Double teacher class in the past two years has become the star of the education industry, by the industry a high praise, New Oriental, good future and other education giants have layout, triggered the boom of double teacher education. For the double teacher class, the industry holds different views, some people think that the double teacher class is just a transition mode of online education live broadcast, others think that the double teacher class can set off a great revolution of online education. What are the possibilities for the development of online education provided by dual-teacher classes?
Double teacher + live alleviate the pain of online education, or can become the core of online education
The double-teacher model was first applied in the field of vocational education, and was gradually recognized by the market in the past two years. More and more educational institutions began to test the waters of double-teacher education, and New Oriental set up a wholly-owned subsidiary “Double-teacher Oriental”. There are nearly ten thousand students in the double teacher class of Xueersi; There are hundreds of gaos education and teachers’ cooperative institutions. Other institutions have jumped on the bandwagon. The dual-teacher model is promising in the field of education, so how can dual-teacher classrooms help solve the problems of online education?
First of all, the decomposition of teachers’ functions, more attention to students. The core of dual-teacher classroom is that two teachers jointly control a classroom. The functions of the teacher are refined. The teaching teacher only needs to do a good job in teaching, and the classroom discipline and interaction with students are completely entrusted to the teaching assistant teacher. In this way, teachers can better focus on achieving effective teaching results and students’ participation in class is ensured. What’s more, teachers’ teaching and students’ learning are not easy to produce a sense of fatigue, which can improve learning efficiency.
Secondly, technology empowerment, enhance the teaching effect. Double-teacher class relies on cloud services and professional video terminals and other high-end equipment, realizing the sharing of famous teachers. In the interaction between teachers and students, there are interactive tools such as the promise device, which can let the teacher know the classroom learning progress in real time, better understand the students’ learning needs, and adjust the teaching speed in time.
The dual-teacher class achieves the efficiency of 1+1>2. Real-time teaching by online famous teachers and targeted tutoring by offline teaching assistants maximizes the offline teaching scene and caters to students’ learning habits. In addition, the high-tech equipment can arouse students’ interest in learning and improve the learning effect to a certain extent. Based on this advantage, double teacher class has become an important point in the layout of new Oriental, good future and other educational leaders. However, the two-teacher classroom is not so perfect, there are still defects such as high construction cost of two-teacher classroom, difficult to mediate the contradiction between the two teachers, and weak interaction.
New Oriental “double division” quickly occupy the market, but there are still obstacles behind
In 2016, New Oriental began to enter the dual-teacher classroom. By taking advantage of the dual-teacher model, from self-establishment at fixed points to national promotion, New Oriental has achieved remarkable speed, rapidly occupying market share and attracting people’s attention. However, New Oriental also has to face its own shortcomings in the layout of the double teacher class.
First of all, the construction cost of double-teacher classroom is high. Internet technology and hardware are essential for the construction of dual-teacher class, which requires the transmission bandwidth and high-definition interactive teaching cloud platform at the classroom end. According to the data of Wusheng.com, the hardware investment of a two-teacher classroom starts at RMB 100,000 yuan, and the cost of network dedicated line access is RMB 10,000 yuan. If you have to deploy a two-teacher classroom network covering multiple classes, it is a huge cost compared to ordinary online classrooms.
Secondly, the functional contradiction between the two divisions is difficult to mediate. On the one hand, the dual-teacher class requires an online teacher and an offline assistant teacher. In order to ensure the teaching quality, the two teachers need to have script dialogue before the class starts and determine the class process, which limits the teachers’ immediate play according to the feedback of students and weakens the teaching effect.
On the other hand, as the role of teaching assistant becomes richer, it not only needs to cooperate with famous teachers in teaching, but also needs to interact with students and grasp the learning pace, but also needs to correct homework after class and help students to consolidate knowledge, which leads to the strengthening of the role of famous teachers in teaching content, and the weakening of the interactive function of famous teachers in teaching. The two teachers need a high degree of tacit understanding and cooperation, but it is difficult to reconcile in teaching because of the different functions assumed by the roles.
Finally, the two-teacher class mainly adopts one-to-many mode, and the classroom interaction is weak. The emergence of two-teacher classroom was once considered to be a sharp tool to solve the weak interaction of online education classes, but in order to share the cost, two-teacher classroom is still adopted one-to-many mode, that is, one online classroom to several offline classrooms. For example, the dual-teacher class of New Oriental mainly teaches in small classes, with 20 or 30 students in each class. This model increases income, but weakens the teaching effect. The teachers have to face multiple classes with dozens of students in each class.
