/kloc-in August of 0/8, I came to Puqi because of the western plan. It was a holiday, and there were about six classes in the school making up lessons. I told Class 4, Grade 4 that the Chinese teacher at that time introduced this class to me, knowing that it was an ordinary class in the school, and the average score of Chinese and mathematics was only twenty or thirty points.
As soon as I got to know the students' general impression, the teacher told me that because they only began to popularize Putonghua last year, they had a poor foundation. What's more, they chose students with good grades and good habits to go to Class One and Class Two, and changed to other classes if they were disobedient. Usually only a dozen people listen in class, and the rest either don't understand or don't listen at all.
When I asked if there were any students who were particularly disobedient, the teacher focused on McMati. This is also my first impression of Mohammad. I have no foundation in Mandarin. I often skip classes if I don't understand. I can escape three or four times a week. I often go to Bazaar to sell things, and sometimes I can meet them in Bazaar.
It is said that the head teacher and he often visited home last semester, and even for a while, the head teacher personally lent it to Mohammad to ensure normal school. He often banned Mohammad from skipping classes, and he was really banned several times.
Two weeks later, the school rearranged, arranged for the Chinese teacher to take the newly recruited first grade, and the class teacher transferred to the branch school. After some adjustments, more than a dozen volunteers in the western plan were vacated to hold teaching posts.
And I have officially become the head teacher of this class, but I am no longer in Class 4, Grade 4, and I was promoted to Class 4, Grade 5 when I started school.
Maybe it's a new teacher. The students still remember me vividly. Although the attendance rate is not 100%, it is over half. I haven't been absent from school for ten days, but I'm late at most.
I once doubted whether the Chinese teacher was exaggerating. Everyone in the class was obedient, especially the monitor, who was in charge of discipline and spoke better than me.
Then I realized that I was too inexperienced and cheated by appearances. Shortly after I officially took over, the students knew that I was a class teacher, and gradually understood my personality and gradually began to show my true colors.
All kinds of bad habits suddenly appeared in front of me, which caught me off guard and I didn't know how to deal with them at the moment.
Although McMillan didn't skip class, he didn't do his homework, bullied his deskmate, talked, left his seat casually and so on. Besides, other students are all kinds of troublemakers, which makes every class very tired. I can't go to class for a while.
Suffering, every day, every class is suffering, and even the placement will not let me stop. When there is no class, I often work in the office on the second floor, while the class is on the third floor. Sometimes I worry about students fighting or something, so I often go up and have a look.
There are always free classes, and students are worried about my sudden attack, so they arrange sentries at the stairs to monitor my whereabouts. I heard hurried footsteps as soon as I went up the stairs, and then the class became restless in an instant. Before I entered the class, everyone sat down properly.
Seeing this situation, I was inexplicably angry and wanted to take what I wanted. I went through it twice. I dare not let the class be empty again, whether it is mine or not. After all, I am not the head teacher. I have to ensure that the class is not empty.
It was also from this time that I contracted almost all classes except mathematics, music and physical education class. The number of classes has also soared from the initial 18 to more than 30.
I believe that habits cannot be formed overnight. It is hoped that it will take a year or more for students to gradually form habits.
By the end of the fifth grade, I began to reflect on why the classroom efficiency is low, why only a dozen students are listening, and why more than 30 other students, even girls, can't learn.
When reading, I think of the pain and suffering of learning English. I finally understand that it is not that they are unwilling to learn, but that more than 30 people are unwilling to learn, but that they really can't learn.
This awakening made me change my approach. Students with weak foundation are assigned tasks separately, learning three words in each class, requiring reading, memorizing and writing. Because they really can't keep up with the textbooks and go to class directly, either sit quietly or be naughty.
After assigning tasks to these dozens of students, class discipline began to improve. Three words in a class will only take them ten minutes, so they can do their homework after remembering them, so they will have no homework when they go home. But they can't finish remembering and attending classes, which forces them to take the time to remember.
As for McMahon, he can't remember clearly, but if he is not given the task, he will definitely make trouble. So I gave him a writing task. He can write according to it, and he can also write ten strokes into five strokes. The written words are always short of arms and legs.
Because I can't just teach one person, I can only ask him to write right or wrong, and then take time to correct it when other students are writing after class.
