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Gu Mingyuan: How can a teacher become an educator?
The talent training mode needs to be improved. China's economic development and transformation must rely on science and technology to improve the quality of workers. In the final analysis, international competition is talent competition. Education in China has not fully adapted to the requirements of national economic and social development and people's good education. The educational concept is relatively backward, the content and methods are relatively outdated, students' ability to adapt to society and employment and entrepreneurship is not strong, and innovative, applied and compound talents are in short supply. Therefore, deepening education reform is the common aspiration of the whole society, and the first system reform in the Outline is to reform the personnel training system. Teachers are the foundation of education. Only a good teacher can have a good education. Therefore, it is necessary to vigorously promote educators to run schools.

Let the whole society respect teachers.

Education is regular, and respecting the law will get twice the result with half the effort, otherwise it will delay the growth of young people. Not everyone can be a teacher, but a teacher is a professional profession. Many teachers have been engaged in education all their lives, trained a large number of talents, and have their own educational ideas and styles. This is the educator.

Comenius said that teachers are the most glorious profession in the world. However, for a long time, teachers have been ignored by society. When it comes to scientists and artists, they all feel noble, and when it comes to teachers, they all feel ordinary. Teachers have worked hard all their lives, not educators, which is unfair. The first significance of advocating educators to run schools is to make the whole society respect teachers.

What kind of teacher can be called an educator?

Educators cannot generalize.

When it comes to educators, we will think of Confucius, Han Yu, Zhu, Cai Yuanpei and Tao Xingzhi in China, Plato, Socrates, Comenius, Herbart, Dewey and so on in the west. China has120,000 teachers. Why can't you tell who is an educator? First, we lack a systematic theoretical system and educators who put it into practice and influence the overall situation. Nowadays, there are two kinds of educators: one is educators, who work hard in the front line, but rarely make theoretical innovations. The other is an educational theorist who seldom participates in educational practice. Both kinds of people have some "defects" Second, we attach too much importance to educators and set too strict standards. Third, there is no summary and publicity on the experience of excellent teachers. Many excellent teachers have advanced educational ideas and rich educational experience, but they just don't know it.

Three standards for educators

First, we should engage in education for a long time, love education, love children, devote ourselves to education all our lives, and regard education as a lifelong career. Second, we should be willing to study hard, dare to innovate, and have our own theoretical opinions and ideological system. Third, he has excellent work and rich experience, has his own educational style, has a certain influence in the field of education, and has been recognized by the majority of teachers.

How to become an educator?

It is necessary to educate people.

As an educator, including teachers, we should know the characteristics of the educational profession. First of all, the object is living people, growing children and teenagers, not inanimate substances. Second, the content is to impart knowledge, educate people, help children grow up, cultivate students' minds and develop their potential. Third, the means of occupation are different. We don't use tools, but use our knowledge and talents, morality and wisdom to influence them. Other occupations should have tools, doctors should have stethoscopes and scalpels, but teachers don't want these. When Confucius was a teacher, he had nothing, not even books, but he trained more than 3 thousand students, relying on knowledge, wisdom and personality.

We should establish the concept of everyone becoming a talent.

Some teachers only like students who study well and think that only those who study well can become talents; Students who read less can't become talents, so they don't like it. Some schools celebrate by publicizing how many famous scientists there are among alumni, and ordinary workers are not your alumni. The University of Hong Kong awarded an honorary doctorate to an old lady with low education who has been a cleaner all her life, setting an example for us.

The view of talent is not the view of genius. Talents who have a sense of social responsibility, work hard and contribute to society are talents. There are many disadvantages in the selection of three good students. We should believe that every child can become a talent, and don't divide children into three, six and nine classes. Children's development is curved. They are not always good students or poor students all their lives. According to media reports, there is a school summer camp that divides students into three classes: top students, average students and poor students. Top students eat, poor students serve. This is an insulting anti-education behavior. Can this child love school when he grows up? Can you love your teacher?

We should provide every student with the most suitable education.

The outline puts forward that every student should be provided with the most suitable education. I think this is the best education and the fairest education. It is the most unfair education to let everyone learn Olympic Mathematics. The olympiad is only suitable for a few students who are talented in mathematics, and everyone learns it, killing other talents.

My educational creed: first, there is no education without love, and second, there is no learning without interest. To cultivate innovative talents, we should start with cultivating students' hobbies. Suhomlinski once said that if a student does not have his own hobbies at the age of 12 or 13, teachers should worry that he will become an ordinary person in the future.

There is a big drawback in current education, that is, students are "educated and studied". Students-oriented, respect students' right to choose, and give full play to students' initiative and subjectivity in learning. Why should high schools advocate diversity? Why should we reduce compulsory courses, increase elective courses and carry out research-based learning? Just to give students a choice. In some places, elective courses have been turned into compulsory courses, and students' elective courses have been standardized by examinations, which completely violates the original intention of the new curriculum reform.

Advocate inquiry learning

In the past, President Mao Zedong said that two sentences should be added to cultivate students' ability to solve and analyze problems, and to cultivate students' ability to find and ask questions. A Chinese-American student wrote a book called "My Middle School in America", which introduced the American curriculum creatively. For example, in the ninth grade history class, the teacher asked the students to make a list of historical events, interview historical figures, find obituaries, write eulogy, watch a historical film and comment for two months. This China student chose the Eastern War as the theme, visited Chennault, read Chennault's biography, and wrote a eulogy for Soong Ching Ling ... This student not only learned historical knowledge, but also cultivated the ability to collect information and retrieve documents, which is worth learning.

There are also educators on the "ladder"

As a teacher, the most important thing is to teach every class well and educate every student well. If he can really do this, he can really become an educator. Educators not only have theories, but also engage in education all their lives, overcoming many special difficulties and achieving a group of students. Although this contribution is not necessarily great, it has set up a spirit for us in this field and is worth learning.

There is a book called Above the Ladder. I am so moved that I will cry when I read it. This paper introduces a couple who set up a primary school on the top of the mountain in Sichuan. It is such a thatched shed, dozens of families and dozens of students. After he went, he built the school, so that not only the students in this village can go to school, but also the children at the foot of the mountain can go there. Students have to walk many mountain roads and climb ladders to go to school. The teacher protected them from climbing up one by one. He teaches at 19. In 2009, he was one of the 100 moving figures. After the announcement, everyone enthusiastically donated money. Now, iron ladders and school buildings have been built, and there are more students. His wife was not a teacher at first, because there were many children, so he mobilized her and worked in the mountains for more than ten years. Such a teacher is very touching, and I think it is also teaching.