Famous teachers have a common personality characteristic, that is, their persistence in their career, their pursuit of the meaning of life and their pursuit of professional value. This has become the driving force for their growth and the source of strength for their continuous progress and success. This matrix is like an energy bank, burning the passion of work and spewing an inspiring heat wave.

Yang Ruiqing is one of them. In the early 1980s, Yang Ruiqing graduated from Xiaozhuang Normal School founded by Tao Xingzhi. As an excellent graduate, he has many choices. He finally chose to go to the countryside and became a rural primary school teacher. He said: "I come from the countryside and see that the countryside is still very backward. Many farmers' children can't go to school and study hard. Mr. Tao Xingzhi's great spirit of "doing great things for great things" strongly inspired me. I am determined to run schools in the most remote and difficult places and contribute my youth and strength to the development of rural education. "He regards being a teacher in the countryside as a major event in his life. This is an important value choice in Yang Rui's life, which embodies his value pursuit. Because of his excellent work, the county party committee put Yang Ruiqing in the position of deputy secretary of the county youth league committee, but four months later, he applied to return to the village. He said: "There is no shortage of me in the Youth League Committee, but rural teachers can't live without me. This is the second value test that Yang Ruiqing faced, and he made his own value choice again. In his later work, he experimented and studied rural primary education as a great project, promoted the concept of education to educational belief, and moved towards educational ideal with educational belief. His beliefs and actions are: small school, big education, small village and big education, urban-rural cooperation and international cooperation; Primary school, big culture, taking love as the core, implementing appreciation education and building a big culture that respects students' lives; Primary schools, big undertakings, running primary schools, doing small things, doing small things well, achieving the ultimate, and finally achieving big undertakings, in order to cultivate the future of the nation and create the future of rural education. He said: "Rural teachers can create lofty life values."

This is Yang Ruiqing's understanding and pursuit of the value of the teaching profession. He told us with educational beliefs and educational actions rooted in rural areas that famous teachers should have their own values and value creation. First, the value of teachers lies in their persistence in education. If you love your career, you can achieve it. How deeply you love your career, the success rate of your career is likely to be great. A person who doesn't love his career, even if he is talented and capable, can't become a famous teacher. Great teachers have a big word "love" engraved on their personality characteristics. This kind of love, like Si Xia, unites childlike innocence and maternal love, forging the great love of education. Second, the value of life lies in continuous creation. Nietzsche put it well: "You should be the creators, cultivators and sowers of the future-really, you should be priceless aristocrats! Because everything of value is nothing. " ([Germany] Nietzsche, Nietzsche's motto) Yes, "valuable" is not necessarily "valuable". So, where is the value? Nietzsche said that it lies in new glory: "Your glory lies not in' where are you from', but in' where are you going'; It lies in your will and the expectation of constantly demanding to go beyond your own pace. This is your new glory! Indeed, the vision of a famous teacher is always forward-the attitude of a famous teacher is always "social"-he will move towards new goals, have new ideals and create new things. Nietzsche later said very thoroughly: "The so-called genius-just a person looking for higher goals and the means to go there." A famous teacher is always setting a benchmark for himself, ready to cross it at any time. Third, the value of life lies in the understanding of happiness. Famous teachers always pay more and work harder than others, but they have more happy experiences than others. They believe that only things with infinite meaning can be the source of happiness, and only things with infinite nature can maintain the impulse and creativity of life; Lonely people can't be happy, and only when they are with children can they have real happiness; Happiness is a psychological force that you can actively control. In short, the concept of happiness of famous teachers is based on the value experience of teachers' profession, constantly improving their own life value and pushing themselves towards higher goals. History has constantly proved that the understanding and pursuit of teachers' professional value has built a spiritual highland in their hearts and led them to climb the peak.

The second matrix: quietness and uneasiness-the psychological characteristics of the growth of famous teachers.

