When we naturally approach the hearts of "underachievers" and they are willing to open their hearts to us, our education boat will sail into the harbor of success.
? Li Zhenxi
? As a teacher, especially the head teacher, perhaps the biggest headache in our teaching is not the daily activities such as preparing lessons, attending classes and correcting homework. But in the battle of wits with the urchin, there is nothing we can do. After teaching for 20 years, I have also met many students with bad conduct and poor grades. In contact with them, I deeply realized that simple and rude education methods have no effect at all, but will run counter to their words and deeds and get worse and worse. Only by using the wisdom of education and respecting equality can they activate their idea of "being a good person". Of course, the moral defects of "underachievers" are like chronic diseases, which cannot be achieved in one day. Improving or abandoning these defects cannot be achieved through communication and education. Therefore, the transformation of underachievers also needs enough patience to bear the repeated attacks of their "stubborn diseases".
In recent days, I have been reading Li Zhenxi's Love and Education, and I have a lot of feelings and thoughts. Frankly speaking, before reading Love and Education, I only used my sixth sense of "underachievers" (what kind of personality) and my existing teaching experience to deal with their relationship. There are various tricks of "fooling, scaring and cheating", as long as they attend classes and hand in their homework after class (even if they know it is copying homework or special handling homework)
In Love and Education, Mr. Li Zhenxi tells the story of Wan Tong and me. The story consists of "I used to be Sherlock Holmes", "The new official failed in three fires", "Unexpected popularity", "He found himself a helper", "The birth of the manuscript of King Kong of Fire", "I didn't want to know my mother until I got a wife" and "We are your own. Notes 16, with 33 pages and nearly 30,000 words, such as "Picking up a Thief", "Under the Collective Attention", "Thanks for the help of classmates", "Speech under the National Flag" and "Tears by Candlelight". From the theme of the notes, we can vaguely see the transformation process of an underachiever.
From the story of teacher Li Zhenxi and Wan Tong, I deeply felt the power of education. From the initial "punk" to the final "speech under the national flag", I can only say that Wan Tong was lucky to meet Mr. Li Zhenxi. This successful educational case also profoundly confirms Li Zhenxi's guiding ideology of transforming "underachievers": democracy, science and individuality.
First of all, the education of "underachievers" should be democratic: heart for heart.
Love is the premise of education, but love for underachievers is not charity. We must let them feel the sincerity of teachers and the taste of "democracy". Suhomlinski has repeatedly warned educators that the spark of children's desire to "be a good person" cannot be extinguished. Even terrible and useless students should have good moral buds in their hearts. They also have a kind and true self inside. Maybe at a certain moment, they will blame themselves, hate and fear for their bad words and deeds. However, because of their growing environment and life experience, they have become even disgusted with themselves, but they will get deeper and deeper and even go evil. Therefore, the successful transformation of "underachievers" needs our teachers' "magic wand" to help them discover their kindness and establish their moral self-confidence of "I am a good person with shortcomings". In the process of Vantone's transformation, Li Zhenxi did not use the means of "moral indoctrination", but made Vantone feel like a member of the class through collective public opinion, making everyone feel that "the class is beautiful because of me". Therefore, when choosing to "help others", the right to choose is different from your own; Wantong took the initiative to accept the attention and supervision of the whole class when accepting the notice from the school. Teacher Li Zhenxi skillfully used the collective public opinion to publish the essay "I am happy for the progress of Wantong" or "I am sad for the retrogression of Wantong" (Wantong's essay is "I thank my classmates for their help"): "That is to put Wantong under the supervision of the whole class, so that every student can consciously pay attention to Wantong's performance." In this way, empathy is not the help and care of the teacher alone, but the concern of the whole class. This is not only the use of the power of democracy, but also the unique educational wisdom of Teacher Li, which is scientific and effective.
Secondly, the education of "underachievers" should be scientific: give students the initiative in education.
