"You hang in the first article of Baidu video." At the beginning of June, he received a phone call from an international student. Yuan Tengfei remembered that a week ago, a private school where he taught as an amateur had proposed to put video clips of his lectures on Youku. He thought "Youku" was the school intranet, so he agreed.
What happened after that was beyond his expectation. The school uploaded 24 videos, and the cumulative number of hits exceeded100000. Collected and forwarded by netizens, there are more than 70,000 web pages related to "the best history teacher in history". Quotations from Yuan Tengfei was published immediately and updated every day. Netizens praised more than belittled, and most of them thought that "the class was vivid and wise". "More such teachers will reduce the number of students sleeping in class in China."
However, as a senior history teacher in Beijing, this "abnormal fame" makes Yuan Tengfei feel pressure. He doesn't even want others to know his work unit and teaching experience. Some colleagues called him "Mr Niu" with a smile, and some teachers called him "grandstanding and nonsense" behind his back.
Attack on Pearl Harbor is one of the most clicked clips. Yuan Tengfei, dressed in a Chinese tunic suit, took a eight-character step and interpreted it like a storyteller: "We generally say that something is overreaching, and the snake swallows the elephant. The Japanese are toads swallowing dinosaurs and dare to fight with the United States." He snapped his fingers to settle accounts with the students. "The United States produces nine times as much steel as Japan, 25 times as much oil, 450 times as much cars and 600 times as much aircraft. You fight with him, don't you do it? "
Next, he even simulated a conversation between General Nagano Osami, the military minister of the Japanese navy, and Isoroku Yamamoto, the chief of the joint fleet, to analyze the odds of war.
Although most lectures are centered on textbooks, Yuan Tengfei's lecture style full of criticism, laughter and abuse is enough to make students and netizens smile. Of course, some netizens think that this is a sign of "not being serious about history". In addition, most of the historical materials, teaching materials and teaching reference materials he involved are not available. Admirers call it "profound" and opponents call it "subversion"
In the view of this teacher who has taught 14 years of middle school history, his task is actually to popularize historical knowledge and make this popularization arouse students' interest.
In fact, long before the video went online, Yuan Tengfei became famous on the Internet. Several of his students founded Baidu "Yuan Tengfei" in early 2006, which was earlier than "Yi Zhongtian". Since he taught, he has had many disciples from "post-70s" to "post-90s", as well as students from various middle schools in Beijing.
These students like history because they like Yuan Tengfei's class, and the details of his class have become the enduring talk in this bar. For example, "he sits most of the time in class, and once he stands up, he will tell jokes." Others observed, "He must wipe his hands with a wet towel after writing with chalk, and most of them are neat. Moreover, the teacher's handwriting is clean and there is no mark at all, but he can tell you exactly where the key paintings are. " These are all "awesome" aspects.
Because it is full of "quotations from Yuan Tengfei", history textbooks have become the only textbooks that these students will not get rid of after the college entrance examination.
This year, a candidate was still taking a history class in Yuan Tengfei until the college entrance examination. As a science student, he doesn't have to take the history exam after his freshman year. There is also a female student who is about to enter the university to study accounting, but she still wants to enroll in the summer school of "sir Yuan".
Xiaowen (pseudonym) is a senior three student in a key middle school in Xicheng District. One month before the college entrance examination, she gave up the opportunity to enjoy the Kunqu Opera Peony Pavilion and hurried to Yuan Tengfei for the last class. She wants to apply for the history department and hopes to get the encouragement from the teacher.
However, the teacher who made Xiaowen "fall in love with history" did not recognize her choice. He warned that small literature and history should be prepared to sit on the bench.
"Another child has been corrupted by me." Yuan Tengfei shook his head when he learned that Xiaowen had been admitted to the Department of History, majoring in cultural relics and museum management.
He went astray when he was admitted to Capital Normal University 18 years ago. At that time, senior three students realized that there were three ways before them: foreign languages were golden, mathematics and physics were white, and literature, history and philosophy were gangsters. Yuan Tengfei chose "Mafia". Because he grew up in an era with little entertainment, he liked to listen to storytelling, comic books and legendary stories when he was a child, so he was fascinated by history.
Although he was interested in history, he never wanted to be a history teacher. He tried to sell insurance in his junior year. Until one day, a gentleman in the department said, "You have great potential in teaching."
In fact, Yuan Tengfei's first lecture on history to students was a very unsuccessful experience. When he was a freshman, he told a junior high school history interest group about Beijing history. On the first day, he tried several times in the dormitory. Unexpectedly, when they went to class the next day, the students didn't like listening at all. "I was very dull in class, and I just wanted to tell them everything I knew."
