Enjoy reading and warm your life.
I have never felt the importance of reading to children like this. My reading knowledge is increasing day by day. Whenever I talk about my views with other parents, I feel excited. Maybe few people can understand my feelings. I am eager to use my reading knowledge to update my educational concept for children. I will carefully consider a step-by-step method to run my thoughts through my teaching management.
The first time I thought of studying was when I was studying in America. When I lived in Susan's house, I saw a couple taking their children to the library to borrow books on weekends. A family of four, everyone has their own plans before going. Borrow not only books, but also videos. After coming back, I still have my own reading plan. Parents, especially working fathers, don't forget to ask their children about their reading progress and feelings when eating. In my memory, the ten-year-old boy was reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer written by Mark Twain. The father asked his children how they felt about reading and recalled his thoughts when he read the book. When eating at home, it is full of laughter, which brings different happiness and enjoyment to people of different ages.
American libraries are very advanced. Although I study in a small town, the library of that university is several times more developed than our provincial library in both external environment and internal hardware facilities. There are hundreds of computers that can do online inquiry and reading. The real book collection is managed by the system. In addition, there are many precious audio-visual materials. If you have a student ID card, everything is free. I didn't borrow anything except for the reason that I couldn't finish reading it in a short time. I am even more afraid that I will be jealous and heartbroken-why are we intellectuals and do we really face different learning atmosphere?
Since I became the teaching director and devoted myself to teaching, I have deepened my thinking on educational ideas year by year. I am glad that I am a person who takes education seriously. I am glad that I am not corroded by age, hypocrisy and glitz, nor by the enterprising spirit of learning. I have more time and opportunities to study and think than before. I spend a lot of time in class. After every big school exam, I will make a systematic analysis of the test paper and comprehensively measure the performance of teachers. In every measurement and analysis process, I think more.
Nowadays, Chinese teaching in junior middle schools has been complained by many teachers from the beginning with the updating of textbooks every year. In particular, the year-on-year changes in the syllabus of the senior high school entrance examination have puzzled many old teachers who have taught a textbook for decades-why have we finished teaching all the articles in the textbook, but there is no knowledge in the examination questions? How to take such an exam? With the deepening of new textbooks and the promotion of new educational concepts, our teachers are getting used to it. While complaining, they have begun to think of various ways to adjust their teaching methods.
There are two most obvious adjustments. One is to attach importance to classical Chinese and increase the recitation and accumulation of ancient poetry. The other is to cultivate students' good and scientific reading habits from the lower grades.
In the past five years, the proportion of classical Chinese in the questions of senior high school entrance examination has increased rapidly every year, and the questions have become more and more vivid, which is no longer the initial dictation and translation. In fact, we should feel that just asking children of a few years old to recite the Three-Character Classics that they don't know a few words is quietly awakening our attention to the ancient culture of China. This is a good start. I am glad that my children have caught up with such a good education system and atmosphere.
I pay more attention to children reciting ancient poems. Now my son can recite 8 1 ancient poems fluently at the age of seven. I've never heard of many of them, most of them have heard of them, but my memory is incomplete. With his progress, I am also making progress. The name in my QQ is "Luo Xiao Fan Xiao", which is the screen name when I occasionally listen to my son recite Du Mu's Autumn Night. I am proud and gratified to hear him recite in his immature voice, "Eight thousand miles of clouds and moons, thirty fame, dusty land", "to see the sun, for all his glory, buried in the coming night" and "You ask to return early, and the rain rises in the autumn pool at night".
Many people will question: What's the use of letting such a young child recite so many ancient poems? Can he really understand this meaning? Every time I hear such a question, I always ask the other person: How many people can really understand the famous classic sentences we recited when we were young? How many of us gradually understand the true intentions of the ancients when we grow up? When we were young, how could we realize the absurdity that "teenagers don't know the taste of sorrow, but insist on saying it for adding new words"? But when we really reach the age of "want to talk about rest, but it is a cool autumn", we can only sigh and recall the romance that once insisted on sadness with envy. If we don't have to recite when we are young, what is there to sigh when we want to use it when we are old? Therefore, I always compare reciting these ancient poems to learning to swim. I learned it when I was a child, but I may not be able to pick it up and use it freely when I grow up. This is our skill. It is possible that our memories are inaccurate because of the long time, but childhood memories do exist. When you are in a suitable environment, or reading a book, writing or giving a speech, when you want to express one of your thoughts, the wealth left by our ancients will blurt out, just like the finishing touch.
