Marina Solotova
It was 1979 outside. I studied in the 9th grade. The school hosted an evening on the occasion of February 23rd. The school ensemble played in the hall, and I was in seventh heaven with happiness, because for the first time I danced with Igor from a parallel class, with whom I was in love "until death."
Towards the end of the Best Evening of my life, we ended up in the toilet at the same time - me, our class teacher and two smoking tenth graders. It seemed cool that I, too, with a cigarette. I repeat: it seemed. While I was walking, no, flying home, she called my mother. And instead of talking about how wonderful Igor is after all, my mother and I talked about something completely different.
My mother, of course, believed me. But at the age of 16 I was a proud girl, sometimes to the point of stupidity. I don’t know what especially offended me: slander or a stolen evening, but I was offended by the class very much.
And in the morning I announced to my mother that I would not go to school anymore. Because “I don’t want to have anything to do with a person who vilely slanders me and thinks like that about me.” Leaving for work, my mother said: “Okay, in the evening we will decide what to do: to evening school, to another school, to School of Music- Lots of options. I got warmer and fell asleep.
First the phone rang. A cousin who was staying with us on the occasion of student holidays picked up the phone and said: “She won’t come to school anymore.” And she explained why.
Half an hour later the doorbell rang. The head teacher and the class teacher entered the apartment ... Having carefully listened to my version, the head teacher Raisa Vladimirovna said that of course I could leave the school, but it’s better not to. It seemed to me that she spoke at length and quite convincingly, but I was adamant. And then she said: “If the teacher is wrong, he will apologize to you. Really, Alla Turashevna?”
And Alla Turashevna apologized. And I dressed like a bullet and grabbed a briefcase. And she could hardly restrain herself from throwing herself on the neck of Alla Turashevna. Now I'm sorry, I should have quit.
This was not a humiliation for the teacher. None of my classmates were sarcastic about this. None of us thought to laugh at class teacher or elevate me to the rank of a hero. It was a demonstration of professionalism based on respect for the student. It was a demonstration of the dignity of the school and teachers. Our teachers had self-respect.
Today, on the eve of the new academic year, the question haunts me: is today's teacher ready to come to the student's house to apologize to him? And I'm leaning towards the negative.
Not because teachers have become less professional. And then, and now teachers are different. And those who are immensely loved by children, because there is a reason. And those whom they can not stand, because there is a reason. But modern teachers often do not have enough time and energy to love and respect children, because they are forced to love departments and ministries. Such an amount of useless, meaningless work, often bordering on profanation, can be done either out of great love, or while in slavery. Only a robot can withstand such a load, and even then for the time being.
I am writing these obvious things now so that parents understand: it is not worth waiting, let alone demanding from teachers a special spiritual attitude towards our children. They just don't have the resources for it. And the one that is, we need to protect together. Do not call, for example, the department and the president if the teacher did something wrong. Just try to resolve the issue calmly and amicably within class boundaries.
Because for each of our complaints, the school and the teacher will write a million explanations, instead of teaching our children. We need to understand that our task is not to re-educate the teacher, but to teach the child to behave correctly and without harm to health in any situation. And protect it where needed.
The teacher must teach! Everything else is our responsibility. I remember the father of my fifth-grader, who sincerely did not understand why his child did not wash his hands before sitting down to dinner at home. “What are you teaching them here?!” Dad was outraged. I teach them Russian language and literature. And mom and dad should teach them to wash their hands, it would be nice long before the fifth grade ...
That's why I love to read all my life
In the second quarter of the first grade, I moved to another school - my parents got an apartment in a new area. At the age of 7, my reading technique was exactly the same as now - it happened. Let me remind you that in 1970 the concept of "preparation for school" did not exist in principle, so a good half of first graders recognized the first letters at the school desk, from the primer.
Listening to how my classmates try to put letters into syllables, and syllables into words, I was very bored. I knew right away where the library was at the school. A week later, the librarian who gave me books “by age” told my teacher Maria Fedorovna: “Such a strange girl came to you, at one break she takes a book, and at the second she gives it back and asks for a new one.” Maria Fedorovna, who during my first days in the class, where forty-two people studied, did not touch me, called me to her and asked me to read.
