Self-composed poem "Memories of the New Year"
By the end of 2020,
A pure snow washed away the dust for a whole year.
Unprecedented in 2020,
White soldiers and builders who died at the forefront of the fight against the epidemic,
Police officers and community workers who stick to their posts regardless of risks,
Little people and volunteers who stand up and give selflessly,
The cutest person in the new epidemic era,
Worthy of sacred respect!
I often feel sad about it.
Those loving and lovely daily stories,
Those heroic deeds that dare to take responsibility,
Where will you go if you write with your life?
I often feel gratified.
Rooted in China,
Living among the loveliest people,
Nirvana was born again in the great year of 2020.
With the extraordinary memory of 2020,
The honest 202 1 string rhythm is playing.
? Written in 202 1 year 1 month.
Text:
1. Write professionally and climb on your shoulders.
? Wu Fei, a famous special Chinese teacher in the middle school affiliated to Nanjing Normal University, wrote in February this year that the epidemic was raging:
? Mr. Wu Fei is really a man of temperament. I can not only gain educational wisdom by reading Mr. Wu Fei's articles, but also always feel happy. Just like in the dark, the familiar morning star suddenly lights up overhead. I am no longer confused. Why don't I take a long vacation for myself and my students, and enjoy the natural holiday with a glimmer of hope behind this dark cloud! From all kinds of marketing advertisements, I calmly identify the training institutions that take the opportunity to make a fortune, and let the idiots toss it. I gave up the idea of online classes, concentrated on writing articles and papers, polished teaching plans, and rediscovered the educational psychology books that were put aside.
? In the Spring Festival of 2020, I wandered around in the compilation of the lesson plan of English Sentence Tree, writing without any distractions, from words to sentences, and then from sentences to chapter layout in one go, and realized the mystery of Lu You's poem that "articles are born with talent". I don't know what to do with the manuscript. It happened that the 9th China International Symposium on English Teaching received the manuscript from the English Teaching and Research Branch of China English-Chinese Comparative Research Association, Beijing Normal University and Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. The deadline for receiving manuscripts was postponed from February to March, just right! Then, according to the paper format required by the meeting, I revised it and entrusted this teaching design to a high-level academic seminar in China as scheduled. I am relieved and know that I have done my best.
? A lot of things have happened. I'm sick. I am very ill. I have to go to the hospital for surgery. Unable to be separated from home, I took my luggage and went through the hospitalization formalities in the inpatient department of Anhui Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine on March 19, waiting for the operation notice. The night before the operation, I dialed the cell phone of a female medical student. Fortunately, her husband met my surgeon and contacted me overnight, comforting me, thinking that the benefits of being a teacher had arrived. The next day, the operation went well, and I went back to the ward to sweep away the gloomy mood some time ago. My mother and I are very happy. Cheerful mother said that being in hospital is better than being at home, enjoying three meals a day and chatting with patients' families. The good times did not last long, and the postoperative recovery was more difficult than expected. Change the medicine twice a day, and the pain of the wound is unbearable. I changed my medicine and looked as if nothing had happened in front of my old mother. Thanks to my mother's careful conditioning, I have to go through a difficult recovery period like a maternity.
? Pain and happiness, rich returns are on the way. Don't be happy yet, it's 81 difficult, and you have to go through the "electric" blow of plum rain and the "baking" test of the scorching sun. My mother is homesick. During the rainy season, my mother and I went back to the stuffy old house in the southern Jiangcheng to sweep the dust, buy necessities and install it for trial use. After I helped my diligent old mother to be busy for a period of time, I can finally enjoy the life in the countryside.
