From the stage to the podium, from the capital to beyond the Great Wall

Ren Fei

Science fiction writer Liu Cixin described the role of teachers in the short story "Country Teacher", "There is a certain type of individual, a certain number, distributed in every corner of this population. Such individuals act as a medium for the transmission of knowledge between two generations of living beings. They are not myths, they are called teachers."

It wasn’t until the day I became a teacher that I realized that our previous understanding of this identity was extremely narrow. The so-called teacher, at a small level, means preaching, imparting knowledge, and solving doubts. At a large level, it may really be a messenger who shoulders the mission of the country and even the transmission of civilization in the universe. Therefore, every time I am so angry that my mind is dizzy and my blood is rising from the students' scrawled homework handwriting, chaotic classroom discipline, and lackluster test results, I always feel a little more guilty towards my teachers.

In the fleeting four years of Huiyuan life,“Stage” is a keyword that is inseparable from me. As a campus host, I often hold a microphone and wear fancy clothes on the stage to talk, or I play the role of a female diplomat in the w88 casino history drama and argue at the world economic and w88 negotiation table. However, what is not well known is that I am also a child who came from the northwest of my motherland. Thanks to the cultivation of thinking about the source when I was a child, even though it has been fifteen years since I left my hometown to study and live in Beijing, when I learned that I could return to my hometown to teach as a member of the graduate student teaching team, a sense of mission arose in my heart.

After officially becoming members of the research support group, we made full preparations including physical fitness, knowledge reserves, and practical teaching for a whole year. It can be said that we are "fully armed to the teeth." We even cut our long hair to shoulder length because we were worried that it would be inconvenient to bathe in the teaching place (later I found that this worry was unnecessary). There were no twists and turns in our journey to the west. Our journey to support teaching began with confidence just like the name of the four people’s group chat “Gansu Jingyuan Team”.

In the Yellow River Customs Park in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province

At the end of August 2018, three of the four of us were assigned to Jingyuan No. 7 Middle w88 casino (a nine-year consistent w88 casino), and one person was assigned to Jingyuan No. 4 Middle w88 casino for teaching. I was assigned to Jingyuan No. 7 Middle w88 casino, where I taught English courses for seventh graders and also taught dream classes for two seventh-grade classes.

Take a farewell photo with the Sun Flower Class

Because I understand that the overall English teaching in Gansu is relatively weak due to the limitations of educational resources and examination formats, especially in English listening and speaking. In the first month of w88 casino, I took over a Sunflower class (experimental class) and a parallel class taught by the senior students of the previous teaching team, teaching them English in the second grade of junior high w88 casino. Full of confidence in teaching, I handwrite lesson plans and make ppts every day. I make a self-made roster and carefully count each student's homework and dictation test results. At the same time, I use multimedia means to teach and train their English listening and speaking skills as much as possible. The students are very happy that they have been taught by teachers from the University of International w88 for two years, especially the children in the Sunflower class. They can complete their homework seriously without the teacher having to worry about it, and they can help each other in the form of study groups, which greatly exceeded my expectations.

Take open classes

However, "the good times did not last long". One month later, due to job transfer, I was transferred to a parallel class in seventh grade with a relatively ordinary foundation as an English teacher. Most of the students in this class live in surrounding towns and villages, so boarding students account for a large proportion, and the level of students is also uneven, consisting of individual outstanding students and most students with weak foundations. The so-called "training" probably officially begins here.

Give individual tutoring exercises to students with weak foundation

I often joke with my students that our relationship is one of "love and death."

Let’s talk about the “falling in love” part first.

In the midterm exam of the first semester, in order to increase everyone's enthusiasm for learning, I used my poor drawing skills to draw a target score card for each study group, which was held by the group leader. The group whose average score in the mid-term exam exceeds this score line will receive a reward. At the same time, I have also set up scholarships for students out of my own pocket. Whoever ranks among the top ten in the grade in the English test will receive a scholarship of 100 yuan. There must be brave men under heavy rewards, and the atmosphere for learning English in the class was very high for a while. So in the subsequent mid-term exam, two students from this parallel class ranked among the top ten in their grade and won scholarships.

