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Research on Life oriented Classroom Teaching Strategies

Faisal Halim【Malaysia】

Easy to write and willing to express, students should be guided to pay attention to reality, love life, and express their true feelings Therefore, only by grasping the inseparable connection between "life" and "children" in composition teaching, and truly returning the initiative of composition to students, can the trickle of life flow in students' pens, and life enter the composition classroom with the most basic conditions.

Keywords:Writing ability in daily life classroom, genuine emotions and feelings

A fun and endless essay teaching: Students emphasize the importance of personal experience in the process of writing to highlight the authenticity of the work, and emotional experience is actually within the scope of personal experience, which can enhance the depth of the work. Therefore, personal experience and emotional experience are important prerequisites for students' writing. In the writing class, I strive to guide students to pay attention to life, experience life, and build a new course writing life field through real emotional experiences.

Teacher: Classmates, next Monday is New Year's Day. In previous years, everyone would buy ready-made greeting cards to wish each other well. This year, on this beautiful holiday, the teacher hopes that students can make beautiful greeting cards themselves and give them to our friends. Teacher, do you think this suggestion from the teacher is good?

Student: (The students were all in high spirits and said in unison) Good!

Teacher: Seeing classmates so willing to use their hands and brains, willing to give their best wishes to their friends, the teacher is really happy. The teacher wants to turn the greeting cards made by the students into beautiful pieces and post them on the school's public platform so that all teachers and students can enjoy them, and all parents can appreciate them. However, there are many students in our class and we can only choose ten greeting cards. What should we do?

Student: (The students looked at each other, their faces showing difficulty)

Teacher: Teacher, could you please select the ten most creative greeting cards made by your classmates and publish them?

Sheng: (Cheering and cheering) Alright, we will definitely make the greeting card beautiful!

The next day's composition class

Teacher: Have you made the greeting cards, classmates?

Sheng: (confidently said) It's done!

Teacher: Oh, so fast? Who did you collaborate with to create it?

Student 1: I learned it from my mother.

Student 2: I did it with my dad.

Student 3: I did it alone.

Teacher: Classmates, you have worked hard. Thank you for your sincerity. How did you make it?

(Before the teacher could finish speaking, the students scrambled to speak)

Teacher: Classmates, you must have done a good job with such dedication. Just hearing everyone say this, the teacher feels how dedicated everyone is to making this greeting card. You must have put in a lot of effort, teacher. How much you want to see the process of making these greeting cards!

Student: Teacher, if you ask your classmates to write down the process of making greeting cards, won't you know?

Teacher: (Teacher "following the flow") This idea is really good. In this way, the teacher can not only see the exquisite greeting cards made by our classmates, but also know the specific process of their production. Please write it down in our exercise book.

Student: (The student eagerly takes out paper and pen) Okay!

Teacher: Let's start writing quickly, classmates.

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The essay teaching described in this case reflects the new essay teaching after the curriculum reform. From the perspective of the content and methods of writing teaching, the new course title "Writing teaching should be close to students' reality". The "Chinese Language Curriculum Standards" point out that "composition teaching should be close to students' reality, making it easy for them to write and enjoy expressing themselves. Students should be guided to pay attention to reality, love life, and express their true feelings and emotions? How to make students write close to real life in composition teaching? So in this writing course, the teacher has prepared a foundation for students to write in advance. From the process of writing teaching, teaching is no longer limited to the classroom, but rather provides students with favorable conditions and broad space. The teacher in the case seized the rules of writing teaching and chose "making greeting cards" as the writing content, with materials directly from life. Colorful activities will constantly keep them fresh. Traditional composition teaching believes that reading and writing are a pair of input and output relationships, but this input and output are not necessarily fixed. It is not necessarily the case that reading more books means writing well, and there must be a certain degree of personal experience, especially for elementary school students.