When Yuan Tengfei officially became a history teacher after graduating from college, he began to speak some Beijing dialect in class, and "fable criticism" was also handy. However, according to one of the earliest students in Yuan Tengfei's class, "Every time we have a history class, we children listen to this rookie perform stand-up comedy. At that time, Lao Yuan's burden level was very immature. Sometimes the luggage was shaken and the audience didn't respond. " He will prepare a lot of materials for each class, but "the ability to control time is a bit poor." He often forgets the time as soon as he opens his mouth, and then when the bell rings, he shouts,' Broken, delayed again?' The students below snickered to themselves. "
However, after the first batch of students taught, Yuan Tengfei has become a famous outstanding young teacher in the district. The headmaster of his school once wrote an article "Analysis on the Teaching Characteristics of Young Teacher Yuan Tengxi". The headmaster believes that a teacher's maturity depends on whether he knows what to teach his students and how to teach them. In the headmaster's view, the four-year-old boy has done these two things.
How to teach? Yuan Tengfei believes that it is to make students interested in history. You must also know what students like. "Many times, what the teacher wants to say is not the same as what the students want to say." You must learn to make full use of this situation.
Yuan Tengfei talked about the Sino-Japanese War of 1894- 1895 when he was a teacher. When the warship sank, Deng Shichang wanted to be a martyr. His dog bit his braid and dragged him ashore. He pushed the dog into the sea and died together. Speaking for the first time, the students were also moved by Yuan Tengfei and felt very "strong and intense". But when he taught until about 1999, Yuan Tengfei met a "new new human" and told the story again. The children said, "Oh, that poor dog."
Later, he talked about Lin Zexu and Humen destroying opium, saying that a pond was dug by the sea, seawater was introduced, lime and opium were added, and the residue was discharged into the sea after chemical reaction. Before I finished, I shouted under the podium, "Teacher, Lin Zexu is not environmentally friendly."
"At that time, I was particularly shocked and incredible. I don't think we are animals on the same planet. " Yuan Tengfei thought of the students and smiled: "Later, I remembered that these children didn't mean to make trouble. Their age, psychology and life experience can easily lead to such a conclusion. "
Later, Yuan Tengfei stopped talking about dogs in class. Speaking of the destruction of opium in Humen, he first said: "Lin Zexu did this. Now it seems that it is not environmentally friendly, right? It was quite smart at the time. " This "environmental protection" has also become a burden for later students.
Yuan Tengfei found that there is no contradiction between stimulating students' interest and taking exams. For example, a testing center said that "the representative work of ceramic art in Tang Dynasty is Tang Sancai". At this time, Yuan Tengfei will vividly tell the students, "Tang Sancai, like today's paper men and paper horses, is used by the dead, not the living. You see in the TV series "sourdrang queen", Manchu people went all the way into the Central Plains and robbed a lot of treasures. When they took it out, it was all Tang Sancai. Isn't this nonsense? Who put paper men and horses as treasures from door to door? This is a funerary object, which was dug up and smashed by farmers in the Republic of China. What bad luck. The Song people felt wasteful and changed to paper men and paper horses. " This is one of his experiences: sometimes, a short story can get good results.
Yuan Tengfei can be very frustrated sometimes. According to the first group of students, there were too many people talking in class once. "When sir Yuan hit the pointer, his face was as cold as ice, and then the teaching materials, lesson plans and chalk boxes on the podium flew. The following students were silent for a long time, all watching in fear. I saw Sir Yuan strolling a few more steps, and then he did something that no one expected: picked up a piece of chalk and wrote the first seven words on the blackboard! " But at that time, the students were "stunned, and no one dared to write records, so this poem has never been handed down." It is said that after Yuan wrote this poem, he looked out of the window and sighed leisurely: "Swallows know the ambition of swans!" Say that finish, erase the seven-character quatrain and continue the lecture. "When the bell rings, don't look back and walk away."
These qualities do not affect the students' love for him. They think this is "the depth and responsibility of love."
In the face of every student, Yuan Tengfei will quote Rusong Zhangzai's sentence "Lessons from the past". He believes that "sanctification" refers to sages, and "Juexue" refers to history and culture. Sometimes, he is ambivalent. On the one hand, he is worried that it will be difficult for students to find jobs after studying history. On the other hand, he hopes to select one or two scholars among the students to inherit the history and culture.
At least three students in Yuan Tengfei's class signed up for history this year. Xiaowen is one of them. The former history teacher would only follow the script, which made her lose interest in history class until she met "Sir Yuan".
"When I almost gave up following the history of nearly 10 years, he brought me back to history." In her view, "the best teacher can change a person's fate consciously or unconsciously."