Everyone helps me with my homework. What is your idea of a good teacher? Effective strategies for teachers to manage classes well?

How can I be a good teacher? This is a hot topic. Government officials, experts and scholars, the public and public opinion have all expressed their hopes for teachers, and teachers themselves are also reflecting. However, few people care about children, the clients of our education and what kind of teachers they want. In fact, the teaching profession exists because of them, and the teaching profession is lofty because of them. So, what is a good teacher in a child's mind? Let's listen to the children's voices-

The classroom is full of children's paintings. Innocent children point to their own paintings and tell touching stories one after another. The teachers present were in tears, recording while listening and reflecting on their own educational and teaching behavior. This brand-new training method, this heart-to-heart communication with children, is the first time for teachers.

Not long ago, The Head Teacher magazine of Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences organized a nationwide "Good Teacher in Children's Mind" activity, and * * * received the works of 3,000 students from more than 20 provinces and cities across the country. Every work is a true portrayal of children's inner world and a natural expression of children's feelings. What kind of education do children yearn for? What kind of teachers do children like? 3,000 children's paintings show their inner dreams to the fullest. 3,000 children's paintings are an unprecedented test of teachers' morality. Every educator will not remain silent in front of these children's pictures. In order to let more teachers know the children's voices, Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences regards these essays and paintings as excellent teaching materials for teacher training, and has conducted many teacher trainings all over the country, which has aroused strong repercussions.

What kind of education do children yearn for?

What enlightenment have these immature children's paintings and essays brought to us? Please look at Rui, a student of Qidong Experimental Primary School in Jiangsu Province:

8 reasons why I like teachers:

1. Our class has set up a book corner. Each student brings two extra-curricular books, but Mr. Shen brings six books, which everyone likes to read.

I lost my food during the spring outing. Teacher Shen gave me a bag of bread and two bottles of yogurt, but she didn't bring much.

I only got 85 points in the last Chinese exam, which is very sad. Teacher Shen lent me 5 points and asked me to return it to her next exam.

Teacher Shen bought a beautiful pencil sharpener and put it in the bookcase in the classroom. We don't have to worry about forgetting to sharpen the pencil any more.

Last week, I accidentally broke Miss Shen's red ink bottle, and all my classmates blamed me. I cried. After Mr. Shen found out, he didn't criticize me, but comforted me.

6. Miss Shen recites ancient poems with us every day. She won the first prize in the ancient poetry contest.

7. I have chicken pox, and I am alone at home, very lonely. Teacher Shen came to see me with fruit and gave me a lesson.

8. When cleaning, Mr. Shen wouldn't let us clean the skylight. She was afraid that we would fall, so she cleaned the skylight herself and was so tired that she was sweating.

Teacher Shen said excitedly after reading the words written by the children, what kind of feelings is this? I can't hold back my tears any longer. The children remember the little things that have long been forgotten so clearly. How can I keep that love and sincerity from the heart?

Sun, the second primary school in Chengxi Town, Ganyu County, Jiangsu Province, wrote ten criteria for a good teacher:

1. Teachers should not be biased towards girls.

As soon as the bell rings, we will go out to play.

Ask students where to go for a spring outing.

When a student makes a mistake, ask his parents. When a student does a good deed, he should also talk to his parents.

5. Be able to chat with students.

6. Teachers should know what students like and dislike.

7. Teachers should pay attention to their appearance.

8. Teachers should control their emotions.

9. Students take part in various competitions, and teachers should be present to encourage them to cheer.

10. Ten minutes between classes depends on what students like to play.

A student in Inner Mongolia explained why he likes teachers: "Our teacher's voice is cadence, accurate, vivid and profound, and her feelings are real and moving. It seems that she has experienced these things personally, and we all like to listen to her classes. "

Li Xinyan, a fourth-grade student in Lanzhou Wan Li Primary School, expressed her desire for teachers like this: "A good teacher in my mind should be a knowledgeable and caring person. I don't care whether her clothes are gorgeous and exquisite, nor whether she looks beautiful. I just hope that she can give lectures carefully and be responsible to the students meticulously. "

