Normally, junior high school teachers pay more attention to their professional counterparts, that is, what major you studied in college, and what kind of teacher you will be after graduation, so that it is easier to achieve better teaching results.
However, the author knows a female teacher, she studied history in college, just graduated in the first year, taught history class, and her grades were mediocre, and then she changed to mathematics, and her teaching results were very good, ranking first in the grade.
Ah Hua (pseudonym) is a native of Anhui Province and graduated from the Department of History of a Normal University in July 2021. As soon as she graduated, she returned to her hometown, took the teacher recruitment exam, and successfully landed as a junior high school history teacher. Education
History majors teach junior high school history to undergraduates, and it stands to reason that they are familiar with it. But somehow, Ah Hua felt that she didn't seem to be interested in teaching history, maybe she was not good at verbal expression, and the students were drowsy and couldn't lift their spirits during class, and she herself felt bored. For two consecutive semesters, the average test score of her class was not high.
What to do?Ah Hua was very worried. During the summer vacation of 2022, there was a change in the school's personnel, and there was a lack of a math teacherShe ran to the principal's office and volunteered to make a request, but the principal's head shook like a rattle, no, no, the profession is not right!
couldn't help Ahua's soft grinding and hard bubbles, coupled with the fact that there was a shortage of math teachers in the school, and there was a surplus of history teachers, the principal reluctantly agreed to her request, but the principal said that Ahua would be given a one-year "probationary period", and if it was not reliable, he would have to teach history honestly. Colleagues at the school have sweated for Ah Hua, from history to mathematics, has this changed too much?
At the beginning of the fall semester of 2022, the 7th graders happily moved on to 8th grade, and the students were surprised to find that the history teacher from last semester was actually in a math class. This is so new that Ah Hua bragged about the "glorious history" of Xi mathematics he learned in high school, and the students were skeptical and confused.
In the class that Ah Hua led, in seventh grade, his math score was in the middle of the grade. After Ah Hua took over, she implemented a daily test system, requiring all students to consolidate in time after class every day, and the next day, she used the 10 minutes before the morning reading class to conduct a small test for students. After lunch, she called all the students who failed the quiz to the electric classroom and gave them free make-up lessons.
There was a boy named Xiaoshan who was in the top 10 of his class in the overall score, but he was math wrong and often failed exams. In addition to free make-up classes, Ah Hua also asked Xiaoshan to write a "set of mistakes", and whenever there is a test or exam, he will neatly copy the wrong math problems in the error book, and then solve them carefully and standardly. In the future, before each test, the questions and answers collected in the "Error Collection" will be browsed.
With Ah Hua's help, Xiaoshan's math scores have improved significantly, with a score of 78 in the mid-term exam and a score of 98 in the final exam in the fall of 2022, ranking first in the overall score of each subject. His father was so happy that he bought a pennant and sent it to the principal's office, asking the principal to publicly praise Teacher Ah Hua.
Through a semester of unremitting efforts, Ah Hua's class ranked first in mathematics in terms of both the excellent rate and the average score per capita, which has to be impressive.
It's strange that Ahua University studied history, but it couldn't teach history well, and after changing to mathematics, the teaching results were so good, it was unbelievable. Ah Hua's colleagues also said that it was difficult to understand, and they all cast puzzled glances at her, and the other math teachers at the school were even more envious and jealous.
In the author's opinion, Ahua's situation is not abnormal, nor is it an isolated case. The main reasons for this are as follows.
The major she majored in college wasn't necessarily what she liked. Ah Hua once said that when he was in high school, he studied liberal arts, but he was more interested in mathematics, and his math score in the college entrance examination was not low, but he also played well in history, and was finally admitted to the history major. In fact, the history major is not what she likes, but liberal arts students can't be transferred to a mathematics major, so they can only reluctantly accept it and settle with what happens.
She is not good at words, and her history lectures are not brilliant. After studying history in college for 4 years, Ah Hua's knowledge should be no problem, but she is not good at storytelling, and she basically follows the book when she takes history classes, and she will not expand to tell it, and the students sound tasteless, and she uses coercive means to force students to memorize by rote, which arouses students' rebellious psychology, and the teaching effect is naturally not good.
She loves mathematics and teaches in a methodical and effective way. Ah Hua liked mathematics in high school and had some mathematical skills. She pays more attention to the methods in the teaching of mathematics:1Consolidate the key points of knowledge in a timely manner through daily testing;2.Catch up with students who fail the daily test for free make-up lessons;3.Teach students to organize "problem sets". These methods are very down-to-earth, and they will inevitably have good results over time.
Ah Hua's experience tells us that as a teacher, it is important to have a certain knowledge foundation, but it is more important to be not interested in the subject being taught and whether the teaching methods are appropriate.
Some people say that interest is the best teacher, and this is for students, but in fact, it is also suitable for teachers. As long as the teacher has a strong interest in the subject he teaches and the right teaching method, even if the knowledge is not strong, he can still achieve impressive teaching results. Personal opinions, welcome comments.
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