Demonstration of the Distinguished Teacher Studio Leads the Exploration and Practice of Teachers’Teaching Innovation Team

The work of the distinguished teacher studio is based on activities and has the characteristics of learning,demonstration,and academic.The“double-qualified”distinguished teacher studio is an important way to help the development of vocational education teachers and cultivate outstanding“double-qualified”teachers.It is also an important carrier to improve teachers’teaching,practice,and scientific research ability,to promote the“three education reform”of vocational education,and to train high-quality technical personnel.

Exploring the Reform of"Teachers,Teaching Materials,and Teaching Methods"Based on the M1+XM Certificate

In order to promote the reform of vocational education,the state has issued the National Vocational Education Reform Implementation Plan,in which the reform of"Teachers,Teaching Materials,and Teaching Methods"as well as the"1+X"certificate have been the most prominent topics for discussion.Facing new opportunities for vocational education development,popularizing the blend of"1+x"courses and certificates,strengthening the integration of production and education,as well as enhancing professional soft skills are urgent issues to solved.This article combines the"1+X"certificate of civil engineering professional construction drawings and analyzes the necessity of promoting the"1+X"professional skill level as well as the combination of certificate and curriculum construction in deepening the reform of"Teachers,Teaching Materials,and Teaching Methods."Several suggestions have been put forward for the reform of"Teachers,Teaching Materials,and Teaching Methods"which would be helpful for the practical exploration in the reform of"three teaching methods."

Research on the Teaching of Landscape Engineering by Foreign Teachers in Sino-Foreign Cooperative Education in SUCC

Sino-foreign cooperative education plays an important role in undergraduate education.It has also proved itself popular in higher vocational education in recent years,in which foreign teachers are undertaking the task of teaching some specialized courses.The teaching by foreign teachers has certain irreplaceable advantages,but nonnegligible disadvantages as well.Questionnaires have been distributed to the students majoring in Landscape Engineering from Shanghai Urban Construction College to investigate the teaching of specialized courses by foreign teachers.Based on the statistics,the advantages and disadvantages of their teaching have been analyzed,and several suggestions on how to adopt the good points and avoid the shortcomings are offered,so as to improve the quality of Sino-foreign cooperative education in higher vocational college.

The Teacher and The Student in the Art of The Teaching

How could we have a effective teaching?We,as teachers,always think about this question and always hope to have better experiences to supple- ment us.The art of teaching lies in the teaching of the teacher and the studying of the students.During this course, a teacher's quality will be re- garded as an important factor in the art of teaching which we have to think over and discuss.Of course,the factors of students will be undoubtedly tak- en into consideration because of their significance.HereⅠwould like to sunmaarize the following points to improve our teaching effect.

Affective Education in English Teaching in Middle School

The paper states the importance of affective factors by practice of affective teaching. Affective factors can not only promote students＇ cognitive development, potential exploration and moral cultivation but also benefit students＇ development of socialization and aesthetic conceptions. So, earing for affeetive education in English teaching has a profound significance.

A Task-oriented Approach to the Pre-service Teacher Education in the Classroom of English Teaching Methodology （ETM）

This paper concerns itself with a task-oriented approach to the pre-service teacher education in the Classroom of English Teaching Methodology （ETM）. We attempt to use an explicit theoretic framework to guide the practice of ETM classroom in teacher education. The basic assumption is that we can use methodology which we use in teaching language, and apply those techniques and methods to train student teachers. By this approach the student teachers can adopt a research orientation to their own classrooms and their own teaching, an inquiry-based and discovery-oriented approach to learning is greatly emphasized, and they also can form the habit of generating theories and hypotheses and reflecting critically on teaching.

How to Be a Critically Reflective Teacher in Language Teaching and Learning

The article holds that a critically reflective teacher has an important role to play in language teaching and learning process. Several samples of critically reflective teachers are introduced in the article to show that critically reflective teachers should be enthusiastic, creative and informative in language teaching and learning.