It is this accumulation of ancient poetry that lays the foundation for children's understanding and perception of reading in the future.
(To be continued)
When we watch Princess Zhu Huan with the children, we are always amused by the antics of swallows reciting idioms and ancient poems. Now I think that Emperor Qiong Yao really conforms to the new concept of quality education!
Yang, a contemporary writer of children's literature, said: Childhood is only once. Reading may not bring you achievements, but it stretches the childlike innocence and cultivates personality. When reading the education news, I was moved by something written by a man named Zhang Shenghua. He said: childhood does not only exist as a childhood stage; The value of childlike innocence far exceeds the age limit and plays a magical role in life.
So reading in childhood will affect a person's life memory. Every time I eat carrots now, the creaking sound always reminds me of the story of Mrs. Mao that my mother told me when I was a child. It says that Mrs. Lao Mao pretends to be her mother and goes to a child's house at night. She made the sound of eating the child's fingers and hair. When other children asked her what she was eating, she replied that she was eating carrots. This association is no exception, so whenever I eat carrots raw, I will think of this detail in this horror story. For several hours in The Journey to the West, I was most afraid to see Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon, because the Tang Priest was so confused that he drove the Monkey King away. Every time I see the Monkey King being wronged, I feel very sad and hate the Tang Priest's flesh and blood. Until now, I still don't want to watch this episode. Every time I watch it on TV, I run away.
Many novels and movies describe the influence of what children experienced as children on adults. Such as the old things in the south of the city. There is also the French movie "My night is more beautiful than your day" that I saw the other day. The man inside always remembers how his father drowned his mother who was close to other men in the river. And hide-and-seek, a little scary American movies. It is also through the eyes of children to create suspense. She witnessed her father killing her mother, but she was tortured by her father in another way. Therefore, whether a child's childhood is sunny or not will directly affect his personality throughout his life. And personality is the main factor that determines fate. If a person has had an unpolluted childhood, then his feeling of the color of future life will be laid down, and his concern for life and all kinds of things may have a life perspective; If you have a happy and fulfilling childhood, it will lay a safe spiritual foundation for your future life, which is undoubtedly equivalent to buying a lifelong mental insurance. Then, as Yang said, to give children a chance to stretch their childlike innocence and cultivate their personality is to save their childhood and give them sunshine and hope in the future.
In fact, there are many ways to store childhood, for example, experiencing in nature; Listen to grandparents telling stories; Have fun at the playground; You don't have to guess when playing games with friends … but these are all direct and flat. Education News puts forward a way to store childhood, which is called "folding", and that is reading.
Most modern people are aware of the problem of educating children early, not to mention Zhang Ailing's logic of "becoming famous early". It's just karl witte's view and the growth of girls in Harvard University, so it's not clear how much money the merchants have made. Many parents start prenatal education before their children are born. I even forced my husband to read fairy tales to my stomach when I was pregnant. But too many of our parents are blind and unsystematic. Many habits disappear even before they become habits. Books bought for children are also bought blindly, and there is no plan to buy them, which is very casual. Read some stories to children when they are in a good mood, and let them read them themselves when they are in a bad mood. Too many of us have no principles in cultivating children's reading habits, at least I have.
Later, I watched a foreign movie, which seemed to be "〈E.T〉". I saw a mother reading Peter Pan's story to her children before going to bed at night, and I was very moved. So that night I said to my son: In the future, before going to bed every day, my mother will read you a story. If mom forgets or is lazy, you will punish her. Under the supervision of my son, this is the only good habit I can insist on doing for my son. Moreover, since the child went to school, I added that he read me a shorter story before going to bed and I read him a longer article. If one of us doesn't obey the rules first, he will be punished by the other side. Fortunately, I have persisted in this way, and I am very glad.
