As a phenomenon of human society, education plays a very important role in promoting the continuation and development of human beings, and the special education we are all engaged in is an indispensable part of education. It is not only a means to improve the quality of special children, but also a necessary measure to promote the balanced and coordinated development of basic education.

Then, everyone knows Helen Keller's work My Life. She is an American blind and deaf woman writer. I think: When we were moved by the story of this disabled girl's tenacious struggle with the disease, her tutor Anne Sullivan also left a deep impression on us. While she is full of sincere admiration and reverence, we can't help thinking: What kind of teacher can train a blind and deaf disabled person into an excellent Harvard graduate and an outstanding social reformer, and be awarded the highest honor of American citizens-the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and like Mr. Sullivan, we are all engaged in special education. Although there is still a gap between us, whether in Qinhuangdao or other special schools in the province, we are using our lofty personality to influence, infect and encourage those special children to overcome the obstacles of disability and surpass their own lives. Some of the students we have trained have entered the halls of universities, and some have become useful people in society on their own. Our cause is very hard, and many people can't imagine the ups and downs. Today, I will talk about how to be a special education teacher based on my experience over the years.

First of all, teachers' morality is the soul of special education teachers' quality.

As we all know, teachers' morality is teachers' professional ethics. As the saying goes: "Teaching is the work of conscience!" ? This sentence hit the nail on the head and revealed the importance of teachers' morality. Teachers with noble morality will influence students with their own words and deeds, subtly infect students, and teach students how to be human in the process of imparting knowledge; Teachers with noble morality will constantly update their educational concepts, guide students to learn and teach them learning methods, so that students can benefit for life; Teachers with noble morality are always unknown, selfless and ubiquitous, like candles, with no regrets. In my opinion, the professional ethics of our special education teachers should be mainly reflected in "three hearts": love, responsibility and peace of mind. Of course, there are many, many more Today, because of the time, I will only talk about these for the time being.

1. Love

Education needs love. Without love, there is no education. In all kinds of education, such as moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor, teacher's love is the foundation and premise. Therefore, in the process of education, selfless dedication of this kind of teacher love is not only the key to the success of education, but also an important content to measure the quality of a teacher. ? An educator once said: "whoever loves children, children love him, and only those who love children can educate them." These words brilliantly discuss the extreme importance of teacher love in education from the relationship between teachers and students. ? The disabled students, the object of our education, are physically disabled for various reasons, which in turn leads to various psychological problems, resulting in different "psychological diseases" such as inferiority, willfulness, paranoia and hatred. Teachers' love for special education teachers is like a "lubricant", which can also be said to be a good medicine for students' incomplete personality. With it, teachers and students can have trust and closeness, and can better achieve the educational purpose of "loving their teachers and believing in their ways". So, how to better reflect this kind of teacher love?

First of all, we should respect and trust students.

In other words, every special education teacher, no matter what kind of disabled children your students are, no matter how old they are, should regard them as a sound person with independent thinking ability, creativity and wisdom. Only in this way can you better help them get rid of the shadow of disability. For example, deaf children can't tell the different meanings of the words "give", "take", "want" and "steal" from childhood, and they don't understand that stealing is an illegal act, so most deaf students commit petty theft regardless of age and sex. Some teachers force students to correct their bad habits by criticizing, reprimanding and even frisking, but deaf students still commit crimes again, and finally have to give up preaching and adopt passive prevention to accept students' behaviors. So, why don't we change from passive to active? When students are caught stealing for the first time, we should first help them distinguish different behaviors, what is "taking" and how to do it, which is different from "taking" and is called "stealing". What are the consequences of "stealing", why is it illegal, and what consequences will it bring to yourself and others? After the conversation, tell the child that the teacher has full trust in him and believes that he can correct it ... afterwards, you can deliberately let him take some money and things without anyone (provided that you know the exact amount of money and things yourself) and give him a chance to correct it. If you don't "steal" the first time, you should encourage it in time. If students have repeated, don't lose heart, let alone give up discipline. This method, we might as well try, may receive different educational effects. What I just said is a way of education that fully respects students. I think that if it is infiltrated into daily work, the personality of disabled students will be fully respected, so as to better correct their shortcomings.

