Under the new curriculum concept, what new teaching skills do teachers need to add?
Changes in teaching and learning methods require teachers to continuously develop new basic skills. Just like doctors' clinical activities and lawyers' defense activities, teachers' professional skills are also the characteristics of teachers' professional performance. Facing the new curriculum, teachers must establish a new image and must learn to master new professional requirements and skills: in addition to the respect, guidance, reflection, and cooperation mentioned above, they must learn to care, learn to understand, learn to tolerate, learn to give, and learn to wait. Only by learning to share, learn to choose, learn to motivate, learn to cooperate, and learn to innovate can we go with the new curriculum.
1. Learn to care
Love is the source of teachers’ strength and a prerequisite for successful education. Loving students is a concentrated expression of teachers' love. The basic condition of teacher love is equality, and love must first be respected. Students’ interests, hobbies, emotions, personality characteristics, ambitions and aspirations must be respected, and students’ choices, judgments and personal wishes must be respected. The highest state of teacher love is friendship. To care for students, you must regard yourself as a friend of the students and feel their joys, sorrows, and joys. In the minds of students, being both teachers and friends, and being democratic and equal are the most important characteristics of a “good teacher”. When students whisper to you, your education begins to succeed. Being caring and having knowledge, for students, they prefer the former. A caring look or a word of trustful encouragement can win the love and trust of students; and when teachers judge students at will, students are making corresponding judgments on teachers in their hearts; if teachers do not respect students' personality, teachers' own Personality will inevitably be lost in the eyes of students. Teacher love must face every student. Loving "good students" is easy for any teacher to do. What is more valuable is the love for "bad students": when students seem least worthy of love, it is precisely when students need love most. If you hate students, then your education has not even begun, it is essentially over. If you want to stimulate feelings for "poor students", you must change your colored eyes, open your eyes wide to find the shining factors in students, and give positive encouragement, hints, and affirmations in a timely manner. Once this kind of well-intentioned and trendy emotion is understood and accepted by students, it may produce tremendous power and even create miracles.
Love must be measured. Of course, "coddling" is not enough. Love must be measured and strict. The level of "love" to "hate" is even worse. "I am doing it for the good of the students," but such "good intentions" often do things that harm the students, and even endanger the children's health and lives. Obsolete concepts such as "If you hate iron, you won't make steel" and "If you don't fight, you won't be successful", which often leads to some educational tragedies in families and schools. In fact, "sticks" can only create slaves. People created under the threat of "sticks" have difficulty adapting to society and coping with the future. "Flogging children is the most unsuitable method in education, because punishment will free children from their conscience and push them to the other end of education." Let us always think about the opinions of educators. Admonish sincerely: "There is a Watt under your whip, a Newton in your cold eyes, and an Edison in your ridicule." Students need strict teachers, but also kindness and tolerance; teachers should have "good intentions", but they must also have good results. .
2. Learn to understand
Only when you learn to understand can you learn to care. Understanding is not only a means of knowing, but also a way of human existence. "Mistakes are an important reason for teaching failure, and understanding is a valuable teaching resource." The current teaching that is full of misunderstandings distorts students' minds. Teachers' words and deeds should take into account children's psychological characteristics and behavioral levels, as well as students' thoughts and feelings. We should see the world through children's eyes instead of imposing our understanding and ideas on children. Learn to understand, especially those students who have difficulties and misbehavior. They are often labeled as "bad": "idiots", "naughty", "morally corrupt", etc. The results often directly affect the physical and mental health of students. . In fact, problem students are not necessarily bad students.
3. Learn Tolerance
Tolerance is a very valuable educational art. "People's hearts are different, each has its own face." To learn tolerance means to respect diversity and value individuality as much as possible; to get used to "one world, many voices" as much as possible, especially to be tolerant of students' shortcomings and mistakes. British scientist MacLeod secretly killed the principal's dog when he was in elementary school. This is obviously an unforgivable mistake in Western countries.
