Speaking of the class he is leading now, Zhang Ai, the first class teacher and Chinese teacher of the seventh grade of Dongkai Experimental School, has a smile on his face that is gratifying and with a little pride.
"The children in this class are very lively, optimistic, have a very good attitude, and are very polite." Zhang Ai summarized some of the most obvious characteristics of her class. The reason why these children have such a good state is probably because there is a "Boss Ai" who looks at their bits and pieces in his eyes, puts them in his heart, and loves them in the right place.
"Retrograde"
Condense warmth with action
"I think that being a teacher must be a class teacher, because the contact between the class teacher and the students is all-round, it is to really enter the world of students, and the sense of achievement brought by being a class teacher cannot be replaced by only being a classroom teacher." Zhang Ai said.
As a teacher, most of the time, students come towards themselves, but Zhang Ai often "retrograde", go to the students, go to the parents, go deep into the students' families, and enter the students' study. Since taking over the class, Zhang Ai's home visit rate to the students in the class has reached more than half. During the epidemic period, when he could not go to the students' homes, Zhang Ai conducted online home visits to the students in the class who were in difficulty and marginal students, to understand the online learning situation and the preparation for the geography examination, check the homework, solve the problems, give parents method guidance, and conduct psychological counseling for the students.
Previously, a student in the class accidentally broke his arm during the holidays, and could not go to school after the school started, Zhang Ai gathered several classmates and parents, brought fruit, and came to the student's home to visit him, this student usually spoke little in the class, introverted, this time led by Zhang Ai to visit, the attention of the students was guided to this student, so that he felt the love from classmates and teachers. "I will find an opportunity to gather several parents and students in a student's home, so that I and the parents and students can communicate in a relaxed and casual atmosphere, many problems may be found and solved in the chat, and every parent and student will have such an opportunity." 」
Zhang Ai believes that children's problems are closely related to parents, so when she educates students, she often brings parents and uses various ways to guide parents to accompany their children more, pay more attention to children, and encourage children. Under Zhang Ai's care and efforts, her class has a temperature, and students, parents, and teachers are nourished by love and grow together in this warm collective.
Zhang Ai, a teacher at Dongkai Experimental School, discussed the problem with the students.
Spring wind and rain
Moisturize the youth of youth
Students in the junior high school stage are in the critical period from childhood to adolescence, especially in the seventh and eighth grades, the students' bodies and psychology have undergone tremendous changes, and the teenagers' minds have become rich and sensitive, with the simplicity and beauty that belong to this age, but also accompanied by the unique ignorance and confusion of this age.
Zhang Ai's first impression is good-looking, beautiful white face, gentle smile like a spring breeze, soft shoulder-length straight hair, and a pair of round-frame glasses that make her look more literary and artistic, she almost meets everyone's expectations of teachers in middle school, such an affinity appearance, coupled with delicate mind and understanding, so that Zhang Ai has become the simple beauty of caring for teenagers, and the "Ai Boss" who relieves teenagers' ignorance and confusion, when joking, students call her so affectionately.
There is a very well-behaved and introverted girl in Zhang Ai's class, but one day this girl inexplicably does not want to go to school, and also shows a particularly negative attitude towards life. After Zhang Ai learned about the situation, he called the girl and said softly: "If you are not unwell, the teacher hopes that you can come to school." After the girl came to the school, Zhang Ai did not immediately call the girl to talk, ask the reason or make a request, but quietly observed, put more attention on the girl, and conveyed affirmation and encouragement to the girl through the class meeting public praise and more eye contact.
After a few days, Zhang Ai received a call from the girl's mother, saying that the child's state has recently improved a lot, the mood is cheerful, and also took the initiative to tell her mother that the teacher praised her at the class meeting. Watching this girl become more and more lively in the class, Zhang Ai gained a sense of accomplishment and was even more moved. She understood that this girl may be reborn due to some problems in her original family, which caused her to fall into self-denial and self-doubt, which was already introverted. And what she really needs is to be seen, to be noticed, to be affirmed, to make her feel that she is also loved.
This girl may not know how deep understanding and love are behind the right eye contact and encouraging words she received from her teachers when she was young. She was fortunate that in the initial difficulties of life, there was a teacher full of wisdom who cared for her with his heart and led her to the light.
The original intention of preaching has not been forgotten
The mission of the profession will be achieved
Zhang Ai's mother is also a teacher, and Zhang Ai has always remembered what her mother said - as a teacher, the first thing is to have solid knowledge and do a good job in class. The longer he taught, the clearer this sentence became in Zhang Ai's life. Since teaching for 10 years, Zhang Ai has continuously explored new ways to teach and find ways to mobilize students' learning ability of independent inquiry.
In the seventh grade Chinese textbook, there is a text is the biographical work of Austrian writer Stephen Zweig - "The Great Tragedy", which tells the story of the whole process of the British explorer Scott and his party in the process of exploration in the ice and snow-covered Antarctica, from despair to tragic destruction, and every character in the text has a touching and shocking spiritual quality.
When teaching this text, Zhang Ai asked students to make a commemorative book for the protagonist Scott and his party, which contained a preface, content introduction, gifts and other contents. This teaching method makes students feel fresh, mobilizes students' interest and enthusiasm for independent inquiry and thinking, and allows students to play and express freely, and finally there are real works presented.
Not giving up every student is also Zhang Ai's insistence on teaching. There is a student who is always lazy in his homework, Zhang Ai did not hit and criticize him, but always paid attention to his learning and ideological trends, often arranged for him to do what he could for the class, and every time he was finished, he would be publicly praised in the class. Zhang Ai also specially appointed him as the leader of the study group, responsible for supervising and reminding students with poor self-control to learn online this semester. In the exercise and encouragement, the student improved his self-confidence and developed a good habit of submitting homework on time.
Every time school ends, Zhang Ai will send the students in the class to the intersection on the north side of the school, and when they are about to disband, the students will turn back to her and say "goodbye teacher", which is very pleasant. This "ritual" that is repeated every day makes Zhang Ai feel moved every time, and perhaps many years later, this picture scene that has been repeated countless times, the sincere and happy smiling face, will still remain in Zhang Ai's mind particularly clearly, warming her life, just like she once accompanied those teenagers so hard and warmed their youth.
(Reporter Chen Minghui)