2017-1-1419: 50 teacher/stress
(1) What is the "theater effect"?
Baidu has two explanations about the "theater effect".
The first is the concept put forward by Rousseau, a great scholar. He thought that Paris at that time had become a big theater, where everyone in Paris watched plays and actively and passively participated in performances. Everyone is both an audience and an actor who participates in the performance.
The second is the concept of economy. If the theater suddenly caught fire, everyone chose to run out quickly. As a result, everyone crowded at the gate, forming a collective tragedy. The moral is that the maximization of individual interests will lead to the imbalance of collective order and eventually form an overall tragedy.
In these two concepts, the common point is the imbalance between personal role and social environment.
When everyone pursues the maximization of interests, it will inevitably destroy the interests of others. Everyone does this, and the final result is that no one's interests can be maximized, and even the overall interests may be minimized.
This is why "bad order" is better than "no order". Therefore, order is important and law is important.
(B) Another "theater effect"
It is a similar but slightly different "theater effect".
A theater, everyone is watching the play. Everyone has a seat. Suddenly the audience stood up to watch the play, but the people around them dissuaded them and the administrator was not on duty. Finally, the audience changed from sitting to standing.
However, everyone paid more physical costs than before and got the same (or even worse) effect as before. What is more tragic is that although everyone is tired, no one will choose to sit down and watch the play.
If someone starts to stand on the chair and watch the play, it will cause more people to stand on the chair and watch the play. As a result, those who break the order can't get lasting benefits, while those who obey the order are the victims. On the surface, the audience broke the order and stood up first. In fact, the real responsible person should be the manager of the cinema. After all, he is the defender of order.
(C) the "theater effect" kidnapping education
And our education is being kidnapped by the "theater effect" of vicious disorder, which is accelerating from bad to worse.
Example 1: increasing class hours.
How long should students study every day? There are regulations in the country, and there are laws in physiology. However, the "theater effect" has repeatedly broken through the bottom line of national regulations and students' health.
Take high schools in populous provinces as an example;
The first stage (sit and watch the drama): all schools are implemented according to state regulations.
The second stage (individual standing up to watch the play): Suddenly, some schools added extra classes, which achieved good results and won the praise and pursuit of parents.
The third stage (everyone stood up to watch the play): As a result, other schools followed suit under the pressure of performance appraisal and parents. Finally, everyone's school time has reached a new balance.
The fourth stage (sitting in a chair watching a drama): Some schools are adding more and more. As a result, other schools were forced to follow up again.
When everyone extended the students' study time at school, the advantages of some elementary schools were gradually lost. Compared with the original situation of the fifth grade, there is no essential change in school performance and ranking.
The difference is that all schools, students and teachers are more tired. However, no one dared to go back.
Example 2: Intensive remedial classes.
The above examples are generally high schools. In junior high school and primary school, the national policy is still relatively strict, so another substitute appeared: cram school.
The first stage (no one goes to cram school)
The second stage (individual going to cram school): the ranking of grades will be improved in a short time, which will lead other parents to follow suit.
The third stage (most people go to cram schools): The competition is becoming more and more fierce, and almost all the students in the class go to cram schools. As a result, everyone's grades returned to the initial state.
The fourth stage (pursuing famous brand cram schools and famous school teachers): "famous brand cram schools" are hard to find, and "famous school teachers" are more popular. Those who studied poorly in the past went to cram schools, but now those who studied well have to go to cram schools.
Paradoxically, the result of such vicious competition in cram schools is the same ranking and entrance scores as before.
The difference is that parents' financial burden is heavier and their children's childhood is miserable. However, no one can go back! Because no one dares or wants to stop first!
Example 3: Crazy homework.
The phenomenon of homework can also be found in the "theater effect".
The first stage (not much homework)
The second stage (more homework): some subjects or teachers increase homework, and the subject scores will improve immediately. Under the pressure of evaluation, other subjects have followed suit.
The third stage (a lot of homework): dealing with homework has become a top priority for family harmony.
The fourth stage (homework mania): homework becomes the most important dimension to measure students' learning attitude and parents' support for the school.
The same tragedy is that when every student has written so much homework, his grades will not change significantly. However, all teachers, students and parents are more tired and tired. The more serious problem is that with so much homework, students are full of aversion to learning. What is particularly frightening is that no one can stop.
