A group of students of Jinan University in Guangzhou cycled north, submitting a proposal to the Ministry of Education, the CYL Central Committee to set up Teacher's Day. After a year, the State Council decided to set September 10 every year as Teacher's Day. Since then, the mainland's teachers have also had their own festival.
Teachers’ Day was established in the history of our country. In 1931, educators Tai Shuangqiu Cheng Qibao and others had an assembly at the National Central University in Nanjing, and issued a declaration "to improve the treatment of teachers, protect the jobs of teachers and promote training of teachers," and agreed on June 6 for Teacher's Day, also known as double-6 Day. Soon, the Nationalist government first agreed on June 6 for Teacher's Day, but then Teacher's Day was changed to August 27 (lunar birthday of Confucius)
After the founding of the People’s Repubic of China, the Central People's Government resumed June 6 for Teacher's Day, and the Ministry of Education announced that local educators could organize the celebratios based on the actual situations. National Education Union was set up in 1951, and educators were recognized as part of the working class. On April 19, 1951, the Minister of Education and the Chairman of the National Committee of China Education Union issued a written statement, declaring the "Labor Day" as Teacher's Day at the same time. However, due to the lack of teachers’ characteristics, the implementation was not satisfactory. Especially after 1957, the "left" ideology under the influence of the “left” ideology, teachers were ignored, so Teacher's Day in fact existed no longer.
In recent years, the Chinese government has taken many measures to mobilize the whole society to respect teachers, to improve the status of teachers and to make better teachers’ working and living conditions.
To further enhance the political and social status of teachers, form a good social atmosphere of respecting teachers and knowledge and talented people in society, and promote the development of education career, according to many proposes from the National People's Congress, the CPPCC National Committee members and people from all walks of life, particularly teachers around the country, as well as the experiences to carry out activities to honor teachers throughout, the State Department issued a motion on January 11, 1985 to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress to determine September 10 every year as Teacher's Day. At the Sixth National People's Congress on January 21 in the same year, all agreed on the establishment of a Teacher's Day motion, and decided on September 10 as Teacher's Day.
September 10 is determined as Teacher's Day because at the very beginning of new school year, the new students begin to respect teachers create a good atmosphere. At the same time, there are few national holidays in September and it is convenient to focus on all aspects of the organization and activities of the prominent media coverage, and promote the formation of good social atmosphere that teachers, knowledge and talented people are all respected across the country.
The establishment of Teacher's Day marks the fact that teachers are respected in our whole society. This is because the teachers’ work determines the future of our country to a large extent. Teachers’ work is closely related with every family, every child, youth, young people.Teachers play a huge role in the development of human society and progress. Teachers are engineers to cast human civilization, and are the communicators and builders of human civilization. The continuity of the development of human civilization depend on teachers’ work of generation after generation. The Civilization of a society, one country and one nation will suffer great losses in the absence of teachers’ hard and effective work. Therefore, a history of civilization is unimaginable with teachers.
Since then, in annual Teacher's Day, teachers have all celebrated their own festival in different ways across the country. Through selections and awards, by introducing the experiences, and helping to solve the problems of wages, housing, medical care, and other aspects of the practical difficulties and improving teaching conditions, the majority of teachers’ initiatives have greatly been enhanced to be engaged in the education cause.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
My current episodes of life (5)
September 20
The new teacher-training began in the multimadia hall of Meiao Middle School today. This training was not meaningful for our improvement in teaching, just for the money-making of some officials. If you want the title assessment, you must attend the training or you will not have the qualification to be assessed.
At 8 am, all the teahers had singed in at the gate of the hall according to the schools you are from. All the morning, a teacher from Tancheng Party School, led us to study some knowledge about intellectual property. But he did so bad that most of teachers just talked there and did not want to know what he said and some teachers left so early. So the meeting was in great mess. He was not so interesting that I slept there most of time.
In the afternoon, a teacher from the Board of Education was so clever that he really knew what we really wanted. He did not make some other explanations about quality education, and just underlined the important points on the book and even some answers. He was very welcome then.
At 3 pm, we began our first test on quality education, with your book in your hands to help you to find your answers quickly. Ma Baolong, Ma Jiuzheng and I co-operated verywell. After about one hour, we all finished all the questions correctly and successfully. And some teachers feared that they could have a very high grade so that the test was not real.
September 21
At 9:30 am, we had the second test on intellectaul property just like what we did yesterday afternoon. After about one hour and a half, we were very glad to go out of the test room. We were very happy not because we did it very well but because the funny training was really over.
In the afternoon, I stayed at home, strangely not very happy. I was again worried about my title assessment of this year. I am not very sure of it.
In the morning, my wife went home directly after she goe off night shift of work. She sent the design plan of the new building, and was told that we will not start to work until October 1. She was and is very happy whenever she thinks of her future new house. She is ready to do anything for her new house in her own heart.
The new teacher-training began in the multimadia hall of Meiao Middle School today. This training was not meaningful for our improvement in teaching, just for the money-making of some officials. If you want the title assessment, you must attend the training or you will not have the qualification to be assessed.
At 8 am, all the teahers had singed in at the gate of the hall according to the schools you are from. All the morning, a teacher from Tancheng Party School, led us to study some knowledge about intellectual property. But he did so bad that most of teachers just talked there and did not want to know what he said and some teachers left so early. So the meeting was in great mess. He was not so interesting that I slept there most of time.
In the afternoon, a teacher from the Board of Education was so clever that he really knew what we really wanted. He did not make some other explanations about quality education, and just underlined the important points on the book and even some answers. He was very welcome then.
At 3 pm, we began our first test on quality education, with your book in your hands to help you to find your answers quickly. Ma Baolong, Ma Jiuzheng and I co-operated verywell. After about one hour, we all finished all the questions correctly and successfully. And some teachers feared that they could have a very high grade so that the test was not real.
