A comic work created by Wang Dongzheng
Last summer, a video attracted the attention of many netizens. At the final class teacher work summary meeting, Wang Dongzheng, an art teacher at the Olympic Sports Middle Road School in the High-tech Zone, drew cartoons with his hands and recorded interesting events between him and the students. Behind the warm little story, he also hides his thinking on education and teaching as a young teacher: the "protagonists" in comic stories are not all "excellent students" in the traditional sense, and there will be various unsatisfactory, but Wang Dongzheng said, "Every child is a unique existence, so that children can harvest the confidence of life and the interest in learning, which is the mission and responsibility of teachers." ”
This video has triggered the praise and resonance of countless netizens, and everyone has left messages -
"Looks and talent are combined, and he is a 'teacher of other people's homes'!"
"With such a warm teacher, we need to give him a thumbs up!" Professional, creative, more teacher and caring. ”
The protagonist of the video, Wang Dongzheng, resolutely made a decision on the eve of the start of the new semester more than a month later, and then embarked on the road of volunteer teaching more than 1500 kilometers away and entered a township school in Chongqing to carry out fixed-point assistance.
Illuminate the world with shimmering light
When each match is lit, it gathers into a raging fire
When he saw the notice that the city had selected volunteer teachers to carry out volunteer teaching assistance and confirmed that he was qualified, in the face of unknown challenges, although he was a little nervous, Wang Dongzheng, who had hardly been out of the country for more than 20 years, still did not hesitate in the slightest and took the lead in voluntarily signing up.
"I think life needs to send 'a little light', no matter how small the glimmer, it can also illuminate the world when gathered." Helping people in need within my reach was an obligation and responsibility for me, so A strong thought sprung up in my heart at that time, hoping to make my own modest contribution to the development of education in the mountains while I was young, and also hoping that I could have a meaningful experience and light up my own life. On the way there, Wang Dongzheng set himself 3 small goals: he hoped to share his insights with local students and broaden the children's horizons; The desire to teach knowledge to local students and increase their knowledge; Hope to exchange teaching experience and skills with local teachers, and jointly improve the professional level and teaching level.
Unlike the mountainous areas imagined, Wang Dongzheng's first impression of the location of the volunteer teachings was that the mountains and rivers were beautiful and picturesque, and the students were innocent and simple, lively and cheerful. "My school is in the town, and the economic situation is more developed than in the countryside, so the conditions are not as difficult as imagined, but the hot and humid climate and spicy diet in the south make me feel uncomfortable." In addition, the communication barrier caused by unfamiliarity with the local dialect has also become the biggest problem, "the students are very motivated to learn, and they are very enthusiastic about me, the new volunteer teacher." At first, they surrounded me with fluent dialects, and I did my best to piece together the fragments I understood, guessing their questions, and the caring children saw that I did not know dialects and slowed down to talk to me. Gradually, most of the children in the class would communicate with me in Mandarin, and I would get closer and closer to the children. ”
Because of the mission of "master-apprentice pairing" with the art teacher of the school, Wang Dongzheng, as a "master", soon put into work, he began to understand the students' academic conditions and family situation, and found that although they did not have superior material conditions and broad vision, they could strongly feel their curiosity about new things and their desire for new knowledge every time they attended class, which further stimulated his enthusiasm for teaching. He also found that the local teaching level is not as backward as imagined, after the country's vigorous help, the hardware is not much different from the schools in the city, more of the gap lies in the teaching mode and educational thinking is different, the local teaching is still based on traditional teaching methods, the content is also more limited to the content of textbook textbooks, it is difficult for children to contact fresh knowledge and generate strong interest.
