Harrison Gareth Derek

Over the first half of this academic year, we in the Concordia English Department had had a focus on establishing both a strong understanding of our students and in fostering a learning environment that challenges the students to reach beyond their comfort zone. This semester we are going to make the language in their learning more interactive and accessible for all of the children.

在上学期，我们协和小学英语学科聚焦于深入了解学生并营造挑战学生超越舒适区的学习环境。本学期，我们将着眼于让每个孩子的英语学习更具交互性和可及性。

兴趣是最好的原动力

First, we have begun a new course with a focus on the student's reading and writing skills, as these are the biggest drivers of critical understanding, language acquisition and fluent proficiency. 

A strong reading habit can help further strengthen understanding of a student's expanding vocabulary through context, but also create a fun learning environment in which the student may explore much and discover more. 

这学期，我们开始了一门重点在提高阅读和写作技能的新课程。阅读和写作技能是批判性理解、语言习得和流利程度的最大驱动力。良好的阅读习惯可以帮助同学们通过文本扩展对词汇的理解，从而使同学们能够畅游阅读的海洋，探索发现更多有趣的知识并提高对英语的兴趣。

Writing creates a deeper understanding and familiarity with the language in the way that it is processed through the brain in a different way to oral language use. 

Many of our students have great speaking skills and these will only be strengthened further from the firm development of these language tools.

在口语表达的基础上，写作训练使学生们的语言使用能力能够得到进一步的加宽和拓展。我们的许多学生已经具备很好的口语表达能力，相信通过其他方面技能的训练，学生们的综合英语能力能得到更显著提高。

树立个人自信心

The key to learning and using a new language is in personal confidence. We have taken the time to speak with and learn about our students, not just their strengths and weaknesses with language, but also their interests and motivations. 

自信心对语言学习也是至关重要的。协和老师们通过与学生们的大量交流和互动，不仅了解了他们在语言方面的优势和劣势，也在这个过程中不断深挖他们的兴趣和驱动力来源。

因材施教

We aim to tailor the learning experience to include these, so that they may make the language more accessible and interesting to the students as it involves their own passions. 

The increased interest in the language by this means of personalizing it for the students is designed to yield a greater response and return in the rate and depth of their learning as each student grows in their confidence and comfort with the language.

我们根据每个学生的兴趣和水平因材施教，使学生达到最优的学习效果并保持对学习的热情。

通过为学生提供个性化的学习方案，每个学生在的难度下学习英语并自信地输出学习成果，这样的学习模式使学习速度和深度上得以提高从而形成良性循环。

课外每月活动

To this end of expanding the language use for our students as well as their horizons in terms of their understanding of its range of use, we have planned a variety of monthly activities that will be led by our team to show students many facets of expressing themselves in the language. 

除了日常英语课堂的英语学习，为了加强学生们的语言使用以及提高他们对语言使用范围的理解，我们设置了丰富多彩的每月活动，使学生们能够多维度使用英语作为工具来展示自己。

SHOW & TELL

This begins with a simple Show and Tell session for each class. One student each will present to their class a possession that they love, or a hobby, or even a song or story, all in English. 

每个班级每周都有Show & Tell的环节。在这个环节，学生将向同学们展示他们的“最爱”，可以是一个物品，可以是自己的一个爱好，可以是一首喜欢的歌曲，或讲一个故事。

Extracurricular Activities

Following on from this will be a bigger activity that would be spread across several days or even a week. These activities include a Spelling Bee competition, 'Be an animal' speech, singing English language songs, drama performances written by the students and a treasure hunt in which the students must decipher clues in the language.

除了这种固定的课堂展示环节，协和小学每学期也有丰富的大型英语活动等待着同学们，这些大型活动可能会持续几天甚至一周的时间。这些活动包括单词拼写比赛，“成为动物”演讲，英文歌曲大赛，英语戏剧节以及寻宝活动等等。

Meanwhile in the classrooms we are using study partnerships and groups for the students so that they may come together and support each other through their language journey. 

All the while assisted by our attentive teachers whom are always looking for exciting new ways to present the English language to the children and help them to find fun new experiences.

在课堂上，我们在学习小组的划分和学习伙伴的配搭方面做了很多努力和准备。通过一段时间的细心观察，我们根据学生们的性格特点和各项语言能力情况，为每位同学选择了最适合的学习伙伴，让在他们的语言之旅中相互支持，一同成长。

协和的英语老师们始终以学生为中心，不断学习，努力探寻新方式，以帮助学生们不断有新鲜有趣的学期新体验。

协和愿景

To summarize, we are always looking to evolve and adapt our course and our teaching in order to maximize the efficiency and efficacy of our English course, to create the best possible learning outcomes for each and every one of our students.

作为协和英语教研组的一份子，我们一直都在持续改革和完善我们的课程和教学，以期最大限度地提高学校英语教学的效率和质量，帮助每一位协和学子不断成长为更好的自己。