廣東省東莞市玉蘭中學(xué) 葉偉榮
第十五周日晚,筆者市普降暴雨,導(dǎo)致全城多處道路水浸并引發(fā)主要路段交通癱瘓。次日早上筆者市氣象臺(tái)也發(fā)出天氣紅色警告,教育局也在電視中要求全市中小學(xué)停課。由于筆者所教的是全寄宿學(xué)校,沒(méi)有停課一事。上班途中,所見(jiàn)街道皆有水漫的垃圾,多處十字路口因?yàn)橄滤雷枞笕嚥⒁?jiàn)有幾起交通事故,數(shù)部車在路中死火,并有給水淹過(guò)的痕跡(車上有很多腐爛垃圾),綠化帶有部分樹(shù)木給風(fēng)雨刮倒。學(xué)校里教室和走廊都好像用水洗過(guò)一樣。筆者用手機(jī)拍了些圖片。
由于今天天氣特殊,筆者改變了原來(lái)的教學(xué)預(yù)設(shè),利用暴雨這個(gè)新鮮的真實(shí)的生活教學(xué)資源,設(shè)置懸念,讓學(xué)生在好奇心的驅(qū)使下,邊引導(dǎo)邊講解,以實(shí)現(xiàn)讓學(xué)生寫好英語(yǔ)日記的教學(xué)目標(biāo)。于是筆者設(shè)計(jì)了以下的導(dǎo)入,課堂記錄如下:
在黑板上筆者板書:What a...!(筆者邊講邊把黑體的詞組板書)
T:Good morning,class.Something special happened last night.So most of the students in Dongguan don’t have to go to school today.
如筆者所料,學(xué)生象一片一窩分散的蜜蜂,嗡嗡地叫,議論紛紛。一些學(xué)生一臉茫然,一些學(xué)生不知在竊竊私語(yǔ)什么,還偷偷笑著呢,個(gè)別還直直地盯著筆者笑著,充滿懷疑,以為老師在講大話。終于有個(gè)大膽的。
S1:Why?What happened?Why do we have to go to school?
T:Please look at the floor.Is there anything different?
S:It’s wet.Did somebody else wash it?
T:Did your class teacher ask you to wash it this morning?
S:No,he didn’t.
S2:It raind very hard last night.
S3:聽(tīng)到了很大雷聲。也經(jīng)常閃電。It was very scary.I didn’t sleep well.
S4:Me,neither.有人附和。
T:You are right.The TV said the rain was so heavy that most of the students can’t go to school today.How do you feel now?
S5:Then why do we have to?不公平。I feel very unhappy.
S6:I feel disappointed.
S7:I feel excited.(其他學(xué)生大笑).
S8:I feel surprised.
T:Very good!Since we have different kinds of feeling,let’s write an English diary to remember today.
部分學(xué)生臉露難色.
T:Do you think it’s too difficult to write a diary?
S:Yes,of course.
T:Let’s make it easier to write it.First,give it a good title.What...!
S:What a special day!What a heavy rain!What an unlucky day!
T:OK.Let’s make it What a heavy rain as a title.Please look at the screen and answer the questions.
筆者在黑板上寫出下列的問(wèn)題:
1.What happened last night?Did you sleep well?
2.What happened to most students in Dongguan?How do you feel?
3.What do you think would have happened in such a heavy rain?What should we do?(How to protect ourselves?)
T:Let’s discuss question 3.
S:There were car accidents.Many cars stopped in the waters in the middle of the road.They were dirty and wet.(筆者把浸水的車和交通事故的情形用簡(jiǎn)筆畫畫出來(lái).)
此時(shí)一位走讀生站在門口.全班同學(xué)大笑.
T:Why are you laughing?
S:Xiao Lei is late for class.
T:What is he like?
S:He is the tallest and strongest in our class.
S:The tallest and stongest boy is late for class.
T:Oh.Come in,Xiao Lei.Try not to be late again.
The whole class tell me,what were you doing when Xiao Lei arrived?
S:I was laughing.
S:I was writing.
S:I was listening to the teacher carefully.
T:Well,it’s not polite to laugh at the others.Let’s ask Xiao Lei whether your English teacher told a lie.
S1:Does the TV said that students don’t have to go to school today?
Xiao Lei:Yes.That’s right.I thought we had no school.That’s why I was late.
S2:What did you see on your way to school?
Xiao Lei:Dirty roads.Empty road cover.Broken cars.
S:What happened to the drivers?...
S:What our teacher said was right.
T:OK.Let’s form groups of four students and begin to write the diary on our notebook.You can use the words on the blackboard.
...
