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Spring Semester during the COVID-19 Epidem-

ic: A Case Study of Tangquan Middle School in 

Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

Daxiang Dai, Gaofeng Lin 

 
Tangquan Middle School, Nanjing 210000, Jiangsu, China 

 

Abstract. The implementation of “School’s Out, But Class’s On” is in-

separable from the support of online education. The problem that each 

school needs to consider for online teaching during the delayed start 
period is how to use the network for teacher and student learning and 

management on the basis of ensuring the health of teachers and students 
to ensure high quality and high efficiency of online teaching. Taking the 

practical exploration of Tangquan Middle School in Nanjing, Jiangsu 

Province as an example, we explored the implementation plan of online 
teaching in schools during the COVID-19 epidemic. 

Best Evid Chin Edu 2020; 4(2):543-547. 

Doi: 10.15354/bece.20.rp005. 

Keywords: COVID-19 Epidemic; “School’s Out, But Class’s On”; Online Home 

Teaching; Implementation Plan; Middle School

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

About the Author: Daxiang Dai, Advanced Teacher, Tangquan Middle School, Nanjing 210000, Jiangsu, China, 

Email: 447604856@qq.com. 

Correspondence to: Gaofeng Lin, Advanced Teacher, Tangquan Middle School, Nanjing 210000, Jiangsu, China, 

Email: 23899158@qq.com. 

Conflict of Interests: None. 



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FFECTED, by the COVID-19 epidemic, on January 27, 2020, the Chinese 

Ministry of Education issued a notice requiring all types of schools to postpone 

the start of the 2020 spring semester, and emphasized the use of the internet 

platform to ensure “School’s Out, But Class’s On” plan, i.e., “School is closed, but stu-

dent learning is continuing online” or “Online Home Study” (This refers to the Official 

Website of the Chinese Ministry of Education: http://en.moe.gov.cn/). Tangquan Mid-

dle School in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, according to the requirements of all levels, 

take multiple measures to effectively and effectively solve the problem of autonomous 

learning of students, so that students can safely, orderly and effectively carry out the 

extended learning life during the extended school period. 

Establish Work Goals and Requirements 

In order to solve the problem of student learning during the epidemic, the school focus-

es on cultivating students’ autonomous learning ability and adheres to the five ethics of 

“morality, intelligence, sports, aesthetics, and labor.” In accordance with the character-

istics of online learning and the actual needs of students, guide students to carry out 

independent learning, ensure the effectiveness and quality of online teaching, and pro-

mote the all-round development of students. 

After discussion, the school established the following job requirements: 

1. Raise awareness. Class teachers and teachers in all subjects should attach great 

importance to online teaching, actively guide students, organize students in this 

class to do online learning, and give full play to the role of leading cadres, par-

ty member teachers, and backbone teachers in exemplary and exemplary roles. 

2. Organization is in place. Each class teacher and teacher in each subject must 

carefully plan, arrange carefully, and organize carefully to ensure that the stu-

dent’s “School’s Out, But Class’s On”. 

3. Strengthen publicity. The head teachers and teachers in each subject should 

timely publicize the work highlights and advanced models during online teach-

ing and learning, and continuously gather positive energy. 

4. Encourage innovation. Class teachers and teachers in each subject are encour-

aged to develop students’ autonomous learning ability based on the actual de-

velopment of resources and focus on the guidance of learning methods. But to 

control the total amount of learning resources, we must not increase the exces-

sive academic burden. 

5. Strengthen supervision. The head teachers and teachers in each subject should 

strengthen inspections to ensure the effectiveness of work; the teaching affairs 

office and information center should strengthen their work guidance to solve 

technical and teaching problems in a timely manner for each head teacher and 

teachers in each subject; the teaching affairs office should strengthen supervi-

sion. 

Set Up a Working Group 

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In order to better carry out “School’s Out, But Class’s On”, the school set up a working 

group led by the principal, and the vice principal as the vice-group leader. The heads of 

the teaching and research offices, and the lesson preparation teams are as the team 

members, so as to guarantee a good job of network teaching during the extended school 

period. 

Develop an Online Teaching Plan 

With reference to the online teaching requirements of the municipal and district educa-

tion bureaus, the school has formulated online teaching plans for each grade. The online 

learning in the “School’s Out, But Class’s On” period was divided into two stages, 

namely the review and the new lesson stage. 

