Getting closer to Guan Jiangang
Note: I finally had my first close contact with Mr. Guan Jiangang. I was very excited and read his "My Composition Teaching" in one breath. Story", then reviewed "My Composition Teaching Proposal", and picked up "My Composition Teaching Revolution" without hesitation. My friends laugh at me because now my mind is full of "Guan Jiangang" and I have become a standard "tightrope", even crazier than those groupies.
The day before yesterday, I saw the blog of a Nanjing teacher who mentioned the special teachers he admired. Suddenly I thought of myself. At the beginning of the year, I opened a column called "Bulls Eyes Look at Special Teachers". When I set up this column, it was originally I have bad intentions, because I have been almost paranoid in recent years and always appear as a troublemaker. My original intention is that I am afraid that teachers who look up at the stars, especially young teachers, will be confused by experts and special experts and cannot find them. north.
Previously, there were three special ones that I admired: one was Principal Bo Junsheng of Changshu Experimental Primary School, one was Teacher Xue Fagen of Wujiang Shengze, and the other was Principal Yang Xinfu of Nanjing. The three of them have the same characteristics. They are all men. Although they have become principals, they have not given up teaching and research. Their lessons are simple and wise, and I can learn from them. Before that, I was too Pay attention to some formal aspects of classroom teaching. After so-called delving into reading teaching, I discovered that reading classes are really confusing and confusing. It’s difficult to figure it out! However, it is not easy to get worse. Therefore, in recent years, I have focused more on extracurricular reading and homework. Therefore, it was inevitable for me to get to know Teacher Guan Jiangang.
The first time I met Teacher Guan Jiangang was when I was attending the review meeting of "Colorful Chinese" in Nanjing. At around 8 o'clock in the evening, he lived in the same room with a child named Gao Ziyang. At nearly nine o'clock in the evening, I went to their room to chat with Ziyang. Ziyang introduced: "This is Principal Guan." At that time, regarding the three words "Guan Jiangang", I had seen such a name on the covers of some books. . At that time, I was at my most frivolous, and I was suspicious of all so-called celebrities and everyone. In addition, I am not used to getting along with leaders, and this "principal" obviously seems difficult to approach, because when Ziyang made the introduction, he nodded very reservedly, so, like Natasha, I He nodded reservedly, smiled, and left him aside. At that time, when I met Ziyang, we basically chatted all night long, so Ziyang wanted to talk with Guan, but Guan had already gone to bed and said, "I have to go to bed at nine o'clock." This was my first time. Once I heard the "scheduled shutdown" of the tube. Out of courtesy, even though I was very worried that Ziyang's pipe would fill my room with smoke, I still dragged him to my room to chat. This is the first time I met him, I thought he was a strange man who was aloof and not easy to get close to. At the same time, I was a little unconvinced: Humph, didn’t I just publish more than 200 student works? My students have already published more than 300!
Later, I met him from a distance at an event. At that time, I had already learned something about his composition teaching online. I was very curious because I was doing it at the time, but I just did it based on intuition. However, I lacked some theoretical basis, and at the same time, I was very nervous, so I had the urge to communicate, but out of shyness, I gave up. However, looking at the retreating figure, I felt the determination beyond loneliness and found a direction for myself.
The third time was Haimen’s “New Curriculum Composition Teaching Seminar”. In this activity, I taught a composition guidance class - the fifth grade volume "My Teacher". To be honest, before this, my homework guidance lessons never lasted more than 5 minutes. How to get there, I'm really at a loss. I have been struggling with this lesson over and over again for several months. So when Gao Ming later called me to ask if I needed a trial lesson, I, who had never taken a public class without trial teaching, said without hesitation: "Okay!" After a long time in Nanhu No. 2 Primary School, after four classes, Gao Ming said with a smile: " Your four classes have fully exposed the dark side of composition teaching.
"Although I think exposing the dark side is also a good thing, allowing everyone to criticize and then reflect on our practice and teaching, but I must say that everyone wants to save face. If it is really useless, I will still feel a little uncomfortable. Although I discussed it, but I still seemed dissatisfied. In the midst of my confusion, I finally arrived at Haimen and changed my teaching plan again during the 15 minutes I was waiting for students before class. I don’t know how it came about. There is still debate about that class, but I don’t mind. Those 25 minutes really made me re-examine my composition teaching, and that activity also allowed me to basically clarify my composition teaching. The direction. All this comes from one name - Guan Jiangang. I fell in love with him immediately (I am embarrassed to say "love"). After I came back, I began to recommend his "My Composition" to the teachers. "Teaching Revolution". I think this book is enough to help teachers who are stuck in the quagmire of composition teaching clarify their teaching direction. Since my students have published more works, I have compiled several books on composition. Therefore, some schools also ask me to give lectures on composition teaching to teachers. Since then, I have recommended "My Composition Teaching Revolution" to teachers who want to study composition teaching. Of course, there are many other good books on composition teaching. , such as "Three Books on Composition", "Miscellaneous Talks on Composition", "Learning Chinese from the Master", etc., but I think this is the most relevant and suitable book for primary school Chinese teachers. I bought this book for the first time, and I went through all the trouble and thought. It took me more than a month to buy it. However, when I saw him that time, I suddenly felt worried: would he be lonely? To be lonely, because doing composition in this way is really too hard and tiring!
