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Summary of the work of Chinese lesson preparation team leader
Time always slips away inadvertently, and our work has come to an end. Looking back on the work during this period, there must be many difficulties and hardships. Let's sort out our past work and write a work summary. So how do you sum up your works and write new tricks? The following is my summary of the work of the Chinese lesson preparation team leader (selected 6 articles). Welcome to read the collection.

Summary of the work of the Chinese lesson preparation team leader 1 The teaching of the first semester is coming to an end. As the saying goes, "spring ploughs and autumn harvests", looking back on the teaching and research work in the first semester, we have some enrichment and some insights. Our lesson preparation group actively works around the central task of the school teaching and research group and cooperates with the teaching and research group. The work of this group is summarized as follows:

I. Main Work

(A) to develop a practical preparation group plan.

The activity plan of the preparation group this semester is guided by the work plan of the guidance office, combined with the characteristics of this subject and this grade, and after consulting other teachers, a practical plan is worked out. In order to better carry out the activities of the preparatory group, we also formulated specific implementation measures through discussion. Every activity has content, a center spokesman, and every teacher speaks freely.

Carry out solid and effective preparatory group activities.

1. Seriously study the theory and update the educational concept. At the beginning of school, our whole group of teachers studied Chinese Curriculum Standards carefully, understood the teaching objectives and requirements of this year, and started a discussion on classroom teaching standards under the new curriculum theory. After that, we learn the new curriculum through various ways such as individual self-study and group communication, and master the new curriculum, thus changing our concepts and forming a new concept of curriculum, teachers, teaching, classroom and quality.

2. Take "interactive classroom, efficient classroom" as the criterion, take problem-based teaching method as the starting point, take classroom teaching as the main position, study teaching seriously and do a good job in every class.

3. Try to apply modern information technology to subject teaching, and actively explore the new features, new models and new ideas of Chinese teaching under the network environment.

4. Give full play to the role of the lesson preparation group, so that each unit has a teacher in charge of each lesson, and other teachers actively participate in the discussion and put forward suggestions for improvement to make it perfect.

5. Teachers in this group can listen to each other; Every teacher has attended no less than 16 classes this semester.

6. Seriously participate in major teaching and research activities organized by the school's teaching and research group.

7. Strengthen the standardization of daily management and check the implementation. Check the teacher's lesson preparation revision and teaching reflection, lesson preparation group activities, homework correction, test paper practice, etc. Be punctual according to the requirements of the school.

8. We have successfully completed all kinds of Chinese competitions at school, city and province levels, such as "the Chinese comprehensive ability competition for primary school students in the whole province", "the idiom knowledge competition" and "the national spirit speech competition".

9. Class 5 (1) and Class 5 (2) carried out the reading activities of "reciting classics and ancient poems", and organized students to carry out a series of activities such as "handwritten newspaper of ancient poems" and "competition of ancient poems".

10. This group of young teachers, Mr. Hu, participated in the competition of "Young Teachers Writing Teaching Plans" and achieved good results.

Second, the shortcomings

1. For excellent and potential students, their comprehensive Chinese literacy needs to be improved, their listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities need to be further explored and cultivated, and their comprehensive Chinese scores need to be further improved.

The problem of poor students has always been a difficult problem for us, and their achievements are still not satisfactory. It is our goal to improve their passing rate next semester.

Third, the next step

1. Strengthen teachers' learning, carry out further exchanges among teachers in the group, and strive to improve the classroom teaching efficiency of teachers in this group and improve the quality of Chinese teaching. Standardize the routine work of teaching, starting from the aspects of listening to lectures, correcting homework, preparing lessons, cultivating the excellent and making up the poor, and making clear the requirements and doing it according to the requirements.

2. From the students' point of view, focus on establishing self-confidence in learning, establishing a competitive learning atmosphere, paying attention to the cultivation of learning interest and learning methods, expanding reading and improving their comprehensive level.

3. Try to be an underachiever, think of various ways, make unremitting efforts, and try our best not to let a student fall behind.

In short, this semester, our group has done its duty, unity and cooperation, * * * forge ahead with each other and communicate with each other. As the saying goes, "No pains, no gains", our group will, as always, explore in work, make progress in exploration and grow in progress.

