Reporting materials about the city's characteristic model school

City Education Bureau:

With the continuous deepening of reform and opening up and accession to the WTO, China's international exchanges have become more frequent, and the demand for foreign language talents has become larger and larger, and the requirements are getting higher and higher. Foreign language talents not only require strong reading ability, but also require comprehensive development of listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating. They also require good language application ability. The purpose of English teaching also clearly proposes to focus on cultivating students' goals in using language for communicative activities.

For a long time, due to the constraints of traditional concepts, teachers, equipment and other conditions, Chinese small English teaching has always emphasized the written practice of basic knowledge, and has not given substantive attention to the students' listening and speaking skills and the cultivation of English communication skills. Many students have never received scientific and standardized listening and speaking training in their previous studies. Most of them are exposed to written text information rather than verbal information, which leads to serious imbalances in the overall development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.

Since the establishment of the school, ### has always attached importance to English teaching and adhered to the road of “characteristics, quality, and harmonious development”. After years of exploration efforts, the school has created a good English learning environment for students. Learning English has become a great pleasure for students, and their English is constantly improving. On this basis, in August of XX, with the approval of the Municipal Education Bureau, the school took the lead in creating the first English-specific class in the new station area to strengthen the English-specific teaching experiment.

Now, five years have passed, we have actively explored and bravely practiced with firm beliefs, gradually matured from immature and tender, and accumulated some English teaching experience. English teaching has become the characteristics and pride of our school teaching, and has won the trust of parents. stand by. The success of the initial test made us arrogant and eager. We actively develop and implement a new and higher goal, and strive to create a model school in Hefei.

The following is a report on the preparations for the school to choose this goal as follows:

First, strive to create and create an environment and atmosphere for learning English. Schools are the garden of culture. The most fundamental aspect of creating English-specific education is to create a strong English campus culture. English campus culture is the soul of English-specific education. At present, the English cultural atmosphere in the 63rd has been initially formed.

1. There are English everywhere. The school wall layout creates an English atmosphere, the classroom layout also has an English atmosphere, the wall newspaper has an English special issue, the English corner is on the blackboard, the bulletin board, the curriculum, the wall chart, etc. are expressed in English. The class has an English learning corner with English books and tapes. And other items; in the spare time, you can go to the "English Corner" for oral communication. In many corners of the campus, great efforts have been made to arrange pictures and texts in Chinese and English, so that students can feel like they are in a foreign country and beautiful fairy tales, and learn English in a subtle way. Establish an English language park, regularly display students' creative homework, and create a window for students to express themselves.

2, always have English. Teachers and students learn English together and have become a culture in practice. In the early reading class, the teacher reads the English together with the students; in the spare time, the teachers and students use English to communicate briefly; in every corner of the campus, teachers and students meet in English, and the campus broadcast "voice of English" is also scheduled to start.

3. Everything is in English. The school regularly conducts a variety of English learning activities in a variety of forms, including large-scale events, regular activities and research-based learning activities. The large-scale activities include: “Happy English Week” held every school year in the whole school, select some students to become the English ambassadors of the school, opening and closing Chinese and English opening songs, song singing, speed reading, word Solitaire, guessing, Activities such as entertainment activities and “parent-child party” have been widely welcomed and widely participated by students. At the same time, the team has conducted English calligraphy competitions, English speech contests, English song contests and English knowledge contests. Hold calligraphy competitions and basic knowledge clearance competitions and foreign language composition competitions to improve students' writing skills and written expression skills. The regular activities include: launching the “Today I speak English” activity, showing the achievements and style of students learning English in the form of poetry, small stories or vocal music. Let students regularly compile their own English tabloids and introduce exotic and human history in English. The editorial team of the "Voice of English" radio station carried out daily editing activities. English research activities include: "Olympic sports programs", "Entering the Olympics", "Cartoon" and "Our neighbors", etc., in an active, exploring and pleasant atmosphere, the realization of English knowledge. Using the weekly flag-raising ceremony to educate students in foreign languages, the flag-raising ceremony hosted in bilingual is unique. Make full use of the library's English newspapers, English books and audiovisual materials. Encourage students to participate in social service activities using foreign languages.

4. The school guarantees the quality of English classroom teaching by strictly selecting excellent teaching materials and 7 English lessons per week. At the same time, it attaches importance to the construction of hidden curriculum, creates a good language and culture environment for students, and selectively conducts bilingual teaching in other disciplines. For example, using the Chinese-English mutual annotation on the Shanghai version of the "Physics" textbook, the physics teacher requires students to add phonetic symbols to English words, and the English teacher is required to standardize the pronunciation, further improving students' interest in learning physics and English learning ability.

In addition, our school has invested a large amount of funds to purchase teaching materials, books, excellent classroom teaching video tapes, CDs, tapes and other materials, organize teachers to edit learning materials to ensure that teachers and students have advanced teaching content. Establish an English-language webpage with the characteristics of the school, and use this platform to conduct online communication, improve the understanding of English textbooks and exchange teaching methods.

Second, strengthen teacher equipment and training, and try to try new teaching methods.

Our school has a very good team of English teachers. Under the leadership of the district's outstanding teachers, excellent class teachers, district-level English subject leaders, and senior teacher Wan Zhenzhen, our school's English-speaking teaching is undertaken by more than a dozen young and middle-aged teachers. And the active support and extensive participation of teachers in other disciplines. The school adopts the method of “going out, please come in”, and has long hired famous teachers and teaching experts from urban elite schools as tutors. They often come to the school to conduct listening and evaluation activities and hold special lectures to guide the work. The school actively encourages teachers to participate in continuing education training, academic training, and actively organize teachers to participate in provincial, municipal and national teaching and research activities. In the past year, the school has invested more than 40,000 yuan in teacher training. A total of 88 people participated in continuing education training and teaching and research activities at or above the municipal level, which promoted the professional growth of young and middle-aged teachers. Today, the stars in the altar are shining. Many papers written by Teacher Wan Zhenzhen have been published in provincial and above publications and have been rated as outstanding teachers at the district level three times. Teacher Cheng Xiaoli participated in the work in XX years. In the second half of last year, she participated in the third place in Hefei. In the "Let's New Star" competition, he won the second prize and was awarded the "Hefei Key Teacher" and the "Teaching Expert" in the new station area. Teacher Wang Han won the second prize in the Qualification of the National School of Chinese and English in Hefei City in XX; and won the first prize in the English Classroom Appraisal of Xinzhan District. Teacher Liu Ping won the second prize in the English class evaluation of the new station area. Teacher Shen Li won the first prize in the public class evaluation in the XX year school; Mr. Bianyue won the second prize of the New School District English Teaching Evaluation in the New Station District.

Reform teaching methods, improve classroom efficiency, use active teaching methods, phonetic teaching methods, task-based teaching methods, multiple teaching forms, and improve students' interest in learning English.

Third, the school set up an English-specific teaching research group headed by the principal, actively researching and constructing a middle school English education activity system and an English teaching evaluation system to improve teaching quality.

In the past four or five years, students from our school have achieved excellent results in participating in the English-speaking competition organized by the city and the English speaking contest in the middle school.

In view of the solid foundation laid by our school in the teaching of English characteristics, we will declare the model school in Hefei.

Hereby report!