The fulcrum of teachers' growth
Everyone can have experience, and how to analyze and reflect on the existing experience is the key to the growth of teachers. Professor Ye Lan said: If a teacher is only satisfied with gaining experience without thinking deeply, even if he has 20 years of teaching experience, he may only repeat his work 20 times a year.
You can't make progress unless you are good at learning from experience and reflecting. The main position of teachers' professional development is the classroom, and "good class" is the fulcrum of teachers' growth. How can we find the fulcrum of our growth in class?
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Attending class: the "starting point" of growth
As the saying goes, "It's bright to listen to others, but it's dark to listen to others", "Make use of others' advantages to make up for their own shortcomings" and "pay attention to all the knowledge in the world". So, how to attend classes?
First of all, teachers should preview themselves and understand the key points, difficulties and doubts in the classroom; Secondly, the teacher should imagine how to teach this course if I teach it, so that there will be a comparison when listening to the class.
Observe the records carefully in class and reflect after class. Every teacher has some bright spots and styles, and every teacher has his own weaknesses and shortcomings. If you understand attentively, choose the good ones and follow them, improve your teaching, and integrate into your own teaching, your vision in the classroom will be broader, and your classroom teaching ability will be gradually improved.
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Demonstration class: the "expansion point" of growth
The so-called "model class" is to learn from excellent teachers and imitate their teaching models and skills. It is very necessary for the new teacher to imitate with heart. As the saying goes, "stones from other mountains can attack jade."
Teachers should consciously choose excellent courses of excellent teachers, watch and study carefully, absorb the essence of others in repeated teaching imitation, constantly temper themselves, and analyze the types, characteristics and effects of various teaching skills;
Choose different classes such as new class, practice class and review class, design teaching plans, and then analyze and evaluate them, focusing on teachers' teaching skills, language art, detail handling and teaching tact. Finally, combined with the actual situation of personal teaching, creative reform is carried out from language style to classroom structure and design ideas, in order to embody personal teaching characteristics.
If teachers teach behind closed doors, it will inevitably hinder their own development. Therefore, it is a shortcut for teachers to imitate the "exquisiteness" of excellent teaching plans, the reasonable grasp of all aspects of teaching in high-quality classes, and the reasonable handling and skillful control of teaching materials by excellent teachers. Of course, imitation does not mean "takenism", but should be absorption and re-creation. Imitation is not "taking other people's lesson plans to your own class", but gradually forming its own characteristics.
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Preparing lessons: the "starting point" for growth
When it comes to preparing lessons, many teachers simply understand it as writing lesson plans. In fact, preparing lessons should be a teaching design and a preset before class. Regular lesson preparation means preparing textbooks, teaching methods, preparation process (details), preparation of students (how to learn) and preparation of teachers (how to teach).
Indeed, teachers should pay attention to many problems in each class. This requires teachers to have a clear understanding of the three-dimensional objectives of their teaching content and the characteristics of textbook compilation, and at the same time, combined with the actual situation of students, make the proposed teaching objectives in the "nearest development zone" of students, that is, "jumping to pick fruits". We must be fully prepared for the key points, key points and difficulties. The main body of subject knowledge, the key to breaking through difficulties, problem creation and thinking cultivation, and the process and method of knowledge formation are the key points of preparing lessons.
Preparing lessons is a teacher's teaching routine and a "breakthrough point" for teachers' growth. It is an insurmountable step to study the art and skills of preparing lessons in depth.
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Grinding class: the "supporting point" of growth
Grinding class is to grind the essence of the same kind and cultivate your own new ideas. Grinding course is an in-depth course research, so we should learn from others' highlights and deduce our own characteristics and opinions. Generally speaking, we should consult more, compare more and think more during the training class to seek the quality and effect of the class.
The content of the sharpening class is generally-sharpening goal: what should this class do? Grinding teaching materials: What kind of teaching materials do you need in class? Grinding: What are the necessary links in class? Mo student: What problems may the students have? Grinding details: what questions to ask and how to give feedback?
It is of great significance for teachers' professional development to learn, discuss, design, practice and reflect from each other through grinding classes.
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Enlightenment: the Focus of Growth
Understanding the classroom is an important link for teachers to improve their classroom level. As far as teachers are concerned, the process of studying teaching materials, learning situations and being good at reflecting on teaching is actually the process of being good at "understanding the classroom". As far as preparing lessons for teachers' groups is concerned, the collision of ideas and the achievement of brainstorming are actually the results of being good at "understanding lessons". It can be seen that the enlightenment class is a rational observation and reflection on its own teaching activities. Sublimate in thinking, realize the essence and essence of the classroom, realize the key points and difficulties of the classroom, and realize the methods of teaching students.
If a teacher puts his mind on the class to be taught and gives a wonderful class, all he needs is a piece of chalk. After preparing lessons, teachers must calm down and reflect rationally in order to improve their classroom sentiment. The process of "enlightenment" is the process of combining various teaching theories, teaching skills and their own characteristics, and the process of internalizing theories. Without the process of "enlightenment", there would be no personal teaching style of teachers. Therefore, teaching reflection is considered as "the core factor of teachers' professional development and self-growth".
