2021-08-15

***Reading the classics, emerging from the cocoon and transforming into a butterfly

Xinzheng City Guodian Town Central School currently has 1 junior high school. ***46 teaching classes, 2,438 boarding students, with an average class size of 53, and 176 teachers, including 66 on-the-job teachers, 45 government-purchased teachers, and 65 temporary substitute teachers. There are 13 primary schools, including 4 in Category A, 4 in Category B and 5 in Category C. ***There are 151 teaching classes with 5,437 students enrolled. There are 329 primary school teachers in the town, including 93 on-the-job teachers and 236 temporary substitute teachers. There are 2 public kindergartens and 11 private kindergartens.

In the reality that 300 of the 500 teachers in the town are temporary substitute teachers, how to enable these temporary substitute teachers, who account for 60% of the total number of teachers, to quickly improve their education and teaching level and grow rapidly, has become The most pressing question before us. Guodian Town Central School used the holidays to organize online training. Through *** reading classics and *** sharing, we found that many teachers quickly formed the habit of reading and subtly changed their original thinking. Change.

1. Break the ice and create an atmosphere

First of all, we promoted all the principals in the town to read "Positive Discipline" together and read and take notes every day. Many principals quickly Mastered the following concepts: "understanding the purpose of children's four wrong behaviors, being kind and firm, mutual respect, mistakes are good opportunities for learning, social responsibility, family meetings and class meetings, allowing children to participate in problem solving and providing encouragement." , positive discipline focuses on “teaching children what to do and focusing on solving problems. Children are participants in the whole process, not passive recipients.” “Children need encouragement, just like plants need water and sunshine; without encouragement, They will not survive". "Mutual respect, timing, improvement rather than perfection, focusing on strengths rather than weaknesses, redirecting bad behavior into positive aspects, scheduling special time, encouraging self-evaluation, and teaching children to see mistakes as opportunities to learn." The method has been on the lips of the principals. The principals conveyed these consciousnesses to teachers and parents and applied them in education and teaching, winning the trust of teachers, parents and children.

With this foundation, the principals began to promote "Positive Discipline" to teachers and introduced the benefits of reading. Teachers formed an atmosphere of reading. Teacher Liu Hongxia, the third-grade teacher of Xiaosi Primary School, said that her own child is an obvious problem child and no one in the family can control it. But since learning "Positive Discipline", I have been learning and trying at the same time. The methods of discipline have changed, and the children's attitudes have also undergone surprising changes. Now, there are very few "chickens and dogs" happening in our home.

Subsequently, on April 23, 2021, taking advantage of the opportunity of "World Book Day", the town central school held a grand reading festival. Before the event, we collected slogans about reading from students and parents in the town. , parents actively participated and collected a lot of mottos and slogans about reading. We made these slogans into banners or layouts, and carried out extensive publicity inside and outside every school in the town to promote national reading activities, and pushed them to parents every day through WeChat, " If you read well, you won’t be able to overcome any problems!” “Study upward every day, and your life will be full of hope!” “Don’t worry about having no friends in your future. Find wise men in books!” “A wonderful life starts with reading good books!” The best thing for a young person is to accumulate good deeds, and reading is the best way to maintain a good life. To build a good reputation is to study. "Three generations of scholars have read more elegant people" and so on. Through the linkage of multiple schools, these contents later became the mantra of students' parents and nearby residents, and spread. Our reading atmosphere was slowly formed in this way. At the summary meeting of this reading publicity campaign, Wang Zhizhong, principal of Linggang Primary School, said that through this in-depth publicity campaign, parents have paid more attention to their children's reading learning, corrected the mentality of cooperation between families and schools, and worked towards the same goal with the school. A wonderful situation where teachers actively communicate.

