Today’s captain’s notes, let’s start with a first-grade elementary school photo-reading and writing question. In the picture below, the second box from the left. If you were asked to write with a picture, how would you write?
The original homework picture was not found. The picture comes from: 1010jiajiao.com
This question originated from the homework of my niece who had just been in the first grade of elementary school many years ago. After five years, I still remember that my niece, who was under seven years old, wrote "Moon" in the brackets below. The word "liang" has not been learned yet, so she wrote it in pinyin, and the tone and spelling are not wrong. However, the teacher suddenly made a fork and asked to come back and correct it. I am very puzzled by and I don’t know what’s wrong.
The niece explained to me: Teacher said that the crescent moon is bent, and the moon is round. The child's tone was filled with confusion and helplessness.
is not just a child. As an adult, I was also very confused. Who told us that the moon is round and the crescent moon is bent? If I were given a circle, what if I wrote basketball, sun, apple, mooncake?
However, I feel more helpless in my heart, because as an adult, a child who has experienced exam-oriented education, I clearly know that "the round is the moon, and the crescent moon is the curved one" is the standard answer given to us by exam-oriented education, and this is the standard answer written by the course syllabus and curriculum standards.
, an educational model similar to assembly line factories, reminded me of the difference between industrial beer and craft beer.
industrial beer is low in cost, short fermentation time and single taste; while craft beer is high in raw materials, long fermentation time and different flavors. If the school’s production line ultimately outputs children, then what kind of children does society need the school to output? Is it a child with a low-quality, high-efficiency and single taste? Does the standard answer-based education method inevitably lead to children losing their independent thinking and judgment ability?
We are all saying "teaching according to our aptitude" and "a thousand readers will have a thousand Hamlets". We all know that education on a single scale cannot be suitable for all students. However, under the oppression of exam-oriented education, children's precious personality and unique perspective are polished day by day. As parents, if we cannot completely remove our children from this educational method, what can we do to prevent our children from getting lost in the "standard answer"?
Wearing a white shirt, eating popsicles, and buying flowers with me, I can also ask 100,000 why.
I remember my niece who wrote "crescent moon" as "moon". If you are a parent, how should you explain to her when facing this situation?
At that time, I quickly changed from confusion and helplessness to anger. However, after calming down for three minutes, I realized that this was not a situation that would only happen once. In the future school study, more similar situations would definitely occur frequently. If I don’t want my child to be hit by the teacher’s countless "Xs", if I want my child to retain his independent thinking and judgment ability in such an educational method, I may have to teach her a very important method immediately:
to distinguish what is facts and what is opinions (Opinion).
Maybe you will say, how should a child aged six or seven discuss with him the concept of such abstract facts and opinions? Actually it's not difficult. A week ago, I talked about this topic with a six-year-old mother in Honeycomb.
causes the negative emotions of the child. The child went to kindergarten and wore a skirt he liked very much. However, his best friend in kindergarten told her that the skirt was ugly. The child was wronged all night after returning home, and kept telling his mother that he was unhappy and was very worried about whether to wear this skirt he originally liked very much next time. The mother is very anxious and doesn't know how to relieve the child's emotions. I told her a simple way to find a skirt and pants and ask the child to ask each family member separately, "What is this" and "What is that". It is not difficult for children to find that everyone's answer is the same: this is a skirt, that is a pants - at this time you need to explain to the child, a skirt, or a pair of pants, put here, that's the fact.
Then let the child continue to use this skirt and ask each family member: "Do you think this skirt looks good?" (Here, you may need to communicate well with your family and give different answers to cooperate with this educational opportunity). When the child finds that the answers given by different people are completely different, you can tell the child: Because each of us has different opinions, the answers are different.
Maybe your discussion with a five or six-year-old child will not be more in-depth, but you can find countless real scenes in your life and constantly discuss with him what is fact and what is opinion.
For children who have entered primary school, such as their niece who was in the first grade at the time, in addition to telling her "facts" and "views", I will further tell her, "different opinions do not mean who is right or wrong." When the child is confused, "Since his opinion is not wrong, why did the teacher judge this question wrong?", I will explain to her, "The teacher needs to correct homework for more than 40 students at the same time. If everyone's opinions are different, the teacher may not be able to handle it."
In fact, when it comes to this level, first-grade children still cannot fully understand it, but it doesn't matter. You can try to use your first-grade children in grades, and continue to emphasize that "different opinions do not mean who is right or who is wrong", and first let them weaken others' negative evaluations of different opinions of their views. When a child's cognitive ability further improves with age, in addition to identifying more facts and opinions with him, you can also try to discuss with the child further:
"Why does everyone have different opinions on the same thing"
" Why does the teacher's answer differ from me"
" Why does the teacher give such an answer, how should I understand the teacher's opinion "
" Why I would have a different view, how to let the teacher understand "
" Why do you need a standard answer during the exam?"
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In addition to helping children develop the habit of actively thinking and independent thinking, these questions are also very good parent-child communication topics, allowing you to have something to talk about with your children. And in the "standard answers of black and white" in school, allows children to always maintain discernment ability, not blindly follow authority, think independently, and improve self-confidence. At the same time, teaching children to understand that different people will have different opinions on the same thing is a very good practice of empathy.
After all, what our children have to face is not a single future, but a future that needs to cooperate with others. In a complex society, we need to accept ourselves, others, and accept different people will hold different opinions, and maintain ourselves while cooperating with others. The formation of children's worldview comes more from their families and parents at first. The cognitive boundary of parents is precisely the starting point of children's worldview.
If you have been a parent, after seeing this, it is strongly recommended that you recall whether your child has had similar experiences in recent life and study, and then try to identify with your child: what are facts and what are opinions.
Whether it is an adult or a child, it is never too late to start now.
This article is reproduced from the Future Education of Honeycomb Children. The author Xia Xiaochan. The article is the author's independent viewpoint and does not represent the position of Mustard Pile.
