Does sending your child to Primary 6 Chinese tutoring? A teacher who has been in the supplementary education field for 19 years reveals the open secrets of this profession…
Basically, I don’t agree with students going to tutoring (I mean “subjects”). You may be surprised that a famous Tujia teacher actually said such a thing!
Usually, parents send their children to cram schools for only one purpose—improved grades.
Of course, ordinary parents are not as sure about the content of various subjects as cram school teachers, so they are less likely to interfere in the teaching process of cram schools, and only use the results of school examinations to make a conclusion.
And “cramming teaching”, giving formulas and sets of solutions is the fastest shortcut to score, but it is also the most effective way to stifle thinking.
When I was first admitted to the Mathematics Institute of National Taiwan University, I taught in a well-known cram school in Zhongyonghe.
At that time, I taught students in the sixth grade of elementary school.
Since the entrance examination for gifted and gifted classes is quite difficult for ordinary students, it is understandable that they need to prepare in advance.
Since I believe that “the foundation of mathematics lies in understanding, not formulas or solutions”, in order to avoid letting students learn too many formulas that they don’t understand, I would rather take a long way and explain to students to understand.
Therefore, although no specific formula is given, the problem can be solved.
At the beginning, the students were really uncomfortable, because their previous teacher was a college student of electrical engineering.
He copied the formulas on the blackboard first in class, and taught the students to formulate the formulas and get the correct answers.
However, the students only need simple solutions, and they have A clear set of formulas is basically incomprehensible; even if they know how to solve it to get the correct answer, they don’t know why it is solved that way.
But when they switched to my class, they were startled.
They had been expecting a formula to appear, but they never saw a simple formula. For the students in the class, it is very “wasting time”.
At this time, many parents also discovered: Why didn’t I see any formulas in the children’s handouts?
Is this teacher messing around? If they are not teaching, there will be no formulas for students!
Therefore, the parents and the director responded, “Can you remind the teacher to be more serious? Otherwise, how could there be no formulas at all in math class!”
When the director interviewed me, I stated my philosophy and said that I would stick to this teaching method. At this time, the director had no choice but to ask him to hand over the mathematics in the class, and he would do it. Excellent test questions.
Usually after class, I will not leave immediately, but will stay for a while to understand the child’s learning situation. In addition to answering some students’ questions, I also understand and correct my teaching methods from the interaction with them, and see if my teaching results feel good about myself.
Once, a student responded: “Teacher, when you first taught us, I couldn’t understand because there was no formula to substitute. But after a month, I gradually understood your teaching method, and I realized that I began to understand Math! But last week, the director taught us a question, which confused me!”
what is the problem in Primary 6 Chinese tutoring? “
“That’s 1+2+3+…(continued to add)…+10” (Related reports: How many “Fang Siqi” are there in Taiwan? The winner of the Shiduo Award sexually abused single-parent young girls for 2 years, revealing too many unspeakable secrets ｜More articles)
“Oh! So? How does the director teach?”
“He just taught us to add the first number to the last number, multiply by 10, divide by 2, and that’s the answer… I know the answer should be right, but I don’t know why!”
“Okay, I will teach you now. Let me ask you, is there any order in addition? For example, is the result of 3+5 and 5+3 the same?”
“Same!”
“Then the result of ‘1+2+3+…+10′ is the same as adding ’10+9+8+…+1’ in reverse, is it acceptable?”
“Can!”
“Now let’s add these two rows and transcribe them horizontally into two rows up and down, aligned. Take a look, the first numbers in the two rows aligned up and down are 1 and 10, how much does it add up?”
“11.”
“So, what about the second aligned number, 2 and 9, that add up?”
“11.”
“And what about the third aligned numbers 3 and 8?”
“It’s also 11… well, it’s all 11!”
“Yes! Why?”
“Well… because the numbers in the upper row are incremented by 1 successively, and the numbers in the lower row are gradually decreased by 1, so the changes are all offset!”
“Okay! How many ’11’ are there?”
“10!”
“Good! So, (1+10)X10 is the answer?”
“Hmm…should be divided by 2!”
“Very well, why?”
“Because we originally only needed one row of results, but now we add them twice. So we have to divide by 2!”
“Then do you understand Primary 6 Chinese tutoring ?”
“understood!”
After two or three minutes of guidance, students will understand the truth behind it, why should they “hide their hands”? I never think that playing tricks means that the teacher is very good. On the contrary, I sincerely believe that “there are no students who can’t learn, only teachers who can’t teach.” If students don’t understand, who is stupid?
In fact, it is tiring to teach without formulas like me, and the difficulty and challenge are relatively high.
It takes a lot of time to prepare lessons in advance, and the way of guidance and explanation is designed in advance so that students can understand what they have learned from the inside.
Lesson preparation time and effort, at least more than 3 times the general teaching.
If it is to directly give formulas and sets of solutions, it is the easiest teaching operation mode.
Anyway, under the urging of the general environment, not many students would want to try to understand.
As long as you can score in the end. Moreover, if you teach in a model that is more difficult for students to understand, students will feel more inadequate and have to take tutoring, sticking to tutoring classes will be tighter, and the industry will earn more!
Why do I look far away?
Because if I don’t take a long way, students won’t really understand.
If I seek convenience everywhere, students will never develop the ability to think independently.
In this way, instead of memorizing a bunch of “mathematical formulas that I don’t understand”, it is better to memorize a few more English words!
However, under the results orientation of parents, can cram schools survive if they don’t pay attention to quick results? I am afraid that the parents will ask for a change of teacher or even a cram school during the exam period!
The result of “short-sightedness and short-sightedness” finally encourages children. Most tutoring students never know what they have learned, let alone “right, why it is right; wrong, where it is wrong”.
And when the child grows up and becomes a parent, because he has never had confidence in the subject, he can only send the child to a cram school, which eventually becomes a karmic cycle of “rewarding the world”-is this not miserable?
Therefore, if we want to cultivate children’s future competitiveness, we must start with the ability to think independently.
If you can only follow others’ sayings and set formulas, you can only follow the trajectory of your predecessors in the future, and you will not be able to become a great talent!
Therefore, my sincere suggestion: I would rather my child have bad grades than study hard, otherwise, what can a brain that doesn’t know how to adapt do?
I hope parents will carefully consider Primary 6 Chinese tutoring!
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