Imagine what it would be like to be an unmoved child. It has been suggested that education is a process for children to experience happiness. Then, can we also say that reading is a process that makes children experience moving?
Let's not talk about how children are attracted by the story in the process of reading. We should only appreciate reading from the aspects of children's reading and writing ability, children's reading speed, children's understanding and perception of articles, etc. Reading should be the best way to improve children's comprehensive quality. Today, my son proudly said to his neighbor: I can read more books because I read more books than others! In fact, I want to add to him that he reads faster than others because he reads more books!
Today, I carefully read my article on reading in Education News again, and one thing sounded the alarm for me, that is, what role parents played in children's reading. The author is worried that parents' utilitarian thoughts will corrode children's reading if they are not careful: some parents will definitely emphasize "reading knowledge", "writing after reading" and "improving some ability", which has become the main purpose of children's reading.
The author believes that as parents, children have the responsibility to do such things well in the process of reading: first, guide children to approach books, cultivate children's feelings and interests in books and lasting reading habits; Second, help children overcome dyslexia and guide them into books; Third, read with children and exchange the contents of books and reading feelings with each other; Fourth, it is very important for children to show their academic achievements and tell them what they have read. Fifth, reward children for reading.
In this process, parents should pay special attention not to give their children homework, not to force them to read some books, and not to disturb the children who are studying. What books to read is actually not the most important. As long as it is not a problem book, parents and teachers should try their best to let go if children are interested. There is no need to correct children's "thinking" after reading, they will correct themselves with the increase of reading.
As long as the child's eyes are fixed on the beautiful page, a beautiful story begins and the air in the world is changing. A mind, like a seedling, is nourished by sunshine and rain.
Recently, I saw an interview with Deng of Shanghai University. In the interview, he mentioned that in selecting doctoral students, besides the examination, there is also a special criterion, that is, please list the books you have read that you think are important. I admire the professor whose business card only says "scholar". This person pays special attention to the ability of reading and thinking when inspecting freshmen. He said: doctors should do research, and only by doing research can they become doctors. To understand the reading situation of candidates, it is important to comment and evaluate the books. His research ability can be seen from his comments on this book. The ability to read and think is also directly related to a person's writing ability and writing style. Doctoral thesis needs to be read bravely, and there are too many such examples now.
He also suggested that students learn "Sanqi", that is, three points in the major and seven points outside the major. Talents should also be T-type talents, that is, digging wide can only dig deep.
Writing here, I once again realized the importance of cultivating children's good reading habits as a parent and the importance of cultivating children's reading ability as a school teacher. Many people have asked me when the mother of this English-teaching child should tutor the child, which English training class is good, and so on. I have been hesitant to answer this question. On the one hand, I personally think it is really unnecessary for children to learn English at such a young age. On the other hand, it is contradictory to see that many children can speak fluent English, while my son doesn't even like to open his mouth in English class. So I don't know how to give an answer. I can only say that I don't pay much attention to children's English education myself, so I'd better ask someone else.
Actually, I've always been angry. Nowadays, China people have raised the status of language to themselves. As a native of China, I haven't learned my own language, so why should I learn a foreign language? Besides, do you have to study so early? Learning a foreign language requires a language environment. Personally, I think it is enough to study with textbooks and master the necessary grammar and vocabulary to cope with the exam. As for speaking and listening, it is not necessary for English majors to master such majors. When they have a chance to go abroad, staying for the first half of the year will be enough to come back as English teachers. The purpose of language is communication. Once the purpose of communication is achieved, there is no need to spend too much energy on it if you are not a professional. On the contrary, as a China person, our China culture is really profound. If you don't cultivate and accumulate from childhood, it will be difficult to read more profound books when you grow up. Therefore, we must attach importance to the cultivation of our national language and literary habits.
