At the beginning of this book, Mr. Rafe said that it is not easy to persist in being a teacher for decades, but only time can make a teacher become a famous teacher who can inspire students' hearts and inner world and change students' life path. Only by becoming a famous teacher can he have enough ability to inspire and reshape students, and even change the world and make it a better place.
The first lesson needs to give students some creeds and beliefs, and the book lists 10. Through reading, this 10 creed gave me a strong inspiration. Time-tested experience is often thought-provoking.
1, the creed of "be kind to others and go all out"
The book says, "Be kind to each other, not once or for a while, but from beginning to end."
I often tell my classmates to be friendly, but it is often aimed at one thing or a certain point, such as when there are some small frictions and contradictions between classmates. I think this "from beginning to end" mentioned in the book is very good, because it shows that it must be completed at any time and any place from beginning to end. The degree is not a little kindness, but very, very kindness. Even without the supervision of teachers and parents, you can do it and gradually form the principles and norms of being a man. This reminds me of the sixth stage of lawrence kohlberg's six moral stages mentioned by Mr. Rafe in his previous book, that is, "I have my own code of conduct and abide by it."
The creed of going all out reminds me of the seriousness or craftsman spirit in the essential character of core literacy advocated at present. Self-discipline, be fair to the public; And do things seriously, sweeping the streets like Shakespeare's poems. It is worth noting that in this book, Mr. Rafe emphasizes that going all out should not be lifeless, but "going all out in laughter", which requires the wisdom of teachers.
2. The belief that there is no shortcut to success.
There is no shortcut to success, that is, teachers and students should take their time. There may be no shortcut to success in anything. It takes time and process, precipitation and thinking. Then you don't have to worry or panic, and enjoy every step of the process.
Recently, I am taking my classmates to do the relevant regulations of the class law meeting. At present, it is the second revision, and every revision will be discussed with students in depth. Discuss in class meetings and nail groups, revise unreasonable places and inappropriate clauses in the regulations, imagine various situations with students, and do a lot of self-denial and renewal. In this process, I found that sometimes we can't consider the children from the perspective of adults, but we can improve the plan through repeated peer discussions.
Maybe we can't form an executable version in the end, but in this process, students can realize that it takes a lot of time and energy to formulate and implement a rule and system. After repeated improvements, it is impossible to meet everyone's demands because it is difficult to adjust. Students will respect the rules and regulations of the school more and strictly abide by them, which is not because of fear, nor because they want to get rewards, nor because they want to please anyone. School rules and regulations are the bottom line and the red line, and we have higher moral standards.
There is no shortcut to success, even if it is not successful, the process of constant pursuit is gratifying.
3. The creed of "honesty and trustworthiness"
Honesty and trustworthiness are mutual. In order to cultivate honest and trustworthy children, teachers should first do this, promise students that they will do everything well, and constantly emphasize to students that they will help solve various problems they have raised, including their studies and life. Even if some problems can't be solved, I will try my best.
It is also honest to ask questions that you don't understand in class, but it is often not easy to do. If children want to ask questions actively in class, they must first eliminate their fears. On the one hand, when students ask a very simple question, even if the teacher has said it before, they might as well emphasize it again. On the other hand, students should be encouraged to respect each other and not laugh at others.
Once in an exercise class, I hoped that some students could raise their hands to ask questions, because I knew that some students really couldn't, but no one raised their hands. I told my classmates that asking questions in class is a virtue, and the questions you ask may also be the questions of other students. You benefit from the teacher's explanation in class, and so do other students. I promise that in class, I will not be laughed at because my classmates' questions are too simple, and I will take the trouble to explain them to my classmates. Eliminating fear and trusting each other can cultivate students' honesty and trustworthiness.
4. The creed of "giving full play to initiative"
The key to promoting students' initiative is that teachers should fully trust students and give them some space to try and make mistakes properly. When students feel this comfortable and relaxed space, they will learn to be responsible for their actions. When a student feels completely accepted, he will develop in a better direction.
My own understanding of exerting subjective initiative is that students need to know a truth, that is, they can learn from others, but always compare with themselves. If you want to compare yourself with others, you should compare yourself with others every minute of the past. Each student's family environment is different and his talents are different. .......................................................................................................................................
Students' homework can be layered, and not every student needs to do the same homework. I have thought about this problem from the perspective of a student. A student with a poor foundation needs to do the same homework as his classmates with excellent foundation every day. She may choose not to do it, and she will be depressed after a long time. Learn from others and compare with yourself. Today, you can make a little progress than yesterday, and tomorrow, you can make a little progress than today. It is very difficult to study hard and make progress every day.
