Text/Li Shu
"Hiccup Teacher" really makes people cry in the cinema.
It is based on Brad Cohen's biographical novel Call Me Number One, which tells the story of a teacher with Tourette syndrome who leads a group of problem students in a slum to turn the tables against the wind.
After watching "Hiccup Teacher", do you also remember the teacher who had a turning effect on his life, so that he is grateful for the zero and never forgets it.
"There are no children who can't teach well, only teachers who can't teach." "Interest is the best teacher." In order to teach well and awaken children's initiative in learning, teachers continue to innovate moves. For example, the teacher holds the hunting stick, the history teacher enters the classroom wearing the emperor's clothes, and the art teacher dresses himself as a clown...
Education requires teachers to maintain youthful vitality and enthusiasm all the time, and also needs some moves. In the educational film "Hiccup Teacher", Naina uses three educational methods: "empathy", "broken window effect" and "frog effect".
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"Empathy": What children need is respect and acceptance
Psychologist Rogers said: "Empathy is the ability to stand on the other person's side and experience the inner world of others. ”
Empathy is more effective in children than any big truth. It can make a rebellious child become submissive; make an out-of-place child willing to listen; make a violent child gentle; let a child with inferiority dare to express himself...
Because they feel understood and accepted.
Naina has Tourette's disease, which is currently known to be due to dopamine hypersensitivity in the basal nucleus of the brain and problems with the connection between the basal nucleus and the cerebral cortex, resulting in chronic, repetitive, semi-involuntary movements and vocal convulsions.
As a result, Naina often loses control of making strange noises, such as dog barking or popping sounds and neck twitches. Naina's Tourette's disease is a rare disorder of mental control disorder that has not been cured so far. From the age of 6, he repeatedly made a loud "bi bo" sound, and since then she has been regarded as an "outlier" by those around her.
In the dining room, in the classroom, at the concert, in any place where she had to be quiet, she was surrounded by disgusted and puzzled eyes. She, like the people around her, hated herself and her illness and was reluctant to appear in any public place where quiet was needed.
The principal of the school discovered this, invited her to the school concert, and after she helplessly ruined the atmosphere of the whole concert, invited her to the stage. Naina was terrified, thinking that she would face another merciless rebuke and humiliation.
Unexpectedly, the headmaster asked kindly, "Why do you make these strange sounds?" ”
Naina said in a low voice, "Because I have Tourette's disease." ”
Principal: "How did your classmates treat you?" ”
Naina: "My classmates laughed at me. ”
Principal: "What did the teachers do with you?" ”
Naina: "The teacher will kick me out of class." ”
Headmaster: "How do you want me to help you?" ”
Naina: "I want to be like the other kids." ”
The principal looked at Nana, "This is the school, and every child is here to learn." Today you taught us the Tourette. On behalf of the school, I assure you that you will be treated equally. ”
So the students applauded, long live understanding, and Naina stepped down from the stage full of happiness. For the first time, she felt accepted, and from then on she would never feel inferior because of this disease again, and she would no longer hate herself.
William Yeats said: "Education is not filled with a bucket of water, but a fire." ”
The Headmaster's empathy and encouragement, like a torch, ignited Naina's hope of a whole new world. Since then, Naina hopes to be a teacher who respects and loves her students like a principal, and she has been working hard for this.
When she graduated from school with honors and a degree in education, she turned down her father to work for the bank she had contacted earlier.
In order to become a good teacher like the principal, she circled all the schools in the city on the map, one by one to interview, the interview was not particularly smooth, she interviewed 24, was rejected by 24, the reason is that she will make strange noises during the lecture, affecting the teaching effect. Just when she was disappointed and discouraged, the 25th, St. Nottkel, the best school in the city, decided to hire her. She was so excited.
In response to the Indian government's "right to education" policy philosophy, slum children can also be educated in the same school as children from well-off families.
And Naina was admitted to bring these slum children, who are recognized in the school as poor quality, poor sense of family education, poor character, and poor learning.
The principal took Naina to the door of the classroom, pointed to the 14 students in the slum, and said to her, "This is the student you are facing, you can think about it again." ”
Naina said, "They are all children, how bad can they be?" ”
Naina always felt that she should pass on the empathy education given to her by the principal to more children. When a child is confused in life, it is a light that can give her hope and direction.
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The "broken window effect": Don't label your child badly
However, things did not go as smoothly as expected. Naina did her homework and was faced with the children's pranks on the first day of class. She never had the opportunity to empathize with the bear children.
They blow bubble gum during class and stick bubble gum under the table. Her phone was written on leaflets by the children and posted everywhere, with massages and babysitters attached.
A male student also openly ridiculed her: "If you can't talk, don't teach us, if you say two words, you have to burp four times." Naina was so angry that she bit her arm and slapped the window. She asked for a parent-teacher conference, but no parent came. She sat helplessly in the empty classroom, not knowing what to do.
So she changed the parent-teacher conference to a home visit. She went to the students' homes one by one and found that these parents also wanted to change their children's status quo and let them change their fate through learning, but they also had more than enough to wait in line for a long time to go to the toilet in the slums.
Through home visits, Naina learned about the children's living situation. She found that children, some of whom made money from gambling, some who made money after school by repairing car tires... faced severe survival dilemmas and the contempt of powerful groups across the wall.