Summary of the work of the head of the Chinese language preparation group 2 Under the unified leadership of the school, the fifth-grade Chinese language preparation group worked hard in accordance with the work plan formulated at the beginning of the semester, fully implemented the spirit of the new curriculum reform, and carried out various forms of Chinese teaching for the purpose of comprehensively improving students' Chinese literacy, and successfully completed the teaching and research work this semester. The summary is as follows:

First, seriously study the theory and update the educational concept.

At the beginning of school, our whole group of teachers carefully studied the Chinese curriculum standards, understood the teaching objectives and requirements of this grade, and discussed the classroom teaching standards under the new curriculum theory. Later, I learned the new curriculum through individual self-study and group communication, participated in the school-based training of the theory of "building an efficient Chinese classroom" and "learning pyramid" organized by the school, mastered the new curriculum, changed my concept, and formed a new concept of curriculum, teachers, teaching, classroom and quality.

Two, continue to carry out on-campus lectures and teaching diagnostic activities.

It has always been the tradition of our school to carry out classroom activities seriously and actively to promote the improvement of teachers' collective teaching level. In recent years, with the continuous growth of school teachers, the number of teachers in our Chinese teaching and research group has also gradually expanded. How to make different teachers grow together in the teaching and research group? Our practice is to carry out collective lesson preparation, special discussion, open class, teaching diagnosis and other activities. Among them, open classes are a good way for everyone to learn from each other. In every activity, we pay close attention to the following links: collective lesson preparation, organization of lectures, class evaluation and diagnosis summary.

Third, further implement the collective lesson preparation system.

"Short in size and long in size." Everyone has his strengths and weaknesses. If we can learn from each other's strengths and avoid weaknesses, our work will get twice the result with half the effort. However, due to various reasons, collective lesson preparation once became a mere formality. This semester, we earnestly implemented the relevant regulations of the guidance office, strictly enforced the discipline requirements, improved the organization mode, and implemented the practice of setting the topic, setting the time, setting the speaker and all the staff to participate in preparing lessons, which greatly improved the quality of collective preparing lessons. In collective lesson preparation, we should try our best to unify our thoughts, progress and practice, especially when preparing teaching objectives, students' exercises and teaching methods, we can pool our wisdom, foster strengths and avoid weaknesses. At the same time, through collective lesson preparation, we can keep abreast of education and teaching, and constantly explore, reform and innovate according to the characteristics of teaching materials.

Fourth, the teaching should be checked regularly, constantly grasped and put into place.

In order to make the teaching work standardized, institutionalized, scientific and orderly, we should pay close attention to the routine inspection every month, be careful and meticulous, and make timely rectification when problems are found. Through supervision and inspection, teachers have formed work habits and can always complete various tasks in time at the end of each month.

In short, this semester, the teachers of our fifth-grade Chinese preparation group set an example everywhere and made bold innovations, and all achieved certain results. For example, the open classes of Mr. Kong Fanxiang and Mr. Wang Xia were well received by the experts in the county teaching and research section. However, we also see difficulties and shortcomings, such as the activities of the teaching and research group are not solid enough, many specific work links are not creative, the activities of the preparation group are not efficient, some teachers lack a correct understanding of the activities of the teaching and research group, and their enthusiasm for participating in collective activities is not high. There is not enough guidance for students' extracurricular reading, the organization of students' activities is still not divorced from the examination pattern, and insufficient attention is paid to the improvement of students' comprehensive Chinese literacy.

We believe that as long as the whole school renews its educational concept and truly adheres to the correct direction of running a school, on the basis of summing up the experience and lessons of this semester and with the joint efforts of all teachers, our group will do better in all aspects next semester.

Summary of the work of the head of the Chinese preparation group 3 Time flies, and we have entered a new year before we know it. Looking back on our work in the past semester, we are very happy. Every member of the lesson preparation group works conscientiously and practically, changing teaching concepts and improving teaching methods under the guidance of new teaching concepts; Carry out teaching reform purposefully, planned and step by step; Strengthen classroom teaching research and improve the level and quality of Chinese teaching in an all-round way. The related work is briefly described as follows:

I. Main Work

1, strengthen learning and update ideas.

