To Teach for Test, to Train for skills or to Educate
To Teach for Test, to Train for skills or to EducateGood teachers are like conductors of orchestras, who lead their whole orchestras to work on the same piece of music, and at the same time attend to the individuality of players of different instruments. In face of a large size of class and rigid College English Test (CET), it is by no means an easy task to attune the learning interests of students to the general teaching aims and bring about independent study on the part of the students.The school where I teach as an English It offers a vast array of subjects for students after three years of study in junior high school. The underlying philosophy is that anyone who wants an education and is qualified would have the opportunity to continue his education. However, since in recent years there has been a surging nationwide enthusiasm for
In this crucial period of time, the general teaching aim is firmly held to be equipping students with specific skills that enable them to secure a footing among the severe competition from the graduate students and above ±. And I am held responsible for two classes of the same grade, three hours per week each. Whenever facing with a class of fifty students, I always hope to work out together with the students a wonderful piece of symphony. Twenty-five complex sentences followed by comprehension questions were discussed in groups. The textbook accordingly has been proposed to prepare the students for the examination. From time to time I download some well-written articles from the internet for the students in the hope that they would develop a taste for or seeking a great pleasure from reading. The subject I teach now is extensive reading, which is required for the group of students majoring in English for Foreign Trade±. Though it is the mainstream to teach for the test, great freedom is still granted for individual teaching. Class hours were mainly devoted to attacking sentences containing complex grammatical patterns, identifying which parts of the sentence express specific details supporting the main idea. Opportunities for practicing the authentic use of English are few and far between. To help the students develop strategies to decode meanings from the written texts, supplementary materials about reading skills are incorporated into the lesson. Everyday teaching practice is conducted on a trial basis. Generally speaking, to tap the individual students' potential to full advantage or center around the CET requirements has long been a matter of controversy. , which consist of a varied diet of passages followed by comprehension questions.
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