After that, I never for 3 years elementary school I didn’t follow how my classmates read and didn’t retell the texts. At the reading, they put me at the last desk and I read what was interesting to me: “Robinson Crusoe”, “Children of Captain Grant”, “Wild Dog Dingo” ... and once a week, at an extracurricular reading lesson, I retell these books to my classmates, And for that I was rated. And in the mathematics lesson, Irka Galaeva, who solved problems for the 4th grade, took the place behind the last desk. I am convinced that this is why I love reading all my life, and Irka loves mathematics.
Today, on the eve of the new academic year, the question haunts me: is today's teacher ready to provide such an individual approach to his students? And I'm leaning towards the negative.
Not because today there are no children at school who are not interested in repeating for the hundredth time what they remember from the year before last. There are many more such children today than in 1970. Modern teachers do not have the opportunity to pick up complex tasks for the child and give them the opportunity to solve them.
Because the teacher will be asked first of all for the student to count exactly 4 cells from the edge of the page, and God forbid 6 or 3. Or for what, when trying to find out how much milk was poured into six two-liter cans, the student multiplied liters on cans, and in no case vice versa. And in order to USE student could do this: “Indicate all the numbers in the place of which one letter N is written. Write the numbers in a row without spaces, commas and other additional characters”.
And it doesn’t matter that a person writes absolutely correctly, wrote down a number with a space in the Russian language exam - that’s it, a mistake. I am writing these obvious things now so that parents understand: it is not worth waiting, much less demanding from teachers to develop in our children a love of literature, history and mathematics. They don't have the energy or time for that. They get paid for something else today. We need to understand that we should not scold the child for grades. And if we want him to know and love the subject, we parents should be puzzled by this. The task of the teacher is to prepare for the exam. And we, parents, should be puzzled by the development of interest in new knowledge, the formation of analytical abilities, whether we like it or not. These are today's realities.
And then he went with a puppy to a biology teacher
I had a subclass. I tell for those who do not remember what it is: we went to the fourth, and our teacher took the first. And we went to this first (and then the second, third, etc.) class as chefs. When my patrons were in the fifth, one of them, Sergei, found a puppy on the street. Wet, dirty and sick. Sergei knew for sure that his mother would not allow the puppy to be brought home. But he also knew for sure that he would not be able to live without this puppy. And then Sergei came with this puppy to Nina Vasilievna, a biology teacher. Home. Nina Vasilievna took the puppy, washed it, cured it, and after a couple of weeks went with him and Sergei to Sergei's mother. And she persuaded her to allow her son to bring home a friend.
Today, on the eve of the new school year, the question haunts me: is today's teacher ready to delve so deeply into a child's life and rush to help? And I'm leaning towards the negative.
Not because the teachers all suddenly became callous and soulless. But because today one tenth of us, as in a joke, works for one and a half rates, because they have nothing to eat for one, and there is no time for two. The rest work for two or more. Because they report to the departments not for the number of rescued puppies, but for the number of students participating in track and field cross-country and attending extracurricular activities.
The realities of the time: a teacher cannot remain a true friend and mentor in life. Can't for obvious reasons. Today he has no time to wash and treat the puppy, he is in the evening, after checking the notebooks and filling out electronic diaries, answers in the chat to our parental messages like: “Vera Petrovna, finally explain, can I have notebooks with pictures or are they all green ?!”
Today, the day before school year, I want to wish our teachers patience, wisdom, strength and understanding parents. Parents - common sense, perseverance and real teachers. And all together - health and the ability to cooperate in the name of the main thing that we have in life - the happiness of our children. Let's try together? Let's try not to shift our responsibility onto each other, because it is different. Do not start hostilities. Because then our children become either a weapon or a victim. The weapon fires. The victim is protected. Let's use our example to show our children how to listen and hear each other.
