Principal recruitment in Shanghai

Not long ago, in the activity of "Tomorrow's Teachers Start Today-Shanghai Education Heroes Dialogue with Normal Students" to celebrate the 54th anniversary of Shanghai Normal University, Tang, president of Shanghai Middle School, said: At present, the teachers recruited by the school are basically non-normal undergraduates and postgraduates of Fudan University, and few normal students are admitted.

Normal schools have always been committed to training teachers. Now, why are normal students no longer popular and even in danger of losing their "iron rice bowl"

Qiu Jiong's painting

Normal students no longer have an advantage.

"Please talk about the new educational concept of the second teaching reform course and design a class that embodies this concept." In the recruitment interview of fresh graduates from a middle school in Shanghai, the examiner threw out such an examination question. Surprisingly, few normal students who have been "trained" can hand over satisfactory answers, which also appears in job fairs in many schools across the country.

According to the plan of the Ministry of Education, East China Normal University and other universities introduced the policy of free normal students in 2007, and more normal universities joined the free ranks in 2008. In the education of normal students, the state has invested a lot of manpower and financial resources. Normal students are selected as the next generation of soul engineers among many students, but the quality of graduates is not ideal in the eyes of employers.

Tang, the principal of Shanghai Middle School, said that the recruitment of teachers in the school rarely admits normal students: "Take the recruitment of the international department as an example, we require all bilingual interviews. In addition, due to the need to be sent to various teaching posts, successful candidates should also be able to teach several courses, such as Chinese and mathematics. The reality is that few normal students can pass this level. "

Ye, a researcher at Shanghai Putuo District Institute of Education, also said: "In the teaching of Putuo District's discipline competition remedial class, a young teacher who is not a teacher is outstanding."

With the fierce competition in the workplace, most teachers who finally get the "iron rice bowl" are non-normal students who have become monks halfway. "We were trained to be future teachers when we entered the school, but now we can't be teachers. I really don't know what to do. " A student surnamed Yu from Shanghai Normal University expressed her confusion and questions. Like her, the employment of normal students is facing unprecedented difficulties.

Ideas determine the way out.

In the eyes of employers, the primary problem is that normal students are not broad-minded enough to meet the needs of society. Compared with the employment anxiety of non-normal students, they obviously can't feel the smoke outside the "ivory tower", so they are carefree in college life and rarely make plans and preparations for their future. In this regard, several educational heroes are deeply touched. Ye Yupei said: "Normal students only read sage books, and rarely know what has happened outside the university wall and what has changed in the field of education reform."

Experts also put forward their own solutions to this problem. Tang said: Even the parents and students five years ago have changed greatly now, and the requirements and standards for education have also improved. Normal education major is no longer the iron rice bowl for employment. Normal students must keep up with the changes of society and study education after class. "

Tang recalled himself at that time: "I studied Russian before graduation, and then I learned English that few people cared about at that time." Now, receiving foreign guests and attending international seminars have proved the necessity of mastering English. Normal students should also be able to foresee the future needs, learn more skills outside the prescribed courses, change the concept of' occupying the market' and develop the thinking mode of' creating the market'. "

Liu Jinghai, the headmaster of Zhabei No.8 Middle School, listed four classroom teaching modes on the basis of extensive lectures and investigations, namely, giving priority to lectures, combining lectures with practice, combining lectures with practice, and combining learning with practice. Liu Jinghai said that if the teacher makes a point clear in 40 minutes, then students can only use after school or even holidays to complete relevant exercises. In this way, teachers increase the burden on themselves and students, and it is difficult to find children who want to study now, which is related to this reason. He concluded: "Normal students should see clearly the general trend of education and find their own development orientation."

Learning and teaching are two different things.

Normal students are in danger of losing their "iron rice bowl", and the lack of professional teaching skills is also a key problem. As long as the old teachers build a good classroom teaching framework, young teachers can give "acting lessons" well, but the phenomenon of poor performance in "home lessons" is quite common. It is good for young teachers to make fewer mistakes in class, but there is still a big gap between being able to do problems and being able to express them accurately, which has become the teaching defect of normal students listed by experts.

Several Shanghai education heroes unanimously said: learning is not equal to attending classes. How to work hard on basic skills such as expression and blackboard writing? To be a teacher, you should not only have a profound academic foundation, but also have a strong ability in education and research, and you should dare to "challenge yourself all your life" and take every step of your life well.

Tang said: "Under the market economy, some non-normal graduates participate in the competition for teachers' posts together. In terms of knowledge reserve, even graduate students are not qualified to say that teaching in middle schools is more than enough. Many people are not smart when reading, but stupid. They must have their own thinking when reading, otherwise knowledge will become a burden. "

Liu Jinghai also said: "In the field of education, attending classes is a basic skill. Although many educational heroes are long, they are first of all good teachers and give wonderful lectures. Not only in their own learning, but also in the teaching process, students need to be guided to think, which puts forward higher requirements for teachers' quality.

Taking Liu Jinghai's most admired classroom teaching mode of "learning to speak and practice" as an example, students have time to study, think and practice by themselves. Although they can consolidate their knowledge on the spot, cultivate the habit of self-study and thinking, and reduce the normal 40-minute course to 20 minutes or even shorter, the effect cannot be "shrunk", so teachers must be able to "dance with shackles", which is a great test for the teaching level.

Education is a major, a profession and a career.

Ye Yupei said: "When recruiting, it is difficult for us to see at a glance who is more suitable to be a teacher, but to wait for you to speak."

Do you regard "teaching" as your job or as your occupation? This is an important question that the interviewer should consider when he opens his mouth. "Teachers are not obvious and vigorous occupations. Only by truly loving can they make achievements." Lu Jianfei, vice president of Shanghai Normal University, said: "Teaching is not only technology and scholarship, but also an art. Teaching is not only a profession, a profession or a career." Qiu Zhonghai, president of Qibao Middle School, pointed out: "Normal students must first have certain pursuits and establish the ideal of being a teacher when they are students, so as to achieve something."

Several experts are optimistic about the employment difficulties of normal students, and agree that there is room for improvement as long as they are aware of the problems. Li Jin, president of Shanghai Normal University, pointed out that the road for normal students to be teachers has a long way to go. I hope that students can learn to be human, learn to do things, learn to learn, establish their main attack, enrich their wings, activate their two brains, and improve their top four, namely, foreign language ability, applied skills, work attitude, team spirit and cross-cultural identity.

In fact, when recruiting teachers, apart from paying attention to professional curriculum knowledge and teaching skills, the most important two points are the understanding of normal students and their influence as teachers. The sign of the former is to make the puzzled students fully understand, while the latter is to make students like themselves and then like the courses they teach. In addition, the ability of continuous learning is also very important.

If normal students want to keep their "iron rice bowl", they should not only cultivate their professional skills, but also improve their quality and personality charm, so as to perform well in the workplace and keep their "iron rice bowl".