The second is understanding and care. In-depth understanding and meticulous care are the most prominent manifestations of teacher love. The premise of "understanding and caring" is that you must have keen observation, observe the abnormal situation of students' emotions and behaviors in time, and then adopt various educational methods to really go into students' hearts and help them solve psychological problems. There is a student named Li Linlin in our school. (Let me introduce the children's situation first: simple personality, optimism, smart mind, excellent grades and excellent family conditions. His parents have only one child, and the whole family has only spoiled him since childhood. In recent days, the class teacher found that his eyes were a little red and he was sleepy in the third class. Ask him what's wrong, and he just says he can't sleep at night. Once, when the teacher was correcting his diary, he found that it said, "I can't sleep again tonight." The lights in the dormitory went out, so I had to stare at the ceiling. After a while, I ran to the platform on the fifth floor and began to count the stars, one, two, three ... There are so many stars in the sky that I can't count them. At this time, the life teacher came over and said,' You! I listened to his words and went back to the dormitory ... "

After reading the diary, the teacher talked to him for the first time. Anyway, he just said "nothing". The first conversation failed. But the teacher didn't stop there and continued to observe him. A few days later, he told the teacher that he didn't want to study and left school. Later, he said that he hated being deaf and dumb, and his mood was very negative. What causes children to become like this? Just when the teacher was puzzled, it suddenly occurred to him that a few months ago, his mother went to school to visit him and talked with the teacher about the idea of having another child. Could it be that? And in retrospect, his parents who have seen him once in the past half a month have not come for more than a month. The teacher immediately called his parents to confirm-indeed, his mother was pregnant again. The "crux" has been found, which is the silent resistance of children to their parents and the outstanding performance of deaf children's inferiority complex. On the one hand, the teacher immediately informed the parents of the situation, on the other hand, he actively did his ideological work. With the cooperation of both home and school, Linlin regained her optimistic personality and won the first place in her class in the final exam. It can be seen that the minds of disabled students are more sensitive and fragile than normal people. Even a small change in behavior may contain unknown stories. As special education teachers, we must go deep into students' hearts with a more sensitive heart in order to truly become their mentors.

The third is strict requirements. Love without strict requirements is not true love. Teacher love is different from maternal love because it breaks through the circle of doting. ? Disabled students still have many special psychological qualities due to their own physical and psychological obstacles, such as inferiority and selfishness. This kind of psychology often leads to their impulsive, petty theft, impatience, insecurity and low trust. Therefore, we should spend more time to strictly correct their thoughts, behaviors and habits. The deaf sophomore in our school is the most important class in the whole school. As the college entrance examination is coming next year, some students think that they have a heavy study task and are old, and they always want to do something special, such as not cleaning the dormitory in the morning and not being on duty on time. In order to make them become the model of the whole school, I have equipped them with two experienced class teachers, and I personally participate in the management of students every day. In my life, after putting forward requirements and goals to them, I will take time to check their dormitory arrangements every day, from bedding to the placement of daily necessities. I was able to persist for a few days at first, but after a long time, I fell into the old habit again. Once I went to the dormitory for inspection, I saw the scene of bedding piled up and shoes littered. I'll call the students to visit at once. Unexpectedly, monitor Cai shook his arm and took the whole class back to the classroom without looking at me. No one can hold him back ... After dinner, two class teachers and I rushed back to school. I gave them a class meeting entitled "Right and Wrong" in the evening self-study time, and presented the facts and reasons to the students from all aspects, and analyzed whether their behavior was right or wrong. Finally, they went back to the dormitory with me and packed everything. In my study, I insist on giving students an encouraging word, a famous saying or asking for their recent questions every morning ... After a few months, the students have made great progress in all aspects. Teachers' love for students is a very special kind of love, which is reflected in the strict requirements for students. Only in this way can we cultivate "special talents" with disabilities and determination.

be responsible for

Responsibility is a heartfelt courage to face life. If a person has a sense of responsibility, then he will try to do everything perfectly. As a special education teacher, the sense of responsibility is more important, because our disabled students will always encounter many difficulties and problems in their life and study. And these problems are just a great test of our sense of responsibility. Let's talk about the sense of responsibility of special education teachers based on my own personal experience.

