College students are generally between the ages of seventeen and eighteen and twenty-three, which is in the middle of adolescence and is the most dramatic period of physiological and psychological changes in a person's life. From the psychological point of view, college students' neural processes tend to be balanced, energetic, easily excited and even insomnia. The higher nervous activity caused by the development of the second signal system at its peak greatly improved the ability of logical thinking and abstract thinking. They are emotionally rich but unstable and strongly polarized. They have a strong thirst for knowledge, but they are not strong in discriminating. They always regard books that are relatively new or conform to their own views as truth. They began to care about social development and had independent opinions and intentions, but because of their shallow experience, their understanding of things was rash and one-sided. They are reluctant to open their hearts when interacting with others, but they are very eager to communicate inside. After entering the university, the changes of environment, life and personal status have caused many psychological contradictions. The social experience and cognitive level of college students have not yet reached the level of truly independent and correct regulation of their own behavior, which leads to their strong demand for independent control of their behavior and the result of their behavior, resulting in inner pain and anxiety. Faced with all kinds of social values, college students will doubt their past values, which will lead to confusion and depression.
Therefore, model education came into being to meet the internal needs of college students and conform to their characteristics of the times. College students are more plastic and imitative than teenagers. Taking vivid and concrete images as an example, it is helpful for them to understand moral norms and codes of conduct easily, be susceptible to infection, and be persuasive, which will help them develop good moral quality and behavior habits.
Problems that should be paid attention to in the ideological and political education of college students by example education method (1) guide college students to practice step by step, achieve the integration of knowledge and practice, and create an atmosphere of learning from examples.
"Virtue is achieved by actions, not by words." Morality is not to remember a few maxims, but to carry them out. Tao Xingzhi said, "To guide students to cultivate their own character in' things', how should students cultivate themselves and how should teachers guide them. Therefore, in the ideological and political education of college students, we should adhere to the principle of unity of knowing and doing. College students sometimes show unstable moral understanding, unstable moral feelings and weak self-control ability. They are easily divorced from their words and deeds and need to strengthen behavior training. For example, when we educate college students to honor their parents, we must "listen to what they say and watch what they do", truly honor their parents in our daily life, truly learn from the example, and turn the spiritual essence of honoring their parents into actions within our power.
College students have developed their moral awareness and moral evaluation ability through learning, but the self-control ability of will behavior needs to be further developed, and the learning mode may not be adhered to. Therefore, we should consciously create some moral situations, organize some social practice activities, and exercise students' moral willpower. Second, educators should set an example for college students.
"Teachers are teachers, and people who teach things are metaphors of all virtues." "If there is a home in the four seas, it is the Lord and the husband is the teacher." Teachers' personality is the cornerstone of education. Only teachers with noble morality can cultivate students with noble morality. "Teachers should be strict with themselves and set an example for students everywhere. Teachers should do whatever students are asked to do. Teachers should take the lead in not doing what students are not allowed to do. When teaching college students by example, teachers should take the initiative to learn from the example, pay attention to the spiritual essence of the example, and approach the example in every word and deed.
"Educators practice themselves, which is conducive to establishing prestige and subtly influencing the educated". Kalinin of the former Soviet Union said in his book "On Communist Education and Teaching": "The educator's world outlook, his conduct, his life and his attitude towards every phenomenon all affect all students in one way or another." We not only require teachers to teach by example, but also require parents and all adults in society to cooperate with the school's education work with exemplary behavior, so as to form a huge educational force. "