What are the differences between American education and traditional education in China? Watching Mo Xi, a famous screenwriter of Naked Marriage and Stranger, share the experience of teaching children.

20 16-0 1-04 Moxi Teachers' Fair

American education has always been regarded as a benchmark and "myth" by the international community, but what is the real American education like? The teacher of the middle school attached to the National People's Congress made an objective interpretation of American basic education. Look at the secret of American education in his eyes.

China children ask "Do you like it?" American children ask "Is it delicious?"

A few years ago, I read a short article saying that children in China often ask their teachers "Is it like" after painting, while children in the United States ask "Is it good?". Don't underestimate the difference of this problem. "Like it or not" is from the perspective of imitating others, and "good or bad" is from the perspective of self-creation. From this subtle difference, it seems that their life direction can be "doomed", and it can even be said that "the different future trends of children in the two countries may have been vaguely reflected in this different question."

When "teaching" American children to learn painting, teachers often don't set samples or prescribe patterns, so that children can freely "compose". In this way, there is no "model" at all, and the paintings drawn by children are completely "creation". Because of this, American children naturally don't ask, "Is it like it?" The children trained in this way are full of creativity and vitality, and may be open and creative talents in the future.

For another example, American fifth-grade students are different from their peers in China from the beginning of writing. In China, dozens of people in a class do the same topic or the same topic, while in the United States, each child finds his own topic, which they call project. In China, "finding a subject" is often only required for people who are studying for graduate students or above. Self-writing, self-creation, I write and I think, this is the real composition teaching. Therefore, in American primary school classrooms, you will see all kinds of small "gadgets" brought by students, some carrying a cage with a white rabbit and some holding a small fish tank. Not surprising, because maybe they are doing something related to it.

From this perspective, innovative education starts with dolls, which is a problem worthy of our consideration.

American education: find the shortcomings of children and try to make up for them.

Teachers in China often say: "There are no students who can't teach, only teachers who can't teach." In America, teachers often say, "There are no disabled children, only disabled education." In the American view of education, even children who are recognized by the current educational standards as having the lowest level of intelligence actually have special talents.

American teachers believe that if education pays special attention to children's shortcomings, it will stimulate children's inferiority. Under this concept, children are not only in a passive position in education, but also often dampen their interest in learning and even have irreversible resistance to education. This situation directly affects the development and cultivation of children's ability.

To this end, the task of American education is to find the shortcomings of children and try to make up for them. Although American primary schools don't instill a lot of knowledge into their children in the classroom, they try their best to lead their children's eyes to the endless ocean of knowledge outside the campus; Instead of asking children to memorize a lot of formulas and theorems, they took pains to tell them how to think and how to find answers in unfamiliar fields. They never divide students into three grades, six grades and nine grades without exams. Instead, we should try our best to affirm everything about children, praise all the conclusions of children's own thinking, and protect and motivate all their creative desires and attempts. American teachers believe that every child is a creative life, and the key lies in whether we can discover their talents.

"Children without disabilities only have education with disabilities." Education not only profoundly affects people's life, but also profoundly affects the fate of a nation. In the final analysis, the competition between countries is the competition of talents, and the key to talent training is education. To this end, we should have such an educational concept.

A person's fundamental quality cannot be considered by scores.

Another educational view generally recognized by American educational circles is to respect differences, not only general differences, but also special differences. In their view, the diversity of people constitutes the basis of people's colorful creativity, and the task of education should be to tap people's various energies, rather than making products look like Coca-Cola's production line. Let every child know his own potential, let every child build up self-confidence, and let every child engage in creative work with individuality that belongs to himself and society. This is the task that American education sets for itself. They worked hard to finish the task. Educate children to pay attention to every life and tap the energy of every life. This is the national will of the United States on the goal of primary and secondary education, or at least the national law that falls on the text. American education administrators all think that education is a completely different industry from manufacturing. What manufacturing needs is standardization. Only standardization can have a big industry, and education needs personalization, because everyone is different, and the development of different personality potentials is the basis of creativity. Only when different creativity comes together can it become a great energy to promote social progress.

President Zhang of Stevens Middle School in new york, USA, said, "I believe more and more people will see that people's fundamental quality cannot be considered by scores. To what extent can we help students light up their dreams and let them bravely move towards the future, which is the real people-oriented. " Every life is worthy of awe, every soul has a sense of texture, and teachers and students grow up harmoniously together. Based on differences, strive to find a sense of accomplishment and happy experience, and protect human dignity. We firmly believe that everyone has unique and irreplaceable value, and the real happiness in life lies in finding yourself on your own life path and then surpassing yourself.

