Author: Sun Kai (employee of Nanjing New Oriental School)
Chen, who is cheerful and humorous, is a famous logical thinking strongman in Nanjing New Oriental School. He is also a teacher who often chooses the former between the sweat on his eyebrows and the tears under his eyebrows.
At the beginning of teaching
When Mr. Chen first entered New Oriental, the first class he attended was the TOEFL training camp, which was basically attended by foreign students. On the first day of class, he was 20 minutes late and left early. Before class was over, he finished all the classes and didn't know what to say anymore. He said to the students helplessly, "I have said all I have to say, and there is nothing more to say." At that time, he felt particularly guilty and felt sorry for those students, especially those who came from other places to study. So, at the end of the training camp, he said "I'm sorry" to all his classmates, and a girl said to him, "Teacher, you have tried your best."
That class is the most profound one in his memory, and it also completely changed his class.
He decided that there would be no such class in the future, so he began to ask for correcting students' compositions. I revise 4-5 articles in one night. The first thing I do when I go home after class every day is to help students revise their compositions, and I concentrate all my energy on correcting them. Persist in correcting 3000-4000 compositions every day for two years. From then on, he can be done by students in class. He will write a composition and talk while writing. In his view, teaching is not only preparing lessons, but also making students realize that the original composition is completed step by step in practice. These accumulations make him really integrate into the students, thus making the teaching vivid and appropriate.
"Teaching is not only preparing lessons, but more importantly, relying on your own hard practice to personally sort out a set of feasible methods. This kind of teaching effect is the best and the most significant. " This is Chen's understanding of teaching.
The way to prepare lessons
One year after the TOEFL training camp, it was still a TOEFL course, and one of the students was his first student. By chance, he saw the student's comment: "Teacher, you have made a lot of progress than last year." After reading these words, his nose was sore. This is his most touching moment, and it is also the best affirmation of his efforts in the past year.
He said that his contribution was not to get flowers and honors. All he longed for was a student's affirmation. This is the responsibility to the students, and what is important is the recognition of the students. That's enough.
Therefore, Chen attaches great importance to preparing lessons, and his lesson preparation records are revised at any time. Whenever there is a new lesson, he prepares lessons in time, and the original lesson preparation records are updated at any time to ensure that the same course can tell new content in different classes. Therefore, even when eating, the most he does is to prepare lessons.
On one occasion, Mr. Li Ding asked him to substitute for the class temporarily, and he said that I hadn't prepared my lessons yet. So Teacher Li Ding said this: "A teacher can't always go to the podium after class, and a student can't always walk into the examination room after preparation." After that, Chen realized: "We need to overcome all kinds of difficulties in the shortest time to make ourselves successful. When a teacher can finally stand on a podium, he will truly feel his hard work, dedication and sweat. Teaching is not about money, but more about responsibility and love. In order to be worthy of the students who come to study, students can learn things in life, study and life. This is the teacher. "
Speaking of this, an unknown teacher image emerges in front of my eyes: so respect the teacher, respect the teacher, preach and teach to solve doubts; To love every student is to teach him to fish and teach him to fish.
Sense of life
In life, Chen is not as carefree as he thought, leaving more regrets.
All along, what he regrets most is that the wedding date conflicts with the school curriculum and he can't transfer classes. His decision is to change his wedding date. The lover has been looking forward to getting married for a long time, but he has to postpone it. The lover has no complaints, and he feels guilty about his lover. At this time, he may be silently saying sorry to his life and his lover. He gave the most important day of his life to his students.
After a while, the house was mentioned. He said that he bought a new house, but because of the tight course, he couldn't put down the students and didn't even have time to take a look at the new house. His family and lover have been taking care of the new house. He repeatedly said five times: I'm sorry for my family, I'm sorry for my lover and I'm sorry for my parents.
Lev tolstoy said: All happy families are alike, and each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
He thinks he is the scum of the family and has not fulfilled his obligations to the family. He is very grateful to his lover for his understanding and concern. However, for students, he is successful. From the initial 3.5 points to almost 5 points now, he has won the respect and admiration of countless classmates.
In our conversation, he said that he used to be a person who didn't like reading. Since teaching in New Oriental, he thinks reading is really important. Now he spends a lot of time reading books. He dabbles in various books, such as history, science and religion. In class, he can cite examples from various fields in many links to make the class lively and surprise students.
Now in life, whenever late at night, he still insists on correcting students' compositions. Even during the Spring Festival and Christmas, although he lives under the same roof with his family, he corrects students' compositions in the study. In his words, this is his destiny and a responsibility that he can't give up.
Gratitude
Referring to what makes him feel gratified in New Oriental, he said: The most important thing in New Oriental is not income, but timely help. What makes him most gratified is that he can work with many excellent teachers, so that he can learn a lot from them. The concern among colleagues, academic exchanges and teamwork made him really know how to be a real teacher.
He said, "I don't think I would be here today without Mr. Li Ding. Also, when I felt helpless about the composition in GMAT class, it was Teacher Peng Xia who took the initiative to discuss with me how to write and how to teach GMAT to write. The North American Department where I am located is a very United team, experiencing sweat and tears together. Qin Lang is now the head of North America Department. He often comes home late and has been working hard. Because of this, I have always felt at home in this department. Often discuss and exchange teaching experience with teachers after class. Although some of them have left, they will always remind me of them and the friendship and warmth like comrades. And our headmaster, Mr. Luo Moming, has also done a lot of work silently. He has really made a lot of contributions to everyone. If one day, I recall my time in New Oriental, such a day will never be forgotten. "
Chen is such a teacher. In the choice between the sweat on the eyebrows and the tears under the eyebrows, she often chooses her former teacher in order to be responsible for her students.
After the interview, he raised his hand and looked at the time, then turned around and told the students behind him to prepare for class. At this time, he also returned to the cheerful and humorous state I used to be familiar with, which brought a vivid lesson to the students.