I never thought of being a teacher in the first eighteen years of my life. There are basically all public officials in my family. My father used to be a criminal policeman. When I was a child, I turned over his case books. So for a long time, I felt that I would either study law or become a policeman in the future. What's more, most of the teachers I met before stood on the podium to draw knowledge points, urged me to recite books, and changed papers - quite templated. I don't like that, let alone think that I would become like that.
The real transformation happened when I was a postgraduate study at Nanjing University.While doing academic work, my tutor organized some social practices and led us to develop some "peace education" courses. That was the first time I jumped out of the perspective of "students" to look at education: it turned out that the classroom could not be "teachers talk, students remember", but can discuss together, simulate situations, and even walk out of the classroom. I suddenly felt that the classroom could be "alive".
Later, I really became a teacher. I slowly found that the touching thing about education is that it can really make both teachers and students feel happy. At first, I just wanted to develop a course from the perspective of students. Therefore, I began to delve into the local traditional culture, accidentally came into contact with Yongchun, and was attracted by its minimalist and profound philosophy. Learning and practicing by myself, I feel more and more that this is not a martial art, but a kind of cultural dialogue.Since then, I have been determined to bring more non-heritage content into the classroom in the form of experience and situation. I took the students out of the classroom: ask the inheritor to take everyone to make lanterns, play the Spring Festival, talk about oral history, and walk into the tea garden to make tea by hand.
Slowly, some students began to take the initiative to ask me, "Teacher, what weapon did Huo Daobi use back then?" What kind of array did Qi Jiguang fight against Japan?" - They no longer regard history as a thin year and event, but enter the situation of that era, try to sympathe with specific people and experience the real life.
We teach our children history not to make everyone a historian, but in the hope of planting a small seed in their hearts, so that this subject can accompany them for longer years. Be a childLooking back on this time in middle school, I can think of a moment spent with the history teacher, which was warm, open and happy, and then I will feel that my career is very happy.