November 2016

On November 29, 2016, with the help of Dr. Shijing Xu and her research team, students from Talbot Trail Public School (TTPS) and Ren He Jie (RHJ) Primary School had a Skype meet-ing to exchange math games with each other. RHJ students shared a Chinese paper cutting game whereas TTPS students shared a game called “Buzz Pop Fizz.”

November 2016

2016年11月29号,人和街小学和Talbot Trail 小学举行了一次关于数学游戏分享的视频会。双方的学生互相向对方分享了一些数学游戏,比如中方孩子教加方孩子如何用中国剪纸做一些数学游戏,加方的孩子教中方的孩子Buzz, Pop Fizz 数学游戏。


December 2016

On Dec. 19, 2016, math teachers from TTPS and RHJ had a Skype session where they exchanged information about math teaching (e.g. math curriculum, students’ math level, the use of math manipulatives).

December 2016

2016年12月19号,人和街小学和Talbot Trail 小学举行了一次关于数学教学的研讨会。在许世静教授的帮助下,双方的数学组老师,分别就数学大纲,学生层次,以及教具等方面进行了颇有成效的交流。


October 2017

On October 24, 2017, Talbot Trail math team teachers and Ren He Jie math teachers held a Skype meeting on the theme of teaching fraction with the assistance of Dr. Shijing Xu and her research team. Teachers from both sides exchanged information about students’ learning goals and how they used math manipulatives to guide students to grasp the concept of fraction.

October 2017

2017年 10月24号,Talbot Trail 小学数学组的老师为人和街的老师围绕着数学中的分数教学进行了一次有效的教学分享会。在许世静教授及其研究团队的帮助下,双方教师分享了大教学大纲中的学生学习分数的学习目标,以及双方教师是如何使用一些教具帮助孩子理解数学中分数的概念。


April 2017

On April 25, 2017, Talbot Trail’s math team teachers demonstrated a math lesson to Ren He Jie math teachers using the three-part lesson framework commonly employed by math teachers in Ontario. Dr. Shijing Xu and her research assistant Mr. Chenkai Chi helped the teachers with translation.

April 2017

2017年 4月25号,Talbot Trail 小学数学组的老师为人和街的老师展示了如何使用三步数学教学法来教授数学,在许世静教授的翻译下,Talbot Trail 的老师为人和街的老师演示了一下实际的教学过程。


November 2017

At the Skype meeting on November 29, 2017, students from TTPS and RHJ were invited to solve the same math problem while showing their problem-solving strategies. Talbot Trail and Ren He Jie teachers discussed how Canadian and Chinese students would use different strategies to solve the same math question. The meeting was attended by Dr. Shijing Xu and her research team from the University of Windsor and Professor Yubo and her research team from Southwest University.

November 2017

2017年11月29号,重庆人和街小学和Talbot Trail 小学举行了一次关于解决分数问题的视频会。双方教师在视频会之前各自提出了一些关于分数的数学问题,在视频会的时候,双方都邀请了学生,分别解决相同的问题。会后,老师们互相讨论了学生的表现情况,中加学生对于相同数学题目的采用的不同的方法。参与会议的还有温莎大学许世静教授以后她的研究团队,西南大学于波教授及其研究团队。


May 2018

On May 8, 2018, Talbot Trail Public School and Ren He Jie Primary School held their first Skype meeting in the area of Science. Ms. Susan Sheridan introduced Ontario’s Science curriculum, especially the Grade 7 curriculum. She also introduced her STEM activities. Under the facilitation of Dr. Shijing Xu (RLP coordinator), teachers from both sides decided to do a STEM challenge with their students.

May 2018

2018年5月8号,重庆人和街小学和Talbot Trail 小学的科学组举行了第一次的视频会议,Ms. Susan Sheridan 老师介绍了安大略省的科学大纲,以及STEM 课程。双方老师决定让双方的学生共同完成一个STEM的挑战任务。


May 2018

The May 28th Skype meeting between Talbot Trail and Ren He Jie focused on the theme of multiplying fraction. Ms. Pan, a Grade Six Math teacher, demonstrated a math lesson on multiplying fractions to the Talbot Trail teachers. She introduced that in China, multiplication of fraction has three levels: 1. Integers times integers 2. Fractions times integers 3. Fractions times fractions. After the lesson demonstration, teachers from both sides had further discussions about how to teach multiplication of fractions to their students.

