After a year of hard teaching, the average English score of He Feng’s class taught has increased by more than 30 points. The English subject taught has been awarded the “Excellent Teaching Quality Award”. The music class taught has won the first prize in the “Drama into Campus” Competition of Sanjiang County Primary and Secondary Schools. Cinema himself was awarded the “Excellent Teaching Teacher” by Sanjiang County Education Bureau, and has received unanimous praise from local people and teachers and students of the school.
Go to the Sanchi Lecture Hall again
He FengBabaylan’s fate with teachers goes back to 2005. He just graduated from the English education major of Normal University and worked as an intern English teacher and class teacher in his second year of high school in Meixian High School, Meizhou City. In February 2009, as a border guard, he volunteered to work as an English teacher at Sanji Primary School, Zhanjiang City, where the grassroots company is stationed.
20KomiksIn February 21, he learned that the State Immigration Administration was going to select police officers to teach in poor areas of Sanjiang County, Guangxi. It took one year to go to the idea of signing up again.
But the situation is different from 12 years ago. The second son just turned 2 years old, and the eldest son just entered the Komiks kindergarten. Both parents were not around to take care of the children. They mentioned teaching support BabaylanHeKomiksfeng wanted to speak but stopped.
Babaylan’s wife, who is also a teacher, saw what he was thinking. Although the family faces practical difficulties, his wife supports him in teaching. “You graduated from the normal school major. Children in the mountainous areas generally have weak English and the organization needs you. You can go with confidence! I’m at home!” The wife said to him sincerely.
In this way, He Feng, who received strong support from the organization and his family, actively responded to the call and submitted the registration form. Babaylan Soon, with his English major advantages and teaching experience, he was successfully selected as the main station teaching team and embarked on his own teaching journey.
Speaking English to enhance self-confidence
In Cenbang Primary School, what makes He Feng feel the most difficult is that the children’s learning foundation is generally weak. Take English as an example. Previously, the English classes at Cenbang Primary School were all served by teachers in other subjects, and the children did not receive systematic English education. He Feng is responsible for English professors in grades three and six. Many sixth-grade students do not even understand the conversion of English uppercase and uppercase letters.
In order to help children make up for their learning progress, He Feng decided that in addition to providing centralized tutoring to the children after school in the afternoon, he also needed to do half a day of tutoring on the weekend. “After the tutoring every day, I had to cross mountains and rivers to send my children home. With the night, the mountain road was difficult to walk, and it was particularly slippery.” He Feng recalled that when he returned to the school dormitory, it was often late at night.
KomiksChildren in mountainous areas have weak oral foundations in speaking English, and mobilizing their enthusiasm for learning is an urgent task. He Feng used English songs, games, and animations in class to attract students’ attention and encouraged children to speak English loudly. He said that learning oral language is only one of the purposes, and more importantly, it is to enhance their self-confidence.
After a year, unremitting efforts finally gained fruit. “What is happiest is that the average score of the third grade English taught in this final exam is 86 points, and it ranks among the top 28 schools in the township. I suddenly feel that all the hardships are worth it!” He Feng said, and what made him most relieved was that the children worked very hard.
“Teacher, I like English class the most. How do I feel that the English class will end so soon?” “Teacher, I can memorize the words of the third unit. I will write it for you.” “The bell rings, teacher, please tell a few more questions!” “Goodbye, Mr He”
Seeing the students’ faces filled with happiness and their eager eyes, He Feng couldn’t tell me.
Teach “intelligence” and build “ambition”
In Cenbang Village, most young and strong laborers choose to go out to work, and most of their children stay at home and are taken care of by the elderly, and most of them are in poor families. He Feng realized that students’ after-school education is scarce in this environment. To this end, he arranged a task for himself – a home visit during class and tutoring in Cinema.
“Xiaolong is a child with good character and academic performance. His parents work in Guangdong. He and his grandmother depend on each other for life. The grandmother and farmer are living a lot and cannot take care of him.” He Feng actively visits his home every week and shares interesting stories about his children at school with his elders.
