学生机智的提问，教师幽默、风趣的回答，师生课堂充分交流互动，高潮迭起。这是我校外籍教师 Gwen18日上午推出的英语公开课上的一幕。
　　这堂公开课的主题是“Conducting research through questioning”，目标是让同学们就Fashion、Entertainment、News等雅思考试中常见的热门话题，通过与嘉宾团交流，学会在与人交谈中主动获得信息，形成自己的观点。课上，由英语教学顾问Michael，外事办孔媛媛，英语教研室成冬梅、王辉等老师组成模拟“嘉宾团”，回答学生提问。校长助理吕永军，教育处主任、中英联程教育负责人张奇广，英语教研室部分教师参加了观摩。进行“问思式”教学，让学生多渠道主动获取信息，成为这堂课的一大亮点，体现了学为主体的教学理念。
　　自2003年我校创办中英联程教育以来，中英联程高中班致力于培养具有国际视野和思维的中学生，目前已有8届近200名学生在外国外深造。今年受聘来校执教的Gwen，曾任英国伦敦注册律师、Hackney Community 学院工商管理系讲师，具备丰富的教学经验，对高中英语教学有着独到的眼光。6年前，她曾在我校任教，对参与我校英语教学特别是中英联程班教学改革抱有浓厚兴趣。在日常教学中，她致力于对学生学习主动性的调动，组织师生之间、生生之间充分互动，引导学生通过互联网等渠道获取知识，受到学生们的欢迎。她所倡导的教会学生主动学习的西方教学理念跟我国著名教育家叶圣陶的“教是为了不教”的教育理论不谋而合。
　　进行英语课堂教学的探索，引入先进教学理念，我校中英联程教育，有望成为我校课堂教学改革的一片试验田。

QUESTIONS FOR LEARNING

There is famous Chinese proverb, which says “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”.  In short, the proverb means, don’t just provide someone a meal, teach them how to provide for themselves. This is the foundation of my teaching methodology.

I had the opportunity to demonstrate how this works in practice in a recent lesson which I opened up to other teachers and students who were interested in observing the method of teaching with questions.  Four English teachers were invited to role-play a panel of guests on a fictional talk-show called “Questions for Learning” and answer questions from my students on a number of general knowledge topics.  The main objective of this exercise was to teach the students how to conduct research through questioning other people as a way of gathering information to develop their ideas and opinions. 

I asked my students what they gained from the exercise.  Their collective views were that listening to how the different panellists answered questions showed them not only how to answer questions but how to use information to express themselves creatively in different ways; that they were shown how to think more deeply about things which will help them develop and express their ideas and opinions more confidently. The students also told me that they were able to learn more about four different topics in 45 minutes than they may have learnt in four separate 45 minute lessons on each topic. 
The lesson was about teaching my students how to “fish” and from their comments I am very confident that they are indeed learning to do so. I have discovered that teaching with questions is often more effective for developing students’ minds, especially students preparing for higher education in Western Universities abroad.  You can give them the answer and they will be satisfied until they have another question or you can teach them how to find the answer themselves and they will be self-sufficient or at least more equipped for the rigours of higher education.  Another very important point I try to help students understand is that there is not only one answer to questions just as there isn’t only one type of fish in the sea.

In summary, the Chinese proverb about teaching a person how to fish is very similar to what an English artist and explorer by the name of Thomas Curruthers once said about teaching:  “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary”, which to me means that the ultimate goal of a teacher is for the student to have no need for a teacher. Over time the teacher becomes less and less needed and one day, not needed at all. This is because a good teacher not only imparts information, but teaches how to learn and find information.

By Gwen Bankole-Jones
20th October 2011

译文：

问思式教学

中英联程班教师：Gwen Bankole-Jones（英）

　　中国有一句谚语：授人以鱼不如授人以渔。也可以说成：给别人一餐饭，不如教会他如何做饭。这也是我教学思想的基础。
　　在最近的一堂公开课上，部分老师和学生非常有兴趣地观摩了这种“问思式”教学法，我得以有机会向大家展示这种教学理念在现实教学中的作用。在模拟的课堂中，四位英语教师扮演了嘉宾团的角色，就几个普遍的问题，回答来自于学生的提问。这个练习的主要目的是教会学生如何通过向他人提问进行调查研究，从而获得信息，形成自己的观点和看法。
　　课后，当我问到学生做这种练习的收获时，他们都一致地认为：通过聆听不同嘉宾的观点，不仅学会了怎样回答问题，而且学会了怎样利用信息创造性地、以不同的方式表达自己。他们学到了怎样对问题进行深度思考，从而帮助他们形成并且更加自信地表达自己的观点。学生们还告诉我，在45分钟之内， 以这种问答的方式，他们学到东西的比他们就四个话题分别上45分钟的四节课要更加的多。
　　这堂课是关于教会学生怎样“渔”。从他们的反馈中，我相信他们学到了。我发现，“问思式”教学对于发展学生思维非常有效，特别是对于那些正准备前往西方国家上大学的学生而言。你给他们答案，他们会很满意，直到他们又有了另一个问题。或者你可以教他们怎样自主地找出答案，这样他们将会有一种满足感，或者是至少对更加严格的高等教育作好了准备。
　　另一个我正在努力帮助学生树立的重要观点是：对于一个问题不只有惟一的答案，就像大海里不只有一种类型的鱼一样。
　　总而言之，中国关于“授人以鱼不如授人以渔”的观点，类似于我们英国的艺术家、探险家Thomas Curruthers 说过的关于教学的一句话：一个真正的老师应该慢慢地淡出学生的学习过程。对我而言，一个教师的终极目标是让学生养成自主学习的习惯。随着时间的推移，让学生感觉需要老师协助的越来越少，直到有一天，可以完全脱离老师进行自主学习。这是因为，一位好老师，不仅传授知识，更重要的是教学生学会如何学习和主动获取信息。