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How Can I Can I Help My Students Become More Active in Class
How Can I Can I Help My Students Become More Active in Class
“建立融合、民主的师生交流渠道,经常和学生一起
反思学习过程和学习效果,互相鼓励和帮助,做到
教学相长” 2 (The New Curriculum of English, 2002)[4]
My planning actions
In order to help the students become more active in
class, I made up my mind to give them learning
strategies with detailed instructions, help them become
confident with themselves and assign tasks based on the
principles of cultivating cooperative learning spirit, self-
study learning abilities and competence in language use.
Class Report
• Ask the students to prepare a five minutes speech
about any topics before my teaching started.
• offer them a chance to show themselves
• Build up their self-confidence by the way of
speaking in public
Group work
Divide the whole class into 7 groups. Four students
were to be in each group. Every group would have a
group leader, who would check the students’ activities
and take some records of their group’s work. The
activities they were required to do were the following:
Creative drama:
As the New Curriculum of English suggests,
“设计探究式学习活动,促进学生实践能力和创新思
维的发展”. [5]
Teacher’s assistant
• Before the new teaching unit begins, students in
each group will work together, preparing a review
note of what they have learned in the last unit.
• Each group will take over some responsibilities
from the teacher and prepare a mini lesson in 5
minutes or more to help their classmates review the
lessons effectively.
• Every group leader has to give the teacher group’s
feedback for the teaching.
Much help made my Action Research possible
As Montaigne the French writer said:
Li Jin gave her class report on 8th May directly after our
May holiday. The moment she had finished speaking,
she turned to me and asked, ‘Miss Liu, how about your
holiday?’ I felt a little surprised. Actually I would rather
share details about my holiday with the students after
the class report. But I had neglected the students’
willingness to communicate with me and missed a
chance to encourage my students. After the talk with
Miss Lin, I don’t think I would miss the chance again to
encourage my students to speak to me.
Tao Rui, who taught the same course with me for the
Grade-II students, kindly allowed me to observe her
lessons. She showed me a widely-used questioning
method in her teaching. Here are some of my notes on
her teaching:
Bibliography
New Curriculum, (2003), National Education Bureau of
P.R.C
McNiff, J., ( 1996 ), "Action Research for Professional
Development", London
McNiff, J., with Whitehead, J., (2002), "Action
Research: Principles and Practice", Routledge, London
and New York.
Laidlaw, M., (2002), "A Handbook of Communicative
Methodology", Guyuan.
Hu Zhuangling, Lingustics, Peking University Press,
(2001)
Appendix I (Unit8, Secret Messages to Ourselves,
Integrated Skills of English, Book II)
“He dreamt that he had been captured by a tribe savages
whose king threatened to kill and eat him unless he
could build a perfect sewing-machine. When he tried to
do so, Howe ran into the same problem as before. The
thread kept getting caught around the needle. The king
flew into a rage and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe.
They advanced towards him with their spears raised.
But suddenly the inventor noticed something. There was
a hole in the tip of each spear. The inventor awoke from
the nightmare with a start, realizing that he had just
found the solution to the problem. Instead of trying to
get the thread to run around the needle, he should make
it run though a small hole in the center of the needle.
This was the simple idea that finally enabled Howe to
design and build the first really practical sewing-
machine.”