A hundred new suggestions for teachers from reading 1, I seldom have leisure. I settled down and finished the book Shaping Teachers: How Teachers Avoid 25 Mistakes, which I think is a rare good book.
"China has more than10 million primary and secondary school teachers, which is the largest professional group in China and undertakes the largest primary and secondary education in the world. Although the educational activities of teachers in China have reached the requirements of professional standards to a certain extent, there are still many gaps in teacher professionalization compared with developed countries. The starting point of primary and secondary school teachers' education in China is low, some teachers' professional ethics awareness is weak, most teachers' educational concepts are outdated and backward, their innovative awareness and research ability are not strong, their teaching methods and means are backward, and their knowledge is narrow. With the improvement of the overall education level, especially the gap with the requirements of basic education, it is even more obvious. It is imperative to reform and develop teacher education and improve the professional level of primary and secondary school teachers in China. "The above are the original words of the 4th edition of China Education News, 20xx, x, x. Although the educational background of primary and secondary school teachers is constantly improving, there are problems in educational methods, educational strategies and educational means to varying degrees.
As disseminators of knowledge, the fundamental purpose of our education is to promote human development. As a qualified teacher, you must learn to constantly reflect on your daily education and teaching activities, so as to constantly revise your education and teaching behavior to meet the needs of students' development. This means that teachers and students grow up together.
In the book Shaping Teachers: How Teachers Avoid 25 Mistakes, Dr. Caroline, a famous American educational psychologist, collected nearly 200 most unpleasant and memorable events experienced by pre-service teachers in their student days. These events, involving the life of students in kindergartens, primary and secondary schools and universities, include class management, student activities, classroom teaching, grade evaluation, teacher-student communication and so on. They are rich in content and vivid in distance, and truly reflect the mistakes that teachers are prone to make in education management. Reading this book, if you are there, thinking and comparing from the teacher's mistakes is a good study. Especially from these cases, we can further understand the students' feelings, and once again look at many common educational phenomena and treatment methods from the students' point of view, so as to realize and save them and avoid "harm" to children's growth due to work mistakes.
What attracts me more about this book is that there is a "prescription" table at the end of each case, which analyzes the events and helps readers find the root of the problem. According to the theory of human psychological development, these analyses put forward many modern educational ideas, emphasizing respect, understanding, care, appreciation, support and help for students, and highlighting the sincere love that teachers should have for students. For example, "When you blame others with one hand, the remaining four fingers are actually blaming yourself", "Excellent teachers are good at tapping other advantages of students with poor grades", "Teachers are potential power sources, and social praise can erase students' behavior", "Reasonable teachers will pay attention to blackboard etiquette-respect students and understand students' feelings when doing problems on the blackboard" and so on. These words with sparks of thought enable us to enjoy the wisdom and methods of Dr. Caroline, thus helping us to change our prototype strategies and skills in the process of educating students, so as to develop.
As a newcomer to education, after reading this book, I feel that teachers have high rights. Our words and deeds affect the success or failure of students. We should consider whether to empower students or deprive them of their rights and interests, praise them or criticize them, and promote their progress or inhibit their development. Like other rights, if not controlled, this kind of power is very dangerous and easy to produce negative effects. Uncontrolled power will destroy the trust relationship in the class and greatly hinder the physical and mental development of students. Now that I think about it, maybe my words hurt the child unintentionally, but I don't know. Therefore, as a new teacher, after reading this book, if I exercise the right to cheat, these new knowledge can restore my peace and maintain my psychological balance. Here, I also suggest that teachers read this book, which is really good.
I had this idea before reading Jie Zheng's One Hundred New Suggestions for Teachers, which is another collection of "correct nonsense". After reading it, I found that some contents touched my heart and were "harmless". This encourages me to find something from the book that can help me with my teaching. But unfortunately, this is not a very specific teaching practice guide, but a book that points out the direction for teachers' spiritual home. Next, I will talk about some thoughts on the spiritual pursuit of teachers after reading this book.
