Zeng Qingxiang, a "first-class teacher", is happy and dedicated in a mountain village school.
Because there is a national model teacher Zeng Qingxiang here.
As for Zeng Qingxiang, Wang Zhou, secretary of Guidong County Party Committee, once had such an incisive evaluation: "He has done the work of teachers and education to the extreme. We think he is a first-class teacher in Guidong County. This yipin means yes. " Soon, Zeng Qingxiang's nickname "Yipin Teacher" spread like wildfire.
"He dreams of running a good school, a school that students like and people are satisfied with."
-Zeng Qingxiang in the eyes of his wife Luo Xucheng
Guidong County is an altitude county in Hunan Province, and is called "Tibet in Hunan". Huangdong Township, located on the edge of Hunan and Jiangxi, is the alpine peak of this county. South China in this township, covering more than 5 miles of Fiona Fang, including Duliao, Dongshui and Gao Qiao administrative villages, is the top of the mountain, with three seasons of cold weather all year round. Originally, each of these three villages had a simple primary school. According to the layout adjustment plan of rural primary and secondary schools in the county at the end of last century, these three primary schools were to be merged into a boarding primary school. However, due to financial reasons, the construction of new schools has not been started.
in 21, the opportunity finally came. Hong Kong's "Nursery Action" decided to donate this primary school. At that time, the cadres and masses of the three villages negotiated to build the new school on the relatively moderate responsibility field of a farmer in the Fenwu Group of Gao Qiao Village. But when negotiating land acquisition, the price put forward by farmers made them unbearable. In desperation, members of Hong Kong's "Nursery Action" had to leave by car.
At this scene, the tears of Zeng Qingxiang, a primary school teacher in Gao Qiao Village who was present at that time, suddenly came out. If we lose this opportunity, I don't know when and when this boarding primary school will be built! He dried his tears, gritted his teeth, took a shortcut to chase the distant car, and finally stopped the car on a mountain bag, sweating and panting, saying, "I don't want a penny to build it on my responsible field!" "
Although the responsibility field of Zeng Qingxiang's family is slightly off-site, it is spacious and has a wide field of vision. Members of "Nursery Action" fell in love with this place at a glance, and the school building plan was soon determined.
However, a storm also happened in Zeng Qingxiang's house.
Cultivated land is the lifeblood of farmers. Zeng Qingxiang's family only has more than 4 mu of cultivated land, and it took more than 3 mu to build a school. What should we do in the future? Besides, the medicinal materials such as Houpu planted in the field are already one or two meters high. After three to five years, they will become piles of red flowers. Wouldn't it be a pity to cut them all now? In desperation, his father-in-law, who has always supported his work, pointed to Zeng Qingxiang's nose and called him a "black sheep", while his wife Luo Xucheng went back to her family in a rage.
actually, doesn't Luo xucheng know her husband's heart? What she was angry with was her husband's self-assertion.
Since he became a private teacher in February 1979, he has worked as a teacher in elementary schools in these three villages for more than 2 years. However, these schools only have two houses, one for classrooms and one for teachers. Teachers and students don't have any activity venues, and there is no place to do even radio exercises. The simplicity of the school has always been his heart disease.
Zeng Qingxiang's wife is from the same village as him. After her husband became a private teacher, her wife willingly contracted almost all the farm work and supported her husband wholeheartedly. When the school is short of this, she will send it without saying anything.
"He dreams of building a good school, a school that students like and people are satisfied with." The storm soon subsided, and his wife explained it to others afterwards.
local cadres and the masses all said that Zeng Qingxiang was promoting his family's education, and he gave away more than a few acres of land, but his whole family. Before the distance education was distributed in the county, Zeng Qingxiang and his wife moved all their televisions and DVs to the school for teachers and students to use. Today, only one acre of land is left, and all vegetables are replanted, so that more than 5 students in the school can eat vegetables every day.
