I was lucky enough to read Appreciate Your Children by Mr. Isabella Chow, which made me deeply sorry.
Isabella Chow, a teacher, was originally an ordinary factory technician, but also a father who suffered a lot. His daughter Zhou Tingting was born deaf. It is this little girl who is deaf in both ears and is called dumb Snow White by the kindergarten teacher. With the appreciation and encouragement of teacher Isabella Chow, she created one miracle after another: at the age of six, she learned more than 2,000 Chinese characters, entered an ordinary primary school, and even skipped two grades; At the age of eight, he recited pi to 1000 decimal places, breaking the Guinness World Record at that time. 16 years old, became the first deaf young college student in China. This persistent father, in the process of exploring his daughter's educational methods, found the treasure of education and carried forward this educational concept. From an ordinary factory technician to a principal of a special school and a famous education expert.
In this book, I really feel the connotation of appreciation education. Teacher Zhou told us the importance of appreciation education with vivid examples, summarized appreciation education as respect, and summarized the essence with lines and connections, that is to say, we should have empathy with children, encourage them more, and look at them with appreciation.
In the book, Teacher Isabella Chow emphasized that the principle of educating children is the same as that of teaching children to learn to talk and walk. When children learn to talk and walk, parents are born educators. When teaching children to talk and learn to walk, parents instinctively have two treasures, that is, the correct attitude: when children learn to talk, admit differences and narrow them. Children learn to walk, allowing failure leads to fear of failure. In the process of educating children, parents should also keep the mentality of teaching children to learn to speak and walk. They should trust their children, give them encouragement at all times, let them erect self-confidence and finally succeed.
I especially appreciate what Teacher Isabella Chow said in the article: There are no crops that can't grow well, only farmers who can't grow crops. When crops are not growing well, farmers never complain, but look for reasons from themselves. How farmers treat crops determines the fate of crops, and how parents treat their children determines the fate of children. This passage tells us that the fate of children depends on the way parents educate their children.
Appreciate Your Children is a famous family education, and it is also a treasure book for teachers to educate students. Appreciating your children makes me deeply realize that learning to appreciate is actually a compulsory course for teachers.
As a primary school English teacher, when teaching third-grade students, I often have the same mentality as teaching children to talk and walk. In this state of mind, I look at every student with appreciation, and the students themselves have enough motivation to study extra hard. When I was in senior three, my mentality often changed, especially when I looked at the underachievers, so the polarization became more and more serious. After careful consideration, every child has his advantages and disadvantages. As teachers, we should always keep a good attitude and always trust our students. We should be good at discovering students' advantages and strengths, and we should also be good at discovering students' every progress, and affirm and strengthen them to build up their self-confidence. With self-confidence, students will have the initiative and motivation to correct their shortcomings. In the environment of appreciation education, students believe that they can do it, which becomes a fixed trend and a powerful driving force to overcome all kinds of difficulties and obstacles on the road ahead.
Appreciation leads to success, and complaining leads to failure. It is not that children need appreciation, but that appreciation makes children better and better. It's not that bad children need to complain, but that complaining makes them worse and worse. In the future educational career, appreciation will become the main theme of my education for students, and I will use it to write beautiful music to make the educational notes more pleasant to listen to; Appreciation will become a clear spring for me to educate my students, and I will use it to water the tender seedlings and make the future flowers of the motherland more colorful!
Appreciate children's feelings after reading (2)
After reading Teacher Isabella Chow's Appreciate Your Children, I was deeply touched by an example: When Suzuki was in primary school, the competition for further studies in Japan was fierce, and all parents were very concerned about their children's academic performance. However, Suzuki's father doesn't have high requirements for his grades, as long as he reaches 60 points in every subject. How about 60 points? The son asked incredulously. The score weighed him down like a mountain. Why not 60 points? Dad asked. 60 points is a pass, and a pass is a pass. Think about it, the products of the factory are qualified before leaving the factory. Now that you are qualified, son, you don't have to spend all your energy on fame and fortune. We must strive for the first place in the second exam, and we must strive for a hundred points in more than 90 exams. If 100% is not enough, do 100% every time. If all you think about all day is exam results, won't knowledge become endless suffering? Suzuki's father hit the nail on the head and pointed out that the highest purpose of learning is to cultivate children's thirst for knowledge. My son suddenly felt as light as a swallow and got excited. But on second thought, no, I can't help asking: Dad, it's too easy to study like this. What do you do in your spare time? You will always remember your father's words, spend the rest of your time reading extensively and give yourself the pleasure of seeking knowledge. Since then, Suzuki has not spent too much time on his lessons according to his father's instruction, and his academic performance is also very average. And I read more than ten times as many extracurricular books as the whole class. Experience the fun of learning from it.