Elena, mother of Maria (8 years old):
We have a gymnasium with English from the 1st grade. This, of course, is very good. But already by the 2nd grade, the teachers accelerated so much that I have to do homework projects in English all the time. And sometimes not even with the child, but instead of the child, because "they asked for tomorrow."
One gets the impression that teachers sometimes do not correlate their tasks with the capabilities of the child himself. Not to mention the fact that there may be classes outside of school - dancing, drawing, different circles. Should a child study at night? Or should parents be tutors for children?
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In a particularly sad situation are the parents of children who study in the second shift.
If the teacher does not do lessons, then it turns out that the lessons should be done in the evening, and if, God forbid, there are still some hobbies, then at all at night. Should the teacher do homework with the children? No one can force a teacher - he is not a teacher. The main thing for him is that the children are fed, safe and looked after. Because it all depends on the person.
“After work, mom and dad do homework for 5 hours…”
After elementary school, the program becomes more complex, the pace increases, and subject teachers become different and, oddly enough, compete with each other in the number and complexity of tasks. New study guides- a separate story. Such sometimes the Methodists are bent, that parents with higher education won't pull.
Natalia, Ivan's mother (12 years old):
In grades 5-6, students are overloaded with information. Even top students can't handle the sheer volume of information and performance homework. Sometimes an illiterate schedule compiled by a methodologist, inconsistency in the development of plans and programs, as well as a lack of coordination in actions between subject teachers puts children before a choice of what to learn the next day as “good” or “excellent”.
For example, there was a situation when they asked 2 verses in Belarusian and Russian, 2 paragraphs on history, preparation for an independent or control test. At the same time, we do not forget about the child's rest, circles or sports sections. And, of course, parents would like help around the house (not for help, but for educational process). And it turns out that after work, dad and mom, the whole family do homework for 5 hours.
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There is an opinion that children are now much less able to assimilate information and learn on their own. Because 20 years ago there was no such problem. Parents did not hang over their children - they made their way through the school themselves and got what they deserved. If the child did not cope with the lessons, the parents did not sit at the table instead of him.
Either we have taken care of our children, or gadgets are taking away their ability to think, but it is obvious that something either in the education system itself, or in our attitude towards it has already gone wrong.
Can we reverse this process? Is there a way out? The question is rhetorical.
How is homework in your family?
“A teacher remains a teacher only as long as
while he is learning. As soon as he stops
learn, he ceases to be a teacher"
K.D.Ushinsky
The teaching profession is one of the most important modern world. The future of human civilization depends on our efforts. Now they talk a lot about the competence of the teacher, his professionalism, individual style of work, about the image of the teacher ...
Today, the teacher is not quite simple task- create conditions for development creativity, to develop in students the desire for a creative perception of knowledge, to teach them to think independently, to better realize their needs, to increase motivation to study subjects, to encourage their individual inclinations and talents. The role of the teacher is “to stand not above, but beside”, “I will help, I will support”. The teacher stands on an equal footing, directs, organizes correctly. Now we need to get used to the idea that the student can argue with the teacher on any topic. The main paradigm in the work of the teacher: "to give every child the opportunity to express themselves." The student is not a jug that we must fill, but a spark that we must light.
Our profession requires constant improvement. For a modern teacher, it is very important never to stop there, you need to constantly move forward, constantly be in a creative and professional search to be successful and interesting for their students. And then the students begin to perceive such a teacher differently - as a person who understands their interests, ready to cooperate. Yes, and the teacher himself needs to be a little bit of a child in order to feel what exactly he can interest children in, what is close and understandable to them.
What does it mean for me to be a teacher? Not the opportunity to teach something to children, but every day to communicate with them, discovering something new. Children change, and I change with them. I like to talk about the world through the eyes of children, find joy and satisfaction in it, think about my students, love them. Yes, for me "teacher" is not a profession, not a job. To be a teacher is to live.