"More than all his possessions, all his family members, even relatives, were involved in running the school." After the completion of the new school in August 22, all 49 students in the school live on campus, the oldest is only 1 years old, and the preschool class is only four or five years old. Who will be responsible for three meals a day and manage the students' lives? At that time, the joint meeting of the three villages decided to hire one person according to the monthly salary of 21 yuan. However, because the salary was too low and hard to cash, no one came, and Zeng Qingxiang's wife came to the top. From the beginning to 26, he didn't take a penny for four and a half years, all of which were voluntary labor. It was not until 27 that the county education bureau allocated funds by 34 yuan every month that his wife got a salary. Zeng Qingxiang's two brothers-in-law run transportation. Whenever something happens at school, no matter when they are rich or poor, they will do beautifully.
"When a child is put in Ceng Laoshi's place, it's like going into a safe"
-Zeng Qingxiang in the eyes of villagers
The snow and ice disaster in early 28 made many people in the south fail to have a good Spring Festival. Zeng Qingxiang's family was no exception. On New Year's Eve, the couple had a little argument. Traditionally, they have to give red envelopes to their nephews, nieces and nephews on this day. Zeng Qingxiang said to his wife, "Don't worry about it this year. The school's water and electricity have all been damaged by this snow and ice, and it will cost a lot of money to repair it." The wife began to disagree. They are the oldest in both families. Usually, both of them are busy at school. Not only does the burden of caring for the elderly fall on the younger siblings, but when the school is in trouble, they are also cared for by the elderly and younger siblings from time to time. Shouldn't it be said during the New Year? But she thought again, and her husband was right. If we don't make plans now, the school won't be able to open, won't it miss the big event? She crustily skin of head to explain to her younger siblings that the lucky money is also represented by a red paper.
Zeng Qingxiang has been busy since the beginning of the Spring Festival. The road leading to the school collapsed in more than 3 places due to snow and ice, and more than a thousand trees were crushed by snow and ice and fell on the road. He and Kevin Cheng, Party Secretary of Duliao Village, and others organized and launched the work one by one, and it took him 1 days to complete the road. At this time, it was February 16th, and only one week after leaving school, he hurried to repair the water and electricity facilities with Mr. Huang Guangliang. At this time, the old snow and ice on the mountain have not melted, and the new snow and ice are constantly falling. They have to knock off or pry open the ice cubes first, look for the crushed water and electricity lines, and then buy equipment parts to repair them day and night. Considering that the freezing time was too long, many students suffered from chilblain, Zeng Qingxiang and retired teacher Luo Xuyao found many Chinese herbal medicines together ...
Due to full preparation, despite the unprecedented ice disaster and snow damage, although this is a famous remote and cold mountain area in Hunan, on February 23rd, the school raised a five-star red flag as scheduled, and 49 children came to school one by one.
"The autumn wind starts in July, the autumn wind is cool in August, and the lazy woman freezes to death in September" is a popular local saying. All the year round, there are three cold seasons here, and keeping out the cold has become a particularly important issue. The school not only has no air conditioning, but also can't afford to use electric heaters. There is only one indigenous way, which is to prepare a drying cage for each student. One is to use charcoal in the drying cage, and the other is to prepare fire every day. At this time, more than 6 acres of responsibility mountain in Zeng Qingxiang's home have made contributions. One of his responsibilities is not to reform the bamboo, and the other is not to intercrop forest and medicine. Besides having no time to help, another important reason is to let miscellaneous trees grow wildly in order to get firewood and burn charcoal. At first, the cadres and masses in the village calculated that his family would lose tens of thousands of yuan just because they collected firewood and burned charcoal every year.
baking cages are also very troublesome. As long as it is cold, at 1 o'clock every night, two teachers, Zeng Qingxiang and Huang Guangliang (formerly Luo Xuyao), will take turns to make a good fire. The next day, before dawn, they went into the firewood room together, divided the charcoal fire for dozens of small baking cages one by one, and covered them with charcoal ash. This process takes more than an hour to finish quickly. After finishing the work, both of them are charcoal ashes and sweat.
