Meet a career you love
It's the luck of a lifetime
Yang Jijie
Because I had to participate in the education work symposium organized by the District Education Bureau, I reviewed my teaching experience and wrote the third resume in my life.
The first one was when I graduated from university, and the head of the department looked at my resume and said: If every graduate has such a beautiful resume, what pressure will there be on the employment rate of our department! The leaders of the Yibin Municipal Personnel Bureau read the resume and signed me on the spot, and the "iron rice bowl" was stuffed into the hand before graduation.
Young people's resumes are stuffed with "seven awards and eight major forms", and they want to prove that they are very good. I was no exception.
But after years of tempering, I picked up the pen again to write my resume, but I didn't know what to write except for the birth date and ID number. It's not that there is "nothing to write" because of "doing nothing", but more importantly, those things and things that I felt proud of when I was young, and the certificates and awards that I would receive all the way through five levels and six will be obtained, are already the normal state of life and are not worth "high-profile". Now I may have read too much of "Zhuangzi", the idea of "Zi Fei Fish" is getting heavier and heavier, and it seems that I pay more attention to the inner growth and harvest in life.
In the past few years, I have been going to turn to psychology books, and I really want to study my behavior and psychology clearly, but as a result, the more I look at it, the more confused I become, because it is difficult to classify myself according to books, what a complicated person! Since it is so complicated, let's follow the reasoning method of psychology and find the reason from the childhood and family growth environment!
I was born in a place called the Long March in Gansu. In order to avoid the strict family planning policy and to complete my grandfather's filial piety performance of "having a grandson", my parents hid in Tibet during the ten months they were pregnant with me, and finally let me fall to the ground. Because of the particularity of my father's career in a state-owned enterprise, my study career was very bumpy: this year in Gansu, next year in Shaanxi, and the year after next in Shanxi or Hubei. It is estimated that childhood is used to a changing life, so I have always disliked "set the same". When I became an adult, I always wanted to change my life a little more, such as learning a musical instrument on a whim, and wanting to experience a band life; For example, to take the press card, tour guide card, yoga teacher and trainer certificate...... When everyone thinks that I am "indefinite" and "love to toss", I am enjoying the happiness of life's infinite possibilities. Of course, my father, an "amateur poet" who loves life, toss, and literature, and my mother, a retired athlete who loves sports, had a great impact on my childhood. Because I discovered this, I especially like to let parents pay attention to the impact of their three views and words and deeds on their children in my work.
Of course, because there has been no fixed interpersonal relationship in my childhood, my concept of human feelings is very weak, others have a small hair, and in my world, the short-term playmates of childhood are vague memories. When I was in junior high school, I wrote a short novel and recalled all my good friends who had an impression, but when I moved from college, my parents accidentally lost my "baby" box, so my memories of childhood became even more blurry.
Grandpa is a veteran who participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and made meritorious contributions, and he is still enthusiastic when he mentions the party and the country in his 90s. The first of Grandpa's family motto is to be loyal to the motherland, and the old Yang family is not allowed to be traitors. Growing up in such an environment, I have carved the concept of patriotic education into my DNA, so whether it is Tang poetry and Song lyrics in Chinese classes or sports activities between classes, I will unconsciously infiltrate the patriotic theme. I wrote an article before, the general content is "One of the effective ways to keep children from hollow heart disease is patriotic education, with the feelings of a great country, to support the child's worldview and pattern, a person with great love in his heart, it is not easy to be depressed for a little little thing." ”
Looking back on my primary, junior and high school days, what left the deepest impression was not studying, but the scene of my parents reading books and reciting "Ci Hai" as leisure and entertainment. My dad likes to write poems, especially poems that imitate Mao Zedong's style, and even if they are not adopted once, it does not affect his creative enthusiasm, and he will happily publish his works in the staff newspaper and blackboard newspaper in the factory. Under their influence, I think it is very interesting to study, as long as you are willing to learn, you can take the first test.
When I was a student, I was fortunate that every school attached great importance to a sense of ritual and quality education. The principal of Gansu Village Primary School wears an old but cleanly washed gray tunic, inserts a fountain pen in the chest pocket of his jacket, and solemnly leads everyone to raise the national flag and sing the national anthem every week. In the weekly labor class, the principal will bring the whole school teachers and students to participate. To plant trees around the playground, the principal taught us how to dig tree pits, of course, most of the village children can, stupid is me, the "city baby", the first time I learned to plant trees, so excited that I want to go to school at night to water the trees I planted.
