However, after work, I found that teaching is not as simple as I thought. Facing a group of young, ignorant, lively and active children in their new posts, attending classes has become a headache. Stumbling all the way to the end of the first semester, I often feel confused and lost in thought because of a failed class.
I know that I am inexperienced, and I need to keep learning from excellent teachers, and I also need to keep reading and learning to enrich my educational thoughts. Just reading after work can only be an episode after a busy day or after a meal. It is really extravagant to be able to take a long time to calm down and read. So, I borrowed some books from the school library near the holiday, hoping to use the holiday to enjoy the pleasure of reading greedily.
Today, after I got the good book How to Manage Students, I couldn't put it down. How to Manage Students Today is not only a tool educational book, but also a book with ideological value. What I gained from this book is not only methods and skills, but also an attitude and values.
First of all, I gained an attitude in the book, a professional attitude as a teacher. What is "professionalism"? Can you teach just by letter of appointment or standing on the podium? This book makes me think. With the changes of the times and the increasingly complex social environment, the time when students will respect you because you are a teacher is far away from us, and the past "dignity of being a teacher" may not be applicable to today's students. "People from all walks of life need to win customers with their own products or services. Why don't teachers need to use their professional services to win students? " Like other professions, teachers must win the respect of students with their professional attitude, professional knowledge and professional skills. We can't be privileged just because we work with children. In fact, it is precisely because of working with children that we need children more, that we have assumed greater responsibilities and accepted more professional requirements. The book points out that "being calm, being positive, respecting students, helping students, and always putting students' learning (in a broad sense) first" are all teachers' professional attitudes towards students. I think I haven't done enough in my major since I became a teacher. If we have a clear and firm professional attitude towards students, we will do better in dealing with specific problems. We will no longer scold those naughty students, we will no longer be impatient with those who don't study well or refuse to turn over a new leaf, and we will never see them again ... I think teachers will win more respect and love from students by managing students in a professional way.
Of course, attitude alone is not enough, but also methods and skills. In view of the problems that teachers often encounter in managing students, this book selects the educational experience of excellent teachers and provides hundreds of practical ways to "manage" students. I found some methods that suit me through reading.
The "24 strategies for rewarding students" introduced in the book, such as "I caught you", try to "catch" students who perform well or do good things on the spot every week. Let the students write their names and things they have done on a piece of paper, and then put them in a "good things jar". Every Friday, a few pieces of paper are randomly selected from the "good things jar" to give small prizes to the selected students; For example, if students get excellent grades or perform particularly well, they can make a "good news call" to share their joy with their parents in time; For example, "Breakthrough", choose a reward focus with students every month, such as classroom discipline in September, class preparation in June at 5438+ 10, recess exercise in June 165438+ 10, and so on. These reward strategies are highly practical and targeted, and some of them are often used in our teaching and have strong operability.
Effective and timely incentives really have a magical power. Sometimes a compliment from a teacher, a positive look and a gesture of approval are enough to make students more confident, energetic and have a strong desire to pursue new success. Let us all remember that it is a magic weapon to enhance students' self-esteem, autonomy, self-reliance and sense of accomplishment to carefully observe the children's real efforts and sincerely point out the specific aspects worthy of praise.