eLearning Series: Teachers' Reflections | 在线学习系列：教师们的反馈

The journey of eLearning continues at the Yew Chung International School of Beijing, with teachers dispersed in different parts of the world. One word to appropriately describe how this experience has been for everyone is “Adaptability”. Many YCIS Beijing teachers have had to learn about new platforms, modify their teaching and let go of the usual modus operandi to match the current times. 

北京耀中国际学校的线上教学之旅仍在继续，老师们分布在世界各地。有一个词可以恰当地描述这种经历对每个人的影响，那就是“适应性”。许多北京耀中的老师不得不适应新的平台，调整他们的教学方式，放弃传统的教学方式以适应当前的状况。

As the 4th Week of eLearning comes to an end, we talked with two of our teachers, who have been striving to make the best out of this approach every single day, Oscar Gonçalves and Franny Guo.

在第四周线上教学即将结束的时候，我们采访了两位老师，Oscar Gonçalves 和 Franny Guo。

According to Oscar Gonçalves, Secondary School Head of Science, “Part of being an International educator and learner, is the enormous capacity to adapt to new challenges and still being able to maintain a great quality in teaching and learning, and what I’ve seen the past few weeks is evidence of this.”

据中学科学部主管Oscar Goncalves表示，“作为一名国际教育专家和学习者，应当拥有强大的适应新挑战的能力，同时还能在教学中保持高质量，我在过去几周看到的情况对此给予了证明。”

He states that for him the experience has been “Relatively easy. I am actually enjoying eLearning and loving the challenge.”. For him, the process of being able to use different technological features that allow him access to students has been a positive from this experience, even though the scope makes it challenging “The technology currently available is great but is immense and finding the right technological alternative can be challenging.”  

他说，对他来说这段经历“相对容易。我其实很享受线上教学，也很喜欢这次的挑战。”对他来说，通过利用不同的技术手段与学生相连是一种积极的体验，尽管适用范围使其具有挑战性，“目前可用的技术已经很好，但选择正确的替代教学技术也具有挑战性。”

On the other hand, Franny Guo, Primary Year 3 Chinese Teacher shares that “The 30 minutes of Chinese class I have with my students every day is the most enjoyable time during this period. I hope they enjoy it as I do.”  Understandably, as the lockdown has meant limited online access between teachers and students.

另一方面，小学三年级的中文教师Franny Guo说: “每天和学生们一起上30分钟的中文课是这段时间里最快乐的时光。我希望他们和我一样享受。”可以理解的是，封锁意味着老师和学生之间的联系是有限的。

Miss Guo also goes beyond her daily expected duty of offering 30-minute-long sessions by adding additional time to her lesson to give students an opportunity to converse with one another. “I make sure that every session, all my students get a chance to talk - to have their voices heard that day. I open my classroom a little earlier to give them a chance to chat with their classmates as they have not seen each other in a long time. Bonding time is very important.” she stresses.

郭老师在其日常职责—提供30分钟的课程之外，她还额外增加了工作时间，让学生们有机会彼此交谈。“我确保每节课，让所有的学生都有机会发言。让他们的声音在课堂上被听到。我稍微提前开启虚拟教室，让他们有机会和同学聊天，因为他们已经很长时间没有见面了。密切联系的时间很重要。”她强调。

Virtual learning has also resulted in a gain for many teachers, who have had to explore and discover new platforms, creative ways of conducting lessons and resources for teaching which they could also use after the school reopens.

我认为虚拟学习也为许多教师带来了收获，他们不得不探索和发现新的平台、以及创造性的授课方式和教学资源，这些资源在学校重新开放后也可以使用。

Teams, Kognity, Kerboodle, Century Tech, and Youtube have been useful platforms for Mr. Gonçalves and considering that he teaches Science, a subject that requires the classroom, a laboratory and the outdoors, he has had to put all the resources at his disposal to ensure that he still delivers lessons of a great standard.

Teams、Kognity、Kerboodle、Century Tech和Youtube一直是Gonçalves先生使用的平台，考虑到他教授的是科学，这门学科需要教室、实验室和户外活动，他必须将所有资源整合在一起，以确保他能够提供高标准的课程。

“I attended the Shanghai International STEAM Education Expo (STEAMEX 2019) last December and I am currently using some ideas on AI mentioned in some of the workshops. There are phone apps available that create virtual experiences such as exploring our universe, human body, earth’s core, and the ATOM without students leaving their seats. An example is the ‘Big Bang AR’ developed by CERN which allows us to see the universe in the palm of our hands.”

“我去年12月参加了上海国际STEAM教育博览会(STEAMEX 2019)，现在我正在使用一些工作坊中提到的AI理念。有一些手机应用程序可以创造虚拟体验，比如探索我们的宇宙、人体、地核和原子，而且ATOM不需要学生离开座位。欧洲核子研究组织开发的“大爆炸AR”就是一个例子，它让我们可以在手掌上看到宇宙。”

Although technology has been of great help in getting the YCIS Beijing community through this period, physical and mental wellbeing remain priorities. Miss Guo practices this during her online sessions; “In the middle of the class, I get them to stand up and do some easy exercises. We emphasize the importance of their [students] health and that they should prioritize that. If they feel their energy levels are low, or their eyes hurt from computer screens they should take a break.”.

尽管科技在帮助北京耀中社区度过这段时期发挥了巨大的作用，但身心健康仍然是优先考虑的事情。郭老师在她的线上课堂中尝试如下实践：“在课堂上，我让他们站起来做一些简单的动作练习。我们向他们强调健康的重要性，他们应该优先考虑这一点。如果他们感到精神不振，或者眼睛不适，他们应该休息一下。”