In the northern countryside in the 90s of the 20th century, fires were lit in the houses, so in late autumn, the school would organize an activity of going up the mountain to chop firewood. Each class was led by the head teacher, who brought dry food and water, pulled a cart, and each student carried a shovel and set off from the school up the mountain. The female teacher is more ferocious than the male teacher, pulling the male teacher to compete to see which class fills the car first. So someone on this hill threw a "smoke bomb" and said, "We're full!" Someone on the hill immediately shouted, "It's just full?" Let's all sit down and start nibbling on the second piece of dry food!" Another hill shouted again, "The firewood is also full, and the dry food has been eaten, let's go, go back!" The whole valley reverberated with our laughter in waves. On the way back, the teacher would also ask us to put some firewood at the door of the lonely old man's house.
The happiness that I brought during the two years of studying at the village elementary school was a healing existence in my life.
When I was in junior high school, every year on Lei Feng's study day, the whole school was dispatched, and the teacher took us to sweep the street, help the shops on both sides of the street clean the windows, and go to the nursing home to clean up. So I was fortunate to receive dozens of people "thank you" in the morning, and I thought: I can do such a meaningful thing when I am a child, and it is so meaningful to be Lei Feng! Therefore, after becoming a teacher, I organized students to work together, do public welfare, and do meaningful things together, so that my students could feel this happiness, and also to bring themselves to relive that happiness.
When psychology is looking for the reasons for the current words and deeds, it does not "just talk about things", but starts from childhood, so I "trumpet" recalled so many student days that had nothing to do with work.
But I really think that by remembering myself clearly when I was a student, I can empathize in time when I am a teacher, and I will not stand in "I am your teacher!" I've seen a lot of students like you!" to treat students. I don't want the students who pass by me to have more unbearable memories because of my words and deeds, so that my life will have more regrets.
When I was in high school, my rebellious period came. Dad's "rebellious period" seems to have come, unwilling to live a smooth life, and retired early from state-owned enterprises, wanting to "spread his wings and fly high" in middle age and start his own business. Since then, the home has become "lively". I seemed to have lived a terrible three years of high school that I didn't want to remember at all, and I just wanted to get to a far place, away from this environment.
In 2009, I taught the college entrance examination class in Yibin for a year, although they did very well in the exam, and I was named and praised by the Education Bureau, but that year was the year when I did not "enjoy" the happiness of being a teacher. I think they brought me into memories that I didn't want to recall. Just imagine, when I was in high school, if even one teacher gave an effective response to my request for help when I was confused, even if it was a word of encouragement, instead of a repressive education, maybe it would not have left such a big shadow on me.
Now that I am a teacher, I see troublemakers and rebellious children, and I think of myself in my third year of high school, I can't sit idly by, because I have been drenched in the rain, so I want to do my best to hold an umbrella for others. It's made by conscience, and it's also to hug the self back then.
After three years of high school, in line with the idea of "escaping - the farther away the better", I would rather read two books from other places than one from the local one, and I studied the normal preschool education major in a daze. Because I like my major and am interested in the courses, I have been in college for four years. I can't leave the first-class scholarship, and I also won the national first-class inspirational scholarship. At the beginning of my freshman year, I worked part-time as a part-time teacher, and the longest time I did was to go to the Children's Potential Development Center as a parent-child education lecturer, to host the National Champion Baby Competition at Beinmei, and to be a part-time dance teacher...... Thanks to the four years of college life, I have participated in many competitions and developed a lot of hobbies, which allowed me to reshape my life and heal the pain of three years of high school, so when others use "you will ...... if you can't get into high school" to coerce and put pressure on children, I take the "inducement": "Wow! Students, if it is possible in life, you must go to college once, great, for this happy life for four years, it is worth it to study and endure a lot of hardship!" The full life of the university made me no longer dislike the profession of teacher, but wanted to be a happy teacher.