At the beginning of school, we organized teachers to study the Chinese curriculum standards and this textbook. Understand the teaching objectives, teaching emphases and difficulties of this textbook. And apply holiday distance education and training to teaching, and strive to update ideas. Every teacher is required to carefully study the teaching materials before class, carefully design the teaching plan, and strive to improve the effectiveness of the classroom so that students can study in a relaxed and happy atmosphere.

2. Listen to each other and learn from each other.

At the beginning of this semester, each team member is required to carefully design a class and start the class in a group. Ask other teachers to attend classes after adjusting the class. After class, we should evaluate the class, discuss it carefully, find out the highlights and shortcomings of this class, learn from each other's strengths and discuss practical and effective solutions. Besides listening to our group's open classes, we will try our best to attend other Chinese classes organized by our school. By attending and evaluating classes, our teachers can find out their own shortcomings in time, find out the advantages of others, learn from each other's strengths and improve our teachers' overall teaching level.

3, group discussion, * * * has improved.

There are six members in our group, three middle-aged teachers and three young teachers. It can be said that this is a team that combines youth with youth. Everyone has different age levels and different teaching experiences, but this is precisely the advantage of our group. Middle-aged teachers will tell my young teachers about their teaching experience without reservation, and young teachers will make this group more energetic and instill some new ideas from time to time. In this way, we often have a heated discussion on a text, even if it is a small problem. After every monthly exam, we will take out the test paper and sit together to analyze the concept of the test paper, which question has a high error rate, which class did not do well, which aspect the teacher ignored and so on. We can often see such discussions in our group, and we will discuss them together and strive for common progress.

Second, the shortcomings

1. For excellent and potential students, their comprehensive Chinese literacy needs to be improved, their listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities need to be further explored and cultivated, and their comprehensive Chinese scores need to be improved.

2. The problem of poor students has always been a difficult problem that puzzles us. Their grades are still unsatisfactory. It is our goal to improve their passing rate.

Third, the next step

1, strengthen teachers' learning, carry out further exchanges among teachers in the group, and strive to improve the classroom teaching efficiency of teachers in our group and improve the quality of Chinese teaching. Standardize the routine work of teaching, starting from the aspects of listening to lectures, correcting homework, preparing lessons, improving the excellent and making up the poor, making clear the requirements and doing it according to the requirements.

2. From the students' point of view, focus on establishing self-confidence in learning, establishing a competitive learning atmosphere, paying attention to the cultivation of learning interest and learning methods, expanding reading and improving their comprehensive level.

3. Try to be an underachiever, think of various ways, make unremitting efforts, and try our best not to let a student fall behind.

Summary of the work of the leader of the Chinese preparation team for four semesters, the Chinese preparation team of my grade is guided by the new curriculum standard concept, comprehensively implements the school's work ideas and work arrangements for the new semester, pays attention to the research of teaching materials with a pragmatic attitude, and reflects on exchanges and cooperation through collective preparation and teaching seminars, effectively improving classroom teaching efficiency, striving to improve students' Chinese literacy, learning advanced teaching concepts and improving teaching methods, and constantly improving the theoretical basis and teaching ability of the teachers of the preparation team. Now let's make a phased summary of the work in this issue:

First, strengthen collective lesson preparation and promote teaching and research.

This semester, six Chinese teachers in our group can actively study Chinese curriculum standards and take advantage of every opportunity to go out and listen carefully. Through the combination of self-study and collective study, discussion and summary, this paper focuses on how to realize the transformation of learning methods and the implementation of diversified teaching evaluation in Chinese classroom, inject the spirit of the new curriculum into the old textbooks and realize the new enlightenment of the old classroom.

Collective lesson preparation is an excellent way to improve teachers' teaching level and broaden teaching ideas. Through this work, we can not only prepare lessons with rich contents and novel teaching methods, but also make the lesson preparers express their opinions, learn from each other's strong points and improve the teaching level. Our lesson preparation group gives full play to the advantages of collective lesson preparation and achieves six unifications: unified progress, unified teaching objectives, unified teaching contents, unified difficulties, unified homework and unified examinations, but the teaching methods can be different. Teachers can prepare lessons for the second time according to their own teaching style, different teaching objects and their own understanding of teaching theory, teaching methods and teaching content. For the Chinese teachers in the graduating class, the teaching task is relatively heavy, and they all have to be class teachers. The workload is heavy, but every member of the lesson preparation group can actively participate in the collective lesson preparation activities. Through this activity, everyone benefited a lot and greatly improved the teaching level.

