Everyone is talking about the initial intention of education. So, what is the initial intention of education? I teach English. I want to talk about my preliminary understanding through a few things about English education and learning.
More than ten years ago, I attended an English certificate sprint short course in Beijing.
The class is a group of children in grades 3-4. They have three hours of classes every day. How many words do children recite every day? 30-40.
And I am responsible for analyzing the problems that children did in Chinese on the first day, and teaching problem-solving skills and vocabulary consolidation exercises for three hours.
The children's goal is to get a certificate, which is roughly equivalent to the English test level of Grade Two. In the end, nearly 50% of the children achieved their goals. That data is not good, just average.
One day, a parent worked late, rushed to school to pick up his children, repeatedly said he was sorry and insisted on sending me home. On the way, parents are still telling their children to go home and recite the prescribed vocabulary.
I asked my parents: Are you considering reciting it tomorrow?
My parents' answer still haunts me: "Teacher, do you think I am getting his certificate now?" Actually, no, I'm preparing for the college entrance examination, so from now on, I can't relax for a moment. "
I think this may be the so-called people in two worlds. There is nothing wrong with parents, but I dare not imagine my children's future study and development.
I just didn't expect that more than ten years later, when I became a parent and my child was only in the second grade, I began to have this idea more or less. But fortunately, I am a little "rational".
Two years later, I changed to an all-English teaching institution, from kindergarten to a class in grade two.
When children are in large classes, there is a class to teach farm animals. One of the exercises is to connect cows with milk, hens with eggs.
This link is very simple for children, so I designed a demonstration of the process of milk arriving at the table. Through the display of teaching AIDS, I sorted out the pictures and interpreted the story, so that children could understand how milk came from farms, cows, factories to supermarkets, and then assigned homework to draw at home, which will be presented in the next class.
Later, when they were in the second grade, I remember that there was a very ordinary course to teach color matching. After practicing all colors, I asked everyone to predict the result of mixing two colors in groups, do experiments with pigments and water cups, and record the results.
The second half of the class is basically operated by children. I mainly record whether the prediction is consistent with the experimental results. Sometimes I praise the children who predict correctly, and sometimes I feel sorry for the children who predict incorrectly.
Let's talk about teenagers and adults learning English again.
After the epidemic, online education developed wildly and advertisements were overwhelming. I asked a friend whose child is in primary school and learning English, and asked him how he felt when he saw these advertisements. The other party told me that he didn't care at all, so that he couldn't even remember the names of major institutions.
Of course, I paid special attention to these advertisements, and also spent a few 9 yuan 9 students listening to some courses. See all kinds of "efficient and pragmatic" methods to interpret the essence of English learning;
4-day English crash cheats
7 days to become a translator.
10 day introduction, the essence of cognitive language learning
At the same time, I happened to be taking a college course in linguistics. That semester's study was the most collapsed day I have ever experienced. The teacher emphasized reading more and reading every day, and recommended many English literature and books. In a few months, I have read more English articles than in the past few decades.
The teacher also analyzed the language learning experiences of several masters in the Republic of China. Let's take a look at an experience of Mr. Xu Guozhang, a language master:
The master emphasized the importance of reading aloud, which is the core of language learning. How did the master learn? It's cold and it will take several hours to finish reading. When I watched this paragraph, I thought, let me brush the video in this situation. Can I brush it for a few hours?
When you need to cultivate comprehensive literacy, you give me intensive study; When it's time to strengthen your study, you tell me the secret book.
What is your initial intention after several times of education and study? Since education is the first, what is education? Let's take a look at the definitions of education in Baidu Encyclopedia and Wikipedia:
Baidu Encyclopedia:
Wikipedia:
Many educational scholars are emphasizing "stimulation", "influence" and "acquisition". In short, in addition to knowledge itself, we should also pay attention to value, morality, practice, thinking and so on.
Then, is it an influence or an initial intention to teach a student to do exam strategies and refine his memory with knowledge points?
At present, this is of course an influence with personal shallow cognition, but this way can be said to be a good product and method to meet the needs of users, and it is not entirely the initial intention of education.
A good product may well meet the demand, but it may not completely meet the initial education.
Education can make learning more scientific by improving methods;
Education can make learning more efficient because of the empowerment of science and technology;
At the beginning of education, we need such science and efficiency, a good teacher to understand and practice, and to influence students.
From about 20 10, online product models emerge one after another. AI application, speech recognition, adaptive learning and other technologies affect learners' learning efficiency through big data analysis, and students in remote areas can also enjoy high-quality teaching. These are also factors that promote learning efficiency and the allocation of educational resources.
However, good teachers are what we should pay more attention to.
I have seen the scene of someone practicing classes at school at 8 am in Beijing;
I have also seen a scene of a teacher practicing alone in the classroom at night 12: 30 in a third-tier city.
Beijing 8 o'clock, third-tier cities 12: 30, no need to explain, everyone knows what the concept is.
I often recall the scene when I entered the business. The master took me to practice my pronunciation and tried to teach my students in the most standard English.
I work hard to learn various methods and theories, and strive to make children pay more attention to the cultivation of body, mind and quality while learning languages:
How to design teaching activities can make children learn more efficiently;
How to arrange the teaching process is more in line with learners' learning characteristics;
How to teach the four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing respectively, so as to realize the effective combination of input and output;
How to understand the situation of different children in the class and adopt different teaching strategies;
I am a shy male teacher,
In order to better present, I learned to make exquisite hand-made teaching AIDS;
Carry out diversified teaching and learn song and dance.
Although ugly, children like it.
Without the influence of all aspects, education can't influence people and cultivate comprehensive quality.
I think, when the national burden reduction policy is perfect, the education and training industry has entered a benign development, and everyone pays more attention to the development of teachers and the acquisition of students, and has a correct understanding of the industry, we can really say the word "beginning education".