Some time ago, an Indian film called "Teacher Hiccup" was very popular, and I also went to see it. The film tells a touching and inspiring story about how a Tourette's patient who is determined to become a teacher struggles with a group of stubborn slum students and finally leads them to the right path.

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Tourette syndrome, abbreviated as TS in English, is also translated into Tourette syndrome according to its symptoms. Patients will suddenly twitch uncontrollably because of neurological abnormalities, and some people will make meaningless noises and even aggressive words. Mr. Hiccup fell ill in primary school and went through the process of discrimination, rejection and acceptance. Finally, he not only completed his studies in ordinary schools, but also obtained a double master's degree, which proved that Tourette's disease did not affect IQ.

The most touching thing about this movie is naturally that Mr. Hiccup overcame many difficulties to teach the plot of stubborn students well. This kind of drama is not uncommon, but Mr. Hiccup makes the plot more tortuous and interesting because of his own obstacles.

Watching this movie reminds me of some special students I met. One of them is autistic, the other is completely blind, and the other is teaching students with hyperactivity and insufficient concentration (AD/HD for short). Let's share their little story today.

Autistic students have a pair of sparkling eyes, so let's call him Xiao Ming. A completely blind student is thin and capable. Let's call her Xiaoxiao. As for the ADHD boy taught this semester, he has shoulder-length hair and is called Xiaoyi.

0 1 Xiaoming's story

Xiaoming was taught many years ago. He is a business student and should take classes in another campus. I don't know why he came to my campus to study Mandarin. But the first time I saw him was not in Mandarin class.

One day in the empty elevator, he entered the elevator with me and suddenly struck up a conversation with me very intimately. At that time, the elevator was not crowded, and the close distance exceeded the "safe distance" that strangers should keep. I feel that this student is "rude", as if there is something unspeakable. He was alert, but he was also impressed, especially when he saw his round sparkling eyes in the elevator.

After school started, I saw him in my classroom, sitting in the first row of the classroom, and I couldn't help secretly complaining. However, in the first two or three weeks, I didn't find anything unusual about him. He always sits in the front row of the classroom. He doesn't listen to lectures much, but he doesn't make any noise. At most, he sometimes suddenly stands up and walks out of the classroom, and then comes back soon. What is special is that he will answer questions when everyone is silent. He always interrupts my lecture and speaks loudly, making the whole classroom look at him. These are all within my tolerance, so they are safe.

After a long class, he began to get familiar with me. He gave me the sketch he drew when he was not listening to the lecture in class. As soon as I saw it, he drew a traffic map between our campuses with a ballpoint pen. It was clear that he had not changed a word. Every landmark is carefully marked with a name and neatly written. More than 90% of the students.

Another time, he said that he was on TV and insisted on inviting me to look for him on the screen. He really sent me a link after class. This is an educational documentary filmed by Radio Television Hong Kong, which tells how several autistic children integrate into the community. He is one of them. Only then did I know that he was a student with special educational needs.

As an autistic child, he is very lucky. His parents found out early and intervened early. Through various treatments, he can not only attend ordinary schools like his peers, but also gradually overcome social obstacles. In the elevator before, I thought that his "rude" behavior was actually the reason why autistic patients failed to fully grasp the social distance between good people during social treatment.

At the end of Putonghua class, Xiaoming gave me a simple calligraphy swing, "Healthy Youth". Judging from the calligraphy works, it is certainly immature, but it is his heart. I also like "youth", so I have posted it in the office for many years.

Finally, to say that he is addicted to his sketching career in class, can Mandarin be qualified? Ha ha, the answer is: not only qualified, but also good grades!

02 The Story of Laughing

Xiaoxiao came to the creative writing class last year.

At this time, our school's support for SEN is much more perfect than before. Every student with special educational needs will be followed up by a special resident social worker. Teachers of each subject they enrolled in will receive confidential emails before the start of the semester, telling teachers to closely observe the relevant SEN students and understand the special needs of SEN students before all evaluations, such as printing oversized papers and extending the examination time.

I received an email and was told that Xiaoxiao was in my class. She was a visually impaired person with brackets around her and was "totally blind". This is indeed a very big challenge. Creative writing naturally requires a lot of writing practice. Can a completely blind classmate do it? I don't know. Creative writing is an elective course, and I secretly hope that Xiaoxiao will give up after adding/subtracting in the first two weeks. However, she stayed.

In order to fully understand her needs, I went to a sharing meeting supported by Mori students, which was shared by teachers who taught Xiaoxiao: she can go to the classroom by herself, she uses a computer to type in class (it sounds incredible), she needs to arrange one or two students to give simple assistance in class, she needs to extend the examination time, the examination questions can't be standardized, and the examination papers should be prepared one or two weeks in advance than usual, because they have to be sent to a special institution for the blind to listen to.