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Quality class: the "growing point" of growth
A product can be understood as taste or mouthfeel. High-quality classes can be your own classes or those of famous teachers. Taste classroom, taste process, taste highlights, taste yourself, taste students, lack of reflection, and improve methods.
The classes of famous teachers have different styles and full of charm. Some of them are full of fun, others are full of emotion and wisdom. They are always good at using their wisdom to stimulate students' desire and enthusiasm for inquiry, so that students can learn to learn and create in the process of exploring knowledge, and every child can jump into the paradise of learning with curiosity and confidence. Their lessons will make you memorable.
Teachers should pay more attention to their own lessons, including gains and losses, advantages and disadvantages, gaps, personality and style. Only by savoring carefully can we get the mystery, and only by savoring carefully can we develop ourselves better.
The road of teachers' growth
There are different opinions about the ways of teachers' growth: American scholar Francis Fuller once put forward the theory of "teacher's attention stage": pre-teaching attention stage, early survival attention stage, teaching situation attention stage and students' attention stage; Faessler, an American scholar, also put forward "Teacher career cycle Theory", which divides teachers' career into pre-service education stage, guidance stage, ability building stage, enthusiasm growth stage, career frustration stage, stable stagnation stage, career depression stage and career withdrawal stage.
In addition, pedagogy and psychology also believe that it takes five stages for new teachers to grow into expert teachers: novice level, advanced novice level, supervisor level, proficient level and expert level. So, what are the only ways for teachers to grow up?
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Arm your mind with educational thoughts: a reference route.
Only teachers who walk with their thoughts will go higher and higher. Therefore, teachers should learn behaviorism theory, cognitive theory, personality education theory and other modern educational theories to achieve a leap in teaching quality. "Reading, reading, repeating, and teachers' educational literacy all depend on this. "As the educator Suhomlinski said in the article How to Cultivate Teachers' Literacy, profound educational theories and advanced educational ideas are the guiding lights for teachers' growth.
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Trying to find out students' learning strategies: looking for ideas
A real teaching expert can directly impress students' reason and mind when giving lectures. Therefore, teachers should actively evaluate each student's interest, personality, mood and self-control, attach importance to the guidance of learning strategies, and teach students in accordance with their aptitude. Teaching is time-saving but inefficient, and the teaching level is not recognized by students.
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Research on the Excellent Course of Famous Teachers: Less detours
Listen to the tutor's demonstration class, the old teacher's research class, the theme class of collective lesson preparation, the evaluation class of the upcoming teachers, the lecture class of the award-winning teachers, the video class of the famous teachers, carefully ponder over the subtleties of their guidance, evaluation and encouragement, refine the teaching skills and essentials, and gradually understand the teaching ideas and advanced teaching concepts of the famous teachers in imitation. Gradually, the more you imitate, the more you think and the faster you grow. Therefore, "starting from the classroom" is the only way for teachers to grow.
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Strive for a challenging open class: refining the way out
The task produces pressure, and many famous teachers grow up through open classes. Any famous teacher has experienced the pain of grinding classes countless times. The most effective way to cure one's stubborn teaching problems is to expose one's problems to experts and make oneself thoroughly remould oneself in pain. The more open classes, the faster the growth. Therefore, take more classes, have good classes, take important classes, take difficult classes and take challenging classes, take your own classroom as an experimental base, actively sum up and improve, and find a way for your own teaching.
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Temper characteristic teaching style: "complete set of roads"
Dou Guimei once pointed out, "Teachers can't live without their unique style and distinctive personality. Going with the flow and following the rules is the biggest enemy of your own growth. "
Therefore, we should try our best to find out our own teaching modes, such as multi-example teaching mode, anchored teaching mode, "guide → discover" teaching mode, Dewey's "five-step" teaching method, Piaget's "activity teaching method", Bruner's "discovery method", Herbart's "five-stage teaching method" and Bloom's "mastery learning" teaching mode. And try to find out your own strengths and the reality of our school, don't stick to the rules.
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Insist on after-school teaching reflection: looking for a ladder
Those who carefully write three-year lesson plans may not become excellent teachers; However, those who seriously write three-year teaching reflection will certainly become thoughtful teachers.
Only teachers who are good at analyzing their own work can become excellent teachers. In daily teaching, taking one's own successes, shortcomings and students' innovations as essays and accumulating them, reflecting on the successes and mistakes of each class, setting up one's own teaching blog, and summarizing and popularizing one's teaching achievements through regular online communication with educational experts and famous teachers can not only accelerate the professional growth of teachers, but also improve the effectiveness of classroom teaching.
The growth of teachers is a process of continuous exploration, which requires correct methods. The growth of teachers is a training process with heavy load and needs a strong fulcrum.