? September 1 day, the first day of school, has an unusual connection with me. When I opened the email, I was surprised to learn that the thesis "English Sentence Tree Demonstration Course" was selected as the "9th China International Symposium on English Teaching". With twists and turns, I concentrated on writing novels and online shopping, and gradually forgot to hand in my papers. Because I didn't see the notice in time, I naturally didn't reply to confirm on time, and my qualification was cancelled. When I learned that the invitation letter had expired, I tried my best to save this precious opportunity. I thanked my peers for their concern and encouragement, for advocating the true nature of education, for the campus study of white-haired teenagers, and for the silent companionship of relatives and friends ... All kinds of memories came to my mind. I will make unremitting efforts to be worthy of myself and everyone. Thanks to the fair and wise decision of the organizer's program Committee: June 5438+00, 2020. For me, this is a new milestone, which inspires my future education development-continue to pay attention to teaching quality and design more good classes.
For more students to attend classes and have more good classes, I intend to let the "English Sentence Tree" take root in the English learning garden of primary and secondary school students. The first stop is "Anhui Library English Children's Reading Club", where there are nearly a thousand English lovers. In fact, the English thesis "An English Sentence Tree Demonstration Course" selected for the Ninth International Symposium on English Teaching is mainly aimed at English teachers in need, providing them with a high-quality English syntax teaching design scheme. 165438+1On October 28th, I gave this lesson to a dozen pupils (6- 12 years old) at the salon of Antu English Children's Book Reading Club. In order to make the class easy to understand and acceptable to children, I rewrote the courseware according to the paper, even wrote it in the middle of the night before the lecture, and sent it to the salon supervisor for trial play overnight. I explained this lesson in Chinese and English, and the feedback form recorded that most primary school students understood it.
? At the same time, it is also found that the suitable target of this course can be students above the fourth grade of primary school, or more accurately, students who have learned some English short sentences with about 300 words. After learning that most English courses used in primary schools are people's education edition, I also want to modify the content to make it close to the current subject English knowledge of primary school students, so that more primary school students can understand it. This workload is really not small. I look forward to 202 1 all the wishes.
? I have always paid tribute to the medical and community workers who worked hard in the epidemic year. After the salon lecture, I presented the electronic version of English Sentence Tree Demonstration Course to the community stationmaster where my household registration is located, my classmates and close friends of Anhui Medical University, hoping that they could help more English lovers to start such a relaxed English learning journey.
2. Unveil the mystery of "Smart English"
? By chance, so-and-so tree intelligent English came into my sight. So-and-so tree? This is similar to the drawing shape in my thesis "English Sentence Tree". The advertisement leaflet reads: The core technology adopted by Tree Smart English is the memory engine, the world's first learning and memory knowledge management system developed by Dr. Yang Moumou of the United States according to the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve of 1995. Don't understand what smart English is? Curious about how Ebbinghaus forgetting curve can help you learn smart English? With the psychology of learning it, I walked into a tree smart English learning center in Hefei and started a three-week trial experience of smart English (hereinafter referred to as a tree). The result is not satisfactory. Are my expectations high? For a brief analysis, please read the official distinction between good and bad.
? First, understand the theory "Ebbinghaus forgetting curve" law on which a tree is based. According to Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve, forgetting is regular (as shown above), and appropriate review strategies can be adopted to overcome forgetting, that is, before forgetting occurs, it can be avoided by reviewing.
? For this reason, I reread the book "Psychology" designated for the teacher qualification examination, and there is a description of "review time" in the chapter "Memory and learning":
? Combined with my own learning experience, I found that the first review is the best, but most students can't do it. Even if the first time is too tight to review, the second review should be carried out in time, and the effect is not bad. Some students can't do it, which is the direct cause of poor grades. If the first and second reviews were not carried out in time and effectively, what about the third, fourth and fifth reviews? The efficiency is low, which is the same as that of a person who is born stunted but directly participates in bodybuilding competitions. Can he win?