Research on the Application Framework of Intelligent Technologies to Promote Teachers’Classroom Teaching Behavior Evaluation

With the advantages of real-time analysis and visual evaluation results,intelligent technology-enabled teaching behavior evaluation has gradually become a powerful means to help teachers adjust teaching behaviors and improve teaching quality.However,at present,the evaluation of intelligent teachers’behaviors is still in the preliminary exploration stage,and the application research is not deep enough.This paper analyzes the application of intelligent technology in the evaluation of teachers’classroom teaching behaviors from the perspectives of evaluation data,methods,and results.Voice print recognition technology is used to recognize the teachers’identities and track the speech in the classroom videos,and the videos are segmented.Then,the evaluation framework of teachers’classroom teaching behaviors is constructed using three dimensions of emotion,posture,and position preference.Finally,evaluation results are presented to teachers in a more intuitive and easy-to-understand visual way,to help teachers reflect on teaching.This paper aims to promote the transformation of teachers’classroom teaching behavior evaluation toward an intelligent,efficient,and sustainable direction through current research.

Chinese Tertiary Students＇ Perceptions of a Good EFL Teacher

This article mainly deals with a group of Chinese tertiary students＇ ideas about what makes a good EFL teacher at the tertiary level. The participants＇ learning experience, reflections and expectations have cast light upon what a modern EFL teacher is supposed to perform in the Chinese EFL context.

Teacher Expectations for Student Learning in the Classroom

This paper is a discussion of the issues about teacher expectations for students＇ learning in the classroom. The discussion mainly focuses on such topics as the types of expectation effects, the sources of teacher expectations and the communication of teacher expectations. It is concluded that teacher expectations do play an important role in classroom teaching and learning, and therefore some suggestions are made for the peer teachers.

INNOVATION IN TEACHING ADVANCED WRITING TO EFL TEACHERS

1.IntroductionWriting is a productive skill of the language,which usually comes at the end of the four languageskills.Many learners find it difficult when they writeeither because they don’t have anything to writeabout or because they don’t know how to write.As aresult,they are daunted by any writing tasks.Teach-ers also find it difficult when they teach the writingcourse either because there aren’t enough teaching re-sources to go to or because the sheer marking of thecomposition poses as a monster of some sort.Theseproblems have hindered the effective teaching andlearning of writing.

Some Applications of the Learning of the Research on Teacher Development in College English Class

Nowadays much concern has been showed on the research of teacher development and an effective way of teacher development, the action research. From the learning of these researches we get clearer that English teaching and learning is a continuous process in which many interrelated and intrinsic factors work together. Furthermore, we know that teachers＇ beliefs on teaching and learning play an important role in class. During the process of learning and teaching, a teacher＇s own learning from relevant books on education and learning helps a lot in increase teachers＇ awareness about English teaching and learning, and improving the classroom teaching. In this paper three effective applications of the results of the research of teacher development are introduced, which shows that a teacher is a decisive factor in the classroom setting and the research and learning about teacher development is useful for a teacher to improve himself or herself as a teacher.

Affective Factors in the Communicative Classroom

Recent years has witnessed the great efforts made to investigate the relationship between language and affective factors. This essay serves both to focus awareness on the role of affective factors in the communicative classroom and to show how affective factors influence many different aspects of communicative language teaching/learning. A survey is also conducted on the communicative language teaching to illustrate affective factors in the communicative classroom.

OBSERVATIONS ON TEACHING STYLE OF NATIVE-SPEAKING TEACHERS IN CHINESE ELT CLASSROOMS

It is a not uncommon phenomenon that Chinese students complain that they learn little from native-speaking teachers’classes.The reason for such responses probably comes from‘a large disparity ofexpectations between teachers and students in terms of teaching style.’(Brumfit:1986:97)According to principles of educational psychology,‘the style of the teacher plays an important partupon learner’s performance.In research by Joyce and Hudson,there were some indications thatteachers and students having similar styles formed the most successful combinations’in terms ofexamination results.(Child 1981:229)By style we mean the way of teaching or learning.No doubt,if we want to make effective use of assistance of native-speaking teachers,we need to know specificallythese two aspects:

If I Could Teach You,Teacher

If I could teach you, teacher,I ’d teach you how much moreyou have accomplished than you think you have.I ’d show you the seeds you planted years ago that are now coming intobloom.

University English Teachers' Sense-Making of Their Classroom Practices

This paper reports a study which investigated the meanings a group of experienced English as Foreign Language （EFL） teachers at a Chinese university gave to their classroom practices. It uncovers for each teacher a conceptual framework for practice, which comprises teaching principles and strategic intentions. It reveals that teachers＇ frameworks for practice are an interwoven system of their most strongly held beliefs in language teaching and their perceptions of their teaching contexts, and that teachers＇ own learning and teaching experiences are important influences on their conceptualisations of classroom work. Findings of this research have implications for language teacher education and development.