The first class of 2020 came a little later than ever. On the afternoon of September 16, Niu Jianfeng stood again in the tennis comprehensive training hall of Beijing Sport University after more than half a year of absence. The huge training hall was just her and the 9 students of the 2018 class of competitive sports undergraduate class, and the stadium was quiet, but the students were excited. The first lesson of the school mainly carried out some physical and restorative training, "it can be seen that most of the students did not practice too hard at home, the hands were born, scattered for more than half a year, a little compact." Niu Jianfeng, who has always given the students a stern impression, did not blame these children who were not serious enough, "have not fully recovered from the state of staying at home, it is understandable, it seems that the first two weeks will be based on recovery, re-adapt to collective life."
Before the class started, the lesson plan was changed three times
The night before the first class of the school year, the stadium of The University of Northern Sports opened early, and several students who were "extremely excited" in Niu Jianfeng's mouth could not wait to run to play a night of ball. Compared with the excitement of the students, their teacher Niu Jianfeng claimed to suffer from "school anxiety disorder" and that "in the first half of each semester, there are many things, like a war." At the special start of school after this special holiday, this anxiety disorder seems to be more serious. Before the students started the class, the teachers had been busy for a week, "meeting for a week, arranging the work of the new semester, emphasizing how to combine online and offline learning."
Niu Jianfeng's task this semester is not only to take this undergraduate class, but also to graduate courses. Normally, undergraduate classes take 16 weeks a semester and end around the end of December or early January. However, in order to prevent the recurrence of the epidemic in the winter this semester, the school required all courses to be completed in mid-December, so the course was compressed into 12 weeks. "The lesson plan has been changed three times, all the syllabus and training plans must be readjusted, and each hour must be accurately divided, and the progress cannot be delayed." Because of the compression of class hours, the original three classes a week became four times this semester, "there are also training classes that graduate students did not take last semester, and this semester will be made up." Graduate students' classes are not on the schedule and can only be given to them during lunch breaks."
The school also attaches great importance to epidemic prevention in the new semester, and specially invited doctors who have been on the front line in Wuhan to train teachers. "Schools require projects that can be done outdoors not indoors, but table tennis can't." Niu Jianfeng thought while listening to the lecture, "We have 9 students in a class, and I can let them practice at a table at a distance of each group, so that there is a relatively safe space." Although the epidemic prevention has been refined to various places, the filing still has to be there, "once there is an emergency, the course can be changed online at any time, after all, it has been on the line for one semester, there is experience, and the platform is also very skilled, as long as the courseware is modified."
The online experience mentioned by Niu Jianfeng is slowly accumulated in the past six months. "I started using the 'Rain Classroom' software, but the students could see me, I couldn't see them, one person was talking to the screen, and I didn't know if anyone was listening." Later, Niu Jianfeng switched to tencent conferences to teach students, everyone can see and hear each other, the interaction is enhanced, and the teaching effect is better. In the theory class, Niu Jianfeng will choose a ball for everyone to watch together, and then analyze the techniques and tactics to write a small paper; the training class will divide the students into groups of three and practice technical movements for an hour; the final exam is also conducted online, and the students have done theoretical examination papers and also conducted some physical examinations. "Still looking forward to the reopening of the school to return to normal, this online way for sports students, too restrictive."
On September 16, Niu Jianfeng's "first lesson of school" in 2020.
While accompanying my father in the hospital, I took online classes
When we met in mid-September, Niu Jianfeng wore a pin with the word "filial piety" on her left arm, and her face was a little tired, and she had just sent away her father who had died of esophageal cancer a month ago.
Many people say that Niu Jianfeng is ironclad, and in the past six months, her experience has indeed interpreted such a persona. Niu Jianfeng's lover is Liu Zhiqiang, the coach of the national team director Liang Jingkun, who began the "Wandering Earth" journey with the national table tennis team on the second day of the Chinese New Year this year. Originally, the "ironclad" Niu Jianfeng was not a problem to bring his daughter who was less than 5 years old alone, after all, Liu Zhiqiang could only go home once a week. But not long after the Spring Festival, bad news came, on February 10, Niu's father was diagnosed with cancer, Niu Jianfeng had almost no time to be sad or flustered, she began to quickly calculate where to "store" her daughter, and where to treat her father.
During that time, when the epidemic in China was at its worst, the school management did not let the teachers out of Beijing, so Niu Jianfeng asked a friend to drive his daughter back to his grandmother's house in Shijiazhuang, and then took his father from Baoding to Beijing for treatment. "My father couldn't eat at that time, and everyone was dead, but the hospitals in Beijing refused to accept treatment, let alone do gastroscopy, radiotherapy and other items that were at risk of infection." After sending his father to the 309 Hospital and only losing the nutritional solution for a week, Niu Jianfeng finally decided to return to Hebei to continue his treatment for his father.
At a better-conditioned cancer hospital in Zhuozhou, Niu Jianfeng packed a single ward to settle his father down and treat him every day. At this time, the daughter who had been away from her mother for a long time was also noisy and did not live at her grandmother's house, Niu Jianfeng simply took her daughter over, and the three generations of the family lived together in the ward for a month.
"When the school started on February 17th, I was busy with my father's business, and my colleagues helped me take two weeks of theory class." Niu Jianfeng is not embarrassed to let others substitute classes anyway, so he holds the computer and holds an online class in the ward, sometimes the naughty daughter will run to the camera and curiously chat with the big brothers and sisters, more often it is the doctors and nurses who come and go in the ward. "I left the hospital twice in the middle because of the online defense of the graduate student's graduation thesis, so serious occasions are really inappropriate in the hospital." But at that time, the nurse could not be found, so I had to ask a friend to help me see my father for two days. ”
In 2019, Niu Jianfeng and his daughter spent Teachers' Day with the students who came to send their blessings.
In May, the father, whose physical condition had improved, moved into an old-age apartment with the help of friends in Zhuozhou, niu Jianfeng returned to Beijing with his daughter, gave students online classes in Beijing from Monday to Thursday, and took the child to Zhuozhou to visit his father on weekends. Unexpectedly, when the epidemic broke out in Beijing in June, Niu Jianfeng could not leave Beijing for another month. During this period, her father's condition recurred, and she quickly made an emergency report and went back to accompany her father for a month until the old man was sent away. After dealing with the aftermath, it was time to start school, Niu Jianfeng, who had not let go of his breath, looked back at the past six months, glad that so many friends helped her like family, accompanied her father on the last journey, and also thanked her father for his final thoughtfulness, "The time when my father left just did not affect the start of this semester."
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——The full text was published in the 10th issue of "Table Tennis World" in 2020