廣東省東莞市玉蘭中學 葉偉榮
第十五周日晚,筆者市普降暴雨,導致全城多處道路水浸并引發(fā)主要路段交通癱瘓。次日早上筆者市氣象臺也發(fā)出天氣紅色警告,教育局也在電視中要求全市中小學停課。由于筆者所教的是全寄宿學校,沒有停課一事。上班途中,所見街道皆有水漫的垃圾,多處十字路口因為下水道阻塞而大塞車并見有幾起交通事故,數(shù)部車在路中死火,并有給水淹過的痕跡(車上有很多腐爛垃圾),綠化帶有部分樹木給風雨刮倒。學校里教室和走廊都好像用水洗過一樣。筆者用手機拍了些圖片。
由于今天天氣特殊,筆者改變了原來的教學預設,利用暴雨這個新鮮的真實的生活教學資源,設置懸念,讓學生在好奇心的驅(qū)使下,邊引導邊講解,以實現(xiàn)讓學生寫好英語日記的教學目標。于是筆者設計了以下的導入,課堂記錄如下:
在黑板上筆者板書:What a...!(筆者邊講邊把黑體的詞組板書)
T:Good morning,class.Something special happened last night.So most of the students in Dongguan don’t have to go to school today.
如筆者所料,學生象一片一窩分散的蜜蜂,嗡嗡地叫,議論紛紛。一些學生一臉茫然,一些學生不知在竊竊私語什么,還偷偷笑著呢,個別還直直地盯著筆者笑著,充滿懷疑,以為老師在講大話。終于有個大膽的。
S1:Why?What happened?Why do we have to go to school?
T:Please look at the floor.Is there anything different?
S:It’s wet.Did somebody else wash it?
T:Did your class teacher ask you to wash it this morning?
S:No,he didn’t.
S2:It raind very hard last night.
S3:聽到了很大雷聲。也經(jīng)常閃電。It was very scary.I didn’t sleep well.
S4:Me,neither.有人附和。
T:You are right.The TV said the rain was so heavy that most of the students can’t go to school today.How do you feel now?
S5:Then why do we have to?不公平。I feel very unhappy.
S6:I feel disappointed.
S7:I feel excited.(其他學生大笑).
S8:I feel surprised.
T:Very good!Since we have different kinds of feeling,let’s write an English diary to remember today.
部分學生臉露難色.
T:Do you think it’s too difficult to write a diary?
S:Yes,of course.
T:Let’s make it easier to write it.First,give it a good title.What...!
S:What a special day!What a heavy rain!What an unlucky day!
T:OK.Let’s make it What a heavy rain as a title.Please look at the screen and answer the questions.
筆者在黑板上寫出下列的問題:
1.What happened last night?Did you sleep well?
2.What happened to most students in Dongguan?How do you feel?
3.What do you think would have happened in such a heavy rain?What should we do?(How to protect ourselves?)
T:Let’s discuss question 3.
S:There were car accidents.Many cars stopped in the waters in the middle of the road.They were dirty and wet.(筆者把浸水的車和交通事故的情形用簡筆畫畫出來.)
此時一位走讀生站在門口.全班同學大笑.
T:Why are you laughing?
S:Xiao Lei is late for class.
T:What is he like?
S:He is the tallest and strongest in our class.
S:The tallest and stongest boy is late for class.
T:Oh.Come in,Xiao Lei.Try not to be late again.
The whole class tell me,what were you doing when Xiao Lei arrived?
S:I was laughing.
S:I was writing.
S:I was listening to the teacher carefully.
T:Well,it’s not polite to laugh at the others.Let’s ask Xiao Lei whether your English teacher told a lie.
S1:Does the TV said that students don’t have to go to school today?
Xiao Lei:Yes.That’s right.I thought we had no school.That’s why I was late.
S2:What did you see on your way to school?
Xiao Lei:Dirty roads.Empty road cover.Broken cars.
