On the road of students' growth, teachers play the role of "beacons", not only guides, but also role models for students. Especially in elementary and middle school, many students have a natural reverence for their teachers and unconsciously indulge in the joy of imitating them.
However, the teachers also showed their serious side, which led to some sense of distance among the students. Especially those students with average grades who often make mistakes in homework are more likely to feel nervous in the face of teachers. However, some teachers have adopted an ingenious approach that has the effect of making students recognize their mistakes and avoiding overly harsh criticism.
Young teachers often have a "mischievous attribute" to their assignments with hand-drawn drawings that fill students with anticipation. As an "old aunt", I recall that when we were in elementary school, the teachers generally left the impression that the students were quite strict. It doesn't seem uncommon to be left in the classroom and not allowed to eat because you didn't complete your homework.
Moderate educational management can certainly help improve students' problems, but sometimes being too strict can damage students' self-esteem. Our homeroom teacher in elementary school seems to be a typical example of this. As soon as there is a mistake in the assignment, the teacher will tear it up mercilessly and ask for it to be rewritten.
Sometimes she would even angrily throw our homework books outside the classroom. However, the current education method is significantly more standardized, especially young teachers pay more attention to the psychological development of students.
They try to guide students to take their homework seriously in a fun way, showing a mischievous trait. For example, there are teachers who use hand-drawn patterns to mark assignments, with cute cartoon patterns and short texts.
This method not only conveys the teacher's point of view, but also makes the tone of criticism less rigid. The students were even more impressed when they saw the ingenious comments. We used to think that it was only through constant criticism that some students could remember the lessons.
In fact, a lot of students just need attention. Some class teachers said that after adopting this method, many students felt "ashamed of the teacher", but they did not need too much urging and preaching, and the effect of homework was significantly improved.
For students who perform well, the teacher will also draw pleasant expressions with words of encouragement. Students become expectant, as if submitting assignments is like opening a blind box, and begin to pay attention to what the teacher says about them.
The introduction of innovative teaching methods has been questioned by some colleagues and parents, and has been accused of "showmanship". After one teacher became popular, he observed that more young teachers were following suit, incorporating hand-drawn patterns into students' assignments and test papers.
Public comment, however, has been "polarized". Some parents gave a thumbs up to this, lamenting that it was the luck of the students to meet serious and responsible teachers, and thought that such teachers must be out of their deep love for education.
However, some of their peers poured cold water on the ground, citing reality as a reason: there are many students in the class, and there is a large amount of homework to be corrected every day, and it will take a lot of time if the teacher often evaluates the homework with hand-drawn patterns.
They believe that such energy should be spent on more important issues, rather than focusing too much on external forms. Some people even believe that teachers with insufficient teaching ability tend to win recognition by "being different", and there is a possibility of excessive show-off.
Some parents even disagree with this way of grading homework, and frankly believe that if teachers have more energy, they should devote their minds to more necessary things to reduce the burden of homework on parents.
Students also have an "aesthetic fatigue" with the new way of grading, and at first they are curious about hand-drawn patterns, but over time, this method becomes difficult to motivate lazy students. This approach has caused a lot of controversy, probably because everyone has different views and perspectives.
In order to solve this problem, young teachers are trying to innovate teaching methods in the midst of constant controversy. Some of these teachers came up with a creative approach by replacing hand-drawn patterns with stickers of memes.
This practice is considered a good way to "kill two birds with one stone". With just the ink, teachers can quickly print what they want to say on their students' work. In this way, it can stimulate the interest of students in an entertaining and educational way, without wasting too much energy.
For example, when a chemistry teacher noticed that a student had made several mistakes on an exercise, he used an emoji stamp with an angry expression of "mushroom head" on it, accompanied by the line: "Didn't I speak in class?" This not only expresses his helplessness, but also avoids hurting the students' self-esteem too much.
Another English teacher chose a seal that was suitable for the assignment, which felt that it brought the teacher-student relationship closer. Regardless of the approach, the efforts of teachers to improve teaching methods are commendable. However, teachers should be evaluated from a more holistic perspective, and teaching and management competence remain the most critical and should not be put before the horse.
【Topic】Do you support grading assignments in this way?