Thoughts on Reading Education is a Slow Art 1
During the summer vacation, I was lucky enough to read Zhang Wenzhi's "Education is the Art of Slowness", which deeply touched me. In the book "Education is a Slow Art", Mr. Zhang Wenzhi refined and explained the concept of life-oriented education carefully and flexibly. He proposed that education is a slow art, which resonated with many people. This era is fast-paced, and so is education. In education, we often pursue immediate results, but forget that education is a slow art, and even ignore the teacher's example. We should be conscientious in education, be more meticulous and patient, and wait, think and exercise restraint.
Examination-oriented education is like an assembly line in a factory. It is a helpless reality that children are accelerated by homework and slowly lose their aura. But Mr. Zhang thinks that a good education is definitely slow. As the saying goes, slow work makes fine work. This kind of education is an ideal education for any of us, and education is a slow art. Teacher Zhang obviously gave his own announcement.
What kind of classroom and education is slowness? In normal teaching activities, teachers should slow down their speech. Only when they slow down can teachers pay attention to each student's difficulties and give them timely help, provide them with more opportunities to create, exchange experiences and cooperate in learning, and gradually enhance their self-confidence and self-ability. As a slow art, education needs to leave enough waiting space and time and have a slow pace.
Education is a slow art, in teaching, teachers should feel it slowly, just like parents, the experience of educating people is also slowly realized. A good teacher should have some accidental gains, some unique understandings and discoveries, and then follow this right path and finally achieve great success. Education is a subtle and long-term thing. Utilitarian teaching is short-lived and does not pay attention to long-term and correct educational value orientation. Our teaching and research is also a slow art. We should make discoveries, work hard and do it slowly. This slowness is to let students feel and experience the process and form good study habits. This slowness means not rushing for success, having enough expectation and patience, and reducing the dryness and utility of education. This is the real education.
"Slow" is by no means slack. Since it is art, we should leave enough space and time for waiting. We should learn to wait, because there is a kind of love called waiting, and ten fingers are different! The students are uneven. Maybe some students are late bloomers, and they were ignorant in primary school. If they are in a hurry, they may bury future talents. "Everyone's growing environment and family's expectations for children are different. Every child has different intelligence and different learning attitudes. How can we simply judge? Therefore, real help should be specific and personalized, and at the same time, you need to be patient. "
I suddenly remembered a former colleague of mine. She often talks with individual children during recess, sometimes at the door of the classroom, sometimes at the edge of the playground, and sometimes sitting under the big camphor tree. One of her postures is still fresh in my memory-she leans down, her right shoulder is half inclined, her head is facing the child, and her hand is pointing at something. I think this is humble education, this is pleasant education, and this is the slow art of education!
Mr. Zhang Wenzhi said: "Life-oriented education is to embody the understanding, care, trust and perfection of children in the specific educational process;" It doesn't just stay in the expression and understanding of ideas, it must be embodied in the concrete practice process. "This specific practice process is often just an encouraging look, a warm word, a caring gesture, a empathy, and a deep-rooted conversation. ...
Take your time, teach slowly, hold hands slowly, accompany her to recite words slowly ... we are getting old slowly. Time flies, in the process of education and teaching, we have gradually learned humility, kindness, accepting students' shortcomings with a broad mind, and trying to put them on the normal track in time. We gradually learn these subtle education and gradually use it.
The second thought after reading Education is a Slow Art
This summer vacation, the school provided us with a rich spiritual feast-Zhang Wenzhi's "Education is the Art of Slow". Read a little every day and digest it slowly. Just as Teacher Zhang Wenzhi said, "Education is a slow art", the words he presented to us really have the kind of love that I can't eat in one bite, and the kind of worry about what I will eat tomorrow after eating today.
Professor Zhang Wenzhi mentioned that "education is a slow art". As a front-line teacher of education, I like the word "slow education" very much. Education is not an immediate job. Quick success and instant benefit often run counter to education. Isn't it a kind of wisdom and tolerance to treat education with a "slow" attitude, accompany children to walk slowly, appreciate the happiness of growth slowly, and wait for children to grow up slowly?
Slow is the understanding and trust of education, but in my past teaching career, I often ignored this keyword. After reading this book, I feel very inspired.
