May 12 is Mother's Day, a warm and special day. There is such a group of people around us, who use knowledge as a lamp and love as oil to illuminate the way forward for countless students; At the same time, they are mothers and wives, and they pay silently for the happiness of their small family without asking for anything in return. They are the respectable female principals and teachers around us. Today, let us pay special tribute and gratitude to those outstanding women who are also teachers and mothers.
"My mother is a teacher", when children say such words with pride, mothers as teachers are also proud. In the classroom, they impart knowledge with a rigorous and gentle attitude, patiently answer every doubt, and teach students to love and be loved, courage and responsibility. And when they take off the coat of teachers and return to the family, as mothers, the selflessness and greatness shine even more brightly.
Today, I would like to introduce you to the three "teacher mothers", they are equally great. In the same place, they are the mothers of two babies, fighting for their careers at the same time, and having a bumper harvest in their family careers. In line with the yearning for a better life and the love for their careers, they have balanced their careers and lives well, and achieved an ordinary but brilliant life. They are people we respect.
On Mother's Day, let's say "Happy Holidays" to the mothers around us, including teachers and mothers! You've done a great job!
Xie Li, Vice Principal of Luohu Middle School Affiliated to SUSTech:
As the mother of two babies, she is still exquisite, tasteful and quality-oriented
Xie Li is the vice principal of Luohu Middle School affiliated to SUSTech and the mother of two boys, the eldest is 16 years old and the younger is 7 years old. It is said that it is very hard to bring up a baby, and Xie Li empathizes, she said: "It really consumes energy and physical strength." But every time I saw her, I was dressed exquisitely: neat short hair, decent fashion, and a smile on my face. Principal Wen Yongquan's evaluation of her is that she is a traditional and modern woman in the new era, with strong work ability and family care.
She fought for her career on the way to fight for the baby, and she was right
Xie Li was the eldest at the age of 32, and participated in the class teacher's professional ability competition in the second month after returning to work after giving birth, and won the first place in Shenzhen! At the age of 36, he passed the senior title review, and at the age of 37, he was awarded the title of Luohu District English Famous Teacher and became the host of the district-level English Teacher Studio; 41-year-old second child, 44-year-old competition for vice principal; At the age of 45, he was admitted to graduate school, completed his postgraduate degree at the age of 47, and became the third batch of outstanding principal training courses of the Shenzhen Municipal Education Bureau through selection. She fights for her career on the way to fight for the baby, and the two are correct!
As the vice principal in charge of moral education, party building and security, she is dedicated to her duties. He presided over the creation of the "Party Building + Luohu Bridge Project-based Party History Learning" brand and the "Sunshine Accompaniment" school-family-community collaborative education brand, led the team to carry out the research of "moral education + walking ideological and political courses", and realized multidisciplinary integration, and developed the school-based teaching materials of Luohu Bridge walking ideological and political courses unique to Luohu Middle School. "The students in our school are sunny and polite, which is inseparable from her high requirements for moral education." According to Wen Yongquan, in his eyes, Xie Li is a person with high quality and high taste, meticulous in her work, and her life is well arranged.
▲ Shelly
She pays attention to the cultivation of children's character and personality
As the vice principal, Xie Li is usually very busy with work, often going out at 6 o'clock in the morning and arriving home at 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening. Her husband is a manager at Shenzhen Airport, and his work location is far away from home, so it is the norm to leave early and return late. Although the elderly and part-time workers in the family can help, they cannot replace their role as parents. "I have a strong sense of action and do things quickly, which is also trained by the two babies." Xie Li said with a smile that she concentrates on her work after work, tidying up her room and tutoring her children's homework after work. After finishing the housework, she often starts work at 11-12 o'clock in the evening, and she has to get up at 6 o'clock in the morning to go to work, and she feels as if she is full of energy.
Xie Li said that the busiest time was last year, as the vice principal, she also had to lead the third graduating class of junior high school, and at the same time, her eldest was also in the third year of junior high school, so it can be said that she was very busy. Fortunately, the ending was very happy in the end. The boss took the high school entrance examination for three days, and she accompanied her at the school gate for three days. Not only that, she rarely cooks, but she specially cooked for three days to prepare her children for the high school entrance examination. In order to send their children to school, their family moved back and forth more than 10 times, just to keep the children closer to the school and let the children sleep more in the morning.