September 21
At 9:30 am, we had the second test on intellectaul property just like what we did yesterday afternoon. After about one hour and a half, we were very glad to go out of the test room. We were very happy not because we did it very well but because the funny training was really over.
In the afternoon, I stayed at home, strangely not very happy. I was again worried about my title assessment of this year. I am not very sure of it.
In the morning, my wife went home directly after she goe off night shift of work. She sent the design plan of the new building, and was told that we will not start to work until October 1. She was and is very happy whenever she thinks of her future new house. She is ready to do anything for her new house in her own heart.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
That experience made me different！
To be honest, I was and am very sorry for my not good performance in the English-teaching career, especially that I did not present an English open class in front of my whole colleagues of English teaching-research group, not to mention in front of the whole school and the whole county. As a teacher, I felt very embarrassed for my bad performances in the English lesson competiton or the open classes within the whole county. So when I got the news, I really did not know whether I would be glad or not, or whether I would be sad or not.
During those 19 days, I always felt very worried, upset, anxious, sad, depressed, in low spirits and sorry for myself, and sometimes even fearful and frightened, with a long face. And most of time, I was always feeling suppressed so much that it was too hard to take a slight breath.
Most of nap time, I always slept on the floor of the sitting room with the electric fan on, but often in insomnia. Although lying there, I always thought of my teaching content, or the teaching courseware, or sometimes just too anxious to go into the state of sleeping, turning over and over again and not falling asleep.
Though I fell asleep at times, it was a very short time before I felt that I had already waked up and worried again about my prepared lesson because I always felt that my preparations were not enough, and thought it should be much better. It all meant that I was not very confident in myself and that lesson presentation.
Only in the office, could I concentrate on the preparations for the lesson, because I love this work very much, and am hard-working, sudious, cautious and conscientious seriously and carefully. And almost I did not join my colleagues in their little chats about some trivials in life or teaching. I was silent to everything and I was not interested in anything a bit. What suppressed me most was an invisible force, so that I could not breathe. Although I also had a gooooooood laugh over some of jokes and something funny. I felt very feeble almost every day and I did not find any energy to support me and needed very much a power to raise me up,
At home, I did not turn on the TV set at once as usual. At times, I opened my courseware in the computer and looked at it aimlessly, at other times, I just lay on the floor and did not want to do anything. It is very strange that lying down should make you feel very good or calm down. Lying there, I was always worrying about my coming open class, with my eyes wide open. Sometimes, I went to the kitchen to prepare lunch or supper to make me busy in order to make myself forget that matter temporarily in a very short time.
But of couse, I also had a short moment of pleasure and comfort and non-worry. Whenever I had a goooooooood idea or inspiration about my open lesson, I also felt very excited and even thrilled with myself and my new changes for my lesson. Several times, I got my inspirations when lying on the floor and turning over and over not to go to sleep. When I made my rehearsals against my computer, I was also feeling very fine and full of a little confidence. And I had to admit that every rehearsal or practice would made me firmly confident and full of courage to win.
Little by little, I was gradually becoming sure that presenting an open lesson was not so terrible if I made a complete and careful preparation, and especially after the last two rehearsals, I was not nervous and surely thought that I was able to do very well in that seminar. Because of all those practices and thorough careful preparation, I did not feel any nervous and upset and anxious about the open lesson. I also felt very calm even though the day came near to me. I felt very calm on the way to Linyi, and had a pleasing and relaxing chat with my colleagues, very happy.
So when it was my turen to present my lesson, I went up on to the platform calmly in the presence of all the teachers present. After talking a lot with my ever-deskmate in front of the platform, I felt much more relaxed, and in some sense, I felt that I had entered a good state of mind, acting as my role. I was very calm in my inner heart, and was enjoying the process. And I did not have any kind of tension and unease I had been worried about prior to it. Therefore, finally I truly triumphed over myself, and overcomed my own shortcoming in front of so many teachers from some counties and districts.
When I finished my course and thanked my students with “Thand you all!”, all the students gave my a warm applause. In their sincere applause, I bowed to them deeply and politely, because I knew that I won the open lesson and myself and recognition and appreciation of students. So I think that lesson was the best one of all my lessons since my graduation. I was feeling satisfied and proud that I could do what I wanted to do, and meanwhile I could do it very well if I wanted to.
So when I got off the platform, I did not feel a kind of excitement I desired for before. When I came back my seat, I had the same state of mind as I did not present my lesson. I did not have the special happiness and pleasure, and did not feel as if relieved of a heavy load. I was not very happy as I had imagined when I got the news. I felt that everything went as it was. And thinking that a lesson was a lesson as it was, not any specially. After a short time of explanations about the lesson, I went to the bus stop peacefully to catch my bus home. Everythin would go as usual.
That experience really made me so different. I really suffered from the sadness, but I also benefited a lot from that experience, and I also grew stronger a lot. At the very beginning, I felt very sad and anxious and evern depressed, and then after many practices and careful preparations, I felt a little comfortable and relaxed, and finally I felt very calm about it and enjoyed it.
Everybody is different if you think you are so different. And believe in yourself and think that everyone can make a difference if you think you can make a difference.
During those 19 days, I always felt very worried, upset, anxious, sad, depressed, in low spirits and sorry for myself, and sometimes even fearful and frightened, with a long face. And most of time, I was always feeling suppressed so much that it was too hard to take a slight breath.
Most of nap time, I always slept on the floor of the sitting room with the electric fan on, but often in insomnia. Although lying there, I always thought of my teaching content, or the teaching courseware, or sometimes just too anxious to go into the state of sleeping, turning over and over again and not falling asleep.
Though I fell asleep at times, it was a very short time before I felt that I had already waked up and worried again about my prepared lesson because I always felt that my preparations were not enough, and thought it should be much better. It all meant that I was not very confident in myself and that lesson presentation.
