Education is no small matter. How many parents have racked their brains for their children's education? When they babble, they begin to carry out enlightenment education, such as oral expression ability, literacy, exposure to English and so on. While carrying out enlightenment education, some families are still in the wild age. Most children are not interested in these things at first, so many parents' initial education ended in failure, and then parents pinned their hopes on kindergartens and began to look for kindergartens everywhere. My child is an example. Before he went to kindergarten, he could recognize Arabic numerals 1- 10 accurately and quickly, and he could recite many stories. Of course, this kind of recitation is purely rote, because the child's brain is a blank sheet of paper, so it is easier to remember. Kindergarten learning is not difficult for him, whether it is literacy or reciting, but there are also some children who don't even know a word, and most of them can only recognize some simple Chinese characters. Children are different, different children have different talents, and parents have different educational concepts and methods, so kindergartens have this difference. Faced with this problem in education, it is usually to teach students in accordance with their aptitude. Kindergarten teachers didn't teach students in accordance with their aptitude, middle school teachers didn't do it, and I didn't do it. A class was only 40 minutes. Under the pressure of examination, no one dares to change the teaching strategy easily, and can only give assignments of different difficulties symbolically besides completing the contents stipulated in the syllabus.
The book says: No matter how ambitious the school claims to be, an ineffective education is ineffective. This kind of ineffective education refers to students' memory ability. Rote memorization often consumes a lot of time and energy. This method is certainly not desirable, but we can't do without memory in the learning process. As the saying goes, if you can't even remember the basic knowledge, how can you apply what you have learned? Memory is still very important, but our memory should be effective, which is what we often say. Memory is easier and stronger after understanding. So at present, there are some popular memory methods, such as formula memory, jingle memory, point memory, classified memory, digital memory, etc., all of which are aimed at avoiding students' rote memorization and enabling students to achieve the memory effect in a short time.
? Reinventing Children's Education introduces Jacob's whole educational process. He is step by step, and his ultimate goal is university. However, after graduating from college, because of the financial crisis, he was under great employment pressure. Then he will start from scratch, starting from his non-major. He said that he only used professional knowledge once in his work. Jacob's experience also reflects the current situation of this society. When children work hard to finish their studies and look forward to work, they find that society has already undergone earth-shaking changes, but they are standing still and caught off guard. Nowadays, education is to cultivate students with all-round development so that students can cope with the changing society. Parents do not hesitate to spend a lot of money to train their children, and they have been learning various interest classes since childhood, fearing to lose at the starting line. However, this kind of education will make students bear great learning pressure from an early age and stop growing up in childlike innocence, because they are born with a mission, the mission of their parents and the mission of society. All-round development refers to the all-round development of people, refers to the full development of people's physical strength and intelligence, and refers to the harmonious development of people in all aspects of morality, intelligence, physique and beauty, rather than learning various skills at all costs. The goal of education should be to immerse students in the beauty and inspiration of the world.
"In the era of globalization, it is very important for students to speak a foreign language." A colleague who teaches English once said that learning a foreign language well can give you a top job advantage, such as foreign language translation. Hearing this sentence, I have to admit that I agree. This is not blind worship of foreign things, but reality. At present, most students in China are seriously partial to English, which affects the college entrance examination. People don't understand why China people want to learn foreign languages, or whether foreign languages can be listed as elective courses, and only students who need them can learn them. However, today's society is a global society. As the saying goes, know yourself and know yourself. Only by understanding them can we develop ourselves better, and the first skill to understand each other is language skills. If you can't communicate, it's all empty talk. Therefore, I still think foreign languages are really important. Just as the Japanese study the history of China, they should go out and broaden their horizons, and then take the essence and discard the dross.
? "Lecture is to transfer the professor's notes to the students' notebooks without going through the brains of both sides. "Our current teaching is based on this kind of lecture, and even the conditions for doing experiments are harsh and lacking. In the experimental class, the teacher tells the theoretical knowledge and operation in oral language, teaches every key point and detail, and sometimes plays experimental videos with multimedia. However, due to the difficulty in recruiting video materials, even video playback is extravagant, and regular laboratory operation is even more difficult. Even if it is a "lecture", some well-managed teachers will make the class vivid, more platitudes, scripted, and even rarely ask questions. There are many factors that cause these phenomena. First, poor students are the most fundamental. Even if the teacher has thousands of kinds of martial arts, the students simply don't understand, don't understand, can't learn, and don't want to learn; Second, it is located in a mountainous area and lacks teaching equipment. The teacher has empty ideas but can't implement them. Once, I wanted to show some PH test paper to students, but I searched for it for a long time, and there was no test paper at all. Third, teachers have not had the opportunity to train and study for a long time, or they are sent to so-called senior teachers for every training, so many teachers can only rest on their laurels and have no access to new teaching methods and concepts.
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[Let children not be replaced by artificial intelligence]
Artificial intelligence software is rapidly surpassing the smartest human brain in the world. The rapid development of technology is devouring a lot of routine jobs, no matter blue-collar or white-collar.
