand, a parent sent her 20 hand-sewn cloth masks.
Hunan guy Wang Xuan is a teacher at Laodu Public School in Vientiane, Laos. He teaches Chinese physics in 6 classes in the second and third grades of junior high school. “Junior high school students attend 18 online classes a week, and the number of online check-in reaches more than 90%.” In those days when DingTalk was used to broadcast online classes, based on the characteristics of online teaching, he focused on the combination of knowledge and interest in the teaching content to enhance classroom interaction. Attract students' attention.
As the situation of the epidemic situation in Laos improves, Wang Xuan is about to enter the campus to welcome the new semester with students. He said that "cloud" teaching not only did not alienate teachers and students, but this special experience made everyone closer. (Finish)