It happened last year.
In the past, for a new class, students could get familiar with it within a week. It's been four days since school started, and most of the students in the class can't get their names right. Just when some people with the same name are hard to remember, a boy named Hu came into my sight.
A few days before the official seating arrangement, he sat in the fifth row of the third group. Because I am more active, I often turn to the back row involuntarily and want to talk to someone. To this end, I caught him several times in class, and even called him to the podium and put him at hand to listen. In this way, it is quiet. However, as soon as I put him in the upper position, I soon fell into the same old habit and didn't even write the fine print in the first class seriously, which made me a little headache. Still, I didn't remember his name. Until today, I really called out his name in class.
Originally, I turned a blind eye to these boys and girls in my class. Why can I suddenly match Hu's appearance with his name? Not because of his special name, nor because he is beautiful, nor because this boy ranks first and second in grades, but because he is the only child in the class who likes to get together with teachers.
By the way, he is the talking student who took out the garbage that day. Because we had a cordial "conversation" that day, he ran to the front of the podium after class and made a "tour" without doing anything. I saw him coming up again yesterday, so I asked him to collect a set of exercise books. After receiving the task, he was so enthusiastic that he soon put away his homework. When I put it on the podium, I put a stack of books in order with great care. At this time, you think he will walk away happily, which is wrong. At this time, he stood beside the podium, directing the other three students to collect books like a prosecutor, telling them where to put them and how to arrange them. He is just a small housekeeper.
Seeing this, I smiled and praised him generously: "Well done, the teacher loved it." As if he had got a lollipop, he returned to his seat contentedly.
Yesterday, in the front row after school, he sat in the first row of four groups, just facing the teacher's desk. I didn't see him talking to anyone casually in today's Chinese class. After looking up the new words, I found that his handwriting was particularly neat. Although he didn't finish copying it, he continued to do it in his seat after class until he finished copying it and sent it to me for inspection. Later, when I passed him, he even reminded me. Before going to school, I gave him a loaf of bread, and he thanked me politely. I smiled and praised him: "What a polite boy, the teacher likes it very much."
After listening to my praise, he quickly took out his Chinese book and copied the words of his homework carefully. How can a well-behaved and obedient appearance be unpleasant?
In fact, the day before yesterday, I asked the teachers who had taught them about the students in my class. For Hu, the message is: lively personality, poor grades, need to grasp hard. At that time, my thought was that it would take a lot of effort to improve his academic performance. However, today, it seems that there is actually a shortcut. Archimedes, a famous scientist in ancient Greece, said that if he was given a fulcrum and a hard stick long enough, he could move the whole earth. This is the miracle brought by the lever principle. Similarly, education and teaching can also borrow the lever principle to make education labor-saving and multiply the educational effect. The premise is to find that fulcrum and find that big stick that can shake the earth.
The little boy Hu is a child who is eager to be noticed by the teacher. If the teacher pays full attention to him, praises him sincerely and expresses his love, he will get great psychological satisfaction, just like wearing a beautiful robe, which will make the "robe effect" begin to produce the power of self-change, thus making our education easier. Teachers' educational philosophy is the fulcrum, and teachers' care, closeness, praise and encouragement are the levers to incite students to change themselves. Find the right focus and leverage will play an unexpected role.
Effective education, to truly have students in mind, we should not only appreciate their innocence, but also accept their imperfections. The teacher's eyes are full of appreciation, expectation, trust and hope for the students, and you will see the stars shining all over the sky.