I gave my students an example, that is, there are many peaches on the tree. When you weigh your feet, you can pick them all. Only you know exactly which peaches you can pick. The so-called hierarchical homework is based on trust, allowing students to choose and do it themselves. You will find that when you let him choose by himself, he will take the initiative to discuss the specific content of the homework with you. At this time, you just have to tell him to try your best to choose the topic and pick all the peaches that can be picked. My practice proves that this is effective, and students' subjective initiative in doing homework can be improved.
5. The creed of "taking responsibility for your actions"
I have seen some children who need to prepare study materials for class the next day, and then borrow their mobile phones from teachers to call their parents and ask them to send them over. Teacher Rafe's approach in the book is to let the children explain directly to the teacher. It's no big deal, and parents don't have to rush to send it, because parents also have their parents' work to do, even if it's a gift from a retired elder, it's unnecessary. You need to take responsibility for your own mistakes, and you can't pass it on to others. Let others take responsibility instead.
The book puts forward the question of "how education can help children become talents", which is particularly worth thinking about. I have read many articles, saying that there are no students who can't teach well, only teachers who can't teach well, and there are also articles saying that parents play a vital role in the process of children's education. The book also mentions that poverty may be one of the factors that hinder children's success.
However, I think whether a person can become a success or not, he should bear the responsibility. Needless to say, if he can't become a success in the future, even if he can't do some small things well, he should bear the responsibility himself. If you don't look at yourself, you will complain, and you will never find the inner motivation to move forward.
For students, only by discovering their own internal driving force and being truly responsible for themselves can they find the fun of learning. In this process, teachers can give various suggestions calmly, but the final decision is always in the hands of students themselves.
6. The creed of "Pay attention to time and occasion"
When to make trouble and when to be quiet, maybe every adult can give a unified answer. Students, especially children, need guidance. If you want to make students better, you need to explain to students what the internal reasons are for being quiet and noisy.
Some students keep quiet because they are afraid or want to get rewards or please their teachers. If we adhere to such moral standards, then when the teacher is absent or has no specific environment, he can't do it.
For another example, school rules and discipline are the bottom line and red line of students' behavior, but if they abide by these rules out of fear, their behavior may be different if they are not bound by these rules. We should make students have higher moral standards. For example, in a hospital, we don't speak loudly because we are considerate of others, because people in the hospital may be in a hurry. In this case, it is necessary to have a moral standard higher than obeying the rules, that is, to be considerate of others, so as to ask yourself to be quiet.
When communicating with students, teachers can communicate with students calmly, gently and firmly, even if students make excessive behaviors. We should cultivate students with calm and mature thinking, and we need to do better in this respect ourselves. Teaching is more important than speaking, and students will eventually learn through demonstration again and again.
In some competition venues or amusement parks, you can cheer loudly and release yourself. We usually talk about adapting to local conditions and keeping pace with the times. There should be different behaviors at different times and occasions, and the inner moral standards that produce these behaviors are the magic weapon to make students become better.
7. The creed of "not afraid to ask questions"
In every exercise class, students are expected to raise their hands and ask questions. They are often told that brave questioning is a virtue and active sharing is a good deed. Because the question you ask may be the question of many other students, who are afraid or unwilling to raise their hands for various reasons. You ask questions in class, which represents the voices of many students. This is a great move.
Mr. Rafe mentioned in the book that the magic weapon for students to ask questions actively is the teacher's smile. Although this method is simple, it is difficult to do. Once in class, my classmates asked me, "Teacher Liu, why do you always frown?" Now that I think about it, I regret it. What bothers me is frowning all the time? Give students a bad demonstration, and always frown, students will feel very nervous, and naturally they will not ask questions. In addition, teachers should also do 1. Don't always raise your voice and talk to your classmates, even if something really makes you angry. Because you handle everything calmly, the child is obvious to all. Even if something happens that particularly challenges the teacher's bottom line, the teacher can still accept it calmly, and students will share their problems with the teacher with peace of mind, especially in learning, and dare to ask questions in class. I like the sentence mentioned in the book very much. "If our original intention is to let children study hard and make good progress, intimidation can't solve the problem."
On the other hand, the important reason why students are afraid to ask questions is the ridicule of other students. I often tell my classmates in class that if you think a classmate's question in class is easy or you think such a question is not worth mentioning at all, please keep silent and give this classmate due respect, because everyone is good at different fields, and what he is good at may not even reach the entry level.
Teachers' calmness, frequent smiles and mutual respect among students will create a warm atmosphere and a sense of security. Over time, the atmosphere in the class will become active, and children will bravely ask questions, because they know that even if they ask a very simple question, they will not be laughed at by others, and the teacher will take pains to explain it to him. The logic behind it is mutual trust and respect.
