After reading the fourth chapter of "The Miracle of Classroom No. 56" by Teacher Leif - "Insisting on Going Your Own Way", I was deeply moved by Teacher Leif's deep love for his students. So impressed! In order to improve children's reading level and to enable children from poor families to stand on the same starting line as children from wealthy families, Teacher Leif insists on his own principles and is an example for all our teachers to learn from.
This part explains how Teacher Leif insists on walking his own path from the following six aspects:
1. Standing in front of the same starting line
In order to allow children from poor families to stand on the same starting line as children from wealthy families, Teacher Leif squeezes in time to give extra lessons to students, using holidays or after classes. Moreover, he arrives at school at 6:30 in the morning and 8:00 in other classes. , school ends at five in the afternoon, and children in other classes finish at three in the afternoon. Teacher Leif also specially designed courses during this period to allow students to arrive at school on time and provide students with voluntary make-up lessons to make up for the knowledge they have missed due to family poverty. Teacher Leif leads by example and demonstrates the value of the school's existence, and he also has his own unique procedures: the four procedures he learned from the famous sayings of basketball coach Wu Den: explain, demonstrate, imitate, and repeat these procedures. Enlightenment: Teacher Leif pays more attention to the effect of implementing learning. He changed the four-step process into an eight-step process, which is explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition and repetition. Let the students in his class strictly follow the procedures and repeatedly practice the application of their reading knowledge. On the way back from an outdoor activity, he was even more convinced when he was attacked! During this outdoor attack, Teacher Leif used his intelligence and wisdom to successfully prevent the children from being attacked by thugs. During the next day's reading, the children were able to truly practice the saying "There are no shortcuts to success". Learning and applying, the hard work of reading extends to the deep connotation of how to withdraw from school as soon as possible. Children truly understand that there is no shortcut to success. It is not a simple promise, but is rooted in the inner world of each of us.
2. High Standard Expectations
Teacher Leif has high expectations for his students, and he also believes that his students can do it. During the study, he first improved the students' reading standards, and he also firmly believed that the students' reading ability would be achieved, giving the students the courage to be very confident. Then during the reading process, he constantly encouraged the students to practice it themselves, and also quoted He quoted a limerick given to him by CBS commentator Osgo to express his unwillingness to teach in a haphazard manner. He quoted the poem "Alright" to prove that students are encouraged to explore and explore, allowing students to face reality and experience it for themselves instead of Everything is taken care of. This is how Teacher Leif's high standards of expectations for students are effectively implemented.
3. Teaching in English only
Teacher Leif advocates teaching in English only. Although bilingual teaching has two reactions, one is to support mother-tongue teaching and the other is to oppose bilingualism. Teaching, they consider it a form of racial discrimination. Teacher Leif believes that the reason for teaching only in English is "influenced by three aspects: first, the demand for poor quality teaching, second, the influence of family environment, and third, the obstruction of the university entrance exam." The teacher believes that only teaching in English is used, and his approach is specifically: Speak more of your mother tongue at home. If bilingual teaching is adopted, it will be very harmful if the bilingual teacher cannot speak English well. First of all, this is the tragedy of bilingual education. In addition, in our Chinese terms, if the teacher cannot speak English well, it will really mislead the children. Ah! As a teacher, you should help your children prepare for the future and give them the opportunity to succeed in advance, so that they can determine the quality of their future careers.
4. Don’t talk about religion in class
Teacher Leif believes that preaching in class can make some students dislike it, such as Xiao Ai and David, and if students who participate in preaching are allowed to attend class, students from other sects will worry about being threatened by the teacher, and this will also unintentionally hurt the children. Young minds. Teacher Leif is opposed to this method of preaching in the classroom. He believes that the religious level is too complicated. Although children need multicultural education, preaching in the classroom will hurt the hearts of students who have not joined other denominations. The teacher never talks about religion in open classes. This is an effective way to pay attention to the quality education of students. At the same time, he also teaches students how to behave, so there will never be pagans in his class.
5. Teaching according to concepts
However, the school regularly holds teacher professional seminars, but the seminars use publishing house employees as moderators. This not only seriously interferes with the normal teaching model, but also Teachers are deeply affected. In addition, educators have preset political stances and prohibit students from accessing certain books. Teacher Leif believes that children should be encouraged to think critically, such as the controversy over Malcolm's photos and the revolutionary leader Che Gueva. A good example of the mug shot incident
The Malcolm photo incident was actually caused by a teacher that Mr. Leif hired to substitute in his class a few years ago, and he left one behind when he left. On the note, everyone criticized Teacher Lei Fu's reading textbook, but he liked Teacher Lei Fu's lesson plan very much. The substitute teacher forbade students to read this book. He told his students that Malcolm was a scoundrel, and the teacher asked the students to If you read a book written by a scoundrel, you will become a scoundrel.
And after a period of time, he came to the school as a substitute teacher again. He went straight to the class, yelled, and finally told him that the students judged Malcolm's arguments with a rigorous attitude. The substitute teacher finally calmed down his anger, and he still hoped The class removed Malcolm's photo, and he offered to donate $100 to the class. As a result, Teacher Leif took down the photo and used the money to buy "The Catcher in the Rye" for each student. After a while, the author asked him to teach again, and he started giving me small notes again: It turned out that there was a mugshot of the revolutionary leader, Che Guevara, on the wall. In other words, the substitute teacher used his political stance to oppose children's exposure to specific books.
6. Not wanting to waste time
Teacher Leif used the example of holding two seminars to prove that he did not want to waste time. First of all, the first one was a seminar a few years ago. Total *** three days. The first day was math study, which was time-consuming. It started at 8:30 in the morning and finished at 10:30. Moreover, there was a meeting after lunch, and the teacher asked to return to school at 2:30 in the afternoon. This waste of time is really meaningless; secondly, During the first day of music study, Mr. Leif thought the content was too superficial, and his students organized a two-hour recital by themselves. At the seminar, the music teacher only taught four notes on the recorder one day. On the third day of online learning, it was even more ridiculous. The server went on strike and all the training teachers chatted in twos and threes. Such a waste of time, when the second exercise last year, Teacher Leif refused to participate. As a result, his salary was deducted, and he was reprimanded by his superiors the next day, but in exchange he was able to lead the class Read Orwell's famous works, but Mr. Leif thinks it is worth it.
Teacher Leif tries every means to put poor children on the same starting line as children from wealthy families and improve their reading ability. There is no shortcut to success. Poor children can only reach the height of knowledge given to them by working ten times and a hundred times harder than children from wealthy families. Although he was disciplined by his superiors and his own salary was deducted, Teacher Leif insisted on walking. Follow your own path, never forget your original intention, and improve your children's reading level. I think we should give a thumbs up to Teacher Lei.
Every teacher nowadays must not forget the original intention of education and do everything possible to improve students' reading level. The era we live in is certainly much better than the era in which Mr. Leif lived. , so we should not forget our original intention and mission and work hard to improve children's reading ability!