In the boarding primary school with low childhood in the mountain village, teachers are particularly hard. They get up at 5: 3 in the morning and can't go to bed until after 11: 3 in the evening. They have to get up several times at night to take care of the students. If a student gets sick in the middle of the night, Zeng Qingxiang either carries the student for more than ten miles to go to the village health center to see a doctor, or invites the doctor to the school. On a cold winter night, his clothes were soaked with sweat and turned into ice.
For emergency, Zeng Qingxiang, who used to know some local medicines, tried hard to learn medical and health knowledge, and a Handbook of Rural Cooperative Medical Care made him memorize it. As long as he has the opportunity to be with rural medical staff, he always has endless questions, and he also learns to collect Chinese herbal medicines with teacher Luo Xuyao. Usually, when he hears a student sneezing or coughing, or sees someone with a runny nose and listless, Zeng Qingxiang always pulls him to his side and asks him carefully. If necessary, he cooks a bowl of preventive soup and takes a preventive medicine.
There was a student whose foot muscles were atrophied and he couldn't walk at all. From preschool to the third grade of primary school, Zeng Qingxiang simply carried him for four years, let him eat, live and study at school, and insisted on treating him with local medicine. Now the student can walk by himself. "Without Ceng Laoshi, the child would be ruined", and the parents of the child were grateful.
A couple in Gao Qiao gave their 6-year-old son to school when they were working in other places. Because the old man in the village said: "When the child arrives at Ceng Laoshi, it is like entering a safe, and nothing happens."
With the trust of the masses, every family in the three villages under the jurisdiction of Nanhua Primary School has taken the initiative to send their children to school, and the enrollment rate, consolidation rate and qualified rate of students are the same every year.
isn't this tiring? In Zeng Qingxiang's diary, we found the answer: "Students are everything to our teachers. Of course, the warmth and coldness of students, the bitterness and happiness of students, and the growth of students are my eternal concerns. " For 29 years, Zeng Qingxiang has been pushing himself like this.
"Ceng Laoshi always regards the classroom as a battlefield for soldiers. He takes every class seriously and never is careless."
-colleagues commented on Zeng Qingxiang
This is a third-grade science common sense class-Understanding the Tree. There are trees everywhere in the mountainous area, and there are many ancient trees that have been around Nanhua Primary School for hundreds of years and thousands of years. How to know big trees? Zeng Qingxiang took the students to a big branch tree.
It was a hot day. Teachers and students braved the scorching sun for more than 2 meters and came to the tree. Suddenly, a cool breeze came and the summer heat disappeared. The first question put forward by Ceng Laoshi is "What do you feel when you come under the big tree?" "Cool." The students scrambled to answer. "Why is it cool?" "Because there are many branches and leaves that cover the sun ..." At this moment, Ceng Laoshi told the students that this large green area above our heads is called the "canopy". He introduced the tree crown, leaves, branches, trunks and roots to the students, then explained the role of various parts of the tree in growth from the roots to the crowns, and then organized students to measure the circumference of the tree and the land area covered by the crowns. The results of the measurement surprised the children: the tree was surrounded by 5.2 meters, and seven children held the tree hand in hand. Finally, Ceng Laoshi used the topics "A tree is a small reservoir" and "People are afraid of sad trees and peeling them" to let students discuss the role of big trees and how to protect trees and the environment.
In people's impression, Chinese and mathematics are the most important subjects in primary schools, while other subjects are often neglected. But even if it is an ordinary science knowledge class, and the content is a tree that children are very familiar with, Zeng Qingxiang should prepare lessons carefully and attend classes seriously.
Actually, it's not just about science knowledge. Two teachers in Nanhua Primary School teach four grades, and each teacher has to teach 24 courses in different grades, ranging from Chinese, mathematics, ideology and morality, life and health knowledge to music, physical education and fine arts. Ceng Laoshi studied the textbooks of 24 courses carefully, and wrote lesson plans in every course and class.
