A brief analysis of the education of "underachievers"

The definition of "underachievers" in the education dictionary is: students who often violate moral principles in the class or make serious mistakes. They often show low ideological awareness, do not abide by discipline, and cannot complete learning tasks. The root causes of its formation are complex, just like a patient suffering from a serious disease. "The disease goes away like a thread" and it is by no means easy to eradicate. The education of underachievers is a focus and a difficulty in educational work. What methods and techniques to adopt for them to do a good job in transformation is a topic that educators have been exploring and researching for a long time. Let’s talk about some of my views on education for underachievers.

1. Reasons for the formation of underachievers

The causes of underachievers are multifaceted, complex and long-term. Only by finding the source of the disease and digging out the source,

In order to "cure the disease with medicine". The class teacher should follow the principle of understanding, find out the reasons and motivations for his mistakes, and find ways to contact his classmates and friends. He can also contact his parents through various methods such as phone calls and home visits to understand his study and life background from the side. , family education background, interpersonal relationship background, psychological development process, growth experience, etc., which laid a good foundation for the transformation work. After analyzing the underachievers I have come into contact with, I think the reasons for their formation are as follows:

(1) Family reasons

1. The comprehensive quality level of parents is not enough to guide and educate their children.

Parents are their children’s first teachers, and their words and deeds will directly affect their children. However, some parents are keen on gambling, drinking, and even idleness, which are not conducive to the healthy growth of their children. Some parents have violent tempers and have no patience in educating their children, and are prone to fights at every turn; some parents have low educational levels and their children think they are not worthy of being listened to; some parents are narrow-minded and find it difficult to educate "well-informed" children.

2. There is a generation gap between the two generations, and communication between them is difficult.

Parents are busy at work all day long and are slower and less accepting of new things; while teenagers accept new things quickly and have trendy ideas. Therefore, there are many barriers to communication between the two generations. Parents know very little about their children's situation, and even think that as long as they have money for them, they don't know that what they need most is spiritual communication. How can we educate children well if this kind of thinking exists, and how can we talk about taking advantage of the situation?

3. Parents failed to fulfill their duties as guardians and neglected to discipline and care for their children.

Many parents are busy making a living and entrust their children's grandparents to take care of them, while the elderly indulge in them and lack strict management of their children; some parents, although at home, neglect to manage and educate their children, and even indulge in them its behavior. Some families are single-parent families whose parents are divorced or caused by other reasons, and do not care enough about their children. From the analysis of the family background information of underachievers, parents' neglect of discipline and lack of care are important reasons for the formation of underachievers.

(2) School reasons

“A three-foot freeze does not freeze in a day.” The emergence of underachievers is closely related to social influence and family education.

However, negligence or mistakes in school education are also one of the reasons that cannot be ignored.

1. The constant "blows" make them lose their confidence in learning.

After students encounter repeated setbacks in their studies, they need sympathy and help. However, if teachers lack the patience they deserve, sarcasm, ridicule, and scold them, it will inevitably make students doubt their own learning. Ability is continuously hit, confidence is lost, and the little interest disappears. The weariness of learning naturally takes advantage of it, and those who have difficulty in learning quickly become laggards in learning. Over time, there will be a tendency to deviate from the collective in their consciousness, and they will lose control in their behavior, and eventually develop into "people with rough emotions and shameless personalities", and even engage in various abnormal behaviors to compete with others. If the class collectively competes, a small number of underachievers will seek their own "status" in society, which is also an "inevitability" of development.

2. Unappreciated talents cause them to lose their affirmation of self-worth.

Every student has his or her own interests, talents and hobbies, and underachievers are no exception. But if the class teacher thinks that because he is a backward student, he will feel that he has "insufficient success and more than failure", and will not allow him to participate in some activities, prevent him from giving full play to his strengths, and even despise him everywhere. Then, over time, underachievers will mistakenly believe that they are incapable of anything, lose their affirmation of self-worth, and gradually lose confidence in people and the collective. In the face of certain temptations, you may even lose your mind and be unable to control yourself. You will fall into a trap and never recover.

