12/7/2018
On 9 July, Nottingham Confucius Institute held its annual teacher training programme at Si Yuan Centre. The event ran for the whole day and attracted 30 people, including teachers and students from local primary and secondary schools, Nottingham Confucius Institute and Nottingham’s School of Education.
The day began with a workshop on “Classroom Manager Techniques” by Mrs Helen Feehily, a local secondary school teacher and department head. Drawing upon over 20 years of work experience, Helen demonstrated effective techniques on how to engage students and shared various practical tips on how to manage students’ behaviour in the classroom. The workshop was followed with a keynote speech by Ms Jingjing Ruan, who has taught Mandarin to students from years 7 to 11 as part of the mainstream curriculum at the Long Eaton School for the past four years. Jingjing is also a final year PhD student studying Mandarin teaching at Nottingham’s School of Education (expected to graduate in December). During her presentation titled “Chinese language teaching in the UK: practices and ideas”, Jingjing presented current teaching methodologies and good practice, using the Long Eaton School as an example.
In the afternoon, 14 participants delivered presentations on various topics covering how to teach Chinese characters, using apps to facilitate teaching, popular classroom activities and recent changes to the GCSE Mandarin curriculum. Presentations on each group of topics were followed by a short Q and A session.
After all the presentations and discussions ended, participants were invited to vote for their three favourite presentations. Many congratulations to the winners, all of whom happened to be NCI teachers - Mr Hao Wu, Miss Xi Chen, and Mr Zhen Zhang, who teaches at the Confucius Classroom at Alderman White School.
Feedback from all participants was extremely positive. “I am very pleased to learn so many tips on how to organise classroom activities and keep students engaged,” said one participant. “Today’s training is very inspiring and has gone far beyond my expectation. I can’t wait to try out all the good ideas I have learnt today in September,” said another.
“It’s great to see all attendees sharing their experience and good practices and engaging in discussions on current issues in teaching Mandarin in the UK. Today’s training programme has successfully offered everyone a career developement opportunity to be inspired by experts and colleagues in the same field. ” commented Prof Nan Li, NCI China Director at the closing ceremony.
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英国中东部地区本土汉语教师培训在诺丁汉大学孔子学院举行
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炎炎夏日，学期临近尾声。为了提升英国中东部地区本土汉语教师的综合素养，获取多元化的教育途径，了解教学新动态，全面提升教师的教学水平和创新能力，打造优秀的师资队伍。2018年7月8日，由诺丁汉大学孔子学院主办的英国本土教师培训在诺丁汉大学孔子学院举行。除了来自孔子学院、诺丁汉中文学校、诺丁汉大学教育学院的师生外，此次培训还吸引了大量来自中东部地区本土汉语教师的积极参与。
此次培训在诺丁汉大学孔子学院外方院长杰森.菲利致简炼的开场辞后拉开帷幕。上午经验丰富的英国本土教师海伦.菲利生动地展示了英国中小学课堂管理技巧，通过课堂中可能出现的各种状况一一给老师们提出接地气及可行的解决方案，在场老师受益匪浅；之后诺丁汉大学教育学院的博士阮晶晶结合在龙伊顿中学近四年的教学实践，给大家解读了英国中小学汉语教学的基本情况，包括学生学习状况，使用教材，GCSE（英国普通中学考试）各部分介绍及网上资源等实用信息，方便了各位中学任教的老师更完善地进行教学安排。下午由来自诺丁汉大学孔子学院，诺丁汉大学教育学院及诺丁汉中文学校的各位老师与与会老师分别针对课堂管理及考试，课堂游戏及活动，汉字教学，文化教学及现代网络工具利用等方面进行了经验分享。每两位或三位老师分享过后，与会老师都会迸发出思维碰撞的火花，针对话题展开讨论，演讲老师进行答疑解惑。
具体实用的分享结束后，与会老师评选心目中最喜欢的三位老师，最后由来自诺丁汉大学孔子学院的张震老师（GCSE新旧大纲的对比），吴昊老师（初级阶段汉字学习意识的培养） 及陈茜老师（中小学汉语课堂活动的资源分享）分获第一二三名，由诺丁汉大学孔子学院中方院长李楠教授及诺丁汉中文学校孙雪中教授为获奖者颁奖并致辞。
此次培训为来自诺丁汉地区的汉语教师搭建了沟通和交流的平台，为各位老师提供了经验分享交流的绝佳机会，老师们在教学实践及教育观念上得到了极大的补充，解决了不少以往教学中的困惑，并对之后课堂的把控及完善打下了更坚实的基础，以更饱满的热情投身新学期的教学中。诺丁汉孔子学院表示，今后将会不断改革创新教师培训形式，丰富细化培训内容，让培训成为汉语教师教学不可缺少的一部分，同时让培训真正成为高效课堂建设的有力推手。
Posted on Friday 13th July 2018