The Stars of the Earth tells the story of Ethan, an innocent, mischievous, imaginative, but dyslexic boy. Ethan is 8 years old, likes to draw, is a third-grade student, due to dyslexia, he can not adapt to the school learning system, can not accept the teacher's teaching methods, no matter how hard he can not learn the knowledge in the textbook, every time he took the test, his results are at the bottom of the list, so he is often criticized by the teacher, punished. In the eyes of teachers and parents, the mistakes Ethan made were not understood. He lied, skipped classes, fought with others at school, and when he came home, he intentionally damaged his neighbor's flower pots and caused all kinds of trouble. The school considers Ethan to be a problem student and advises him to transfer halfway through the school year. In desperation, Ethan's parents have no choice but to send him to a boarding school with strict discipline. Lonely and helpless, Ethan is still often punished here, and his heart is seriously hurt. He can no longer feel happy, and becomes even more self-absorbed, even giving up his favorite painting. Luckily, Ethan meets a new art teacher, Ram, who really knows how to educate, and who knows how to recognize "a horse with a thousand miles". Ram discovers that Ethan's learning confusion is dyslexia through the mistakes he makes and the way he makes them. He slowly approaches Ethan and uses his special educational methods to help him out of his learning confusion, and plans a painting competition for the whole school to rekindle his self-confidence and hope by letting Ethan give full play to his artistic talent, thus changing the fate of Ethan's life.
First, the film brought me to think
Although this is an Indian film about the problems of family education and school education in India, the scenes in the film are familiar to us: familiar education system, familiar teaching methods, familiar examination scenes, familiar score ranking, familiar teacher's stern expression, familiar parents, and familiar with the "hope for a child to be born", and the "hope for a child to be born". The educational concept of "expecting one's son to become a dragon" ...... and Ram's love for Ethan, as well as innovative and inspiring educational methods are like a spring of fresh water, allowing every teacher to be baptized by the soul, to reflect on what kind of education is the real education.
(A) how to look at the mistakes made by students
Everyone grows up, there are "mistakes - correct mistakes - to reach the success" of the experience, as a mistake experience over the past, as a guide to the growth of students, how to look at and deal with the mistakes made by students? As a person who has made mistakes, and as a guide for students' growth, how can we view and deal with the mistakes made by students? The movie shows us a common way of dealing with mistakes - punishment. In the movie, Ethan is kicked out of the classroom twice, beaten by the art teacher with a ruler in front of the whole class, and insulted by the female teacher as a "shameless child" for failing to answer the teacher's questions in class. From this, we can see that there are problems with the way schools educate students. This kind of simple and rough way of dealing with students not only fails to correct the mistakes they make, but also seriously harms their self-esteem and makes them lose interest in learning. Punishment is like a storm that destroys the delicate flower of the student.
Finding the cause of the mistake, and treating it, is the root of the problem. What was Ethan's problem? Ram was the only one who realized that the root cause of his learning confusion was not that he was intellectually challenged or not trying hard enough, but that he was dyslexic. "No gold is perfect, no one is perfect", every child makes mistakes, especially students in the lower grades of elementary school, their ability to distinguish between right and wrong is weak, they often make such and such mistakes, even if they are the same mistakes, they make mistakes for different reasons, which requires teachers to be like Ram to have a keen observation, care for and respect for the students, to read the Students' true thoughts, find the reasons why students make mistakes, and give targeted education will make students really realize their own mistakes, and try to correct them. This is the real education.
(B) how to pay attention to every student
Teachers' attention to students is biased towards two extremes, one is the attention to the light of the best students, and the other is to pay attention to whether the poor students make trouble. In the movie, Ethan's teachers' attention to him falls into the latter category. They focus on the mistakes Ethan makes and magnify them without limit, finally concluding that Ethan may be a mentally handicapped child with problems and suggesting that he go to a school for the mentally handicapped. Thus, under this shadow, the star of Ethan gradually loses its light. Ram, a teacher who really knows how to care for children, comes along to save this falling star. In Ram's first art class, all the other children were infected by Ram's songs and dances, but only Ethan was indifferent. Ram didn't criticize Ethan as other teachers did, but found out that he had dyslexia after the class by learning from his classmates and checking Ethan's homework, and communicated with Ethan's parents and the principal of the boarding school in time to ask them not to give up on Ethan. Ram believes that every child is unique and has his or her own talents and dreams, which need to be inspired and guided in order for the child's potential to be fully displayed. He cares for Ethan in a way that Ethan prefers, closes the psychological distance with Ethan, brings Ethan a sense of self-esteem, a sense of belonging and a sense of success, and gives Ethan a positive emotional experience, which inspires his longing and hope for a better life. Looking back at real life, are we concerned about every student, is the concern for students as profound as Ram, especially in the treatment of underprivileged students, problem students and other disadvantaged groups of the problem, whether to do the same, give respect and love?
(C) How to teach students according to their aptitude
CAMERA: Ethan's parents are invited to the school for a talk, and Ethan's teacher says, "I can't believe he's Yohan's brother." Ethan's older brother, Yohan, was a good student with good grades, so Ethan was often compared to his brother at school or at home. Ethan looked so dim in the light of his brother's aura. School is a competitive world where the immediate goal of education is student achievement, which points to future success in life. Obviously, Ethan does not fit into this competitive educational system. Ram told Ethan's parents, "Every child has unique abilities and dreams, and we can't dislike him because of his current slight handicap." Ethan is handicapped in reading and writing, but is better at drawing. School education should follow the principle of teaching students according to their aptitude, conforming to students' strengths to develop their abilities. Teachers choose teaching methods suitable for students' characteristics to teach in a targeted manner, to bring into play students' strengths and make up for their deficiencies, to stimulate students' interest in learning and to build up students' confidence in learning, so as to promote the all-round development of the students. Especially for students with artistic talent, teachers should have the ability to recognize the pearls, while the school should increase a variety of teaching equipment, open a wealth of courses for students with different talents to provide a stage to show their talent.
