On the 17th and 24th of September, the trial of the Professional Skills Competition for Teacher Trainees-Classroom Teaching Skills Competition of the College of Foreign Languages and the final round of the "14th Professional Skills Competition for Teacher Trainees-Classroom Teaching Skills Competition of Central China Normal University" were held in the College of Foreign Languages and the College of Teacher Education respectively. After many rounds of selection, 29 contestants from various colleges entered the final round. Among them, Xu Qing'er, a student in the English Department of the College of Foreign Languages in Grade 2019, and Tao Xinyi and Zhang Qingxin, both from the English Department of the College of Foreign Languages in Grade 2020, passed the college's preliminary rounds and were awarded first, second, and third prizes respectively for their excellent performances.
The contestants are writing on the board
The faculty trial was attended by Wang Jia, Vice President of the Foreign Languages school; Zhang Yapeng, Secretary of the Youth League Committee of the College of Foreign Languages; and Xiang Zongping and Li Zhenglin, teachers of the English Department of the College of Foreign Languages, etc. A total of 32 contestants from the English Department of the College of Foreign Languages in Grade 2019 and 2020 participated in the competition. Before the competition, Wang Jia delivered a speech for the competition. He stressed that for teacher trainees, the competition was not only about winning an award, but also about gaining experience for future teaching work. "Professional knowledge is our soul and teaching skills are our flesh," Wang Jia visualized the relationship between professional knowledge and teaching skills, and expressed his expectations and hopes for the participants: "During the competition, while we show our teaching skills to everyone, we also need to draw on the audience's advice, improve ourselves through reflection, and make progress by summarizing." In the end, Wang Jia expressed his best wishes to the contestants, hoping that each of them would enjoy the process of the competition and wishing the competition a great success.
The competition was divided into two sessions: mock lectures and the presentation of teaching design ideas. The contestants conducted mock lectures and elaborated on their teaching ideas based on the teaching materials they had created and the teaching plans they had designed. Every contestant taught in a positive spirit and used a variety of teaching methods such as writing, audio and video, and multimedia to demonstrate their teaching. The rich teaching content and detailed knowledge explanation not only reflected the professionalism of the competition, but also showed the excellent professionalism and comprehensive quality of the students from the College of Foreign Languages. Among them, Xu Qing'er from the English Department of the College of Foreign Languages in Grade 2019 introduced the knowledge points with examples, aiming at arousing students' interest in learning and also making it easier for them to understand the learning contents. Deng Qinzhu from the English Department of the College of Foreign Languages in Grade 2019 divided the course into three levels to explain the course, which was vivid and interesting.
Xu Qing'er from the English Department of the class of 2019
After four hours, the Foreign Language Teacher Skills Competition drew to a close, with Xu Qing'er from the English Department of the College of Foreign Languages in Grade 2019 winning the first prize, Tao Xinyi and Zhang Qingxin from the English Department of the College of Foreign Languages in Grade 2020 winning the second prize, and the three successfully entering the school-level final. The final competition divided the contestants into three groups by subject to compete at the same time. In addition to containing two sessions of mock lectures and elaboration of teaching design ideas, two new sessions of teaching design and courseware production and questions from the judges were added. The judges set out requirements for the participants, including demonstrating teacher’s skills and literacy, grasping subject knowledge and awareness, and meeting educational competencies and standards. Xu Qing'er chose a teaching style of explaining profound theories from easy to difficult in simple languages to help students accurately understand the central idea of the text. She demonstrated her excellent teacher training skills with clear thinking, artistic courseware presentation, and fluent explanation within the time limit, and also won the unanimous praise of the judges and the audience with her standard, fluent language, and logical, clear sorting of the text. The other two contestants also performed well in the competition, competing against many of the students from the English Department of the College of Foreign Languages in Grade 2019.
A group photo of the judges, contestants and staff after the competition
Not only did the competition strengthen the teaching skills of the students from the college, but it also improved the teaching ability, teaching level, and overall quality of the teacher trainees. In the meantime, it also provides them with opportunities to learn, exchange, and exercise, and inspires students to work in education and teaching.
Sourse: the Foreign School of CCNU
Translator: Liu Yaqi
Reviewer: Zheng Bowen
Date: October，21，2021
