How to be a life coach for students

The "Regulations on the Work of Primary and Secondary School Class Teachers" points out that "class teachers should strive to become life mentors for primary and secondary school students". It can be seen that the class teacher is not only a manager, but also a life mentor for students. This is a new understanding and new positioning of the role of the class teacher.

The homeroom teacher is an educational event planner

The German educationalist Distowie said: "The art of teaching is not in imparting skills, but in motivating, awakening, inspiring." "I try to carry out a variety of activities in the class, so that students can experience and pay attention to real life, and cultivate their sense of autonomy and self-improvement.

Carry out the "Be Yourself" campaign. The class co-wrote and studied the class song "We Are Not The Same". Highlight the spiritual qualities of self-confidence, autonomy and self-improvement in the class song to help students establish the belief of "doing themselves well". We also make fabric stickers with the words "Be the Best Of Yourself" and ask parents to help embroider them on school uniforms to remind students to work towards this goal.

Through this activity, we hope to help students accept themselves. When students have good qualities, they lay the foundation for better getting along with others and better integrating into society.

Conduct the "His Story" reading and speaking activity. We instruct students to read biographies and hold speech contests. We recommend that students read biographies, such as "Franklin Autobiography", "Su Dongpo Biography", etc., and students can also freely choose inspirational biographies of interested.

Through reading books and speeches, students realize many life stories that are either optimistic, or indomitable, or enthusiastic, and then have their own thinking and understanding of life.

In addition, we also carried out a series of activities in the class to optimize interpersonal relationships, such as "Me and So-and-So", recording the stories of ourselves and the people around us, which enhanced the mutual understanding between teachers, students and students, and the interpersonal relationship between the class became increasingly harmonious.

The homeroom teacher is a student life planner

The best life planner for students is themselves, and the role of the class teacher is not to "plan" the life of the student, but to "inspire" the student to plan his own life. Based on this idea, we launched the "Write a Letter to Myself after 3 Years" activity in the first grade of junior high school, so that students can think about how to spend junior high school life and how to use these three years to lay the foundation for their entire life.

Psychologist Carl Rogers once said: "A good life is a process, not a static state, it is a direction, not an end." "Imagine life, let students understand the direction of their own way forward, not just stick to the current learning." Education can not only let students immerse themselves in learning, only let students understand the world, they can go to this big stage.

The homeroom teacher is a family education instructor

Family education is not to educate parents, but to provide parents with guidance on the way they get along with their children. The class teacher must first guide parents to "be a leader", and parents who require their children to do it must first do it and set an example for their children.

We encourage parents to be a learning parent. When children are learning, parents can read their favorite books or professional books to influence and awaken their children's learning initiative with their own work achievements; they can read family education monographs and read a book with their children to create a good family reading atmosphere. Parents from heavy supervision to heavy companionship, from heavy intelligence to heavy character, from heavy preaching to heavy edification, gradually become experts who understand children and education, become parents of children's mouths" and become children's idols and friends.

The times are changing, and the class teacher in the new era must reposition his role. We are not chattering "preachers", not "foundries" who do everything, and we are not mechanical "managers", but a loving life coach.

(The author's affiliation is Hefei No. 68 Middle School in Anhui Province)

China Teachers Daily, October 27, 2021, 10th edition

Author:Liu Erwei Zhou Hong