Secondary class teacher: Be a watchman in the classroom

Be the watchman in the classroom

Northern Anhui Economic and Technical School Zhang Fei

The American writer Salinger has a popular novel called "The Catcher in the Wheat Field", which has a passage: "I will be a watchman in the wheat field in the future, and there are a group of children playing in a large wheat field." Thousands and thousands of small children, not a single adult nearby, I mean, except for me. I, for my part, am on the edge of the asshole's cliff; my duty is to watch over it. If any child comes to the edge of the cliff, I will catch him. I mean the kids are running wild and don't know where they're running. I've got to come out of nowhere and catch them. I do this all day, I just want to be a watchman in a wheat field. ”

I think the teachers of the secondary vocational school should be like the protagonist of the novel, Holden, whose vocation is to be a watchman, and the wheat field is their classroom. Their duty is to guide and educate these children with love and wisdom, so that they can get on the right track of life, so as not to go astray and fall into the abyss of.

Secondary vocational students are difficult to discipline and difficult to teach, which seems to be the consensus of all secondary vocational school teachers. Most of these secondary vocational students are students with poor academic performance and who are forced to enter secondary vocational schools if they cannot be admitted to ordinary high schools. They developed a bad habit in junior high school or society: smoking, drinking, fighting, getting tattoos, and blatantly falling in love.

Most of them are left-behind children, migrant children in the city, some of them also belong to single-parent families, poor families, disabled families, parents divorced, teacher discrimination, no one to discipline, coupled with the pollution of bad social atmosphere, resulting in these children have a series of psychological problems such as extreme personality, strange behavior, emotional impulses, and even disregard for life, violent tendencies. The most prominent manifestations of them are that they do things regardless of the consequences, have no reverence for parents and teachers, lack goals and directions for their future, and indulge in mobile games and some meaningless pastimes all day long.

In the face of such a group of students, as teachers in secondary vocational schools, especially as class teachers in secondary vocational schools, we must pay ten or even a hundred times more efforts and hardships than ordinary high school teachers in order to pull them back from the cliff of the and guide them on the right path.

When I first entered secondary vocational school and became a class teacher, I also suspected that I was not a teacher, but a nanny who served students twenty-four hours a day.

The student base is so poor, there are very few people who pay attention to the class, and even more blatantly collide with the teacher. You ask him why he didn't learn? He also rightfully told you to be nosy! You call his parents, and the parents tell you that he didn't study before, he has to know how to study hard, and I can send him to a school like yours.

In the face of such a group of students and parents, I have also felt angry, discouraged, lost, sunken, and even thought about resigning. But I know it's no use complaining, either change your career or change your career mindset, there's no other way.

As of today, it has been three years since I entered the secondary vocational school as a class teacher. After three years of protracted battle of wits and courage, I learned that they are not hopeless, not unsculptable dead wood, they have great energy and learning potential, but the key is that you have to find the key to open their hearts.

In my opinion, to be a good secondary vocational teacher, especially a secondary vocational class teacher, we must first do the following three points.

First, we must understand students and form a good teacher-student relationship.

These students who enter secondary vocational schools are ostensibly "problem students", but if you communicate carefully with them and their parents, you will find some stories behind the problems. No student is born with the desire to be a problem student.

Behind the problem students is often a problem family. For example, there are a large number of children from divorced families in secondary vocational schools, and the reason why the grades of these students have dropped rapidly and their personalities have begun to change has a lot to do with the divorce of their parents. Once the grades of these children decline, they will be discriminated against by teachers, coupled with the influence of bad habits in society, and will soon deviate from the right track of learning.

Affected by factors in the family, school, and society, vocational students generally have prominent problems such as inferiority complex in learning, self-comparison in personality, and disregard for the discipline of parents and teachers. In fact, this is all a manifestation of a lack of love and security. Therefore, as a secondary vocational teacher, first of all, on the basis of understanding students, respect them and care for them, and secondly, through a series of means to make them feel close to you, and build an equal, harmonious and good teacher-student relationship with students. This is very important for class management in the later stages.

Second, we must respect students and properly handle student issues.

In the eyes of many teachers in secondary vocational schools, the treatment of secondary vocational students must be strictly managed, otherwise they will kick their noses and face and be unscrupulous. Strict management of secondary vocational students, especially in terms of classroom discipline, I am very much in favor of strict management. But strictness is not authoritarianism, not arbitrarily suppressing students by their own nature, this strictness must be based on respect for students, and students have developed trust in you.

