What kind of education, schools and teachers do we need?
Therefore, we try to weave an "education" network with keywords as the warp and reports as the weft with a series of investigation and analysis reports on educational common sense. Practice has proved that every educator must return to the essence of "education is human nature", to the background of the new curriculum reform concept, to the respect for life and life, to "starting from students", to construct China's contemporary "new pedagogy" with "new teachers, new classrooms, new schools and new students" as the framework and classroom as the center. Only in this way can we promote the real education and teaching reform and make education rejuvenate! In the new context, let's go back to the original point to interpret-what is a teacher? The brightest job in the sun? Engineers of the human soul? Candles? Spring silkworm? Or what we usually call "preaching, teaching, and dispelling doubts"? No matter from which point of view, the profession of teachers is extraordinary. However, such an unusual teacher is faced with the embarrassment of image polarization: one is to regard the teacher as a "soul shaper" and regard the teacher as a "candle" and a "spring silkworm". In this sad image, the teacher is portrayed as a victim who works silently, a devotee who doesn't ask for anything in return, burning himself and illuminating others. The other is malicious slander and derogatory to teachers. It seems that all the problems in education lie with teachers, who should be responsible for them. What is even more worrying is that, in addition to the confusion of teachers' roles, teachers themselves lack self-professional awareness. "In the eyes of outsiders, teachers have two holidays, but in fact, only we know the ups and downs"; "You practice quality education and leave less homework. They blame you for delaying students. You make up lessons and leave more homework. They say that you have increased the burden on students. Teachers are really difficult "; "I have been teaching for so many years, and I am very busy and hard every day. I don't know what I'm busy with. " Now, job burnout has become a common problem for teachers. Of course, it is not excluded that some teachers do have some moral problems. In some key schools in some areas, some teachers deliberately don't talk about it in class, collude with each other after class, and take "making up lessons" and "guessing questions" as their own means of making extra money! At present, in some areas, the problem of teachers' morality has triggered a series of chain reactions, which has seriously restricted the healthy development of education. We must be alert to the problem of "the decline of teachers' morality"! Some people say that "role is personality". If the role of teachers is defined, many "relationships" in education and teaching can be defined. In this newspaper's report "Teachers: Where is Happiness", we try to give an answer. After reading Look, Teacher's winter vacation life, you will realize how difficult it is to be a teacher today. Besides low salary and heavy workload, we also find that teachers are caught in a dilemma under the double attack of utilitarian society and exam-oriented education. A teacher said that if we only regard teaching as a profession and a means of making a living, all the value of education depends on students' "scores" and "further studies", while completely ignoring the cultivation of students' minds and the growth of their lives, then teachers' educational life will easily become monotonous and lifeless, and will be bound by trivial day-to-day "routine management" and "knowledge transfer". Teachers' enthusiasm and enthusiasm will be reduced, and they will get tired of teaching and give up teaching. Especially with the implementation of the new curriculum reform, some teachers often feel at a loss because of poor "practical exercises", and gradually lose confidence and interest in their work, resulting in job burnout. Therefore, the new curriculum reform must pay more attention to the promotion of "practical experience" in the new classroom. Some teachers suggested that since a large number of curriculum reform schools such as Dulangkou and Changle No.2 Middle School have made good reforms and have specific practical experience, why not boldly promote them? For example, what is the basic process of the classroom? Or simply start from "learning" and provide several "universal" classroom models; How to evaluate the class, what are the commonalities of a good class, and so on. It's time to push for a radical change! On the one hand, efforts should be made to promote the change of teachers' concepts and redefine, recognize and shape teachers' roles; On the other hand, education directors and scientific research departments should also change the concepts and methods of education and training and give teachers practical "technical" operation methods. We can't repeat the old experience and routine of "old education", so we have "National Training: China Changing Teachers", which focuses on the "biggest" training in contemporary China. The hope of education lies in "new teachers"! The times call for "new teachers"! The number of new teachers determines the future hope of education in China. Students regard teachers as "unwelcome" people, such as following the rules in class, delaying class and grabbing time to divide people. How to become a teacher popular with students? Different people have different opinions. In the survey initiated by this newspaper, although the answers sent by readers are different, some of them are common. Such as: caring for and caring for students, listening to their voices, encouraging students to praise, not delaying, not assigning too much homework ... More importantly, we found in the survey that some "alternative" teachers are more popular with students than some traditional teachers. In the interview of "Zhang Zhuoyu: Is it possible to have a Copernican educational revolution", Zhang Zhuoyu, deputy director of Shanxi Provincial Department of Education, thinks that teachers should play more roles as organizers, guides, evaluators and collaborators. The so-called organizer's role is to emphasize the ability of teachers to organize classroom teaching. The so-called guidance, the purpose is to emphasize guidance rather than substitution, to guide students to think, rather than directly tell the conclusion. It is a kind of strangulation to students' thinking to stop and correct when they see the wrong answer. The so-called evaluation, first of all, is appreciation, and then inspiration. Today, we need to find "new teachers" who are happy and feel happy in education and teaching. We need "new teachers" who are often moved by students and inspired by themselves. What we need are "new teachers" who develop themselves and achieve themselves while imparting knowledge to students. As Parker Palmer, an American scholar, said in the book Courage of Teaching-Walking in Teachers' Heart: "Really good teaching can't be simplified to the technical level, and really good teaching comes from teachers' own recognition and integrity. "Similar to Palmer's point of view, Chen Dawei, an associate professor at Chengda Teachers College, pointed out that it is important to be a teacher that students, parents and principals like, but it is more important to be a teacher that you like and are satisfied with. In this regard, he gave three key words: "respect", "responsibility" and "love." Because of respect, we are equal students; Because of respect, we accept students' situations and choices; Because we respect every student, we treat every student fairly ... Because of responsibility, we are self-disciplined and awe-inspiring; Because of responsibility, we bear, bear; Because of responsibility, we learn and grow ... because of love, we love, we care; Because of love, we care and encourage; Because of love, we trust and are kind ... "What is a teacher? Only when we truly understand our role and orientation, our value and connotation, can we think about the all-round development of students, cultivate new people with more vitality and innovative spirit, reduce the burden on ourselves and students, establish a truly people-oriented new teacher-student relationship, and make ourselves and students happy. Therefore, a really good teacher must exist as a developer. As a teacher, please don't forget these eight words: develop students and achieve yourself. What is the role of teachers? He should be a lighter, a provider of learning conditions, or, in a word, a teacher should arouse students' interest in learning. Interest is the best education, and the "interest education" in Luxiang Experimental Primary School in Wuhan may provide some valuable enlightenment for teachers.