Li Qing, a student from Jiangshan Primary School in Lianghu Town, Shangyu City, Zhejiang Province, likes her teacher very much. "She speaks fluent Mandarin. Don't be sarcastic, sarcastic or give up the underachievers. "

Huang Tian, a student from Zhangjiaji Central Primary School in Tongshan County, Jiangsu Province, happily wrote: "If you give us a lesson, you will tell a person's mistake as a joke. We think you are humorous. " "I hope you can be our big friend. In addition to attending classes, we can also talk to you about our troubles, and you can also keep secrets from us. "

Of course, in these paintings and essays, there are both praises and criticisms of teachers. In another group of compositions, the students told their personal experiences and euphemistically expressed their dissatisfaction with the teacher.

"Teachers always take students as a reference: see how well people do in exams."

"The teacher always criticizes us in front of classmates. In fact, you can tutor us privately. "

"You can't save this tree with a dead cat." "Some students dozed off in class, and the teacher rudely hit them with a chalk head."

"Once after class, the monitor shouted to stand up, and several students didn't stand up. The teacher is very angry. Let's stand up again. Several students didn't stand up. As a result, we were punished for sitting for two hours. After school, we beat up our classmates who didn't stand up. "

The teacher was extremely ashamed of what his classmates said. They see their lack of humanistic quality and feel guilty for the psychological harm they inadvertently caused to their classmates. They deeply realize that children are eager for teachers to maintain their self-esteem, care about their emotional needs and give them freedom of self-expression. A caring and friendly teacher who treats students fairly is a good teacher that children dream of.

Compared with a large number of touching sketches, the paintings drawn by children are even more tearful. A deaf-mute girl of 13 years old drew a picture of "The teacher taught me to learn to speak". A patient and caring teacher carefully demonstrated pronunciation with her mouth, while the girl tried to imitate it with her small mouth. The picture was so real and natural. What moved us even more was that the girl gently stroked the teacher's Adam's apple with her slender hands-she was feeling the tremor of the teacher's pronunciation. This scene can't help but make people feel that "there is only one kind of education in the world, and that is the education of love."

Under a picture of a teacher playing games with a student, the student wrote the following sentence: "She plays and studies with us, and she regards herself as a classmate". Jia Lecheng's painting of the first primary school in Boxing County, Shandong Province is simply a vivid view of children's curriculum. In the picture, the teacher holds knowledge in his left hand and a balance in his right hand. Two students, a man and a woman, are sitting at both ends of the scale. There are computers, clarinets, globes, basketball and other items that children like next to the teacher. Not only that, the teacher's chest is painted with a blue sea, which symbolizes a broad mind. His smiling face is painted with an eye in an ingenious way, as if it were a bright sun.

The students' paintings and articles surprised the teachers: "I didn't expect students to have so many ideas."

It is amazing for teachers to see themselves from the eyes of students in their educational career. They began to reflect on their educational methods after being shocked inside. Many teachers feel that these simple but real pictures and words have brought us a strong impact. I didn't expect the child's thinking to be so active, so profound and so creative. After reading these pictures and articles, a teacher said, "I always thought I was an excellent teacher, but compared with the children's requirements, I found that I still have a long way to go!" " "

What the children said shocked the teachers. They said that in the past, we always said "for the good of students", so sometimes we didn't pay attention to the methods, even simple and rude, and students paid special attention to the teachers' methods. The contact between teachers and students should be heart-to-heart contact, heart-to-heart communication and heart-to-heart dialogue. Teachers should understand students' inner needs, especially pay attention to details, because the influence of details on children is long and profound, and school life is composed of countless details every day. Therefore, we should pay attention to the details and study the details, so that students can feel the charm of education in the details. Students grow up in these countless details, and sometimes they are suppressed and attacked in a detail.

The children's speeches made people feel warm. The teacher from Xuanwu District, Beijing, said that the children expressed their desire for a good teacher with their own brushes and described their desire for a good school. Seeing these pictures, I really want to cry. This is a shock to our educators. Teachers should love every child from the bottom of their hearts.