From June 65438 to June 0976, I was assigned to a special education school and started my career. That year, I was 17 years old. He is a substitute teacher at school. At that time, my greatest wish was to let these children learn knowledge and culture and enjoy life equally with healthy children. In order to achieve this goal, I took my students on an outing and made specimens for them myself. In order to overcome the obstacles of communication with students as soon as possible, I moved into the single dormitory of the school to practice sign language hard, and it took only half a year to reach the best level of the school. As the head teacher of the students, in order to solve the problem that the students' home is far away and they can't leave school on time, I take the students back to my home, preferring to lay the floor with my lover and let them sleep in the bed.

May 1998 is an unforgettable day in our school. In society, criminals kidnapped eight students in our school, and the school searched for their whereabouts in many ways. In despair, the former headmaster had a heart attack and fell asleep at work. In this case, I am in charge of the overall work of the school. At that time, I was faced with many problems. The principal's affairs need to be dealt with, and I must hold back my grief and sort things out; Teachers' nervous mood is also difficult to calm down; The underground heating pipe of the disrepair teaching building suddenly burst, and the whole building was in jeopardy; My father-in-law was hospitalized in the late stage of lung cancer, and his life was dying; My husband suddenly went blind because of anxiety. He always needs someone to take care of him. ...

In those days, I went to find the lost classmates during the day to solve the funds and deal with things. Only at noon and after work can I have a little time to take care of my husband and father-in-law, and I have to go back to school to take care of my students at night. Many times when I was tired and dizzy in the car, I did everything with the support of the medicine and spirit of the pills. If you can't stand it, go to the bottle. Something happened and the school pulled out the needle and came back to work. I don't have time to take care of my husband who suddenly went blind and the elderly who are getting thinner. I can't even spare time to talk to the old people and cook for them. A pair of little girls were left unattended at their parents' home and didn't go back for a week ... because they were worried about the school in distress and the more than 300 lovely disabled children. And this "care" is my responsibility. Now it seems that it is with this strong sense of responsibility that the school gradually got rid of the predicament of that year and continued to grow and develop, reaching today.

stay normal

Doing special education also needs a normal mind. Tao Xingzhi, a famous educator, said: "Education should be done with heart, without half a blade of grass." I think we special teachers should have a normal mind.

First of all, everyone may have this experience: as a special education teacher, you will never get real teacher enjoyment: because a blind student will never see his dear teacher; And our deaf students can never shout out clearly: "teacher", even so, when we hear the vague and unfamiliar "teacher", we will be moved to tears; Students with mental retardation can see and listen, but they can't recognize who you really are. Even if they just call you Miss Li in the morning and Miss Zhang in the afternoon, we will still touch their heads and love them as always.

Secondly, special education itself is an unimaginable cause, and people are always puzzled and curious about disabled students and special education teachers. In order to make disabled students apply what they have learned, broaden their horizons and improve their social adaptability, our school has observation classes every two weeks. Once, one of our young teachers took his students to a noisy market to observe the class, and was explaining Chinese knowledge to the students in sign language. Suddenly, he found many people pointing at him and watching him carefully. Some even said, "Look at that teacher, he is like a mute …" The little teacher who just started working was angry and helpless. He cried when he came back to school to find me. At that time, I told her earnestly, "This kind of embarrassing thing will happen to almost every special education teacher. The more people don't understand, the more we have to work hard to let everyone know that special education is also our work goal! "

Therefore, if you want to do a good job in special education, you must have a normal heart of no regrets, selfless dedication and free payment.