As an educator, compared with other women, Xie Li knows how to guide and educate children, pay attention to the cultivation of children's character and personality, and guide children to accept themselves, treat others well, and learn to cooperate. Pay attention to the cultivation of children's taste for life, and guide children to love life and grow up in sunshine. She noticed that after the second child was born, the boss would have a sense of loss, afraid that her younger brother would take away her parents' love for her, Xie Li took the initiative to pay attention to the eldest child, and established her brother's prestige in front of the second child from time to time, so that her brother had a sense of gain. The eldest also often consciously takes on the responsibility of the elder brother, urges the younger brother to write homework, and tutors the younger brother in his homework.
▲ Xie Li often takes the two babies to travel.
She pays attention to the ritual sense of life and creates a warm home
Shelly pays attention to the ritual sense of life. She said that she would keep a diary of her child's growth since she was pregnant, and she insisted on recording them after she had WeChat and Weibo, and edited and printed it into a book at the end of each year. When a child is 100 days old, 100 years old, kindergarten enrollment, primary one enrollment, and junior high school graduation, the whole family will go to the photo studio to take a group of personal and family photos as a commemoration. On birthdays, holidays, and special days, a group of family photos will also be taken. The family is happy and has a happy life.
His husband Wang Xiaojian is grateful for his wife's dedication, and in his eyes, Xie Li is a person with a strong heart who can withstand pressure. The eldest Wang Zijian said: "My mother understands me very well and will help me relieve stress and give me encouragement. Mom has a mood and arranges our lives to be rich and happy. Mom is also quite stern and doesn't give face when she criticizes us. The second Wang Ziji said: "My mother is very good, she will take us to make cakes, travel, tell stories, build Lego, and decorate the house very comfortably." But my mom wasn't perfect either, and when I was doing my homework, she said I was too loud. ”
Mother's Day is coming, and in Shelly's memory, her most memorable Mother's Day gift is a pink pen given to her by the boss, which he said he bought with his pocket money when he was in the second or third grade of elementary school. At that time, she was worried that someone else would buy it, and her boss specially told the store to collect it first and not let others buy it. When the second child was a child, he also borrowed money from his aunt to buy her a flower on Mother's Day to express his love for his mother. Every time I think of these, the hard work of bringing a baby will be thrown out of the clouds, and all that remains in her heart is the sweetness and happiness of being a mother.
She said that she has never regretted giving birth to two babies, and in front of her children, as parents, they will only work harder, live well, and be a good example for their children!
Zhou Juan, Teacher of Minzhi Campus of Longhua Senior High School Education Group:
She is a teacher and mother who "has her feet on Hot Wheels and has skills".
"Mom is like a heart of love, because Mom is very good to me" "Mom is like an umbrella, because Mom protects me and takes care of me". Zhou Juan, a Chinese teacher at the Minzhi Campus of Shenzhen Longhua Senior High School Education Group, expressed their impression of their mother in a young voice. In the heart of An Haiying, a Taoist teacher at the Minzhi Campus of Shenzhen Longhua Senior High School Education Group: Zhou Juan is a teacher who "steps on hot wheels and has skills", not only teaching well, strong administrative ability, but also very capable, but also does not neglect the education and cultivation of her children, and is a mother and teacher who is good at learning, communication and expression.
▲ Zhou Juan
She tries to find more time to spend with her children
Zhou Juan's twin children are currently in the same class in the kindergarten, the brother and sister are very cute, when they learned that the kindergarten today (May 13) has a "thank you mom" theme of the Mother's Day special "national flag speech", the two children took the initiative to sign up for the kindergarten teacher to participate in the speech. Zhou Juan was very moved to ask the child why she wanted to participate in this keynote speech, and received a warm answer: "Because my mother tells us stories every day, takes us to read and read, and my mother accompanies us in addition to work, is very good to us and loves us very much." The siblings incorporated their feelings into the content of their speech: "From my mother, we learned to care for others. Love your family, your teachers, your classmates, and everyone around you. Children, let us thank our mothers and give them a big hug; Give your mother a small gift made by yourself, and say to your mother, Mom has worked hard, we love you. And the handmade bags and "big diamond" Mother's Day gifts made by the children before also made Zhou Juan particularly unforgettable. All of this made Zhou Juan feel that the children had been loving her in their own way, and they were growing up quietly in places that she might not have paid attention to.