Many middle-level teachers, including my former homeroom teacher, one of my favorite mistakes was "small things become big". For example, students are late for class, sleeping, playing with mobile phones, looking in the mirror and other small things, some teachers see it and get angry and reprimand students in class. The result of the reprimand is often that the student confronts him in the face, or directly slams the door, leaving the teacher himself in the classroom to lose face and be very embarrassed. If the teacher continues to be unforgiving, things will get bigger and bigger.

Most of these middle school students are sixteen or seventeen years old, and they have strong self-esteem. When you reprimand them in class, they see it as trampling on their self-esteem. Many of the incidents of teacher-killing in today's society are indeed inseparable from these criminal students, but sometimes they have a lot to do with the way teachers deal with problems.

Different ways of dealing with the same problem will have different effects. I very much agree with the views of Teacher Yu Guoliang, an expert in moral education: for dealing with the problems of middle school students, the first thing is to calm down, count thirty seconds before getting angry, give yourself an emotional buffer, and then deal with the problem and avoid impulsively doing the wrong thing. Second, we must be prepared to fight a protracted war, the problems existing in middle school students have a long history, it is impossible to solve them at one time, and we should guide him to change slowly in the form of encouragement.

Third, we must believe in students and guide them to regain their self-confidence

Secondary vocational teachers, do not always look at secondary vocational students with colored glasses, do not always regard them as "poor students" and "problem students". Poor academic performance does not mean that these students are useless, and poor academic performance does not negate that they will not have a bright future. Not to mention that poor academic performance is not necessarily all to blame themselves, but it is also possible to blame the bastard parents, blame the irresponsible teachers, blame the school with chaotic management.

As a teacher, you must learn to think differently with students, consider problems from the perspective of students, understand what they think, understand their confusion and pain, and truly enter their spiritual world. For example, students go to sleep in class, it is likely that your teaching level is low, the teaching content is boring, and it does not attract the interest of students. The reason why the student disobeys your discipline is probably because you have never really cared for and understood him, and have not fulfilled your responsibility as a teacher.

As a secondary class teacher, I think the most important point is to help students find their own shining points and help them build self-confidence in life. As far as I know, many middle school students have very good academic performance in junior high school, just because of a small change, their grades have declined, and since then they have stagnated, not only losing confidence in learning, but also losing confidence in everything. Therefore, it is very important to establish the self-confidence of a middle-aged student, which often determines his future learning and professional development. How to build self-confidence, is that as long as this student has achieved even a little success in any aspect, you have to exaggerate, encourage him, let him taste the taste of victory, the joy of being praised.

Moreover, as long as you have a pair of eyes that find beauty, you will find that the group of middle-aged students we teach are all skilled and proficient in eighteen martial arts. For example, every year on Teachers' Day in our school, the school's female teachers will receive various handicrafts made by the students, and one of the students who majored in clothing even made a skirt by hand to give to her class teacher. The head teacher happily flaunted around.

Three years have passed, because of this group of children, I like this profession more and more, and I understand more and more the great significance of being a middle-level teacher. Although the students we train cannot go to Tsinghua and Peking University, nor can they go to 985 or 211, the chance of becoming a social elite is even more minimal. If they are lucky, they may be admitted to a second college in the province, and if they are unlucky, they may not go after graduating from college or even secondary vocational school.

A large proportion of them may become hotel attendants, restaurant cooks, car mechanics, kindergarten teachers, skilled factory workers, etc. in the future. Although their work may seem hard and undignified, it has made great contributions to the economic construction and development of society as a whole. They are the great craftsmen of the future, and I am proud to teach these middle school students.

I was reminded of a quote by the educator Sukhomlinsky to the effect that" was: "Students, each of you cannot become a billionaire or president of the country in the future, but each of you will be a father, a mother, a husband or wife of a family." So we must first learn to be a good person, and in the future we can be a good father, a good mother, a good husband, and a good wife. ”

I think that's what it means to be a secondary teacher, to train students to be a good person, a good father, a good mother, a good husband, a good wife, a good craftsman. I even think it's a lot more important and meaningful than producing a national president or a billionaire.

Finally, I would like to adapt Salinger's words and reiterate my educational ideals once again: I want to be a watchman in the classroom, with a group of children playing in the classroom. Thousands and thousands of small children, not a single adult nearby, I mean, except for me. I, for my part, am on the edge of the asshole's cliff; my duty is to watch over it. If any child comes to the edge of the cliff, I will catch him. I mean the kids are running wild and don't know where they're running. I've got to come out of nowhere and catch them. I do this all day, I just want to be a watchman in the classroom.

Author: Zhang Fei, North Anhui Economic and Technical School, Linquan County, Anhui Province