Two, the teaching level is the core of the quality of special education teachers.

To win the trust of students, teachers must have extensive knowledge and keep updating it. In today's society, students get much more information through various channels than in school. If teachers stick to the original knowledge and don't pay attention to continuing learning and updating, they will certainly not gain the trust of students. So how can special education teachers improve their teaching level? I think we should work hard on the word "hard":

1. Excellent basic teaching skills

As we all know, engaging in special education requires not only general skills such as language expression, three strokes and organizing teaching, but also some special skills. For example, deaf teachers need to be proficient in sign language, blind teachers need to be able to spell and read Braille, and mentally retarded teachers need to master stick figure skills and manual skills. The mastery of these basic skills directly affects teachers' teaching quality and prestige among students. As we all know, young teachers who have just been assigned to schools are often "bullied" by students, especially deaf students. This phenomenon is more obvious. In fact, it's not that students deliberately bully teachers, but that sign language is the only bridge for deaf children to communicate with the outside world. If you don't know sign language, you can't build this "heart bridge". If you can't walk into his heart, he can't accept you, and then he will show boredom and impatience. In our school, in order to cultivate the professional ability of teachers, especially young teachers, the school implements "long-term" and "short-term" training plans for new teachers. "Long-term effect" means that every new teacher must first work in the school life group after arriving at school, and gradually understand the special education work and the hobbies and habits of special children in the work of the life group, and learn professional skills such as sign language and Braille. After a semester, with the mastery of basic skills, I entered the post of head teacher and exercised and further improved my teaching ability. "Short-term" means that the academic affairs office of the school should carry out many activities such as "teaching basic skills competition" and "teaching contest" every semester, and urge teachers to continuously improve their professional ability by means of competition. Only in this way can each new teacher step into the role as soon as possible and be competent for special education.

2. Excellent knowledge reserve

Education in the new era requires us to "give students a drop of water, and teachers should always run water". Profound knowledge is the basis for teachers to be competent in teaching and always be invincible, but the accumulation of knowledge is a long process. With the development of scientific society and the constant renewal of educational ideas, the ideological learning situation of disabled students is also changing, which urges us to keep learning. We should not only read books and newspapers often, but also consult all kinds of materials on the Internet to seize every opportunity to make up for our shortcomings. At school, I often provide teachers with various learning opportunities. For example, inviting educational experts to teach educational theories and methods, and holding various experience exchanges to provide a platform for teachers to learn from each other. At every meeting, I ask everyone to bring a notebook to write down useful knowledge and learn it back. Teachers also attach great importance to the improvement of their knowledge level, often report to classes at their own expense to learn animation production, buy relevant books, keep their knowledge updated, and always stand at the forefront of the times and education.

3. Good psychological quality is the guarantee for the success of special education teachers.

A philosopher once said, "A teacher's personality is everything to an educator, and only a healthy mind can have healthy behavior." However, the mental health level of today's teachers is not optimistic. According to the survey of relevant institutions, teachers' depression, insomnia, paranoia and interpersonal sensitivity are higher than the average person. However, due to the long-term face of disabled students, the job burnout and anxiety of special education teachers are more prominent. Therefore, it is more meaningful for us to maintain mental health. How to maintain a healthy mentality? I think we should try to start with the following points:

1. Interest activities should be extensive. Interest refers to people's love and pursuit of learning, research, literature, art and knowledge. On rest days or holidays, we might as well go out to participate in various activities. Dance if you like to dance, sing if you like to sing, gather if you want to be lively ... and pay attention to cultivating your own interests in all aspects, because the more activities a person participates in, the higher his mental health level will be.

2. Chat with friends more. Everyone needs to vent their contradictions and pains. When you feel depressed, you might as well talk to a friend.