Regarding the quantity and methods of review, psychology also points out that:
? In the management system of memorizing words and sentences in primary and secondary schools in XXX tree, or "memory engine", I have not found that it follows Ebbinghaus forgetting curve to avoid the time setting when forgetting occurs. Instead, I see that it limits the single time for students to complete exercises and encourages students to complete tasks as soon as possible to earn gold coins. This is ridiculous and ignores the characteristics of students' individual physiological structure, study habits and other factors. I understand that a tree uses the false advertisement of "Ebbinghaus curve" to deceive parents and students who don't know. Essentially, it is a computer game named after Smart English. No wonder some students are addicted to it. Of the more than 20 students I have contacted who have studied for more than half a year, only two or three have slightly better grades, while others have different degrees of learning problems. Further understanding has found some phenomena that violate the common sense of education and teaching. Just give two examples:
1. Management teachers don't know the common sense of education and teaching, and often make pedagogic taboos. For example, in the process of operating the computer, especially in the process of word memory and word listening, students could have limited reading and spelling learning with the machine recording, but the teacher did not give correct guidance and did not allow students to speak. Students practice blindly, get used to the wrong learning method of dumb English, and lack important reading/spelling ability. I also found that in order to create the illusion that students are busy with their studies, management teachers often dominate and over-allocate learning tasks, and repeatedly set up some units that students have broken through many times, so that students lose interest in learning. Those who dare to cover the sky like to commit crimes against the wind, ignore the "six prohibitions" promulgated by the Municipal Education Bureau, ignore the physical and mental health development of primary school students, engage in advanced education, and override school-based curriculum. In addition, they assign homework and increase pre-test tests, which increases students' academic burden. This kind of behavior, which goes against the common sense of education and teaching, occurs every study day, undermining children's mental development.
2. The technical conditions of a tree computer operation are not mature, and it is impossible to realize real language learning. For example, using keyboard input, students generally have English writing problems, and some students are skilled in holding the mouse but wrong in holding the pen. Young and ignorant pupils, in particular, can't read the spelling of words and the composition of sentences carefully, and just want to finish online tasks quickly. Where did you learn this knowledge? I can't help shivering when I look at it. In addition, online gold coins should only be a reward, not an end, and students should not be misled into indulging in games to earn gold coins and forget the purpose of learning. I have experienced the practice of word king and synchronous sentences on a tree many times, and found that the content is simple and rough, only different words and sentences are piled up in disorder, and they are not arranged and combined according to certain standards to facilitate students' understanding and memory. How long can this monotonous and repetitive mechanical training last? Psychology has given the answer:
? During the trial experience, I tried my best to make adjustments according to the problems I found, which are summarized as follows:
1. Ask the students to follow the words and sentences as much as possible when they are on the computer, spell out each letter in the word and read out each word in the sentence. I read words and sentences offline, check dictation and recitation, carefully check students' pronunciation and correct it in time.
2. Assign the task of copying words and sentences. I will try my best to demonstrate by hand to everyone who is willing to do copying homework. Students are required to write correctly and neatly. It is suggested to practice English copybooks in winter vacation and gradually get rid of the bad habit of not wanting to write. There are also students who covet the ease of playing games on the computer and exclude me from assigning homework.
3. In view of the poor performance of most students, they are unable to digest too much homework, and no other homework or papers are added offline. It is planned to be consistent with the content of school homework, check for leaks and make up for vacancies, really do a good job of extracurricular counseling, and perform teaching auxiliary duties.
? However, a parent who is eager for quick success has a problem with me. As soon as the third item was announced, I was suspended from my post of short-term experience by the branch school.
? Reflecting on the process of intelligent English experience, I didn't realize the harm of so-and-so tree at first, but also helped the school to do teaching management and taught me English pronunciation and reading knowledge, which was quite popular. Although the controlling management teacher is not likable, I still pay attention to establishing a good relationship with this fierce colleague and teaching her the correct education and teaching knowledge. It seems really effective. Listening to students' feedback, she has never smiled at students before. Since I came, she has become better and sometimes even smiles at her students. The students said it was my credit, and I smiled silently. Although the theoretical deception of XXX tree was discovered in the later period, it was thought that it was the survival way of the integrity training school, and its advantages could be used by people: it included a large number of words and sentence patterns from primary school English to high school English, and also extended to words and sentences such as Cambridge children's English and new concept English, which covered a wide range and was used as an auxiliary tool for teaching. Until some students openly declared that they were not good at school here, and some students tore up the writing assignments I demonstrated for them personally, I seemed to be flogged, and I tried my best to care for and guide the students. Only a few students can understand that in this narrow space, conscience seems to be distorted. Fortunately, stop the experience and brake in time, otherwise this divided character doesn't know when it will end!