May 2018

中加互惠项目组在2018年5月28号帮助人和街小学和Talbot Trail 小学展开了一次关于分数乘法的视频交流会,人和街小学的潘老师,为加拿大的老师们上了一堂关于分数乘法的示范课。在这之后,双方针对分数乘法这一话题进行了深度交流。


June 2018

A Skype meeting was held between Talbot Trail and Ren He Jie on June 12th, 2018. At the meeting, students from Ren He Jie introduced the straw tower they have constructed to Canadian teachers and students. Three groups of students from Talbot Trail also presented their straw towers to Chinese teachers and students with brief introductions. Upon introducing their straw towers, students from both sides asked each other questions about their tower. The teachers also had a further discussion about their roles of facilitating STEM project among themselves.

June 2018

6月12号,人和街小学和Talbot Trail小学举行了一场视频交流会。在此次视频会上,双方学生分享了他们用吸管和胶带做的塔。首先,人和街的学生向加方的老师同学介绍了他们做的塔。三组加方的学生也向中国的老师和学生展示了他们的作品,并做了简单的介绍。双方学生就自己的作品互相介绍了制作过程并提了一些问题。双方老师也就教师在活动中扮演的角色展开了讨论。


September 2018

On September 27th, 2018, Talbot Trail Public School and Ren He Jie Primary School held a Skype meeting focusing on the theme of estimation in Math. Teachers from both sides discussed and shared ways of teaching estimation with each other.

September 2018

2018年9月27号,人和街小学和Talbot Trail 小学举行了一次关于估算教学的视频会议,会议中老师们讨论了接下来如何围绕估算这一话题进行交流。会议还讨论了10月份人和街代表团来温莎的一些相关事宜。



November 2018

On November 1, 2018, Talbot Trail Public School and Ren He Jie Primary School’s kinder-garten team held a Skype meeting focusing on the theme of cross-curricular activities. Tal-bot Trail kindergarten teachers started by introducing how they designed cross-curricular activities in their classrooms. They also showed Ren He Jie Kindergarten teachers some specific cross-curriculum activities. The meeting ended with Sister School teachers deciding to design cross-curricular activities around the topic of “Fall” and “Winter” in their respective classroom settings. They promised to shared their lessons with each other in future Skype meetings.

November 2018

2018年11月1号,人和街小学和Talbot Trail 小学的幼儿园举行了一次关于跨学科教学的视频会议,会议中Talbot Trail 的幼儿园老师介绍了他们是如何设计跨学科的活动,并且给出了一些具体的例子。双方决定围绕着“秋”和“冬”这俩个主题分别进行跨学科活动的设计,并且在下一次视频会议中分享。


December 2018

On December 12, 2018 (Windsor time), Talbot Trail Public School and Ren He Jie Primary School had their Skype meeting on the theme of cardboard paper table STEM challenge. Prior to tonight’s Skype meeting, students from Talbot Trail and Ren He Jie had been working separately in teams to design and build cardboard paper tables as part of a STEM challenge initiated by Ms. Sheridan. At tonight’s Skype meeting, three student groups from Talbot Trail and three student groups from Ren He Jie were given a further opportunity to test the strength and stability of the table they had made using dictionaries (in Talbot Trail’s case) and science text books (in Ren He Jie’s case). Before testing, students from two schools explained to each other the thinking behind their design. Ms. Sheridan encouraged the students to predict how many books their table can hold and find out whether their prediction is correct through testing.

December 2018

12月13 号早上8点,人和街小学和Talbot Trail 小学举行了一次关于纸桌子STEM 挑战的一次交流分享视频会。双方学生在交流会之前,就通过小组合作的形式设计并且用报纸和胶带制造出了纸桌子,在视频交流会的时候学生互相介绍彼此以及他们的设计理念。随后,双方学生互相将书本放在自己设计的纸桌子上进行纸桌子的强度和稳定性的测试。视频会取得了圆满的成功。


January 2019

Estimation has been the hot topic between TTPS and RHJ math team with the reciprocal communication and learning going deeper and wider. On January 16, 2019, a Skype meeting had been scheduled to discuss the pedagogy of estimation. TTPS teachers demoed how they teach estimation and introduced the related documents of department of Ontario Education. Ms. Lamb briefly present the teaching goals and theories of estimation based on the related documents. Ms. Murray introduced how to use anchor charts to engage students. Then, Ms. Hall (Grade 5 Teacher) and Mr. Hickman (Grade 6 Teacher) showed a website where there are different real life contexts and estimation questions to the Ren He Jie Math team. Ren He Jie teachers also exchanged their opinions about estimation, and they decided that for the next Skype meeting, Ren He Jie teachers will demo how they teach estimation. 