The first article in this book says that the teacher is a complete person, so I wonder, where is the teacher incomplete? Why is it incomplete? How can it be complete? Jie Zheng said, "How can teachers enrich their spiritual space and become a complete person? Like Feng Zikai and Xia Mianzun, they inculcate students with extensive knowledge and rigorous academic attitude, and like Ji Xianlin, they edify students with infinite charm of personality. Infinitely believe in the charm of books, read more books to nourish the body and mind, and experience people through many things. "
It can be seen that if a teacher wants to be a complete person, he must "have his own spiritual space" and his own spiritual pursuit. If you want to make a lot of money, don't come to teach. Of course, I won't suffer from livelihood, and I have nothing to worry about. Since we can't ask for more in the material aspect, let's develop in the spiritual aspect.
[France] Rousseau said: "Some occupations are so noble that if a person engages in these occupations for money, he can't help but say that he is not worthy to engage in these occupations; This is what soldiers should do; This is what teachers do. "
The book says that teachers climb three levels of happiness in life, the first level of happiness is material life, and the second level of happiness is artistic life. The third layer of happiness is independent thinking.
The pursuit of material life is the basis of teachers' spiritual pursuit, and the pursuit of artistic life adds color to teachers' spiritual pursuit. Teachers are under great pressure. We should learn to vent and express it in an artistic way. If there is injustice, we should sing with value. Fitness at work is always more meaningful than simple fitness. Similarly, the catharsis of art, on the one hand, makes our spirit stretch, on the other hand, it also creates value inadvertently. Maybe in the future, your singing, your paintings, your articles, your calligraphy and everything you have will bring you endless fun. This pursuit makes teachers enjoy it. The third layer of happiness is independent thinking.
Wang Xiaobo believes that free thinking is the essence of human beings, and the pursuit of wisdom is the pleasure of thinking and the main happiness of life. Engels believed that philosophy brought us to the other side of peace. Epicurus believes that it is never too late or too early for people of any age to start thinking about the soundness of the soul.
This pursuit makes teachers take education as their starting point. Only in this way will we not be too tired. Our spirit has been stretched.
Spiritual pursuit can also be said to be the need of self-realization. There are many good suggestions in the book. Let me list the titles:
For example, let's "modernize", teachers should keep learning, lectures make people perfect, it is not easy to learn to listen, teaching for themselves, thinking is a happy thing, and 40 minutes of oil extraction are all realized from teachers' work and self-realization of their own quality. Another example is: teachers should have a childlike innocence, care for everyone around them, be calm and tolerant, learn to do subtraction, have a conscience to teach, and keep childlike innocence, all of which require teachers' spiritual pursuit from the connotation of teacher cultivation and point out the direction for teachers' spiritual pursuit. In addition, the book puts teachers in the trend of reform and promotes teachers' spirit in society, market and reform. Such as: spectators who don't make reforms, cooperation is the destination of competition, taking difficulties as opportunities, serving children's happiness now, investing in their own future, and so on.
Suhomlinski said: "A teacher with rich spirit, noble morality and outstanding intelligence can respect and cultivate students' personality, while a teacher without any personality characteristics will cultivate students without any characteristics, and he can only cause spiritual poverty."
We should work hard for this. With self-realization as the goal and spiritual pursuit as the general direction, we will not lose ourselves in the commodity economy and society and abandon our initial intentions. Teachers are engineers of the human soul. If teachers have problems with their own souls, how can they influence students' souls so that they can treat life correctly and form a good world outlook and outlook on life? Jie Zheng said that we should find a good reason for the heavy burden. There are two possible reasons for the unbearable workload:
One is that you don't find the shadow of life from your work, and the other is that you may pursue external value rather than internal value too much.
Only when our work is relaxed and our hearts are empty can we have better development and students get better development. What I like best is this passage in class: what the teacher wants is silence. Is to calm down to prepare for each class, calm down to approve each assignment, and calm down to talk to every child; Calm down is to learn knowledge, read a few books, sum up the rules, and reflect on your words and deeds in order to better surpass yourself; Quiet is to calm down, savor every minute with students, and savor the fun and significance.
Only when you are calm can you have a peaceful mind, life will be another scene, and work will be another scene.
Calm down, for students, for people around you, and ultimately for yourself.
This reminds me of a passage in University, which confirms the above viewpoint: Zhi Zhi will decide later, decide later, be quiet later, be quiet later, be safe later, be safe later, be safe later, be safe later, be safe later, be safe later.
