Hi! Judges and friends,
I’m very glad and excited that I have a chance like this to share my own experience of teaching with you.
The topic of my today’s lecture is Better to Teach a Man Fishing Than to Give Him a Fish ----Cultivating Good Studying Habits of Students In English Teaching.
School education is very important and useful. The students not only learn knowledge but also get an education. Yet, no one can learn everything at school. The scientists, such as Edison, Newton, Galileo and Einstein, did not learn everything at school. They learned a lot of knowledge outside school or practice by themselves. A teacher, even he knows a lot, can’t teach his students everything. Our job is to show our students how to learn, how to read and how to think. A good teacher with rich experience in teaching can teach his students the methods (ways) of study. Through these methods the students are able to learn and get a lot of things by themselves.
Since I became an English teacher over ten years ago, I have had a definite teaching thought: I teach my students not only English words and grammar but also methods of studying English by making full use of teaching materials so as to enable them to develop good studying habits bit by bit.
Then, what are good studying habits of students? In my opinion, they should include the following at least: the habit of previewing actively before class; the habit of listening intensively in class; the habit of reviewing carefully after class; the habit of cnpleting homework independently; the habit of thinking deeply and actively; the habit of making notes during reading out of class; and good habits of reading aloud, memorizing, reciting, etc. Those habits should contribute to assimilating English knowledge they have learned into their own ones, and promoting their abilities of listening, speaking, reading, and writing all round. So, as English teachers, we must be good at cultivating good studying interest of students, enable them to develop good studying habits and make English studying continue for their life.
The first is how to preview before class. I call for my students to preview well before class which will be learned next class. For new words and phrases in text, students should not only practice spelling but also understand their meanings according to sentences and context. For texts and dialogues, students may understand them through the use of notes, reference books or dictionaries at hand, searching topic paragraph or sentence, then try doing exercises after class. Of all these can help them to find problems or questions as well as master the points that are important and difficult in text, which might lighten the pressure of students in new classes. This is a kind of good studying habit and of method available of training the ability to teach themselves. We should call for our students to last for practicing in a consistent way. In doing so, good studying habits can be developed ultimately.
The second is how to listen to class. Teachers should make students develop good habits of concentrating on listening to class and questioning actively in class. Only if listening to class in earnest, can students settle questions found when they previewed before class; only if raising doubts actively, can they develop abilities of thinking independently and innovating boldly. Mr. Ye Shengtao once said, “A man should raise doubts when reading books, and settle doubts when running into them.” Aristotle also said, “ Doubts and curiosity precede thoughts.” And Li Zhengdao holds the similar idea, “To quest knowledge edge demands learning and questioning; to learn the answer is not the substance of knowledge.” So we can see, it is important to question actively and raise doubts boldly for studying. This is like sunshine and rain to the trees, little trees cannot grow into big ones without them. Therefore, whether in class or after class, we should actively encourage students to question, to raise doubts, to have discussion, stimulate them to analyze questions and to seek approaches to settle them, and cultivate their spirits of thinking independently and innovating boldly.
The third is how to review and summarize. I always call for my students to go over what they have learned that day so as to have deeper impressions of the key contents, just like to see the film in their brains. It is very useful to strengthen the memory and the knowledge they have learned. Besides, after a week or a month, students should summarize the related knowledge, homework and analyze papers. This is also good habit of studying. Only in this way, can the learned knowledge be cnpleted. It is of great help to get different thinking abilities for students.
The fourth is attitudes towards homework of students. Good attitudes towards homework should involve writing it earnestly and normally, and cnpleting it independently during a definite period. We should consider the homework after reading and amending, not only find the mistakes, including the spelling mistakes, but also analyze the reasons. I also together my students set up archives for mistakes and sum up all different types in order not to make the same mistakes during studying. Keeping on doing as that until they form a habit. It can not only improve the students’ practical English level, but also help them to analyze and solve the problems.
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