What can we learn from Miss Sullivan? 6? Reflections on 1 Keller's My Life

"Everyone knows this, but what I want to say today is that the third unknown person behind Helen Keller, Miss Sullivan. Because without her, there must be no Helen Keller; Without her, there would be no new miracle of blind teaching. She is a real hero behind the scenes, a real educator and a practitioner of love and dedication. Many people know the story of Helen Keller. She is deaf and blind, a woman who lives in the dark but brings light to mankind. She spent 88 spring and autumn years of her life, but she survived 87 years of loneliness without light, silence and words. She is also a strong woman. She graduated from Radcliffe College of Harvard University and spent her whole life running around and setting up a charity to benefit the disabled. It is such a great woman who wrote in the book "If I have three days of light": "If I have three days of light, the first person I want to see is my dear teacher (Sullivan). "What makes Miss Sullivan the first person Helen Keller wants to see? What made her create an educational miracle? I think maybe the words in Helen Keller's autobiography "My Life Story" will help us to interpret: "We are engaged in the same profession and educate students. We love the same cause, shaping the soul. We all hope to be good teachers. The process of education is not simply preaching and teaching, but forging a beautiful mind and excavating life wisdom. "This passage should be practiced by many teachers all their lives: to influence students with heart and to create miracles with wisdom. I believe that Teacher Sullivan must have found such a fulcrum and dedicated his life so selflessly. So, without any experience, how did she turn a deaf and blind Helen into a miracle in history? What is the secret of her education? Secret 1: Hold little Helen's hand with broad and deep love. Love is Miss Sullivan's best magic weapon. Sullivan's education has always been full of profound love, but also attaches great importance to observing little Helen's psychology and behavior and making adjustments anytime and anywhere. Little Helen, who has just lost her sight, has a very bad temper because of despair and loneliness. Teacher Sullivan opened her heart with love and patience, and since then, little Helen's character has changed a lot. The power of love is powerful. It was Miss Sullivan's love that awakened Helen's love and nourished her daily growing. It is this love that makes Helen see hope, light and the beauty of human nature. Under the influence of teacher Sullivan, Helen became kind, enthusiastic and caring. It can be said that without Sullivan's love, there would be no Helen's love for the whole world, and there would be no Helen's great achievements in the future. Secret 2: Open the door to learning with interest. Teacher Sullivan believes that "as long as students are most interested in teaching in the most natural way, the seeds you sow will sprout and blossom one day." "This is the fairest for children, and it will also reduce a lot of unnecessary troubles for teachers." When little Helen began to practice reading, Miss Sullivan insisted on a standard, that is, the contents in the book must be familiar and interesting to little Helen. Teacher Sullivan teaches Helen what she wants to know, whether it affects the established curriculum or not. In this way, Miss Sullivan can seize the first opportunity to explain to her what she is really interested in. Secret 3: Go into nature and get close to nature. From the beginning, Miss Sullivan linked little Helen's enlightenment education with nature, making nature a part of Helen's thought. Instead of locking Helen in her room for rigid, rigid and routine classroom teaching, she let Helen blend in with nature and feel the greatness of nature and the beauty of the world in the relationship with nature. Look for educational opportunities from things she is interested in. Teacher Sullivan first taught little Helen to appreciate the beauty of nature from the fragrance of forests and grasslands, and also took little Helen to the circus to "shake hands" with big black bears and play with little monkeys ... This kind of learning is really rewarding, and what Helen learned is more solid and solid in a happy and natural environment. Tip 4: Learn happily in the game. For a long time, little Helen didn't attend formal classes. Even if you study hard, it's just like playing games, not like taking classes. This is Sullivan's unique teaching art, and learning while playing is a very effective method for children's education. After Helen Keller was able to spell a few words with letters, Sullivan specially made some hard paper with raised letters for her, and then put the words she had learned on a frame to form short sentences and play guessing games. Little Helen learned the usage of many words from it, much more than what she learned in class. They stayed by an abandoned and dilapidated wharf for several hours, learning geography while playing. They use pebbles to build dams, islands, lakes and rivers. Although they had a good time, they learned a lesson unconsciously. Teacher Sullivan taught Helen to count with beads, played with straws to learn addition and subtraction, and even learned zoology and botany through games. Sullivan always spares no effort to integrate the knowledge he wants to teach little Helen into the game, which can not only arouse little Helen's interest in learning, but also make her study easily and happily. Her education of Helen is completely heuristic, not indoctrinating. Starting from respecting children's nature, she changed passive learning into active knowledge, which stimulated Helen's enthusiasm for knowledge and kept Helen in a state of curiosity. Tip 5: Widely dabble in classic children's literature such as children's stories and poems. Teacher Sullivan used beautiful stories and touching poems to make little Helen study happily and enter the learning realm of "concentration", "emotion" and "thinking" When emphasizing the role of excellent poetry in teaching, Suhomlinski said: "Excellent poetry always combines language, image and rhythm. I try my best to make children feel the perfection and consistency of this aesthetic from an early age. " Helen Keller recalled what Miss Sullivan taught her. She said, "No matter what Miss Sullivan taught me, she always explained it with beautiful stories and touching poems." It is a teaching art to introduce beautiful stories and touching poems into teaching. Like all other children, Helen likes listening to stories. Miss Sullivan has told her the story of Little Red Riding Hood countless times. Although little Helen can almost recite it backwards, her interest remains undiminished. Little Helen liked the stories that moved her to tears very much, and asked Miss Sullivan to teach her some rhyming short poems and words. Although she can't fully understand them, these poems left a good impression on her. Teacher Sullivan thinks that this can also stimulate her intellectual development and expand Helen's imagination. Miss Sullivan devoted most of her life to Helen. In order to answer countless questions raised by the clever Helen, she studied and studied all her life, so that in her later years, her eyesight dropped sharply and she could not even see anything clearly. Teacher Sullivan has been exploring the educational methods for blind children all his life, thinking about how to maximize the potential of a child, and finally created a miracle. It is true that Sullivan and Helen are one-on-one tutors, but her thinking and practice in education can also be used for reference and application in classroom teaching.