January 2019

估算一直是人和街小学和Talbot Trail 小学数学组关注的领域,为此两个学校一直在进行深入广泛的交流。 2019年1月16日的视频会议中,两个学校就估算教学法进行探讨。 Talbot Trail教师演示了他们如何教授估算并介绍了安大略省教育部门的相关材料。 Lamb老师根据指导材料简要介绍了教学目标和估算理论。Murray老师介绍了如何使用要点图鼓励学生。Hall老师(5年级教师)和Hickman老师(6年级教师)位人和街的老师们展示了一个网站,网站有很多在现实情境下的估算问题。人和街的老师们也就估计问题交换了意见,在下一次人和街上,人和街的老师将演示他们是如何教授估算的。


January 2019

On January 17th, 2019, a Skype meeting between Talbot Trail Public School’s kindergarten team and Ren He Jie Primary School’s kindergarten team took place. Kindergarten teachers from both schools shared about how they designed and implemented interdisciplinary activities on the theme of “winter.”

January 2019

12月13 号早上8点,人和街小学和Talbot Trail 小学举行了一次关于纸桌子STEM 挑战的一次交流分享视频会。双方学生在交流会之前,就通过小组合作的形式设计并且用报纸和胶带制造出了纸桌子,在视频交流会的时候学生互相介绍彼此以及他们的设计理念。随后,双方学生互相将书本放在自己设计的纸桌子上进行纸桌子的强度和稳定性的测试。视频会取得了圆满的成功。


March 2019

On March 7th, 2019, Ren He Jie Primary School’s math team demonstrated a lesson on math estimation during a Skype meeting with Talbot Trail Public School’s math team. Ms. Jin and Ms. Zhang, with their team from Ren He Jie, shared how they taught estimation with Talbot Trail principals and teachers - Mr. Baker (Principal), Mr. Hickman (Grade 6 teacher), Mrs. Hall (Grade 5 teacher) and Mrs. Lamb (Grade 3 teacher).

March 2019

2019年3月7日,重庆人和街小学数学团队在与Talbot Trail公立学校数学团队举行了一次关于估算教学的视频会议。人和街的数学团队向Talbot Trail 学校的老师示范了一堂他们是如何教授估算的课程。


May 2019

On May 9th, 2019, students from Talbot Trail Public School and Ren He Jie Primary participated in a Skype meeting where they had an opportunity to compare different strategies used to solve the same sets of math estimation problems. Under the support of their teachers and researchers from the University of Windsor and Southwest University, students from Talbot Trail and Ren He Jie were able to learn from each other’s math thinking. Dr. Shijing Xu, alongside a group of Canadian pre-service students who were doing their placement in Chongqing under Dr. Xu’s lead, joined the Skype meeting from Ren He Jie Primary School. Mr. Baker, Mrs. Lamb, Dr. Yishin Khoo (Dr. Xu’s Post-doctoral fellow) and Dr. Xiaochuan Li (Dr. Xu’s visiting scholar from Yunnan Normal University, China) attended the meeting at Talbot Trail Public School.

May 2019

2019年5月9日, 来自Talbot Trail公立学校和人和街小学的学生和老师参加了视频会议,学生们共同完成相同的关于估算的数学题目。学生们很积极地分享了他们自己的解决方法。温莎大学许世静教授在人和街小学参加了此次会议,她当时正带领一组加拿大职前教师到中国西南大学参加为期三个月的互惠学习计划。


May 2019

On May 14th, 2019, Talbot Trail Public School’s kindergarten team and Ren He Jie Primary School’s kindergarten team held a Skype meeting on how to design interdisciplinary learning activities based on a picture book named Rosie’s Walk. Dr. Shijing Xu, Chenkai, and Yuhan, along with a group of pre-service teachers from University of Windsor, joined the meeting from Ren He Jie Kindergarten. Dr. Yishin Khoo, Reciprocal Learning Project’s post-doctoral fellow, facilitated the Skype meeting with Dr. Xu. Teachers from Talbot Trail and Ren He Jie shared with each other different activities they had conducted using the same picture book, Roise’s Walk. They realized how a picture book can be approached from different inter-disciplinary lens in different educational contexts.

May 2019

2019年5月14日,Talbot Trail公立学校幼儿园小组和人和街小学幼儿园小组举行了一次Skype会议,会议的主题是关于如何基于一本名为Rosie's Walk的绘本设计跨学科活动。许世静教授,研究助理池晨凯,邓雨涵以及温莎大学的一批职前教师参加了此次会议。双方的老师根据绘本分享了不同的活动,并就跨学科活动的设计交流了意见和方法。