The opening of ＂IELTS Middle School Teacher Training Course＂ was appreciated by teachers.
[Source: Educational Information]
According to the 2019 IELTS White Paper, IELTS candidates in Chinese mainland continue to be younger, and IELTS candidates under 18 have become the second largest age group. The pain point of middle school English teaching is gradually revealed in the IELTS learning of middle school students, mainly because the supply side can not match the underlying academic support of the demand side. How to get out of the IELTS dilemma of middle school students was once a hurdle for all English education experts.
It is reported that on June 26th, 2019, the British Council, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press and Tudou Education jointly launched the "New English Teaching Scheme for IELTS Middle School", which aims at cultivating the core literacy of middle school students’ English subjects, aiming at improving the teaching level of IELTS English and the comprehensive application ability of middle school students. The main contents include three modules: IELTS Middle School Course, training course system, assessment tools and services.
In August of the same year, the offline course of the first "IELTS Middle School Teacher Training Course", which was jointly created by FLTRP and Tudou Education and aimed at improving the teaching level of IELTS middle school teachers, started in Beijing. At the end of November, the second offline course of "IELTS Middle School Teacher Training Course" started in Nanjing. Once the registration news of the training course was released, it was strongly welcomed by many foreign language schools, international schools and IELTS training institutions across the country. The training courses have also been highly appreciated by teachers.
Potato Education was invited by FLTRP to train more than 1,000 teachers in 100 foreign language schools across the country.
This spring semester, many teachers didn’t finish their first class on the podium. In order to prevent the epidemic from spreading to the campus, online classroom has become a new key word. In order to actively respond to the epidemic situation in novel coronavirus, implement the epidemic prevention and control work requirements of the Ministry of Education, and ensure "no classes to stop learning" and "no classes to stop training", Potato Education gave full play to its core academic and technical advantages, and launched the national teacher training online for the first time. From March 5th, the IELTS Middle School Course will be systematically demonstrated and explained online for 1,300 teaching and research backbones and English teachers from hundreds of foreign language schools.
It is understood that Tudou Education is an innovative education company driven by both academic and technical, and Tudou hopes to bring advanced teaching concepts to all middle school English teachers. In the special period of epidemic prevention and control, Potato Education has made precise policies. This IELTS middle school teacher training can realize live training through mobile phone or Pad. Dr. Tsinghua University, deputy editor-in-chief of IELTS Middle School Course, and teacher Yang Chongsheng, the head of potato IELTS teaching and research, have been teaching IELTS for 13 years and have been deeply involved in the teaching of English ability for K12 people, especially middle school students.
In the live training on March 5, Teacher Yang Chongsheng first made a detailed interpretation of the development trend of IELTS test in China in recent years and the trend of candidates’ overall ability level. Then, it systematically explains the writing concept, course content and supporting resources of IELTS middle school course, and shows the teaching method of IELTS middle school course from the teaching practice, which provides multi-dimensional guidance for teachers on how to improve the interactivity of content explanation in the teaching process.
More than 1,300 teachers from 100 foreign language schools across the country had a very active interaction, throwing out practical problems and difficulties encountered in English teaching at ordinary times, covering practical cases of improving the ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing in all dimensions, and getting answers and analysis from Teacher Yang one by one; In addition, Mr. Yang also gave a further interpretation of the "effective landing of core literacy" advocated by the English Curriculum Standards for Ordinary Senior High Schools (2017 Edition), which pointed out a clearer teaching direction for online trained teachers nationwide.
After the training, teachers have called for the training to continue, and said that continuous "charging" can provide a steady stream of confidence for IELTS teaching in the future and better improve the teaching quality. With the continuous expansion of the younger IELTS population, the demand for IELTS learning in middle school students is soaring, and teachers need to strengthen the standardization and systematization of IELTS teaching. Systematic teacher training for IELTS Secondary School Course will actively promote the teaching of competency-based English in middle schools, resolve the contradiction of IELTS teaching for middle school students, and provide a platform for teachers to improve IELTS teaching and further study.
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