In this case, children may not be able to win at the starting line, and they may have to work hard on their homework first.
Example 4: Embarrassed excellent teacher.
Crazy vicious competition not only devours students and parents, but also ravages teachers and even reverses the classroom ecology.
I chatted with a junior high school teacher the other day. She is an excellent political teacher with nearly 20 years' teaching experience. Her teaching results are always excellent, and her classes are both interesting and informative. She is very popular with students and is among the best in all kinds of open class competitions. However, this recognized senior excellent teacher who loves his post and is dedicated to his work has become a "backward teacher" in the school evaluation system.
The thing is, there is not enough teachers in this middle school, and the school has a staff member (who has no teaching experience at all and is not a political major). ) Acting for several classes politically. The acting teacher is to draw the key points in class and take various measures to make students recite in the rest of the time.
After a semester, the teacher is far ahead. The school leaders praised the substitute "lay teacher".
But when all classes are back to back, after practice, students' grades return to the original order, and teachers' performances all return to their original positions.
However, students are more tired, learning is more tired, and teachers are more tired. The classroom ecology that should have been reading, thinking, discussing, nourishing, inspiring and nurturing wisdom has completely fallen.
(4) Who are the victims of the "theater effect"?
Under the cover of "theater effect", everyone is a victim. .
Children are the first victims, but they work so hard and get almost the same results as before. After being bound by this monotonous machinery for more than ten years, when they leave school, they often get tired of reading. What innovative spirit can you expect from this generation?
Parents are also victims. For the sake of children's future, overdraft children's growth, for the sake of so-called scores, destroy family harmony. In the end, it was discovered that the so-called high score could not bring the legendary success. What's the point of such success when children are physically and mentally destroyed and family ties are broken?
Teachers can't escape. Students work hard, parents work hard and teachers work hard. Working for such a long time, weekends and winter and summer vacations stipulated by law have always been a distant legend for high school teachers. More importantly, after paying such high-intensity labor, they found that it was difficult for their students to make achievements in personality, morality, thought and innovation consciousness except for getting grades.
(5) Who created the "theater effect"?
Is it a student? But it is right to study hard and get ahead.
Is it a parent? But there is nothing wrong with expecting your son to succeed and your daughter to succeed.
Are you a teacher? It is the teacher's responsibility to improve the exam results.
Is it a school? Schools have to survive under various pressures.
The destruction of order is the result of collective collusion. Everyone is both a destroyer and a victim of disorder.
When the avalanche came, every snowflake said it had nothing to do with itself. But it is countless innocent snowflakes conspiring to avalanche.
Single evaluation scale, excessive vicious competition, lack of supervision, relative scarcity of resources, anxiety about survival and fear that the next generation can't lose have kidnapped parents, children and teachers.
Of course, responsibilities should be prioritized.
The first is the lack of supervision.
The above-mentioned countries have long stipulated restrictions, but these regulations are just a dead letter. Regulators should bear the main responsibility for the imbalance of "theater effect"
Second, educators want to refuse and welcome.
Faced with vicious competition, the temptation of interests and the pressure of parents, educators should have a minimum of conscience and ethics: not breaking the law, not violating the rules, and not hurting students' physical and mental health.
Third, it is the wanton spoiler of unscrupulous merchants and the media.
In order to make a profit, a large number of tutorial institutions use various media to create false information such as "Don't lose at the starting line", "Cheats for entering a higher school", "Give points" and "Guidance by famous teachers", which aggravates parents' and students' learning anxiety.
Fourth, parents and students.
They are vulnerable groups trapped in the torrent, unable to formulate policies, change rules and screen information, and can only struggle to save themselves in the torrent. Most of the results are not only hurting others, but also helping themselves.
(6) Dream: the future of the school
Some people describe such a school. In the future, there are such schools. There are cultural classes in the morning, and interest classes and club activities in the afternoon, including sports, music, fine arts, handicrafts, dance, drama, poetry, philosophy, games, scientific and technological production, etc. Read books, write articles, watch movies, take a walk, get together, or be in a daze at night. Weekends are outings, sports competitions, social practice or visits to museums. This kind of school is not expensive, at least not more expensive than the cram school.
Perhaps this day is not far away.
Perhaps this future is coming.