3. Establish a high degree of self-confidence. Self-confidence is the desire to accept the challenges of real life. Accepting the challenge of real life can not only prove one's ability and value, but also exert one's potential and realize one's ideal.

4. Focus on your work and study. Putting all our efforts into work and study, and satisfying our desire to meet the challenges of real life through repeated success in work and study is another way for us to adjust our psychology. In this regard, Liu Jiaoshou, a famous psychologist in China, once pointed out: "People with mental health feel that life is meaningful. He has a certain goal in doing things and a certain enthusiasm for his work. He has clear thinking and strong perseverance. He will stick to the plan and never give up until he reaches his goal. Anyone who is anticlimactic, flashing east and west, having a negative attitude and finding life boring is psychologically unhealthy. "

Fourthly, innovative spirit is the essential feature of the quality of special education teachers.

Einstein said: "Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited, and imagination summarizes everything in the world, promotes progress and is the source of knowledge evolution."

Quality education, which focuses on cultivating innovative spirit and practical ability, is the main theme of today's education reform. Teachers' innovative spirit will subtly affect students, so the role and value of innovative spirit in teachers' work are increasingly prominent and important.

How do special education teachers realize their own innovation?

1. Teaching methods need innovation.

Classroom teaching is the main channel of school teaching, and teachers are the designers and participants of classroom teaching. The new educational concept tells us that in order to train students to develop in learning and learn in development, we must constantly update our educational concept, innovate and carry out educational reform. After exploration, our teachers put forward the "345" teaching mode. "Three teaching modes": in the face of all lectures, students discuss and study with each other, and students think independently and practice by themselves. "Four training methods": self-reading and self-speaking; Reading at the same table and talking to each other; Reading and speaking in turn in groups; The whole class chooses reading and speaking. "Five Senses" is to let students move their eyes, ears, brain, mouth and hands, and mobilize a variety of senses to participate in learning activities. Even blind and deaf students who have eyes and ears should give full play to and compensate for their residual vision and hearing. Such teaching forms and methods make students feel happy, full of vitality, actively seek knowledge and develop, not only master the learning methods, but also improve the ability of communication and cooperation. It can be seen that innovative teaching methods can greatly improve students' learning enthusiasm and promote disabled students' learning.

2. Class management needs innovation.

The head teacher is the leader and organizer of class work. In special education schools, the responsibility of the class teacher is even more arduous. He should not only care about students' joys and sorrows, but also care about their food, clothing, housing and transportation, share their worries and solve problems, and try his best to mobilize all students' positive factors with his enthusiasm. How to manage classes innovatively? Some middle and high school class teachers in our school do this:

First, give students the right to create. Students enter junior high school, most of them are eighteen or nineteen years old, and they are in a special stage of psychological development. At this time, they have their own independent thinking and opinions. Therefore, in some routine work such as class construction, learning methods, book management and blackboard newspaper design, they give students the right of independent innovation to give full play to their talents. For example, the steps of class culture construction are: (1) teachers and students discuss topics together, (2) students submit plans and design ideas, (3) purchase materials and (4) put them into practice. In this process, teachers should respect students' views and always give affirmation to students' practices.

Secondly, give students a chance to think.

Thinking is a thorough and thoughtful thinking activity. In order to continuously improve students' ability to deal with things. Teachers often leave students with opportunities to think. Once, such a thing happened in Class One of Senior High School. One afternoon, a classmate saw that it was going to rain and went to close the window. Unexpectedly, the wind was so strong that he accidentally broke the glass. How to compensate for this glass? At that time, the students had different opinions, and some said that he had to pay compensation for accidentally breaking the glass; Some said that he broke the glass for the sake of the group and should be compensated by the students together ... There was a heated discussion at that time. Because most of the children come from the countryside and their families are poor, some students have only a little pocket money in one semester. Although they only have eight pieces of glass, it means that they will have no pocket money next month ... so everyone has a different opinion. At this time, the teacher decisively handed over the matter to the class Committee. A few days later, the classmate who broke the glass found the class teacher and stuffed a crumpled change into the teacher's hand. There are dimes, dimes and many dimes in this pile of money. Later, the teacher learned that after work that day, the class cadres had a meeting for this matter. Although this classmate took the initiative to ask for compensation for glass money, all his classmates knew that his family was in poor condition, his father died, and his mother supported her two children by farming. He has almost no pocket money for a semester. So the class Committee suggested that all the students should help him, and that's how the money was collected. It can be seen that giving students the opportunity to think and let them deal with some small problems by themselves will often receive better educational results.

