Reflection of class on Feb.13^th

  To be honest, we all feel confused about how to establish and develop a course on the web is that we don’t have a clear cognition between class and course so that we just designed classes for informational technology according to a preset course plan from educational department in China.

  I don’t know if American teachers have to establish an entire course individually for teaching and practice it in front of professors or observers from education institutions for evaluation and then they can get a teacher license depending on their successful teaching and course structure, but in China we just need pass some exams about pedagogy, psychology and relative knowledge of subjects and a qualified practicing on class teaching admitted by educational institution to get a teacher license.

  So many teachers don’t know how to design and create a systemic course from syllabus to activities, they just know how to teach a class according to the regulated curriculum demands to make sure students understand the knowledge of dedicated textbooks and use it to pass exams. In a word, Chinese teachers from elementary school to senior high school are restricted in a small room constructed by educational institutions that they don’t have enough room for flexibly creating their own particular course system to teach students how to learn instead of what to learn because teaching is almost serving for students to pass exams like “Gao Kao”.

  There are so many scholars in area of Chines educational technology devoting themselves to figure out how to authentically differentiate students’ deeper learning by integrating advanced technologies and courses together. As a consequence, Chinese educational department did provide lots of resources for teachers and students and reestablish classrooms with multimedia devices according to scholars’ suggestions, but unfortunately they ignored that many teachers don’t know how to implement those technologies into teaching because they are not forced to use diverse technologies to reinforce teaching for getting their teacher license. Actually, many teachers even don’t how to design a course because they don’t need do that for teaching like me.

  But I’ll try my best to design a course and put it on the web to practice my capabilities on creating a new course without interfering by presetting curriculum plan like in China although it’s a little difficult for me to make it now.