S:What happened to the drivers?...
S:What our teacher said was right.
T:OK.Let’s form groups of four students and begin to write the diary on our notebook.You can use the words on the blackboard.
...
最后,筆者展示了幾位學生的日記,并復習了日記中運用到詞組、句型和英語時態(tài),收到有效的教學效果。
托爾斯泰說:“成功的教學所需要的不是強制而是激發(fā)學生興趣”。興趣又是在實踐活動中形成、發(fā)展和培養(yǎng)起來的。這一節(jié)課,筆者能夠捕捉和利用動態(tài)的教學資源,調(diào)整教學設計,在課堂教學中有了真正的師生互動,并在課堂活動中抓住新生成動態(tài)資源,在學生充滿的好奇的狀態(tài)下推進,學生不但得到了語言訓練,也能讓學生在互動中獲得情境體驗和情感陶治.在教學反思中,筆者獲得不少的啟示。
動態(tài)教學資源是在教學活動中產(chǎn)生的與預設相對的教學資源,對教學效果產(chǎn)生直接的影響。備課時要以“教材”為中心和以“活動為中心”的備課模式結合起來,既備課程資源、備教材、備學生,又要備學生。在教學中,不能為了讓預設的順利進行而對更有效的動態(tài)資源進行控制或放棄,全市停課而筆者們要上課可以讓學生有各種不同的feeling,筆者們?nèi)绾我尅耙馔狻弊兊谩熬省?,這需要教師的教學智慧。
為了使教學更有效,教師要不斷加強學生之間的合作、師生之間的交流,自然還須持之以恒的鼓勵學生不斷提問。在這種互動中不斷激活學生的背景知識,讓課堂動起來,讓課堂活起來。這需要教師觀察和傾聽學生新的發(fā)現(xiàn)、觀察和傾聽學生充滿想象力的猜測……在觀察和傾聽中捕捉鮮活的信息,并把它補充到教學中,使課堂煥發(fā)出勃勃微生機。在學生大笑一遲到學生時,筆者并沒有責備學生,而是運用這一情景讓學生把形容詞最高級和過去進行時進行有機結合練習運用,在學生不知如何表達時適時補充tell a lie,so...that等詞語。并在交談中結合使用了賓語從句。從而在日記中實踐既鞏固了本學期所學的語法點,突出了教學目的與重點,又把所學的知識綜合運用,起到了事半功倍的效果,同時也體現(xiàn)了新課標的宗旨。
怎么樣的課才是好課?怎么樣的課才稱得上是有效課堂?這涉及教學的理念。
意外事例的發(fā)生和在課堂教學中真正的師生互動,自然會產(chǎn)生豐富多彩課堂動態(tài)資源,長期形成的傳統(tǒng)教學觀念容易讓多數(shù)教師既希望學生動起來,又害怕完成不了教學任務,這實際上仍然注意教師的教而忽視學生的學,又回到“重教授,輕對話”的傳統(tǒng)教學模式之中,即對“教學中存在的不和諧,給予有效的控制”,而末能“以學定教”,即把學生原有的知識作為施教的基礎。新課標指出:只有創(chuàng)造性使用教材,才能實現(xiàn)教學內(nèi)容與教學方法和手段的完善統(tǒng)一,才能使教材的普遍性同本地區(qū)教學實踐的特殊性有機結合,才能最大限度地滿足學生對學習內(nèi)容、教學方法的需求。
總之,教者們要不斷學習新的教學理論,潛心研究教材,以課標為依據(jù),充分開發(fā)、利用動態(tài)的課程資源,探索能促進學生全面發(fā)展的行之有效的教學方法,讓學生在完成任務的過程中有了自由發(fā)揮、自我創(chuàng)新的機會,讓他們的學習興趣也越來越濃,學習越來越有實效,教師也創(chuàng)造性地完成課程的目標和任務,提高教學效率。
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