Thus, I do not work as a teacher, I live by him. I live for children. My goal is to teach children to love learning, to interest them, and then they will find their own way. The life of a teacher is, first of all, creativity, which can be expressed not only in the constant need for self-improvement. You can create just a good atmosphere around you. The mind of a teacher, combined with his kindness, is the wisdom that brings the teacher a good name, a calm conscience and lasting happiness.
If next to a student there is a teacher who has ceased to develop internally, study, look for something new, then he becomes uninteresting to students. “Live and learn” is an old adage that is more relevant than ever. Today it must be understood in literally. And we, teachers, need to learn to be modern. It is wonderful and honorable to be a teacher, but on the condition that the teacher can create a life in which all participants in the educational process will be comfortable.
It is clear to me that a good teacher always learns on his own. He learns by working on himself, he learns when he passes on his knowledge to others. “In order to open a spark of knowledge in front of a student, the teacher needs to absorb the sea of light, not for a moment leaving the rays of the shining sun of knowledge,” these words of V.A. Sukhomlinsky are close to me.
The teacher is the one who is able to descend from the heights of his knowledge to the ignorance of the student and together with him make the ascent. It is the teacher who opens the door to the world for the child, and a lot depends on how he does it.
The teacher is not afraid of difficulties. Teaching and learning is a natural process for us. We study at courses, prepare for lessons, learn novelties of pedagogical thought, check notebooks... And this is only a small part of what a teacher does. But this is the whole meaning of our life. We are not one of those who are afraid of difficulties.
Our profession is acting skills, because the actor lives each performance differently, improving and finding new facets of his hero. So the teacher tries to bring every lesson, every topic to perfection. And this is not very easy. You not only have to present the material beautifully and in full, but give it so easily and accessible that even the most weak child learned the topic in your class. But you still need to be able to present it in such a way that the student has a desire to learn something new himself. How can a teacher achieve such perfection? Again, just learning.
In the East they say: “A real teacher is one who is ready to learn from everyone he meets. And a real student is the one who sees his teacher in everyone. What can we say about our children? This is our the best teachers. There are few professions in which you can teach and learn every day. So what can our children teach us? Children teach us to love us sincerely, tenderly, disinterestedly. To love just like that, just like, for example, they love their parents.
Back in the first half of the 19th century, K.D. Ushinsky wrote: “In the fire that animates youth, the character of a person is cast. That is why one should neither extinguish this fire, nor be afraid of it, nor look at it as something dangerous for society, do not restrict its free burning, and only take care that the material that is pouring into the soul of youth at this time is of good quality. ". Therefore, a teacher, like a child, should be a source of love, radiate only light and warmth, since no amount of knowledge without kindness and decency will bring knowledge. Only a true professional can light a spark of knowledge in the heart of a child. Such teachers remain in the memory and in the heart of the students for a long time. And children, even after many years, remember their teachers, who not only passed on their knowledge and experience, but gave them their love, warmth and care, support and inspiration.
Children for us are a source of joy and an incentive to constantly develop, keep up with the times. We learn from children openness, a bright outlook on life, the ability to see the beauty and harmony of the world. We learn from them spontaneity, honesty, intuition, naturalness and simplicity. You can learn a lot from your students. And we are grateful to them for this. Sometimes it can be very helpful to look at ordinary things through the eyes of a child and see the world in a completely different light. What about the thoughts of our students? They very often differ from the common truths of adults in their depth. Sh.A. Amonashvili wrote: “You need to see yourself in children in order to help them become adults, you need to accept them as a repetition of your childhood in order to improve yourself, you must finally live the life of children in order to be a humane teacher.”
Being a modern teacher is difficult, but possible. The main thing is that the teacher must learn to be happy himself. With a happy teacher, students at school experience a state of happiness: they act, create, feel that they are loved and wish good. More than two thousand years ago, Socrates said: “There is a sun in every person, just let it shine.” Each of us can give a piece of his warmth, love to others. A modern teacher is a person who is able to smile and be interested in everything that surrounds him, because the school is alive as long as the teacher in it is interesting to the child.