The mentality of a famous teacher seems to be contradictory, that is, quiet and restless. The reason why they are quiet is that they keep their inner peace, stay away from the impetuous and utilitarian temptation of society, and study, think and study with a normal heart. However, this tranquility or calmness is by no means a kind of closure and stagnation, but like a lake. The lake is calm, but the waves are rough inside. Mr. Zhou called it "wealth and leisure". Indeed, silence gives them the opportunity to learn and think, while agitation keeps them in a state of constantly trying to break through. This kind of uneasiness is actually dissatisfaction with the status quo. If you are not satisfied, you will try to change it. Wu Guanzhong, a great painter, said: "I have a restless seed in my blood, like a mimosa, which trembles when touched." British philosopher John? Mill put it well: "dissatisfied people are happier than satisfied pigs, and dissatisfied Socrates is happier than satisfied fools." Everyone has an unsatisfied Socrates in his nature. "

In Li Jilin's heart lived an "unsatisfied Socrates". Even during the "Cultural Revolution", she did not forget her ideals, and her heart was full of creative passion. She said: "I remember that in those days of fear, in those nights when there were no stars and the moon, I often read Mr. Lu Xun's essays silently under the lamp, and I often read these three sentences: the first sentence was Pushkin's saying,' My heart is looking forward to the future'. The second sentence was said by Gorky,' I grew up in constant struggle with the surrounding environment'. The third sentence was said by Mao Zedong, "People should have a little spirit". ..... I didn't bow my head, I didn't give up on myself, I was alert to the fragility and mediocrity of women. " That's exactly what happened. As soon as the "Cultural Revolution" ended, she immediately threw herself into the experiment of teaching reform. After forming the framework of situational teaching and summarizing the basic elements, she believes that situational teaching belongs not only to primary school Chinese teaching, but also to the whole primary school education, because children's development needs situations. So 12 years after the start of situational teaching, the exploration of situational education began again, and the basic model of situational education was scientifically constructed from four aspects: space, psychological distance, subject and goal, and experiments were carried out with passion and wisdom in the teaching of various subjects. Education can not be separated from curriculum, and situational education must be supported by curriculum that adapts to and matches its concept. So Li Jilin began to explore situational courses, hoping to make situational education concrete and popular through situational courses, which is convenient for more teachers to operate. On the basis of more than 20 years' accumulation, the paradigm of situational curriculum was finally constructed. Now, what she thinks more is that the core problem of education and teaching is students' learning, so she started a new round of research: children's situational learning ... In Li Jilin's words, this trip after trip is "I am full of passion and imagination, and I make myself smart. Only by constantly raising the sails of innovation can we sail to the other side of gold. "

One of the characteristics of teachers' work is repetition. Faced with such courses, textbooks and students, day after day, year after year, institutionalized work habits are gradually formed. Repetition can make teachers mature, form valuable experience and make people successful, but it will never make people develop more. It is said that rabbits in the snow come out for food in winter, and they should step on the footprints left by their own walking, or they will hide in the hole. The hunter set a trap under the footprints left by the rabbit and restored it in disguise. The rabbit stepped on the footprint and didn't know there was a trap waiting for it ahead. As a result, it stepped on it, fell into a trap and was finally caught by the hunter. The rabbit's failure lies in believing too much in the experience formed by its repeated walking. Experience is valuable, but it is also dangerous. Li Jilin said: "My work looks repetitive, but I never feel repetitive." Why is this? Because she has new ideas, new designs and new creations every day. The inner peace and agitation of a famous teacher are not contradictory, but a psychological feature of innovation and success. Quiet is a state of mind, quiet is a kind of accomplishment, and quiet is also a state. Just because you concentrate on reading, study hard and experiment with peace of mind doesn't mean that you are willing to be dull and have mediocre habits. Silence is also a preparation, a prelude to creation, in order to accumulate. Agitation is a desire to create, a desire to break through, a passion, imagination and impulse. It is necessary to break through the existing cognitive balance, form a new cognitive structure, seek a new balance, and then return to a calm state. Peace is creation and breakthrough, while restlessness is seeking new peace. A famous teacher is a static and motionless state, constantly advancing and striving for success again and again. Ambitious teachers should constantly ask themselves: am I uneasy? Is there an unsatisfied Socrates?

The third matrix: cultural background and talents-the energy and advantages of the growth of famous teachers.