3. Give students room to correct their mistakes.

Giving students room to correct their mistakes is actually being kind to students who make mistakes. Because most students make mistakes unintentionally. Therefore, in the face of students' mistakes, teachers always try to tell them from the perspective of truth, goodness and beauty in their hearts: how can we do better? Warm students with the love of teachers. Only in this way can students really correct their mistakes.

Jong Li is the monitor of Grade One and the newly elected student union cadre in our school this year. No matter his work ability or academic performance, he is good, but he can't be strict with himself very well, and his big mistakes are uninterrupted. In order to educate him well, the teacher not only often talks with him, but also brings him clothes and meals from home. Even took him to his house for dinner several times. The holiday is coming soon. In order to improve the food for the children, the teacher took all the students in the class 1 1 home to pack jiaozi. In order to prepare these meals, the teacher's husband prepared them at home all day. In the evening, after dinner, the teacher sent the children back to school in the rain. But the next day, he sneaked into the office, rummaged through other teachers' bags and was caught red-handed. Knowing this, the teacher was very angry. The child also knows that he is wrong, standing in front of the teacher, with his head down and saying nothing. After work, the teacher called him to the cement platform in the secluded playground and had a heart-to-heart talk with him: from the school grants to his poverty, he talked about the teacher's meticulous care, as well as the tens of thousands of dollars in surgery expenses owed by his parents for treating his heart disease ... Finally, he was educated to bravely defeat his biggest enemy, overcome his shortcomings and be a good cadre trusted by teachers and classmates. At that time, he also regretted his behavior, regardless of the teacher's dissuasion, crying and hitting the concrete platform with his fist. At that time, all his knuckles were punctured and blood ran down his fingers. At that time, the teacher took time to take him to the hospital for treatment. Fortunately, nothing serious happened. In the evening, the teacher was afraid that he would be unhappy and saw that he was injured. He offered to take him home, but the child refused. He said with tears: "Teacher, I am sorry for you. How can I have the face to go home with you? " ……

Although being left at school, the teacher is still very uneasy. The next morning, I brought a lot of medicine from home. As expected, that morning, the child's hands were swollen like bread and his mood was extremely low. The teacher enlightened him and helped him change his medicine, but he was always unhappy. Tears came down when he saw the teacher. When I learned this, I called Jong Li to my office. I wrote him a paragraph to encourage him to face up to his mistakes bravely and then try to correct them. Finally, I wrote: both the principal and the teacher believe that you can do it. The child nodded solemnly to me with tears in his eyes. During the holiday, Jong Li's mother came to pick him up. As agreed, the teacher didn't tell his mother the reason for his injury. However, when he left, Jong Li, who had been silent for several days, quietly found the teacher. He said, "Teacher, thank you for taking care of me these days. Don't worry, I will definitely correct my shortcomings and be a good cadre. "

Speaking of which, every special education teacher here may have had a similar experience. Many times, although our students make mistakes, we are also very angry, but after all, they are a group of disabled children, and there are many lovely places besides being naughty. It is our unshirkable responsibility to educate them well. Although it is not easy to do this well, teachers of special education are doing their best to love and educate students. Dear special education teachers, we are engaged in the most sacred cause under the sun, as pure as white Hada. This glorious profession has no selfish distractions, and can't see greed and desire. Let's join hands for this cause and jointly support a blue sky for disabled children, so that they can grow up happily and freely under the blue sky. Thank you!