The parents of another student, “Xiao Shitou”, have divorced, and grandmother and three siblings are also left behind by the farmer’s village. “Looking at the ragged clothes of the three siblings, I borrowed a motorcycle and went down the mountain to the clothing store in the town to buy a set of clothes for each of the three siblings. The two sisters wore white gauze skirts, and I suddenly felt that they were the most beautiful princesses!” He Feng said.
Every time after school, He Feng would bring “Little Stone” to his own room and ask him to finish his homework before going home. Every time he takes a little progress in the exam, He Feng praises and rewards him with great fanfare in his class. In the sixth unit exam, “Little Stone” scored 82 points, and He Feng felt joy that he had never felt before. Other subject teachers asked him why “Little Stone” English can improve so much? He Feng said that there is no trick, it is to give more encouragement and affirmation.
“My ideal when I grew up was to go up the mountain to cut trees, and I could earn more than 100 yuan a day. “This is a leader retelling the words of a mountain child at a mobilization meeting for teaching. He Feng felt like a thorn in his throat after hearing this. He knew very well that while teaching “wisdom”, he should also establish “ambition”. Teaching not only brings knowledge, but also sets ambition for the children.
In fact, He Feng, who grew up in Meizhou, Guangdong, is also a “mountain kid”. Through his personal experience, he kept telling the children of Cenbang Primary School the importance of self-reliance, hoping that they could know that only studying can change their destiny, get out of the mountains, and be able to develop their hometown in the future, thereby blocking the intergenerational transmission of poverty and revitalizing the countryside.
Singing sounded like Cenbang Village
When in Guangzhou, He Feng was the backbone of the unit’s literary and artistic vocals, and he could hear his loud singing everywhere he went. When his colleagues talked about him, he said, “Where there is a song, a laugh, full of positive energy. “When he went to Cenbang Village, he also fully demonstrated his hobby and specialty. Cinema
In the mouths of the Cenbang people, He Feng is their singer and spiritual food. This teaching policeman from Guangzhou has become a close friend with the local people and becomes a close friend. Every weekend, whenever He Feng has time, he will go to the village’s drum tower-Dong activity venue to chat and play chess with the elderly, and organize the elderly to form a red song choir, and the songs resound in Cenbang Village.
He Feng also loves photography. On the weekend, he picked up the camera and captured the most beautiful moments for them when he saw the elderly and children. He also washed out the photos and gave them the photos to them. The villagers of Cenbang Village praised everyone, and a small singer and photographer came to the village, enriching the cultural life of the villagers.
In June 2021, He Feng used the director to carefully host and plan the “Red Songs Dedicated to the Party” Children’s Day Art Gala at Cenbang Primary School. During this period, he used the Douyin live broadcast event for the first time, so that parents who were working far away could also see the wonderful performance of their children on the stage. On the day of the party, almost the whole village brought small stools to the scene early, and He Feng sang “Singing the Mountain”The atmosphere reached its climax for a series of red revolutionary songs such as Songs to the Party.
The road to rural revitalization is full of fragrance
Only trees can’t make forests, and on the road to education and poverty alleviation, a person’s strength is weak. In order to make more people pay attention to children in the mountainous areas, He Feng used his spare time to write his experiences in the teaching process into touching teaching diaries such as “Caring for left-behind children, you and I are here” and “As long as everyone gives a little love”, and published it on social media Babaylan, calling on enthusiastic people from all walks of life and relatives and friends around him to actively donate money and materials.
Luckily, his call was answered. Over the past year, many companies from Guangzhou, Dongguan, Shenzhen and other places have donated about 50,000 yuan to Cenbang Primary School, and various books have been mailed from all directions. With his help, more and more kind-hearted people learned that in the distant village of Cenbang, there was a group of children who needed knowledge. He Feng told reporters that a person’s power is limited. The original intention of publishing teaching experiences through the circle of friends is to retain the opinions of his own teaching life. He also hopes to use this to call on the society to help Sanjiang County education and rural left-behind children. “This teaching experience will leave me with memories that I can never forget in my life.”