For a long time, many people (including myself) have a wrong understanding of exam-oriented education, saying it is useless and criticizing it to pieces.
I think of a boy in grade one of junior high school. His speech in class once resonated with me. He said, "I hate exam-oriented education." I asked him to write a composition about this feeling. Unfortunately, what he wrote surprised people. This kind of learning foundation is poor, he doesn't study hard, and he doesn't ask much of himself. It's simply a kind of irony for a child with low thoughts to judge the teacher and make irresponsible remarks about the exam-oriented education there. In fact, he wants to escape from his study.
Yesterday afternoon, a little boy in Grade One saw some compositions written by children in Grade Four and Grade Five on my desk and blurted out, "Teacher, those big brothers should set an example, why do they write so little every time ..." I smiled and answered him, "Yes, they are far behind you!" He listened to my words and said excitedly that he would write a composition, so I gave him a pen and paper and he began to write cheerfully.
In contrast, the big brother who denounces exam-oriented education is looking for reasons for his unwillingness to study, while the little brother enjoys it.
You may say that the children in Grade One are at the stage of being curious and fresh about learning. What about the children in the fourth and fifth grades? A fourth-grade girl told me: "I used to hate composition and have nothing to say." Writing a composition here now feels like playing a game, very happy! " "I suddenly understood that children can learn with the heart of the game! This can't be said to be a kind of feedback to me, and it also confirms the sentence-"there is no limit to learning, and you can't move forward." "
My understanding of teaching is that teachers should pay attention to cultivating children's feedback ability. Through the teacher's teaching, we can learn learning methods and improve our thinking ability. In this way, students will be innovative and creative, which in turn will enrich teachers' teaching. Teachers can come from students and go to students to sublimate their teaching. The cultivation of young graduate students advocated by Mr. Tao Xingzhi is an effective way to cultivate children's feedback ability.
Therefore, instead of focusing on criticizing exam-oriented education, it is better to start from scratch, find another way on the basis of exam-oriented, go beyond exam-oriented education itself, and let more children have the ability to feed back, so that education will gain vitality.