Good future layout of high quality “double division”, but the scale is still small
Good future, another education giant, also took the opportunity to insert a foot in the two-teacher classroom. Unlike New Oriental, however, Good Future is experimenting with dual-teacher classes on a small scale to ensure quality. It is reported that in order to do a good job in the dual-teacher class, Good Future has cut off the line of teachers (such as super teacher Li Cuifang) and let teachers devote themselves to the dual-teacher class to ensure the quality of teaching, but this strategic layout also has its drawbacks.
One is small-scale layout, it is difficult to make profits in a short time. Since 2015, Good Future has been involved in the double teacher class. However, due to high investment in the double teacher class, the scale of the double teacher class of Good Future is small, mainly the famous teachers in the core area of the students in the city and surrounding cities, such as Nanjing famous teachers to students in Suzhou and other cities, so it does not spread too widely. Therefore, the dual-teacher class of Good Future does not contribute much to the income. According to duoknow, the contribution of the dual-teacher model to the income of Good Future is still less than 5%.
Second, famous teachers are difficult to copy. The attractive gimmick of dual-teacher classroom is famous teachers. Dual-teacher classroom can share high-quality teachers and solve the problem of lack of high-quality teachers, but famous teachers are difficult to copy. On the one hand, teaching wisdom is a teacher’s personal teaching achievement, a unique ability to understand and control the classroom and teaching content, which is difficult to replicate. On the other hand, teachers’ ability to adapt to situations on the teaching site is not easy to replicate. In addition, many parents and students now hold a wait-and-see attitude to the double teacher classroom, and it is easy to cause the loss of student flow after cutting off the offline class of famous teachers, and it is unwise to cut off the line of famous teachers.
Although there are many problems such as high construction cost and the contradiction between the two teachers is difficult to mediate, the operation of the two-teacher classroom is faced with many difficulties. But looking to the future, layout of the double teacher classroom benefits more than the disadvantages, for this, New Oriental, good future plan to continue to increase the double teacher classroom investment. New Oriental plans to enter 10 or so new cities in the coming year, and good Future is following suit. On June 1, Good Future launched its Future Magic School, which focuses on dual-teacher classes. From this point of view, the double teacher classroom has become the industry giants vying to occupy the throat area. So, can small business try water double teacher classroom?
Should we do double division mode after all?
Under the guidance of education giants New Oriental and Good Future, secondary and primary school extracurricular tutoring agencies, such as Gaos, Chug and Happy Learning, have also set their hands on double-teacher classes, which has become a hot topic in the education circle. The two-teacher model, pursued by education giants, may become the core of online education, while small businesses need to control the four systems of teaching research, teaching, service and marketing in order to share the pie.
In teaching and research, combined with teachers’ teaching habits and classroom situation, research and development of personalized teaching. Dual-teacher class requires the teaching and training institutions to formulate the teaching process according to teachers’ teaching habits and standardize the details of each teaching process so as to strengthen classroom collaboration between the two teachers.
Dual-teacher class emphasizes the integration of online and offline teaching modes and scenes. Therefore, teaching and research not only requires a long time of exploration by individual teachers, but also requires the cooperation of teachers from the RESEARCH and development teams of educational institutions.
In teaching, we should cultivate teachers’ professional ability and form the teaching habit of double-teacher classroom. The new two-teacher classroom teaching method is very challenging for the two-teacher classroom. Short-term training mechanism should be established to clarify the functions of the two-teacher classroom so that teachers can have a deep understanding of the two-teacher classroom. Teachers should learn how to communicate with camera language to enhance the appeal of the course. The tutor focuses on managing classroom discipline, student learning, and the pace of the instructor.
In terms of service, students’ learning status can be captured and reflected to parents at any time to achieve classroom transparency. Compared with other models, the dual-teacher classroom with dual-teacher and high-tech equipment is easier to achieve teaching transparency. Teachers can evaluate students’ knowledge before class and send the evaluation results to parents. In class, students can be captured to learn the expression, so that parents understand the state of students in class; After class, I will assign homework and make timely comments on students’ classroom learning effects, such as grades or comprehensive performance comments, so that parents can fully understand the classroom effects and increase the renewal rate.
Marketing, to create a teacher effect, promote the course. Online education can achieve the high quality teacher resources sharing, but again good teacher if unknown, also hard to attract students to sign up study, therefore, double platform should promote classroom teacher, put on the teacher on the platform of introduction and outstanding student case, actively encourage and help to open my own column and microblogging, the instructor will own teaching idea, Create teachers’ charm to drive the rate of course registration.
To sum up, double-teacher class maximizes the offline teaching scene and improves the learning effect through double-teacher interactive teaching, making it a new star in the online education industry. However, the double teacher class also has high construction cost, high teacher requirements, if the double teacher class to a large range of implementation, small enterprises want to share a share of the pie, but also from teaching research, teaching, service, marketing four aspects to improve the teaching quality of double teacher class from inside to outside.
Article/Liu Kuang public account, ID: Liukuang110