We can get it in the end, so don't worry, what we get is not material, but the richness and nobility of the soul. There are also students' blessings in festivals and happy smiles in class. That's enough.
After reading it, I felt deeply, which made me more confident in the profession of teachers. Let me continue to learn and improve myself in my later teaching career. The book says: "The real reading is not to study hard behind closed doors, nor is it necessary to read dead books like the ancients. With the help of effective expression and listening, real learning can express one's own ideas well and accommodate others' ideas with an open mind. "
In fact, success is very simple, one depends on interest and the other depends on persistence. May everyone succeed in teaching by going up a flight of stairs.
One hundred new suggestions for teachers; A person's greatest happiness is to love his job. Because people have to work for most of their lives, it is difficult to enjoy the happiness at work if they don't love it and just regard it as a means of making a living. As a teacher, how to love your job and pursue happiness from your career? This is a question that I have been thinking about. It was not until I read Chairman Jie Zheng's One Hundred New Suggestions for Teachers that I suddenly realized.
You might as well read this book. This is a harmless book. Jie Zheng's first sentence in One Hundred New Suggestions for Teachers attracted me from different angles. Teachers are first of all a complete person, they should have their own spiritual space, and they should also enjoy life ... This view has pulled teachers down from the position of "saints". To be a successful teacher, we must first learn to be a successful ordinary person.
The four parts of President Jie Zheng's 100 proposals can give us such enlightenment.
First of all, teachers should try to make knowledge itself attract students.
Education is not to let students simply copy boring knowledge and concepts from books into their minds. Teachers should strive to make knowledge itself attract students, which should be the direction of every teacher's efforts. Before every teaching activity, teachers should carefully design every link of the teaching process, so that students can not only explain difficult knowledge in simple terms, but also experience the fun, thus stimulating students to seek knowledge, explore the formation process of knowledge, understand the meaning of knowledge and the fun of learning, and let students really fall in love with the subjects we teach.
Second, be a rational educator.
Teachers should be rational and treat students as "people", which is the biggest difference between our work and other work. To be reasonable, a teacher must "squeeze oil out of forty-five minutes" to improve teaching efficiency, which is to save students' lives ... Teachers should be rational, and rational teachers are excellent teachers to do their own work well.
Third, we should continue to study and bring more things into the classroom.
There are many reasons why teachers need to keep learning. Teachers should keep learning, not only for the further development of personal quality, but also for the better development of students. We often say: to give students a drop of water, you have to have a bucket of water. As far as the education we are engaged in is concerned, from the perspective of students' development, I think continuing to study can be achieved: renewing the concept of education and teaching and keeping pace with the times; Learn new teaching methods and apply them to teaching.
Only with the improvement of teachers' own educational literacy and a certain amount of knowledge accumulation, classroom teaching will not be scripted and boring. Only by understanding and mastering knowledge can we master it easily. These all come from teachers' daily study and reflection. Only in this way can we exude charm.
Fourth, learn to praise.
As the saying goes, "gold is not enough, and no one is perfect." "Top students" have shortcomings, and "poor students" also have bright spots. In the eyes of teachers, every child should have a genius side. When you look at a thing with appreciation, you will see many advantages. On the contrary, you will only see countless disadvantages.
Excellent students are almost the same, but "poor students" have their own "ways to distinguish" those good students. You don't have to be strict with them. They always listen to nothing outside the window and read only sage books. And when you face those students with learning difficulties who are different and full of energy, once something goes wrong, we always habitually criticize them first, write a check, punish them for sweeping the floor ... and then reason with them and give them so-called educational guidance. In fact, blindly punishing and reasoning may not impress the hearts of underachievers. On the contrary, over time, students have become accustomed to similar persuasion education, which will not have the expected effect.