Exchange sincerity for truth
Unforgettable child who gave me an umbrella in the heavy rain
In view of this situation, Wang Dongzheng innovated the model of volunteer teaching. "The most important part of the art discipline is the appreciation and evaluation of works, which is indispensable for improving children's aesthetic literacy and aesthetic level, but children in mountainous areas do not have rich public resources like children in cities, they can watch art exhibitions at any time, and it is not convenient to obtain art information." In addition to the content of the lecture book, I also set up a special course on the "World Famous Paintings", which will introduce well-known works of art and art at home and abroad each time, aiming to let students truly understand and understand beauty by understanding the life of the painter and the story of the painting. ”
The students in this class responded enthusiastically, some students were amused by interesting anecdotes, some were stunned by the exquisite techniques of the painter, and some were moved to tears by the story behind the painting. Not only has it broadened the students' horizons, but also enriched their historical knowledge, and his course has also become a "net red" class for students to "urge change" every day, and Wang Dongzheng is also loved by students with his personality charm and professional ability.
He is often asked what is the meaning of Wang Dongzheng's volunteer teaching, and he believes that the process of helping others is also a process of self-realization, in which one can truly feel "responding with one true heart to another equally worthwhile heart." "I was very impressed one afternoon, I was ready to go back to the dormitory after class. It suddenly started to rain outside, and I didn't have an umbrella with me, and I was standing at the door of the teaching building waiting for the rain to stop. At this time, a little boy outside the building covered his head with his hand, strode past me, saw me standing in the doorway, ran back, and asked me in not-so-standard Mandarin: 'Teacher, don't you have an umbrella?' I replied yes, but at that time, because I had just arrived at school, the students had not yet recognized it, and I was not sure if this child was once taught. The rain had not stopped, the bell had run, and I saw the child running back to me from the rain, holding an old folding umbrella in his hand, and laughing and saying, 'Teacher, take it and use it first.' At that time, my heart felt warm, and I felt the most simple emotions between people. ”
"Volunteer education can bring new educational concepts and educational methods to areas with relatively poor educational resources, and promote the development and progress of education in mountainous areas." Children usually rarely go out of the mountains to see the outside world, the arrival of volunteer teachers is the opportunity for children to understand new things, I will tell my ideas and insights to the children in the mountains, become their window to understand the outside world, which will be of great help to children to establish ideals, determine goals, but also let some children have the opportunity and motivation to go out and change their destiny. Wang Dongzheng said.
Influence life with life
Find the direction of light for the soul
Near the end of the volunteer teaching, Wang Dongzheng, fearing that he would not be able to control his emotions when they separated, quietly said goodbye to the teachers in the office, not wanting to alarm the children. And the door of the office did not know when it was full of students, and when he walked out of the door, the children surrounded him and asked, "Teacher, when are you going to come back?" Will I see you before I graduate?" He returned to the classroom, left his contact information on the blackboard, and promised to come back to see everyone again. "I noticed that some of the students had begun to wipe their tears with their sleeves, so I immediately turned away, held back the tears and went downstairs, looked up downstairs, and the corridor on the fourth floor was full of students, all waving at me."
Before leaving, Wang Dongzheng learned that some of the children in the school were art students, but lacked professional books and copying materials, so he purchased some pre-examination art materials at his own expense and left them for local students to use, hoping that they could stick to their dreams and go further on the road of art. After returning to Jinan, the Middle Olympic Sports Road School in the High-tech Zone held a charity sale, and Wang Dongzheng bought all the books he earned more than 5,000 yuan and donated them to the support school. "In the several classes I teach, almost all the children have added my QQ, and up to now, no matter how big or small things they are willing to talk to me, let me feel that even if I am in Jinan, my heart is still connected with the children there." Wang Dongzheng said.
"For me, the teacher is a guide, education is the process of finding the direction for the soul, and it is most appropriate to describe the teacher as a lighthouse." Even though the light of the lighthouse is incomparably small compared to the entire night sky, it can guide the sailors who sail, but each sailor sees a different direction, because this little lighthouse knows that each of them has its own route, and it will guide everyone to their own far side. The biggest impact of volunteering on me is that I feel that my energy can radiate to many people and help many people. Through their own actions, more people can pay attention to the children in the mountainous areas, pay attention to the development of education in the mountainous areas, and let people dedicate their love to the children in the mountainous areas, which can change the fate of many children in the mountainous areas. Wang Dongzheng said earnestly.
And his experience makes us think even more, young volunteer teachers, what is one of the meanings of their existence? It is to influence life with life. Text/Photo Reporter Guo Zheqi