On the implementation of the curriculum

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On the implementation of the curriculum

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I. Topics for today

• a brief summary of the implementation of the
  curriculum in the previous year
• effective ways to implement the new curriculum
• teaching research tasks

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What did we achieve ?

• Teaching changes from teacher-dominated teaching
  to student autonomy, from knowledge-focused
  teaching to communicative CLT TBL.
• teachers use multiple teaching resources rather
  than just a single textbook
• students are provided with more opportunities to
  use the language and to explore in the learning
  process.

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• ways to assess students have been experimented
  and prove to be effective
• Teachers are beginning to form a team, share
  experience, and work actively towards the team
  goals.

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Problems and issues found in implementing the new
curriculum

• Schools need to make further effort to meet
  diversified needs of students (the purpose of
  setting 9 levels)
• Teaching can not meet the requirements of the new
  curriculum (due to serious lack of coherence
  between the junior middle school teaching and the
  senior middle school teaching or teachers
  misunderstanding of the curriculum.. There is a
  conflict between the reform in teaching and
  testing)
• Teachers professional capacity needs improving(
  Many are still not clear about the relationship
  between the curriculum and teaching materials.
  Some need to further improve their language
  knowledge and stills).

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• supplementary materials such as suitable
  exercises books are hard to find or do not match
  the text book or have bad quality(What about
  compiling some of our own?)
• There are not enough teaching hours for the
  contents in each module unit ..(Is it the best
  way for teachers to make full use of students
  spare time for classroom teaching?)
• Many teachers havent formed the habit to reflect
  on the effectiveness of teaching and learning
• Teacher training should be paid enough attention
  to.

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Suggestions for t teachers

• Teachers should
• focus on creative and cooperative team work
• Achievement is a we thing, not a me thing,
  always the product of many heads and hands.
• (J.W. Atkinson)
• promote learning and teaching by reflection of
  problems
• upgrade teaching skills and develop pace in the
  classroom instruction
• study the curriculum more closely and relate
  teaching designing to the curriculum. Design test
  papers that follow the principles of the
  curriculum

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• pay attention to school-based teaching research
  to enable teachers to help each other
• conduct experiments in diversified ways of
  assessment
• use the textbook in a flexible and creative way
  and meanwhile try to make full use of various
  kinds of resources.

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What are effective ways to teach?

• Ways that meet diversified needs of students of
  different levels
• Ways that involve students in learning activities
  
• Ways that enable students to communicate and
  cooperate with others
• Ways that develop abilities to collect handle
  
• information, analyze solve problems
• Ways that guide students to apply learning
  strategies and give free rein to students
  individual potential.

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• ways that arouse students interest and
  motivation in learning English
• Ways that encourage students with a sense of
  success

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How do you relate your teaching to the
curriculum?

• Have you gone through the curriculum to have a
  thorough understanding of the requirements
  concerning teaching and learning?
• How do you write your teaching objectives?
• Do you inform your students of the teaching and
  learning objectives to let them know where to go?
• Do you check the learning effectiveness ? In what
  way do you do this?

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Effective lesson planning

• Beginning with lesson objectives An
  objective is a statement of what the students
  ought to get out of the lesson not of what the
  teacher plans to put into the lesson.
• Designing tasks that lead to the achieving of
  objectives
• ending with a check on the objectives

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Pre-task phase

• Three purposes
• ---to serve to introduce new language that
  learners can use while performing the task
• ---to mobilize existing linguistic resources
• ---to ease processing load, and to push learners
  to interpret tasks in more demanding ways

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The post-task phase

• Three major pedagogical goals
• to provide an opportunity for a repeat
  performance
• of the task
• to encourage reflection on how the task was
  performed
• to encourage attention to form

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Reflecting on the task

• Present a report on how they did the task and
  what they decided or discovered oral or written
  
• Summary the outcome of the task
• Reflect or evaluate of their own performance
  (fluency or accuracy)

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Production-practice activities

• Repetition ????
• Substitution ????
• Gapped sentences ????
• Jumbled sentences ?????
• Transformation drills ????
• Dialogues ??

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Combinations of skills

• listening with speaking and writing
• reading with speaking and writing
• sometimes all four skills
• speaking always before writing

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Working schedules

• Task 1 teaching resources making
• Task 2 teaching forum http//gz.fjedu.gov.cn
• Task 3 teaching assessment experiment

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Lets be part of the professional support team

• Coming together is a beginning keeping
  together is progress working together is
  success.
• -- Henry Ford
• Together we stand, divided
• we fall.
• (Watchword of American revolution)

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• Thank you for your attention!
• wulingw_at_yahoo.com.cn