Under this premise, American classroom teaching will naturally present the following characteristics:
Interaction is the soul of the whole classroom teaching.
Classroom interaction includes: students' questions, teachers' answers, teachers' questions and students' answers, students' discussions, case analysis and game cooperation. In American classrooms, most of the time is this kind of interaction, and the teacher's explanation becomes relatively secondary. In order to achieve better interaction, it is necessary to provide a relaxed classroom environment. The teacher is discussing while answering, and anyone can interrupt.
Pursuing the effectiveness of teaching
Classroom teaching time is very precious. In order to improve the teaching effect, students need to make more preparations before and after class. In order to improve their grades, teachers need to provide students with handouts to reduce the time for writing on the blackboard and the time for students to copy on the blackboard. As for the content of the explanation, only those parts that students don't understand are taught, and more content is left to the students to solve by themselves. Therefore, the classroom has become a place where students can't solve their doubts in the learning process, but need the help of teachers. Thus, in school teaching, students become the protagonists, and the classroom provides the part that students only need help. Classroom interaction is a very important way to understand students' needs.
Extended interpretation method
If you pay attention to American teachers' lectures, you will find that they speak quickly, not in detail, but with an outline of territory introduction. Therefore, if students want to truly master knowledge systematically, they must read books by themselves. In class, it is mainly used to communicate and organize students to understand knowledge, that is, the learning process is students' active behavior, and the teacher only helps to complete this process. For example, the author noticed that the teacher asked the students to read by themselves after class, and the teacher asked questions in the next class and organized class discussions.
Students' participation in classroom teaching
In American classrooms, students' participation is an important way of learning, which is conducive to students' personal experience of knowledge and turning knowledge into an organic part of their own knowledge system. In addition to the interaction and questioning mentioned above, there are three ways for students to participate in classroom teaching:
Classroom discussion: in this process, the teacher is just a moderator, constantly asking questions and guiding the discussion in depth. It is very important for students to participate in class discussion, because it will win them class participation points, which is an important part of the final grade. In some courses, class participation accounts for as much as 50% of the final grade of each course.
(2) Classroom games: By playing games, students are inspired to have a vivid grasp of knowledge and an understanding of the principles of knowledge, so that this understanding can easily become their own knowledge.
③ Case analysis: Case teaching method is helpful to arouse students' enthusiasm, initiative and innovative consciousness, improve students' ability to analyze and solve problems, and improve their comprehensive quality and ability.
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