Second, inspired by the movie
As the old saying goes: "Take the copper as an example, you can be correctly dressed; take people as an example, you can understand the loss." After watching "Stars of the Earth", I have been looking for two shadows, one is to look for my own shadow in the teachers of the movie, and the other is to look for Ethan's shadow in the students of the class he teaches. Ram's deep and rational love for Ethan inspired me on how to accompany my students on this path of growth.
(a) Love and methodology go hand in hand to connect teachers and students
Teacher's love is like the sea, deep and rational. Excellent teachers have their own methods, but their **** the same point is to have a big heart. As the saying goes: "Knowing and loving", for teachers to establish a good teacher-student relationship, the first thing to do is to enter the inner world of the students, a comprehensive understanding of the students. Children's world is simple, they want from the teacher here is thirsty for love and respect, as well as from the beginning to the end of the encouraging gaze. Gorky said: "Whoever loves the child, the child loves him. Only he who loves the child recognizes that he can educate the child." It shows that only in the bath of true teacher love, students can live and learn easily and quickly, and grow up healthily.
How does Ram educate Ethan in the movie? Love and method go hand in hand. Ram not only knows how to love Ethan, but also takes care to love him in a way that Ethan likes. Mr. Ram says what Ethan wants to hear, tells what Ethan is interested in, and uses Edison's example to encourage Ethan, thus gradually entering Ethan's inner world. When traditional teaching methods were not suitable for Ethan's learning, Mr. Ram used innovative and inspiring methods to help Ethan improve his grades. He uses the principle of tactile perception to make Ethan write in sand, takes advantage of Ethan's interest in art to write confusing letters in different colors, and takes Ethan to the playground to practice calculations by jumping up and down steps. The class-teaching system is not adapted to every student, especially for students with learning disabilities. Teachers should be adept at identifying suitable teaching methods for their students and helping them to overcome obstacles and difficulties, so that the potential and talent of every child can be realized and they can be further developed.
(B) Tolerance and encouragement at the same time, to establish the confidence of students
Roger Rawls, the 53rd governor of New York, said in his inaugural address: "How much is faith worth? Faith is worthless, it is sometimes even a well-intentioned deception, yet once you stick with it, it rapidly appreciates in value." Indeed, faith is the driving force behind one's perseverance. In education and teaching, we should pay attention to students' little progress, encourage and praise them in time, and help children build up confidence. Every child wants to be concerned and encouraged by the teacher, even the students who often make mistakes, perhaps the reason for making mistakes is precisely to attract the teacher's special attention, the teacher should learn to be tolerant in dealing with the mistakes made by the child, your a look, a smile, a touch, a word of concern for the child is a great encouragement. Particularly with the treatment of advanced students, teachers should be good at careful observation, to find the "flash point" of advanced students, and timely affirmation, encouragement, help students to build confidence, ignite the hope of learning. At the end of the movie, Mr. Ram lifted up Ethan, who was running wildly, and he lifted up not only Ethan's body, but also Ethan's self-confidence.
(C) Teachers should improve their professionalism and learn to manage their emotions.
Ethan's teachers couldn't find out where Ethan's learning was confusing, precisely because they lacked the necessary knowledge of psychology and pedagogy. After watching this movie, I also have a certain understanding of dyslexia through checking books. Simply put, it is a common learning disability in children, a kind of dyslexia caused by the brain's inability to coordinate the synthesis of visual and auditory information, and a kind of dyslexia in reading and spelling. I wondered what I would do if I were teaching a class with a dyslexic student like Ethan. Would it be like Ethan's teachers who dealt with it in a punitive way without understanding the cause. Therefore, teachers should improve their theoretical literacy, read more specialized books, learn the necessary psychological and educational expertise, and actively apply it to teaching.
In addition, as teachers, they must learn to manage their own emotions, keep sober and rational in the classroom, and deal with students' mistakes in a calm manner. If a teacher shows anger for a small mistake of a student, it will only lower the teacher's prestige, hurt the child's heart, deteriorate the teacher-student relationship, and not to mention the good teaching effect. In the movie, when Ethan's teacher saw that Ethan was distracted in class and couldn't answer the questions, he roared loudly and told Ethan to get out of the class and yelled "shameless child", completely ignoring the role model of the teacher. "The teacher's moral and professional qualities are very important to be improved.
"This is a gift from God / stretching and spinning / gliding and falling / just like that precious pearl / shining / we can't lose those little stars of the earth / just like that winter sunshine / scattering golden light all over the yard / dispelling the darkness inside us / warming us completely / we can't lose those little stars of the earth. " (Lyrics from the "Stars on Earth" episode). As the song says, we can't lose those little stars on earth, every child is a gift from God, each one of them is like a precious pearl, like the sunshine in the winter, giving the world endless hope. Children in the process of growing up inevitably make mistakes, inevitably confused, as a guide and participant in education, if every teacher has the same love and sense of responsibility as Mr. Ram, good at discovering the light of the child, then, a lot of problems in school education can be solved.