First of all, today's reading:

1. Chapter 7 of Life as a Teacher (1)

2. Teachers' Life (2) 49

3. The second Confucius teaching method (182- 188).

Second, practice today:

Cooking; Reading, recording and sharing; Punching holes; Prepare lessons, attend classes, and change homework.

3. Today's insights:

Teacher Liu Rongzeng is the first Chinese teacher in my junior high school. My junior high school is a key middle school in our hometown. It is said that there are teaching backbones in our hometown here, and Teacher Liu Rongzeng is undoubtedly one of them. He is already facing retirement, and he is an old man with dark complexion and hale and hearty spirit. He gives the impression that he is stern and unsmiling, but he speaks affably in private.

? What makes him different from other teachers is that he has to move chairs in class. He told us that the school allowed him to sit and talk in class because he was the oldest teacher in the school at that time. At that time, the school took care of him and asked him to come down from the graduating class to teach us in the first day of junior high school, and he was about to retire. At that time, in our eyes, he was a teacher with rich teaching experience.

Teacher Liu is very strict with us in class. He doesn't allow us to make any noise or make any small moves. So in his class, the classroom is very quiet. Sometimes in the first class in the afternoon, people fall asleep easily. There is a little boy in the class who often dozes off in his class. The classmate sat next to the platform under the teacher's gaze. At the sight of him climbing down to sleep, Mr. Liu clenched his fist, straightened his arm, hit him on the head with a calm and exaggerated range, taking his arm nest as the point and his arm as the radius, but at the same time kept talking about the class. Once when writing a composition, this classmate fell asleep again. After the teacher woke him up, he closed his eyes and muttered "I was thinking", which made the students laugh and left a deep impression on us. Teachers rarely criticize people in public, but most of the time they just severely reprimand: "Move! You move again! " The students all sat upright, staring at the teacher, waiting for him to give a lecture. Once, when I was listening to a class, I was tearing a piece of paper in my hand. The teacher walked around the classroom and made a speech. He came up to me quietly, without looking at me, just grabbed the paper in my hand. Now that I am a teacher, I realize that this way of dealing with classroom violations is worth learning.

? But Mr. Liu sometimes wronged me. I remember that year was 1986, and a fire broke out in Daxing' anling in the northeast, which touched the hearts of the people all over the country. Once in class, Mr. Liu told us about the fire in Daxinganling, and I was very sad to hear it. I also listened attentively and regretted it, so I couldn't help but let out a sad sigh. I didn't expect this sigh to be mistaken for classroom noise by the teacher. I was making trouble. He gave me a stern look and scolded me at the same time: Be quiet! I felt quite wronged at that time.

Teacher Liu seldom writes on the blackboard in class, but only writes some key words, which are very big and neat. He doesn't speak fast, his language is clean, and there is no nonsense, but the lecture makes people hear clearly. At that time, the teacher taught us to learn Yang Shuo's essay "Litchi Honey" by "trying to raise the wheat first". At that time, Mr. Liu demonstrated what it meant to be "Young Mai first" by raising the field in the rural wheat field-when raising the field, if you want to raise the wheat high, you must first press the shovel full of wheat to a lower place. He demonstrated the word with life scenes and left a deep impression on us. There is also "thimble", which is a rhetorical method. He said "thimble" is a small iron ring worn by rural old ladies and women on their middle fingers when doing needlework. Let us understand the rhetorical features of thimble vividly. Looking back now, I feel that I learned a lot from Teacher Liu. In a word, although Miss Liu is old, she can't speak Mandarin well. When giving lectures, they are all told to us in our local dialect. But what he said is easy to understand and closely combined with life, which makes his lectures still vivid after decades.

? Teacher Liu is very modest. He didn't know why he needed to ask for leave, or deliberately invited a newly graduated female teacher, Mr. Kang, to give us a lesson, A Midsummer Night by the Sea. Before that, he recommended to everyone that the female teacher spoke very well and asked everyone to learn from her attentively. Sure enough, the beautiful and fluent Mandarin of the female teacher conquered us at once. From then on, I began to imitate the female teacher in the morning self-study class and practice reading the text in Mandarin, enjoying it! Teacher Liu's Mandarin is not good, but he has a deep knowledge of Chinese, especially old knowledge. That year, there were many baked wheat cakes around Mr. Liu's office. Mr. Liu's poems are full of enthusiasm. He wrote a seven-character poem and read it in public in our class. The students were once again impressed by Mr. Liu's talent.

? There is one more thing I am very grateful for. The teacher encourages us to keep a diary. At that time, I wrote in my diary about Teacher Liu smoking in class. I remember writing in the article that when I was in the fourth grade, our math teacher liked smoking. At that time, he talked about the dangers of smoking while smoking in science class, and his classmates caught him red-handed. The students pointed out his mistake at once, and he corrected it as soon as he knew it. He put out his cigarette and threw it away. I wrote in my article that I hope my husband can learn from Mr. Zheng, so that he can quit smoking and stop hurting his health. When Mr. Liu checked his diary, he read it very deeply in the classroom and praised me. Since then, I have developed the habit of keeping a diary. After several decades, I started to keep a diary on the internet again, and wrote more than 200 articles, which is a challenge to the day shift!

? There is another thing that has always impressed me. Once he occasionally mentioned his youngest son in class, saying that once his son accidentally broke things at home. At that time, my son was still young and was frightened by this incident. Seeing this, he kindly forgave him and reminded the children to be careful in future. This is the warmest family education model I have heard for the first time. I know that a child who has no intention of making mistakes can be very gentle.

Teacher Liu only taught me for one year. In the second day of junior high school, I heard that he was transferred to the nearby Houcun Middle School to teach. That year, the two students he taught were brave enough to save the children who fell into the water when passing by the village reservoir. At that year's Teacher's Day commendation meeting, Mr. Liu gave a warm speech, which not only praised two courageous students, but also denounced some bad social atmosphere at that time, such as treating guests and giving gifts, taking bribes and perverting the law, profiteering and cheating. At that time, there were a lot of people at the venue, and the teacher's speech was deafening, and a slightly hoarse voice echoed in the venue, hitting people's hearts! Unexpectedly, an old man facing retirement is still burning the same enthusiasm and strong sense of social responsibility for the education of the motherland!

? The victim is like this. Unconsciously, Mr. Liu Rongzeng may have died for 20 years, but Mr. Liu has always been the most respected teacher in my heart, and he will live in my memory forever.