Only in the office, could I concentrate on the preparations for the lesson, because I love this work very much, and am hard-working, sudious, cautious and conscientious seriously and carefully. And almost I did not join my colleagues in their little chats about some trivials in life or teaching. I was silent to everything and I was not interested in anything a bit. What suppressed me most was an invisible force, so that I could not breathe. Although I also had a gooooooood laugh over some of jokes and something funny. I felt very feeble almost every day and I did not find any energy to support me and needed very much a power to raise me up,
At home, I did not turn on the TV set at once as usual. At times, I opened my courseware in the computer and looked at it aimlessly, at other times, I just lay on the floor and did not want to do anything. It is very strange that lying down should make you feel very good or calm down. Lying there, I was always worrying about my coming open class, with my eyes wide open. Sometimes, I went to the kitchen to prepare lunch or supper to make me busy in order to make myself forget that matter temporarily in a very short time.
But of couse, I also had a short moment of pleasure and comfort and non-worry. Whenever I had a goooooooood idea or inspiration about my open lesson, I also felt very excited and even thrilled with myself and my new changes for my lesson. Several times, I got my inspirations when lying on the floor and turning over and over not to go to sleep. When I made my rehearsals against my computer, I was also feeling very fine and full of a little confidence. And I had to admit that every rehearsal or practice would made me firmly confident and full of courage to win.
Little by little, I was gradually becoming sure that presenting an open lesson was not so terrible if I made a complete and careful preparation, and especially after the last two rehearsals, I was not nervous and surely thought that I was able to do very well in that seminar. Because of all those practices and thorough careful preparation, I did not feel any nervous and upset and anxious about the open lesson. I also felt very calm even though the day came near to me. I felt very calm on the way to Linyi, and had a pleasing and relaxing chat with my colleagues, very happy.
So when it was my turen to present my lesson, I went up on to the platform calmly in the presence of all the teachers present. After talking a lot with my ever-deskmate in front of the platform, I felt much more relaxed, and in some sense, I felt that I had entered a good state of mind, acting as my role. I was very calm in my inner heart, and was enjoying the process. And I did not have any kind of tension and unease I had been worried about prior to it. Therefore, finally I truly triumphed over myself, and overcomed my own shortcoming in front of so many teachers from some counties and districts.
When I finished my course and thanked my students with “Thand you all!”, all the students gave my a warm applause. In their sincere applause, I bowed to them deeply and politely, because I knew that I won the open lesson and myself and recognition and appreciation of students. So I think that lesson was the best one of all my lessons since my graduation. I was feeling satisfied and proud that I could do what I wanted to do, and meanwhile I could do it very well if I wanted to.
So when I got off the platform, I did not feel a kind of excitement I desired for before. When I came back my seat, I had the same state of mind as I did not present my lesson. I did not have the special happiness and pleasure, and did not feel as if relieved of a heavy load. I was not very happy as I had imagined when I got the news. I felt that everything went as it was. And thinking that a lesson was a lesson as it was, not any specially. After a short time of explanations about the lesson, I went to the bus stop peacefully to catch my bus home. Everythin would go as usual.
That experience really made me so different. I really suffered from the sadness, but I also benefited a lot from that experience, and I also grew stronger a lot. At the very beginning, I felt very sad and anxious and evern depressed, and then after many practices and careful preparations, I felt a little comfortable and relaxed, and finally I felt very calm about it and enjoyed it.
Everybody is different if you think you are so different. And believe in yourself and think that everyone can make a difference if you think you can make a difference.
Friday, September 19, 2008
My current episodes of life (4)
September 16
According to Ma’s requirement, I made another two rehearsals in the multifunction hall in the morning with students from Classes 1 and 2, Senior 3 of my female colleague Cui Daorong. The two rehearsals went very well and smoothly, and I felt very confident in myself and the success of the coming open class.
And after those two rehearsals, I was very calm and full of faith and success. And the first time, it was not so hard for one to give a lesson in public places. On the contrary, I hoped its coming very much. That evening, I had a very gooooooood sleeeeeeeep.
September 17
Today I went to Linyi No.6 Middle School to show my open class.
My lesson today is a reading one of Texts one and two. I showed my two students in charge of English how to carry out my teaching plan and asked them to make the class in good order and maintain the class discipline. And I was also convinced that they were able to do it very well.
Then I waited for a short while in my caseroom before I received a telephone from my colleague Wang Xiuying to tell me to come to the school gate to gather for the start-off. At about 8:20 am, I started out in Wang’s private car together with my other colleagues Xu Baoguo, Zhang Qiuyun and Liu Qing.
At about 10 am, we all arrived at Linyi Hotel, and after checking in, I came to Room 411 and had a good rest and waited for the lunch time of 12 am. I lived with Hou Zhanling. At 2 pm, I got up and prepared to start off to Linyi No.6 Middle School.
At this seminar, there were three lessons. The first one was taught by Fan Jingzhi from Lanshan Tutorial School of College Entrance Examination. The second one was given by a teacher from Hedong District. I presented the third lesson at about 4:30 pm. At the very beginning of the meeting, all the teachers paid attention to the lesson, but after a short time, a loud noise arose from the teachers, and sometimes even influenced the students on the platform who were all from Lanshan Tutorial School, with 30 girls on the platform and other boys sitting beside the platform.
A short rest after the first two lessons, I began my open lesson at 4:40 pm. But before that, I had met with a little trouble that my mobile disk borrowed from Ma Baolong, my close male friend, did not work in the computer. Finally I had to go on internet to open my email box and again downloaded the powerpoint courseware.
To be honest, I did not feel any nervous or upset when I stood on the platform and began my teaching content. Ignoring all the teachers present below, I was absorbed in the teaching content and the students’s performance. I had to admit that that lesson was the best one including the four rehearsals. I finished all the teaching content in the limited time of 45 minutes.