Hold a small award ceremony for the top ten students in the English grade

Prizes, certificates and target score cards prepared for students

Later, students started fromQQI learned about my birthday. I had just walked out of the office door during English class that day when I saw students standing every two meters in the corridor to welcome me all the way into class. As soon as they entered the door, everyone shouted "Happy Birthday" together. There is a big written on the blackboardhappy birthdayThere were several balloons of different colors attached, and my clothes were sprayed with colorful strips. Then the children began to swarm up to give me gifts, including big lollipops and Doraemon.aDreams, various small ornaments, the Hu Yitian bookmark I got from my sister, and the scented greeting card------not forgetting to write in it the words that they will study hard and not let the teacher down. For a moment, I didn't know what to say, and suddenly I remembered that when I was in middle w88 casino, I hid in the corner of the corridor to see if the teacher was coming for his birthday. At that moment, I suddenly thought, even if these children really don't learn well, if they can always be so gentle to others, their future lives will not be too bad!

The surprises my students prepared for my birthday

Also, I often talk to students about "interesting" topics, such as King of Glory, falling in love, and what to do if you have acne in adolescence. Every time they mentioned it, they listened ten times more intently than during the actual lecture, which made people dumbfounded. Fortunately, under such influence, children sometimes come to me to talk to me in various ways when they have emotional problems, family problems, or inner worries, and I try my best to give them the right guidance.

Make up students for Children’s Day program

Let’s talk about the “killing each other” part.

If you want to count them, the space is probably not enough, but most of them are common problems such as not completing homework on time, not memorizing vocabulary, and still making mistakes in exams on test points that have been taught countless times. However, the most impressive and heartbreaking thing happened last month. During one evening self-study session, I found a boy in the class leaning against the radiator because he was not listening. Just when I was about to criticize him, my classmate told me that he had taken two sleeping pills out of curiosity. I was shocked and immediately asked to call his parents to take him to the doctor, but he refused because he had a bad relationship with his parents. After understanding the situation, I could only temporarily let him drink more water and lie down on the table to rest, and warned him not to try these medicines out of curiosity again. Unexpectedly, he secretly took four more tablets after returning home at night, and was eventually sent to the hospital for gastric lavage. Fortunately, the dose was not high and was not life-threatening. Later, another student said that he had a tendency to jump into the river, so I immediately contacted his parents to dissuade him. We don't know where he got the medicine or why. But I can’t imagine what the consequences would have been if I hadn’t noticed the student’s abnormality that day and promptly dissuaded and told the surrounding students to observe him more. Five days later, he came to w88 casino and told everyone that he was transferring to another w88 casino. When he was leaving, he ran out of the classroom quickly without looking back, but asked his classmates to give me a note that said, "I will miss you very much."

This incident also tells us that every teacher who supports teaching must pay more attention to the psychological status of students. What many students lack is not food and clothing, but the attention and concern of their parents for their children throughout their growth. I hope that this boy will always have clear sunshine, bridges for every ravine he encounters, and a broad road ahead.

In a blink of an eye, June is here, a month full of farewells. One year, let me do thisThe "city girl" can pinch flying insects with her bare hands and enter the dry toilet calmly. Perhaps this is another interpretation of "looking up at the stars and keeping feet on the ground". In today's era, especially in an international w88 casino like the University of Shanghai, most people want to go abroad and see the world - I used to think so too. But when I think about it, if you can spend less than a year going deep into the grassroots to learn about a different China and gain a unique life experience, your feelings will be able to accommodate the whole world! Opportunities like this must not come often.

In this year, maybe an exchange event for international students we organized, a letter from a senior student at the University of International w88, or a word about dreams can change a child's life - or maybe we can't change anything, but we still believe and keep moving forward.

Working with the Youth League County Committee to carry out inspirational exchange activities for international students from the University of International w88 in Jingyuan No. 4 Middle w88 casino