195 1 year, Yu Yi graduated from Fudan university and began to work as a teacher. For 68 years, she has never left the podium of basic education. She stuck to the three-foot platform all her life, crossing countless people and thousands of peaches and plums with the mind of a world of rivers and mountains; She insisted on teaching and educating people, gave 2000 lectures in public classes above the municipal level and wrote millions of words of educational works, making all kinds of "impossible" possible; Starting with the reform of Chinese teaching, she promoted the comprehensive reform of Chinese curriculum teaching in the whole country and won all honors from the government and the industry.
Yu Yi can be said to be the idol of the whole group of teachers in China. Although she has many names, her favorite name is "teacher". In September this year, first-year students in six provinces and cities, including Shanghai, began to use three new textbooks, including Chinese, compiled by the Ministry of Education. At the age of 90, Yu Yi dragged his illness and made suggestions for the formulation of Chinese curriculum standards in senior high schools. She still stands at the forefront of education reform and teacher training with a struggling attitude, and practices the clank oath of "Let life and mission go hand in hand".
A teacher is first and foremost a capitalized person.
Yu Yi has a famous saying: "Be a lifelong teacher and learn to be a lifelong teacher." The profession of teacher is entrusted with her lifelong pursuit and love.
Yu Yi grew up in a stormy era. 1937, the Japanese invaders marched straight into China, and their hometown was in danger. Yu Yi's Xuejiaxiang Primary School in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province is about to be dissolved. In the last class, the music teacher taught the students to sing "Su Wu Shepherd", which aroused the patriotic awakening of Yu Yi's young mind. In the continuous artillery fire, Yu Yi was admitted to Zhenjiang Middle School. Under the careful guidance of the teacher, she deeply realized that the purpose of reading is to save the suffering people from dire straits and move from ignorance to civilization.
1947, Yu Yi, 18 years old, was admitted to the Education Department of Fudan University. In college, the rigorous academic character and spirit of Professor Cao Fu and Professor Zhou Yu deeply influenced her. Yu Yi, 22, graduated and was assigned to Shanghai No.2 Normal School as a Chinese teacher. She was very nervous when she first got on the platform. At the end of the class, group leader xu teacher said, "Although you have many advantages in teaching, you still don't know where the door of Chinese teaching is."
Where is the gate of Chinese teaching? Yu Yi has been looking for it all his life. From the fourth dormitory of Fudan University to siping road, it is a few roads away. Yu Yi has walked for 34 years, through the busy crowd and the noisy sound of the city, but her mind is the scene of the performance in class. "Walking for a quarter of an hour every morning, I am watching movies in my mind. How to talk about this class, how to start, how to spread it out, how to form a climax, and how to end it. "
Yu Yi prepared "two rulers" for himself: one to measure the advantages of others and the other to measure his own shortcomings. During the day, she stood outside the classroom window and observed how other teachers taught. In the evening, ponder over the reference books carefully. In this way, wonderful thinking has become a nutrient in her teaching, and her shortcomings have been gradually overcome, teaching and educating people is getting better and better.
1977, a Chinese class named Haiyan taught by Professor Yu Yi was broadcast live on TV. At that time, people all over the country stood in front of the TV to watch her class style. In the eyes of China, Mr. Yu Yi is a "star" in education. It was also in that year that the two graduating classes of the 77th session of Yuyijiao, who had a weak foundation, were admitted to the university with 1000% when they graduated. 1978, Yu Yi was awarded the first batch of special-grade teachers in China.
Yu Yi said that the secret of education lies in never judging students by their scores, but advocating "educating people by teaching". That year, the reportage "Goldbach Conjecture" was published, and the excited Yu Yi went to the school math teacher and said, "Let's sing a double reed. You tell the students about Chen Jingrun's scientific contribution, and I'll talk about Chen Jingrun's spirit of dedication to science." In Yu Yi's view, on the one hand, Chinese education should teach children to understand and use language, and more importantly, it should build their spiritual home and mold their souls.
In this way, relying on advanced educational ideas, Yu Yi took the post of principal of Shanghai No.2 Normal School from 65438 to 0985. Under the difficult conditions of scattered teachers and declining school buildings, Yu Yi has carried out drastic and subversive reforms. For example, teachers practice shift system and students cut their hair and wear school uniforms. Pay attention to the education of two generations of teachers' morality, stipulate that schools should not always advocate things popular in society, invite blind bands to tell stories of the strong in life, and retired cadres to do revolutionary traditional education.
