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英教育大臣呼吁学习中国教学经验Minister tells schools to copy China - and ditch trendy teaching for 'chalk and talk
英教育大臣呼吁学习中国教学经验 Minister tells schools to copy China -and ditch trendy teaching for 'chalk and talk' 为了学习传统教学在中国取得的成功,英国 Schools are being urged to go back to ‘chalk and “” 教育大臣建议学校重拾填鸭式教学模式, talk’ teaching that was once widespread in Britain 这一教学方式曾经也在英国风行一时。 –in order to reproduce the success the traditional methods now have in China. ·Nick Gibb 教育大臣尼克吉布()说道,让 一个老师在前面讲课比学生自行学习更加有 Education Minister Nick Gibb said having a 40 效。学生自主学习的模式在过去的年中主 teacher speak to the class as awhole from the 导了英国学校教育。 front was much more effective than children working on their own –the method which has 吉布先生的这一提议将会激怒教育机构的许 become dominant in schools over the past 40 70 多人士。不久前,英国政府曾安排余名小 years. 学数学教师赴上海观摩数学教学,希望向中 “” 国取经。 Mr Gibb’s intervention, which will infuriate many in the educational establishment, follows a 研究人员发现,中国儿童取得的数学成绩要 Government scheme in which more than 70 比同龄的英国儿童高百分之三十。 maths teachers from British primaries went to Shanghai to study the teaching styles of their “”2050 这一全班教学模式,直到世纪年代 Chinese counterparts. 在英国仍然很常见,老师在上面用黑板板书 上课,向学生提问来测试他们的听课程度, Researchers have found that children in China 所有学生坐在下面听老师讲。 achieve marks in maths up to 30 per cent higher than English pupils of the same age. 但是进步教育工作者批驳道,这种模式太过 “” 于独裁,并倡导实行自那时以来一直在小 In ‘whole class’ teaching, which was common in “” 学教育中风行的以孩子为中心的教育模 this country until the 1950s, the teacher instructs 式。这种体制,鼓励学生自己去发现知识, all the pupils together by using ablackboard, or 以他们自己的速度或小团体合作来学习并辅 its equivalent, while testing the children with 之以老师的指导。 questions. “ 吉布告诉《每日邮报》说:我想让全国的学 But progressive educationalists argued this was 校采取全班教学的模式,尤其是在数学和科 too authoritarian, and instead promoted the 学的教学上面。研究表明,这一模式比其他 ‘child-centred’ approach that has been prevalent ” 的专注于个体学习的模式更加显著有效。 in primary schools since then. Under this system, pupils are encouraged to ‘discover’ knowledge by 他说上海的学校荣登国际排行榜榜首。上海 themselves, working at their own speed or in 十五岁的学生在数学教学上面,要比英国的 small groups, with the teacher offering them 同龄学生要先进三年。 support. “ 吉布补充说:在上海的小学的全班教学模式 Mr Gibb told The Mail on Sunday: ‘I would like to 中,所有的学生参与问题回答是他们成功的 see schools across the country adopt whole class 关键。老师教授给所有的学生同样的课程, teaching methods, particularly in maths and 以期他们获得同样高的水平。 science. Research shows it is significantly more

