冬天是积蓄酝酿的季节，是孕育希望的季节，是激发灵感的季节，是审慎筹划的季节。为全面提升我市小学英语教育教学质量，增强教师教学基本功，强化语音培训效果，优化教师语音素养，教师教育发展服务中心陈儒亭主任精心组织了首届全市小学英语教师“英语朗读者”评比展示活动。
英语的美如何呈现？英语教师的魅力如何体现？教英语首先应该教好什么？学英语首先应该学好什么？让我们回归本真，朔源而上！
语言之美主要体现在语音的准确性和节奏的韵律感，只有在朗读中，在自然地道的语流里才能更好地展示出清晰规范的语音和抑扬顿挫的节奏，才能更好地体现出语言表达的准确、生动，贴切、入心。英语朗读通过重音、连读、节奏、语调等技巧把语言材料中的思想感情表达出来，作为教师，更要不断提高朗读水平。朗读在常规教学中对提高学生学习英语的兴趣起着至关重要的作用，因此，英语教师务必做到发音准确，语流流畅，语调自然，通过自身的良好示范潜移默化地帮助学生打好英语学习的基础。
本次活动的主题是“I am an English Teacher”，参与者主要包括近两年优质课和教学基本功等专业比赛的一等奖获得者及学科中心组成员等教师。36位老师经过精心的准备，或将自己的从教经历娓娓道来；或分享自己的教育感悟引人深思，形式多样的风格把我们带入了一个多彩的英语世界。
现在，让我们一起欣赏英语朗读之美，感受我们英语教师的教学魅力吧！
朗读者简介
王涛，尼山镇余村小学教师，教学成绩优异，深受广大师生喜爱。教学风格独特，平实之中见思维，简约之中透高效，活泼之中显真爱。曾获曲阜市教学基本功一等奖等荣誉。所秉持和践行的教育格言：教学相长，行者无疆。
导语
解决职业困惑的有效方法，莫过于职业化的思考与探索。莫予生命以时光，应予时光以生命。当你开始慢慢顿悟，抬头远望，内求外修，之如行者，拓疆不息，心中困惑渐次化解，那么为师育人的这一生便都是可期的模样……
Hello. I’m Vicky, the only English teacher of Yucun Primary School in Nishan town. This is the sixth year I have taught here. And now I’d like to share some stories happened to me. What’s more, my thoughts about several important questions that have huge impacts on me.
Question 1: “How to be a good teacher?”
This is an open-ended question. And one that has to be considered very carefully. I mean the answer may vary a lot in different periods for me. During my first two years of teaching, most of the students even all of them can get good grades may be my answer. Yes, it’s difficult but I did do it. There is no god. Then came the third and fourth years. My answer to the question sounds like more reasonable. The students can get good grades and I can make this real in a more efficient, easier and happier way. As you might expected, my students still did quite well on tests. And the classroom resounded with laughter. But until just recently, my answer changed again. Because I realized the value and importance of human connection, in other words, relationships. James Comer says that no significant learning can occur without a significant relationship. George Washington Carver says all learning is understanding relationships. I believe everyone has ever been affected by a teacher. You know students don’t learn from teachers they don’t like. So I tried to do some things that are easier said than done, like seeking first to understand as opposed to being understood. I said to my students, “You are the best students and I am the best teacher, we are all put together, so we can show everybody else around us how to do it. You were somebody when you came, you’ll be a better somebody when you leave.” I say it long enough, and it starts to be a part of my students. The power of connection between me and my students really works.
Question 2: “How to be a better English teacher?”
I definitely think I’m gonna be a good teacher after answering the first question. Then the second question pops up rapidly. Tell you the truth, I was not so good at English during my student days. I worked hard, but I did it in wrong ways and without correct methods. Needless to say, my oral English was too ordinary. Having authentic and polished oral English is every learner’s dream, myself included. At the end of 2020, our city was under a COVID-19 lockdown, I felt so anxious. I needed to do something to calm down. I tried to read prose and poetry. Miraculously, the more I read, the more peaceful I became. In the following days, I eagerly searched for the skills about how to read like a native speaker. Linking words, contractions, word stress, sentence stress...Using these skills, I started to read one sentence a day, short or long, just to improve my spoken English. I keep practicing and I’m improving all the time. Being a life-long learner is what I want to, what I work for, what I try to teach my students... This is my answer!
Question 3: “What kind of teacher do you want to be?”
It is a teacher’s burden always to hope that with learning, a boy’s or girl’s character might be changed. And, so is the destiny of a man or woman. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. No written word, no spoken plea can teach our students what they should be, nor all the books on all the shelves. It's what the teachers are ourselves. I truly believe we teachers are born to make a difference.
Thanks for your listening and I’m looking forward to exchanging the ideas with you.
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