There is still much room for discussion on the subject of teachers' professional development. Recently, there are three materials that often cause me to think. One is Qian Weichang's Road to Serving the Country for More than 60 Years. Some people say that Qian Weichang is too comprehensive, and his achievements in science, politics and education are beyond the reach of ordinary people. Someone asked Qian Weichang what his major was, and he always emphasized his unchanging sentence: "I don't have a major, and the needs of the country are my major." The second one is literature with "humanity". Recently, Zhang's three-volume novel "The History of China Literature" with 654.38+07,000 words has attracted great attention of scholars and readers, and is regarded as a "rock-breaking" work. He once recalled what his teachers taught him in his study and academic career. Among them, Mr. Jiang Tianshu taught him how to lay the foundation: learning literature can't be optical literature, but also work hard on some disciplines around literature. Even in the first few years, he should not read literature at all, but should read language and history. Thirdly, in the school history museum in high school affiliated to nanjing normal university, there is a curriculum for teachers' further education in the 1930s. According to the regulations of the school, teachers should study in the university every year. The course sequence of continuing education is: first, choose a subject different from your own teaching, then choose a subject adjacent to your own teaching, and finally choose a subject you teach. The above three materials invariably raise a very important question: where should teachers focus on and where should they put their professional development? Qian Weichang doesn't have his own major. Zhang's major in literary history must be very capable. At that time, the teachers in the middle school attached to South Normal University were also excellent in their subjects. Why do they say "no major" or take other majors or disciplines first? This not only shows that majors are not separated, but interrelated and complementary, but also shows that the development of majors should have a broader background and a deeper foundation. If discipline is a green seedling, it can only thrive in rich cultural soil. The growth of famous teachers is no exception. A teacher with a thin cultural background and a single knowledge structure cannot have a broad vision, strong self-confidence and a strong major. Of course, the distance from the famous teacher will not be small.

What is connected with cultural background is talent. Not to mention Zhu Ziqing, Li Shutong, Feng Zikai, Gu Hongming, these talented and elegant masters, it is said that the current primary and secondary school teachers, who are creative, attractive and loved by teachers and students, are full of emotions and show their abilities. The cultivation and growth of famous teachers do not necessarily have to avoid personal talents. It is talent that has become an important matrix for the growth of famous teachers.

We should talk about Yu Yongzheng here. It is said that Yu Yongzheng has the qualities of an actor, the temperament of a poet, the vision of a painter and, of course, the wisdom of a teacher. His class is harmonious and interesting, full of aura, all gestures are "plays", and everything is so natural and true. All this is inseparable from Yu Yongzheng's study and his artistic talent. He himself commented on the reasons for his success: "If I have a profound understanding of the teaching materials, a novel teaching design, rich teaching emotions, active thinking and rich imagination, I should say that I benefited from the influence of art, especially music. It is no exaggeration to say that I first stepped into the palace of art, and then into the palace of teaching. Of course, I just stepped into it. " In his living room, you will see a series of Peking Opera masks painted by him, which are beautifully composed, colorful and vivid. In teaching and research activities, you will hear his beautiful, euphemistic and long Beijing opera aria, as well as his smile, brushwork, style and infinite charm; In his study, of course, rows of books are coming at you. Yes, talent is always associated with art, Beethoven said: "Music can stimulate people's spirit, and music has a higher enlightenment than all wisdom and all philosophy." To paraphrase Nietzsche's saying, "Without music, life is a mistake", that is to say, without music, art and talent, education and teaching will be a mistake-because such education and teaching can't pluck the strings in students' hearts and stimulate their emotional nerves. A famous teacher is not an artist, but artistic talent can make a famous teacher.

Of course, our concern for teachers' talents is by no means a deliberate pursuit of so-called affection and talent, nor is it melodramatic and ostentatious. Talent should be a flower that blooms naturally in the cultural field, and it is the aura that flows from the minds of the rich. When culture paves the thick background of famous teachers, talents will be bright blocks jumping in the background.

Matrix 4: Keenness, inspiration and unique insights-the thinking characteristics of famous teachers.

The thinking of famous teachers presents some characteristics. They are very sensitive, often react strongly to the things around them, and incorporate useful information into their own knowledge framework, constantly enriching, constantly adjusting and summarizing. They often have sparks of inspiration, and all kinds of ideas are always jumping in their minds. Some are fleeting, while others are hidden. Although they are not related to each other, they always collide. Suddenly one day, these ideas were connected in series and a new idea came into being. They often have unique views on things, always have their own opinions in countless discussions, have an open mind to listen, and form their own opinions in long-term thinking. They are both emotional and rational, and often think deeply and sort out and perfect their own experiences, so they are rigorous in their activities and profound in their emotional expression. We can take Sun Shuangjin as an example.

