记得好几年前我参加过一次英语教师的演讲比赛,当时我演讲的题目就是:Love, the key to success. 我愿意借这个机会和大家一起重温一下当时的演讲内容。
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen,
I'm very glad to attend this English speech competition. The topic of my speech is: Love----the key to success.
As everybody knows, the beginning of the 21st century is an era of information. This is the time of knowledge economics. Development during this era requires more people talented in processing and exchanging information. These people are cultivated by education --- and education needs teachers. With no doubt, teachers have to take their responsibility in this era and perform their required task. This is why teaching, as a career is one of the most splendid under the sun. This is why teachers are regarded as the burning candles providing others with heat and light. Then how to be a qualified teacher? How to be a successful teacher? I think this requires that teachers have not only rich knowledge, effective methodology of teaching, advanced multi-media technology, but also have the feelings of love, love for his profession and for his students. Love is the key to success.
I’ve been an English teacher for almost fifteen years. During these years, I have realized the importance of the feelings of love. I remember that, when I was a college student, I liked music very much. I liked playing the guitar. Sometimes I wrote some romantic love songs to express my feelings. But after I graduated from the college, I began to teach. At that time, I had a strange thought. That is: I’m sure I can’t be a composer or musician. It’s really of no use to continue composing those love songs. Then why can’t I write some songs for my students? Why can’t I use those English sentence patterns as the words and compose them into English songs so that my students can sing them all the time?
After one year, I finished composing almost twenty English songs for my students. They liked those songs very much. To my happiness, several songs were published in our Junior-high journals in my hometown.
I felt so happy about that and I thought it was love, it was the feelings of love for my profession and for my students that lead me to success.
English teaching is not easy work. But I want to let my students learn English easily. I want to let them know that they can gain a lot of happiness and fun from learning. Every time I teach, I’ll try my best to motivate the students, arouse their learning interests and make every effort to bring out the best in them. Once I was required to give a demonstration class for the students in Grade Three. The topic of this lesson is in a fast-food restaurant. Well, of course it’s impossible for me to take more than fifty students to a MacDonald’s. How to create such kind of situation and how to let students feel happy and have fun when they are learning? At last, I decided to teach with the help of multi-media. I used Authorware, one of the multi-media computer softwares to make a short movie. Students can watch it on the screen by the over-head projector. At first, they can see a MacDonald’s in a forest. Snowwhite is standing in front of the gate to welcome the seven dwarfs. Then students could hear their funny conversation, which is formed by the key words and sentences they are going to learn in the new text. When students watched this short movie, they felt very happy and they also learned those key words and sentences very easily.
My demonstration class was very successful. And I think it is love, it is love for my profession and for my students that lead me to success.
Ladies and gentlemen, as a teacher, if you have the feeling of love for your profession and your students, you’ll feel the need to learn more and keep improving your teaching skills. If you have love, you’ll be able to enjoy your teaching and harvest much happiness. If you have love, you’ll be a qualified, successful and happy teacher. Because love is the key to success.
Thank you.
老师们,也许正是因为爱,所以,我愿意为我的爱去辛勤耕耘、我愿意为我的爱去努力付出,也许正是因为这爱的付出,所以,在小学英语教学中本人取得了一些成绩。
2002年6月,代表顺德参加广东省优质课竞赛荣获第一名。
2002年11月,代表广东省参加全国小学英语优质科竞赛荣获一等奖第三名。
2003年12月,参加全国信息技术与学科教学整合课比赛荣获唯一特等奖。
2004年9月,本人制作的网站“烛光网站”荣获全国优秀教育特色网站一等奖
2002年至今,先后几十次外出讲学。足迹遍布海南、广东、湖南、贵州、安徽、江苏、河南、北京、天津等地。曾参加人教社PEP Primary English 教材培训工作,担任培训导师等。
为了爱,就要肯付出、愿意付出、舍得付出。付出,我们应当怎样来理解呢?我的理解就是勤于学习、善于反思、勇于实践。现在回想起来,这也就是我成长的原因。
记得读大学的时候,我和每一个英语专业的同学一样,除了每天上好每一节专业课之外,我非常注重英语听说能力的培养。每天晚上,当晚自习结束之后,自己总会将一个收音机挂在脖子上,慢慢的在校园的操场上漫步。一边漫步着,一边收听着VOA special English, BBC 等英语节目。 日积月累,自己的听力水平得到了有效的提高。1996年我来到广东顺利的找到了一份工作,在一所私立学校教小学英语。那所学校是一所由加拿大老板创办的英语特色学校,英语教学力量相当雄厚。单单从外籍师资的情况来看,最多的时候一个学期有20多个外籍教师。我们中方的英语老师和他们共处一个办公室,一起上课、一起教研、一起开展兴趣小组活动、一起happy,在这四年中,我收获了很多。不论是自己的英语口语交流、听力理解,还是学习外教的课堂教学设计、活动安排等。每每回忆这一切的时候,心中就有一种感觉:再次上大学!再次学习!再次提高!