[Education has reached a turning point, and you still let your children memorize it? ]
We find that more and more schools gradually realize that it is necessary to give students more right to speak and let them decide what to learn and how to learn. These abilities of children can only be continuously crushed in the process of traditional schools and traditional education until they disappear.
[Join this journey of change together]
The leaders of every school can easily say that they don't want their school to become like this, but it is difficult to understand what the school should become and how to establish the innovative culture needed for change.
[Why do we care about education]
How seriously does the outdated education system curb the sense of innovation and how important it is for young people to succeed in today's economic development situation.
The rapid innovation of $ TERM is rapidly eliminating stable routine jobs in the social structure, which puts millions of young people in the United States at risk of unemployment.
Young people need a series of key skills if they want to start their ideal career and become qualified citizens in the innovative environment of 2 1 century. But these skills can't be given by years of study.
$ TERM' s educational policy aimed at "reforming" schools can only hurt students and make teachers lose their goals.
Historically, education diploma can be symbolized by core competitiveness. But nowadays, the monetary cost of diploma is prohibitive, and the pressure brought by diploma makes more and more people emotionally collapse, while the connotation of diploma is getting farther and farther away from those really important things.
[What is real learning]
To a large extent, only by applying knowledge to new situations or new problems, only by allowing students to study topics or problems that they think are important, and only by allowing students to carry out interactions, activities or projects among their classmates can we achieve long-term and sustained learning results. Only personal experience, not short-term memory, is the key to help students develop important skills and motivation. These skills and motivation are the magic weapon for children to change their lives in the future.
Jacob: What did you go to college for? ]
? For him and his parents, college has always been the highest goal. In Jacob's view, going to college is the first step in his clear life plan.
Jacob is full of entrepreneurial spirit, but his plans for the future are quite regular and old-fashioned: he studied hard in middle school, went to a good university, majored in finance, and got a job in a bank after graduation. From then on, he will have a successful career, earn a lot of money, live his dream life and realize all his wishes and goals. Finance is his safest choice and the most certain bet.
In 2009, Jacob graduated from the University. In this way, with a bachelor's degree in finance, one year after the financial crisis, he left the campus and stepped into the society. Once seemingly the most stable and safest industry, it fell into turmoil overnight.
Jacob is not a man who gives up easily.
A university degree once regarded as the key to success now looks more like a joke.
Jacob believes that his success stems from his spirit and perseverance in the face of difficulties and his will to devote himself wholeheartedly to his work. He sighed: "This feeling is very interesting, because for the first time in history, our parents watched us grope in the society, but they were helpless. They have been trying to love us, but they don't know that the world is changing too fast. Our generation is a white mouse in the new era, and it is also the last generation that has experienced no Internet. "
"When I made a financing proposal for a film, I used skills related to my major, just once."
"I got an expensive degree from a great university, but in the end it became a decoration. I ran into a wall everywhere when I was looking for a job in my professional field. Finally, entering the entertainment circle can be said to have nothing to do with my major. " Jacob said that he didn't think there was a formula for success for a long time. He will only suggest, "strike a balance between hard work and making more friends, and spend more energy to make friends and know yourself."
[Bow down on the altar of academic diploma]
Only 1 1% of business leaders believe that universities can train qualified graduates for society and help them succeed in their career development. What is more alarming is that in recent years, more than half of college graduates are unemployed or engaged in jobs that high school graduates can do.
[Find a good teacher and be a good apprentice]
By the second term of President Obama, "exam-oriented education" has firmly established its position as the center of the universe. However, despite the concerted efforts of Qi Xin and Qi Xin, students' real test scores have not improved.
In this innovation-driven society, the most important thing is not what you know, but what you can do with what you know.
While trying to "repair" education, we have uprooted the creative spirit and self-confidence of the younger generation through a series of actions. For example, force children to do tedious things, recite the definition of "extreme", and prepare for the academic evaluation test word test. Over and over again, class after class, homework after homework, we let children form the habit of finding the only correct answer, instead of encouraging them to form creative and diverse ideas.
[What is the purpose of education]
If the purpose of the school is to urge students to remember, then there is no need to discuss the goal of memory education. Without exception, students recite low-level content aimlessly all day. If we ask our children to remember only narrow details, it makes no difference whether we recite them from biology textbooks, memory cards of pre-class exams or phone books. No matter how ambitious the school claims, an ineffective education is ineffective.
The goal of education is to mobilize students' enthusiasm, cultivate students' sense of purpose, teach them the key skills needed for career development and citizen practice, and motivate them to do their best to create a better world.
We live in a globally competitive society. This era rewards Excellence and punishes mediocrity. If young people embark on a career path that lacks passion, they are either unhappy or unsuccessful, or both, both painful and unsuccessful. The main goal of education at all levels should be to provide students with a variety of life pursuits and help them find things they are willing to spend their time doing.
