Shen Si: Small passwords and big talents

Small passwords and big talents

——Chat with Teacher Tao Hui, a first-grade teacher of Xishan Huayuan Primary School in Yuhuatai District, Nanjing

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Principal Yan: Dear experimental teachers, tomorrow morning between classes and three or four classes, Mr. Shen Si came to the school to organize the "Shensi Education Service Studio" offline discussion, and invited 16 experimental teachers to overcome difficulties to participate in the whole process of transfer, and the location was still in the conference room on the second floor.

Thursday, October 22

Shen Si: @Tao Zi Is Tao Hui a teacher? Are you the teacher who expressed concern at the morning seminar about the relationship between the release of inspiration and discipline in students? Your concern is closely linked to the reality that schools in our country do not produce creative talent! It is worth studying in depth. Can you describe your morning remarks in words when you have time?

Teacher Tao: Okay. (Teacher Tao sent the following text titled "Don't Let Discipline Become the Shackles of Thinking" at more than 10 o'clock that night:)

【Background】

I was in the first grade class. Love is the characteristic of children in the lower grades, and at the same time love expression, love is recognized, love teachers, love classmates, simple nature, simple thinking. After the previous literacy, pinyin and the current stage of the text learning, it was found that the students in the class were particularly brainy and active in thinking, and they could always give people surprises in the classroom, and they were also particularly praised. 【Classroom Example】

1． Learn the pinyin "ao ou iu" part

The distinction between iu and ui is a difficult point for children. In the classroom, I always advocate that students use their brains and use their own methods to distinguish, which is far easier to read and remember than the teacher's simple teaching. At first, one or two classmates, from its external form, said that i is in front of iu, and u is ui in front, which is still difficult for most children, because this is the way of memory with rational thinking. Students in this age group are more likely to use image thinking. As a teacher, I need to constantly stimulate their potential independent thinking ability, I pretend to think and groan, there are three or four children, but also constantly tapping their fingers on their foreheads, as if the method of memory is running into their own brains. At this time, the thinking state of Wang's eyes turned, counted his heart, and said: "Teacher, we can think of i as a small ant, and u is a huge elephant." When the little ant is in the front, the elephant in the back will say yo yo yo (iu iu) to it, you are really good (iu) show; when the elephant is in the front, when the little ant is in the back, the little ant will say feed (ui ui ui), wait for me. After listening, everyone laughed. My heart also secretly rejoiced, and consciously gave him a thumbs up, this child can come up with such a method, I am both surprised and feel that everything is reasonable, after all, this is in the school literacy 1 "Heaven and Earth People" group words can say the word "groundbreaking".

2． An extension about the "car"

In "Language Garden III", there is about the flowering of "car", which is mainly divided into three parts, the type of car, the action related to the car, and the parts of the car. Just talk about the type of car, the children can not suppress, battery cars, trains, cars, trucks, trucks, garbage trucks, ambulances, trains, more and more, the more said more energetic, Zhu classmate is an acute child, see I have not shouted to him, directly raised my hand rushed to my front, such enthusiasm, I can not sit idly by, ordered him, "teacher I know some luxury cars, Lamborghini, Porsche, Rolls-Royce, Maybach", surprised by his reserves, asked him, it turned out that his home is a car service company, You may be talking about the brand of the car. In this way, the conversation box could not be closed, and other students rushed to say, tricycles, RVs, tractors... The sound of answers coming and going in class.

3． Study of the text "Autumn"

"It's gone, the money is gone; the son, the good boy." This is a nursery rhyme made up by Zhao Yibo in the class when distinguishing between the near characters "has" and "son".

The discernment of morphological characters is the focus of language learning. The first text "Autumn" appeared, for them, there is difficulty, I decided to leave the problem to the students to solve, in this aspect to be a "lazy" teacher, in the preparation of lessons, I do not do any thinking, I am afraid that my thinking will limit the child's thinking, I want to help them, but unconsciously let them fall into my thinking trap mode. Because of the previous experience of Wang Zihao's classmates making up children's songs, I had expectations for them, thinking that they could combine what they said with a little modification, and sure enough, after several classmates said that there was only a "horizontal" difference, Zhao Yibo confidently raised his hand and said, "It's over, the money is gone; zizizi, good child." "The battle is neat and easy to remember, since the money is dropped, why not use the teaching stick in your hand, because of the snobbery, use the image memory, and treat the horizontal as a string of copper coins of the ancients, no horizontal, it means that the money has fallen, and it is a good child who picks up the money and returns it in time, and they are very innocent and laughing."

The above three cases really happened in their own classrooms. On the one hand, I lament that the children's thinking is active, on the other hand, I do not accurately perceive which factors in the classroom have caused the activity of their thinking, which may be the mutual influence between students, may be my verbal stimulation, may also be my permission to their various forms, there is no deliberate discipline, or it may be some small rewards, because from the "groundbreaking" of the first lesson, the "red fire" behind, as long as there is their own ideas or the knowledge accepted by the students, they can stamp the seal of the little star. The title of this article may not be so precise. Because I don't see specific determinants in the description of my classroom examples. Therefore, in the classroom after that, for me, I must not only pay attention to the generation of the class, but also pay attention to the reasons for generating these, and the most important thing is to capture these.

Shen Si: You said at the meeting that you were worried that these students might lose the inspiration and rich imagination that flashed out of these moments, what is the reason why you have such worries?

Teacher Tao: My idea is that maybe our teachers manage too much, want too much, want to achieve the best in everything, draw a line for them, a little bit of a feeling of drawing a prison, circle themselves and the students inside, and answer the questions should meet my presuppositions. For example, when children are on the active point of thinking, they will unconsciously have body movements to help