We should learn patience. The "slowness" mentioned by Professor Zhang Wenzhi is definitely not a "snub". Instead, I hope that teachers will feel it slowly in our teaching. Just like parents, the experience of educating people is also slowly realized. A good teacher should have occasional gains and some unique understandings and discoveries. Education is a subtle and long-term thing. Our teaching and research is also a slow art. We should make discoveries, work hard and do it slowly. This slowness means that children can feel and experience the process and form good study habits. This slowness is by no means that we are not eager for success. We should have enough expectation and patience to reduce the dryness and utility of education. This is what Professor Zhang calls slow education. As a slow "art", it is especially necessary to treat children's shortcomings, defects and even mistakes reasonably. Everyone's growth process is a small mistake, a small achievement, a small feeling, and a process of accumulation to qualitative change. This process is full of falling and getting up. If you punish him as soon as he falls, instead of waiting for him and encouraging him to stand up by himself, then he may lose his temper and simply not get up and wait for you to pull him. What mistakes did the students make? Error is an experience, a behavior, a suspension of understanding and a resource for growth. Learning to use this non-renewable resource requires teachers to exert their slow art.
We should learn to be tolerant. Every child has his own unique life code and comes to school with unique endowment and the influence of different families. Different individuals have great differences in different fields, and our current examination system is using the same standard to measure people with different endowments, which is a helpless choice in itself. It may be unfair for our teachers to strengthen the implementation of this standard in their work. Some children are born with poor memory, but they may be good at drawing. Some children are not good at math, but they may have a very good sense of language. We should tolerate and respect this difference, that is, cultivate cultural diversity and educate people. I used to say that diligence can make up for my shortcomings, which is good, but sometimes I can't make up for my natural "shortcomings" no matter how hard I try, just like I can't play basketball like Yao Ming after practicing all my life. Therefore, in life, we should admit the differences between students. Usually in school and among teachers, many of us hear that "this student is hopeless and failed in the exam today" and "_ _ speaks badly, but his homework is done in a mess. What's the use? " _ _ What's strange about running first, but it's terrible to be the first in the exam "... How do our students feel about this kind of" education "for students? Some teachers just use exam results. As we all know, students are uneven, just like us. Maybe some students are late bloomers, and they were ignorant in primary school. If they are in a hurry, they may bury future talents. We need to protect their keen interest in learning. Maybe what they are learning now is not what they want to learn. We don't have to blame ourselves for any student's poor grades. This is by no means slacking off. What we have to do is to protect children's self-esteem, enthusiasm, interest, desire and yearning ... As long as we pay attention to students' lives, children will grow up one day. Some teachers often feel that it would be nice if the whole class were like so-and-so (top students)! Now, I think it is wrong to have such an idea. Teachers, most teachers are ordinary people. Genius is a genius because it is a very small number. Some people say that genius is a pathological condition of human beings, and genius is not the normal state of human beings. The biggest beneficiary group of education should be normal ordinary people, not geniuses. We just want to help ordinary students develop a sound and healthy personality and learn the skills of survival and life in order to be worthy of the title of teacher.
We should learn to wait. Everything follows certain rules and can be done step by step. Professor Zhang Wenzhi said that slowness is the art of education. In fact, I think slowness is still a science. In the usual teaching activities, we should slow down, let teachers pay attention to each student's difficulties and give help in time, so that students can provide them with more opportunities to create, exchange experiences and cooperate in learning after they have a preliminary self-awareness, and gradually enhance their self-confidence and self-strength. Teacher Zhang Wenzhi mentioned in the book that "our education is often too eager to produce results, too' immediate', lacking expectation and calmness"; "We lack a leisurely attitude and leisure". After reading these words, I fell into deep thought: in class, it often happens that students often pout when answering questions, but they want to answer but can't say it, or it's not the point. In this case, I sometimes get impatient and interrupt the students to give some hints. Now that I think about it, should I give them some time to think about it? In order to listen to the children's "correct" answers, I told the whole story prematurely and couldn't wait to instill knowledge into the children's minds ... this violated the education law. Once I went out to attend a class, I found that some teachers have a high professional level. From the perspective of appreciation, their classes are perfect. But the teacher is too self-centered and the class speed is too fast. He can't wait for the students' thinking and feedback. The teacher has become the only knowledge exporter in the classroom, with no challenge and no on-the-spot wisdom. Everything is so smooth, but everything is too smooth. The teacher teaches well. Is the child learning well? I can't help thinking ... education is like teaching children to walk. There is no need to be anxious about the growth of students, and there is no need to intervene. Let go, try and wait. If you hold the child before he takes the first step, or even hold his right leg for a while and his left leg for him to move, the child may never learn to move independently. Therefore, as a slow art, education needs to leave enough waiting space and time, and needs to have a slow pace. High frequency, fast pace and large gradient are not conducive to the orderly growth and development of students.
