There are three ways to read: the heart, the eyes, and the mouth. When students involve all their senses in the classroom, they will get twice the result with half the effort and become surprisingly attentive. How to capture the "three arrivals" of students is a path that all teachers have been exploring.
On May 21, 2019, a lively, interesting and fun open class was held in classroom 3220. The open class was "IELTS Speaking" taught by Gail Wang from Sino-German College of Design and Communication, who used modern information technology to teach in a hybrid online and offline classroom, adopting "multiple screens" to guide students to brainstorm and achieve the teaching purpose.
Before the lesson, Gail randomly selected some students to check their homework, and gave them guidance on their thinking and corrected their grammar. The topic of this open class was "reading".
In the classroom, Gail first used the Blue Ink Cloud Class App to let the students vote "YES" and "NO" on the question "Do you like reading? "Gail used this method to encourage each student to think carefully and participate in the interaction of the class. After brainstorming in small groups, Gail basically understood the students' thoughts and ideas, and she used the ideas and thoughts that the students had already presented as a basis to start the guidance for part2.
After explaining how to think about the question, Gail provided a number of vocabulary words and phrases that might be used in such a question. Afterwards, the group was asked to brainstorm how to answer the part2 question.
In the IELTS speaking class, Gail not only teaches students the grammar of speaking, but also the pronunciation and the use of language. So she calls on many students to answer questions in each lesson, and afterwards, she carefully reviews their speaking, pointing out some pronunciation mistakes and reminding the class to pay attention to them.
Gail also encouraged the students to read more books outside of class and to practice after class in addition to learning the skills taught in class, which may be twice as effective.
Before the end of the course, Gail also used Quizlet's online game feature to have students form additional random groups to take a vocabulary mastery test, and the winners were awarded chocolates by Gail. Gail's "multi-screen" interactive IELTS speaking course was well received by the experts and teachers at the school.
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