In addition, actively encourage students to ask questions. I often tell students that you can choose not to ask questions, so why not insist on asking questions? If you don't ask questions, you won't get more and more, and you will accumulate negative energy. If you choose to ask questions, break through yourself and communicate with teachers, you will solve a series of problems and accumulate positive energy. Why not? So choose diligence and make yourself better!
8. The belief that "appearance matters"
Appearance is not only the external dressing, but also the neatness of an assignment. I think when you apply to a famous university, if your resume and profile are untidy, it is unlikely to be accepted, because there may be tens of thousands of people who want to apply.
Proper behavior in public is also an important part of a person's appearance. As mentioned above, when you can speak loudly and release your nature, and when you need to keep quiet and respect others. Children may not have these behavioral boundaries at first, but through repeated demonstration and teaching by teachers, they will eventually learn.
In addition, in order to make children pay attention to the external image, teachers should first dress appropriately, not necessarily how expensive the clothes are, nor how high-end the famous brands are. Cleanliness is very important. In addition, the classroom hygiene also needs to be clean and tidy. We ask our children to have clean paper and homework, so the teacher should make some efforts in the classroom and personal image and make a demonstration first.
9. "Methodist" creed
"You can't eat hot tofu with impatience" and "You can't eat hot tofu with impatience" both tell us that we should do things in an orderly way, in a planned, orderly and arranged way. From sorting out personal belongings to organizing class activities, you can plan ahead and do it in an orderly way.
Someone once said that looking at a person's personal space is enough to see whether his thinking is clear. Is his room ready? Is everything in order? If a student's schoolbag is in a mess and there are all kinds of sundries in the boxes in the classroom, it is difficult to do a good job with clear thinking. A clean and tidy space helps to improve people's attention to things. As the book says, "the initial thinking process also needs careful management."
Teacher Rafe also mentioned that "being methodical is contagious". When children taste the benefits of reasonable classification and good sorting, they will take pains to store all kinds of things in their lives, which in turn will help them develop good habits, clear their minds and concentrate.
As a teacher, you should get everything ready for class and try to avoid sending students to the office to get all kinds of things after class. The teacher's every move is in the eyes of the students. If we rush into the classroom before class, it can't be called orderly. On the contrary, if you put all the class materials in order and calmly walk into the classroom to say hello and attend classes, it will play a good demonstration role for the students and be orderly. In addition, as mentioned repeatedly above, students have a headache for teachers, and teachers can communicate with classmates calmly and help them solve problems. Over time, these ways of dealing with people can also be learned by students, and the orderly way is sometimes more reflected in the tone and attitude of communication with people.
I especially like a sentence on the internet, "No matter how busy you are, you must be orderly, and you must be calm if you are afraid."
10, the creed of "modesty and prudence"
In this era of advocating individuality, modesty and prudence seem to be of little help to success and victory. But a person with high moral standards is always modest and prudent. For example, if you know the answer to a question, do you have to say it out loud in the classroom? If you win a ranking or an award, do you have to show it in front of people? What do we care about? Did you understand the idea of solving the problem yourself, or did you show others your achievements? These are understandable, and may also be caused by personality.
In the book, Mr. Rafe's students will leave silently after sending relief supplies to the rescue station, without expecting any form of gratitude; After Shakespeare's performance, he didn't want to get everyone's praise and applause in high spirits, but immediately cleaned the scene. Of course, not everyone can do this, but modesty still has its meaning. Modesty and prudence can let us see ourselves clearly, not indulge in past achievements, calm down and settle down, and lay a solid psychological foundation for the next step.
There is a saying in the Book of Changes: "A gentleman is modest, and he is humble and self-grazing." Wang Jinxi once said: "We can't make achievements, just like a ball, others can't hit it. We jumped high just with a tap. The greater the achievement, the more modest and prudent you must be. " I once saw this sentence in a place, and I thought it was very reasonable. "Liu Bei's thirst for wisdom is a beautiful talk." Anyone with great wisdom is open-minded and modest. "Modesty and prudence can help us accumulate past experience and achieve greater success, and also help us to have great wisdom, not small cleverness.
I once did a test in class, and some students said that I finished the teacher's test in just 10 minutes, but when I looked over, there were many mistakes and many places were empty. So I said, pay attention to yourself and have a good physical examination. There is still a lot of time to think about what I have learned before. Even if you can't figure it out, don't talk loudly when everyone is quiet in class. We should maintain respect for our peers.
Be modest and prudent, not eccentric. I saw a joke when I was watching the internet recently, and I thought it was very good. "When a person is young, he is arrogant and arrogant. He is young and ignorant, so he is fearless. With the growth of age, we gradually know that the world is big and there are too many unknown fields; The more people we meet, the more people we know who are smarter, wiser and more educated than us, and we will become modest, cautious and awe-inspiring. " Students are young and need careful guidance from teachers. The dialogue with students is gentle and firm, and time is the best teacher. Sometimes our teacher thinks an idea is good, but students may not understand it at once. At this time, teachers should be modest and cautious, waiting for flowers to bloom.