In fact, she has always had a lot of guilt and indebtedness for her children. After the end of maternity leave in 2020, she participated in the preparation of a new school, very busy, in the past 4 years, the child has almost grown up with the nanny aunt, and even when the child was more than 2 years old, there was a situation where the aunt took a few days off, and the daughter couldn't accept the mother and kept crying, at that time, she could only make a video call to the aunt, so that the aunt could comfort the child remotely.
Before her child went to kindergarten, she often left the house in the morning before the child woke up, and when she came home in the evening, the child was already asleep. As the children grow older, they should also begin to enlighten them, she will try her best to be efficient in her work, use the lunch break to complete lesson preparation, homework correction, tutoring students, etc., and strive to go home early in the evening to read picture books to children; On weekend mornings, while the children are still sleeping, they usually wake up 2 hours early to work 2 hours to complete lesson preparation, administrative work as the director of the school office, etc., so that they can spend more time with the children during the day. Zhou Juan's family has a strong reading atmosphere, children have been interested in reading since childhood, and when they come home from school, sometimes Zhou Juan doesn't have time to change her clothes, and the two children "pester" her to listen to stories. "During this time, at school, she was a junior high school teacher; Back home, she was a kindergarten teacher. For Zhou Juan's hard work, her lover Mr. Feng saw it in his eyes and shared it with her.
▲ Zhou Juan and her dragon and phoenix child.
She is also happy to dedicate her time to her students
Parent-child education has something in common with the education of school students, and Zhou Juan is often touched by some details of parent-child interaction, which are then applied to school teaching. For example, her children like the encouragement and praise of their parents, so she often communicates with them in a positive way of encouragement, and often gives "positive feedback" to students in teaching, so that students can enter a "virtuous circle" of "positive learning emotions" and enhance students' learning interest and self-confidence. She also often reflects on family education from the common problems of students, such as paying special attention to the cultivation of children's awareness of rules, and will also let children adhere to two sports to exercise children's perseverance to overcome difficulties. She has also continued to improve her education and teaching ability by participating in teaching and research, competitions, etc., and has won the honorary titles of the first "Burden Reduction and Quality Improvement" model teacher in Shenzhen, and the "Model of Women Teachers in the Education System of Longhua District" in 2023.
"Every teacher wants their students to develop better, and they are willing to dedicate their time to their students. Seeing the growth and change of students can feel that what they do is valuable. "Zhou Juan believes that teachers have a great responsibility, not only to teach and solve doubts, but also to have a great impact on the personality development of students. She became a mother for the first time, taking care of two children at the same time, and her love for work, dedication to students, her hard work, diligence and dedication, these practices are also a positive education and positive impact on children. Colleague An Haiying said.
A few days ago, the first class of students (now college graduates) taught by Zhou Juan came to see her, and they played with her children for a day, telling stories to the children and taking them for running. This is the "happiness" of being a teacher.
Xu Zhixian, Secretary of the Youth League Committee of the Junior High School of Xin'an Middle School (Group):
Love and wisdom that go both ways
To go is to cross the mountains and seas, without hesitation. Xu Zhixian, secretary of the Youth League Committee of the junior high school of Shenzhen Xin'an Middle School (Group), uses her love and wisdom to practice the two-way running of the role of teacher and mother.
▲ Xu Zhixian
The teacher is the mother, and the mother is the teacher
In 2013, after graduating from South China Normal University, she joined the junior high school of Xin'an Middle School (Group) as a geography teacher, and since then she has started her educational career as a "human teacher". In the past 11 years of teaching career, she has slowly grown from an apprentice of the Blue Project to a young and middle-aged backbone teacher of the "Famous Teacher Project" in Bao'an District, a civilized messenger of Bao'an District, an outstanding teacher in Bao'an District, an outstanding Young Pioneer counselor in Bao'an District, an outstanding Communist Youth League cadre in Shenzhen, and an outstanding instructor of the Geography Olympiad for middle school students in Guangdong Province.