Develop an Online Review Plan. 

For the first week (02/03/2020-02/07/2020), it was the review period for students. The 

school arranged students to conduct home-based review through the Jiangsu Provincial 

TV Teaching Channel and other platforms. 

Develop Plans for Online New Lessons. 

Starting from the second week, online teaching had entered the new lesson learning 

stage. The school arranged students to study according to schedules through multiple 

platforms, and prepares record books for recording. 

Build an Online Teaching Platform 

With various teaching platforms at all levels, the school builds a platform for online 

teaching, tutoring and answering questions for teachers and students throughout the 

school. This effectively solves the problem of delaying students to attend school due to 

the epidemic situation, and realizes the “School’s Out, But Class’s On” of the whole 

school, and teachers are suspended from teaching. 

1. National or local public education platform. The school uses Jiangsu’s 

teaching platform “Air Master Classes and Jinling Micro School”, Pukou Dis-

trict’s teaching platform “Pukou e Start”, and Jiangsu Province’s online learn-

ing mobile app “I Su” for online teaching. 

2. National or local television education channels. During the review phase, the 

school required the school to listen to the “Drum Tower Online Review Class” 

for home-based independent review by watching the Jiangsu Education Chan-

nel. For ninth grade students, the school organizes students to learn inde-

pendently by watching Pukou Television News Channel. 

3. Public communication platform. The school establishes communication 

groups for each class through public communication platforms such as QQ or 

WeChat, so that teachers can help students answer questions in a timely man-

ner. 



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4. Enterprise live broadcast platform. The school uses the office communica-

tion platform “Dingding” to carry out online group live broadcasts, and con-

ducts online interactive teaching through the network live broadcast platform. 

Building Online Teaching Resources 

Schools give full play to their subjective initiative and, based on the use of public teach-

ing resources in provinces, municipalities, districts and other countries, will further en-

rich curriculum resources for students’ learning based on the results of school class-

room instruction reform. 

1. School-Based resources. The school encouraged class teachers and teachers in 

each subject to develop resources, especially the construction of online instruc-

tional resources, according to the actual semester and the age characteristics of 

the students. The school organized teachers to prepare pre-study sheets and 

guide plans for students to study independently, appropriately increased the 

learning contents, focused on the guidance of learning methods, and enriched 

the online teaching courses during the postponed start of the school. 

2. National and local public course learning resources. The school made use of 

the learning resources of famous teachers and lessons in public platforms such 

as the country, the province, and the urban area to conduct online teaching, and 

guided students to use rich network resources for student preview and devel-

opment. 

3. Epidemic prevention and health knowledge. In addition to academic 

knowledge, the school paid attention to the spread of epidemic protection 

knowledge, strengthened life education, public safety education, and enabled 

students to obtain comprehensive and vivid training and development. 

Implementation of Online Teaching 

1. Develop a home study plan suitable for students. The teachers in each 

class put forward different requirements to different students according to 

the students’ ability, and strive to have each student have their own home 

study plan. 

2. Teachers of each class teach online. The teachers of each subject (Chi-

nese, mathematics, English, physics, chemistry, politics, history, geogra-

phy, biology, and 9th grade sports) would arrange the learning content of 

the new class in the first week and publish it in the class QQ or WeChat 

platform with the textbook pictures, self-study pre-study sheets, and tutori-

als. The answers were checked and announced the next day. Students re-

vised and corrected them by themselves, then uploaded the pictures of the 

learning results to the group, and finally the teachers answered individual 

questions online. 

3. Home-school joint education. In order to facilitate the communication be-

tween parents and children, the school had strengthened contact with par-



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ents, unified curriculum and activity arrangements. All learning and activi-

ty resources were mainly based on Pukou District teaching platform 

(“Pukou e Co-study”) online learning, supplemented by teachers’ live 

broadcasts, through QQ, WeChat, Dingding and other platforms jointly 

carried out home study and counseling with parents. For the students who 

had the ability to learn, the school organized parents’ guidance and ar-

ranged for the students to choose the famous teacher class in Jiangsu Prov-

ince, “Sky Master Classes and Jinling Micro School Platform” for inde-

pendent learning with the help of parents. 

 

 

 

 
Received: 04 March 2020 

Revised: 09 March 2020 

Accepted: 12 March 2020 

 

 


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