Unity, cooperation, mutual respect and continuous learning are a major feature of our lesson preparation group activities, which are very active from individual discussion to group discussion. In the work, everyone cares about and helps each other, so that the activities of the preparatory group can be carried out normally, orderly, harmoniously and effectively. On how to break through the difficult problems, teachers not only discuss it in the weekly lesson preparation group activities, but also often discuss it at other times. Just like this, the six classes go hand in hand and the overall level is constantly improving.

Second, reflect the collective wisdom in homework and testing:

Homework is a test of students' learning efficiency and teachers' teaching effect. According to the characteristics of current students and previous teaching experience, two learning plans are designed for each class. The first focuses on the basis of the text, training basic knowledge such as pronunciation, word meaning, font, filling in the blanks according to the content of the text, and focusing on the accumulation of idioms, famous sayings and poems related to the text, and appropriately expanding the training of sentences. For example, writing sentences, correcting mistakes in an all-round way, sorting questions, etc. Review and consolidate "70 ancient poems" as required, and write 2 ancient poems in dictation at a time according to the order of 70 ancient poems, and ask students to indicate the year and author. The second type focuses on understanding the content of the text, closely connecting with the content of the text, carefully designing topics for key sentences and paragraphs, promoting students' understanding and mastery of the content of the text, and supplementing the reading of classic short passages in an appropriate amount. Weekly weekend study cases focus on extracurricular expansion, focusing on the accumulation, migration and application of knowledge. Every proposition has to go through four steps: proposition, review, revision and finalization. The topics are carefully designed so that every student can learn something.

Consolidate what you have learned in time. After each unit, after passing the new word test and unit review, do unit exercises once every two units, make independent propositions on the basis of thoroughly understanding the teaching materials, and implement the additional question system, with a total score of 120. Each test paper is finalized and printed after deliberation and discussion by the teachers in this group, which fully embodies the collective wisdom of the lesson preparation group. Correcting and implementing training collectively.

Every teacher in our year can carefully correct every assignment in strict accordance with the requirements of the school, comment in time, guide students to correct it in time, improve the quality of homework, and adjust their teaching progress and teaching methods in time. Summarize and reflect on the problems exposed by students in the learning process in time, and the lesson preparation group will discuss them collectively, give full play to the collective wisdom, and formulate corresponding countermeasures to obtain the best teaching effect in the shortest time.

In individual counseling, the teachers in 2000 show their magical powers, teach students in accordance with their aptitude, and do a good job in helping the excellent and making up the poor. Adhere to the combination of cultivating outstanding students and poverty alleviation, do a good job in expanding the enrollment of individual students, and strive to improve the overall qualified rate and eugenic rate. Support the establishment of groups, pay attention to teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, stimulate the learning confidence of students with learning difficulties, and grade homework, which effectively improved students' academic performance that year. Every teacher can use his spare time to give students solid guidance.

Third, form your own unique style and actively participate in various class activities.

Nervous, orderly and in step, actively participate in various competition classes. Although the work is complicated, Director Sha is busy and has a lot of school affairs, he has done a good job in preparing lessons, writing lesson plans and correcting homework. In reading teaching, Mr. Dong Bing asked students to actively carry out inquiry learning and learn and use Chinese in practice. In teaching, Rebecca pays attention to guiding students to appreciate the beauty of language in reading, to taste the feelings between the lines in reading, and to learn language expression and accumulate language in reading. Dong Bing and Rebecca on the training ground were assigned review classes. They carefully prepared lessons and tried again and again, presenting two wonderful review lessons for all Chinese teachers.

Fourth, organize students to carry out various competitions to improve their comprehensive Chinese literacy.

In order to further implement quality education, this semester, the preparatory group carried out a series of activities and competitions, such as text reading activities, writing activities and various essay-writing activities, according to the arrangement of the school's academic affairs office and Chinese textbooks. These activities have played a very good role in promoting students' personality, cultivating students' hobbies, cultivating students' innovative consciousness and creativity, and improving students' comprehensive Chinese literacy.

Five, show personal expertise in the collective.