Through reading books and my own educational practice, I also summed up some creeds, which I believe can make students become better:
1, not perfect, but complete.
Repeatedly emphasize this point with students, not seeking perfection, but seeking perfection. Our class is a class bank. The class bank needs to have some specific regulations and is also doing the work of the class law meeting. The rules of the Law Society may be more complicated.
If you consider a lot of difficulties before you do something, you may not be able to do everything. Some people have good ideas, but they don't want to do it after ten minutes because they will encounter many difficulties. Today, there is an idea that is particularly worth practicing, but I gave up when I thought that there were too many obstacles ahead.
It is very important to make the first version of many things first. Maybe this version is low, imperfect and incomplete, but with this version, you are qualified to iterate, update, improve and make 2.0, 3.0 or even more advanced versions.
2. Learn from others and compare with yourself.
I have told many students that you can do your homework at different levels. Learning is like picking peaches. You weigh your feet and pick all the peaches you can, but only you know exactly which peaches you can pick. When you try to discuss homework with students, they will say more, for example, I know this and I don't know that, so there are many opportunities to discuss academic things with students. When you allow students to do homework at different levels and ask him to ensure the quality of homework, he will readily agree. We teach students to communicate with him, not to shut him up.
There is no need to rush to see others better than you in some aspects, because you may be an expert in other aspects, and he doesn't even have the entry level. There is a classmate in our class who cuts paper very well. I have written many articles describing his works. They are lifelike, lifelike. Some students play the piano very well, and my classmates dance very well. They can stand upside down with their heads and hands and make all kinds of difficult dance moves with their legs. It's really excellent. Everyone has his own field of expertise, and there is no need for fish, elephants and zebras to learn to climb trees.
Compare with others, compare every minute of your growth with others. Everyone's family growth environment, personal initiative and acceptance of knowledge and new things are different, so this comparison is the most unnecessary.
3. Think about the problem with the simplest logic, when and what to do, otherwise nothing can be done well.
Students should read in the morning instead of doing something else, otherwise they can't do morning reading and other things well; Children should exercise when they should exercise, and read when they shouldn't, otherwise they can't do sports and reading well; Concentrate on eating while eating, and don't do your homework while eating. This is not good for your health, and it is difficult to ensure the quality of your homework. When you need to discuss with your classmates, take an active part, otherwise you will miss the opportunity to communicate with others. Similarly, when you need to concentrate on listening to the teacher in class, you should also concentrate on listening, and don't whisper to other students, otherwise the course will not listen well and the communication with students will be interrupted because of the teacher's reminder.
Do what you should do, don't think too much, make up your mind to do it, the process and action are the most important, try to stay focused and don't be distracted. Paying attention to the present and doing well in the present can provide a stable mentality for doing the next thing.
4, insist on doing one thing, time will give results.
Keep doing one thing, and time will give you the result. For example, writing, time will beat 99.9% people, because most people can't stick to it. For example, if you ask me what tricks I have, I can certainly tell you many ways to remember words, but what really works is your persistence day after day. Only by reading, thinking and expressing repeatedly can you play the most fundamental role.
Insist on doing one thing and make yourself more diligent. Men's brains are very fragile. Doing the same thing every day will improve his efficiency, just like I became a technical worker in a factory before, and then I invented the assembly line and turned it into an assembly line. Dance practice should be the same. Start practicing some basic movements, and keep improving when you finish, so that you can practice some difficult movements. At first, no one could do difficult movements, and the muscles were pulled apart little by little.
A thing may be difficult at first, but if you start doing it and stick to it, you will find the trick. Maybe this difficult thing will be familiar to you after reading 100 times. As the famous fashion designer yohji yamamoto said, "I never believe in the freedom of laziness. The freedom I yearn for is a broader life through hard work and struggle. Freedom is precious and valuable; I believe in the law of 10000 hours. I never believe in the inspiration of falling pie in the sky and the achievement of waiting. To be a free and self-disciplined person, I will live seriously with the determination that I will achieve. " Law. Keep doing one thing for ten thousand hours, and you will become an expert in this field.
These creeds are like delicious dishes. As teachers, we can serve the students, but whether they are adopted in the end depends entirely on the students themselves. Just as the evaluation of teachers and others is ultimately based on how many students can recognize their effectiveness, it is always their own who can really make themselves excellent. In addition, if teachers want students to learn every creed, they must do it themselves, just as the book says, "In all seemingly casual, students have been silently observing me as a teacher."
The first lesson is very important, but the 99th lesson is equally important. There is no shortcut to success. Each of the above needs perseverance, insisting on doing the right thing, and time will give results.