Authentic Tasks in Classroom Teaching of Elementary Education:Connotations,Design and Implementation
Constructing a learning process with authentic tasks as the main line has become a significant method and a necessary trend to promote students'learning and understanding on subject knowledge as well as to coordinate and comprehensively improve their competences.Authentic tasks,with learning tasks as the essence,featuring with situation authenticity,goal depth,level progression,content structured and learning presentation,can help students elevate learning motivation,accumulate learning experiences,promote learning transferring,and re-establish meanings of learning.In general,there are four kinds of design procedures for authentic tasks under the different target directions,which are subject knowledge understanding,holistic unit learning,interdisciplinary learning and comprehensive practical activities.During implementation of authentic tasks,scenarios should be connected with the reality.Learning content and the tasks should contain the same nature.Educators should be aware of the way of guidance as well as being learning partners with the students.Moreover,reflections,assessments and the learning process should hold the same objectives and directions.