(3) Social reasons

1. Due to the negative impact of the market economy, young people have lost their correct values.

Many young people have serious individualistic ideas, and there is a mismatch between knowledge and practice in terms of public ethics.

In society, the moral concepts of love and marriage are confused, extramarital affairs and extramarital sex are increasing day by day, the sense of family responsibility is indifferent, and the phenomenon of valuing the young over the old has seriously affected the value orientation of young people. In addition, corruption has also caused young people to lose their correct values ??and fostered the idea of ??indulging in leisure and indolence.

2. The value orientation of quick success has affected the investment in youth training.

The investment in raising children is huge. Some parents feel that it is not worthwhile because of this. They even think that if their children make money earlier, they can enjoy happiness earlier; or if the money is used for other purposes, some parents are not willing to build it. Parents who have luxurious houses but are reluctant to spend money to educate their children are not uncommon in rural areas. This causes young people to have no interest in learning, and they even feel that this is how it should be.

3. The influence of consumer culture is huge, and its negative and negative aspects are more harmful to young people.

The popularity of film, television, computers and the Internet has created the possibility for some young people to take their virtual emotions to extremes. Merchants have tried their best to attract people to consume for the sake of commercial profits. Improper exaggeration in commercial activities makes some teenagers focus on enjoyment and avoid work; violent and pornographic content also makes teenagers develop in unhealthy directions. In the long-term process of youth education, experts believe that the main aspects of society that have an adverse impact on the healthy growth of teenagers are: (1) the issue of restrictions on minors’ consumption in entertainment venues such as dance halls and bars; (2) media propaganda The impact of inappropriate content on minors’ outlook on life; (3) What kind of education should society provide when minors embark on a bad path; (4) Legal and social support for minors who suffer violence . These are issues worthy of our attention.

2. Performance characteristics of underachievers.

1. Low ideological and moral character.

Most of these students have no lofty ideals, no goals in life, and no correct outlook on life and values. Some students do not know how to respect the elderly and care for the young, and lack love; some students are selfish and have serious individualism, and cannot correctly handle the relationship between individuals and groups, themselves and others, and even their parents, and lack the most basic sense of responsibility and obligation; Some students are even ignorant of morals and laws, which often manifest themselves as a heroic view of seeking hegemony, an anarchic view of freedom, and a low-income and obscene view of fun.

2. Incomplete mental health.

This classmate places too much emphasis on feelings and loyalty when dealing with classmates; his words and deeds cannot be unified in daily moral behavior; his emotional characteristics are that he values ??brotherhood and loyalty, and often acts emotionally without distinguishing between right and wrong; his emotions are unstable. , changeable and moody; some students are too rebellious and have very abnormal resistance and rebellious psychology. Various data show that the mental health status of students is worrying, especially the mental health problems of underachievers are more and more serious.

3. Bad behavioral habits

Some of these students are free and undisciplined in life and have weak sense of discipline; some have an indifferent concept of labor and poor labor habits; some have weak will and self-control Poor ability; some are lazy and playful, often late or leaving early or even absent from class; they never make big mistakes but keep making small mistakes. Some students have learned to smoke and even become addicted to cigarettes; some drink alcohol, steal, fight and make trouble; some often hang out in three-bedroom apartments and Internet cafes; some hang out with street gangsters all day long, and even violate laws and disciplines.

4. Poor academic performance

The most common characteristic of underachievers is that they have no interest in learning. I remember a "poem" that goes like this: "The boy has no talent, but his parents When forced, the white paper is handed over, and the duck eggs are rolled down." This can be seen from this. Some of them have poor intelligence and poor understanding; some are slow to respond; some lack self-confidence and have a strong sense of inferiority, and even "break the pot"; some have no goals in learning, have incorrect attitudes, and have no intention of studying.

3. Educational transformation of underachievers

Suhomlinsky once lamented: “Thousands of students have passed through my hands, but strangely, they have left me What impresses the most is not the impeccable model students, but the unique and unique children.” This contrast in education tells us that educators must deal with a special group of “different” students such as underachievers. Understand them correctly, study them, spread the warm teacher's love to them, and let these late-blooming "flowers" bathe in the sunshine and rain and grow healthily. So how to do a good job in the educational transformation of underachievers?