从中学开始,我对音乐就非常的感兴趣。不论是新生迎新晚会、还是毕业晚会,舞台上都能见到我的身影、听到我的歌声。到了大学,更是酷爱。当时,我参加了学校的吉他协会,经常和音乐系的老乡们一起,在钢琴琴房听他们练琴、感受着他们给我带来的艺术的熏陶;经常在宿舍练吉他,体会着音乐给自己带来的快乐。甚至有的时候,自己也斗胆自弹吉它谱写出自己的歌曲作品。
当时,台湾诗人席慕容的诗非常流行。
记得有一首《乡愁》。
乡愁 席慕容
故乡的歌
是一支清远的笛
总在有月亮的晚上想起
故乡的面貌
却是一种模糊的怅惘
仿佛雾里的挥手别离
离别后
乡愁是一棵没有年轮的树
永不老去
如此美丽的诗篇,不由得勾起我无限的思乡之情。于是,信手弹起吉他,吟唱起这首诗。结果,就有了现在这样的一首歌。
从此后,我对歌曲的创作一发不可收。每每读到好的诗篇、每每情感上有一些触动,都会激起我歌曲创作的欲望。于是,大学毕业前夕,我在学校举行了个人独唱音乐会,音乐会上演唱的所有曲子都是自己创作的。
大学毕业之后,我成为了一名厂矿子弟中学的英语老师。那时经常背着一把吉他走进课堂,和孩子们一起学习英语的同时,一起感受着英语、音乐带给我们的快乐。有一天晚上,当我待在家里弹起吉他的时候,不知什么缘故,竟突然意识到自己是无论如何不可能成为一名音乐人的,那么为什么不能将自己的兴趣爱好投入到教学中去,为什么不能把学生们学习的英语重点句型、要点词汇改变成歌词,谱上孩子们喜欢的旋律和节奏,让他们在音乐中学习英语呢?打定主意之后,我有意识地开始了行动。最终,创作了30多首英语句型歌曲。其中有5首英语歌曲在湖南省教科所主持出版的《初中生》杂志上连续刊载。事业与爱好有机地结合,并且取得了成功,这给了我极大的鼓励。
借此机会,我给大家介绍其中的一首:
How many …?
How many minutes are there in an hour?
How many hours are there in a day?
How many days are there in a week?
How many days are there in a month?
There are sixty minutes in an hour.
There are twenty-four hours in a day.
There are seven days in a week.
There are thirty or thirty-one.
当然,在我们的身边还有很多很多非常优美的适合学生演唱的英文歌曲。于是,我积极地去学习,并且想方设法有效的把它们运用的英语教学之中去。这些年,不论在运用歌曲活跃课堂气氛、还是直接用英语原版歌曲当作教学内容进行课堂教学的内容,我都进行了大量的尝试。
比如说:善于收集适合自己教学的英语歌曲。这些歌曲我常常喜欢结合不同的主题进行分类。
与数字有关的歌曲。One little, two little; 1,2, 3, 4,5,
与星期有关的歌曲:Sunday, lalala ; Seven, seven days
与身体部位相关的歌曲:Head, shoulders, knees and toes, Head, shoulders, knees and toes, If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands, touch head head, snap your fingers, cross your leg, say hello, say I love you, etc.
还有一些其它的经典曲子:Bingo, EIEIO, My pony, Two little black birds, etc. |