the questions asked by first-year students stumped a teacher with more than 20 years of teaching experience, and he will promote the revision of the "student copybook"
2024-09-26
한어Русский языкEnglishFrançaisIndonesianSanskrit日本語DeutschPortuguêsΕλληνικάespañolItalianoSuomalainenLatina
dai xinyi, reporter of chao news client
the chinese character copybook has been used by countless primary school students to learn calligraphy. when a first-grader opens the chinese character copybook, the first step is to learn how to hold a pen and write.
"teacher, do you have a diagram to teach how to hold a pen with the left hand correctly?" at hangzhou yungu school, teacher deng, who has been teaching for more than 20 years, was teaching calligraphy to freshmen as usual, but was stumped by the question from a first-year student. even hu sanyuan, the compiler of the student copybook, praised the child for his careful observation when he heard the question, and said that relevant content would be included in the next edition of the copybook.
questions from first-year students
touched the teacher with more than 20 years of teaching experience
in the second week of school, teacher deng from hangzhou yungu school was teaching first-year students how to copy manuscripts. when he came to the pen-holding posture, he posted a diagram of the pen-holding posture on each desk to make it easier for students to imitate.
in the chinese class, the students were practicing calligraphy quietly when a gentle voice came over: "teacher, do you have a diagram showing how to hold a pen correctly with the left hand?"
the child who was speaking was zhang yuchen, an introverted but observant child. this question surprised teacher deng because zhang himself wrote with his right hand. teacher deng asked softly, "why are you so interested in this?"
xiao zhang shared his discovery: "i noticed that my good friend writes with his left hand, and he holds the pen differently than i do when writing. also, i found that there is another female classmate in the class who also writes with her left hand, and she can't practice according to this picture." the reason he asked the teacher was to find a way to help them.
image source: visual china
teacher deng was deeply touched by the warm and innocent answer. she admitted that she had been teaching for more than 20 years and had always assumed that the right hand was the only way to demonstrate calligraphy, which made her "blind to the light": "if yuchen hadn't raised this question, i wouldn't have realized that the calligraphy copybook only had pictures of the right hand holding the pen, and that left-handed children should also have targeted guidance when practicing calligraphy."
"left-handedness" is also called left-handedness. according to research, about one in every 10 people is left-handed.
"left-handed people do encounter many problems when writing," explained teacher deng. "the most obvious one is the pen-holding posture. generally, the right hand holds the pen and the left hand presses the book, but this is not suitable for left-handed people. secondly, chinese characters are written from left to right, so the starting and moving strokes of children's left-handed writing are not so smooth."
what’s even worse is that the writing order is from left to right. when the left-handed person writes a word, his hand covers the word. when doing homework, he doesn’t know what he has written. the pad of the left little finger rubs over the words he has just written, making the palm and the paper dirty...
according to teacher deng, there is a left-handed student in her class, but this child can switch between writing with both hands. however, other classes generally have 1-2 left-handed students.
teacher deng has been teaching for more than 20 years, and there are usually 1-2 left-handed students in her classes. "but this proportion has gradually increased in recent years. in the past, some parents would force their children to change their handedness, but now parents are increasingly respecting their children's nature."
the author made a left hand holding pen diagram
and promised to add it to the next version of the copybook
according to mr. deng's observation, there are very few calligraphy copybooks on the market that provide guidance for left-handed writing.
how to teach the correct way to hold the pen with the left hand? teacher deng contacted the copybook author, mr. hu sanyuan, and shared this heartwarming story and xiao zhang's request.
teacher deng conveyed xiao zhang's question to the copybook editor
teacher hu's response was quick and warm. he not only highly praised yuchen's empathy, but also immediately started coordinating with the publishing house, working overtime to produce a pen-holding posture diagram specifically for left-handed students, and promised to include this part in the next edition of the copybook to meet the needs of more children.
left hand holding pen posture diagram
the left-handed children in other first-grade classes of the school also used the newly released left-handed chart. "the special left-handed guidance chart can give left-handed students an intuitive understanding of the direction and strength of the pen, and can also train the hand muscles more correctly."
teacher deng contacted xiao zhang's mother and asked her to bring the new picture to xiao zhang's left-handed friend. upon learning about this, xiao zhang's mother was touched by her son's kindness and the school's quick response, and was even more pleased that her child was growing up in an environment full of love and respect.
yungu school also conducted a small survey on teachers of various subjects. the teachers generally took a laissez-faire attitude towards students' hand usage habits. as long as it is suitable and comfortable, tools can be used with either hand.
however, the school also found that in daily learning and life, the design or rules that are created to meet the habits of most right-handed people, left-handed children encounter many obstacles.
for example, when you go to a lecture in a tiered classroom, the small tables on the seats are all on the right side; the rulers used in math class have larger scales from left to right, which is exactly opposite to the hand habits of left-handed people; scissors, golf clubs, guitars and other tools all have many inconveniences.
"we are relatively lacking in experience in how to effectively guide left-handed writing," said teacher deng. "we attach great importance to the question raised by yuchen and plan to work with other schools to help left-handed students adapt to writing in the early stages. we will also try our best to take their needs into consideration in their study and life."
"education is about delicate care and attention to every subtle need." teacher deng said that xiao zhang's careful observation made her feel that the significance of education goes far beyond the transmission of knowledge. "every child is unique. their voices deserve to be heard and their needs deserve to be valued."
"please indicate the source when reprinting"