A teacher is not only a link between generations, not only a mediator between culture and a student, but, above all, a mediator between a child and humanity. We learn from our students a sincere manifestation of humanity, otherwise we will not be able to move forward and, accordingly, lead them. A teacher is not a simple profession, it is a special mission, a special mind and soul, a special heart open to children.
We study all the pedagogical time allotted to us. And it's wonderful! It is interesting for a person to live as long as he benefits someone, as long as he is active and successful. Our profession helps us to be active people. The desire to learn is a sign of hope that in the future you will pass on your knowledge to the younger generation. So, you will be needed by your country, your school, your beloved children.
Everything in our life is unique
This has been done for a long time, for centuries,
Only one thing is indisputable, visible:
Who taught - lives in the students.
Instruction
A modern teacher should, first of all, be well versed in his subject. The current requirements for school graduates are very strict, so the teacher must give students not only basic school knowledge, but also something more. He should teach children to think logically, as well as look for several options for solving the problem. To do this, the teacher himself must constantly develop, improve his knowledge and improve his skills. It is not always enough to attend courses, sometimes you need to look for and study specific and most up-to-date information.
A modern teacher must keep pace with the times. Unfortunately, today teenagers and young people can hardly be called well-mannered, polite and kind. Modern youth is familiar with some of the vices of this world, sometimes seeks to know all the worst. The teacher must be prepared for the worst. Sadly, the teacher must be able to assess the condition of adolescents and identify signs of alcohol and drug intoxication.
The teacher should be well versed in the psychology of children of any age. Particularly difficult teenagers sometimes need constant supervision and help. And if the teacher can evaluate psychological condition child and identify existing problems, assistance will be provided on time, which will avoid serious consequences. IN pedagogical universities teach psychology, but it is still worth studying it further and constantly improving knowledge, taking into account current trends and research results.
A modern teacher must be able to find an approach to each student. The school is attended by children of different social strata and from different families. If one child is modest and shy, then the other is hyperactive, naughty or rude. A professional teacher should help a shy child open up and direct the energy of a hyperactive child in the right direction.
Any teacher should love children. The teacher is the third parent for every child. Students should not feel indifferent to, otherwise they will understand that they are left to themselves, and will do not the best things. Love and care, in some cases, can become the best means impact on children.
Such a quality as rigor is also necessary. But it must be appropriate. Students should see not only a mentor, but also an authoritative person. And if the teacher is too soft and allows children to go beyond what is permitted, the students will understand that the opinion of the teacher means nothing, and his influence is insignificant.
note
It is believed that young teachers quickly find a common language with children, but in some cases age does not matter.
Helpful advice
It is desirable that the teacher understands the laws Russian Federation, such knowledge can be useful.
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- What should a modern teacher be like?
About what a modern teacher should be, there are continuous conversations both at the everyday and at the scientific level. Children talk about it on the pages school essays, their parents and educators themselves during conferences. Since the time of Aristotle, the teacher and educator of Alexander the Great, such requirements as kindness, moral purity, professionalism, responsibility and the desire for self-improvement have remained unchanged.
For kids kindergarten by and large, it doesn’t matter, their educator, as long as he was kind and caring, knew how to wipe his nose in time and help button up his jacket. University students, too, because adults are tolerant of other adults, if only the teacher mastered his subject and it was impossible to fall asleep during his lectures. Everything is complicated with the school, it is here that the most active discussion takes place - what a modern teacher should be like.
The image of the ideal teacher-intellectual was embodied on the screen in the late 60s of the XX century by Vyacheslav Tikhonov. His hero Ilya Melnikov became a role model for many years.
Nowadays, television has offered its own version of the image of the modern teacher of Russia in the person played by Dmitry Nagiyev in the eponymous. Controversial, of course, but very close to reality. Such a sexual, strong, non-standard teacher has much more chances to find a common language with his wards than those who can be described as "divine".
From funny to serious
The modern teacher must have enough high self-esteem to work at the school. It should have a core that will help organize and rally the children's team. It is not necessary to be macho to lead the children along, but the appearance must be attractive. In no case should the teacher smell of tobacco and donut powder should not show off on the trouser leg. Freak teachers are also popular with kids, but neat freaks are still more in line with today's requirements.
