Teacher Professional Development Day 3: Sharing Experiences

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This training was the first chance for Guan Ai teachers to present to others some of the progressive efforts of the school over the past year. Vice Principal and co-founder Sun Huimiao (孙会苗) introduced why she and her husband started Guan Ai School and the values of “loving care for every child” which the school is based on. Vice principal Su (苏校长) who joined the school at the start in 2005 talked about how these values were transmitted to the teachers. Then Principal Qin (秦校长), a long-time educator at public schools who only came to Guan Ai in 2007, shared his impressions of what made Guan AI special compared to other schools. Jiang Peng (江鹏) explained the Teacher Sharing Meetings RCEF started at Guan Ai last semester and 4 teachers introduced different “special classes” they had experimented with, including keyboard class, the student vegetable garden, the student newspaper, and the library and reading program. This was followed by an introduction to the Desheng Common Peoples School by its principal Zhang Xiaolin (张晓琳). I will write more about her school in another post. Principal Zhang commented about the Guan Ai teachers’ presentation, “I can see your happiness in your work expressed on your faces and in your clear presentation. You say what you think and have a great desire to communicate what you’re thinking. I think you have shared with us some very concrete, feasible methods and patterns of thinking.”

That afternoon, Li Guangdui (李光对), an experienced rural teacher and trainer, shared methods he has experimented with in rural Guizhou elementary schools based on Tao Xingzhi’s philosophy. After this, we had small group discussions on topics the teachers had come up with themselves as being either areas they could share expertise in, or that they wanted help with. The topics included:

  • How to cultivate students’ interest in learning
  • Integrating physical labor into school teaching and learning
  • Reading Programs
  • Morals and Values Education
  • School Management (principals and RCEF only)

教师培训第三日:分享经验

翻译:王晓峰 校对:华振宇

这次培训中,关爱学校的老师们第一次有机会把在过去一年的教学探索中所取得的经验和成果介绍给其他人。关爱学校的创始人之一,孙会苗副校长,向大家介绍了她和丈夫开办学校的原因和”让每个孩子都得到关爱”的建校理念。2005年加入关爱的苏副校长,讲述了学校如何把这些理念传递给每位教师。2007年加入关爱的秦校长是一位曾长期在公立学校工作的教育者,他与大家分享了自己来到关爱后的一些感受和印象,以及关爱如此与众不同的原因。江鹏则对上个学期由RCEF在关爱发起的”教师交流会议”做了介绍和说明。随后,4位老师分别介绍了他们的教学实验–各种不同的”特殊课程”,包括键盘课,学生菜园,学生报纸,图书室和阅读计划。在这之后,德胜学校的张晓琳校长向大家介绍德盛平民学校的情况。稍后我会专门写一篇关于德胜学校的博客。张晓琳校长对关爱的老师们作出了这样的评价,”从你们的脸上,从你们的讲述中,我可以感受到你们在工作时的快乐。你们能够说出自己的真实想法,并且乐于把这些想法与人交流。我认为你们所介绍的这些方法和思维方式都非常具体实用。

下午,李光对老师,一位经验丰富的农村教师和培训者,介绍了他在贵州农村小学中基于陶行知先生的教育思想而进行的一些教学尝试。之后,与会老师们提出了一些话题进行小组讨论,有的是为了与大家分享心得体会,有的则是向大家寻求帮助。这些话题包括:

  • 怎样培养学生的学习兴趣
  • 把体力劳动与学校教学相结合
  • 读书计划
  • 伦理道德教育
  • 学校管理(仅在各位校长和RCEF人员之间讨论)
 

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