400 letters, 700,000 words. Shanghai Jiaotong University has such a class teacher who has insisted on communicating with students and parents for ten years. In the hearts of every student, he is the "ceiling" of the university class teacher.
This class teacher is Yang Zhibiao, a teacher at the School of Agriculture and Biology of Shanghai Jiaotong University. Since 2013, Yang Zhibiao has served as the head teacher of undergraduate students for two consecutive terms. For ten years, at the beginning and end of each semester, he would write a letter to students and their parents about their ideals, beliefs, study, life, family, feelings, and friendship...
More than 400 letters he wrote, 20 open letters to students and parents, 100,000 words; more than 300 were private messages to students and parents, 600,000 words, many of which were written in brushes.
Many people will ask, it is very convenient to communicate with students and parents by using letters?
Yang Zhibiao said that letters do not limit the number of words to communicate fully. Moreover, between strokes and strokes, emotions are conveyed and people's hearts are warm. This is the communication method that is easiest to enter children's hearts.
students got closer to him because of their letters. Some parents framed their open letters one by one, hung them on the wall, and read them from time to time.
700,000-word letter from Mr. Yang Zhibiao - "Seeing words like face: Ten years of letter exchanges between a university teacher and a student", has been compiled and published by Shanghai Jiaotong University Press .
makes students fall in love with their majors
"Like most classmates, I am full of joy in the new semester because there are so many new faces. I like the environment of college very much, which is why I end up teaching in college. Teachers can get older, buildings can get older, but only students are always young."
This is the first letter from Yang Zhibiao to 224 freshmen in the 2013 major in animal science. The lines are full of hope for everyone.
Animal Science is not a popular major at Jiaotong University. Many students come in through adjustments, don’t understand the major, have a gap in their hearts, and have a lot of confusion about their future employment prospects.
In the letter of the freshman, Yang Zhibiao encouraged his classmates with his professional choice experience. In the letter, he wrote: "During undergraduate studies, I found that I only filled out the 30 students in the class. I only filled out the animal medicine application, and the other students were all adjusted. So the other students were depressed and felt that the major was not good, which was embarrassing. But I am the only one who lived and studied sunnyly, actively and passionately. But as time goes by, the students can face the reality and graduate smoothly. Now the students in our class are all engaged in this major, and they are almost all leaders or business backbones of their unit. So when the ten-year graduation party gathered, everyone was very moved when they recalled the youth and naiveness at the time. "
Yang Zhibiao told the students that the quality of the major lies entirely in their personal mentality.
"We came to Jiaotong University to learn a good major, find a good job, earn a high salary, marry a rich and beautiful woman, and marry a rich and handsome man? The answer is obviously no. These are also worth pursuing, but not all. We should improve our spiritual cultivation! We should be good at discovering problems at the micro level, Solve problems; at the macro level, you must have a cosmic view. Once you master these two main lines, all problems will be solved easily. For example, gratitude, responsibility, interpersonal communication, such as love and family, such as benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trustworthiness..."
Yang Zhibiao said that making students fall in love with this major is the biggest wish of as a class teacher
Establish good communication with parents
In addition to letters to students, Teacher Yang also insists on writing an open letter to parents and students at the end of the semester every year to report to parents about the learning atmosphere and mental outlook of the class over the past year, and what achievements have been made, and everything is fine.
In an open letter to the parents of 2018 students, he wrote:
"I am the "parent" of children in school, and 26 students are very important to me. Every parent hopes that their children are excellent and hopes that they can make a name for themselves. In the middle school stage, there are many excellent experiences in managing children worth learning from. However, the university stage is the golden stage of children's growth.Parents may be more likely to strengthen their studies, learn how to get along with their children, learn how to guide their children correctly, learn how to make their children have independent thoughts and free spirit, and learn how to make their children grow into talents useful to the country and society. "
parents will also give Yang Zhibiao regular feedback, "Thank you for your care, care, teaching and training for the children. I sincerely admire you and pay tribute to you. There is a teacher like this in life, so what else can you ask for? "
The mother of Shao Xinfa, a classmate from Henan, who received a child's transcript and an open letter from Teacher Yang to parents, would frame them and hang them on the wall and read them frequently.