The author tells each of our teachers: "those special children learn to be correct by making all kinds of mistakes;" We should never despair, because as long as we are full of expectations, they may be very promising. " "What illuminates the school will never be the enrollment rate or other fame and fortune, but the sacred and magnificent teaching spirit, a broad love for children without a trace of dust, and a deep pity for every child as an innocent life. With love and sympathy, we will never give up. Let our monograph tell you that we have not given up. "
As teachers, our responsibility is not only to impart knowledge to students, but more importantly, to educate students to become adults and talents. The practice of education tells us that the mental trauma of underachievers can only be cured by the warmth of the mind, and the spiritual pollution can only be washed by the dew of the spirit. Replace the motto we have used for many years with praise and humor, enrich our faces with various expressions sealed in the corner, and give more care to the underachievers, so that they will feel that the teacher really cares about and loves him, and they will accept the teacher's teaching and advice, thus generating motivation and action to pursue progress. Then the effect of education will be as we wish: sneak into the night with the wind and moisten things silently.
Learning is no longer just a patent for students, and education is no longer just a privilege for teachers. As a teacher, we must regard education as a continuous process, which runs through all stages of human life and development. This requires us to constantly learn new ideas, enrich our minds, and keep our thoughts updated in order to keep pace with the times. Therefore, as a teacher, the most important thing is the innovation of educational ideas and concepts. Teachers must establish a correct educational concept, and with the renewal of the concept, they can create new educational methods that meet the requirements of the times.
The book One Hundred New Suggestions for Teachers is like a mirror, which sincerely expresses the love, loyalty and persistence of education. It is worth savoring and grasping its essence to guide our education and teaching.
Jie Zheng, a school principal in the northern suburbs of Shanghai, a senior middle school teacher, one of the top ten young principals in Shanghai, and an outstanding educator in Shanghai, has made many valuable thoughts and practices on the transformation of the principal's role, the identity of teachers, the survival and sustainable development of schools, the quality of life and happiness of teachers and students, and has been dramatized as an "alternative principal" because of his innovative and unique views.
Bing Xin, a century-old man, once said, "Study hard, study hard, study hard." This is a wise saying. I have read Sukhomlinski's 100 suggestions for teachers before, and I feel that I have benefited a lot. Recently, I went to the bookstore to read Teacher Jie Zheng's 100 New Suggestions for Teachers. He said modestly in the preface of the book, I might as well read this book, which is harmless. After a brief look at the bibliography, I feel good. I read it.
President Jie Zheng mentioned 100 suggestions in his article, each of which benefited people a lot, especially the following ones inspired me more.
First of all, teachers should be calm.
Some people are full of skills, doing the same thing mechanically and doing nothing. In their eyes, work is just a task to be completed. In order to complete the task, they are only used to looking for nutrition from past experience. Under this negative attitude, people form a stereotype that they can cope with anything as long as they follow the old rules. Some people are full of foul language, or they are called philistines and philistines. They always consider their own gains and losses first, and he will never stop until he haggles over every ounce. Some people are impatient. Many people have this problem. Impatience is impetuousness. Thousands of things come rashly and want to be eager for success. There are not many things that can be done thoroughly, but they are eager to show their achievements. If things are not finished, we must judge this and that.
Education is a long-term investment, and the work done by teachers needs to be down-to-earth, bit by bit. Any packaging, publicity and hype can't replace the day-to-day edification, homework and writing. Therefore, what the teacher wants is calm, that is, calm down to prepare for every class, calm down to approve every assignment, and calm down to talk to every child; Calm down is to learn knowledge, read a few books, sum up the rules, reflect on your words and deeds, in order to surpass yourself best; Quiet is to calm down and savor every minute with the students. Fun is naturally in it, and the meaning of life is also in it. Only when you are calm can you have a peaceful mind, life will be another scene, and work will be another scene.
Calm down, for students, for people around you, and ultimately for yourself. Yes, as a young teacher, I have enough enthusiasm and belief to do things well, but to do well and be precise, I really need to be quiet. You need to calm down and prepare for every class, correct every assignment, read some good books, sum up your own shortcomings, savor every minute with your students and enjoy being a teacher. Why not do it? Come on, let's fly together!
Secondly, teachers should learn to do subtraction.
This is actually similar to what teachers in our school say is to learn to be lazy. Then, under the heavy pressure, how should we teachers be lazy correctly and how to do subtraction better?
Get rid of those useless jobs. What is the purpose of education? This is the first thing the teacher should sort out. The purpose of teachers is to promote the development of children, which is the whole purpose of teachers. Once other purposes are mixed in, especially personal ones, it will bring endless pain.
