12月28日，虽是寒冬，却温暖如春。南外方山分校语文教研组、柳咏梅名师工作室开展了以“充分利用教材，提高教学效率”为主题的教研活动。江苏省特级教师、正高级教师、南京市语文教研员袁源老师和江苏省特级教师、正高级教师、南京外国语学校谢嗣极老师应邀莅临南外方山分校指导。
On December 28, NFLSFC’s Chinese Department and Liu Yongmei Distinguished Teacher Working Group held a workshop themed on “Making Full Use of Teaching Materials to Improve Teaching Efficiency”. Yuan Yuan, a renowned senior teacher throughout Jiangsu and Nanjing-based Chinese teacher and researcher, alongside Xie Siji, a renowned senior teacher throughout Jiangsu and a teacher from NFLS, were invited to give guidance.
此次活动分为开课评课与专题讲座两个环节。
The workshop included open class, lesson observation feedback, and lectures sessions.
第一节课是陈婉茹老师执教的写作课《说明事物要抓住特征》。课堂从一个别出心裁的小游戏开始，激发学生学习热情。学生们用看、摸、听、闻、尝的方法对面前的橘子做细致观察，写下观察结果。接着陈老师指导学生们在写说明文时适当引用资料，要建立读者意识；学生选择老师提供的不同情景写作，修改并润色文字。学生们在课堂上得到了观察、表达等多方面的收获。
Chen Wanru delivered the first demonstration class, “Explain the Characteristics of Things”. Ms. Chen began the class with an ingenious game to stimulate students’ interest in learning and guided students to observe the oranges by looking, touching, listening, smelling, and tasting, and to write down the observation results. Then Ms. Chen instructed the students to properly quote the materials when writing explanatory essays to establish reader’s awareness; students wrote according to different situations provided by Ms. Chen and then they modified and polished the composition. The students learned a lot in terms of observation and expression.
第二节课是柳咏梅老师执教的复习课《利用助读资料 提高复习效率》。柳老师首先呈现了课前活动：每天积累一个汉字、一句话；每天分享一篇实录。接着，柳老师给学生呈现真题，通过解析真题提炼考点，回归教材，引导学生重视教材，学会利用助读材料。最后，柳老师以“用好教材比借助教辅重要，找对方法比机械做题重要，主动思维比被动接受重要”的理念收束全文。通过柳老师对助读资料价值的挖掘和利用，学生们对教材价值有了更深的理解。
Liu Yongmei delivered a review lesson “Using Aid Materials to Improve Review Efficiency”. Ms. Liu first presented the pre-class activities- accumulate one Chinese character and one sentence every day, and share an record every day. Then, Ms. Liu concluded the test points by analyzing the papers, guiding students to pay attention to the teaching materials and use them. The lesson concluded with Ms. Liu sharing her ideas of “using teaching materials well is more important than using teaching aids; finding the right method is more important than doing exercises, and active thinking is more important than passive learning”. The students had a deeper understanding of the value of teaching materials with Ms. Liu using reading materials.
两节课之后，是两位专家老师的评课和微讲座。
After the open classes, Ms. Yuan and Mr. Xie gave feedback on the demonstration lessons and gave lectures.
南京外国语学校的谢嗣极老师首先评课。他指出陈婉茹老师的课堂有两大亮点。亮点一，将阅读与写作相结合，向教材中的课文学写作；亮点二，情境创设得很好。课堂教学符合写作的认知规律：认知——实践——再认知——再实践。不足之处是学生说得过少，要进一步注意说明顺序的安排，并且最好有正反两面的比较。对于柳咏梅老师开设的初三复习课，谢老师对其“考点都在教材里”的观念给予了充分的肯定和赞扬。他进一步强调：“语文考试的能力全在课本上”。课本之“本”，是语文学习和语文能力之根本。
Mr. Xie gave feedback first. He pointed out that there are two highlights in Ms. Chen’s lesson- she combined reading and writing, guiding students to learn to write from textbooks; she created a great situation and taught students according to the cognitive law of writing: cognition--practice--recognizing--re-practice. Mr. Xie said students didn’t say much, so the teacher should pay more attention to the arrangement of the explanation order, and it’s better to make a comparison between the pros and cons. Then Mr. Xie fully affirmed and praised Ms. Liu’s notion that “exam focuses are in the textbook”. He further emphasized that the ability of Chinese test is in the textbook.” The textbook is the foundation of Chinese learning and ability.
南京市语文教研员袁源老师做了评课和微讲座。她很欣慰地感叹，两节课都不是在教应试，这是非常好的现象。袁老师围绕“语文到底教什么”这个中心，为大家带来一场有深度、有力度的微讲座。袁老师指出：语文课堂应该做的只有：教“语文”。为了帮助在场的老师们更好地理解其中内涵，袁老师以陈老师所教的《说明事物要抓住特征》这节课为例，深入地分析如何紧扣“语文”来教，提出许多生动又切实可行的操作建议，给老师们以无穷启发。袁老师由课堂点评联系到老师们的日常教学，她殷切地提醒：作为语文教师，要尤为注意语言文字的基本规范，为学生做好示范、打好根基。语文教学切不可用套路化来束缚学生、拘泥学生。作为南京市中考语文负责人，袁老师再次强调：中考最终考查的是学生的实际运用能力。
Ms.Yuan gave her feedback and a speech. She said that neither of the two classes were teaching exam skills, which was a very good phenomenon. Ms. Yuan focused on “What to teach as for Chines?” to gave the speech. She pointed out what the Chinese teachers should do in class is to teach “Chinese”. Ms. Yuan took the lesson “Explain the Characteristics of Things” given by Ms. Chen as an example, analyzed how to teach with “Chinese” and put forward many useful ideas, aiming to help attendees to better understand the connotation. She was connected to teachers’ teaching practices through class comments and she reminded the attendees that Chinese teacher must pay special attention to the basic norms of language and writing, and set a good example for students. Chinese teaching must not use routines to constrain and restrain students. As the person in charge of Nanjing Senior High School Entrance Examination in Chinese, Ms. Yuan once again emphasized the final test of the high school entrance examination is the practical ability of students.
南外方山分校青年教师和兄弟学校的老师们积极发言，畅谈想法，并向两位专家提问请教。袁老师在解答老师的提问时进一步指出：考试只是语文学习的一个环节，要多注重对学生基本功的培养。
NFLSFC’s early-career teachers and teachers form other school talked about their ideas and asked the two experts for advice. When answering the teacher’s question, Ms. Yuan further pointed out the examination is only a part of Chinese learning, and more attention should be paid to developing students’ basic skills.
教研组长柳咏梅老师最后小结：语文是很可爱、很有意思的学科，老师们要带着学生去欣赏语文、热爱语文。语文的魅力无穷，正如今天一样：语文人相聚，寒冬也变得暖意融融。
Liu Yongmei, leader of NFLSFC’s Chinese department, gave a concluding talk. She said Chinese is a very “cute” and interesting subject; teachers should guide students to appreciate and love Chinese; Chinese is charming, just like Chinese teachers getting together today that made the cold winter warm.