最后,筆者展示了幾位學(xué)生的日記,并復(fù)習(xí)了日記中運(yùn)用到詞組、句型和英語(yǔ)時(shí)態(tài),收到有效的教學(xué)效果。
托爾斯泰說(shuō):“成功的教學(xué)所需要的不是強(qiáng)制而是激發(fā)學(xué)生興趣”。興趣又是在實(shí)踐活動(dòng)中形成、發(fā)展和培養(yǎng)起來(lái)的。這一節(jié)課,筆者能夠捕捉和利用動(dòng)態(tài)的教學(xué)資源,調(diào)整教學(xué)設(shè)計(jì),在課堂教學(xué)中有了真正的師生互動(dòng),并在課堂活動(dòng)中抓住新生成動(dòng)態(tài)資源,在學(xué)生充滿的好奇的狀態(tài)下推進(jìn),學(xué)生不但得到了語(yǔ)言訓(xùn)練,也能讓學(xué)生在互動(dòng)中獲得情境體驗(yàn)和情感陶治.在教學(xué)反思中,筆者獲得不少的啟示。
動(dòng)態(tài)教學(xué)資源是在教學(xué)活動(dòng)中產(chǎn)生的與預(yù)設(shè)相對(duì)的教學(xué)資源,對(duì)教學(xué)效果產(chǎn)生直接的影響。備課時(shí)要以“教材”為中心和以“活動(dòng)為中心”的備課模式結(jié)合起來(lái),既備課程資源、備教材、備學(xué)生,又要備學(xué)生。在教學(xué)中,不能為了讓預(yù)設(shè)的順利進(jìn)行而對(duì)更有效的動(dòng)態(tài)資源進(jìn)行控制或放棄,全市停課而筆者們要上課可以讓學(xué)生有各種不同的feeling,筆者們?nèi)绾我尅耙馔狻弊兊谩熬省?,這需要教師的教學(xué)智慧。
為了使教學(xué)更有效,教師要不斷加強(qiáng)學(xué)生之間的合作、師生之間的交流,自然還須持之以恒的鼓勵(lì)學(xué)生不斷提問(wèn)。在這種互動(dòng)中不斷激活學(xué)生的背景知識(shí),讓課堂動(dòng)起來(lái),讓課堂活起來(lái)。這需要教師觀察和傾聽(tīng)學(xué)生新的發(fā)現(xiàn)、觀察和傾聽(tīng)學(xué)生充滿想象力的猜測(cè)……在觀察和傾聽(tīng)中捕捉鮮活的信息,并把它補(bǔ)充到教學(xué)中,使課堂煥發(fā)出勃勃微生機(jī)。在學(xué)生大笑一遲到學(xué)生時(shí),筆者并沒(méi)有責(zé)備學(xué)生,而是運(yùn)用這一情景讓學(xué)生把形容詞最高級(jí)和過(guò)去進(jìn)行時(shí)進(jìn)行有機(jī)結(jié)合練習(xí)運(yùn)用,在學(xué)生不知如何表達(dá)時(shí)適時(shí)補(bǔ)充tell a lie,so...that等詞語(yǔ)。并在交談中結(jié)合使用了賓語(yǔ)從句。從而在日記中實(shí)踐既鞏固了本學(xué)期所學(xué)的語(yǔ)法點(diǎn),突出了教學(xué)目的與重點(diǎn),又把所學(xué)的知識(shí)綜合運(yùn)用,起到了事半功倍的效果,同時(shí)也體現(xiàn)了新課標(biāo)的宗旨。
怎么樣的課才是好課?怎么樣的課才稱得上是有效課堂?這涉及教學(xué)的理念。
意外事例的發(fā)生和在課堂教學(xué)中真正的師生互動(dòng),自然會(huì)產(chǎn)生豐富多彩課堂動(dòng)態(tài)資源,長(zhǎng)期形成的傳統(tǒng)教學(xué)觀念容易讓多數(shù)教師既希望學(xué)生動(dòng)起來(lái),又害怕完成不了教學(xué)任務(wù),這實(shí)際上仍然注意教師的教而忽視學(xué)生的學(xué),又回到“重教授,輕對(duì)話”的傳統(tǒng)教學(xué)模式之中,即對(duì)“教學(xué)中存在的不和諧,給予有效的控制”,而末能“以學(xué)定教”,即把學(xué)生原有的知識(shí)作為施教的基礎(chǔ)。新課標(biāo)指出:只有創(chuàng)造性使用教材,才能實(shí)現(xiàn)教學(xué)內(nèi)容與教學(xué)方法和手段的完善統(tǒng)一,才能使教材的普遍性同本地區(qū)教學(xué)實(shí)踐的特殊性有機(jī)結(jié)合,才能最大限度地滿足學(xué)生對(duì)學(xué)習(xí)內(nèi)容、教學(xué)方法的需求。
總之,教者們要不斷學(xué)習(xí)新的教學(xué)理論,潛心研究教材,以課標(biāo)為依據(jù),充分開(kāi)發(fā)、利用動(dòng)態(tài)的課程資源,探索能促進(jìn)學(xué)生全面發(fā)展的行之有效的教學(xué)方法,讓學(xué)生在完成任務(wù)的過(guò)程中有了自由發(fā)揮、自我創(chuàng)新的機(jī)會(huì),讓他們的學(xué)習(xí)興趣也越來(lái)越濃,學(xué)習(xí)越來(lái)越有實(shí)效,教師也創(chuàng)造性地完成課程的目標(biāo)和任務(wù),提高教學(xué)效率。
[1]何忠花.新課程理念下培養(yǎng)學(xué)生英語(yǔ)思維能力的方法.中小學(xué)外語(yǔ)教學(xué),2008(02).
[2]于秀娟.例談如何創(chuàng)造性地使用初中英語(yǔ)教材.中小學(xué)英語(yǔ)教學(xué)與研究,2008(08).