The mother of Xu Xiaoyu, a classmate from Guizhou, and Wang Zihong's mother of Guangxi, would share them collectively in the family group every time she received an open letter.
Yang Zhibiao also wrote a lot of brush letters to the students.
"Looking at the teacher's letter, he couldn't speak. As parents, they cannot do it in detail, let alone communicate with their children spiritually. "Xu Xiaoyu's mother said. Why do you need to write letters to parents?
In Teacher Yang's opinion, what children need during school may not be the daily care of their well-being. They have higher spiritual pursuits, deeper ideological needs, stronger desire for growth, and richer emotional needs. These are all things parents need to adjust and understand in time.
As the head teacher, Yang Zhibiao hopes that more parents can enter the spiritual world of their children and consider their real needs.
"What I want to see the least is that many college students' parents only understand how their children learn in college when their children drop out of school.
Shaping students' science and humanistic spirit
From the first day of taking over the work of the class teacher, Teacher Yang Zhibiao has been thinking about what students lack the most?
Among the large number of letters to students, Yang Zhibiao mentioned the most is the scientific spirit and humanistic spirit. He felt that to let students know themselves, they should dare to question and break existing prejudices. In layman's terms, it is to cultivate people's ability to identify authenticity, distinguish good and evil, distinguish interests, and have scientific spirit and humanistic qualities.
He creatively carried out more than 10 special theme class meetings of "Scientific Spirit into the Classroom" and "Humanistic Spirit into the Classroom". Each time, he invited outstanding students in subject fields to share and guide, and cultivated students' scientific spirit and humanistic literacy for dialectical thinking.
He also paid for the activity funds himself, spending tens of thousands of yuan a year to support students in carrying out various theme class activities to create a good collective atmosphere. Many outstanding students emerged in the classes he taught, active in the fields of clubs, student work, social practice, volunteer service, etc.
Yang Zhibiao has taught undergraduate courses such as "prevention of veterinary medicine, animal pathology, animal pharmacology, animal disease control"; he taught master's, doctoral and professional master's "prevention of veterinary medicine, cutting-edge lectures on veterinary science and technology, and discussion on veterinary graduate class for preventing veterinary medicine".
As a scholar who has been engaged in animal coronavirus disease research, when the new coronavirus unexpectedly arrived, Yang Zhibiao wrote an open letter to students on January 30, 2020 to dispel everyone's anxiety, interpret the sudden outbreak from a scientific perspective, and inform everyone that the new coronavirus that is popular this time can cause the human body to produce antibodies, and in theory, it will definitely be possible to develop a vaccine to fight the virus.
The two animal science classes led by Yang Zhibiao have achieved very good results when he graduated. This year, many graduates of the 2022 class of the Activities Class were admitted to universities and research institutions such as Jiaotong University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, , , and Chinese Academy of Sciences. The success rate of the postgraduate entrance examination reached 69.23%, and all students who further studies chose this major or related majors. The further study rate set the highest record of Jiaotong University's Agricultural Student College, and is also among the top in the entire Jiaotong University.
In June this year, Yang Zhibiao made a memorial book of the 2022 graduation class at his own expense, with more than 200 pages, colored hardcover printing, each book worth 300 yuan. It records every bit of the middle school students in four years, all the class special activities and letters from students and parents.
The letters Yang Zhibiao wrote to students over the past ten years have now been compiled and published under the title of "Seeing Words Like Face: Ten Years of Letters between a University Teacher and a Student". Speaking of the original intention of publishing, Mr. Yi Wenjuan from Shanghai Jiaotong University Press said that he was moved by the content of the letter, which was sincere, simple, and equal, and did not pretend to be clever and explain the principles.
"This is a work of sentiment that has been written for ten years, and an educational concept that has been practiced for ten years. Teacher Yang has written for ten years, which is extremely rare and valuable."
"For ten years, I have witnessed the growth of every student. The strength, courage, confidence, optimism, desire, expectation, helplessness, uneasiness, and hesitation of students, often reminds me of those sleepless nights I experienced when I was young, those unforgettable past events, so I can accompany students to be happy and cry, and make me think about the meaning of education and the true meaning of life." Yang Zhibiao said.
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