yu feng, a teacher at the no. 3 girls' high school: a close friend of students
2024-09-11
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once you have been in the rain, you will remember your teacher for the rest of your life. in changning's campus, there are many teachers who are deeply engaged in teaching. what are their teaching experiences and stories of educating people? what supports them to move forward unremittingly? let us get close to yu feng, an outstanding class teacher in shanghai and a physics teacher at shanghai no. 3 girls' middle school, and listen to her "incredibly happy" teaching career.
yu feng, a senior physics teacher at shanghai no. 3 girls' middle school, has been engaged in front-line physics teaching for 24 years and has been a class teacher for 21 years. in teaching, she combines core physics knowledge points with real situations in life, guiding students to complete experiments independently and explore physical phenomena around them. in life, she is a confidant who is both a teacher and a friend to students. she not only patiently guides students in their studies, but also gives them warm care in life. during her teaching career, yu feng was named the march 8th red flag bearer of the shanghai education system, a shanghai teaching expert, and an outstanding class teacher in shanghai. the classes she taught have won the title of shanghai advanced class collective four times; she was selected for the shanghai oriental talent plan teacher project.
green ivy climbs up the ancient walls of the girls' school. in her 24th year of teaching, yu feng, a physics teacher at the no. 3 girls' high school, still feels the most: "being a teacher is so happy!"
as an experienced teacher who has been working on the front line of physics teaching, yu feng is deeply loved by students for his unique teaching style of "easy to understand, novel form, and vivid content". however, few people know that when he first became a teacher, yu feng also had a period of "at a loss".
"i studied science and engineering in college, and the school i graduated from was full of boys. i wanted to change my environment, so i chose no. 3 girls' high school when i accompanied my classmates to an interview. as a result, when i entered the school on the day of the interview, i found that this school was so beautiful, close to home, and the girls were all very well-behaved. it was simply my 'dream job'." so, yu feng, who had no teaching experience, stepped into the gate of no. 3 girls' high school.
soon, yu feng, who was a "new teacher", found a major problem in teaching - "not being able to explain clearly" in class. "you think you have explained it clearly, but the students still don't understand. the most exaggerated time was that i finished a 40-minute class in 20 minutes." yu feng attributed this to "not being able to think from the students' perspective." "fortunately, i met a very good teacher who took me to prepare and analyze lessons one by one for three classes a week." this kind of teaching lasted for five years.
on the road of exploring "becoming a good teacher", yu feng constantly studies the characteristics and methods of girls learning science, and presents more vivid and lively physics knowledge to students through interesting experiments close to life. measure the tension of hair and find conservation around you; throw soybeans into detergent to feel the existence of resistance; use a mobile phone to shoot the movement of real objects around you and analyze the data to find out the rules... in yu feng's physics class, these interesting and fascinating experiments are common. she makes students feel that physics is not only the profound theorems and formulas in books, but also exists in real situations in life.
from a "newbie" who just entered the workplace to an experienced and mature teacher, yu feng is now the head of the school's teaching and research group. she participated in the compilation of the shanghai version of the high school physics textbook, and is a core member of the team for the compulsory course one and the optional compulsory course one. she is also the editor-in-chief of the new junior high school textbook. yu feng, who was once deeply guided by the old teachers, also passed on this care to more young teachers. she led young teachers to study the new curriculum standards and new textbooks, and guided them to give many city-level and district-level open classes. the cases she and the teachers wrote have also won many awards in the city-level paper evaluation and were published in the "physics teaching" magazine.
“physics teaching is not only to enable students to learn physical knowledge and understand scientific inquiry methods, but also to cultivate the spirit of inquiry and innovation. more importantly, it is to learn the ways, methods and attitudes behind solving problems in the subject.” as a class teacher, yu feng also teaches students the life topic of “becoming a person who can solve problems.”
in this regard, yu feng jokingly said that her secret is to learn to be "lazy". in class management, she adopts a "let the sheep run" model, giving students greater autonomy to handle various class affairs. at first, the students were not very adaptable, and there were phenomena such as not knowing where to start, planning errors, and conflicts of opinion among classmates. even so, yu feng would not intervene directly, but guide students to learn to negotiate, communicate, and cooperate to solve problems.
so every noon, you can always see this scene in yu feng’s office - a group of students surround yu feng and chatter around, reporting on the latest situation in the class, asking whether things are handled correctly and how to better communicate with the teacher, and yu feng gives advice from time to time.
there were also girls who were unhappy or in a state of depression, and would sit on a small stool next to "feng feng" and cry. after they finished crying, yu feng silently handed them a tissue and asked, "have you thought about what to do?" "yes." "then go ahead." the teachers who passed by were not surprised, and occasionally joked, "i came here and saw a little girl crying again."
yu feng's guidance and guidance have helped the class form unprecedented cohesion, and also enabled the students to acquire skills that will benefit them for the rest of their lives. xiao an and xiao ya, students from the class of 2020, recalled their high school life and said, "looking back on high school, i am still moved by the warm and powerful teacher-student relationship between teacher yu and his students. perhaps the physics knowledge in the books has been returned many years after graduation, but the ability growth and spiritual wealth that teacher yu has brought us will always be with us."
of course, the so-called "laziness" does not mean to completely let go, but to learn to "focus on the big and let go of the small" and be a "ferryman" on the students' life path. as a class teacher for many years, yu feng is committed to discovering the shining points of students, standing firmly with them when they need it, and guiding students to find themselves at the ferry of life, so as to move towards a broader world.
xiao tao, who has graduated, was not a student good at science during school, but she was particularly good at painting. with yu feng's encouragement, she found and bravely chose the direction of life she loved. "in her senior year of high school, the child was very anxious because of the conflict between her studies and her hobbies. i communicated with her parents and suggested that she find a professional teacher to assess her artistic quality. unexpectedly, the professional teacher recognized her painting quality very much. in this way, she devoted herself to the path of art and was admitted to the school of design of tongji university as she wished."
"thank you, teacher yu. because of your advice back then, i realized that the happiest thing in the world is to develop my interest into a career that i love." when they met again many years later, the student's words of gratitude were deeply imprinted in yu feng's heart. it was a comfort and also a form of self-motivation.
there was another student who had excellent physics grades, but was relatively weak in chinese and english. so yu feng made a bold suggestion, encouraging the student to use the time other students spent studying physics to study chinese and english. "i have taught her since the first year of high school, and i know her physics foundation very well, so i am confident that even if she gives up some time to study physics, she can still maintain good grades." facts have proved that yu feng's assessment is correct. today, this student has become an excellent engineer. as the company's business expands in countries around the world, her footsteps are also all over the world.
time flies. the warm moments spent with students over the past 20 years have become the shining happy moments in yu feng's teaching career. she said: "teachers have wisdom and are everlasting." when students take a boat across the river at the ferry of life in high school and go to their own future, yu feng puts away the boat pole and silently recalls the rainy day when a student picked her up with an umbrella to pick her up for class, or the sunny afternoon when they laughed freely on the lawn together, and then welcomes new students with a wise heart. "when you see the child, when you see her happily rushing towards you, your heart melts. what else can you complain about?" she said with a smile.
the picture comes from the no. 3 girls' high school
written by: he yuning