But Macleod met a clever principal, and his punishment was to draw two anatomical diagrams: a diagram of a dog's blood circulation and a diagram of its skeletal structure. It was this "punishment" that included understanding, tolerance and kindness that made McLeod fall in love with biology, and eventually discovered the role of insulin in the treatment of diabetes and was awarded the Nobel Prize. I hope all our children will be as lucky as McLeod. When children make mistakes, what they desperately want is tolerant understanding and help, rather than harsh criticism and punishment. Students are in the stage of physical and mental development, and their concepts of right and wrong are not yet mature. It may be behavioral errors caused by curiosity and desire for expression. It is inevitable to have incorrect views or wrong approaches to some issues. They grow and mature by constantly learning from their mistakes. Learn to be tolerant, and teachers must learn to expect. "Expectation" means that we cannot expect students to become fat in one bite. Teachers should view students from a developmental perspective. Everyone has a process from childishness to maturity. Teachers who have learned to expect can be tolerant, understanding, and kind to students to the maximum extent, and will never say "you can't do it" to students; they can be less harsh and less harsh on students. Less disappointment, less indifference, more understanding, more confidence, and more kindness. After learning to expect, teachers can treat their work with a calm attitude, not eager for success, not impetuous, and not expecting to achieve results overnight. Learning to be tolerant also requires teachers to create a relaxed and pleasant learning environment for students, as mentioned earlier.
4. Learn to give
Giving, the most important thing at present is to return the power of learning to students. Education that enables students to develop lively and proactively is successful education. Education with active development is first of all selective. Therefore, teachers must learn to give and give students space and room for free choice, so that students can choose independently. This space is by no means just "time". It is not enough for teaching to leave sufficient time for students to review and do homework. What is important is to provide them with an independent thinking process. If the time that has been given back to students is fully arranged according to the teacher's requirements, students will still be "puppets". Give time, but also give rights, opportunities, tasks, and difficulties. The book "Learning Summary of Concepts of Quality Education" organized by the Ministry of Education puts it well: give children some rights and let them make their own choices; give them some opportunities and let them experience them on their own; give them some tasks and let them do it on their own. Complete; give the child a little difficulty and let him solve it by himself; give the child a question and let him find the answer by himself; give the child a space and let him move forward on his own.
5. Learn to share
As participants, teachers must learn to share. Sharing is two-way communication and shared ownership. The process of education is actually a process in which teachers and students share the spiritual wealth created by mankind over thousands of years, as well as the life experiences and values ??of teachers and students. Sharing means that teachers are more about showing rather than instilling; leading rather than forcing; giving equally rather than giving alms from a condescending position. Learn to avoid being self-centered, self-righteous, and being a teacher. Learn to share, but also learn to appreciate - others are to sincerely share each other's shining points, which will bring us very simple satisfaction, pleasure and joy. We may not like the people we admire, but we must like the people who appreciate us. Genuine praise and appreciation shown to others will bring more sunshine, warmth and beauty into our lives. Therefore, teachers must learn to appreciate and praise their students.
6. Learn to cooperate
In the past classroom teaching, teachers basically fought alone. In the implementation of the new curriculum, the requirements for cooperative learning and the emergence of comprehensive courses first put forward new requirements for full cooperation among teachers. The coordination of the teacher collective, the unity, cooperation and close cooperation between teachers are particularly important. Close cooperation between teachers can provide each other with support and inspiration; share wisdom and reduce burdens; demonstrate cooperation and promote growth. In fact, even in the past, a successful teacher must be able to work closely with the principal, colleagues, parents, and especially students. Cooperation requires the quality and ability to be good at communication, rational judgment and mature enthusiasm, the quality of putting oneself in other people's shoes and the mind to think of others. The new curriculum specifically requires cooperation and communication with students to jointly build, promote, and generate courses. Cooperation should start from improving the relationship between teachers and students.
Students are the masters of learning and have the same independent personality as teachers. The role of teachers is to mobilize their subjective initiative and positive factors. Students' initiative, enthusiasm, and creativity are the prerequisites for good learning and good teaching by teachers.