During the two years of parent-child education in college, the sense of accomplishment brought to me by students and parents made me firm in my career determination to become a conscientious teacher. Some students came home during my summer vacation, crying and shouting for their mother to buy a train ticket and come to Shaanxi to find me. Some parents insisted on turning me into her brother and daughter-in-law and pulling me on a blind date, including my husband, who was also a parent who "got Teacher Yang back to Neijiang" from Yibin in order to help her daughter, and "set up a bureau" to let me marry back to Neijiang.
From 2009 to now, students and parents still contact me regularly. Students in Yibin brought their children to Neijiang to look for me, and there was no strangeness when they met the children for the first time, because my mother would often talk to people about the "Teacher Yang who looked younger than us......
Therefore, after being a teacher for so many years, one of the reasons why I can stick to my original intention and stay happy is that I can't bear to live up to the heart of students and parents.
Officially became a teacher in December 2008. The first semester of my senior year was coming to an end, and I was struggling with whether to become a soldier while preparing for the graduate school entrance examination, and I was called to the admissions office by the head of the department. I went in in a daze and saw a circle of people sitting in the office. "Introduce yourself!" A very blessed lady in the middle said to me while flipping through my resume. I don't know what happened yet, but I did a brief introduction. Then other people asked me professional and personal questions, and I answered them one by one. In the end, the lady asked me if I wanted to sign a contract, and explained to me that it was a new policy this year, and the Education Bureau, the Personnel Bureau and the employer would come to the school to select people. Although I still don't know what the policy was back then, anyway, I got the "iron rice bowl" in a daze. I went to Yibin Gao County Vocational High School to teach dance creation and children's literature courses for kindergarten teachers. In 2010, the principal recommended that I take a course at the university to teach educational psychology to tertiary students.
In 2011, for the sake of love, he quit his job in Yibin and went to Neijiang to participate in the public recruitment examination and taught in a kindergarten in Dongxing District.
The two years in Gao County, Yibin were two years of self-confidence as a teacher, because I helped the school win many unprecedented awards and organized a lot of activities for the school. When I resigned, the principal and the Education Bureau said a lot of words of gratitude and blessings, and these words have warmed me to this day. It was at that time that the enthusiasm of a young teacher was ignited.
Teach students traditional culture
Kindergarten teachers have a lot of workload, heavy tasks, and a lot of gains, the biggest gain is that I realized that preschool education is not just about singing, dancing, reading nursery rhymes, painting and handicrafts. A child's and family's education style and even attitude towards life may be formed in the child's early childhood. In particular, after being seconded to Han'an Primary School in 2016 to meet primary school students, I have a better understanding of how to do early childhood teaching. Cultivate children's reading hobbies and habits, language organization and expression skills; Encourage them to think independently and be bold and innovative; Guide them to find the things they love in life, and respect the children to stick to what they focus on; Cultivate children's interpersonal skills, frustration ability...... When it comes to nurturing children, kindergarten teachers have so much to work on. Of course, if the teacher can make novice parents or confused parents also pay attention to the all-round development of their children from their own point of view, and are willing to try to learn and change, then they can truly "teach them to fish", and the merit of being a teacher is +1.
Perform on the same stage with students
Although being a kindergarten teacher seems to me to be the most meritorious, but my body dragged down, and after another serious illness, I began to reflect: in another ten years, will I still have the physical strength to be able to bounce with the children from 8 in the morning to 6 in the evening? So I decided to change and was admitted to junior high school to become a teacher.
Teachers will say that junior high school children are the most difficult to teach, but I feel the most joy after teaching junior high school students. The rebellious junior high school students are the best in my place, not so much because the children are lucky to meet teachers who understand them, but because I am so lucky to meet children who make me happier every day.
Take students to make mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival
Although everyone saw that I, a more "maverick" wonderful teacher, led students to do those very successful "big things", but I also felt the helplessness of junior high school teachers.
For example, before junior high school, children's learning interests, habits, and abilities have not been formed, and they have missed the critical period of training, especially in our school, many of them are left-behind children who have graduated from primary schools in townships and towns. There are also parents who work outside the home, the elderly watch their children, and the children don't do anything except play games. It is already difficult for such a child to keep up with the pace in the class group, which makes the teacher fall into the entanglement of "no matter what, he is delayed at such a young age, regardless of him, the pace of teaching in the whole class will be delayed and he will not be able to move forward normally, delaying other children".
