The winter holiday of rural teachers | Zhou Fang: Time is shallow, only education is fragrant

Editor's note: "The day is not everywhere, youth comes from just now; moss flowers are as small as rice, and peonies are also learned." "This is a true portrayal of the vast majority of small-scale rural schools. In the past 2021, the reporter went from Yinan to Yuncheng, and then from Zhuanhua to Yiyuan squatting, witnessing many educators with feelings taking root in the countryside, and they are working hard to make up for the gap with glimmer and help rural children grow better. The family sits idly and the lights are amiable, which is the ideal state for the Spring Festival reunion. In small-scale rural schools in many parts of Shandong, countless rural principals and teachers are rushing to the homes of students in remote rural areas that lead to the middle of the mountain, and they want to use their precious winter vacation time to go to their children's homes and enter their children's hearts. From now on, the Qilu Evening News Qilu One-Point "Youth Talk" column will successively launch the "Winter Holiday Memories of Rural Principals/Teachers", focusing on what rural teachers see, hear and feel during home visits, light up the dreams of rural children, and inject strength into rural revitalization. The following is the winter holiday record of Zhou Fang, a primary school teacher in Yiyuan County:

Time is like a song, years are like poetry. The winter holidays of 2022 are just around the corner. Winter vacation is not wasted, better to the future. CCTV Zhang Quanling said in a speech that don't wait for others to define life for you, everyone must learn to customize. Yes, winter vacation should also be customized. I'm going to have a full, happy winter vacation.

"Books are amorous like the old people, morning and evening sorrow and happy every blind date", usually we are busy at work, less reading time. Winter vacation provides us with a good time to recharge our intake knowledge. Studying every day and being good at learning is conducive to improving the ability of education and teaching, and is also conducive to cultivating sentiments and purifying the soul. Whether it is professional books in the subjects we teach, or literary knowledge books, these are helpful to our education and teaching. The winter vacation is short and busy, but I can also sneak around and read my favorite books. Insist on reading every day, and punch in the reading and writing group of teachers in our liuquan spring and the reading and writing group of teachers in Yiyuan Branch Teaching Island on time. "There is poetry and bookishness in the belly", reading can make a person always maintain a vigorous vitality, high spirit and grand righteousness.

"Three words and one word" is an indispensable "housekeeping skill" for teachers, and it is the most basic professional quality. If you want to write a robust, simple, dignified and beautiful Chinese character, you must adhere to it for a long time. Therefore, every night I insisted on writing a pen word and a chalk word, and watching the beautiful Chinese characters jump on the paper was not a pleasure. I took pictures of the practiced characters and passed them to the class group, so that the children (first grade) could initially feel the image beauty of Chinese characters, which could not only play an exemplary and leading role, but also enhance cultural self-confidence and national pride.

Home visits are a bridge between schools and families, and an important means of teaching and class management. "Home visits" can be said to be the standard for teachers' holidays. Due to the epidemic, I have adopted a combination of online and offline methods for this home visit. I selected a few children with special family circumstances and specially visited the home. I have a long talk with parents, push my heart, deeply understand the child's performance at home, analyze and find out the shortcomings in the child's learning, discuss the method of educating the child with the parents, and strive to jointly educate the child well. In each home visit, we walk into the homes of students and send the care of teachers to the hearts of students and parents, laying a good foundation for home-school co-education.

The long-awaited winter vacation is not only a station for appropriate adjustment after a long journey, but also an opportunity to rectify and prepare for war and achieve the transcendence of curves. Learning is endless, and I strive to be the best teacher. During the winter vacation, in addition to studying textbooks and reading professional books, I also made full use of network resources, watched famous teaching videos, and continuously improved my education and teaching level and promoted the improvement of my own ability in learning.

On January 1, 2022, the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Promotion of Family Education" began to be officially implemented, family education rose from "family affairs" to "state affairs", in the future, all parents and parents must "bring their babies according to law", our school is located in remote rural areas, and parents' needs for family education are more urgent. In order to better help parents solve difficulties and problems, and guide them to educate their children in accordance with scientific methods and advanced concepts, before the winter vacation, I applied for the family education instructor. During the holidays, I carefully watched more than 60 training videos, took a lot of study notes, and successfully passed the exam.

Time is shallow, only education is fragrant. Agarwood flows for years, walking in the spring breeze of the years, each of us is a different kind of flower, only by continuous learning and growth, can we make the flowers more fragrant.