2. Recommend good books and initiate ***reading

Before this summer vacation, the central school recommended a classic library for reading to every school and teacher, calling on all students in every school to All the teachers are reading the same good book together and looking for the password of education. All the principals and many teachers in the town can readily accept it (because many teachers are substitute teachers and have no salary during the summer vacation, or in the next period They may all have other jobs, and we are also worried). Many schools implemented it quickly and started to pick up the classics from the first day of vacation. Teachers at Guodian Primary School all have a copy of "How to Stand on the Podium", and teachers at Wugang Primary School** *Read ***Read "The Analects of Confucius", Zhang Xinzhuang Primary School, Yanlingfu Primary School, Xiaosi Primary School, Xiaoyangzhuang Primary School, Fengsi Primary School, Linggang Primary School, Shangen Primary School, Wulibao Primary School, Qianshi Primary School, Xinli Teachers at Ying Primary School each have a copy of "Advice for Teachers", teachers at the first kindergarten each have a copy of "The Charm of Education", and teachers at the second kindergarten each have a copy of "Positive Discipline". Teachers read and clock in every day and record study notes. Many teachers have tasted the sweetness of learning through reading and continue to apply what they have learned.

Fan Lili is a merchant in Guodian. She has two children. One is in first grade at Guodian Primary School and the other is in kindergarten. She recites ancient poems with her children and can recite them in one breath. After reading 156 Ancient Poems, she continued to share her experiences with other parents, hoping to learn with their children. She organized a WeChat group called Relaxed and Happy Parents, saying: "If parents study hard, their children will make progress every day; the more parents bloom, the brighter their children will be." Wugang Primary School held a parent-teacher meeting. She and her children went to demonstrate and recite 156 ancient poems, introduced the benefits of reading to parents, and called on everyone to engage in parent-child reading.

A person can go fast; a group of talents can go further. When teachers can’t wait to show their learning results and practical effects to others, we organize online and offline reading sharing meetings every week to share the joy and harvest of reading, establish a sharing system, and provide feedback and evaluation promotion. Teachers often submit reading notes and reading experiences and display the results. We find that every day teachers’ circle of friends share the joy and happiness of learning. The first child also posted his excellent reading insights on the WeChat official account, and parents started reading after seeing it. Teachers also began to use their own words and deeds to lead the practice, "If you make a little progress every day, your life will develop greatly. If you deliver positive energy every day, your life will definitely be different."

3. Persistence, transformation from cocoon to butterfly

In accordance with the requirements of the Xinzheng Municipal Education Bureau to strive to improve the quality of all employees, we put forward the work idea of ??"keeping integrity, innovation, perseverance, and building a cultural Guodian, a poetic Guodian, and a charming Guodian". Keep integrity and innovate to seek development, and persevere to build connotation.

Education without scores cannot survive today, and education with only scores cannot survive tomorrow. The country and the nation need not only prodigies, but also people who can persist in doing one thing to the end and make outstanding contributions. There are four characteristics of a great man: "a body like a lion, a will like steel, a gaze like an eagle, and a mind like the sea." Teachers can constantly understand these from reading classics, and encourage each other through constant exchanges and sharing, and gradually form I have gained the habit of reading, thinking, and research, and I have experienced happiness from persistence.

Recently, I was reading "At the Turn of the Xiajiang River - Chen Xingjia's Life Notes". The book mentioned that children can gain the ability to understand beautiful things through aesthetic education, and gain an understanding of the world through broadening their horizons. Curiosity, gain motivation for life growth through dream stimulation. These abilities that are not tested in exams and are difficult to teach often determine the efficiency and sustainability of children's life growth through education.

Teacher Chen Xingjia also mentioned that when he was a child, his life goal was to be a carpenter who traveled from village to village, because carpenters in mountain villages had no worries about food and clothing, and they needed to live a life of being respected wherever they went. , is the most decent life that a child in a mountain village has ever seen. The textbook "Beyond the Mountain is the Sea" was like a faint light shining in the distance, which changed his dream. Going to see the sea outside the mountain became the dream that supported him to get out of the mountain, and he continued to work hard throughout his academic career. status.

The cultivation of "soft skills" such as aesthetic education, horizon expansion, and dream encouragement for rural children should not be luxuries, but necessities.

Through reading, reading classics, reading classics, and talking to masters, we lead children to memorize 156 ancient poems, enhance the aesthetic experience of teachers and children, expand their cognitive boundaries, and explore and inspire their dreams. It supports rural teachers and students’ dreams of gaining life growth through reading.

Reading good books, the accumulation of quantity will inevitably lead to qualitative changes. Persistence will make every life bloom wonderfully and make every family full of hope. After reading classics, teachers and children found the secret code that leads to nobility. They held hands, shoulder to shoulder, and fell in love together.

August 15, 2021