Reflection of Today’s Classroom on Jan. 9^th

  At the beginning, I have to tell you that I’m completely impressed about the American teachers’ teaching and their love to students.

  As I told you before, Chinese classes are teacher-center, that is, most Chinese teachers are giving lectures in class and they are leaders of class which means students cannot interrupt teaching without permission or speak out their thinking immediately because teachers think that the progress of class plan and the rate of teaching will be influenced obviously. So students who have problem in listening and understanding cannot send feedback to teacher immediately.

  In many educators’ view, communication is the most fundamental parts of teaching that ideas of creation can be inspired and teacher can easily monitor students’ learning progress in the process of communication. I agree with this point completely but you know, there are almost 50 students in a classroom in most Chinese schools, so it’s impossible to let these students speak out their thinking and problems in limited teaching time. As well, teachers cannot divide students into different groups because many students are lazy and private so they won’t accountable to the group work, they just concern about their own work.

  The intrinsic characteristic of education is love, so teachers need to love their students first so that they can devote all themselves to students to help them learning better. I know Chinese teachers love their students in heart like American teachers, but in some reason they don’t have much chance to express it because some students will feel unfair if they cannot feel teachers’ love but others can.

  I saw teachers in video always liked walking around the group table and communicate with students about some topics or provide necessary guidance when some students get into trouble, but in China, teachers are usually stand beside the platform where is in the front of classroom because they think walking around the students will make them feel nervous and distract their attention.

  Now the flipped classroom is hot in China and many schools are planning to start it as trial. But in my view, I think it’s hard to do that like American school. Anyway, there are much more students in China than America.