How to integrate the "five educations" into every classroom? How to fasten the "first button" of children's lives? How to pass on the "baton" of education? For the group of "post-95" young female teachers who have just entered their teaching careers, there may be different answers.
Weave a colorful classroom
Early in the morning, the campus of Jinshan Primary School in Fuzhou City was bathed in the morning sun, and before the children's laughter, a tall figure appeared in the playground. She is Wang Zhiyue, the youngest teacher at Jinshan Primary School, and one of the first teachers to arrive at school every day. Morning jogging, voice practice, and lesson preparation have become her daily routine.
In class, she will use "fairy tales" to communicate and answer with the children. "Awesome, like a lark" "Smart little ears", she waved her arms and hummed along with the first-grade children, and also joined the game session to arouse the children's interest.
"Lessons to primary school students should not be too serious, they should be childlike, and they should also try to integrate elements such as ancient poetry, art, and moral education into music teaching." Wang Zhiyue, who works as a music teacher, said.
The ease on stage comes from repeated practice in the audience, and Wang Zhiyue learns from the experience taught by his predecessors while independently innovating teaching methods. In order to have a good music lesson, she specially audited classes in different subjects such as Chinese, mathematics, English, sports, and beauty.
"The young women show good comprehensive quality in the classroom, have their own thinking and innovative awareness, and the distance with the children is also closer." Lin Bizhen, vice principal of Jinshan Primary School, said.
The addition of new teachers also brings a different experience to the classroom. "Everyone is the hero and heroine of the programming world, let your imagination run wild and write stories with code." Through instructions, you can design an interactive session of the game characters, which is a popular information technology class for children, taught by the new "post-95" teacher Euro Yun who joined the Gulou First Central Primary School in Fuzhou City.
"Many people's stereotypical primary school information technology classes are to teach children to use entry-level operations such as electronic documents, but this generation of children grows up with electronic technology and is easier to master the use of information technology." Euro Cloud said.
Fasten the "first button" of children's lives
Many young teachers who have just joined the company also serve as class teachers in addition to their teaching tasks, and need to gradually adapt to the role of students to "big parents". "Six years of teacher education taught me how to be a teacher, but after working as a class teacher, I found that how to balance the task of teaching and managing the class is another science." Lin Shengjie, a "post-95" language teacher at Jinshan Primary School, said.
In her time with children, Lin Shengjie found that love and care can shape children's growth. During the pandemic, in order to relieve the psychological pressure of homebound students, she often chatted with children through video. She was pleasantly surprised that after building trust with the students, these children returned to school and proactively swept the blackboard to serve the class.
For these "post-95" female teachers, buttoning the "first button" of children's lives is also the "first button" of their careers.
"I am like a big child with a group of small children, in this group, children, teachers, parents are all 'first grade' newbies, and the three groups progress together." Lan Yi, a Chinese teacher who joined Fuzhou Gulou No. 9 Central Primary School in September last year, said.
Once, a child broke her head while playing at recess, and this was the first time she had a tough problem after working – how to keep students safe during school and manage the relationship between home and school. "I carefully looked at the monitoring, combined with the child's own statements, and then fully communicated with the parents to help reassure the child." Lan Yi said that although she was nervous about this situation, she also learned from it and strengthened her sense of responsibility as a teacher.
"A child is like a seed that needs to be nurtured and watered." In Lan Yi's view, everything is new to first-grade children, so the role of the teacher is crucial, not only to teach knowledge, but also to cultivate their beautiful qualities and habits.
At Fuzhou Gulou No. 1 Central Primary School, new teachers are required to receive moral education training. Principal Feng Xin said that one of the important aspects of the pre-service training for new teachers is to visit the Red Memory Museum and the School History Museum of the school to promote teachers to understand the excellent school spirit and lead students to establish a correct outlook on life, values and world view.
Passing on the "baton" of good education
Wang Ting, who went to the countryside to teach during college, is now a Chinese teacher at Qiantang Primary School in Fuzhou. That volunteer teaching experience aroused her enthusiasm for education: "Seeing the simple smiles and thirsty eyes of the children made me feel that being a teacher is a very happy thing. ”
"Basic education in the new era has changed a lot." Wang Ting said, "We must adapt to and practice the educational concepts and laws after the 'double reduction', not only focusing on grades, but also comprehensively looking at students' daily progress in reading, literacy, classroom performance and so on." ”
But "load reduction" does not mean reducing the requirements for teaching. The newly hired Wang Ting worked overtime to prepare lessons and design lesson plans, cleverly using intelligent teaching methods such as electronic whiteboards and animation courseware, and constantly practiced, reflecting and then practicing. "In the past, teachers taught and we learned, but the new curriculum standard requires guiding children to find answers on their own, and respecting each individual student more." Wang Ting said.
After-school services are widely developed in the school, and the versatile young teachers open up the wider world for children. Music teacher Cao Huiyan opened a cello interest group in the after-school service, leading first-grade children to learn to play the violin twice a week.
While implementing educational reform, they also need to learn and grow. Zhou Yingzi, secretary of the general party branch of Qiantang Primary Education Group, said, "The growth of teachers is like a tree, after transplanting to the school, from thriving to fragrant melons and fruits, the most important thing is that in the first three or five years, the 'master' will lead the growth, and promote their progress through teaching skills training, competitions and other activities." ”
In the hearts of female teachers after 95, many outstanding female teachers and female representatives have become their role models, and the "baton" of education has been passed on in the hands of generations of teachers.
(Xinhua Daily Telegraph, reporter Deng Qianqian, Chen Wang)