A Study On The Current Situation And Countermeasures Of Waiting In Upper Elementary Classroom

If we consider teaching to be a process in which teachers guide and help students to learn,while students’ thinking and expression cannot be ignored or replaced,then we should recognise the need to wait in the teaching and learning process.Waiting in teaching means making appropriate stops at key moments in the classroom process to give students sufficient time to think before responding.However,in many classrooms today,as teachers overly pursue the fluency and efficiency of the teaching process and neglect the subjectivity of students,waiting in teaching has "disappeared" from the teaching process.It is believed that waiting for teaching is an inevitable part of the process that should not be ignored or misunderstood,but should be taken seriously and,on this basis,analyzed and studied as a’chain’.Following these conceptualisations and research ideas,what is the current state of waiting in upper primary classrooms? How do teachers implement waiting in their teaching processes? This study investigates the phenomenon of waiting in the upper primary classroom,identifies the problems that exist in primary school teachers’ conceptions and practices of teaching and learning,and then seeks to identify the causes of the problems,and finally proposes a reasonable understanding of waiting in teaching and some solutions have been proposed.This study first uses the literature method to briefly review the status of domestic and international research on teaching waiting,and on this basis,defines the concept of teaching waiting and classifies the types of teaching waiting.Then,we investigated the current situation of teaching waiting in the upper grade classroom of elementary school J in city A through in-class observation,teaching video,and teacher-student interviews,and analyzed the problems and causes of teachers’ implementation of teaching waiting with the cases that occurred in the classroom teaching process.The study found that the following problems exist in the current teaching waiting in upper elementary classrooms: teaching waiting is less frequent and mostly passive;the duration of teaching waiting is shorter and mostly passive;and there are significant differences in the implementation of teaching waiting between new and old teachers.The main reasons for these problems are teachers’ misunderstanding of their own leading role,their obsession with classroom teaching fluency,their one-sided pursuit of classroom teaching efficiency,and the pursuit of "utilitarianism" in school teaching management.In view of the above problems and causes,this study suggests that improvements should be made in the following four aspects: teachers should respect students’ subjectivity and wait patiently for students’ thinking and expression;teachers should reflect on "teaching efficiency" and improve the quality of questions;teachers should pay attention to the depth of students’ thinking and extend the teaching waiting time appropriately;schools should return to the establishment of moral education and realize the change of teaching system management.The school has returned to the establishment of moral education and realized the change of teaching system management.