And then three of us had several minutes to explain about each other’s lesson. At 6 pm, the meeting ended successfully. At 6:30 pm, I arrived the bus stop and luckily caught the last bus to Tancheng. After 75 minutes, I reached Tancheng and got off at the crossing, and then walked home happily.
I must admit that I had spent the most difficult 19 days since I worked as a teacher in September, 1991. But I also must admit that all that benefited me a lot and that experience made me braver and more confident than ever.
I was very lucky that I came across my deskmate Liu Zhengxiang. Since we graduated from Linyi Teachers’ College, we did not see each other for 18 years. We were all very happy and excited to see each other on this special occasion. In front of the platform, we had a gooooood chat about what we were interested in most. Because it was time for me to prepare my lesson, we had to stop our pleasing chat. After the meeting, I was so busy to return home, so I couldn’t meet him again. But I know he is working in Yishui No.2 Middle School, and I decide to get in touch with hime after my advanced title assessment.
According to Ma’s requirement, I made another two rehearsals in the multifunction hall in the morning with students from Classes 1 and 2, Senior 3 of my female colleague Cui Daorong. The two rehearsals went very well and smoothly, and I felt very confident in myself and the success of the coming open class.
And after those two rehearsals, I was very calm and full of faith and success. And the first time, it was not so hard for one to give a lesson in public places. On the contrary, I hoped its coming very much. That evening, I had a very gooooooood sleeeeeeeep.
September 17
Today I went to Linyi No.6 Middle School to show my open class.
My lesson today is a reading one of Texts one and two. I showed my two students in charge of English how to carry out my teaching plan and asked them to make the class in good order and maintain the class discipline. And I was also convinced that they were able to do it very well.
Then I waited for a short while in my caseroom before I received a telephone from my colleague Wang Xiuying to tell me to come to the school gate to gather for the start-off. At about 8:20 am, I started out in Wang’s private car together with my other colleagues Xu Baoguo, Zhang Qiuyun and Liu Qing.
At about 10 am, we all arrived at Linyi Hotel, and after checking in, I came to Room 411 and had a good rest and waited for the lunch time of 12 am. I lived with Hou Zhanling. At 2 pm, I got up and prepared to start off to Linyi No.6 Middle School.
At this seminar, there were three lessons. The first one was taught by Fan Jingzhi from Lanshan Tutorial School of College Entrance Examination. The second one was given by a teacher from Hedong District. I presented the third lesson at about 4:30 pm. At the very beginning of the meeting, all the teachers paid attention to the lesson, but after a short time, a loud noise arose from the teachers, and sometimes even influenced the students on the platform who were all from Lanshan Tutorial School, with 30 girls on the platform and other boys sitting beside the platform.
A short rest after the first two lessons, I began my open lesson at 4:40 pm. But before that, I had met with a little trouble that my mobile disk borrowed from Ma Baolong, my close male friend, did not work in the computer. Finally I had to go on internet to open my email box and again downloaded the powerpoint courseware.
To be honest, I did not feel any nervous or upset when I stood on the platform and began my teaching content. Ignoring all the teachers present below, I was absorbed in the teaching content and the students’s performance. I had to admit that that lesson was the best one including the four rehearsals. I finished all the teaching content in the limited time of 45 minutes.
And then three of us had several minutes to explain about each other’s lesson. At 6 pm, the meeting ended successfully. At 6:30 pm, I arrived the bus stop and luckily caught the last bus to Tancheng. After 75 minutes, I reached Tancheng and got off at the crossing, and then walked home happily.
I must admit that I had spent the most difficult 19 days since I worked as a teacher in September, 1991. But I also must admit that all that benefited me a lot and that experience made me braver and more confident than ever.
I was very lucky that I came across my deskmate Liu Zhengxiang. Since we graduated from Linyi Teachers’ College, we did not see each other for 18 years. We were all very happy and excited to see each other on this special occasion. In front of the platform, we had a gooooood chat about what we were interested in most. Because it was time for me to prepare my lesson, we had to stop our pleasing chat. After the meeting, I was so busy to return home, so I couldn’t meet him again. But I know he is working in Yishui No.2 Middle School, and I decide to get in touch with hime after my advanced title assessment.
My current episodes of life (3)
September 14
Today is our country’s lunar Mid-Autumn Festival. Because of this, all the schools will have a three-day holiday from September 13 to 15 according to the requirements of the country. In the morning, my daughter finished her homework before we went home for the festival. And then at about 10 am, we went to the market to buy two chickens and some fresh peaches, and went home to get together for the family union.
My youngest sister, together with her only son Haoyu, had arrived there before we got home. After a short rest, my wife and I started to help my father to prepare the family dinner. Father was very happy to stew the two chickens in his little simple kitchen. My wife and I prepared other vegitables of dishes. My wife was ready for spring onions, ginger and garlic, and I helped to cut off the celery and garlic. We were all happy with pleasure. In actual fact, life is as simple as that. Cherish all you have to cherish and value all you have to value, and you will find you are very happy and happiness will always be around you.
After that, I went up to the second floor of my younger brother’s building to look at my daughter and her two younger brothers play the computer games. They were all very happy and full of pleasure. All children are always masters of all holidays and festivals.
At about 4 pm, my sister and her husband returned home from the river beach for the family dinner. For life, they carry sand beside the river up to the river banks in the evening, because today is the festival and no other officials inspected the river, they could carry up the sand. And then they sell the sand to others to make money because they are building a two-storey building and are in much need of money. So I know that their life is not very wealthy, but I can easily find that they are living a very happy life, which I think is most important.
We had a very inviting dinner of the family union. Though we did not eat any mooncakes because we were all full, we were feeling very happy when finding everything went very well and everybody was so happy.