There are also some children who are rigid in primary school teaching based on memorization and memorization, and junior high school students are faced with "live" knowledge content, but they can't memorize it, and it is very difficult to learn. There are also those students who have average learning ability themselves, but have special talents in art and sports, cannot be admitted to model high schools......
Therefore, in junior high school, teachers not only correct students' previous learning methods, check and fill in the knowledge points that they have lacked before, but also prepare students for high school and university entrance examinations. If I teach a junior high school student stupidly, how miserable it will be for him to spend three years in high school.
Analysis of half-term exam papers
The old teacher introduced me to the experience, how to make the teacher save effort and the student score high? For example, in composition, the scoring principle of the high school entrance examination is that the handwriting is neat, the number of words is enough, and you can get a high score if you don't deviate from the topic, and there is no need to be as strict with students as you are to train writers. But I know that if I don't accumulate language literacy in junior high school, I don't have a chance in high school. Encourage children to write more and practice more, and help them contribute to the "Baicao Garden" column of Neijiang Daily; Organize the students in the class to compile the "Wonderful Pen and Flower Collection", and bind their excellent works into a book for internal circulation; Regularly organize poetry creation conferences, debates, flying flower orders, ancient poetry competitions, and "pair piercing" couplet competitions...... These contents seem to be not tested in the high school entrance examination, but they allow children to benefit from the college entrance examination and even for a lifetime.
Send teachers to the countryside
The reason why I feel that psychological education and moral education have never been able to let go is because I have been teaching for three years and have also followed the graduation life of college students. I have found that children who are "good" in reading may not be able to "thrive" after graduation. There are many units that can't stay for a long time, and every time I change units, I complain about the people and things of the unit in front of me, don't reflect on my own problems at all, and keep venting negative energy to be blacked out by me. is very talented, but there is no bottom line in life, he introduced him to work in a friend's company, but as a result, he almost collapsed his friend's company by "not speaking of martial arts", and finally he was imprisoned because of principle...... On the contrary, children with good mentality and good quality will go to society like a fish in water after graduation: they will not complain or be discouraged when they encounter difficulties, and they will be reliable and respond to things.
Therefore, in my three views, mental health and quality education are compulsory courses that must be paid attention to. If a college student has problems with his mental health and personality, then everyone from parents to teachers to schools is responsible.
Because of love, so initiative. In addition to the above work experience, I will also find ways to reach out to more schools and students. For example, I went to the Alliance Hope Primary School to teach, went to Zigong Private School to teach for free, and even went to Xinjiang to play, and dared to teach a lesson to local minority children when the language barrier was not understood......
Take students to the countryside on weekends to play in the mud
As I grow older, I accumulate more and more precipitation, and I feel more and more "handy" as a teacher, not only does not have a sense of burnout, but I feel more and more happy. Occasional confusion and helplessness, I will find a way to overcome it by myself.
I also heard people around me say to me, "Oh, it's a pity to be a teacher so capable." Regarding this sentence, if it were regarded as a compliment from others, I would laugh it off. But if it is regarded as a teacher, I will be very uncomfortable. Why is it a "pity" for a capable person to be a front-line teacher? If the teacher is positioned as someone who can only carry knowledge and has no other specialties, then how can he be expected to bring out excellent students who are better than the blue?
When I tell students about the articles "Why I Live" and "Dedication and Happiness", I will say: Living is not simply for fame and fortune, career success, and making others look up to you, nor is it simply for "doing what you want", but for doing meaningful things in action and reaping a sense of fulfillment in your heart.
Too many people in this world can't tell the difference between "work" and "career", and don't understand the meaning of "success" and "achievement". There are also too many people who have been trapped in the pain of "the moon and sixpence" all their lives, and it is important to figure out whether what they want is success in the eyes of others or the harvest they want in their hearts.
I'm glad I have a passion for being a teacher, it's not difficult to complete at all, and it's easy to be satisfied. The moon and sixpence can easily be both. I hope that in Chinese New Year's Eve 20 years, I will still be able to say, "I am so glad that I have taught all my life!"
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Source: Sichuan Provincial Office of Local Chronicles
Text/Photo: Yang Jijie (Chinese Teacher, Shengli Central School, Dongxing District, Neijiang City)
Contributed by: Neijiang Municipal Party History and Local History Research Office