Parents are anxious within their own cognitive range and worry about their children's future with their own inherent thinking. Teacher Zhang Hua, the founder of Junior Business School, collected 10 years of research and practice, and wrote the book "The World is Our Classroom: Cultivating Children's Core Competitiveness Facing the Future" (hereinafter referred to as "The World is Our Classroom"), which provided detailed strategic suggestions and practical paths to guide parents to solve their educational anxiety and cultivate their core competitiveness facing the future.
"The World Is Our Classroom" said: The world famous schools want to recruit people who have their own characteristics since childhood and have more opportunities in second class of guangdong in the future. And this kind of talent, teacher Zhang Hua called it T-talent. Cultivating new T-type talents is actually to cultivate people who always have the ability to solve problems and have a high happiness index when facing the complex challenges of the future society.
And general education is the basis of cultivating T-type teenagers and new T-type talents. General education is not the patent of college students, but the education that every child should receive.
How can ordinary parents help their children contact and try general education? We can start from three aspects:
1. Extensive reading
"Read a lot while you are young", and you should read all kinds of subjects, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign. Through reading, you can find the self-motivation to learn with your children and stimulate their desire to learn actively.
How to cultivate children's reading ability? There is only one answer: parent-child reading. Children need their parents to accompany them when they are young, and insist on parent-child reading since childhood, so that reading becomes an inseparable part of intimate relationships and benefits many parties. Our family started parent-child reading in about four months, which may be boring in the early stage, mainly relying on parents' persistence; It is more interesting when children can respond; A little older, parents may be unhappy when children start making demands. Reading a book dozens of times really destroys all the books. But the advantage is that I know a lot of words, and I began to read them myself when I was about 5 years old.
The increase in reading also brought him some unexpected gains, so he spoke at a flag-raising ceremony in kindergarten (he was the only one in the class who knew all the words in the speech); I will also draw some picture books and express my ideas with pictures and texts.
Through reading, we can understand the cultures of different countries, communicate with different people, understand strange ideas, and read, which can broaden the radius of our world.
"The World Is Our Classroom" mentioned one thing that Li Xigui shared: during his teaching in Shandong, because he didn't recruit a Chinese teacher for one year, all the students went to the reading room to read books or borrowed books from the library to watch them in the classroom. As a result, the final grade is no worse than other classes. The same thing happened to me in junior high school. We are a public school in the town. The Chinese teacher in Grade Two is a young teacher. The classroom is often very noisy. The teacher can't help but start reading to us. All kinds of magazines are extracurricular reading materials. At the end of that semester, our class did well in the Chinese exam. The most important thing is that this composition is well written. The teacher didn't force us to do our homework because we did well in the exam. Everyone is very happy.
Because I love reading, I experienced the joy of writing inspiration like flowing water in one go, and I also felt the pride of getting full marks in my new school composition; It is also because I love reading that I spontaneously learned the basic knowledge of Chinese, which helped me a lot in an exam.
Feel beautiful
The perception of beauty in general education is particularly important, because beauty permeates all aspects of our lives. If you can't perceive the beauty in life, you will lose your curiosity, thirst for knowledge and innovation ability.
The world is our classroom says: Take children to concerts, watch art exhibitions and enjoy nature. Our family usually listens to music and seldom holds concerts; Painting is ok, and I am very confused when I watch the exhibition; However, appreciating nature is too common. You can watch the clouds and rain and the sunset during the day. At night, the stars and the moon in the city are lit up. You can go out on weekends and take a walk in the yard of the community. Children are naturally interested in nature. They can touch flowers and grass, watch ants and crickets, and go up mountains and down rivers. As long as adults don't stop it, you can play for a day.
My child is 6 years old. A few days ago, we went to the roof to watch the sunset every afternoon. On one occasion, he even asked to bring a book "Revealing the Weather" and said, "Mom, this book has a page about different clouds. I'll go and see if there is such a thing outside. " He felt the beauty of nature, and his thirst for knowledge drove him back to the book to find the answer. This is how the self-driving force of learning comes.
This year we went to Dunhuang and enjoyed the incomparable beautiful Dunhuang murals. When we got home, we bought a copy of Dunhuang. He watched it with great interest for several days, and combined with his experience in Dunhuang, he told me: Mom, look, we have been here, and I have heard the story of this mural. Reading picture books further deepened his understanding of Dunhuang murals, and he also understood the preciousness of Dunhuang murals.
It is because of these beautiful things that we have love for the world, and it is also because of these beautiful things that we know how to protect and create.
Step 3 express more
It is mentioned in The World Is Our Classroom that through "reading, thinking, discussing and practicing public expression", our children can really learn how to learn, how to explore the world and communicate with others, and how to express themselves. The so-called "seeing the heavens and the earth, seeing all beings, and seeing yourself", this sense of gain and accomplishment has accumulated over time, which is great.
Reading without thinking has no nutrition. The best input is output, a knowledge point. If you can explain it clearly to others, you must know it by heart. My child signed up for an online class before, and what attracted me most was "recording the video of the little teacher". Every time he finishes his homework after class, he will choose a topic and talk about his own problem-solving ideas. At the beginning, a video was recorded several times. Although the problem was solved soon, I still stuttered. After class, he will pay more attention to the teacher's explanation ideas and expressions. After a period of practice, the topic can be understood clearly. This process of telling exercises his language expression ability and logical thinking ability, and also completely turns the learning content into his own knowledge.
In addition to language expression, there are actions. We don't want children to be giants in language and dwarfs in action. Let children participate in family affairs more, which can not only make children experience the difficulty of running a family after their parents work, but also make him feel the glory of participating in family affairs as a family member, and increase his cognition of the real society.
The World Is Our Classroom says: Smart parents are training their children in the direction of "new T-type talents". Strengthening general education, cultivating T-type teenagers and achieving "reading widely, feeling beauty and expressing more" have one thing in common-giving children a certain blank time instead of filling all his time.
Less skill training and skill practice, and more time and space for children to explore freely and think independently. Don't do anything with a utilitarian heart, let children find what they are really interested in, stimulate their potential, drive themselves to learn, think, study, explore and create, and allow them to make some mistakes. In this process, his gains are manifold.
Our children belong to the future and the future is unpredictable. What we can do is to broaden children's knowledge, deepen their thinking and help them meet the challenges of the complex world in the future, and general education is the first step to help them move towards the future.