Head-up American education is divided into two parts, which are the author's notes on learning from the United States and giving students unlimited possibilities-detailing American education. This book examines American education from a head-up perspective. Starting from specific materials, it is well-founded and enlightening to read.
First of all, I think the word "head-up" is very appropriate. Although the United States entered the modern society early, it is a multi-ethnic and multi-power country, and its education is naturally complicated. Because every state is sovereign and independent, education is diversified. The compound education under complex conditions seems to be full of flowers and a high degree of self-use, but it can't concentrate on doing great things and dominate the whole country with one model, so there are many disadvantages. Therefore, we must learn the essence of the United States and not blindly copy it.
In the article "The essence of education is to help children grow up", I told the story of Alai, a child. Loy is smart, sensitive and rebellious. He plays football all day and his lessons are poor. Because he didn't listen to his parents' education, he was canceled the opportunity to attend his classmates' birthday party. His birthday classmates' mother was also very reasonable and politely refused Alai, which made him angry and helpless. The author thinks that this kind of punishment is a kind of "sweetening" punishment, while most of the punishments we usually see are "adding bitterness".
I think these two punishments are very interesting. Come to think of it, it is indeed such a thing. Students who don't like homework, if they don't write homework or make mistakes, let them copy it several times, dozens of times, which makes the task of homework "bitter" worse, and the result he can get from correcting mistakes is only a little less bitter. However, the punishment for the "sweet talk" of the punished object must be something he is eager to participate in or get. If he corrects his mistakes, he will get benefits and happiness, so his inner motivation to correct them will be greater. This internal drive is an important driving force for children's self-growth.
Rafe, a famous American education teacher, regards "sweetening" punishment as the only punishment. He said: The challenge we face is how to make classes interesting and make not attending classes a punishment for children. Indeed, in order to implement the punishment of "reducing sweetness" in education, we must first increase sweetness. With sweetness, we know that sweetness has no regrets.
Increasing the sweetness of learning puts higher demands on teachers themselves. How to make the designed courses conform to students' preferences and become more attractive? How to improve your classroom teaching level and make the classroom full of fun and challenges? How to improve teachers' own personality charm and make students like and admire it? Imagine that during an interesting experiment, the opportunity to continue the experiment was cancelled because of violation of regulations, and I couldn't witness the wonderful changes in the experiment. It was really annoying. Instead of the students we sometimes see standing at the back of the classroom, they are still looking around leisurely, enjoying themselves and even going out for a walk on the grounds of going to the toilet. I heard that some colleges and universities let students choose their own courses, and some teachers' courses are hard to find. Isn't this the "sweetness"?
? It is true that the punishment of "sweetening" cannot be all. For serious mistakes, students should bear the consequences. But we should know that children's growth is autonomous and spontaneous, and the essence of education is to help children grow up. Trying to sweeten education can make learning happier and education happier.