A short rest after the dinner, my sister and her husband continued their previous work. My wife and I had a pleasing chat with my parents. The main topic was whether to build a house or not at home. As a matter of fact, I did not agree to build a house at home only because we did not much-need a house when we are so young and my daughter is so young. And my intention is our focus on my daughter’s growth and her studies.
But my wife wanted very much to build a house because my parents told us that it is likely that our villege will be re-planned and re-designed in a not very far future. If it is that, villegers will be given some money to make up for the loss of the houses. And another reasone is that several houses are being built in the villege. All this caused my wife to make up her mind to build a house of our own. And my parents ageed to help us build a house and they all supported my wife’s decision. So our final decision was to build a house of our own.
Today is our country’s lunar Mid-Autumn Festival. Because of this, all the schools will have a three-day holiday from September 13 to 15 according to the requirements of the country. In the morning, my daughter finished her homework before we went home for the festival. And then at about 10 am, we went to the market to buy two chickens and some fresh peaches, and went home to get together for the family union.
My youngest sister, together with her only son Haoyu, had arrived there before we got home. After a short rest, my wife and I started to help my father to prepare the family dinner. Father was very happy to stew the two chickens in his little simple kitchen. My wife and I prepared other vegitables of dishes. My wife was ready for spring onions, ginger and garlic, and I helped to cut off the celery and garlic. We were all happy with pleasure. In actual fact, life is as simple as that. Cherish all you have to cherish and value all you have to value, and you will find you are very happy and happiness will always be around you.
After that, I went up to the second floor of my younger brother’s building to look at my daughter and her two younger brothers play the computer games. They were all very happy and full of pleasure. All children are always masters of all holidays and festivals.
At about 4 pm, my sister and her husband returned home from the river beach for the family dinner. For life, they carry sand beside the river up to the river banks in the evening, because today is the festival and no other officials inspected the river, they could carry up the sand. And then they sell the sand to others to make money because they are building a two-storey building and are in much need of money. So I know that their life is not very wealthy, but I can easily find that they are living a very happy life, which I think is most important.
We had a very inviting dinner of the family union. Though we did not eat any mooncakes because we were all full, we were feeling very happy when finding everything went very well and everybody was so happy.
A short rest after the dinner, my sister and her husband continued their previous work. My wife and I had a pleasing chat with my parents. The main topic was whether to build a house or not at home. As a matter of fact, I did not agree to build a house at home only because we did not much-need a house when we are so young and my daughter is so young. And my intention is our focus on my daughter’s growth and her studies.
But my wife wanted very much to build a house because my parents told us that it is likely that our villege will be re-planned and re-designed in a not very far future. If it is that, villegers will be given some money to make up for the loss of the houses. And another reasone is that several houses are being built in the villege. All this caused my wife to make up her mind to build a house of our own. And my parents ageed to help us build a house and they all supported my wife’s decision. So our final decision was to build a house of our own.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
My current episodes of life (2)
September 4
After two classes in the morning, I surfed the internet at home in the afternoon to search for two proper reading materials for this open class. And at the same time, work out some of the reading questions about the first article.
September 5
I continued to work on my teaching multimedia coursware besides two classes of the morning. Most difficult, it is to work out nine reading questions according to the first reading passage. During the process, I felt very tired but also very pleased full of happiness. You will be feeling very fine when you are absorbed in what you are very interested in, forgetting your current worry and depress not only spiritually but mentally. And I felt confident in working on my courseware.
In the evening, I finally completed my courseware, very happy and excited even though a little exausted.
September 6
All day I practised my courseware over and over again. Today was the last military day of my daughter. In the morning, they continued their military training, and in the afternoon, their superiors came to inspect their military training result, finally ending the successful training. Also because they continued the military training on Saturday, they did not attend class on Monday.
September 7
All day I continued my practice of grasping courseware. In the evening, I worked out my learning programmme to be prepared well for printing. I focused time and energy on the practice of reading contents. Much more practice made me full of confidence and the sense of achievement.
September 9
Yesterday evening, I received a telephone for Ma to tell me to prepare a teaching programme and a speaking-class manuscript. So today I began to prepare them in the moring and at 11 pm, I succeeded in working them out, and meanwhile emailed them to Ma.
September 10
Today is Teachers’ Day. As a senior teacher, I was very happy not because I received fresh flowers and a cup of tea from the two classes but because I was and am feeling that we teachers are very important for our students, and we also felt that education cause is so important and meaningful and worth striving for it. And we all felt that we are loved and much-respected by the students.
In the afternoon, I received the telephone from Song Keyu that told me he looked through the program and manuscript and emailed me his revised ones, and asked me to print them.
September 12
In the afternoon, I had two rehearsals in the school multifunction hall with Zhou Tao’s students from Classes 11 and 12, Senior 3. In the first class, I did not finish all the prepared content, but in the second class, I felt it was very fine because I successfully completed all the teaching content, and I felt I made a little progress in the time of control and fluent process. But I also found many faults much needed to be improved, and made some necessary changes, by omitting some of the process details. And I felt that the rehearsal was very useful for me to convince me that I could made a very gooooooood performance in the seminar.
After the rehearsal, I felt very confident and much more convinced because I knew that I could do it very well this time.
After two classes in the morning, I surfed the internet at home in the afternoon to search for two proper reading materials for this open class. And at the same time, work out some of the reading questions about the first article.
September 5
I continued to work on my teaching multimedia coursware besides two classes of the morning. Most difficult, it is to work out nine reading questions according to the first reading passage. During the process, I felt very tired but also very pleased full of happiness. You will be feeling very fine when you are absorbed in what you are very interested in, forgetting your current worry and depress not only spiritually but mentally. And I felt confident in working on my courseware.
In the evening, I finally completed my courseware, very happy and excited even though a little exausted.
September 6
All day I practised my courseware over and over again. Today was the last military day of my daughter. In the morning, they continued their military training, and in the afternoon, their superiors came to inspect their military training result, finally ending the successful training. Also because they continued the military training on Saturday, they did not attend class on Monday.