In this way, Xiaoxiao walked into my classroom. Her mother helped her walk in front with a laptop, and she gently pulled her mother's cuff and walked behind. Xiaoxiao dresses simply and neatly, and doesn't look like a child from a well-off family. Her eye socket is deep, and her tight muscles will keep shaking. This should be the window to our hearts. I can't bear to stare at her, although she won't know.

I arranged the seat closest to the podium for her, because it was the most convenient way to plug in her computer. After the placement, her mother quietly quit the classroom. I know that sometimes Xiaoxiao has more classes, and her mother will go home to do housework while she is at school, and then pick her up from school on time. If there are few classes, mother will wait for her to go home to accompany her. Every day, every day for the past ten years.

I deleted all the pictures in the class content and added listening and video content. Mix's writing exercises in class can usually be done by computer, and then sent directly to my mailbox. During the group homework, a fashionable-looking girl with dark skin took the initiative to sit over and formed a group with her-this girl wrote in her first class "I won't tell, you'll never know" that she ran away from home and lived alone with a cat. Life always meets vivid stories. This dark-skinned girl sometimes leads Xiaoxiao in and out of the classroom instead of Xiaoxiao's mother. Sometimes when her mother comes late, she will sit on the sofa in the corridor with her and wait.

In a word, everything went well in Xiaoxiao's creative writing class, and then she participated in the drama performance in the group class practice without any obstacles. She is not the best student in writing, but her grades are not bad either.

I heard Xiaoxiao graduated from Hong Kong University of Education. In the future, Xiaoxiao may be a special burping teacher.

The story of filial piety

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Xiaoyi is a student I teach this semester. The problems he pointed out on the list were inattention, hyperactivity and hyperactivity. I've heard a lot about this term, but I didn't pay special attention to it until I dealt with Xiao Yi.

In recent years, it may be that the Hong Kong government's support for integrated education with special education needs is more standardized, and there are more and more cases of special education needs among students. However, sometimes when teachers teach in class, they don't realize what is special about these SEN students. Except for the special extension of examination time, the classroom performance of special education students is almost the same as that of ordinary students. Is this the success of integrated education?

But xiaoyi still attracted my attention. The first time I noticed him was at the end of a class when a red dress suddenly passed behind me. I turned around and saw Xiao Yi sitting firmly in the first row. Then, I found that this red dress either didn't come to class, or almost all of them came after class and didn't come to class. She is addicted to playing mobile games and smiles at the games from time to time.

It doesn't matter. After all, it is the students' choice whether to attend classes or not. In the mid-term exam, Xiao Yi didn't write a word on the question and answer, but actually got ten multiple-choice questions correctly (I thought he couldn't do it at all). What's more, he wasn't there when the group was assigned, so I arranged a group for him casually. As a result, before their group reported, Xiao Yi protested fiercely after learning the list of team members. He wrote an email saying, "Even if you point a gun at me, I won't be with anyone"; I'd rather be an F than be with someone.

I was shocked to see such an emotional email. So I went to learn about Xiaoyi with different teachers. A teacher said that he crushed his paper because of his emotional instability during the exam, and the invigilator had to wait for him to calm down before he could return to his seat to finish the exam. In fact, it was nothing but childish. I'm a little angry at his classroom performance. After listening to his colleague's introduction, I still have no idea, but I know I can't criticize him severely.

I asked him for an interview. I asked first, "Why don't you always come to class?" Am I not speaking well? "He smiled shyly and said that classical novels were too difficult. I also promised to let him prepare some reports by himself, and I will limit the time and content. He readily agreed. He also made a good oral report later. He said that he almost stayed up all night to prepare the report. During the conversation, I was also interested in him. If he is absent again, he may not be able to take the final exam, so his previous efforts will be wasted because of a subject. He promised me that he would attend classes on time in the future.

I met normal students who borrowed money and fled, and students who didn't hand in their homework under various excuses, but this ADHD student really kept his word. Since that conversation, he hasn't been absent once, and sometimes he can't help looking at his mobile phone in class, but he has made a lot of progress. His knowledge reserve is actually good, and he can correct the contents of other students' information reports only by memory: "Chivalrous fighters use force to prohibit" originated from Han Feizi, not from historical records, and it is very rare for Hong Kong students to have such an understanding.

In fact, he also has some difficulties in typing. He can't use any symbols to input, but only by handwriting or pronunciation, but he still handed in all his homework. I guess, SEN students just need a sense of empathy and identity, and their inner world may be simpler and clearer than many normal children.

After the exam, Xiaoyi sent me an email again. He was depressed and said that he didn't do well in the exam. Because of nervousness, I suddenly felt dizzy and vomited during the exam, so I went to see a doctor. He blames himself a little, afraid of disappointing my expectations. Finally, tell me: "Your teaching is actually very good, thank you for your care this semester."

In the process of "integrated education", Sen definitely needs to make more efforts than normal children. Whether physically or mentally, they are under pressure that we can't imagine. So, in fact, no matter what Xiao Yi's final exam results are, I am very grateful that he really worked hard and didn't give up on himself.

(This article was first published in the Youth Wen Yuan Pavilion)