We should learn to listen. Learn to listen, treat every student equally, and don't wear colored glasses. We need to know the truth about the contradictions between students and the mistakes made by students, and we can't just listen to one side of the story, so as not to cause "wrong cases" and hurt children's hearts. Even if we are dissatisfied and angry, we should suppress ourselves. Calm down to communicate with your child and open your child's heart. Perhaps, a warm word from the teacher changed a person's life. In the usual teaching, we will also meet some students with learning difficulties. The reason why they have this phenomenon is due to many bad factors. Some students are unwilling to study, and some students don't finish their homework on time. As a teacher, you can't blame them first, but you should help them enthusiastically, calm down and talk with them, do patient and meticulous ideological and emotional education, praise children more, be good at discovering their advantages, and treat them correctly, so that they can. But more often, many of our teachers and parents have too much hatred for iron to produce, too much eagerness for quick success, too much impatience and overexertion, too much expectation and incomprehension towards these children. In fact, children don't need to worry too much, what they need is more care. Children don't need to scold, they need to understand. Children don't need to preach, they need to listen. Children don't need to be tested, they need to share. Children don't need to be left out, what they need is love. Children don't need to place too much hope, because they are hope.
We should learn to concentrate. Teachers should pay attention to every student, because every student is unique and very important to his parents and himself. If more attention can be paid, children will have more chances to succeed. Education should start with paying attention to every classmate. Can you pay attention to every specific life in the big environment? In other words, can we care more about each individual's life? For a child, heredity will not change, but don't let heredity become the decisive thing. Education, in a sense, is to improve heredity and culture, and it is a value orientation. Only when teachers pay attention to each individual can students feel their weight in the eyes of teachers and their position in the hearts of teachers, and only in this way can they truly win the feelings of students.
When talking about the "key words" of life education, Professor Zhang Wenzhi also mentioned "calmness, expectation, leisure, elegance and details", which is the attitude and mentality we should cultivate in the process of education. "Slow education" is not limited to the classroom, but should be included in the whole education process. In this sense, teachers really need to pay attention to educational resources and educational objects everywhere, devote themselves to education with a waiting attitude and always pay attention to the growth of life. He warned us that we should deepen our understanding of education, establish our own values and goals in life, and influence a child, a family, a class and even a school at the same time. We teachers have such a positioning, or we should cherish our inner voice, or we should have an expectation for ourselves, so that we can live better and let our children live better. Let's work hard, let education really open students' wisdom and nourish our lives. Let's keep our enthusiasm for education forever, let's do eternal education with our initial mood, and let's pursue and surpass our eternal dreams with the ordinary.
Reflections on "Education is a Slow Art" 3
The book Education is the Art of Slowness was recommended to me by one of my senior teachers. I first read it in May, and I read Zhang Wenzhi's words, full of truth. He has been talking about the truth of education, and has been emphasizing life-oriented education, which makes me heartache!
How can it hurt to communicate with another teacher's predecessor and read that "education is a slow art" She said, it hurts, stop reading! So, I left it there. In order to finish this article, I picked up this book again. After more than a year of precipitation, my mood is completely different, and there is no pain.
When a teacher loses the most glorious dignity of teaching in the sun, we can only find the answer from ourselves and explore everything from our own hearts. Maybe it's the feeling of laughing and crying. It is the kind of gorgeous fireworks that pursue dreams with tears-persevere, wait for flowers to bloom, and bloom education with life!
In the article Facing Education and Life's Sorrow, I read that Humboldt, a German educator, did two far-reaching things more than 100 years ago. One is to raise teachers' salaries by a large margin, which leads to a large number of outstanding talents flocking to schools; One is to implement free education from kindergarten to university. Even after two world wars, Germany is still one of the richest, most powerful and most creative countries in the world. This has a lot to do with the system created by Humboldt's educational reform concept. "
My heart is exciting! I really envy German teachers, not their high salary, but the dignity of being a model brought by high salary!
Does our teacher have dignity?
Some parents comment on teachers as soon as they mention them. Even in society, teachers are always belittled. I really don't know what kind of moral mistakes teachers have made. Why does the world kidnap teachers whose moral standards are beyond ordinary people?
Teacher, is it God? Still alone?
The child was injured in school, and the family ran to school screaming: If the child gives it to you, give it to me like this! The teacher reasoned with him and he said, go away! Even want to fight with the teacher!
Teachers should ask, where is the dignity of teachers? Many times, we are all in the mud, supporting us with that distant dream!
Reflections on "Education is a Slow Art" 4
I really haven't thought about the question "what is education". My life as a teacher is really so unremarkable. The traces of my work every day are like sand on the beach. After being washed away by the sea, it will immediately restore calm.
After reading Mr. Zhang Wenzhi's "Education is a Slow Art", I began to look at my work slowly. He said that education is an "art" and education is a "slow" art. To be honest, I have never felt that my work is an art. Is there something wrong with the word "slow"?
There are always children with poor academic performance in the class. How did I treat them? I give them extra-curricular tutoring very responsibly. But ask yourself, my starting point is to improve the average score of the class to a great extent. It is estimated that such counseling will become pure homework counseling. As long as he can do such a problem. In fact, this is also a good thing for you, me and everyone.