September 7
All day I continued my practice of grasping courseware. In the evening, I worked out my learning programmme to be prepared well for printing. I focused time and energy on the practice of reading contents. Much more practice made me full of confidence and the sense of achievement.
September 9
Yesterday evening, I received a telephone for Ma to tell me to prepare a teaching programme and a speaking-class manuscript. So today I began to prepare them in the moring and at 11 pm, I succeeded in working them out, and meanwhile emailed them to Ma.
September 10
Today is Teachers’ Day. As a senior teacher, I was very happy not because I received fresh flowers and a cup of tea from the two classes but because I was and am feeling that we teachers are very important for our students, and we also felt that education cause is so important and meaningful and worth striving for it. And we all felt that we are loved and much-respected by the students.
In the afternoon, I received the telephone from Song Keyu that told me he looked through the program and manuscript and emailed me his revised ones, and asked me to print them.
September 12
In the afternoon, I had two rehearsals in the school multifunction hall with Zhou Tao’s students from Classes 11 and 12, Senior 3. In the first class, I did not finish all the prepared content, but in the second class, I felt it was very fine because I successfully completed all the teaching content, and I felt I made a little progress in the time of control and fluent process. But I also found many faults much needed to be improved, and made some necessary changes, by omitting some of the process details. And I felt that the rehearsal was very useful for me to convince me that I could made a very gooooooood performance in the seminar.
After the rehearsal, I felt very confident and much more convinced because I knew that I could do it very well this time.
My current episodes of life (1)
August 30
Just when I got up at about 7:30 am, I got a telephone from Wu Qingfeng, my close male friend, telling me that I was given a chance to present an open class in the 2008 first seminar on Senior 3 English because of our Senior 3 group's excellent performance and great achievement in the 2008 national college entrance examination.
I was very excited and much more thrilled to hear the good news, but I was, meanwhile, very worried and even frightened to have so good a chance. And then I made a telephone to Ma Baodong to ask about some details of this seminar. After our communication, I felt a little fine and eased a little. So in the following period of days, I was glad and alos very worried, very excited and very upset and unrest full of anxiety. And I did not really know whether I was happy or not, and I was unrest or not. During those days, I was not a bit myself, and not knowing what to do next and how to deal with tomorrow. At about 12:30 pm, I received a sample courseware from Cao Yunqiang by emailing. After looking at his sample courseware, I felt taht I knew what to do next and felt that I was able to do it very well and was very confident in myself and the open class. In all, I really didn't know how I lived the bittersweet day: August 30, 2008!
September 1
Todayd I was feeling a little happy because my only daughter will begin her new school term year and also begin her junior middle school life from today. This morning, she went to Yucai middle school to have a little test of english and maths before she really entered her new class. In the afternoon, she went there again, waiting for her new enrollmetn of class. But they did not have any news, just waiting there for a long time until 7:00 pm. Not any teachers to go to tell them any thing, they had to go home separately.
This evening, my wife telephoned her ever colleague, her husband working in Yucai, to ask about the distributions of class, and told her that we wanted very much to have my lovely daughter studying in her husband's class. But to our disappointment, we received bad news that her husband couldn't help us and I and my wife felt very helpless and very sorry about that Because we did not have any ability to make my daughter study in better classes: class 9 and 10, junior 1.
So I telephoned Feng Ling in no time, hoping that my daughter could study in his class and he promised to have a try to help me. Then I thought that it was likely that my daughter would study in his class and also felt very glad. Because we knew very well each other even though we are not good friends, it is very convenient for me to be informed of study information of my daughter at any time, and I did really not have any other intention.
September 2
In the morning, Feng telephoned me that the head teacher of Class 3 did not want to exchange students, so he did not succeeded in helping me. But he still promised to have another try that afternoon, and I was very grateful to him even though we did not succeed.
In actual fact, I was and am very sorry that I did not make my daughter study in the so-said better class. And I felt much sadder and even a little depressed.
So we had to receive the reality that my daughter has to study in her current class: class 3. And we encouraged her to study hard and made her believer that it is not important in which class to attend but important to believe in herself and that she also would study very well in any class. And also we told her that her head teacher did not want to exchange her because of good test result. As I observed, she was not influence by this matter, so I was and am very glad and happy about it because I believe that she is growing up. So finally this matter ended without success.
In the following days, my daughter continued her military training before new school year really began. She was very tired, but also very pleased. After all, her new school life began.
Just when I got up at about 7:30 am, I got a telephone from Wu Qingfeng, my close male friend, telling me that I was given a chance to present an open class in the 2008 first seminar on Senior 3 English because of our Senior 3 group's excellent performance and great achievement in the 2008 national college entrance examination.
I was very excited and much more thrilled to hear the good news, but I was, meanwhile, very worried and even frightened to have so good a chance. And then I made a telephone to Ma Baodong to ask about some details of this seminar. After our communication, I felt a little fine and eased a little. So in the following period of days, I was glad and alos very worried, very excited and very upset and unrest full of anxiety. And I did not really know whether I was happy or not, and I was unrest or not. During those days, I was not a bit myself, and not knowing what to do next and how to deal with tomorrow. At about 12:30 pm, I received a sample courseware from Cao Yunqiang by emailing. After looking at his sample courseware, I felt taht I knew what to do next and felt that I was able to do it very well and was very confident in myself and the open class. In all, I really didn't know how I lived the bittersweet day: August 30, 2008!
September 1
Todayd I was feeling a little happy because my only daughter will begin her new school term year and also begin her junior middle school life from today. This morning, she went to Yucai middle school to have a little test of english and maths before she really entered her new class. In the afternoon, she went there again, waiting for her new enrollmetn of class. But they did not have any news, just waiting there for a long time until 7:00 pm. Not any teachers to go to tell them any thing, they had to go home separately.
