送教下乡，激活课堂 | 宁波诺丁汉大学国际教师助推教育公平发展

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“我教了半辈子书，

应该早点把讲台‘让’给学生。”

祝陆萍是江西新⼲实验⼩学的英语老师，平日以严谨的教学风格著称的她，却在宁波诺丁汉大学英语教学专家John O’Hara的培训示范课程上变成一名跃跃欲试的学生，抢着用身体摆出一个“将来进行时”的动作——手臂前伸，一脚抬起，引得众人一阵欢笑。

1月7日至9日，来自宁波诺丁汉大学的John O’Hara、Virginia Parker和袁渊三位英语教学专家走进江西新干县，为当地中小学开展英语教学公益培训，将国际化英文教学理念带进赣江河畔，通过教育资源的下沉与共享助力中国教育公平发展。

把脉课堂，

国际理念在乡村课堂落地生根

在新⼲实验⼩学，前来培训的三位讲师却先当起了“学生”。他们坐在教室最后一排观摩英语教学现场，并在课后与学生亲密交流，深入了解孩子们英语学习中的具体难点，为后续开展针对性培训搜集一手信息。

“这群敬业的教师渴望新的教学方法，却也面临着课时安排有限、学生基础参差不齐、课堂环境限制、教学任务压力大等难题。”在旁听了几堂英语课后，团队成员一致认为，如何将创新融入日常课堂是目前阶段的主要挑战。

自2001年全县乡镇小学三年级全面开设英语课程以来，英语教育在这片孕育了青铜文化的土地上已有二十余载，互联网也让部分资源触手可及。然而，客观条件仍制约着教学创新的落地。

针对痛点，培训团队以满足乡镇教师实际需求为目标，系统性讲解了国际前沿教学理念与课程设计方法，并以当地教材为蓝本，通过示范课程与实操训练帮助他们优化教学方案。另一方面，团队以“还原现场—案例分析—策略共创”为路径，引导教师们提出最棘手的真实课堂情景，共同拆解问题并最终形成落地方案。

现场，既有像祝陆萍那样教龄快20年的“老把式”，也有去年刚入职的“新面孔”——来自井冈山毛泽东红军学校的彭涛便是其中一名教坛新秀。他表示，本次培训中的课堂分组策略，改变了自己此前对“大班难以开展小组化教学”的认知误区——其实，有很多方式可以让课堂“玩”起来。

播下种子，静待乡村英语教育花开

积极响应国家乡村振兴战略与乡村教师支持计划，本次新干之行是宁波诺丁汉大学“乡村英语教师赋能计划”的又一次线下深度实践。自2017年启动以来，项目以“专业赋能、精准帮扶、持续发展”为核心理念，通过构建“英语能力+教学技能+教育理念”的体系，已开展百余场公益活动，累计惠及全国300余所偏远学校的700余名乡村教师。

此次赴江西开展培训，项目组不仅延续了小班化、强互动的特色，更注重教学方法的可复制与可持续。每天培训结束前，培训团队都会带领教师们梳理知识要点，共同讨论如何将这些教学方法在当地课堂中用起来、传下去，并鼓励大家在今后的教学中持续尝试新方法。

“教育的目标不是灌输知识，而是点燃求知欲，照亮更多可能。”项目负责人陈静宇表示，“我们希望通过一次次走进真实课堂的行动，与乡村教师并肩前行，共同为孩子们拓宽那扇看世界的窗。”

随着培训的结束，创新的种子已然播下：祝陆萍计划在自己的课堂上尝试融入更多互动游戏，彭涛则开始着手在下次研学活动中加入英语使用情景。赣江河畔的冬日里寒意仍存，但一场静默而深刻的教学变革已悄然萌芽，犹如初春的讯息，静静等待在新干县的每一间教室中破土生长、绽放新绿。

UNNC empowers English education in rural areas to promote educational equity

“I’ve taught for half my life—maybe it’s time I stepped aside and let the students take centre stage,” said Luping Zhu, an English teacher at Xingan Experimental Primary School in Jiangxi Province. Known for her disciplined teaching style, Zhu surprised herself by enthusiastically acting out the future continuous tense during a demonstration workshop—arms stretched forward, one foot lifted mid-air—prompting laughter from fellow participants.

From 7 to 9 January, a team of English education specialists from the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC)—John O’Hara, Virginia Parker and Yuan Yuan—traveled to Xingan County along the Gan River to deliver a hands-on professional development programme for local primary and middle school teachers. Their mission was to bring global educational resources and practices into rural classrooms in support of educational equity.

The UNNC team began as observers, sitting at the back of real classrooms to witness everyday teaching challenges first-hand. They spoke directly with students to understand their learning difficulties and gathered insights to inform the tailored training sessions that followed.

“The teachers here are deeply committed, but they face real constraints—limited class time, mixed student proficiency levels, heavy workloads and rigid curricular demands,” the team noted after observing several lessons. While English has been taught in local primary schools since 2001 and internet has enabled access to digital resources, practical innovation remains difficult to implement.

In response, the UNNC team designed workshops grounded in international best practice yet firmly rooted in local realities. Using existing textbooks as a foundation, they led interactive demonstrations and collaborative lesson-design sessions, helping teachers adapt creative strategies to their own contexts. A key feature of the training was its problem-solving approach: participants identified their most pressing classroom challenges—from managing large classes to engaging disinterested learners—and co-developed practical solutions through role-play, case studies and peer feedback.

Among the participants were both seasoned educators like Zhu, with nearly two decades of experience, and newcomers such as Tao Peng, a first-year teacher at Jinggangshan Mao Zedong Red Army School. Peng admitted that he had once believed group work was impossible in crowded rural classrooms—until the training showed him otherwise. “There are so many simple, low-preparation ways to make English fun and interactive,” he said.

This visit marked another milestone in UNNC’s Rural English Advancement Programme, launched in 2017 to support China’s rural revitalisation and teacher development initiatives. Guided by the principles of professional capacity-building, targeted support and sustainable impact, the programme has delivered more than 100 activities, benefiting over 700 teachers across 300 rural schools nationwide.

“Education isn’t about pouring knowledge into students,” said Jingyu Chen, the programme manager. “It’s about igniting curiosity and opening windows to the wider world.”

As the training drew to a close, seeds of change had already begun to take root. Zhu plans to incorporate more movement-based games into her lessons, while Peng is designing an upcoming field trip featuring English-language scenarios. Although winter still lingers along the Gan River, a quiet transformation is under way—one that promises to bloom in classrooms across Xingan County in the seasons ahead.

图文来源：Patrick Cai，陈笑

电子编辑：Suri An

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