The complexity of education lies in the richness, diversity and permanence of its mission, so it must not be simplified, simplified or shortsighted. As an individual, people's life is both personal and parents', and they must interact with others in the process of life. Must be timely, follow the trend, depend on each other and deviate from each other. However, in the inertia of daily educational behavior, educators are inevitably lost, consciously or unconsciously, in the repeated infatuation with specific skills and too clear "goals". In order to be consistent with the situation of "only in Lushan Mountain", not only students are sometimes ignored as fresh lives in their eyes, hearts and hands, but even their own life richness as educators is inevitable.
If we are lost in the noumenon of life, even if it seems busy and full, it can't be said that education and educators are astray from the ultimate meaning of education. And for educators, there is a common sense that the best education is self-education or self-improvement, the best development is self-development or self-development, and all external forces are external forces. If external forces can replace endogenous forces, then education is an industry and the educated are products. People's differences will no longer exist. Undoubtedly, this is absurd.
Because the direction of education is the all-round and all-round development of human beings, even if it is growth, even if it is only experience, the process is the full bearing of education.
? For who?
How to teach?
Where are you going?
This is always worth asking. Professor Zheng Tao reflected: "The reason why life has become a fashionable concept in China's current education stems from a basic fact, that is, educators (including a large number of vocational education researchers) have generally lacked life consciousness for a long time, and life is absent in the field of education with' humanistic education' as its basic belief."
Sometime recently, I will think of such a poem, probably from the Eastern Han Dynasty: "Life between heaven and earth is like a passer-by." We have lived between heaven and earth for a long time. We thought the world was vast and we could fly and jump at any time. Finally, we may often lose ourselves and be unable to depend on each other. In the process of classroom teaching, in the ordinary work of the school, and in the specific links of education management, perhaps we often pay too much attention to "skills", rely on the command of clocks, get used to the logic of enterprise management, and rejoice in the order and efficiency in front of us. However, if you walk for a long time and repeat a lot, you may feel tired, stop and feel disappointed.
Therefore, Professor Zheng Tao reminded: "In the past, in the classroom that flowed every day, all we saw was knowledge, methods and technology. In a large number of teaching cases and lessons created by teachers, we can't find the vitality and breath of life, but we still find various skills and methods about how to attend classes; In the huge educational papers born every day, we still can't see the breath and glory of life, except concepts and terms, which are promotion and deduction; From one book to another, from one to another, turn the articles of predecessors into your own, and turn the articles of foreigners into your own. The light and shadow created by life broke into the night in such a deduction. "
I am not opposed to the pursuit of scores, nor to the acquisition of knowledge. Not only that, I have always been very concerned about grades and possession of knowledge, so it is by no means anti-intellectualism. However, in the process of education, if we only look at scores and ignore life, and only care about the collective and ignore the individual, then that kind of prosperity may be false and sad. Always alert yourself: Why to learn and why to teach is always more important and crucial than learning and teaching itself.
"Educators will only be a learned person if they turn the knowledge of education into the knowledge of life, put students' life at the core of their own lives, and at the same time turn their own lives into students' lives and become the core resources for students' future life growth. This kind of knowledge is unique to educational researchers: life-oriented knowledge about life growth. Its core is: let every education process become the process of educators and educatees going home together, that is, the process of returning to the home of life. In this sense, education is the home of returning to life. In this return, we have seen all kinds of life encounters between educators and educatees, and therefore we feel the power of life encounters in the education process. "
Giving educational significance, in the design of teaching and links, is the initial thinking point of Lide Shu Ren. "Turning all kinds of pains in education into happiness and happiness is the fundamental significance of teachers' life growth. "
? "The teacher's happiness first comes from the life of the students he faces. Every morning is new. Every day of every student the teacher faces is new. Every day has a new spirit, a new life, a new atmosphere and a never-ending and never-ending stream of life. "
Therefore, I especially like listening to Xu Wei's "Every moment is brand new", which is a song that all educators should listen to. As the saying goes, "New is new." "The way of university lies in Xinmin and ends in perfection." In my opinion, it is the subtle meaning of this song.
? "Silence is the inevitable result of persistence and patience. The years of education that a true educator has spent through persistence and patience lead to an abyss of silence, profundity and tranquility. At this time, he has already understood the truth of life growth, calmly faced the setbacks and failures in education, and regarded them as the only way in his life growth. "
A truly respectable educator is approachable, sometimes enthusiastic, sometimes quiet, sometimes biased, sometimes rational, sometimes noisy, sometimes listening, sometimes urchin, sometimes silent. In a word, he is a real person, with both shortcomings and advantages. He is great and humble, great but not boastful, humble but not obscene.
? "Palmer wrote in Courage of Teaching; Excellent teachers have the same characteristics:
A strong sense of integrating personal identity into work.
A good teacher unites himself with the students in the subjects he teaches in his life.
A good teacher has the ability to unite. They can weave themselves, their subjects and their students into a complex network, so that students can learn to weave their own world.