The teacher first assigned the task of making New Year cards to the students under the pretext of "who made the most exquisite New Year cards and can publish them on the school's public platform". The process of writing, from passive 'I want you to write' to active 'I want to write', is undoubtedly much smoother and more meaningful. This is to guide students to experience life practice before writing, and cultivate their abilities in observation, thinking, and expression through the experience. In the writing class, the teacher first arouses students' interest in making greeting cards through interesting conversations, and then says that the teacher wants to know the specific process of students making greeting cards, encouraging students to write happily in writing. Because every student wants their work to be selected by the teacher, throughout the class, although the teacher did not mention the word "composition", the students actively completed the writing in a harmonious and relaxed atmosphere. From the case, we can see that students have been in an active learning state, and each one is full of the desire to express themselves. It can be said that this essay teaching has truly achieved the goal of "making it easy for students to express themselves and being willing to express themselves".

Effective composition teaching requires opening up the classroom for composition teaching, allowing students' writing practice to move towards life; Effective writing guidance should focus on guiding students to observe, think, recognize, and experience. Chinese is everywhere in life, and writing cannot be separated from life. The extension of writing is equal to the extension of life. However, when students write, they often feel that they have no way to start and there is nothing to write about. The obvious problem is not that students lack writing content, but because our composition teaching is often limited to a narrow classroom, 100% belonging to classroom behavior, artificially separating composition from students' lives. The Chinese language curriculum standards point out that "writing teaching should be close to students' reality, making it easy for them to write and enjoy expressing themselves. Students should be guided to pay attention to reality, love life, and express their true feelings and emotions." Mr. Ye Shengtao pointed out in "Essay Theory" that a fulfilling life is the source of writing; Writing is originally a part of our lives. When life is filled to a certain extent, we naturally have to say something, and naturally we can say something; The meaning of a fulfilling life should be to have a wide range of experiences, to understand more, to have the skills of discovery, to have the methods of inference, to have a rich temperament, to have hobbies, to be in harmony with the inside and outside, to know and act immediately. So, we need to open up the classroom for composition teaching, allowing students' writing practice to move towards life. Before writing an essay, teachers should give students a time and space to observe life, discover life, accumulate life, and appreciate life. Therefore, can we combine the content and requirements of the textbook to plan the writing content for a semester in advance, and then systematically arrange for students to explore, create, and accumulate materials in their daily lives, and record them in the form of diaries or weekly journals. In the classroom of composition teaching, we need to creatively guide students to explore life scenarios and consciously cultivate their skills and habits of observing and analyzing life; At the same time, it also guides students to gradually transfer these skills and habits to their daily lives, enabling them to actively experience and consciously discover writing materials in life. The content of composition teaching does not need to be completely limited to the content specified in the textbook. Every blade of grass and tree in school, every person and object on the way to school, a casual chat at the dining table, and an experiment in the classroom... It can be said that "the whole life" is the content of composition teaching.

The statement 'Those who know are not as good as those who are good, and those who are good are not as good as those who are happy' undoubtedly emphasizes the word 'happiness', which is based on' fun '. Only with' fun 'can' happiness' be 'spiritual'. On the contrary, if there is no "fun", there will be "worry", and if there is "worry", there will be "disgust". The so-called mood pleasure response is sensitive; Depression leads to much slower reactions, which is the reason behind it. Therefore, it is necessary to experience life before writing and guide students to pay attention to reality, love life, and express their true feelings.

There are still many topics worth exploring in composition teaching. As long as students learn to observe and start with real compositions, treating them as a part of life, writing compositions will no longer be a burden. Life is the only source of writing, and to develop writing resources, one must naturally enter into life. Life is colorful and rich, and every thoughtful person will discover the writing materials in life. "A grain of sand looks at the world, and half a petal of flower expresses human feelings." This is the truth behind it. Guide students to consciously pay attention to life, feel life with heart, actively create life, and make writing a loyal recorder of students' lives, becoming the most popular and good partner on their growth path. So, in composition teaching, it's actually easy to say I love you!





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