Since winning the first prize of national reading teaching, Sun Shuangjin has been exploring the true meaning of Chinese teaching, always trying to sum up the standards and characteristics of a good Chinese class. In the mid-1990s, he formed his own concept of good class: "The book is loud, there are many discussions, and the climax is repeated, writing and practicing". After a class, students should read the text vividly with interest. At the turn of the century, he proposed a good lesson to make students "flushed, eyes shining, hands straight up, mouth always open". After a class, students feel excited and excited, and feel that they are masters. Later, when he was climbing the mountain, he had a whim: isn't class climbing? Under the guidance of the teacher, students, with curiosity and enthusiasm, choose mountain roads, tools and methods, start from the starting point, walk fast and slow, stop to watch, climb obstacles and climb to the top of the mountain ... but he always feels that these are all appearances of things, vivid but lacking theoretical speculation. In the process of combing, two key words have been jumping in my mind: emotion and wisdom. In 2003, he became the principal of beijing east road Primary School. One day, when he reached the stairs, he saw at a glance Bin Liu's inscription for the school: "Love life, educate people with wisdom". Love and wisdom coincide with his original ideas, but they are naturally integrated. In this way, the proposition of EQ education and EQ language came into being. This proposition seems to be achieved overnight, but it is actually a proposition formed after rich and profound thinking on educational phenomena, problems and essence.

Indeed, famous teachers are often inspired. Inspiration is a kind of thinking process and a unique way of thinking, which shows the improvisational wisdom of thinkers. It often leads to sudden discovery, breakthrough, transcendence and promotion. Feng Jicai said that inspiration "is a kiss from heaven to the artist's heart. It is the beginning and starting point of all life creation. " So we just have to wait? Of course not. "It doesn't necessarily come at the time and place you specify. ..... As long as I keep my beliefs and pursuits and keep what I love, inspiration will kiss my forehead from time to time. " (Feng Jicai, a sudden inspiration) This kind of "holding" is an invitation to inspiration. As Tchaikovsky said, inspiration will only come to your home at your repeated invitation. "Repeated invitation" is a persistent effort, and "visiting" is an unexpected inspiration. As Yu Guangzhong said, "inspiration will not patronize lazy people", and only "being sensitive to life and language" will there be a "sudden kiss from the heart".

The growth experiences and stories of famous teachers are so true and consistent with Feng Jicai's argument. It is not difficult to see that there is always a connection between famous teachers and masters, and there is always a common law to follow. In fact, the inspiration of famous teachers is often a kind of perceptual thinking. Perception is connected with heart, and heart-oriented thought is its spiritual and cultural origin and characteristics. Perceptual thinking is the traditional advantage of China's wisdom and intelligence. Its advantage lies in that it is between sensibility and rationality, the intermediary between sensibility and rationality, and the bridge between theory and matter. Matter awakens because of understanding, and theory enters the realm because of understanding. Primary and secondary school teachers are not specialized researchers. They always live in practice. There are many vivid cases and experiences crawling into their hearts every day, and the materials and opportunities for understanding thinking are the richest. It is perceptual thinking that exercises the thinking quality of all kinds of famous teachers, improves their thinking level and forms their thinking characteristics. If our sensitive heart is always beating in our chest, if our mind is always active in perceptual thinking, then the inspiration and wisdom of education will often patronize us.

The matrix of famous teachers can be further analyzed to find out new elements. Famous teachers have more personality and can find out the unique elements of different famous teachers. This is always a process of research and analysis. However, I still want to make a conclusion: the essence of the matrix of famous teachers reflects the minds of famous teachers. The minds of famous teachers are rich, and they are always in constant cultivation and improvement. I keep in touch with the young special teacher, Zhou Yimin. Every time I speak, he always sends me new information and new ideas. I always feel that on the other end of the phone, I am a reader, thinker and researcher immersed in children's reading and children's culture. I always feel that his mind is like a clear lake, with rippling blue waves and endless flow. Such a mind will certainly give birth to a new matrix of famous teachers. Under the impetus of the new matrix, we will open our minds to the future and always listen to the call of "educators running schools".