I.Content of the Effective Principle

Effective teaching includes effectiveness and efficiency. It stresses on achieving the teaching effect within a limited time. In other words, teaching objectives should be achieved with minimal time.

The teaching goal must be properly designed, with the students as its central concern. We must ensure that the choice of goal is justifiable in terms of the curriculum so it helps students to achieve their learning targets.

In conclusion, the effective principle in elementary and middle school means that the teaching at class should help students to achieve or exceed the specified objective within specified time.

II.The Methods of Implementing the Effective Principle

Teachers should design teaching and learning activities directly targeted at the teaching objective, to bring out greatest efficiency within minimal time.

1.Know the students' needs

In order to be clear on how the students internalize knowledge, acquire skills and develop thinking patterns, teachers should know exactly their physical, communicational, emotional, moral and cognitive development. It is important to consider these factors in designing and organizing teaching activities learning.

2.Make a reasonable teaching plan

Making a reasonable teaching plan means considering a range of factors: the teaching theories, materials, student development, exploitation of curriculum, how to reach the teaching objective and personalize the input to suit students. The teaching plan should also consider the students' initial knowledge and how to enlarge it.

3.Let the students define the study goal

Having students set the study goal helps to encourage and direct their learning. The teachers need to help students analyse the syllabus and teaching material carefully, and make a definite teaching goal to precisely meet the students' needs.

4.Design the teaching activities

Effective language learning should be built on active practice. Every activity needs to be carefully designed to take the students' actual levels into consideration, so that the students can gradually assimilate contents relatively difficult to them. This is an incremental process.

5.Use language that is easy to understand

English is the instrument as well as the learning object. In class the teachers should use already learned phrases when teaching, and make sure the students can follow the context. Body-language is necessary. Expression, mime, and drawing can be used. Chinese can also be used to save time when teaching abstract meaning or complex sentences.

6.Pay attention to the students' response

By reviewing the response, the teacher will know whether the students understand the teaching content, so as to make timely adjustments. Through eye contact, behavior, and expression, information can be gained about the teaching effect and real language competence of the students.

7.Encourage the students to ask questions

To implement the effective principle, encouraging the students to ask questions openly is a necessity. The teacher should compliment those who ask questions, and let the students learn to enjoy this approach. In addition, students should be encouraged to challenge the textbooks. Teachers should also teach students how to ask questions.

8.Encourage the students to evaluate themselves

Teaching evaluation is necessary for gathering feedback, monitoring teaching quality, and making adjustment in teaching. The content of the evaluation should include basic language knowledge, language skills, the students' learning emotions, learning attitude, learning strategy, language potential and manner. An informed and rational evaluation system is necessary to achieve curriculum objective. The teacher should develop multiple goals and methods of evaluation, and encourage students' self-evaluation. The teachers can offer the necessary information and cultivate students' ability of self diagnosis, self adjustment, self motivation, and of developing self confidence so that the students' personal goals can be reached.

9.Offer abundant learning resources

Text books are not sufficient for students to extend their knowledge. Teachers should offer abundant resources including explicit resources such as teaching materials, teaching aids, learning tools, teaching equipment, campus culture, community culture, and implicit social knowledge resources such as inquiry with other students, teachers and parents. The teaching resources comprise two parts: the materials which can be used to learn and to teach, like books, newspapers and broadcasts; and the objective conditions which are helpful for the processing of the teaching, like classrooms, computers, Internet, and libraries. Teachers should encourage students to choose and use resources according to their preferences and actual conditions and to follow their interests, and be content while learning. The teachers should help students to select materials by themselves, and help them to use the resources appropriately.