Reading this can't help but remind me, how can other parents allow their children to pass 60 points instead of comparing scores? Since when do children go to kindergarten, hoping that they can draw, write, sing, dance, talk and act; When children enter primary school, they are expected to be the first in every exam, but their grades always seem to be one step or even a few steps behind. When did parents slowly change from appreciating their children to accusing them, accusing them of this and that? This one is worse than others, and that one is worse than others. All you see in your eyes are shortcomings and small progress. Unconsciously, children become learning machines, study for the sake of learning, and have no interest in learning at all. Maybe the child's score really went up. Is this really what parents want? Appreciate your children, because one of the most essential needs of human nature is to be appreciated. Don't always cling to children's shortcomings and let them fail under the mentality that I can't do it and I am a bad boy. Appreciate your students and let your children remember this sentence. I'm important, I'm capable and I'm happy! Learn to use a teacher's appreciative eyes, appreciative words, knowing smile and warm applause to let our students fully experience the fun of learning and automatically turn this fun into motivation to continue learning.
Every child is a blank sheet of paper. Don't be stingy with your grateful smile. Look at every child with appreciation, always look at their own behavior, reflect on their own teaching, and look at their advantages with a magnifying glass, so as to awaken thousands of parents and teachers in Qian Qian, Qian Qian, and let their children have a happier childhood.
Appreciate children's feelings after reading (3)
I have read Isabella Chow's educational book Appreciate Your Children, and I am very interested in some of his views. After reading it, I couldn't calm down for a long time. This is not only a family education work inspired by parents, but also a good educational reference book for our teachers.
After reading this book, I realized that in fact, every child has unlimited potential. The question is whether you have awakened this potential. The author says that when crops are not growing well, farmers never complain about crops, but always look for reasons from themselves. When children are not learning well, teachers and parents always blame them, but seldom think about how their children are learning. In fact, every individual is different. Admitting differences is the premise of correctly understanding things. In our daily life, we will never complain why peonies are not fragrant, why plum blossoms are not as big as peonies, and why watermelons don't grow on vines, so there is this colorful world. But our expectations of children are too simple, and we always hope that every flower will bloom into a peony. Naturally, many flowers are unqualified. I have high expectations for my children, and I always want every seedling to become a towering tree quickly. In fact, these unrealistic expectations can only stifle the vitality of normal growth, which often ruins the possible glory.
When children just learn to walk, we will encourage them to stand up even if they fall ten or a hundred times. We all firmly believe that this child will walk steadily in the future. At this time, all of us can look at the child with appreciation, even his failure. It is in this full trust that children overcome one difficulty after another and move from failure to success. The author is right. If you don't make an appointment and accept failure, children will not stumble over failure, but can see success through failure.
When we stare at children with appreciative eyes, we will have more patience and love, and naturally we will have less complaints and even rage. When children don't do their homework, we will listen patiently; When children's grades are not good, we will constantly reflect, further optimize our teaching methods, and how to let children relax and firmly grasp knowledge. Gaze at the children with appreciation, and you will feel that every child has advantages.
I especially appreciate what Teacher Isabella Chow said in the article: There are no crops that can't grow well, only farmers who can't grow crops. When crops are not growing well, farmers never complain, but look for reasons from themselves. How farmers treat crops determines the fate of crops, and how parents treat their children determines the fate of children. This passage tells us that the fate of children depends on the way parents educate their children.
In the environment of appreciation education, children believe that I can do it, which will become a fixed trend and a powerful driving force to overcome all kinds of difficulties and obstacles on the road ahead. Of course, to appreciate children is to appreciate their strengths, strengths and progress, not to ignore their shortcomings and weaknesses. The problems that should be pointed out should be pointed out in time, the critical problems should be criticized in time, and the problems that should be stopped should be stopped in time. This cannot be ambiguous.
At present, the education sector is advocating the establishment of a new teacher-student relationship between the second century and the first century. Respect students, take students as the main body and fully mobilize their enthusiasm. Try to use my big activities to cultivate students' self-confidence, so that ordinary students and poor students can also experience the happiness of success. I was born to be useful. As long as we let nature take its course, these children can grow up well. Everyone can give full play to his due position. Appreciating your children has a strong shock to me. As a mother and a teacher, I am willing to follow the essence of this book. Run through your work with love and appreciation, because with appreciation, there will be respect; With appreciation, a broken heart will rekindle the spark of hope; With appreciation, the jumping waves will merge into an ocean that will never dry up! Appreciate children, be kind to children, and discover and tap their advantages and highlights. Let all children grow up healthily and happily. Then we will see more stars of hope.