[Key skills and decisive life advantages]
Some subjects and contents taught by the school should help students master key skills, and the school should step by step to ensure that every student can master important contents in the learning process, rather than taking the mastery of contents as the end of his learning career.
? If young people leave school for society without decisive life skills, they are likely to fall behind others economically. In today's society, it is easy to replace unskilled employees with outsourcing or automation solutions.
We need an educational strategy that conforms to the core advantages of the country. . We try our best to cultivate our children into outstanding talents with innovative consciousness, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit. We will give up the competition for standard test scores and focus on becoming the champion of innovation competition. Innovation is the only truly important competition in the next century.
? [Strong relationship in education plan]
What is important in the education plan is whether we intend to train young people into successful talents with creativity and innovation, or whether we will let the education system continue to widen the gap between the rich elite and others.
[Future workers]
If you have no ability to create or transform a job for yourself in today's world and have no comparative advantage, you are likely to face long-term unemployment. These successful companies will not leave any opportunities for unskilled people.
If you are an educator, you equate teaching with lecturing and organizing multiple-choice exams, then you are also in a desperate situation, and you may lose your job in the near future. But if you can provide insightful guidance and cultivate students' key skills, then you will never be irreplaceable.
[Say "No" to "Inert" Basic Education
Montessori's learning experience has many similarities with adults' work in innovative organizations. Montessori emphasizes writing, communication, self-guidance and adventure. There are no grades and exams in the school, and teachers and other students provide all-round feedback. In determining goals, exploring passion, and understanding the world. Children make their own decisions. What Montessori school creates is a key to exploration and knowledge, so that children can invest a lot of time in something. Instead of changing the theme every 45 minutes. Teachers encourage children to take risks, fail, take risks again, fail again, and iterate until they find meaning and reach the ultimate goal.
"Building Chinese Teaching for Communication"
The core of the fact is that preschool children who can hear more words are basically born with various advantages in life: well-educated parents, strong financial resources, parental protection and support, adequate food and comfortable family keys.
The tenth Committee listed science as a key discipline, which was divided into three major disciplines: physics, chemistry and biology. The goal of science course is simple: it covers important definitions, formulas and concepts, and introduces the basic contents of laboratory research.
Mastering a foreign language is a valuable asset in a person's life. With this foreign language, people can broaden their horizons and take the lead in life and career.
If you can communicate with a person fluently in the other person's mother tongue, then the interaction between you will be essentially different, which is the key. It is a very valuable ability for everyone to achieve a truly fluent spoken foreign language level. If you can't reach this level, then the time of learning a foreign language is a waste.
We always ask teachers to talk more, study more for exams, and constantly feed huge "big exams", and this "beast" has an insatiable appetite. As a result, we will inevitably have no time and budget to rebuild education. If we cram secondary content into students' study life, then children will have no time to go to school, and then they will have no time to experience the skills they really need when they grow up and the character that will benefit them for life.
[False and empty university rankings]
All universities will undergo earth-shaking changes. Students' college experience will also be completely reformed, with more emphasis on the cultivation of key skills. Excellent teaching ability will at least keep pace with the importance of research. Universities will look for students who can benefit the most from their college experience, that is, students who can make great progress in critical thinking through four years of college study, and throw hydrangeas at them, instead of choosing those students who are carefully packaged and have perfect resumes.
[Breaking the myth of university diploma]
The key question is not whether a college degree is related to higher income in a person's life, but whether a diploma and the education behind it are "causes". The more graduates gain, the higher their income can be deduced.
Young people who have a high school diploma to join the work force generally come from poor communities, face various obstacles in life and suffer multiple disadvantages in life. Young people who graduate from elite universities usually come from well-educated and high-income families and can take the lead in life. The life-long income gap between the two groups of young people is not caused by the learning experience of the university, but by other factors that have been doomed before the children finish high school.
[Teaching: from professor's notes to students' mastery]
Lectures are the way for schools to implement teaching guidance. Our great-grandfather was educated in this way, so were we, and most students today are educated in this way. The teacher is a subject expert, who is mainly responsible for telling the students the contents and materials, and then the students record these contents word by word in their notebooks. Homework is a hint of the content of the exam. There is little interaction and cooperation between students, especially in the process of exams, which is called "cheating". During the lecture, the teacher will stop to ask a question from time to time. Students occasionally ask questions, but the question they ask is often "Will this knowledge point appear in the exam?"
In short, the impact of innovation on education is not to provide outdated educational experience with technology, but to deeply understand the skills that students need in the era of innovation, and to create a brand-new classroom experience on this basis to help students cultivate skills that can really be used.
The concrete operation process of "harkness Teaching Method" is that students and teachers sit around the table and participate in Socratic discussions together. Students form their own opinions in the discussion, explain and answer students' questions in detail. In this process, students learn how to ask wonderful questions and think critically. It can arouse students' enthusiasm, help students cultivate key skills and improve teaching effect to a new height.