F2F Class Notes (Tibo)

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Homework


How can you encourage students to develop their creativity?

Writing exercise

This article compares two teaching methods: the clinical interview format and the teaching experiment. Both methods are mainly used in the field of science and mathematics. Therefore, an effort to understand how the students view the production of sound is made to compare the two methods.

The clinical interviews focus on understanding students’ current reasoning patterns without attempting to change them. Similarly, results from clinical interviews show that students relied heavily on their personal experience when they tried to understand how the sound was produced. And they weren’t used to explaining the phenomenon in a scientific view.

The teaching experiment, however, can facilitate a shift in students’ conceptions toward the scientific view. The teaching experiment incorporates three components: modeling, teaching episodes, and individual or group interviews, and they are intimately interwoven. During the teaching experiment, learning cycle and Socratic teaching are used. The results show that students participating in the teaching experiment relied more heavily on the demonstrations performed during the teaching episodes and would use earlier demonstrations to strengthen their explanations, which means that they had the scientific view.
Therefore, when we teach scientific subjects and when we want to develop the students’ scientific view, teaching experiment is a better method, compared with the clinical interviews.

Speaking exercise

I arrange them in different groups.

It can arrange the whole students.-> It helps students to find their place in the society.

I don’t know how many the students there are but it must be a big number and China has done very well / has done a good job to arrange the students together.
China has learned from other countries such as the US and Japan and developed from their teaching. In this way the way of teaching/ teaching methods in China are more suitable  to our Chinese students. / fit out Chinese students.

Every president can have their own school according to their belief and they don’t have much pressure but Chinese education system is a whole./ is uniform / but they have to follow central programs.
In different provinces students will have to enter the primary school and middle school and then go to university their learning experiences are almost the same expect some different subjects.

Some are different because the local government considered local characteristics.

The local government are giving the graduates more benefits / a better job package to attract them to go to their city / to push them to move and teach or work there for example if you graduate from a uni in HK the Shenzhen government will give you tens of thousands  / several thousand USD if you stay there.

And we have the hukou and it is another strategy to attract graduates.
they are more easily to get to get hukou in Shanghai -> they find it easier to get a shanghaise hukou

if a parent can provide their kids with the best education resources I think they must. -> I believe it is their duty

Nobody would sacrifice their privilege as a white-collar for a higher pay.

Vocabulary

guinea pig (n) : small pig used in experiments
He joined a medical program and was used as a guinea pig.

triage (v) : classification of patients of problems
people are directed to a triage center before being given risk factor

uniform (adj) : all the same
The Chinese education is uniform no matter the region

professional reconversion (n) : changing of a job and moving to a totally different industry
He used to be a driver but recently he went  through a professional reconversion because he thinks  self driven cars will make drivers obsolete.