1. In the work of educational transformation, attention should be paid to emotional communication with underachievers.

Students are born naive and have pure emotions. They will respond without reservation to whatever the teacher treats them, without covering up or pretending. Good is good and evil is evil. The joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys of the head teacher can inspire their love and hatred. The reward for love is that students listen to you, trust you, and actively act according to your opinions; the reward for hatred is opposition, resistance, and mischief.

Last year, there was a "bad student" in my class who had no intention of learning. In order to transform him, I treated the student's pranks "coldly" and talked with him after class. Learn irrelevant things and infiltrate the principles of life at the appropriate time. Once, I talked with him and talked about the failure of Chinese football. The players were really bad and couldn't run no matter what. The biggest reason was laziness and not serious training. He agreed and said that he was disgusted with doing things poorly. If he were to play, he would definitely be better than them. I don't think so, you're not as diligent as them. One sentence struck a chord with him, "I will work harder than them", and the exchange ended. The next day, as expected, he was no longer late, and his studies gradually improved.

Emotional communication should seize favorable opportunities.

This is when students are eager to try and are waiting to rise up. You can send timely encouragement. When students are lost and unable to find the way, you can give timely guidance. When students are out of the group and feel lonely, you can give them timely guidance. When students make mistakes and start to feel guilty, you can seize these opportunities with sincere advice and emotionally establish a base for integration with "poor students" . Once this base was formed, teachers and students became "in touch with each other."

2. The personality of underachievers should be respected in the work of educational transformation.

Self-esteem is one of the important signs of people's self-awareness and one of the driving forces for progress. Teachers should respect and trust underachievers and gradually eliminate their doubts. Because of poor study or poor discipline, they have been neglected and discriminated against for a long time. They are generally very guilty and extremely sensitive to the outside world. Although they have a hard shell on the outside, deep down they still long for the understanding, forgiveness and trust of teachers and classmates. Teachers should be strict with themselves, get out of psychological misunderstandings, and respect the personality of underachievers. Disdain, reprimand, criticism, sarcasm, or disguised corporal punishment will hurt students' self-esteem, trigger rebellious emotions and confrontational behaviors, and also expose teachers' intolerance and incompetence. , let us re-review the words of Tao Xingzhi, the people's educator half a century ago, who reminded teachers: "There is Watt under your pointer, Newton in your cold eyes, and Edison in your ridicule."< /p>

3. The shining points of underachievers should be discovered in the educational transformation work.

American psychologist William James has a famous saying: "The most profound principle of human nature is to hope that others will appreciate you." He also found that an unmotivated person can only use 20% of his ability. %-30%, and when he is motivated, his ability can be used at 80%-90%. It can be seen that the use of praise and incentives is also extremely important in the work of transforming underachievers. The ancients said: "Teachers are good at improving their talents and rescuing their lost talents." Although underachievers have many shortcomings, even the poorest students always have certain strengths or advantages. For those who have special talents in music and art, the class teacher should be good at catching their shining points and praise them in a timely manner. French educator Rousseau once said: "It is much wiser to praise students for their small progress than to laugh at their obvious bad deeds." As a class teacher, timely recognition and praise of underachievers can satisfy their self-esteem and normal psychological needs, which can create opportunities for transformation. .

4. Lead by action.

In the work of reforming "poor students", the actual behavior of the class teacher is silent education. In some cases, the teacher's thousands of words of preaching are not as good as one's own actual actions to have a better impact on the students. This is what is often said: "Teaching by example is worse than teaching by words." Therefore, whenever students are required to do it, the class teacher must Do it yourself first. If the class teacher puts forward certain requirements for students but cannot do it himself, such requirements will not produce any good results and may even have negative effects.

For example: If you tell students not to litter everywhere, then you must pick up paper scraps on the ground and put them back into the trash can several times. You want students not to be late. You should wait at the door of the classroom for students to come in.