Although the school agreed to let them be educated with the children of the rich, they did not pay much attention to them, and these children wanted fair treatment and the shrinking self-esteem caused by the dry pockets. It also brings violent growth and a mentality of hatred of the rich.
Naina suddenly understands their situation, and their broken jar and broken mentality at this moment is actually a chain reaction of the "broken window effect" in educational psychology.
Philip Zimbardo, a psychologist at Stanford University in the United States, conducted an experiment in 1969:
He got two identical cars and parked one in a middle-class neighborhood in Palo Alto, California, and the other in the relatively cluttered Bronx of New York. The one parked in the Bronx, he took off the license plate, opened the roof, and it was stolen that day. And the one in Palo Alto was ignored for a week. Later, Simbadu used a hammer to knock a large hole in the glass of the car. As a result, after only a few hours, it was gone.
Revelation: The "Broken Window Theory" holds that undesirable phenomena in the environment, if left unchecked, will induce people to imitate them, or even intensify them. For example, in a building with a few broken windows, if those windows are not repaired, there may be vandals who will destroy more windows.
A wall, if some graffiti appears and is not washed away, soon the wall is full of messy and unsightly things.
A sidewalk has a little confetti, and soon there will be more garbage, and eventually people will discard the garbage on the ground as a matter of course.
If a child or a class of children is labeled "poor", "you can't do it", "We don't like you", "You are poor". Being hated, disliked, deeply abandoned and out of place is rooted in their hearts. Criticism, criticism, and accusation are like broken windows. Let them less and less want to be self-motivated, self-abandonment, and even fall into the abyss of despair.
When Naina discovers why they skip class, the roots of the play, she decides to help them. On the first day of class after Naina's home visit, the students once again caused a prank explosion, and the window glass was blown away. Naina had just pressed against the collapse caused by the explosion. The principal came to her and the students again, and the principal was so angry that he decided to disband the class, believing that the students were helpless.
Naina glanced at the students, and she had broken down several times, but she had never thought of giving up on them. She defended them vigorously, explaining to the principal that the explosion was caused by her own chemical experiments and had nothing to do with them.
Because of Naina's protection, the children also felt loved and valued, and let down their guard. Naina took the opportunity to teach them a lesson in their hearts:
She took a piece of chalk and drew a horizontal line on the blackboard, and the chalk made a "second-click" noise; she broke one of the chalk and drew a horizontal line on the blackboard, and the chalk did not make any noise.
She told her students: Sometimes, just make a little change. This is the difference between "why" and "why not".
Why change? Why not change it?
Naina's protection of the child repairs the child's broken self-esteem, and gives them goals and hopes, so that they know that through hard work, they can change the status quo and get respect.
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The "frog effect", education needs to be unconsciously warmed
In order to keep the class, Naina made a 4-month guarantee to the principal, and she also told the students about this guarantee so that they all knew their current situation. So she and her students made a 4-month performance improvement and change agreement, and she began to discover the potential of each child.
Let children who like to gamble discover their mathematical potential;
Let children who work in car repair discover their physical potential;
Let the children who apply salt on their hands discover their chemical potential;
She discovers the potential of her children, encourages them to develop their strengths, find their self-confidence in learning in their dominant subjects, and then shift their focus to inferior subjects. In this way, the self-confidence and method of learning in the dominant subjects can also be applied to the inferior subjects.
Here Naina cleverly uses the principle of the "frog effect".
Frog effect: Throwing a frog into boiling water, it feels great pain and will stomp hard and jump out of the water, thus gaining a chance to survive. When a frog is placed in a basin of warm water and gradually heated, because the frog has slowly adapted to the pleasant water temperature, when the temperature has risen to a certain extent, the frog no longer has the strength to jump out of the water. As a result, the frog was burned to death in comfort.
The enlightenment of the frog effect: The original meaning is that you can only stay in a state of peace and danger, so that you will not be defeated in the fierce competition. Here, the frog is the student, the teacher is the experimenter, the teacher's encouragement and denial is the water temperature, the denial and criticism are the stimulating water temperature, the student can not accept it for a while, will rebel or escape. But encouragement is like slowly heating up the water temperature, subtly allowing children to change from the bottom of their hearts. Achieve the purpose of education.
Nai Na realized that a student's long-term bad study habits should be changed, not overnight, but also have to be psychologically prepared for long-term combat, and pay attention to methods and methods. Especially in the face of these students who have been passively sluggish about learning, procrastinating, and wandering in class. Although these children do not learn well and have many vices, they cannot be obeyed by blindly harshness or scolding.
Just like the "frog effect", "the water temperature is too high", it will "burn" the child, making the child resentful, unwilling to cooperate with the teacher's education, and even evade the teacher's education. Only gentle guidance, change from harsh to encouraging, change from accusation to respect, and gradually, establish a relationship of trust with the child, unconsciously guide the child to develop in a good way, so that the child's bad habits are completely changed.
Through the gradual establishment of her trust with these children, she found that these children have a heart that longs for excellence, hoping to be affirmed by others and praised by teachers. So she took advantage of this positive nature of people, starting from the students' bits, starting from their interests, and their confident subjects. Then from their subtle progress, praise and affirmation, or specially nominate praise in the class, or praise in private conversations, and even artificially create a little opportunity for them to improve and praise, so that they feel that they are making progress.