For other students, besides texts, I also pay special attention to dictation, dictation of ancient poems and diaries.
I often use class meetings and self-study classes to convey my learning ideas over and over again. Tell them to learn six words a day, that is, 144 words a month, and keep a diary of 100 words a day, that is, 3000 words a month and 36000 words a year.
Every time I emphasize the word 144, let them remember it together, and they may not finish learning it in a semester. 36,000 words, let them finish it in one breath, and most people may not finish it all their lives. Therefore, dividing a big goal into countless equal small goals, everyone should be able to accomplish it.
The implementation of this method has achieved remarkable results. Not only has the discipline been improved, but the results have also begun to improve significantly.
After the mid-term exam, their average Chinese score reached 36, which was more than ten points higher than that of Class Three, which was unprecedented before.
This examination gave students great confidence and improved their learning enthusiasm.
For Mohammad, after walking for two years in a row, he can finally write the seven words of his name correctly. In TV class, he also asked me for homework. I only arrange one or two words for him every day, and then correct his writing again and again until he writes correctly.
For him, learning is not about grades, but about whether he has learned anything, even if it is just a word, what he has learned is his. And even if the score is higher, it's not his.
After home visits, I gradually learned about the situation in my class. At most half of the left-behind children in the class are left-behind children, and McMati is one of them. Dad is not around, mom divorced and grew up with grandpa, so she is a little eccentric.
When I was in the sixth grade, I didn't know if my bad habits came back and I began to skip classes again. For this reason, I often visited my house, and later I learned intermittently that he often played with junior high school students and learned their bad habits. Once I asked for leave, and other teachers were watching the class, but he got angry in the classroom.
When I came back, I lied to me that Wahap was playing with fire and was scolded by the teacher. I believed it, and I didn't know it was Maimaiti who complained first until the class teacher told me.
It's been a few days, so we can't talk about the past. I can only tell him that he rolled up the book and smoked it.
I asked him, do mom and dad smoke? Does grandpa smoke? Does sister smoke? He said no, I asked him, didn't you say you wouldn't do what mom and dad didn't do? Why do you smoke instead of skipping class?
He was puzzled and probably listened, but later he didn't bring a lighter to school.
Mcgrady is a restless man. In order to let him live in the class later, after all, he can't leave the classroom casually during the epidemic. I asked him to supervise the dictation of other students, and he was willing to take care of it.
Until a few weeks before graduation, the school changed to a boarding school, which disrupted classes. Twenty-one people in our class went out, including McMati. He went to Class Five. Later, the head teacher told me that McMahon was the discipline committee member of his class and helped to manage the discipline. I heard that other students who went out would do their own homework and didn't care so much.
Suddenly, I feel that the habit cultivation in the past two years has not been in vain, but it is still rewarding. No matter what their grades are, they have at least a little awareness of learning, which is their greatest gain.
In a recent home visit, Dilinur, who also went to the next class, told me that she still remembered that she went to school on April 18.
I asked her, are you sure it was April 18, not March 23?
She just realized that I started teaching them in April 18. I asked her how she knew, and she told me proudly because it was written in the diary.
It can be seen that the diary has helped them record something, which has to be said to be a harvest.
Then she said, we are not used to class, and they often write letters to friends in private.
I asked who I wrote it to and what I wrote it with. She said that she wrote it to her classmates who have been in Class 1 since childhood, that is, her friends who have been in Class 4, and told me that it was written in Mandarin.
I suddenly felt gratified. Although they may not keep a diary according to my requirements, the diary of more than two years and 600 days has made them have the habit of writing.
Although their average score is only 30 points, their composition can get an average of more than 10, which is a great gain.
In retrospect, there were less than 20 people in the class who used to write compositions, with an average of only three to five points. After all, they have made progress in these two years.
Now that they have all graduated, we still keep in touch every day because of the epidemic, as if they were more cordial to me when they were not teachers and students.
I feel that in the past two years, I have taught them little and brought them little change. However, there has been some progress in the few things they have been doing persistently.
In the past two years, their grades have not improved significantly, but their habits have changed significantly. In my class, the discipline has improved and the learning atmosphere has been created. My concern for my friends and gratitude to my parents are remarkable.
Isn't this the purpose of education? After all, education is not for grades, not for grades. The first thing that should be changed is habit, not morality.