? Looking beyond a tree, I have a more rational understanding of smart English or other online education products, and the disadvantages and harm are beyond doubt. Today, the education industry should be cautious when trying to use it, and be cautious about the subject knowledge in primary and secondary schools, especially in primary schools. The scale and technical level of an enterprise like a tree belong to the middle and low level, and the computer learning software developed is inevitably restricted by interests and technology, so it is difficult to achieve the learning effect under the traditional teaching method. Referring to the primary and secondary school teaching programs of CCTV Education Channel, which are rich in manpower and material resources, it is obvious that the best online teaching effect can be achieved at present, and there are indeed some incomparable advantages in classroom teaching, such as large amount of information and wide spread. However, even the online teaching made by CCTV can't solve the practical problems of classroom teaching, such as whether teachers can pay attention to students' classroom reactions in time and make corresponding adjustments, how to realize nonverbal communication between teachers and students, and how to carry out thematic interactive activities between teachers and students. Some important principles of pedagogy, such as students' subjectivity, teaching without definite methods, and adapting to local conditions when encountering red lights on the Internet, can't be realized at least with the current artificial intelligence technology. Then the online training effect of other SMEs can be imagined.
? Speaking of which, I think of a person who advised me to mind my own business. Lian Po is old, so much for it. Let's throw a brick to attract jade. I hope there are heroes with high martial arts to follow!
3. From admiring the master to being close to the master
Teachers' professional development is inseparable from reading. I read several professional books every year, and I am ashamed that I can't keep up with the speed of reading people. I wonder how they can read dozens or even hundreds of books a year. How do they chew and digest the essence of those good books? When they read, do they draw a stroke in their hands and take notes in the blank? Curiosity is curiosity. I will never give up my reading principle in pursuit of reading speed, that is, I would rather have less than more. The purpose of reading professional books is to solve the confusion in practice, so that every professional book I have read is printed with traces of my wandering collision. Generally speaking, in 2020, output will be greater than input, with emphasis on writing and practice. I reread several good books at the same time. All classics will stand the test of time and will always be fragrant.
Suhomlinski's advice to teachers. I read this book in the early summer of 20 14, which is unforgettable so far. I soaked my clothes with sweat and followed Su's wonderful pen to explore the true meaning of education. At that time, it was no exaggeration to describe it as enlightening and infatuation. I only regret that I didn't come into contact with such good educational books, and suddenly realized that I had only stayed at the "primary school level" teaching level. It is the rich nutrition given by this book that prompted me to take an important step. In 20 14, I joined the "New Education Experimental Network Teacher College", read classics of pedagogy and literature with a group of people of the same size, and started my second study and professional growth. At the same time, apply for an English teacher in a technical secondary school, turn theoretical knowledge into educational action, hone the skills of how to get along with the so-called "poor students" in practice, and verify Su's educational miracle. The 20 14 kindergarten teacher class I taught has achieved good teaching results. I am proud that no student sleeps or plays with mobile phones in class, because sleeping in class or playing with mobile phones in the whole class is a special headache for Chinese, math and English teachers in secondary vocational schools. My secret is to create a positive classroom atmosphere with great enthusiasm for teaching, and to attract the interest of the whole class in learning English with pure spoken English and love for English language. Not only that, I also carefully prepared lessons and designed various forms of classroom activities, which influenced several people in my class to fall in love with English. A year later, my English level caught up with that of junior college students. I quoted a middle school student who said to me, "If I had met a teacher like you in primary school, I wouldn't be in this school today."