It was also from Education News that my above views were affirmed by Li Yang, who is now known as a "famous English educator". I am very happy. He said: He thinks that the basis of learning English well is your Chinese level. A friend who stayed abroad for a long time told him that the longer you stay abroad, the more you will find that it is not your English that restricts your further development, but your Chinese level. As a native of China, if your Chinese level is not high, then your English level is definitely not high. Chinese proficiency is the limit of one's English proficiency. Therefore, he now turned his attention to the early childhood education in China. He just wants our children to recite many excellent China classics, such as the Four Books and the Five Classics, to train people's memory, and to lay a deep cultural foundation in China, so that they can learn foreign languages well and go to the world in the future. I hope he can also come up with a set of "crazy China people" to save our ancient culture in China.
Think about it, you are not just our generation, how many of us can recite any ancient poem completely? If we look at the writers in Taiwan Province Province, we can see how deep her Chinese skills are from the names Qiong Yao gave to the protagonist of the novel. Children's schools require students to recite the three-character classics. When my son asked me who Dou Yanshan was in Dou Yanshan, a righteous man who taught five sons and was famous in the world, I could only answer: I don't know, I'll check it for you when I have a chance. I was very sad when I said it. How many people in our generation can really read classical Chinese?
At present, the types of reading paragraphs in the senior high school entrance examination are gradually expanding. In addition to narrative, expository and argumentative essays, modern poetry and drama have been added. In particular, the study of classical Chinese is no longer the original dictation and translation, but a comprehensive study of unfamiliar extracurricular classical Chinese. Faced with such a trend of senior high school entrance examination, why not cultivate children's ancient prose accumulation and reading training from an early age? (To be continued)
I saw someone posting in the forum and asked: Why do children in China don't like reading, but foreign children do? Then I want to ask another question: How many parents in China like reading? How many children live in a family with a reading atmosphere?
Education News has been talking about teachers' dyslexia these days. The teacher's dream is to let the students remember: that is a person who makes me love books. Imagine that the space for a child to live all day is mainly school and family, so the people around him who can influence him most are parents besides teachers.
Some people say: If the world is a stream, we are small fish in this stream, swimming among all kinds of baits all day. For people of our age, social relations such as career, family, marriage, old people, friends and classmates may be bait. We may have to touch what we know is bait because we are greedy for the delicacy of a bait or in order to survive, and forget to give ourselves a free reading space.
Many parents probably didn't notice that the subtle items in the senior high school entrance examination came to us like a wave. The new textbook has gradually opened the door to an examination proposition for us, which contains some scenery that we didn't notice before. If we think about it carefully and look again, we can easily find out where the changes are. First of all, starting from this year, our city has added politics and history from the original Chinese, mathematics, English, science and culture. This means that we will never pay attention to the five main courses again. Our school and parents are following the direction of the exam. It is good to have a subject that can make students knowledgeable now. During the holidays, many of our class teachers will leave homework for students and parents: watch News Network every day and write down at least two pieces of news that you think are important; Watch TV programs such as Animal World, Magic Earth and Exploration every week; Develop a good habit of reading newspapers and write down news reports that you think can make you think; Look at the history books of five thousand years. This shows that our teachers and parents have begun to pay attention to children's attention to politics and face up to history.
Another change after the new curriculum reform is that the proportion of reading in Chinese and English papers is increasing year by year. It turns out that the reading items of Chinese in the senior high school entrance examination are all typical texts learned in the text, and then modern Chinese reading slowly appears. Once upon a time, one to three, a narrative, an expository, and an argumentative. In recent two years, reading questions of modern poetry and drama have been added. In the past, classical Chinese was only reciting and memorizing, but now reading analysis has also been added. This year, the examination questions in our city even asked students to write the second couplet of couplets with the given couplet and horizontal batch. The change of Chinese test questions makes us like visiting the clothing market, always lamenting how the pace of fashion is so fast, and how the clothes we just bought are out of date before we can wear them.