1 to make the class more effective:

Our sixth-grade Chinese preparation group teachers can conscientiously implement the requirements of the department and the teaching and research group in class. Clear goals before, during and after class, try to overcome randomness, effectively reflect and improve classroom efficiency. Strive to improve the quality in 40 minutes, strive to make students gain something in every class, and devote themselves to the training of students' habits and basic skills such as listening, speaking, reading and writing. When encountering problems, we should communicate with each other, learn from each other, express our opinions and be honest with each other, so that the problems can be solved in the debate. On the basis of absorbing the strengths of others, we should constantly improve our classroom teaching and make individuals make rapid progress in the great wisdom of the collective.

2. After-class reflection leads to long:

This semester, the teachers of our sixth grade Chinese preparation group can review and reflect on their feelings in the process of classroom teaching design and implementation in time according to the completion of their teaching tasks, the problems existing in teaching, the students' learning status and their feelings after teaching. Teachers can start with the small points in teaching, try to find the bright spots in their own teaching in each class, and find out the places that can be improved for reflection and rectification.

Sixth, learn from each other's strengths and make continuous improvement.

With the joint efforts of all members, our sixth grade Chinese preparation group successfully completed all the teaching tasks of this semester. Of course, we will also learn from other teachers in the preparation group with an open mind, learn from each other's strengths and strive for greater improvement. Therefore, in the new semester, our sixth grade Chinese preparation group will further improve the work of the preparation group, continuously improve the activity efficiency of the preparation group, and enhance the teaching ability of each teacher in our group!

Seven. Conception of next semester's activities

Next semester, in addition to finishing all the work assigned by the school and the Chinese teaching and research group, we will continue to explore teaching methods that are more suitable for the characteristics of six-year students, organize more Chinese activities, find shortcomings in the activities, find ways to improve, and constantly improve the overall quality of our teachers in the preparation group. Under the training and guidance of teachers, cultivate students' interest in learning Chinese and improve their Chinese learning ability. The general idea is as follows:

1. Continue to strengthen mutual teaching, evaluation and communication among teachers in the group.

2. Continue to strengthen collective lesson preparation.

3. Strengthen theoretical study and improve theoretical level. Grasp learning opportunities and pay attention to expert guidance.

4. Conduct more competitions among students, expand their thinking and improve their comprehensive quality.

Summary of the work of the head of the Chinese preparation team 5 This semester, our sixth-grade Chinese preparation team carried out teaching and research work in an orderly, effective and solid manner around the school teaching work. The work of this semester is summarized as follows:

First, study norms and make plans. Shortly after the start of school, the Chinese teachers in our group carefully studied the work plans of the Academic Affairs Office and the teaching and research group, made clear the guiding ideology, work objectives and basic requirements of the preparation group, and carefully formulated the teaching plan of this group, which provided a solid guarantee for the smooth development of the preparation group.

Second, study the teaching materials carefully to understand the learning situation. The teachers in our group completed the classroom teaching design on the basis of carefully studying the teaching materials, analyzing the learning situation and consulting the materials. Arrange a weekly exercise every Wednesday to test the students' learning situation (or last week's learning knowledge) and grasp the students' learning dynamics in time so as to make timely adjustments in future teaching. In addition, according to the arrangement of the Academic Affairs Office, students will be tested once a month to keep abreast of their learning situation and provide targeted individual counseling for students with learning difficulties. Have four morning reading classes every week to review and consolidate what you have learned. Through our efforts, the gap between classes has narrowed.

Third, strengthen collective lesson preparation. Combination of collective preparation and independent preparation. Self-study every Monday afternoon is the time to prepare lessons collectively. Every time we prepare lessons collectively, we should determine the contents of the teachers and students, feed back the contents taught last week and discuss the contents to be taught next week: first, the teachers and students summarize the contents of the textbooks and introduce their own teaching ideas, then other members discuss, supplement and delete them, and finally the lesson preparation team leader summarizes them. On the basis of collective discussion, further improve and sort out, and form a standardized teaching design. Special emphasis is placed on personalized revision, that is, the teacher's personal secondary preparation.

Fourth, regular teaching. Be able to prepare lessons, attend classes, review homework and give guidance according to the requirements of the school. In the aspect of homework arrangement, hierarchical arrangement is adopted, and targeted homework arrangement is carried out for students at different levels in order to make progress. In the usual teaching, we also pay attention to the guidance of students with learning difficulties and adopt a "one-on-one" approach to let these students catch up with the unified pace of the class as soon as possible.

