Respect and help every child meet the best self.

? The recent school visits and exchanges have brought us many thoughts, among which the most impressive is the "true education" made by the visited schools. Specifically, we found that many schools will regard "every child is important" as one of their important school-running ideas. At first, we didn't agree with these ideas, and there was a ripple of "scoffing" in our hearts. We should know that we have seen many such slogans and slogans for a long time in the ranks of domestic education, and we are tired of them. Compared with the actual actions of many schools and their slogans, such slogans are more and more disgusting.

? However, with the deepening of the visit, the practice and specific practices of this concept in British schools have deeply touched us, which has rekindled our educational hope for this slogan and regained our confidence in the development of education.

first, tolerance is the greatest respect

? Britain is a multicultural country. Here, you can see people from different countries and races living, studying and working in harmony. At first, it was quite puzzling. Why did they treat each other as "family members" without a sense of national and racial rift? After visiting the school, I found that the school in Britain is actually a "small United Nations". Children of all looks and races get together, and the education advocated by the school is tolerance and equality.

? Multicultural education in primary schools is integrated into the curriculum. For example, some primary schools in Britain have the course of "religious education". "Religious education" does not only refer to Christian education, but is actually a variety of religious education. In this respect, the school will invite parents from different countries and races to tell their children about their culture, and also invite parents to cook some special foods from their countries and regions for their children to taste. By learning and understanding Christianity, Muslims, Buddhism and other religions, children will gain a better understanding of the cultures of different faiths, and will also bring different lives to their classmates.

Second, fully respect individual differences and teach students in accordance with their aptitude to help develop

? Because the British education system advocates "inclusive education", it advocates that children with all abilities or conditions should study and live in the same school. Therefore, children with autism, physical disabilities and other different conditions will be seen from time to time in the schools visited, which requires schools to "teach each child in accordance with his aptitude" when dealing with his learning and development. Of course, these are also based on the premise of his small class system, but his educational philosophy and practice are strong. At school, every disabled student is provided with a teacher, and one-on-one whole-course education is implemented. A "school support and counseling center" and a "student warm room" are set up, and children with learning disabilities, health defects, mental illness and family problems are often given special counseling and care. In addition, the government encourages more outstanding teachers to work in challenging special schools to promote the balanced development of education and allocate special funds for this purpose.

For homework, if children have difficulty in finishing it on time, they can apply for a delay to make it up until they understand the knowledge and finish it independently. It is also allowed.

For the classroom, the teacher pays full attention to the development of each child and gives every child the opportunity to speak as much as possible, so that everyone has the opportunity to express and learn.

For children with special emotions, for example, a teacher treats children with mania by giving them three colors of paper: green, yellow and red, and teaching children to express their different emotional states to the teacher by using the different colors of paper in class. Green represents calm, yellow represents some irritability, and red represents extreme irritability, which is about to erupt. Through the emotional expression and suggestion of different colors of paper, teachers can pay attention to children's needs and status in time in order to help children solve problems in time.

For children with mental retardation, for example, when we are concerned that this child needs to go to the toilet, a teacher will teach him the steps and essentials of going to the toilet one-on-one for a whole class, step by step, over and over again, gentle and hard. Such a teacher and such education are awe-inspiring.

For children who have just transferred to another school and have language barriers or weak learning ability, the school has a special one-to-one area in a corner near the classroom, where special teaching assistants or volunteers give one-to-one counseling to the children, and then bring them into the classroom after the situation improves, and the teaching assistants sit next to their seats to continue to assist them in their studies until they can reach the average level of normal children.

? Iii. willing to provide scientific and detailed support for "your choice"

? Under normal circumstances, students who enter the sixth form study only need to choose three subjects to take the A' level exam, that is, the college entrance examination subjects. Only excellent students choose four subjects, which accounts for about 1% of the college entrance examination students. Although students can choose subjects according to their own interests and the requirements of the target University, it is equally important to choose subjects for the college entrance examination to successfully enter the university. In this regard, Blue Coat School has made full preparations and detailed guidance for each child's subject selection. In January-February each year, that is, three or four months before the GCSE exam, the teachers in the curriculum department will make statistical analysis of each child's achievements since he entered school, so as to obtain the basis for evaluating each child's potential and advantages and disadvantages in certain majors, and then face-to-face guidance will be given to each child by professional and experienced teachers in the curriculum department. According to P, She and another colleague are in charge of this matter. They will spend three hours every night interviewing 24 students one-on-one, mainly making preliminary suggestions and guidance based on previous performance statistics, students' interest in learning and the entrance requirements of the target university. After the GCSE scores of students come out in August, the teachers will find students for a second interview and guidance in combination with each student's test scores. In Britain, GCSE test scores are divided into grades 1-9. If students' scores in the subjects they want to choose are below grade 5, teachers will generally give them suggestions to re-select the appropriate subjects.