History is the hardest, encourage children's challenging spirit.

American education encourages children's challenging spirit. When children enter the history class in middle schools, teachers even ask them about the limitations of the Declaration of Independence drafted by Thomas Jefferson. So who is Thomas Jefferson? He is one of the great men who founded America and a representative of the American spirit. The Declaration of Independence drafted by him is not only regarded as the foundation of the United States, but also one of the most classic legal texts of capitalism. However, the teacher's inquiry at least made the children do a few things: read and even study Jefferson and his draft declaration of the founding of the country; Seriously study the evaluation of Jefferson by various schools; Mobilize students' thinking and analytical ability. More importantly, the teacher conveyed an idea to the children: you can question and think about everything in the world, including "sacredness" and "authority". I am thinking that encouraging children to question the authority in thinking may not only teach a wonderful way of learning, but also cultivate a very important thinking quality.

I once asked China children who studied in the United States in the past, which subject do you fear most in the United States? They replied, not math, not English, but American history. I am curious. The history of the United States is only two or three hundred years. How can it be harder to learn than the history of China? Students say that studying American history means not only understanding American history, but also understanding American history. For example, the teacher's homework "Civil Rights" research paper requires writing 3 to 5 pages, printing, double blank lines, and using at least 3 data sources (such as online, books, etc. ) and at least 5 citations. At the same time, it compares the views of the following four people on African-Americans: Booker Washington, du bois, Martin Luther King and Malcolm. In the paper, you need to introduce everyone, and you must also include appropriate materials. Then, discuss their views on black Americans, write down their thoughts, and list the references or sources of materials, such as so-and-so web pages and so-and-so books. In the face of such homework, can children say it is not difficult?

It can be seen that in the seemingly relaxed, open and free education process, American schools cultivate children's basic learning ability, research ability, practical ability and observation ability, cultivate children's rigorous, meticulous and focused habits, and let children develop a pragmatic spirit of respecting facts and paying attention to investigation from an early age. The homework assigned by American teachers looks like playing, but the requirements for the process are so detailed that it is almost impossible for children to be lazy.

Anyone who thinks that America's open and free education model is to indulge students and give them opportunities to be lazy and opportunistic is wrong. Americans' "pragmatism" is fully reflected in education, and they also require children to bear hardships and stand hard work. The cultivation of children's high-intensity thinking and high-intensity hardship spirit in American schools is also an important part of American education. Of course, this kind of training is more reflected after children enter middle school. Perhaps Americans think that after children enter middle school, their bodies have developed stronger and they have the "capital" to work hard.

After reading American Education, let's take a look at some experiences about teaching children shared by the famous screenwriter Mo Xi.

Teacher Mo Xi, a famous screenwriter of Naked Marriage and Stranger, wrote a special topic for Future Network.

Jimmy Lin's famous song, The Rainy Season of Seventeen, is about a teenager growing into a seed of love for youth. According to our current conventional logic, at the beginning of the 17-year-old college entrance examination sprint, all energy and physical strength were put on study, and love and emotion were things after college. This logic and educational thought created a problem. A group of children who can fully absorb knowledge and nutrients after dealing with the initial emotional confusion have become more and more eager to fall in love and their grades are getting worse. And those children who are bent on getting into a good school, the first thing they do after entering the university is mostly to fall in love and live together, and the university has become a paradise out of their parents' control. In fact, the choice of these two types of children is problematic, and it should be said that the guidance methods of parents of these two types of children are flawed. I especially like the movie The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years in Taiwan Province Province. When my son was fourteen years old, his psychological understanding of girls began to change imperceptibly. In order to combine normal emotional growth with children's academic performance, I let my son watch this film. After his son was in high school, he spontaneously set up a small organization to persuade his classmates who had already started to fall in love to correctly handle the relationship between study and puppy love. It is said that under the persuasion of his son, three young lovers became six good classmates. My son's behavior suddenly gave me an idea. Instead of letting teachers and parents act as opposites to stop puppy love, it is better to mobilize peers to build a gate psychologically. It seems that the grasp of flood storage and flood discharge is better among peers. Of course, I still want to thank the girl we chased together in those years. I believe my son also has a girl of his own choice, but I am glad that he can master this measure and pass on the benefits of this measure to his classmates.