A teacher in Anhui said, "If a student fails in an exam, we will treat him differently. If he fails several exams, we will classify him as a poor student. Students' paintings show us the lack of our own humanistic quality. Students need not only knowledge from teachers, but also humanistic care, equality, respect, trust and understanding, especially emotional tolerance and care to meet their different needs. These paintings express the loudest voice of children: good teachers bring children not only the knowledge and skills stipulated in textbooks. In fact, what children value more is the teacher's sincere care for them, as well as the emotional experience and development experience gained from it. "

In this regard, teachers said with deep feelings that if teachers want to enter the inner world of children, they must make children like themselves. They like experienced and knowledgeable teachers, which is our future direction.

A headmaster from Anhui said, we are grateful to our children, who let us know ourselves again. Although we contact children and face them every day, we don't really know them. These paintings help us to really get close to them, understand them and re-examine the problems of education. These pictures are thought-provoking. We have spent so much time and energy, which is undoubtedly creating a development space for children. But what we need to reflect on is, when we do all this, are we starting from the child's point of view and starting from the child's needs? Reflecting on our education today, how should we respect students?

Some education experts also expressed the same view. They say these paintings are a mirror, which shows the problems in our education and teaching. Education should meet the needs of children, so what are the needs of children? In fact, teachers sometimes don't understand, just take it for granted by experience. Every student is like a world, and children, as living people, have inner requirements that need to be respected and accepted. To be a good teacher in students' minds, we must first understand students, learn to put ourselves in the children's inner needs, and learn to consider problems and students' inner feelings from the children's perspective. Therefore, teachers' professional quality can not be separated from the "children's education concept", that is, bringing children's perspectives and emotional needs into the education process and designing and organizing teaching for children in a pleasant way.

Thinking about education from the perspective of children

Managers and experts who have been engaged in teacher education for many years have expounded their views on the significance of this activity. Guan, director of the Teacher Department of the Ministry of Education, expressed the hope that these intuitive, simple and authentic pictures and words can arouse teachers' positive reflection, give them profound and beneficial enlightenment, help them shape a new image, care for students with a broad mind, cultivate students with noble personality, enrich students with profound knowledge, guide students with civilized manners, and infect students with the elegant demeanor of modern teachers.

Zhang Tiedao, vice president of Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences, believes that for a long time, our education has neglected children's feelings, always "what to do" and "what not to do", and rarely considered children's feelings, experiences and needs. In the past, when we talked about education and teachers, all of them were educational experts, superiors, educational researchers or teachers themselves, and there was no child's voice. It seems that children can't say anything, so there is no need for them to say anything. In our subconscious, students are often assumed to be knowledge containers and have no emotional needs. They accept whatever they are given, they don't need to choose, and they don't have the ability to speak. They just need to passively accept and obey. In the process of education, children have no right to speak, they just passively accept it. Many times, we emphasize meeting children's needs, but we don't understand children. What kind of school children like and what kind of teachers they like are all things that we seriously ignore.

Shi Jinghuan, deputy director of Tsinghua University Institute of Educational Sciences, talked about his own views: At school, some teachers are rated as excellent teachers and backbone teachers because of their strong working ability and good grades in class, but the good teachers in students' eyes are not like this. A good teacher in our mind sometimes doesn't meet the expectations of students. In fact, students have their own ideas about many practices of teachers. For example, "the teacher always asks us to master the basic knowledge after class and give us a lot of practice after class." How can there be so many after class? " "There are a lot of questions to do, that is, there is no time to read books and think. They are all done mechanically, without thinking, and will not be done next time."

Teacher Shi Jinghuan, for example, said that somewhere there are primary schools and junior high schools mixed together, and the leaders think it is difficult to manage, such as doing exercises mixed together, which is too messy; Teachers also think that mixing primary school and junior high school is not good, disorderly and difficult to manage.

Teacher Shi asked: Is there any conflict? They replied, "No, junior high school students know how to take care of primary school students." "Our school conditions are good, and other schools are separated from primary schools and junior high schools. We discuss teaching and prepare lessons together, which is very eye-opening. I also went to class in junior high school, and I felt very rewarding. I haven't heard much in recent years. Teachers can't go to junior high school classes by themselves. I hope that the school will organize it and help the transition from primary school to junior high school. "

Practice after class and talk to a group of second-year students:

Q: Do you like this school? A: Yes, my sister is also in this school, attending junior high school.