In the early 1990s, when the Chinese discipline began to be dominated by instrumentality, Yu Yi wrote "Innovating and Promoting Humanity", and proposed that "the unity of instrumentality and humanity is the basic feature of the Chinese discipline". This view has been written into the curriculum standard of Chinese curriculum reform in 2 1 century, which has profoundly changed the mode of Chinese teaching. In the new century, she also proposed that Chinese should be "morally, intellectually and physically beautiful" and advocated three-dimensional teaching and holistic education, which was recognized by the whole country. It is Yu Yi's unchangeable initial education and firm belief in the nation that makes her weak body glow with vitality.
Students are my world.
Yu Yi often said, "Teacher's love transcends parent-child love" and "Students are my world". The students who have been taught by this teacher will come to see her after more than ten years, and they can recite exactly what she said in class, and some can still remember her blackboard writing at that time.
A young teacher admitted that after listening to 3000 classes of 1976, she didn't find any repetition in the class. Even if a text is taught the second time and the third time, it is different.
Yu Yi believes that the traditional "I speak and you listen" teaching should be changed to interactive teaching in the form of network. She thinks that students are variables X, and the teacher's task is to make every student become a luminous body with keen eyes. Wang Wei, a special-grade teacher in Shanghai, a Chinese teacher in Yangpu Senior Middle School, and a student representative in the 1980s. In an interview with Xinmin Weekly, he said that during the three years that Yu Yi taught him, there were many impressive firsts.
I remember in an open class, Yu Yi gave the students an oral exercise entitled "An interesting thing". Wang Wei was the first to raise his hand to the podium to give a speech on monkey climbing pole in circus, and got a high score of 80 points. "This 80 gave me confidence and courage." Before each class, Yu Yi only assigned one task-preview the text, read it carefully, read it carefully, and ask questions in class. It is best to ask questions that are difficult for the teacher. For Wang Wei, this is also a brand-new subversion of Chinese studies.
"At that time, there was no internet and no reference books. The students chased each other in private. In an open class of "Chameleon", the students walked to the blackboard without any waves, and the teacher applauded after the change. " Wang Wei recalled that it was not a show, but a quiet solution to your problem. This is the real kung fu. After that, Wang Wei experienced the first independent tabloid editing, the first independent theme, interview and writing, and then typesetting, editing and beautification. ...
Bu Jian, deputy director of the organization department of Yangpu District Committee and director of the Bureau of Retired Veteran Cadres, spent four years in the Second Normal University from 16 to 19. According to Bu Jian's memory, wearing school uniforms was still a new thing in the 1980s. At that time, girls in the Second Normal University accounted for more than 80%, and everyone was very resistant to the school's requirement to wear school uniforms. Yu Yi encourages students to participate in design, comparison and decision-making. When everyone got the school uniform, the sadness was swept away.
"The school uniform is navy blue, suit collar coat style, straight pants or A-line skirt, white shirt, big red tie, a pair of white socks and T-shaped black leather shoes. Steady and decent, natural and graceful, full of the flavor of the times. At that time, the students of the second division wore school uniforms and school badges to travel together, which became a beautiful scenery on the road and won a lot of return. " Bu Jian said that Teacher Yu successfully built a healthy and self-disciplined social image of normal students with school uniforms, making the Second Division a leading school for training primary school teachers in Shanghai and even the whole country.
Teacher Yu Yi has never scolded any student in his life, and always walks into students' hearts with an inclusive attitude and treats them as equals. During a home visit, Yu Yi saw a family of five students living in a shabby house with only 12 square meters. She was so sad that she shed tears. In that era when economic conditions were generally poor, Yu Yi spent all his savings on his children, but repeatedly saved money for his own children. Her son Su Huang once recalled that he did not wear a pair of leather shoes until he got married at the age of 28.
In his 80s, Yu Yi began to study Princess Jay Chou and Princess Zhu Huan. Because she found that the children were "circled", it was difficult for some experienced singers she liked to arouse the students' voices. Some students bluntly said: "Jay Chou's songs are good, but not like learning."
Yu Yi found two reasons why students like Jay Chou. Lyrics such as blue and white porcelain are inspired by classical masterpieces and traditional cultural elements, so students are willing to get close to them. Modern only children have no one to talk to. Humming Jay Chou's rap music when you are bored is a good catharsis. Many students got the teacher's understanding, and the teacher, students and children laughed together.
"Treating children should be intentional. Whether it is wholeheartedly or half-heartedly, the students are clear in their hearts. Without love, there is no education. Only by spreading true love to students' hearts can teachers have a place in students' hearts. "Yu Yi, relying on the spiritual pursuit of China's education, built a lofty spiritual building with students, enlightened generations of students to think independently and express themselves appropriately, and grew up to be wise people.
