番禺区英语教研员凌顺诗老师指导教研工作
Guidance from English specialist Ms. Shunshi Ling
2016年12月15日上午，在镇指导中心张丽老师的陪同下，区英语教研员凌顺诗老师莅临剑桥郡加拿达外国语学校指导英语组教学工作。
On the Dec 15th morning of 2016, English specialist Ms. Shunshi Ling visited CLS accompanied by Ms. Li Zhang from the educational instruction center of Nancun town. She guided English teachers at CLS on how to develop English teaching with own characters.
教研员们一到学校就直接深入课堂。她们首先来到了G4A班，听由张蕾老师执讲的《I am very fast》。课堂上，张老师的专业和CLS学生的自信大方给两位专家老师留下了深刻的印象。
Our specialists entered into the classroom directly. They started the investigation from class G4A and watched a class “I am very fast” given by Ms. Jessica. The two experts left a deep impression with teacher’s high quality, students’ confidence.
张老师生动有趣的教学深深地吸引着大家
Ms. Jessica's teaching attracted everyone in the classroom
随后，教研员又听取了一年级的外教英语课和中方英文课，教师的敬业与专业、孩子们对英语语言的运用都令教研员们惊叹不已。老师们在教学中充分体现以学生为主体的教学理念，通过问题引导组织学生互动，充分调动学生的积极性，让学生成为课堂的主体。
After that, the specialists watched another two English classes for Grade one given by a foreign teacher and a Chinese English teacher. She was impressed by the teachers’ profession and students’ confidence and performance.
Teachers fully embodied the students-centered teaching concept in the class. Teachers led the students to interact with teacher and classmates by which it will make the students to be more active as the center of the classroom.
小组合作
Team work
课后执教老师积极反思，与专家以及其他老师展开了热烈的评课、交流、指导活动，虚心听取各方意见、建议。
Teachers gave their reflections and received comments and suggestions from the specialist and other teachers with an open mind.
凌老师指出，CLS的教师在课堂上充分发挥学生的主导作用，利用小组合作模式，让学生在合作中学会自主分析问题，共同探寻解决办法。在CLS的课堂上，不再是单纯的填鸭式教育，而是通过游戏来激发学生的兴趣与求知欲，让学生在玩中学，学中玩，带给孩子一个轻松愉悦的课堂氛围。
Teacher Ling pointed out that CLS teachers fully embodied the students as the center of the classroom and let them to learn to analyze and solve problems by team work. Furthermore, CLS teachers stimulate students' interest and thirst for knowledge. They produced a relaxed and happy atmosphere to the students by meaningful games.
随后，凌老师给大家详细阐述了英语学科核心素养的主要内容：语言能力、文化品格、思维品质和学习能力。她再三强调：英语应作为活的语言来进行教学，注重引导学生在语境中去理解、运用词句；形成学生自己的文化立场与态度，通过增加话题选择、问题设计的思维含量培养思维品质；从态度、兴趣、习惯、意志、方法和策略六个方面去培养学生的学习能力。
Whereafter, teacher Ling presented a speech on the English subject core literacy: language is the culture character, the quality of thinking and learning ability. She emphasized that English should be a living language for teaching. Teachers should pay attention to guide students to understand and practice the words and sentences they learned in a suitable environment to cultivate their own cultural attitude.
Teachers should help to improve students' thingk ability by increasing topics and difficulties of the questions. Teachers could cultivate students' learning ability from the aspects of attitude, interest, habits, methods and strategies.
此次教研活动让老师们更清晰了今后努力的方向，拓宽了教学视野，促使教师深入思考自己在教学中的得失。希望老师们在今后的教学中扬长避短，努力提高自己的教学能力和课堂教学效率，提升CLS的整体教学水平。
The activity make our teachers know more clearly about their direction and efforts in the future.It broadened teachers’ vision and urged them to make best use of their advantages and bypass the disadvantages to improve teaching ability and efficiency. As a result it will improve the overall teaching level of CLS.