But if you think about it, I say over and over again that I'm not angry? No anxiety? Yes, I am angry, even angry. Some teachers also said, "I would rather teach 100 good students than teach a student who can't teach dozens of times." "Of course, this is no way to ridicule. The development speed of children's thinking ability is different, and so is the development of a child's various thinking abilities.
I am a primary school Chinese teacher, so my eyes are biased towards words. A few years later, I felt that what I taught really didn't matter to my children. However, did my primary school Chinese precipitate anything for him in his childhood?
When I am old, if I can also say, "I can be an excellent guide for children, nothing is more meaningful." "Then I feel that even if my life's work is unknown, it is worthy of respect.
Thoughts after reading Education is a Slow Art 5
I have read Zhang Wenzhi's book before, which is The Crossroads of Education. Education is a slow art-Zhang Wenzhi's Lecture on Education basically keeps the author's writing style-and the heavy worries about China's current education also make readers feel heavy. I feel the same way after reading several books, such as Teaching Without Kneeling (Wu Fei), Watching Education (Liu Tiefang) and The Truth of Education (Chen Guisheng).
I think that the reason why Zhang Wenzhi, Wu Fei, Liu Tiefang, Chen Guisheng and others use such heavy brushwork to describe the problems existing in current education is probably because they have too idealistic demands for education. It is said that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. It is true that people can't live without dreams, and educators should also have their own educational dreams, but it is more important to do it in a down-to-earth manner. As Mr. Zhang Wenzhi said in his speech: "We can't change the world, so we must change ourselves;" We can't change ourselves, so we will try to adjust the way we treat others. In short, life still has a lot of tension. " "Think big, do small things. Think big, practice small. Try from local areas that we can change. "
The big problems in education need each of us to think. Even if we can't stand tall and see far like Mr. Zhang Wenzhi and others, we should always think about the people and things around us. It never hurts to think about them. We can't change the world and the big educational pattern and environment, but we can try to change our educational life and change our attitude towards ourselves and students. Change a little education and teaching methods, and change a little classroom structure. We may not be able or willing to make big changes, but we can try to change a little, even a little, which is always good.
I really appreciate Zhang Wenzhi's two viewpoints in the book Education is the Art of Slow, and I feel the same way. One is that "teachers really have to work hard to write articles." First, read more books. Squeeze your scalp and squeeze out some time to read more books. It' s really' self-satisfied'. Second, we should write hard. First, lower yourself and try to be stupid. At present, some teachers' articles are well written and the starting point is quite low. Their achievements are the result of unremitting efforts in the past few years. The other is "I believe that small is really good, really beautiful and really human." "Small" here means that the school is small and there are few students in the class. He also quoted Boyer, an American educator, as saying, "When the number of students exceeds 30, the teacher's attention center changes from focusing on individuals to controlling classes. "For the former, I have been encouraging our teachers with such words; At the same time, encourage yourself and try to stick to it. For the latter, I have always had this idea myself, but the fact is that there is no "small", but it has been expanding.
Finally, I will extract some quotations from Mr Zhang Wenzhi. Maybe these quotations can give us some inspiration.
"Children don't need to worry, but they need to care. Children don't need to scold, they need to understand. Children don't need to preach, they need to share. Children don't need to be tested, they need to share. Children don't need to be left out, and they need love. A child doesn't need hope, because he is hope.
"Where there is love, there is your home; Where there is dignity, where is your destination; Where there is encouragement, there is your starting point.
"Let us always remind ourselves, restrain ourselves, change our negative thinking, let us become a little sunny, positive and proactive, and strive to gradually become a part of constructive culture and praise it.
"I firmly believe that teachers' educational philosophy and life consciousness are the most meaningful forces in school culture. Teachers are not only the transmitters of knowledge, but more importantly, as a concrete person, they are influencing, influencing and nourishing every student in the class.
"Meeting a good teacher is not only a blessing for children, but also a blessing for a family. If we have such blessings, we will have a good sense of direction and a power that can be learned and eventually transformed into self-reminding and self-monitoring. Our life will always be immersed in the brilliance of human nature. "
Zhang Wenzhi, a poet and educator, is an advocate and practitioner of life-oriented education, and the initiator of "1+ 1 New Parents Action" in China. He is the author of Authorization of Your Breath, Defending Childhood, Crossroads of Education, Eye of Fantasy, Responsibilities and Dreams of Life-oriented Education, Research on How to Do Life-oriented Education, I wrote a prayer book for myself, and How to Say Education Today. , editor-in-chief of Life Education Experimental Textbook and China Best Education Essay. Life-oriented education series, Daxia Book Department? Slow teaching series and so on.