English test questions are not far behind. This subject was once the most avant-garde ten years ago. It is the discipline with the largest pace of educational reform, which is just like the slow development of the old city. Now English has suddenly become the most retro subject in the curriculum reform. In the past, our teachers and researchers advocated that English class should be "earth-shaking and broad-minded", but now it has become a critical teaching method. Once upon a time, we wanted to teach happily, paid attention to creating language situations and asked our English teacher to perform on the podium like a monkey. We used to teach junior high school students, but now let us use all kinds of dolls as teaching AIDS like preschool children and teach students with the voice of kindergarten aunts. It is no longer advocated. Thankfully, the teacher can finally be like a teacher. The original advocate of attaching importance to dialogue and listening has now turned into attaching importance to the accumulation of words, ignoring grammar and overemphasizing, increasing students' reading capacity, strengthening students' reading comprehension ability and attaching importance to writing. The change of English test questions in reading is the only one whose score is increasing every year. The number of articles has changed from two or three to five or six now. Especially this year, put translation, vocabulary and other questions that are usually examined separately into reading articles. If you don't have enough reading training at ordinary times, you won't get good grades at all. Even the composition began to imitate Chinese, from a very simple 80- 100 word essay to two. This is not dispensable.
What should our teachers and parents do in the face of this ever-changing change? Should we re-examine our educational requirements and methods for students or children?
These days, our school is busy enrolling freshmen, and the next exams and classes make me particularly tired. But what bothers me most is looking at the parents who are rushing for a good class for their children. If you let them cut off two or two pieces of meat and give half a catty of blood at this time, they won't hesitate at all. As long as the children are good, they are willing to sacrifice everything. At the same time of sacrifice, they did not complain and suffer, but were complacent in order to find a relationship and have the opportunity to sacrifice themselves. They think that at this time, sending children to so-called good schools and classes is a symbol of one's ability. So they do whatever it takes. The saddest thing is that many parents actually told me to send their children to boarding classes on the grounds that they can study at school for a long time, including from 4: 30 pm to 8: 30 pm, every other weekend. Parents said: children are at home, either watching TV or playing, and they can't control it. They are relieved that the school has a teacher in charge.
I'm getting angry. You see, adults are so selfish. In order to avoid the responsibility of educating children, they would rather put all the responsibility of educating children on the teacher. If children don't meet their ideal requirements at school in the future, I can imagine what kind of tone they will use to yell at our teacher: My children are at school all day, how can you educate them?
They don't look at what the current middle school entrance examination questions have become, and they don't want to think about what the current educational purposes and requirements are. Some people in the newspaper began to advocate that textbooks should be used as reference books, and they even locked their children in classrooms and campuses all day! As far as the current mid-term exam questions are concerned, you can't get high marks simply by being a good student in the school classroom. I dare to declare this to any parent. Let's imagine, how can a child have a chance to read all kinds of newspapers and magazines when he stays in school all day? How can he have the opportunity to watch news broadcast, focus interview and other programs? How can he have the opportunity to participate in society and know society? How can you feel the hard work your parents have done for them all day? A child who has no life, will he get good grades in the exam? How empty his composition and diary should be, and how divergent his ability to expand the test questions is? His eyes have no chance to observe, how can he have a chance to think about what he has learned? They blindly pursue the management of boarding classes, but ignore the children's desire for freedom and communication with their parents. I understand their blindness, but I feel a little sad for them.
Only the parents of children in China are so blind and ignorant that they sacrifice and choose for their children. Maybe I will one day. I'm not sure that I will face my children's educational choices as rationally as I do now.
With so much writing, it seems a bit off topic. I wanted to write about my personal reading experience. However, in the face of the current education problems, my train of thought was blocked at once, and I even lost my passion. Finally, I want to end my thinking about reading by borrowing a passage written by my favorite writer Yu Hua in recent days.
He said: Every time I read those great works, they take me away. I am like a timid child, holding their skirts carefully, imitating their steps and walking slowly in the long river of time. This is a warm and mixed journey. They took me away and let me go back alone. When I came back, I realized that they had been with me.
Let's enjoy reading with our children and students in this warm and mixed journey!