Use spare time to carry out a variety of extracurricular activities, such as: carrying out reading week activities, writing reading notes and talking about learning experience. We extend in-class reading to extracurricular reading, apply what we have learned, and let students apply the reading methods they have learned in class to extracurricular reading. This not only broadens the reading range, but also enriches students' knowledge.

With the unity and cooperation of the whole group of teachers, the above work was successfully completed. In the future work, we will do a better job in the preparation group.

Six years have passed since the summary of the work of the head of the Chinese preparation group, and a tense, substantial, orderly and enterprising semester has passed. This semester, all four teachers in our senior one and senior two preparation group can work hard according to the work plan of the Chinese teaching and research group. Now we will summarize the work of a semester as follows:

First, seriously study advanced teaching theory and update the concept of education and teaching.

The new curriculum requires that Chinese teaching should focus on promoting students' personality development, changing the traditional teaching mode, changing the roles of teachers and students, and building a dynamic teaching form. In this grade, we urgently need to understand the age psychological characteristics of students at this stage, understand the teaching objectives and requirements of this grade, and learn advanced teaching experience and methods. Therefore, we have carefully studied the Chinese curriculum standards, strengthened the study of education and teaching theory through newspapers, magazines and online learning, and organized practical and effective learning exchange and discussion activities. Usually, I have a strong sense of resources, and my understanding of the new curriculum reform has been greatly improved through mutual communication.

Second, study and study teaching materials, so as to be aware of them.

At the beginning of school, in order to ensure the feasibility of the implementation of the lesson preparation group plan, our lesson preparation group teachers carefully studied the lesson plans of the Chinese teaching and research group, put forward their own opinions on the formulation of the lesson preparation group plan, and made the lesson preparation group plan under full discussion, and tried to do it according to the formulated plan. Usually, we should listen carefully and strive to improve the efficiency of classroom teaching. On the basis of seriously studying the new curriculum standards and some theories, our group conducted a serious discussion around the teaching content of senior one and senior two. Through this training, the teacher has a good understanding of the position, knowledge points, importance and difficulty of each unit of the whole textbook. In teaching, teachers can give full play to the subjective initiative of learning textbooks and use textbooks creatively and flexibly on the basis of understanding editors' intentions. In teaching, teachers can also take students as the main body to create a learning atmosphere of students' hands-on practice, independent exploration and cooperative exchange, so that students can understand and feel knowledge in observation, reading, understanding and communication.

Third, love their jobs, teach and educate people. The teachers in our group prepare lessons carefully according to the standards put forward by the school, and strive to do well in each class. After class, seriously reflect, sum up, carefully correct every assignment, and often use spare time to coach students with learning difficulties.

Fourth, unite and cooperate and enjoy resources. Our group is a united group. Teachers often introduce their teaching experience in groups. The unity and cooperation of the whole regiment not only absorbed the external educational information, but also made time to study their own teaching business and improved their teaching level.

Five, seriously carry out teaching and research activities, and actively write papers.

This semester, my group teacher Ma won the first place in the district league class competition on behalf of the school, and then won the second place in the municipal excellent class competition, and achieved good results in the lectures of the Young Teachers Competition with his unique teaching style. Also, Mr. Ji and Mr. Wang participated in the open class of the whole school, and four teachers in our group also actively participated in the collective activities organized by the teaching and research group of the school. Before class, the teachers in the group put forward their own ideas, discuss teaching methods, preset teaching effects, attend classes on time and take notes carefully. After each class, class evaluation activities should be carried out in the group, and everyone can speak freely in the class evaluation activities, which is a kind of progress for the instructors and listeners. Usually, I also actively participate in school teaching and research activities and exchange ideas in the group in time. Combined with my usual teaching accumulation, I actively write papers. Looking back on the work of the preparation group this semester, it is busy and full. We strive to grasp the teaching and research work, grasp the details, grasp the reality, and make progress from bit by bit. Although there is no vigorous performance, every teacher can work hard. In the future work of the preparation group, we will continue to work hard, reflect more and summarize more, mobilize the enthusiasm of all teachers in this preparation group, and carry out various activities to promote the improvement of work efficiency.