The model essay "Dou Guimei and Thematic Teaching" 1 was deeply influenced by Mr. Dou when I first met her, and got the book "Dou Guimei and Thematic Teaching" and read it devoutly. Through this book, I feel the sensitivity, persistence and courage of Mr. Dou. Caused some thinking:
First, the unique construction of reading teaching
From the initial intuitive course construction, Mr. Dou's exploration of reading teaching has gone through 10 years. At the beginning, on the basis of teaching the original textbooks well, Yiwenduo took his children to read American literature, famous books and ancient poems and carried out colorful Chinese practice activities.
The construction of theme teaching is a conscious pursuit. On the basis of "three transcendences", she takes "theme" as a way to combine teaching materials, carefully understands the intention of textbook arrangement, rearranges the selected content around multi-dimensional themes such as "trigger point" and "resonance point" connecting students' spiritual world, and regards these "themes" as a key to implementing teaching, reforming classrooms and constructing new Chinese courses.
In Mr. Dou's thematic teaching unit, what we see is breaking the stereotype that two Chinese classes toss a small text-how to train "listening, speaking, reading and writing" and how to unify "humanistic and instrumental" and other "technical" operations, all of which string scattered "pearls" with theme lines. Therefore, I found many novel developments in her class:
1, large capacity, high density and strong comprehensive ability. A Chinese classroom with large information capacity has been built. Mr. Dou makes full use of the integrated function of thematic teaching, naturally and efficiently exposes students to more texts, and at the same time pays attention to students' reading quality, and strives to expand students' reading volume.
2. Being both a "designer" and an "architect". It effectively plays the dual roles of implementer and developer of mother tongue curriculum resources. No matter "Tell the Truth" and field interviews in Friends, "Touching China's Person of the Year" in Family, or "Should Yuanmingyuan be rebuilt" in Yuanmingyuan, all of them reflect her development and utilization of life and culture curriculum resources.
3. Construct and deconstruct the classroom. Her thematic teaching not only focuses on improving students' Chinese literacy, but also actively guides students to pay attention to life and the construction of their own spiritual world, actively lays the foundation for students' life and growth, and embodies the cultural nature of mother tongue education.
In Mr. Dou's teaching pursuit, due to the influence of various factors, there has been a tendency to focus on the exploration of language and culture and continue to deepen, while ignoring the research of children's literature and children's psychology, which should also cause us to reflect.
Comments on "Dou Guimei and Theme Teaching" 2 In today's primary school Chinese teaching field, various teaching concepts, teaching methods and famous teachers and experts emerge one after another. Among them, Dou Guimei is a dazzling star. After teaching for so many years, I have only heard one lesson from her scene, but the shock and influence brought by that lesson still exist today. Dou Guimei's achievements and honors are amazing. I am no exception. What makes a little girl from a mountain farm become a nationally famous special-grade teacher and the principal of the primary school attached to Tsinghua?
Recently, I read the book Dou Guimei and Theme Teaching carefully. Through this book, I deeply felt Mr. Dou's keenness, persistence and courage. I also found the answer to her success. Society is the classroom, practice is the stone, others are my teachers, and myself is the key. The growth of teachers certainly depends on a good environment, but more importantly, it depends on their own mentality and actions. Teacher Dou Guimei believes that as long as you are pragmatic, enterprising and innovative, you will find a growing point in the soil of real life and influence the surrounding areas with your own growth. Her success today is closely related to her love of reading. In her own words: "If you want to improve yourself, you must learn from books." She insists on reading for more than an hour every day. In recent years, she has read more than 3 million words, written more than 200,000 words of reading notes and more than 5 million words of abstract cards. Learning from practice, I have written a teaching postscript of 654.38+ more than ten thousand words in recent years; Learning from famous teachers, I have listened to more than 0/000 classes inside and outside the school for several years ... The green light is like beans, and books are piled up in Qian Shan. How much hard work and sweat she has gathered that day and night!
What kind of teacher will bring out what kind of students! Teacher Dou led students to accumulate more than 300 ancient and modern poems, expound 180, and read 84 extensively ... leading students into a broad reading space. Put forward the creative idea of surpassing textbooks, classrooms and teachers. Beyond the classroom, Chinese not only extends from the classroom to students' lives, but also touches students' hearts. Only in this way can we feel nature, discover society and realize life, and lay a solid foundation for students' lifelong learning. Teachers' self-transcendence is an act full of the charm of the times and spiritual realm, which makes teachers keep learning, making progress and innovating, and becomes a great work in students' minds. Her concept of "three transcendences", the arduous journey along the way, the persistent and enthusiastic pursuit of life state, the observation of life and the experience of life have made her reach the realm of "one person and one class" with the text.
