The Rainbow School – South Branch in My Eyes
We are teachers from London teaching oral English at the new Rainbow Branch School. We help the students to improve their listening and speaking skills and we give one lesson each week to the Grade 1 and Grade 2 students.
The atmosphere in Rainbow School is very progressive.South branch is no exception, but the classes here are much smaller ——— less than 50 students in a class. For us this is a welcome change because in the past we have taught at different schools in China where there were over 100 students in a class. Small classes make a more intimate learning environment. We are able to give individual attention to the students and we can alter our lessons to suit the needs of the students in different classes. We can also get to know the students much better which makes for a more productive teacher/student relationship.
We find the students at the school very polite, well behaved and attentive. We notice a genuine desire from the students to learn and study hard. The school encourages the students to be outgoing and confident which helps to make our oral English classes more stimulating and interesting, for us and the students. All the students are keen to learn. We haven’t noticed any students who don’t try their hardest to develop their learning skills.
The school is very well managed and the relationship between the teachers and students is a positive one with good inter-active communication on both sides. The teachers are experienced, enthusiastic and dynamic and they all feel a great pride in the school and they are trying to make the school better.
We have only been teaching here for a short time but we look forward every week to seeing our students and giving them lessons at the new Branch.
Graham and Patricia Mossop
2 March 2011
译(郑娟娟):
我们眼中的彩虹中学南校区
我们是来自英国伦敦的彩虹中学外籍口语教师。我们担任高一高二两个年级的听说课,帮助学生提高英语听说能力。
彩虹学校有积极上进的学习氛围。南校区也不例外,唯一不同的是这里的班级较小(少于50人,最少17人),这与我们以往任教过的其他中国学校都有所不同,也是最让我们开心的事。小班教学能够创造一种更加亲近的学习氛围,能够给每个学生机会发言,有利于我们设计教学。我也发现这样更有利于师生交流。
我们发现南校区的学生举止文雅,待人礼貌,学习专心。我注意到学生内心深入想要努力向上的渴望。学校鼓励学生大方自信,使得我们的英语课堂更有激发性和趣味性。这里所有的学生都渴望学习。我们目前还没有发现任何不想努力进步的学生。
学校的管理严格而又有人性化,老师之间以及师生之间相处非常融洽。这里的老师经验丰富,热情上进。他们以学校为荣并努力使学校更加完美。
我们虽然来到这里不是很久,但是我们每周都期待着去南校区给我们的学生上课。
格雷厄姆 和 帕特丽夏
(摘自彩虹南校区英语教师郑娟娟博客)