Fourth, "children's wishes" is the direction of parents' efforts

? Family education is an important part of children's education, which complements and influences school education. During the visit of Blue Coat School, Fei, the head teacher, told us a story about her daughter: In the early years, when her daughter chose the sixth form course in middle school, she found that the course she chose conflicted with the time of her math class. One was her favorite class, and the other was one of the highlights of the A-level exam-mathematics, and her daughter was very entangled. At this moment, As a mother, Fei resolutely supports her daughter to choose her favorite class, and then pays a tutor to teach her math. As a parent in China, I'm afraid few people can do it, but in Britain, Fei said, "We should fully respect our daughter's wishes and help her realize her wishes", which is admirable!

V. "Children's needs" is the starting point of school curriculum

Fei mentioned this story mainly because P, the curriculum supervisor of Blue CoatSchool, introduced his idea of guiding students to choose courses-—you can choose what you want. According to P, their purpose is to help every child meet the courses they want. Blue Coat School*** has about 1,5 students, from Year7 to Year13, with more than 2 students in each grade. Every year, there are three $ term semesters. According to each child' s willingness to choose courses, she divides the courses in each grade into four ABCD block, and then deploys teachers with different majors and abilities according to their needs. Of course, The best teachers should give priority to the professional courses of sixth form. In the end, you will find that every child has his own class schedule. God, when she introduced us here, we couldn't help but take a gasp. Even though computer technology is very intelligent and advanced, we have to manually set up programs and allocate them. What a complicated and arduous project, it will be carried out three times a year. I can't imagine it!

We were puzzled by P's "great pains" in arranging the school curriculum, and eagerly asked her three questions: "Are you sure you can handle it? Why spend so much energy? What are the benefits of doing this? "

? Regarding these questions, P said confidently and proudly, "First of all, my major is mathematics. This is what I am good at. It is really full of challenges, but I have done it very well." His voice has not fallen, and his hearty laughter has sounded. How confident and happy he is. "The reason for doing this is to meet the needs of each child and let the children choose the courses they like and want. This is our purpose, which is also an important reason why I like this job. The sooner children try subjects they are interested in, the more they can find out what they are good at or love, which will have a positive effect on their future in sixth form or university or even their whole lives. "< P > Indeed, we found that every child has a" different "curriculum when attending classes in class. In the classroom of sixth form, we found that children are extremely focused and devoted in the specialized courses that they like and are good at. In the physics and biology classes that are difficult for us, it is observed that no child is distracted or tired. Both boys and girls are bright-eyed and powerful learning paradigms. The reason why they can "do what they like" is that the school "chooses what you want and does what you are good at" in the early stage. It turns out that no idea is achieved in imagination, and no happiness is achieved in slogans. I can't help feeling that the children here are enviable and the teachers here are admirable.

? What's even more surprising is that the principal of the school introduced to us the curriculum for children with special professional needs. "If we have 3-4 children who want to add a professional course they like, and the number of students is not up to the standard of starting the course, we will send these 3-4 children to schools with such courses in Coventry area, and the resources in the area will enable us to meet each child's needs and wishes more thoroughly.

For the sake of a few children's "traveling by boat", we can see the thoroughness and seriousness of the British education of "respecting every child". It is said that the British are "conservative and rigid". It seems that "rigid" in meaningful matters is how amazing and respectful! If this situation is changed in China, most of them will do the ideological work of these children and persuade them to "settle for second best" and change their existing majors. In this way, both schools and teachers are happy. For children, when a person's positive desires are not satisfied, their negative and negative energy will breed and grow immediately. In fact, we rarely pay attention to the children's true feelings, and perhaps more are unwilling and afraid to go …… ? Children are the future of the motherland, and children are the hope of mankind. They will treat the world in the same way in the future. In a sense, the educational work we are engaged in is of great significance and great responsibility. No matter how bumpy the road ahead is, as long as we always uphold the beautiful educational concept of "respecting and helping every child meet the most beautiful self", we believe that after "never forgetting, there will be repercussions", the future of mankind will eventually be beautiful.