This is the preface of ECNUAS Reads 2020
Note: Photo taken in ECNUAS high school library. June 2020.
写下这段文字的时候后，我正在天上飞行。在飞机上重读老师们在几个月前写下的书评是一个无奈的安排，因为平时难有大段的时间去琢磨一百余篇读后感到底能给教师学习带来什么价值。在机舱里的阅读有一种奇妙的感觉，学校和老师虽都在千里之外，这些文字却使我对每一个人骤升思想上的亲近感。慢慢地品味每个老师写下的字字句句，想象每个老师在写下这些文字的时候的姿势、表情，和场景，同时试图去揣测这些文字背后每个老师的思想和可能采取的教育教学行动，我感觉这本书评集会给我们华双教师学习共同体带来不小影响。
I was flying when I started writing this preface. It was not an intended arrangement that I would have to read these book reviews on a flight, time tough never permitted me to deliberate on what values these over one hundred reviews would bring to our community. Reading in a flight cabinet created a wonderful feeling that these words on pages drew me closer to teachers’ thoughts, although the school and teachers were a thousand kilometers away. Savoring the words and sentences wrote by each teacher, imagining everyone’s posture, expression, and surrounding while writing, trying to guess the thoughts and actions that each teacher would take, I felt this collection would generate some positive effect on the teacher professional learning community of ECNUAS.
让老师们去读书并写读后感其实来自于一个闪念。2019学年结束的时候龚校长建议我给老师们布置一点暑假学习的任务，读书当然成为一种选择，因为它是比容易组织的教师学习方式。在一个学习型的组织内，教师之间的分享也是非常重要的。如何让老师们既读书又能够分享他们所读的书呢？写书评然后集结成册似乎是一个很好的选择。
To ask teachers to read and write book reviews was one idea that flashed into my mind when Principal Gong advised me to give teachers some summer assignments at the end of the 2019 academic year. Reading is really a convenient choice as all teachers have access to books. At the same time, sharing among teachers is also an important practice in a learning community. How to have teachers read and share what they read? Making a collection of book reviews seemed to be a good choice.
令龚校和我非常高兴的是，这个号召得到了大部份老师们的响应，暑假一过，我们就收到了一百多篇读后感，其背后就是几架子的各种书籍。老师们的阅读书单涵盖教学、课程、心理学等等方面。更另我们欣喜的是，每个老师都通过反思试图将书中所学结合到正在进行的教育教学实践，或是提高学生指导能力、或是改进课堂教学方法、或是增进对学生学习的认识和理解。
Principal Gong and I were very pleased to see this call be echoed by most teachers. We received over one hundred reviews after the summer, behind which we believe were a few shelves of books read. The scope of the reading encompasses teaching and learning, curriculum, psychology, and others. It is absolutely joy for us to read that every teacher intends to apply what is learned from the book read into the practice of teaching and education, whether to improve the ability of guiding students, or renovate methods of teaching, or enhance understanding of students’ learning.
将老师们的书评编辑成册的想法很好，但是工作量巨大！分工合作才能完成这个任务。在收到老师们的书评之后，我首先组织了学部校长和学校学术委员会对每一篇文字进行了初步阅读、整理和涮选。然后我再次将每一篇书评仔细阅读、编辑和分类。本书评集中的92篇文字正是以上这个过程的产物。图书馆在最后的编辑工作中也提供了大力支持。
The idea of making the collection is great, the amount of work involved is great too! Collaboration was the solution to such a huge task. Upon receiving teachers’ book reviews, I gathered a task force consisting of divisional principals and members of the Academic Committee to read, collate, and select from all the pieces. A few months later, I read each selected piece carefully again to further edit and categorize. The final collection of 92 reviews is the result of these above processes. The school librarians also provided support in the final editing stage.
我们将老师们的评论大致分为教学、课程、心理、育人、论文评述、和其它六大类。其中归为“其它”类的与学校教育教学工作没有直接关系，属于老师们个人阅读学习兴趣；“论文评述”类并非是对于书的评论，虽然这些思考也是有关于教育教学。
We categorized the reviews into six sections, including teaching and learning, curriculum, psychology, education, reviews of articles, and others. Among them, ‘others’ has little to do with school work, they are related to teachers’ personal reading and learning interests; ‘reviews of articles’ were not about published books, although these reviews are related to school work.
我们集子取名为《读知行2020》。读的是别人的思想和经验，然后转化成自己的知识和技能，最后通过实际行动改进教育教学工作，这个完整的过程才是有效的教师学习。任何教育的变革和教学的改进最终都取决于每一个老师在课堂内、外的教学行为的改变。我们期待老师们通过自己读书、反思、行动和分享不断地提高每个人的和我们学校整体的教育教学过程和质量。
We entitle the collection as ECNUAS READS. Reading is just the starter as it processes others’ thoughts and experiences; this initial step should be followed by internalization through which reading becomes our own knowledge and skills; the process of teacher learning must be culminated by making real changes in teaching and education. It has been proven that the effectiveness of any reform on education and teaching depends on changes in teachers’ practices in and outside classrooms. We hope ECNUAS teachers will continuously improve our individual and collective quality of teaching and education by reading, reflecting, practicing, and sharing.
读书评也是读书，我读了老师们一百多篇书评就等于我在两个月里快速阅读了一百多本书，这个学习效率是相当高的。我想其中的有些书我会买来或借来认真通读，而有些书大致了解一下也就够了。希望大家喜欢这种学习方式和这个集子，它是我们华双读书的集子。
Reading book reviews is reading too. I have been reading over one hundred reviews. That is to say, I scanned over one hundred books in two months. This is very efficient learning！ I think I will eventually buy or borrow some of these books and give them a good reading that they deserve, whereas for some books I will just let them go. I hope our teachers will like this way of learning and will enjoy this collection in particular as it is the collection that ECNUAS reads.
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