Fu Lei's Letters Compiled by Fu Min. What language can I use to express my feelings about reading this book? The incomparable admiration is still pale, and Mr. Fu Lao is upright and upright, leaving an extremely precious cultural and educational legacy for future generations. Action is better than action. This book is preliminarily sorted out, and there are four main sections: ① Family education anthology painstakingly cultivated by father and son; (2) the edification of humanistic knowledge such as aesthetics and literature; ③ Life wisdom education such as youth friendship and marriage; ④ The enlightenment process of cross-cultural communication. The reading guide table of Fu Shu is classified, which is convenient for consulting golden passages in the future and often benefits from reading.
Wu Fei, the author of What Happened in the Classroom, listened to this Nanjing-born old man, wise man and even stronger person describe those things in the classroom kindly and naturally, which is better than being a teacher for ten years! Learn from Wu Fei's integrity and make up your mind not to teach on your knees. The Art of Love was written by Fromm, who learned to analyze the connotation of love from a psychological perspective: care, responsibility, dedication, respect and understanding. Make it my motto. Palmer's "Teaching Courage", learn to know yourself objectively and move towards Excellence. After reading a little, I learned a new version from Mr. Li Zhenxi, and I look forward to reading it again.
Reading the above professional books in recent years has helped me grow up quickly. In 2020, I found the miracle of classroom 56 from a second-hand bookstore. After reading it in one breath, I was hooked. Let's talk about the influence of this book on me.
I find that good teachers all over the world have the same characteristics, such as loving teaching, being brave in innovation, being frank and full of energy, and being full of love and care for students ... Rafe? Asquith is an ordinary primary school teacher. He does it very vividly. Every class and activity shows his extraordinary personality charm. After reading it, I think the great Su Shi and Rafe are both ordinary teachers. Their outstanding contributions to education have inspired young teachers to devote their blood and youth to this hot land of education, and let middle-aged and elderly teachers like us sprout an immortal heart of education. Ask yourself if I, an unknown English teacher, can expand my teaching field, such as primary school Chinese or mathematics, have a different teaching experience and gain a colorful life. As luck would have it, my new friend recommended me to be a primary school math homework tutor. I don't think it's too difficult to help primary school math homework, so I gladly accepted life.
To tell the truth, math was my strong point in primary school and middle school. I won the third prize of the city's Mathematical Olympics, but since I entered the university, I have alienated mathematics and specialized in English. But the good foundation of mathematics is so ingrained that when I teach English grammar, I often can't help but explain it with mathematical graphics. It is not enough to have these self-confidences. I contacted my nephew who was studying in a key university to discuss the problem of primary school math homework. With the technical support of the "excellent science and technology man" behind me, I confidently assist my math homework to ensure that my counseling ideas and methods are rigorous and accurate. I wear a mask to teach sixth-grade pupils to do math homework face to face, so I won't list the details one by one. I will share the two summaries at the beginning and the end as follows:
After two counseling sessions, the initial results were achieved. Even the students themselves did not expect that a good beginning is half the battle. After a calm analysis, tell the students not to be proud. Sometimes good grades don't represent the real level. Keep trying!
If the above results are achieved, teaching will win. Finally, even if you don't win, teaching will learn from each other, which is also a successful education. In the last few unit tests and final exams, the students got about 80 points, which is a real and stable result, which is more than 10 points higher than that at the beginning, which is in line with my guiding goal-to lay a good foundation, work steadily and strive for good results.
? I tried to break through the limitations of "primary school level" teachers with actions, and gradually my life was filled with educational activities. I understand the principle of love education, and the relationship with students extends from classroom to extracurricular, helping students develop good study habits and build the quality of loving learning. Through nearly twenty years' practice and test, I have acquired the "five-hearted" educational method-love, patience, carefulness, concentration and confidence, which is my lifelong educational belief.
Conclusion:
? Dear Mr. Suhomlinski, Mr. Fu Lei, and the masters who gave me rich spiritual nutrition, I am getting closer and closer to the beautiful spiritual world you described. At the moment, I am breathing the breath of spring in the humble room by the Yangtze River, looking forward to the arrival of education spring.