Get rid of useless labor. Teachers' work is strictly mental work, and the wisdom of education lies in reducing physical labor with wisdom first. If we calm down and reflect on our day, we will suddenly find that many things we have done are in vain, and some things are counterproductive. We have paid the price of youth and soul for ineffective labor.
Of course, subtraction requires addition. Add knowledge to our minds and practice wisdom with knowledge; Add rationality to the mind and command our bodies with rationality. Only by overcoming blind and emotional reactions can we find a fulcrum in complicated affairs, and only by relying on this fulcrum can we feel at ease and feel at ease. I still remember that when I was teaching a class, I asked my classmates who didn't finish their homework in the class that they could only finish half or one third, but they should finish it carefully by themselves. For several days, these students have finished half of their homework and handed it in on time. I was also very satisfied and praised them in class. Listen carefully in class and be praised by the teacher constantly. "There is no way to doubt the mountains and rivers, and there is another village." When addition doesn't work, why not try subtraction?
Third, teachers should enjoy life.
Not only teachers, but also people-as people should enjoy life. After reading this article, I not only thought of a report I read before, but now the average age of teachers is only in their sixties, far below the average age of the population. There is ample evidence to prove that many of our ancestors lived happier than us. Although we are far from famine, our ancestors did not. As far as we are concerned, our ancestors simply lived in hell. Analyzing the reasons, we are under too much pressure at work now. As teachers, we have a lot of work to finish every day. Since we can't change our present life, we should try our best to adapt and enjoy it.
As a teacher, we are in contact with children every day. There are many excellent students in the class, who are smart and eager to learn, and are liked by teachers. However, some students are naughty, do not like learning, and often fight with other students, which makes teachers very headache and angry. As teachers, we have to rely on our own efforts to defend the school, a free and leisurely world. We even have no right to hinder the lives of innocent children. They shouldn't take part in the battle too early. They are too weak. They are at the age of dreaming. Please don't disturb them. We deal with children every day and give them equal education rights with our beloved children. Establish the prestige of teachers, treat each other sincerely, respect students' choices, and leave room for students to think. When students make mistakes, they should patiently criticize education and let them realize their mistakes.
Teacher Jason pointed out in the book, "For teachers, enjoyment is better than natural advantages." As long as we open all our senses. "The child is innocent. If we deal with the happiest people every day and enjoy life, we will always be in childhood.
Finally, teachers should be tolerant.
Tolerance is not easy to become a virtue. If you only recognize textbooks and outlines when teaching, there is no room for doubt; If we just stick to our usual teaching methods and reject all new ideas and ideas with our usual means and methods; If we listen to some propaganda or preaching and think that an educational theory or policy is the only correct or the only one that must be observed, then we are still intolerant.
When facing every child with individual differences, if we only choose from an individual perspective, and only favor those good children, and exclude those stupid children, dirty children, naughty children and children abandoned by their parents, then we still have no spirit of tolerance. We have unconsciously entered a diversified world, and the qualification to enter this world is to have a tolerant spirit. Tolerance is not easy, which makes tolerance a virtue.
Tolerance is not only useful in the face of dissidents, but also beneficial to one's conflicting humanity. Tolerance will free us from all the bondage of body and mind and make us free every day. Mr. Tao Xingzhi advised us: "You have Watt under your pointer, Newton in your cold eyes and Edison in your ridicule." Let our teachers learn tolerance and give more tolerance to students, and students will have more self-esteem and introspection. Tolerance is a prerequisite for students to feel love and friendship, and it is also a necessary condition for their healthy growth; At the same time, tolerance will also make our teachers more rational, turn their work into people-centered intellectual education, and create a democratic education and vivid education. Isn't this what modern education advocates?
One hundred suggestions, one hundred magic weapons, like sunshine, like rain and dew, moisten my dry heart. From this book, we can read the philosophy of life and educational wisdom; What is read out is more the ringing of the mind and the echo of the soul. As an ordinary teacher, this book moved me and made me think deeply. I hope that under the guidance of this book, we can enjoy our ordinary and extraordinary life with a calm heart and a tolerant spirit.