Bore teachers do not enjoy authority among today's generation, and they never did. Educational moments that require resolution should not be in the nature of moralizing, there are more effective ways solving problems in the classroom. For example, if a child breaks discipline, put him in charge of it. It works 90% of the time. And think about the form of your lessons. Maybe the guys are just bored listening to your monotonous voice.
How to become modern
To be modern means to keep up with the times. The modern teacher must use all available technical means. A large number of documentaries and feature films and cartoons filmed for any of school subjects. Countless educational and educational games can be played using a computer. Smart Board - an interactive whiteboard is available in every school, but often it just stands a stake in the computer science room.
Modern can be called a teacher who remembers himself as a child and has not forgotten how to play. Children of today, of course, are different, but they are children. Play is an important element of learning. In the game, you can establish close contact with children, instill love for your subject, make the learning process easy and effective. For example, if you are a teacher in English, allocate 10 minutes of the lesson, play Baldu with the guys. You will hit several targets at once: establish discipline, consolidate vocabulary and teach children to think creatively.
The modern teacher has more than enough opportunities for self-development and professionalism - full-time and part-time courses, conferences, participation in city methodological associations, teachers' online forums, professional associations, online video lessons on teaching methods. You can't list everything. A modern teacher cannot do without progressive teaching methods, share experience with colleagues. The detached position in the world of communications and information technologies leads to the gradual degradation of the teacher.
A modern teacher is obliged to have and demonstrate to schoolchildren his active life position. It is impossible for a person with an anxious soul to remain aloof from the events in the country. Organize the collection of signatures in support of the children of Donbass in their school, the collection of things to help orphans, congratulations to veterans of the Great Patriotic War, etc. - that's what a caring and modern teacher can do.
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- Creativity in activity modern teacher
Throughout the history of mankind, the older generation has complained about the younger generation as uncontrollable, disobedient, untrainable. Moreover, the young generation that has grown up made similar claims to their children, and so on until today.
Instruction
Perhaps the modern teacher has a harder time than all his colleagues from past years and centuries. The teacher has always been smarter than the student both in knowledge and in life experience. This created a natural subordination and easily fit into the "teacher - student" scheme. From here came the obviously respectful attitude of the student to the teacher as to more smart person.
At some point, everything changed in society. The reason was the natural movement of society, when the information society came to replace the industrial society. Society has changed, but educational technology is at least two decades behind. As a result, a shift took place in the educational space, which can be considered revolutionary. A modern student knows more than a teacher, which, with great reluctance, has to be recognized by the pedagogical community.
The modern student has mastered computer and information Technology without exaggeration, from the cradle. Educational technologies for a long time they did without the use of innovations. As a result, a student could observe how an algebra teacher was unable to send an SMS message on a mobile phone. The teacher, of course, has a much greater amount of knowledge of his subject, but from the point of view of the student, this knowledge is useless. The knowledge of the student allows him to solve many practical problems, including educational ones, according to his own algorithm.
At the same time, a modern student has much more freedom - the democratization of society has not bypassed education. Although the modern student depends on the marks of the teacher, he sees that the status and financial position of a person in society does not depend on his success in school. Especially since modern system knowledge control through testing negates the real significance of assessments. Such a student's attitude to learning stimulates the teacher to make the lesson interesting, since there is no other mechanism for motivation, especially in high school.
Today, the children of the children of the end of the last century, the so-called “lost generation”, who had to become individuals in an era of change, study at school. At a minimum, they passed on to their children their own vision of the world, in which there are no traditional ideals and symbols. The main character trait of the modern average student is rationalism. Modern child will not go to collect scrap metal if he does not see a practical need for it. The teacher faces the difficult task of cultivating nobility and responsibility, which, in the absence of real role models, is very difficult.
Thus, we can conclude that a modern teacher works with a student who encourages him to improve. It is not in vain that in modern educational standards both the teacher and the student have the equal status of the “subject educational process».
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