Q: Does your sister like this school too? Yes, she told me before I went to school.

Another student said: I met her sister and talked to her sister. Teacher Shi said that it can be seen that students like this mixed school of primary and junior high schools.

Usually, we are used to arranging and implementing teaching and learning activities from the perspective of adults, while ignoring the needs of students. Li Yusheng, a teacher from Hou Lin Primary School in Dongshan County, Fujian Province, told a very interesting story: Once I went to a school to attend classes, I was attracted by the exquisite "teaching corridor" and strolled past. This teaching corridor is higher than mine. "So high, can children see it?" I invited a student to have a look, but he looked up and looked at it with great difficulty. I asked him what he thought, and he told me that I couldn't see clearly. The child's words made me think. Our arrangement is for children, but they can't see it. When I visited another school famous for its art education, I found that the corridors and classroom walls of the school were full of works of art created by the world famous paintings and students. But unlike other schools, these paintings are hung very low, and some are as low as the waist of adults. The headmaster explained, "It's a little difficult for adults, but it's just right for children." This is a concept of educating people, seeking a deep comfort, that is, standing at the height of children, treating students equally and communicating equally.

For example, Ji Ping, a professor at Beijing Institute of Education, said that once she went to a school and found it beautifully built, and outsiders often came to visit and study. But it is such a beautiful school. What does it look like in students' minds? Please listen to the students. She asked the students, "Do you like this school?"

"I don't like it." The students answered. "Why?" JiPing then asked. "There is no place to play." "The classroom is too crowded, there is no place to put things." "It's a long way to go to the toilet." The students' answers are thought-provoking-how can we meet the needs of children? How should we examine the educational and teaching behavior of schools from the perspective of children?

3000 children's paintings bring people deep and long-term thinking. As a teacher, as a school and as a society, how much do we know about children? Children are the clients of education, and the satisfaction of their learning needs and learning experience is an important indicator to judge the effectiveness of education, and it is also the fundamental measure to evaluate the professional quality of teachers. To meet children's learning needs, we should not only provide scientific knowledge and applied skills, but also meet their emotional needs with humanistic care. As a living person, children have a need to be respected and accepted. Therefore, teachers should observe children's emotional needs and implement teaching suitable for children's needs. Teachers' professionalization should have both scientific and humanistic qualities.

The background of the news story

1995, UNESCO held an international children's painting and calligraphy competition around the world, inviting students aged 8- 12 to answer "What is a good teacher?" Use words or pictures based on their natural feelings. This activity * * * received more than 500 children's works from 50 countries. Pictures full of childlike innocence, loving words, sincere and touching, tell the children's eager expectation for a good teacher and show their inner world of longing for the teacher's care. Zaila, a child of Mexico 1 1 year-old, borrowed the picture of precious spring rain scattered on the cracked desert and praised the teacher for nourishing the rain for the students. Rose, a 9-year-old from New Zealand, said hopefully to her teacher, "You are kind, friendly and full of trust. You should listen to our voices and understand each and every one of us. Don't lose your temper and ignore us. " Katrina, a child from Portugal who is only 10 years old, wrote: "A good teacher not only attends classes, but more importantly, she brings us new ideas and helps us understand many things. She can make the classroom a paradise, not a prison. " These paintings have deeply touched the educational researchers in our country. According to Zhang Tiedao, vice president of Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences, a year ago, The Class Teacher magazine of Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences organized a nationwide essay-writing and painting activity of "Good Teachers in Children's Eyes", which was an unusual activity. They received the works of more than 3,000 students from more than 20 provinces and cities across the country. These paintings place children's sincere hopes for a better life and a good teacher. Every painting is the inner cry and call of children, and the tender brushwork expresses their expectation and gratitude for a good teacher. In front of these pictures, we touched something deep in children's hearts, which made every educator tremble.