Time flies, Suzhou Foreign Teachers English Course Delivery Program of 2019-2020 academic year stayed stick to their posts in the current epidemic situation. The distance in reality and the severe epidemic situation did not prevent the normal online teaching, and the teaching form changed from the traditional offline classroom to online recording. With the support of Suzhou Teacher Development Center, 264 high-quality online oral classes were recorded by foreign teachers in the second semester. The corresponding exchange is more than one million views of students in the city, and as more courses are uploaded to Suzhou online education platform, this data will continue to rise. (are online courses more extensive than offline courses?)

In addition to the amount of class hours completed, the team leader Philip Nesbitt and Alex McDougall, creatively produced six editions of newspaper. The original English reading materials were provided to students for free as extracurricular English learning materials. At the meeting, Ms Wang Jingzhi, director of the suzhou education association for international exchange, summarized the work for the whole school year. In the second semester, only five foreign teachers stayed in Suzhou. The work team developed a suitable management mode in time, which overcame the difficulties of epidemic prevention and isolation of foreign teachers, and required the foreign teachers to register the temperature, location and contact personnel every day. In the most serious stage of the epidemic, we can still ensure that online courses are updated in time. In addition to completing the class and the production of newspaper, director Ms Wang Jingzhi also broadcast a video of foreign teachers participating in the local life. At this time, we found that these foreign teachers often went to TV and realized the wishes that many local people could not realize.

The picture shows a group photo of the program working group and foreign teachers in Suzhou Municipal Education Bureau

Wish all the foreign teachers in Suzhou happy every day and make greater contributions to the education of Suzhou. Also wish the foreign teachers who are away from the epidemic situation and have a bright future! Looking forward to seeing you again!