China News Agency, Beijing, January 22 (Reporter Ma Xiuxiu) Prepare the pink plush bear, turn on the computer, log in to the online teaching software... Since March last year, this has almost become the daily teaching routine of the French Red Panda School teacher Xiong Wen.
"During the break between classes, I will put the little bear in front of the camera; when class is over, I will bring the little bear and wave goodbye with the children." Xiong Wen told a reporter from China News Agency that some children would also take out their little bears to say goodbye. Similar small actions have invisibly strengthened the connection between teachers and children.
Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, the teaching activities of overseas Chinese schools have been continuously switched to online teaching.
From the physical classroom to the “cloud” teaching, the teachers of the Chinese language school realized the switch from unfamiliar to familiar. During this period, they experienced a process of learning and exploring.
"When I first came into contact with the online course software, the teachers were not very comfortable. On the one hand, they had to operate and click, on the other hand, they had to pay attention to the children's reactions and conditions in the video frame, and make timely teaching adjustments." There are emergencies such as network freezes and children's emotions, which pose challenges to teachers.
She believes that it is very important for teachers to maintain a high degree of responsibility, an open learning attitude, and to maintain confidence in themselves and their children for the smooth development of online classes.
Before the formal online class in September last year, Li Huan, a teacher from the Stuttgart Chinese School in Germany, participated in the online training mobilization meeting for all teachers, and gained a preliminary understanding of platform selection, curriculum design, classroom interaction, order maintenance, and homework correction.
"In actual operation, teachers need to practice online lessons with students." Li Huan said that in addition to participating in training courses, she re-written the online lessons teaching plan to clarify the students' learning goals, and fully prepare lessons before class according to the students' specific conditions. Later, various forms including small programs, voice reading, etc. were used to arrange assignments of different difficulty.
According to Meng Jiajia, a teacher at the Chinese Language School of Bergamo, Italy, online courses require an adaptation process for both teachers and students.
In online classes, Meng Jiajia often repeats a sentence many times to ensure the children's acceptance of the information.
Before each class, Meng Jiajia will think about how to introduce the class, how to make the class interesting, etc., focusing on "teaching in accordance with their aptitude" for different students.
In online courses, she mainly uses slides combined with animation and small videos to attract children's attention.
In the past year of online teaching, teachers of overseas Chinese schools have also had new thinking about Chinese education.
"Under the epidemic, Chinese teachers try to use new methods to teach. The diversified education methods encourage and promote teachers to open up new horizons, stimulate their own potential and learn new skills." Xiong Wen believes that Chinese education is not only about language skills or culture. Inheritance and learning also allow teachers to explore their own possibilities.
Teachers learn and grow with this mindset, and Chinese and Chinese culture will be spread better and farther.
Li Huan told reporters that when she received the training, she learned that the intelligent age needs to cultivate students' 4C abilities, that is, critical thinking, communication skills, collaboration skills, and creativity.
"I deeply agree with this." Li Huan said frankly that the nature of education has now shifted from simple knowledge transfer to diversified ability training.
The content on the Internet is complicated and complicated. As teachers, they should choose valuable content as much as possible when preparing lessons, and guide students to observe and think carefully and comprehensively through objective and multi-angle expressions.
"China's strong development has provided more room for efforts to spread and promote Chinese culture." Meng Jiajia said with emotion that online courses have broadened the popularization of Chinese culture and provided more ways for students to learn Chinese.
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