Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, "teacher mother" Cao Yuehua has been cultivating the fertile soil of Baima Junior High School in Taizhou City for 20 spring and autumn years. Over the past 20 years, she has adhered to the educational philosophy of loving children like children, followed the oath of "every word and deed, and every move can be called a model", interpreted the wonderful picture of education on the three-foot platform, and always practiced the loyalty and responsibility of a rural teacher to the cause of education.
Let students enjoy the warmth of "mother" in life
"Teacher Mother" Teacher Cao always pours her heart into the left-behind children and dedicates herself to a motherly heart. A classmate Mei Shu is a child that Teacher Cao pays attention to and helps. Her parents divorced and she lived with her grandparents. This brought a great blow to Mei Shumou's heart and gave rise to the idea of dropping out of school. After Teacher Cao learned about it, he asked her to talk to her and let her know that the fate is in your own hands, the future needs to rely on yourself, and now you need to work hard and improve yourself, in order to create conditions for development in the future and have a bright future.
At the same time, Teacher Cao always pays attention to her learning. For example, her sports program has always been very weak, and she has the idea of fear and retreat, so Teacher Cao contacted the physical education teacher to tutor her individually, took the initiative to train with her, correct the movements, and the kung fu paid off, and finally she achieved a good score. If Mei Shu's thoughts fluctuated, Teacher Cao accompanied her for a walk and conversation like a mother. At the same time, he also took her home during the holidays, wrapped rice dumplings, cooked rice, ate and read a book together, etc., and took her to memorial halls, parks, and shopping malls, so that she could experience the love of relatives and the warmth of family. Now Mei Shumou not only makes steady progress in learning, but also always has a smile on her face, full of optimism and confidence, and experiences the joy of learning with her classmates.
Yu is a left-behind child paid attention to by the "teacher mother" Teacher Cao in the exchange school in 2015, living alone all year round, lacking father's love and mother's love since childhood, poor behavior habits, and unsatisfactory learning. Teacher Cao cared for him meticulously, encouraged him, and accompanied him to grow up for many years. Now Yu is a junior student at Nanjing Forestry University and has embarked on a different life. On September 15, 2022, he sent a text message to Teacher Cao: "Teacher, I went to the army." Teacher Cao felt extremely proud and replied, "Look at my boy wearing a battle robe, Jin Ge Iron Horse is very arrogant. Although Jiang Shan is known as an iron strike, the hero is the leader. Good boy, waiting for your triumphant return! ”
Teacher Cao also actively explored the education methods and methods for left-behind children, and together with Cheng Renxin, she applied for the key self-funded project of the provincial "13th Five-Year Plan" education science plan "Practical Research on Extracurricular Education Strategies for Improving the Literacy of Left-behind Children in Rural Junior High Schools", explored some practical extracurricular education strategies, and wrote and published a paper on "Thoughts on Public Libraries Serving Left-behind Children in Rural Areas".
Scientific management, so that students can grow up healthily in a harmonious environment
As a class teacher, Teacher Cao manages the class scientifically, completes the trivial work of the class teacher excellently, pays attention to the left-behind students with a loving heart, and dedicates her mother's heart. Frequently use platforms such as WeChat to contact parents and inform them of their children's situation. Teacher Cao also used the parent association to scientifically and rationally set up mutual help groups, so that left-behind students could enter volunteer families and feel the warmth of their families. In addition, in order to enrich the extracurricular life of the students in the class, Ms. Cao, together with the physical education teacher and the teacher who likes football, set up a class football team and actively participated in the extracurricular tutoring activities for left-behind children, so that they can enjoy happiness and grow up healthily in the activities. Under the leadership of Ms. Cao, her class is always full of vitality and vitality, harmonious and united, and proactive. Teacher Cao was rated as "District Youth Post Master", "District Advanced Individual for Meritorious Work", "District Outstanding Communist Youth League Member", "District Advanced Individual in Teaching Support", "Excellent Class Teacher", "Care for the Next Generation Advanced Individual", etc., and the class was rated as "Civilized Class", and the students under her guidance also won frequent awards.
Keep up and improve your skills while constantly recharging
"Self-charging" is a teacher's first homework. No matter how busy he is at work, Teacher Cao does not forget to recharge himself, actively learn various educational theories and participate in teacher training, and enrich himself by extracting other mountain stones. Teacher Cao has held open courses in the city and district for many times, won the first and second prizes in the district high-quality class competition and basic skills competition, and actively carried out project research and thesis writing, and presided over the provincial "13th Five-Year Plan" key planning project "Practical Research on Extracurricular Education Strategies for Improving the Literacy of Left-behind Children in Rural Junior High Schools", which has been completed; As a core member, he participated in four projects, including the provincial "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" project "Research on the Design of Personalized Chinese Homework in Rural Junior High Schools under the Conditions of Information Technology", which has been successfully completed. At present, as a core member, the provincial "14th Five-Year Plan" "Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of Extracurricular Services in County Junior High Schools under the Background of "Double Reduction" has been opened. Cao Yuehua has written and published 4 papers in recent years and was rated as a "rookie in the teaching arena" in the district.
Love can revitalize a dry land, and love can give lonely birds a vast sky. Teacher "mother" Cao Yuehua has the hardship of paying, but also the joy of harvest. As always, she has more love, patience and perseverance for left-behind children, and supports a blue sky for left-behind children.
Cao Yuehua, for 20 years, has always practiced the loyalty and responsibility of a rural "teacher mother" to the cause of education.
Photo: Wang Youchuan Cheng Renxin
Editor: Tang Zhenquan