"My teacher is an Olympic champion"

Xinhua News Agency, Guangzhou, September 10, 2016 Title: "My Teacher is an Olympic Champion"

Xinhua News Agency reporters Che Xiaohui, Zheng Tianhong, and Wang Haoming

Have you ever thought that the Olympic champions you saw on TV when you were a child will become your own physical education teacher when you grow up? Grab the physical education class taught by the Olympic champion, both "hand speed" and luck. Will attending the physical education class of an Olympic champion be particularly "abusive"? How do these "world firsts" teach "sports whites"? When an Olympic champion coaches "Xueba", what kind of chemistry will occur? With these questions in mind, let's walk into the classrooms of Olympic champion teachers on Teachers' Day 37.

(Subtitle) Champion VS Scholar Bully

When the champion teacher meets the bully classmate, what kind of chemistry will occur?

For badminton Olympic champion Zhang Jiewen and her students, the feeling is one word - "abuse".

On the 7th, at the gymnasium of the East Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, the class of Zhang Jiewen, the badminton women's doubles champion of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, was lined up from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. She came to CUHK in 2017 and has been teaching for 4 years, and she is still preparing lessons for students half an hour before class.

The morning is the second class of the new semester for seniors, and for an hour and a half, the first hour is physical training. Each action of stretching and step training must be done back and forth in the whole field, and some students directly call "can't eat".

Even for Liu Sijie, a senior student majoring in software engineering at the School of Computer Science who has played badminton for 4 years, "Teacher Zhang's class is very tiring, she is strict and has high standards, but the harvest is still very large." He said that after a semester of Zhang Jiewen's class last year, he broke through the bottleneck of lower limb strength and the pace under his feet was much faster, so he continued to "follow" this semester.

The senior student of cuccidental management school is almost a badminton "little white". During the pace training, her movements were uncoordinated, and she was pulled out of the team by Zhang Jiewen for individual counseling. Although Teacher Zhang is strict, she is very gentle, as long as I make progress, she will encourage me hard. Olympic champions are not as far away as I thought they were. She said.

Even olympic champions can be stressed to teach college students. Zhang Jiewen said: "The children who can be admitted to the middle school are all school bullies, and indeed they have a lot of brain circuits, and sometimes they ask a lot of questions in class, and some questions I have not actually thought about." So before each lesson, I would sit down and think about how I should go and find a way to answer their questions. ”

Jiao Liuyang, the women's 200m butterfly champion at the London Olympics in 2012, came to Sun Yat-sen University to teach in November 2020. In order to make swimming, a public physical education class more interesting, Jiao Liuyang used all his strength to find ways to "go to professional terms" in the classroom, such as not saying "overturning the pedal clip", but letting students raise their legs against the wall, use the palms of their feet to pedal the pool wall, and use the image language of "blowing water" and "spitting bubbles" to replace "holding their breath", so that "swimming xiaobai" can also quickly find the feeling.

(Subtitle) Craftsmanship VS Spirit

"I never imagined that the Olympic champions I saw on TV as a child would become my teachers in the future." Yang Ya'an, a junior at CUHK's School of Politics and Public Affairs Management, said. As a member of the school's high-level sports swimming team, Yang Ya'an has watched Jiao Liuyang's competition since elementary school, and did not expect that his idol really came to his side.

In addition to being able to get close to idols, students learned not only sports skills from these Olympic champions, but also the spirit of perseverance, gratitude and respect for their opponents made the middle school students gain a lot.

Luo Wei, gold medalist in the women's 67 kg category in taekwondo at the 2004 Athens Olympics, has been teaching at CUHK for eight years. In her classroom, she learns far more than just one move at a time, but learns to be grateful in each "salute", learns to pay attention to others, and learns to get along with people.

Luo Wei said that what her classmates are most looking forward to in her class is "story time". "Not only will I tell them about my glorious moments with the gold medal, I will also tell them about when I lost the game, when I was injured, the low point of my sports career, how I got back up from the low point, what kind of mentality I used to face the huge difficulties, how I persevered when I was depressed and wanted to give up." Luo Wei said.

Talking about the most impressive thing since he became a teacher, Jiao Liuyang said: "There was a boy who did not dare to go into the water when he went to the first class, he stood next to him and said, 'I have been flooded, so I should not be able to learn, nor can I pass the exam.'" I just wanted to see you', and I said, 'It's okay, you have to believe in yourself, you have to believe in me, I'm looking at you here, I won't let you drown, I'll save you!' ’”

After 9 lessons of training, this student finally took the exam and swam 50 meters. "He's finally breaking through himself and I feel very accomplished. More importantly, for him, no matter what difficulties he encounters in the future, as long as he looks back on today, I believe it will be helpful to him. ”

(Subtitle) Physical Education VS Education

Luo Wei believes that at present, Chinese do not attach special importance to sports, in fact, the impact of sports on teenagers has not really been recognized. "As a good athlete and a PE teacher, I should let my students know how important sport is and that they get a lot out of being in sport. Not only for themselves, but also as their children's first physical education teachers, they can take their children to participate in a sport. They will benefit for the rest of their lives, and it is also my responsibility as a teacher. ”

"For students, they are actually in a very good era and they should cherish it. They must know where their mission is, they cannot choose comfort at the age of struggle, they must know their future direction, they can grasp themselves well, and they can win glory for the country. Luo Wei said.

Helping students achieve their goals is Jiao Liuyang's biggest wish at present. "In fact, being a teacher and being an athlete are the same. Being a teacher is to help them never come to the meeting, from scratch, constantly surpass and break through themselves, which is actually a process of competitive sports or sports that has been repeatedly breaking through themselves. Jiao Liuyang said that whether as a teacher, or an Olympic champion, or an ordinary person, she hopes that everyone can put sports in their lives and regard sports as a part of life. Because only in this way will Chinese sports become more and more powerful, from a sports power to a sports power.

In recent years, more and more Olympic champions have come out of the campus; and on campus, more and more Olympic champions are active. Perhaps this is exactly what physical and educational integration should mean. (End)