A stepping stone for young teachers
One year, on the second day of the Lunar New Year, a media reporter went to Yu Yi's house for an interview. As soon as the door was opened, all the students in the room were very lively. Yu Yi likes being with young people, and it is most important for her to build a platform for them to grow up. "All the young teachers came to my house and asked me to preface their new books. I never refuse. It is not easy for young people nowadays to grow up and get ahead. We must help them. " Yu Yi said with a smile.
As early as the early 1990s, when Yu Yi just retired, a private school offered her an annual salary of 600,000 yuan as a "special consultant", but she politely declined. At that time, Yu Yi's retirement salary was more than 1,000 yuan per month. When talking about why he refused a high salary, Yu Yi said: "I still have some skills and can train teachers. I have brought out several generations of special teachers. A person's energy is limited, so I can be a stepping stone for everyone. I have been lucky all my life. "
Later, Yu Yi initiated the mode of "mentoring"-the master takes the apprentice, the teaching and research group trains collectively, and the team leader is personally responsible for teaching young teachers all over the country; Up to last year, this old man has been the host of the Shanghai Chinese moral education training base for eight consecutive years, training young teachers in the outer suburbs and doing eight-hour activities once a month. She is never absent.
Tan Yibin, a special-grade teacher in Shanghai and deputy director of the teaching and research section of the Municipal Education Commission, was lucky enough to return to the furnace 10 years ago and become a student in the Shanghai Chinese teacher training base. Up to now, she can't forget her trip to Jinshan with 80-year-old teacher Yu Yi. The base activity was held in the Third Affiliated High School of China Normal University in Jinshan, a remote suburb. Everyone spent a lot of time persuading the teacher not to go in person, so Yu refused: "As long as the school where the students in my base are located, even if it is far away, you can't fall behind."
Early in the morning, Yu Yi came on time. After sitting in the van for nearly two hours, her legs and feet were swollen, but as soon as she arrived at the No.3 Middle School Attached to China Normal University, she plunged into the classroom to attend classes. At noon, she quickly ate two mouthfuls of rice, put down her chopsticks and hurried to the classroom to meet her classmates. Children's problems are like a barrage. Tan Yibin tried to "decline to receive a call", but Yu Yi refused. She said that she would not refuse the children's demands.
It is this spirit that inspires groups of young teachers to stand out and form a rare team of "super-first-class teachers" in China. Since the 1980s, she has trained three generations of special-grade teachers, * * * "taught" more than 100 young teachers nationwide, and a number of well-known teaching experts have emerged. Yu Yi is very emotional and gratified: "I am really tired, but I think it is a kind of happiness to bring my limited experience to others."
In the training of new teachers, Yu Yi quoted the English novel The Moon and Sixpence many times to illustrate his point of view: First, you should have the moon in your heart, that is, ideals and beliefs. You should really respect your career and your children, and you should also have knowledge, so that you can see through the "Sixpence" and the temptation of material things. "There are pennies everywhere. As a teacher, you must look up at the moon. "
If you want to enter the hearts of students, you must also "learn to be a teacher all your life." Yu Yi told young teachers that the most important thing is to keep climbing in practice, which is not only an educational skill, but also a life attitude and emotional world.
Yu Yi's granddaughter Huang Yin is now engaged in education. In her childhood memory, after finishing housework, grandma always sat at the desk lamp, leafing through the information, taking notes and indulging in it. On the balcony less than three square meters, there is grandpa's cane chair, a book and a teapot. It is an afternoon full of books. "From small to large, grandma is like a lighthouse, guiding me."
At Yu Yi's home, there is a calendar specially prepared for her. Every day on the calendar is almost circled, and there is more than one circle in many squares. She described her work as "too late" because there are so many things worthy of her "trueness" that China education must have its own right to speak.
When the utilitarian phenomenon of education is becoming more and more serious, parents are busy helping their children to enroll in cram schools, and schools only pay attention to the enrollment rate, she appealed: "Education should not only educate students, but also teach them to learn to be human." Yu Yi was deeply worried when she saw primary school students write graduation messages of "I wish you a millionaire" and "I wish you a president". "Few people ask the question of' for whom students study and for whom teachers teach'. Educators should work harder on students' learning motivation and motivation. "
From teaching for 68 years, from being a teacher to teaching and educating people, Yu Yi has never left the podium. Her arms are thin and tall, and always stand the backbone of China teachers. She said: "The teacher told me to go from ignorance to knowledge, from a little knowledge to knowing how to be a man. Being a teacher is a great thing and the noblest goal in my life. "