After 2018, her sons and daughters were born one after another, and she became a mother. Despite this, she is still unwilling to give up the pursuit of "responsibility" for students and her children, and takes care of school and family with love and wisdom, completing the two-way rush of "teacher" and "mother".
At school, she is a teacher and a mother to every student. She can always quickly and accurately identify the status of students, some of whom often skip breakfast from single-parent families, some have conflicts with their parents, and some have put too much pressure on themselves to study...... Bring breakfast to the children, act as a bridge between students and parents, and treat each student with care.
At home, she is a mother and a "teacher" who cultivates excellent children. She knows the importance of companionship, every night thunder does not move to read picture books to children, tell stories, teach children to distinguish between right and wrong, know etiquette and etiquette, take children to get close to nature as much as possible on weekends, and try to arrange various experience activities for children, she admitted that she does not belong to the type of mother of the chicken baby, more like a Buddhist mother, her love for children is not necessarily perfect, but it must be the most beautiful.
▲ Xu Zhixian and her two babies.
Home-school co-education, towards happiness
Mr. Liang Huai said: "In life, she is the head of affairs at home, because I can accompany the children on weekends and holidays at work, and the time spent with the children is relatively small, not to mention the cultivation and education of the children...... Everything is in place. ”
According to Liang Huai's recollection, during the epidemic, when his son was more than two years old, he was still working in the unit at night, and his son suddenly had herpangina and convulsions caused by high fever, she was also frightened at that time, and she was at a loss, but she quickly calmed down, dialed the 120 emergency number, did not rest all night, and has been accompanying the child in the hospital, and settled the child at 6 o'clock the next day, asked a good nurse, and went to work on time. Loving your child is a mother's responsibility.
Her former colleague Zhuang Hongbing teacher (just retired this year) said: "Zhixian is a teacher I watched grow up, as soon as she graduated and I in an office, she is a teacher with a high understanding, the class teacher worked for a month to get started, the class performance is rising, and the relationship with parents and students is particularly harmonious, and the class performance is outstanding." She now juggles the two roles of secretary of the Youth League Committee and a geography teacher, and she has done an excellent job. She is very thoughtful, trying to integrate the project teaching of the subject into the practice of cultivating people with virtue, and taking students to nature, museums, and science and technology museums to study, and the children are very happy. ”
This is the care of our students, and it is also our responsibility as a teacher. Whether it is family or school, she is always busy going back and forth, always with love and responsibility, and leading students and families to a happy future.
The most beautiful gift, go both ways
When asked about her most memorable Mother's Day gift, Hui Zhixian said: "The children at home and at school are my best Mother's Day gifts. ”
Her first Mother's Day gift came from her son "Jinshan", and the reason why she chose the nickname "Jinshan" was because she hoped that he would have the quality of being as hard as gold and having a character as stable as a mountain. The arrival of her son taught her what it means to be a parent and gave her a deeper understanding of education.
Her second Mother's Day gift came from her daughter "Milky Way", and the reason why she was nicknamed "Milky" was because she hoped that her life would be beautiful and bright. The arrival of her daughter left her scrambling and pushed her to find a balance between work and life. Working like an ant and living like a butterfly is her attitude towards work and life, and she feels that a bright life and career are important.
Her third Mother's Day gift came from the lovely students. 11 years of teaching career, from the beginning of six classes of 300 students to the current teamwork for the whole school, because of the love for education, students also brought her "surprise", she guided 99 students to win awards in provincial and municipal competitions, was named Bao'an District care for the next generation of advanced individuals.
On the day of the interview, we saw a note on Mr. Xu's desk, which read: "Dear Mr. Xu, I am honored to be your student. In your class, your classmates are in a good mood, bursting into laughter from time to time, and the fatigue of the day is in vain. Under your leadership, our class has improved steadily, and my geography score has improved from 41 to 46, thank you for your hard work. A few simple words from Chen Jiahui, a student in the second (13th) class of junior high school, expressed the students' love and gratitude to Teacher Xu. Teacher Xu Zhixian said with a smile that after 11 years, she has a drawer full of small notes and greeting cards like this, but every time she receives such a note from a student, she is still very moved, which is a happy record of hard work every day.
Source: Jingbao APP
Reporter: Gu Rong, Wang Wenli, Wang Jingbo
Photo: Courtesy of the interviewee