This evening, my wife telephoned her ever colleague, her husband working in Yucai, to ask about the distributions of class, and told her that we wanted very much to have my lovely daughter studying in her husband's class. But to our disappointment, we received bad news that her husband couldn't help us and I and my wife felt very helpless and very sorry about that Because we did not have any ability to make my daughter study in better classes: class 9 and 10, junior 1.
So I telephoned Feng Ling in no time, hoping that my daughter could study in his class and he promised to have a try to help me. Then I thought that it was likely that my daughter would study in his class and also felt very glad. Because we knew very well each other even though we are not good friends, it is very convenient for me to be informed of study information of my daughter at any time, and I did really not have any other intention.
September 2
In the morning, Feng telephoned me that the head teacher of Class 3 did not want to exchange students, so he did not succeeded in helping me. But he still promised to have another try that afternoon, and I was very grateful to him even though we did not succeed.
In actual fact, I was and am very sorry that I did not make my daughter study in the so-said better class. And I felt much sadder and even a little depressed.
So we had to receive the reality that my daughter has to study in her current class: class 3. And we encouraged her to study hard and made her believer that it is not important in which class to attend but important to believe in herself and that she also would study very well in any class. And also we told her that her head teacher did not want to exchange her because of good test result. As I observed, she was not influence by this matter, so I was and am very glad and happy about it because I believe that she is growing up. So finally this matter ended without success.
In the following days, my daughter continued her military training before new school year really began. She was very tired, but also very pleased. After all, her new school life began.
Teaching programme for extracurricular reading practice
I. Teaching materials
The teaching materials is from one certain newspaper. The theme of the article is that through a pleasant trip,both father and daughter will eventually lead to mutual communication and mutual understanding, embodying the current relationship between father and daughter.
II. Teaching objectives
1. Teachers guide students to use skimming, scanning and other reading techniques to understand the passage extracting important details and facts.
2. Accumulate useful words, phrases and sentence structures, and improve their language ability and the habits of thinking in English.
III. Teaching focus and difficulty
1. Teaching majors
Guide students to use reading strategies to develop reading ability, and can apply to their language knowledge to express their ideas.
2. Teaching difficulty
Skillfully use the phrases and sentence structures in the passage.
IV. Teaching design ideas
Through the use of the design task of teaching, fully embodies “student-centered" philosophy of teaching to enable students to participate, and experience.
V. Teaching aids
Multimedia courseware
VI. Teaching process
Step One: Reading
Teachers directly show students the reading passage and enable them to read through the whole passage by skimming and scanning to catch the main idea and relevant specific information to complete the following questions within the limited time.
Give students a hint about the reading skills: According to the different requests of each question, you can easily find the main idea by skimming and if you want to find out some specific information, you can ignore some unimportant information by scanning and catch key information, so it is very easy for you to get what you want in a very short time to speed up your reading skills.
Step Two: Understanding
1. Students are allowed to finish the questions below all by themselves first and then can have a discussion in groups to check that they are right. And then ask some of them to share their answers with the whole class and meanwhile enable them to give their reasons or find their supporting information to let their choices make sense.
During this process, any student who has different opinions can give out their own ones to debate with others to support his own point of view.
After the right answers are showed then, students can continue to share their understanding with others about the answers whether they are right or not.
2. Students are asked to fill in the following blanks according to the text:
Rose goes on a road _______ with her friends as her first step toward _____________. Considering her _______, her father, James, joins them. After many comic situations, James finally _____________ her daughter and realizes that Rose is _________ up and every kid should be on his own way to growth and success.
Through this process, students can further understand the reading passage and further grasp the theme of the passage, and meanwhile it’s an effective way of checking that students really understand the passage, and also benefit their later writing.
3. Focus on the outlook of the passage
Part1 Para. ________ don’t agree with each other
Part2 Para. ______ go on a college road trip
Part3 Para. ______ the great significance(意义) of the trip
Students are allowed to finish the blanks with paragraphs according to the hints of main idea given of each part. And it’s easy for students to complete it.
With the passage organization in students’ mind, they will have a much better understanding of the ideas and structure of the passage.
Step Three: Enjoyment
1. Paragraph enjoyment: ask students to find out one or two paragraphs full of as many words and expressions as possible. Give students several minutes to find and underline what they think are useful, colorful and joyful, and during this process they also can do in groups and exchange their notes.
And then show out the paragraph and check that students find enough of it, and add some of them to his own that are left out by him.
Next, ask some of students to share their enjoyments one by one: First point out the wonderful words or expressions and explain how to use them correctly and freely. And then some of
students can give some complements or some changes if necessary.
Although this process is a little difficult, it can make the classroom atmosphere lovely and meanwhile fully mobilize the enthusiasm and autonomy of the students’ learning and participation.
2. Sentence enjoyment: first ask students to find out and then exchange what they have found and make a summary of them. And then show four of them to the whole class to enjoy and analyze, and meanwhile ask students to translate them fluently to all the class.
Step Four: Reading aloud with memory
Students are all allowed to have several minutes to read aloud the beautiful and colorful words and expressions and sentences over and over again so that they even recite them. And then in groups they can have a good review of their reading aloud.
Step Five: Employing
Drill One: Choosing …
Drill Two: After following …
Two of the very useful sentence structures are picked out of the passage. Students are allowed to have several minutes to make at least two sentences, which will fully train students’ ability to use language communication to express themselves. First teachers give an example for them to follow and ask two of them to come to the front to finish this task and finally check together with the whole class.
Step Six: More expressions
Accoring to the topic of this passage, present students some expressions of agreement and disagreement
1. Agreement
I’ll say. There’s no doubt about it. That’s the idea. I can’t agree more. You’re saying that! Now you are talking. That’s more like it. That makes two of us.
2. Disagreement
Of course not. I really don’t think so. I’m afraid not. Nothing doing. That I can’t say. Not that I know. Not on your life.