As a class teacher, you should attach great importance to guiding them with "action", and use your own high degree of organizational discipline to infect "poor students" to shock their hearts. After achieving remarkable results in this situation, they should also Education must be further deepened so that "poor students" can eventually form a strong sense of organizational discipline.

5. Their interest in learning should be stimulated in the educational transformation work.

“Interest is the best teacher.” Therefore, in teaching, good teaching design should be used to stimulate students’ interest in learning and create an environment that is conducive to stimulating students’ internal drive; Focus on praising students and praise them every time they shine; design appropriate classroom exercises. Let underachievers "have food to eat" and "have something to do" in the classroom, and have the hope of striving for higher goals; we must pay attention to the focus and systematicity of knowledge, the inspiration of methods, the pertinence of questions and the learning of underachievers. personality; in addition, we must often talk to underachievers, harmonize the relationship between teachers and students, provide necessary encouragement, and set feasible goals to cultivate their sense of success.

6. In the education transformation work, their confidence in transformation should be established.

Goethe has a famous saying: "When you lose wealth, you only lose a little. When you lose reputation, you lose a lot. When you lose courage, you lose everything." Therefore, making underachievers progress and re-establishing their self-confidence is the key to transformation work. Teachers must spend time and effort to help them improve their learning methods and improve learning efficiency. When underachievers achieve results through hard work, they must immediately acknowledge them and put forward new goals. Do not exclude all underachievers in class work. Deliberately arranging some jobs suitable for them can also allow some underachievers who have made progress to introduce their experience and play a role, allowing them to see hope, stimulate their inner potential for progress, and establish their confidence in continuous progress. In this case, teachers cannot just "hate iron but cannot turn it into steel", but need to "smelt iron into steel". Adopt the correct attitude and method, take no time to care about them, guide and encourage them to get up and move forward.

7. In the work of educational transformation, schools, families and society must form a synergistic force.

For a long time, when it comes to educating students, especially underachievers, there has been insufficient coordination between out-of-school education and on-campus education. On the one hand, schools are earnestly educating underachievers; on the other hand, the society does not care about and ridicule underachievers. The phenomenon of under-graduate students is relatively common, thus diluting school education. To this end, in the process of transformation of underachievers, we must not only give full play to the leading role of the school, but also make full use of the positive influence of factors outside the school on them. In particular, we must attach great importance to the role of family education, do a good job as parents of underachievers, and obtain the benefits of parents. Cooperate and help to achieve the purpose of independent education. As the saying goes, "A prodigal son never returns with gold." Only by truly creating a harmonious "spiritual home" for underachievers can they take off their hat of underachievers and become a good student with both good character and academic performance.

8. In the educational transformation work, we should patiently wait for their transformation.

The transformation of underachievers cannot be achieved overnight. During the transformation process, it is a normal phenomenon for underachievers to relapse and relapse many times. For this very arduous work, teachers must be full of enthusiasm and must follow the rules of education, "repeatedly, repeatedly", and make the best use of the situation to keep the underachievers moving forward. Without a long-term and patient psychological preparation to educate and transform underachievers, teachers can easily lose confidence in them and even think that they are "hopeless and hopeless." We must know that "a spade cannot dig a well, and a bite of food cannot make a fat man." It takes a long time to carve a stone statue, let alone shape a human soul? Guo Moruo failed several subjects when he was a student, but this did not prevent him from becoming a famous scholar in the future; Newton's intelligence was very average when he was a child, and students with poor grades in the class were always indispensable for him; the invention king Edison was once dismissed for poor academic performance. Rejected from school; the French revolutionary Napoleon's grades were so bad when he was in primary school that everyone thought he had no future; the former British Prime Minister John Major dropped out of school at the age of sixteen... These are all regarded as Mediocre people later became famous figures in the world.

Let us abandon the prejudice against underachievers, give more love to underachievers, let the sunshine of love warm the hearts of underachievers, let the rain of love nourish the growth of underachievers, actively explore new methods and techniques, and strive to strengthen the transformation of underachievers. Education work, maybe soon, another great person will be born in your hands!