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Blended Learning—A New Task for Teachers in the Digital Age

December 26, 2020

On the morning of December 24th, the middle and primary sections teachers attended the professional development conference at the lecture hall，Zhentao Building. The Conference focused on the theme of sharing successful practices for combining classroom learning and online courses, exploring effective ways of creating wonderful learning experiences for students. Mr. Ni, the host of the PD conference, started the sharing session by introducing a Chinese character “㠭” (zhǎn), which echoed the excellent work of our brilliant teachers on extending classroom learning into online courses. The middle and primary teachers have succeeded in many aspects working together to design and implement online courses. These courses have not only unlocked flexibility in time and space but offered students access to adequate, original, high-quality learning resources.

Twelve teachers, as the representatives of subject departments, shared their practices and ideas on creating blended learning courses. Ms. Li and Ms. Dong focused on two major Chinese learning activities conducted by the Primary Chinese Department—Creative Writing Week and Chinese Character Week. On top of Math Week, Ms. Ge and Ms. Xu introduced a variety of interesting and engaging online courses and classroom activities created by the primary school math team. Following the primary school presentations, three middle school math teachers, Ms. Zheng, Ms. Du, and Ms. Zou demonstrated how students were motivated to research and learn from real-life projects. Also, Middle School Biology and Physics Departments added new thoughts with their distinctive attempts to meet students’ needs. The middle school Chinese department Xiangsheng (crosstalk) show impressed the audience with how Chinese teachers created fun and memorable language experiences for students. The foreign teachers also joined this discussion with their pre-recorded videos and thus provided much useful support for teachers to figure out how to make blended learning work.

At the sharing session, the directors of each school section commented on the teachers’ wonderful reports. They recognized the efforts of every teacher as they engaged in lifelong learning, underwent many difficulties, and developed effective blended learning experiences for students. Next, Ms. Bao, the vice principle of middle and primary school, expressed her respect and gratitude for what the teachers have contributed to preparing future learners.

In the end, Mr. Ni concluded the conference by sharing with the Chinese saying “行稳致远，久久为功” and emphasized the importance of perseverance. As educators, we will have to continue to examine and explore blended learning methods to facilitate student learning and development.

(Written by Shen Jingfeng, Huang Shiyuan Supervised by Middle and Primary School Teaching Affairs Center Pictures by Xu Jing)