7. Learn to choose
As a leader, teachers must learn to choose. Social progress is accompanied by more and more choices and possibilities. Democratic and personalized education naturally requires the optionality of educational content and educational methods. Learning to choose has become an essential quality and ability for people. Only by learning to choose can you keep up with the times. To let students learn to choose, as guides and consultants who lead students to make positive choices, teachers must first learn to choose, so that more children can have choices, more children can perform, and more children can be intoxicated with success. In joy, let more children have a healthy mentality, a sound personality and a confident life. Teachers must first learn to choose the content of education, the timing of education, and the ways and methods of education. This requires teachers to continuously learn and accumulate, so as to have a high degree of judgment and appreciation and promote their own professional development.
8. Learn to inspire
Glory and dreams are the driving force for human progress, and growth requires encouragement. Successful education must result in educational success. If teachers take up the weapon of praise, they can reduce students' discouragement after failure and increase students' confidence after success. Every student hopes to be successful and looks forward to receiving recognition and honors. Some teachers only focus on scores, and success becomes the "patent" of a few students, while most students do not receive the teacher's attention. Many children say, "The teacher has never praised me", but they are always faced with the teacher's intentional or unintentional hint: "You are not a good student." We should cherish the deepest desires of students and actively create opportunities so that students can achieve the successful experience of "I can do it." "Very good, try again", sincere encouragement can make failure breed success; "It's far behind, don't be proud", blind warning and blame will make the joy of success disappear, and even lose the ability to do something new. The courage to try. "Failure is the mother of success", but repeated failures can easily lead to self-denial among young students; "Success is the mother of success" is more in line with the reality of growing middle school students. Experiencing success is the best way to cultivate self-confidence and the most important motivation to pursue new goals and achievements. A teacher in a school asked students to choose an honorary title in their minds and determine the criteria for obtaining the title this semester. At the end of the semester, teachers reward students who meet the standards, which greatly stimulates students' enterprising spirit. This motivational method is touching and admirable.
9. Learn “IT”
The “IT” mentioned here is information technology. With the advent of the 21st century, information technology represented by computers and the Internet is becoming more and more popular. The amazing speed is changing the way people live and learn. Information literacy has become the "proof of ability" for each member of society to enter the information age, and is also the premise and foundation for students' independent learning. To cultivate students' information literacy, teachers must first master information technology. Mastering information technology is a necessary means of modern education; creating the most favorable information environment for students and cultivating and improving students' ability to obtain and process information are the basic tasks of teachers' teaching work. The "Guidance Outline for Basic Education Curriculum Reform" points out: "We must vigorously promote the universal application of information technology in the teaching process, promote the integration of information technology and subject courses, and gradually realize the presentation of teaching content, students' learning methods, and teachers' teaching methods. Changes in the way teachers and students interact, give full play to the advantages of information technology, and provide a rich educational environment and powerful learning tools for students' learning and development.
10. Learn to innovate
Only teachers with innovative consciousness and innovative ability can cultivate students with innovative spirit and innovative ability. The era of "teaching textbooks" and "explaining what is taught by the textbook" has passed, and teachers' labor must be a creative labor. Implementation is expected to be completed by "creative" teachers. Without the creative work of teachers, it is impossible to have new courses and new education; only teachers who are constantly enterprising and innovative can radiate their own vitality while promoting the development of students; Only by constantly "innovating" can teachers keep pace with the times and develop continuously, and will they always experience the inherent joy and dignity of the profession.
The innovation of teachers in primary and secondary schools does not mean to have inventions and creations that are new to mankind as a whole, but it is to hope that teachers can make new explanations from different angles to things that are commonplace, commonplace, and turn a blind eye, and constantly explore In order to improve their own work and constantly try new teaching methods, teaching strategies and teaching styles. Teachers with innovative consciousness must also have an open mind, enterprising spirit and interest in inquiry. These qualities themselves are extremely important educational resources, and will therefore exert a powerful educational force in cultivating students' innovative spirit.