Step Seven: Another extensive reading
Present another reading material to further train the reading skills and ability of students. Students are asked to finish reading in a very short time to strengthen students’ ability to read and capture relevant information.
And then ask students to do as they have done with the first passage to enjoy this one.
VII. Homework
Students are all asked to write a short passage with new words , expressions and sentence structures they have learned in this lesson to strengthen what they have learned.
VIII. Teaching reflections
1. The teaching process fully embodies the "student-centered" philosophy of teaching. Under the guidance of teachers, students learn to think, learn to analyze, learn to find and learn to express, and students really play the main role in teaching and learning as well as the leading role of teachers to comprehensively improve the reading ability of students
2. Teachers should also continue to strengthen methods of learning to better improve the quality of teaching.
The teaching materials is from one certain newspaper. The theme of the article is that through a pleasant trip,both father and daughter will eventually lead to mutual communication and mutual understanding, embodying the current relationship between father and daughter.
II. Teaching objectives
1. Teachers guide students to use skimming, scanning and other reading techniques to understand the passage extracting important details and facts.
2. Accumulate useful words, phrases and sentence structures, and improve their language ability and the habits of thinking in English.
III. Teaching focus and difficulty
1. Teaching majors
Guide students to use reading strategies to develop reading ability, and can apply to their language knowledge to express their ideas.
2. Teaching difficulty
Skillfully use the phrases and sentence structures in the passage.
IV. Teaching design ideas
Through the use of the design task of teaching, fully embodies “student-centered" philosophy of teaching to enable students to participate, and experience.
V. Teaching aids
Multimedia courseware
VI. Teaching process
Step One: Reading
Teachers directly show students the reading passage and enable them to read through the whole passage by skimming and scanning to catch the main idea and relevant specific information to complete the following questions within the limited time.
Give students a hint about the reading skills: According to the different requests of each question, you can easily find the main idea by skimming and if you want to find out some specific information, you can ignore some unimportant information by scanning and catch key information, so it is very easy for you to get what you want in a very short time to speed up your reading skills.
Step Two: Understanding
1. Students are allowed to finish the questions below all by themselves first and then can have a discussion in groups to check that they are right. And then ask some of them to share their answers with the whole class and meanwhile enable them to give their reasons or find their supporting information to let their choices make sense.
During this process, any student who has different opinions can give out their own ones to debate with others to support his own point of view.
After the right answers are showed then, students can continue to share their understanding with others about the answers whether they are right or not.
2. Students are asked to fill in the following blanks according to the text:
Rose goes on a road _______ with her friends as her first step toward _____________. Considering her _______, her father, James, joins them. After many comic situations, James finally _____________ her daughter and realizes that Rose is _________ up and every kid should be on his own way to growth and success.
Through this process, students can further understand the reading passage and further grasp the theme of the passage, and meanwhile it’s an effective way of checking that students really understand the passage, and also benefit their later writing.
3. Focus on the outlook of the passage
Part1 Para. ________ don’t agree with each other
Part2 Para. ______ go on a college road trip
Part3 Para. ______ the great significance(意义) of the trip
Students are allowed to finish the blanks with paragraphs according to the hints of main idea given of each part. And it’s easy for students to complete it.
With the passage organization in students’ mind, they will have a much better understanding of the ideas and structure of the passage.
Step Three: Enjoyment
1. Paragraph enjoyment: ask students to find out one or two paragraphs full of as many words and expressions as possible. Give students several minutes to find and underline what they think are useful, colorful and joyful, and during this process they also can do in groups and exchange their notes.
And then show out the paragraph and check that students find enough of it, and add some of them to his own that are left out by him.
Next, ask some of students to share their enjoyments one by one: First point out the wonderful words or expressions and explain how to use them correctly and freely. And then some of
students can give some complements or some changes if necessary.
Although this process is a little difficult, it can make the classroom atmosphere lovely and meanwhile fully mobilize the enthusiasm and autonomy of the students’ learning and participation.
2. Sentence enjoyment: first ask students to find out and then exchange what they have found and make a summary of them. And then show four of them to the whole class to enjoy and analyze, and meanwhile ask students to translate them fluently to all the class.
Step Four: Reading aloud with memory
Students are all allowed to have several minutes to read aloud the beautiful and colorful words and expressions and sentences over and over again so that they even recite them. And then in groups they can have a good review of their reading aloud.
Step Five: Employing
Drill One: Choosing …
Drill Two: After following …
Two of the very useful sentence structures are picked out of the passage. Students are allowed to have several minutes to make at least two sentences, which will fully train students’ ability to use language communication to express themselves. First teachers give an example for them to follow and ask two of them to come to the front to finish this task and finally check together with the whole class.
Step Six: More expressions
Accoring to the topic of this passage, present students some expressions of agreement and disagreement
1. Agreement
I’ll say. There’s no doubt about it. That’s the idea. I can’t agree more. You’re saying that! Now you are talking. That’s more like it. That makes two of us.
2. Disagreement
Of course not. I really don’t think so. I’m afraid not. Nothing doing. That I can’t say. Not that I know. Not on your life.
Step Seven: Another extensive reading
Present another reading material to further train the reading skills and ability of students. Students are asked to finish reading in a very short time to strengthen students’ ability to read and capture relevant information.
And then ask students to do as they have done with the first passage to enjoy this one.
VII. Homework
Students are all asked to write a short passage with new words , expressions and sentence structures they have learned in this lesson to strengthen what they have learned.
VIII. Teaching reflections
1. The teaching process fully embodies the "student-centered" philosophy of teaching. Under the guidance of teachers, students learn to think, learn to analyze, learn to find and learn to express, and students really play the main role in teaching and learning as well as the leading role of teachers to comprehensively improve the reading ability of students
2. Teachers should also continue to strengthen methods of learning to better improve the quality of teaching.
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