The fourth time was in May this year, "Colorful Chinese" magazine and "Primary School Chinese Teaching" magazine held the "First Composition Competition" in Kunshan "New Thinking Seminar", at Ziyang's invitation, a few friends and I were asked to go to a forum about truth-telling compositions. And in this forum, I learned that Teacher Guan had published a new work - "My Composition" "Teaching Advice". Unfortunately, the time given to the teacher for the conference was too short, so I ordered a few copies on Dangdang that day, preparing to read them myself and give them to my friends and teachers in the research group. During that time, Dangdang's delivery channels were out. I asked some questions, and it happened to be the World Expo, so I couldn’t get this book. I had to run to the communication room several times every day, so that before I even got to the communication room, the uncle in the communication room said: “Teacher Liu, your The book hasn't arrived yet, don't worry, I'll deliver it to you as soon as it arrives. "I also called Dangdang customer service several times to inquire, and got some coupons. It took me a day to read this book in one sitting. To be honest, it is rare to read a book in one sitting now. At that time , I had the urge to write a letter to Teacher Guan to talk about my composition teaching and some of my thoughts on this book. Later, I was delayed due to many chores at the end of the semester, and I wanted to wait until the summer vacation to sort out my thoughts. There was a delay, and the delay lasted for a month.
There was a plan before the summer vacation, which was to participate in the training activities organized by the "Primary School Chinese Teachers" this summer, but this plan almost failed. The original intention of going there was for Professor Chen Guoan, Teacher Ding Cikang and several teachers who were engaged in chanting. However, after I sent the event notice to the space, I received a message from the magazine and a Kunshan teacher: “Because of the venue, Problem, the event may have to be rescheduled and the venue changed. "Unexpectedly, the venue was changed, but the event time was not changed. During that time, I was away from home and the Internet was not convenient, so I inadvertently missed the registration time. Later, I was afraid of causing trouble to the magazine and my friends, so I reluctantly decided not to go. On the 21st, I couldn’t resist the temptation of my friends, so I hurriedly bought a ticket to Kunshan and went because Ziyang and Guan Jiangang were on the list of lectures.
On the afternoon of the 22nd, After Ziyang said that Guan was in charge of the meal, I tried my best to encourage him to let Guan come over to eat, but in the end he still didn't come. After eating more than half of the meal, Ding Ping said that Guan was lost and hurriedly gave him directions, and then asked him to stay where he was after entering the city. Waiting for us to pick him up.
Ding Ping drove us to pick him up. After many twists and turns, we finally saw Guan and his Honda Fit. When I saw the car, I laughed. The poor Fit was covered with scars all around. Fortunately, all the spare parts were still there. Now, the old man actually parked his car on the side of the road and read a book under the dim street light. Heck, although I do this kind of thing often, I still know to turn on the small light in the car. When I arrived at the hotel, I admired his clumsy reversing skills, which made me anxious. I finally parked the car and said hello. The sense of distance disappeared immediately. I made a joke to him: "Driver's license" Did you get it in Taizhou?" He smiled and said seriously: "Yes, oh, no, it was in Suqian." I don't know if it's true or not. After entering the room and chatting for a while, I found that he was actually very sensitive and reacted very quickly. However, there are some topics that he doesn’t want to participate in, and the moment I try to bring the topic to composition, he will immediately become excited. After 20 minutes of his shutdown time, we resigned knowingly, but I gained something. Among the three books he signed and presented as a gift, I only had "My Composition Teaching Story" but not the others, and I always felt that I should I bought the author's book instead of asking for it. However, I still took it without ceremony, while laughing at myself to Ziyang: "After all, I have helped him sell hundreds of books, so I can feel at ease with the rebate for 3 books." ." When I arrived at the hotel, I immediately changed my QQ signature to "Guan Jiangang gave me three books." My wife said that it shouldn't be written like this, as it seemed disrespectful to Teacher Guan. There is no way to change this habit. During this period, I have been following Teacher L as a child. Besides, Guan Jiangang is also a good child because he has a very healthy and young heart.
The morning of the 23rd was Guan He Ziyang’s lecture, which was very enjoyable. He talked eloquently as always, while keenly capturing and providing timely feedback on the reactions of the teachers below. However, at that time, I was even more looking forward to the early approach of noon, because Ziyang had made an appointment with him to have dinner with him at noon, and my task was to take Guan away by then. At the end of the morning, although Deng Chao had a minor car accident, it did not affect his appetite at noon. I sat next to the tube, feeling a little inexplicably excited. I was a little reserved at first, but then I relaxed completely and chatted a lot. Guan also talked about some issues about composition. What impressed me the most was a little worry and helplessness. "We teach this way in primary school, but when they enter middle school, children will inevitably fall into that big net." I said : "If all primary school Chinese teachers teach like this, I believe it will definitely be good and there will be changes." In fact, sometimes people are really hesitant about what the reality will be like. However, I firmly believe that with Guan Jiangang and his composition education series, our primary school composition education has moved from face to face. I spent a whole afternoon and finished reading "My Composition Teaching Story" at seven o'clock. I couldn't help but send him a text message: "I finished reading "My Composition Teaching Story" again in one breath. This summer vacation I won’t go out anymore, I’ll go home and sort it out carefully, and try to get a driver’s license for teaching composition.” At nine twenty-five, I saw the text message on my phone that he replied at nine o’clock, and I laughed to death.
So, primary school Chinese teachers, let us all learn about Guan Jiangang and his composition education series, get close to Guan Jiangang and learn about Guan Jiangang together, and get a driving license to teach composition. Teaching composition in vain.