As mentioned above, Mr. Li Zhenxi made the mid-term exam composition public in advance, aiming to make every student really pay attention to the changes in the world, exert a positive influence on it by using collective health public opinion, and let everyone in the class realize their progress, which is the glory of the whole class; Making a mistake is a disgrace to the whole class. This is a scientific educational concept. A person's strength is never inferior to that of a group. The most important thing is that what a person sees is often a face, even a point, and what dozens of people observe will be more comprehensive and systematic. Suhomlinski once said: "Real education is self-education." This is a simple law of science education. With everyone's care and help, Vantone has a successful experience. In everyone's praise, Miss Li emphasized that she has the courage and perseverance to "overcome herself". However, the "self-education" of underachievers is difficult to achieve once and for all, and it is often "making mistakes-admitting mistakes-correcting mistakes-making mistakes again-admitting mistakes again ...". In the process of Vantone's transformation, "Xia Yuan" was his helper, recording his words and deeds every day and telling the facts in simple terms. Teacher Li also specially printed a "good news list" for him, which can be obtained by reducing the number of mistakes and taking it back to his parents to report good news. Under the situation of general transformation, Mr. Li gave the initiative of education to the "underachievers", allowing them to accept collective supervision while self-educating, which not only allowed them to repeat their studies, but also encouraged them to make progress, reflecting the educational science of "taking teachers as the leading factor and students as the main body" that has always been advocated.
Finally, the education of "underachievers" needs individuality: heroes are not judged by scores.
Suhomlinski told us: "Don't let class and rank become the only and all-encompassing activity field in people's spiritual life. If a person only expresses himself on the score, it is no exaggeration to say that he does not express himself at all, and our educators, in this one-sided performance, are not educators at all-we only see a petal, but not the whole flower. " Because everyone's intelligence level, behavior habits, learning foundation, growth environment and so on are different, it is reasonable to have differences in learning. I often think that for some students with special difficulties in learning, attending classes is really a torment. If we continue to impose on them tasks that they can't do at all, it will only destroy them. I don't understand in class, I can't write my homework, and I am ridiculed by the teacher. There is no "happy and fulfilling spiritual life". I really sympathize with them. If we can understand this, maybe education will not be too complicated. According to the characteristics of each "underachiever", the teacher will provide them with a feasible path: introduce a chemistry teacher to Chen who caused the drawer to explode in class, starting with "basic chemistry"; Wu Rui, who plays with snakes in the classroom, is introduced into the biology interest group; For Wan Tong, it is suggested that he copy the King Kong of Fire, record every day and learn three new words ... It is this personalized education that not only solves the problem of "underachievers" doing nothing in class, but also opens up a road of interest for them. In fact, this reminds me of handling the case of Qi Xiaoyang, an "underachiever" in our department this spring. Because the ninth grade is facing the senior high school entrance examination, I suggested that he copy four products and history textbooks, and put forward corresponding requirements. I feel that the effect is good-although he can't remember all the knowledge points, at least some positive guidance in the four products and history will help him. I am a little gratified that I have adopted the idea of letting "underachievers" copy useful materials, so that before reading the teacher's book, I can have a little agreement with Mr. Li's educational concept, which also makes me more confident. )
The formation of "underachievers" has family reasons, school reasons and personal reasons. Teacher Dundun from Li Zhenxi taught us to pay attention to emotional tendency, arouse their upward confidence, guide collective public opinion, and pay attention to scientific methods: "writing home-school contact books", "filling in happy lists", "collective evaluation", "recommending good books", "praising students' compositions", "arranging to be class cadres", and encouraged them to write "spiritual struggle-remember once". Second, did you desert in class today? Third, did you ask any questions in your study today? Four questions: Have you reviewed today's class? Five questions: Have you done anything uncivilized today? Six questions: Did you curse today? Did you overcome your weakness today? Eight questions whether there is progress today; Do you have any regrets today?
Thinking:
"Underachievers" should not be regarded as a marginal group, but should attract more attention from our educators. If "gifted students" are trained to be what we want, it can only show that our education and teaching follow the growth law of gifted students; If we can guide the underachievers to always fight for their souls, find their own valuable points, dare to use the noble "I" to overcome the humble "I", make the transformation of the underachievers in place, and let them have a happy life experience, it is the embodiment of educational value.