Huang Guangliang, a colleague, commented on Zeng Qingxiang: "He always regards the classroom as a battlefield for soldiers. He takes every class seriously and never is careless."
this is required for every class. is time allowed?
"Time is easy. As Mr. Lu Xun said, time is water in a sponge. As long as you squeeze it, there will always be it. The hard part is that I always feel that I don't have enough knowledge. Don't look at teaching the middle and lower grades of primary schools, but the amount of knowledge is very large. In particular, it is more demanding to be a general-purpose teacher. You must know everything and become an encyclopedia. " Zeng Qingxiang said this.
how to squeeze time? Zeng Qingxiang doesn't have any clever tricks, but he just uses other people's rest time. In the eyes of the villagers, since the establishment of Nanhua Boarding Primary School in August 22, he hasn't had a good rest for a day. He himself said that even when he watched the Spring Festival Gala on New Year's Eve every year, he also took a notebook and pen to record something useful for teaching. Because he lives with students most of the time, he specially bought a small flashlight for the convenience of studying with a light. "The light of the flashlight is soft and will not affect the rest of the students." Ceng Laoshi said proudly.
Although he didn't seek a junior college or undergraduate degree after graduating from normal school, he never relaxed his on-the-job study for a day. Zeng Qingxiang's study is characterized by combining education and teaching practice. He told us such a case. Once he took a dozen children in grade three to a small mountain stream. He picked up a few pebbles and threw them into the small mountain stream continuously. All the pebbles sank, and then he gave the children a question: How can we make pebbles float on the water? Later, the children floated on the water with pebbles with the help of small boards, plastic foam and large leaves. After affirming the child's cleverness and wisdom, he finally pointed out the composition topic of the day: Little Stone Wandering. Zeng Qingxiang said that this kind of composition, first, let students have something to write, and they will not be afraid of difficulties; Second, students watch and listen to fairy tales on weekdays, and use small stones to do the questions, leaving enough imagination and creation space for children, which is conducive to students' development of language and thinking ability.
In this way, while learning, practicing and summing up, Zeng Qingxiang and Mr. Huang Guangliang jointly wrote "Exploration of Innovative Writing Teaching Methods in Primary Schools". He has also written more than 2 articles on learning experience, experience introduction or theoretical discussion, which have been published in newspapers and periodicals at or above the provincial level.
Three village primary schools in Nanhua have been unknown in Guidong County, but after the reform and opening up, especially after co-hosting boarding primary schools, they have made great achievements, not only famous in Guidong, but also registered in Chenzhou City and Hunan Province. Ceng Laoshi's teaching reform and teaching thesis have won prizes in provinces and cities successively, and Luo Feng, a student he tutored, also won the third prize of scientific and technological invention in the city. What is commendable is that Nanhua Film not only achieved the enrollment rate, consolidation rate, qualified rate, but also the excellent rate. In the past, there were few high school students here. Since 26, all junior high school graduates have been promoted to high schools and vocational schools. In recent years, there have been four college students in South China. Huang Yimin, who went out from here in 23, also became the champion of liberal arts in the college entrance examination in Guidong County and was admitted to a key university. After he was admitted to the university, he especially thanked his alma mater and teacher Zeng Qingxiang. He said: "I will never forget Ceng Laoshi's education as a father and a brother. If I hadn't met such a good teacher as Ceng Laoshi, I wouldn't have such good study habits and such a good learning foundation. "
"We advocate learning from Zeng Qingxiang in the hope that more rural teachers will strive to be' first-rate teachers', so as to combine educating people with enriching the people and seize the commanding heights of rural education."
-the evaluation of Zeng Qingxiang by the county party secretary
Zeng Qingxiang was Jiang Hong's first teacher. He said that Zeng Qingxiang taught him not only knowledge, but also life.