? The alliance formed by good teachers lies not in their methods, but in their hearts-the place where human wisdom, emotion, spirit and will merge. "
A really good teacher is a teacher who finds pleasure and life value in his work. He is a person who integrates his life and value with his education, seldom complains and enjoys it. Its happiness is a wonderful reconciliation in the interaction with education itself, and the achievement of education is the achievement of self. Professor Zheng Tao then quoted Palmer's words to explain: "In the final analysis, a good teacher has a wealth of knowledge about himself." In other words, the education of real people completely transcends the boundaries of "being alone" and "helping the world" taught by Confucianism. A good person is helpful, and being helpful is also a good person. So no regrets.
? "In teaching, the first thing a teacher encounters is not the students, not the course content, but the self. When a teacher doesn't know himself, he can't understand the subject he teaches, nor can he understand the subject in a profound and personal sense. "
The so-called meeting beauty means meeting the best self. In my opinion, education, like reading, lies in two paths: one is to start from me, the other is to find myself, and the goal is to meet me beautifully. "The power of teacher's love first comes from the power of love itself. With the continuation of teaching career, many of us have lost this spiritual strength. "
"Palmer said,' What an excellent teaching always needs is a small way to regain inner resources. "Remembering who we are means putting all our bodies and minds back in their original positions, restoring our own identity and integrity, and regaining the integrity of our lives."
Scholars who study educational philosophy have done more and more thinking about teachers' skills and Tao and the new realm of teachers' growth. Twenty years ago, Ye Lan published an influential article entitled "Let the classroom be full of vitality". In his book Being a Living Educator, his disciple Professor Li Zhengtao divided teachers into four types: craftsmen, artists, Confucianism and philosophers.
? "One is a craftsman. If teaching is regarded as a technology, his technology is seamless, mature and even superb. Both students and "teaching" itself are the raw materials and stage for him to display his skills. His job is to polish his skills day and night. He is fascinated by his works, just as a mason faces his house and a blacksmith faces his sword. Regular teaching strategies, students' excellent academic performance and various teaching awards are all the work of craftsmen. When people send flowers to him, they often sigh with regret in their hearts. A craftsman always lacks two things: thought and passion. Craftsmen's technology is technology without thinking, and the education we want is technology with thinking and technical thinking. What's more frightening is that he doesn't have that kind of endless passion for life. He often smiles in front of his works and then falls asleep sweetly. "
"The second is an artist. He is not only full of passion, but also full of artistic cells. Through beautiful language, expressive expressions, gestures and actions, he makes teaching artistic and even romantic. Artists' classes are always full of energy, and students are strongly infected, so they are full of interest in classes. However, the craftsman's skill is precisely the craftsman's shortcoming. Artists' classes can be very active and vivid, but sometimes they get lost in randomness and carelessness, and the teaching effect is not necessarily better than that of craftsmen. "
? "Third, Confucian scholars. Traditional intellectual demeanor is its basic feature. He has the sense of mission and responsibility of intellectuals, full of love for education, warmth for children, and full of sacrifice. He has a deep understanding of the subjects he teaches and is an expert in this field. But his limitations are also here. His vision is always in his own academic world. His image orientation is still a' candle', a devotee and a victim. "
? "The fourth is a philosopher. He tried to teach in thinking and creation, and pursued teaching supported by thinking depth and ideas. Philosophers are not satisfied with being just a victim. He tried to turn the process of education into a creative process, creating children's spiritual world and his own spiritual world. He is also a transcendence, surpassing the existing experience, surpassing the existing perspective and way of thinking, and even surpassing the existing lifestyle. What supports him to complete a series of transcendence is a spirit: never stop in the face of any established achievements, never stop pursuing the perfection of the educated life and the educator's self-life, and always carry out educational activities in the mutual blending of reason and emotion to realize the reflection and reconstruction of educational behavior. "
"The ideal teacher is a teacher who combines the characteristics of the above four types of teachers. Such a teacher will move from a beautiful teacher to an excellent teacher. He will have three things: great wisdom in education, great love and great realm. "
I have read or read many articles and statements about teacher classification before, probably because I am in it and often disagree with it. It is cruel that too many educators grade teachers. Classifying and criticizing teachers in a condescending way itself loses the humanistic position of education. And Professor Zheng Tao, really out of sympathy and care, probably according to his experience when he was young, divided the teachers into four categories, but there was no grading.
As the saying goes, "a flower and a world, a tree and a bodhi." No one tells you that the world will prosper for you after you come to this world, and no one guarantees all the teachers you meet on the way to education. Of course, this is not an excuse for bad teachers from the standpoint of teachers' morality, but a realistic and calm topic. Educators, students and schools are all the same, and it is precisely because of their uniqueness that they converge into the richness of symbiosis and integration.
? "School is a unique world. Every school has its own unique world. Just like everyone's life, every school in the universe that was, is and will be unique. "
[Note] Li Zhengtao: "Be an educator with a sense of life", Beijing Normal University Press, June 20 10, the first 1 version, the second series: The misfortune and happiness of being an educator/teacher with a sense of life/What is the cultural nostalgia of educators/teachers' spiritual life? /What kind of spiritual life we can give students/Where is the heart, where is the wisdom/Four types of teachers/Courage in teaching is the courage to return to self/What is educational thought?