I traveled in the theme of Mr. Dou's class-temperature, breadth and depth, and listened to Farewell, Relatives, Ruined Yuanmingyuan, Not Worthy of Visiting the Garden, Yan Zi as a Chu, Qiu Si and Pearl Bird, and I really felt Mr. Dou's "three emotions resonate"-the passion was always there at the beginning of class, and at the time of class. Reading a good book makes people feel like spring breeze, which has the effect of moistening things quietly. This is not only the charm of language, but also the charm of personality. I think, as a teacher, I should also strive to be a person who is good at reading, learning and making continuous progress. In the words of teacher Dou Guimei, it is to "base yourself on the classroom, read books with words and books without words, and record your experiences at any time". I believe that when our study perseverance is strong enough, the flower of our life will bloom more brilliantly. Finally, I extracted a few words from the book to share with you. "Books are schools in schools. For a teacher, reading is the best lesson preparation. "
"Reading is a woman's best beauty prescription." "Take a drop of water in the ocean every day." "Every class of the teacher takes a lifetime to prepare. The soul of a teacher preparing lessons for reading has become the eternal love, ideal and belief, social conscience and social responsibility of education, and it is an indispensable spiritual foundation for a "real teacher".
Dou Guimei and Thematic Teaching: Part 3 When I went to Nanjing to attend a class some time ago, I met Dou Guimei again. Now she has become the principal of the primary school attached to Tsinghua. More mature women have the charm and wisdom of education experts, and I can't see any signs of fatigue or even years in her. Looking at her and listening to her class, I don't feel emotional. Today, I reread the book Dou Guimei and Thematic Teaching, which has been stored on the shelf for a long time, and I seem to understand her gradually. What makes her forever young and sincere? It is her sincerity to education, her transcendence to herself, her obsession and fanaticism to reading! These made me meditate and shocked me.
This book inspires me everywhere and makes me think deeply. Among them, the teaching ideas beyond textbooks, classrooms and teachers are more enlightening now. This is Mr. Dou's idea. Teacher Dou leads students to accumulate chapters. There are more than 300 classical modern poems, more than 200 ancient and modern aphorisms, more than 200 fables 100, more than 200 allusions and more than 0/000 idioms. Are selected for students to recite. This is to save the golden age of children's memory. Beyond textbooks, let's lead students to accumulate knowledge from multiple angles, channels and all directions. Let's lead students into the vast reading world.
Reading, I thought of my students, who are about to enter the sixth grade, and many of them are "little book fans". They also need the infiltration of books, but I feel that I am not leading enough. Although I emphasized the importance of reading and made some efforts, I actually lacked careful and systematic thinking. Maybe we can fix it. In the coming school year, inspired by this book, I seem to have a new direction and motivation.
Outside the classroom tells us that we should not only extend Chinese from the classroom to students' lives, but also touch students' hearts. This kind of learning is to feel nature, discover society and realize life, and lay a solid foundation for students' lifelong learning. Understanding Chinese and life through textbooks is the mission of a Chinese teacher and my teaching direction. Every time I collide with students' thoughts and hearts in class, I can be moved by it. Yes, let teachers, students and textbooks collide with each other, and let students experience the ideas, language and learning methods of the works. These things are all realized by themselves, not "taught" by teachers, let alone given to them by teachers.
Reading and reading, I gradually understand that Teacher Dou Guimei wants to tell us that to teach a text, we should not only find "this leaf, but also find the branches and trees where this leaf is located, which is not enough, and also find the forest where this big tree is located". This may be the core of "theme teaching". This means that teachers should have profound knowledge and extensive reading. Look at Miss Dou Guimei. In recent years, she has read 3 million words, recorded more than 200,000 words of study notes, 5 million words of abstract cards, recorded 6,543,800 words of post-teaching feelings, and listened to more than 6,543,800 classes inside and outside the school ... Can we ask ourselves? Yes, this may be out of reach, but that kind of inner touch is leading me to strive to achieve self-transcendence, continuous learning and continuous innovation.