在前期基地校领航团队“社会性科学议题的教学设计与校本实施”研修的基础上,为助推各校设计高质量的SSI-L活动方案,项目组定期安排各学段在线研讨活动。第一期为初中学段,于9月9日晚7:00至10:30在腾讯在线会议室上进行。全国初中学段负责人、山东省威海市教育教学研究中心张涛主任主持,来自初中学段10所基地校骨干教师、AISL学科指导专家以及其他学段负责人与骨干教师约60人参加了此次在线研讨。
尽管刚开学,事务繁忙,但基地校教师都认真备课并完成顶层方案的设计,也有学校完成了一个主题的SSI学习完整的方案,细化出每一次活动的教学计划。张涛主任邀请SSI学习项目负责人、中国基础教育质量监测协同创新中心科学提升部主任林静老师和AISL学科指导专家组组长、北京师范大学二附中物理特级教师彭梦华老师一起作为指导专家出席本次在线研讨。各基地校骨干教师分别对所开发的SSI-L活动进行简要介绍,林静老师、彭梦华老师和张涛主任依次对每所学校的案例提出建议与意见,AISL学科指导专家、国家语文课程标准修订组核心成员、北京五中语文特级教师梁捷老师,北京市石景山区研修学院物理教研员、特级教师丁庆红老师,还有山西师范大学张荣华教授也参与了本次研讨,并提出真知灼见。各校骨干教师纷纷在聊天室内提问或分享自己的感悟,活动现场讨论热烈。林静老师最后总结并强调:SSI-L是跨学科、指向核心素养的学习,其活动设计是有难度的,教师一定要充分注重通过团队合作来提高设计、备课与上课的效益;学校要组建教师团队,构建体制促进不同学科教师之间的相互协作,从而不断优化活动设计;学校还要提供一定的课时保障,让学生在SSI学习中有充分时间的思考与实践;SSI-L项目的整体目标是努力贯彻落实学生发展核心素养,促进教育立德树人目标的落实,所以在活动设计时,教师不仅要关注科学素养的提升,还要设置伦理品质、情感态度等的培养目标。与会老师都表示认同,并表示将积极与学校协调课时规划,不断优化项目方案。
千里之行始于足下。全国初中学段基地校的第一次在线研讨活动不仅助力基地校教师的SSI-L活动设计,也为全国其他学段开展在线研讨提供了示例与经验。后续全国小学学段基地校、全国高中学段基地校的在线研讨活动即将陆续开展,欢迎各学段基地校积极参加互动研讨,共同推进SSI-L项目的高质量开展。
图1 全国初中学段基地校首次在线研讨部分剪影
On the basis of the previous workshop on “Instructional Design and School-based Implementation of Socio-scientific Issues”, the project team regularly arranges online seminars for schools of different sections to design high-quality SSI-L activity plans. The first session, aimed at middle school students, was held via Tencent online conference room from 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm on September 9th, 2020. Hosted by Mr. Zhang Tao, Head of the National Middle School Section of SSI-L project and Director of Education and Teaching Research Center of Weihai, Shandong, the meeting was attended by around 60 people, including backbone teachers from 10 partner schools in middle schools, AISL expert team members, as well as backbone teachers of elementary and high schools.
Despite the tight schedule at the beginning of the school year, teachers from the partner schools prepared their lessons carefully and completed the design of the top plan. Some schools even finished a complete themed SSI learning project, and made a detailed teaching plan for each activity. Mr. Zhang Tao invited Dr. Lin Jing, Project Leader of SSI Learning and Director of the Science Education Quality Development Department of China Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment for Basic Education Quality, and Mr. Peng Menghua, head of the AISL expert team and a special-ranked physics teacher from the Second High School Attached To Beijing Normal University, to attend the online seminar as expert instructors. The backbone teachers of each partner school gave a brief introduction of the SSI-L activities they had developed, and then Dr. Lin Jing, Mr. Peng Menghua and Mr. Zhang Tao provided comments and suggestions on each case. Liang Jie, AISL expert team member, core member of the National Chinese Curriculum Standard Revision Group, and a special-ranked Chinese teacher of Beijing No. 5 High School, Ding Qinghong, a special-ranked teacher and teaching researcher of physics at Research Institute of Shijingshan District, Beijing, and Professor Zhang Ronghua from Shanxi Normal University also participated in this discussion, and put forward insights. The participating teachers asked questions and shared their thoughts in the conference room, raising a lively discussion. At the end of the meeting, Dr. Lin Jing made a summary and emphasized the following points: SSI-L is an interdisciplinary learning aimed at key competencies, and the activity design is difficult. Teachers must pay full attention to improving the efficiency of activity design, class preparation and class implementation through teamwork. Schools should set up a team of teachers, and build a system to promote collaboration among teachers of different subjects, so as to continuously optimize the activity design. Schools should also provide a certain amount of class guarantee so that students have sufficient time to think and practice in SSI learning. The overall goal of the SSI-L program is to develop students’ key competencies and to promote the implementation of morality education. Therefore, when designing activities, teachers should not only focus on the improvement of scientific literacy, but also set goals for the cultivation of ethics, emotional attitudes and the like. All the teachers at the meeting agreed the above, and said they would actively coordinate class planning with schools and continuously optimize the project plan.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. The first online seminar not only helped the teachers of the partner school to design SSI-L activities, but also provided examples and experiences for elementary and high schools to conduct online seminars. Subsequent online seminars will be held for elementary schools and high schools across the country, and all partner schools are welcome to participate in the interactive discussion and jointly promote the high-quality implementation of the SSI-L project.