Educating students to be 'human' before 'talented'
(Baonghean.vn) - School violence, conflicts and clashes between teachers and students occurring at a number of schools across the country are sounding alarm bells throughout the education sector.
More than ever, building a cultural environment in schools needs to be given attention and focus. Nghe An Newspaper recorded the opinions of students and teachers on this content.
Student Le Ha My - Class 8D, Doi Cung Secondary School, Vinh city
Videos have recently appeared online, especially the incident of students being disrespectful to teachers at Van Phu Secondary School, Son Duong District, Quang Ninh Province.Tuyen Quangis a very offensive behavior to the school environment. School is an educational environment so there needs to be nice words and actions.
To avoid this situation, in my opinion, the school environment needs to be healthy and friendly between teachers and friends. Building a friendly school is the responsibility of everyone and requires the contribution of teachers and students. In particular, students must be polite and sociable with teachers and friends; teachers must be exemplary to give students the best things when they come to school. Since going to school, we have also learned Ethics, Civic Education, and how to behave with teachers and friends. And when we are fully equipped with this knowledge, we will absorb it to have a healthier learning environment.
Teacher Ho Thi Hong - Vice Principal of Doi Cung Secondary School, Vinh City
Violenceschoolis a burning issue in society and is also one of the issues that schools put first. If we just cram knowledge but students do not have ethics, do not have skills, education will not achieve the desired results.
In any circumstance, moral education must be given top priority: “First learn manners, then learn knowledge”. At our school, moral education is considered a regular task with many strong measures. That is to create skills for students, let them participate in experiential activities, and discover themselves.
In addition, the school, together with homeroom teachers and Team Leaders, equips students with the necessary skills in life, in dealing with family, teachers and friends. After the unfortunate incidents that occurred on social networks, the education of students at school is even more closely monitored, paying attention to every action, gesture and every lesson of the students, to avoid unfortunate incidents from happening.
In fact, nowadays, every profession has pressure, but the teaching profession has its own pressure. At this age, especially with secondary school students, their psychology and physiology constantly change. Therefore, it requires teachers to be extremely flexible in educating students, sometimes educating with love, with gentleness, but sometimes having to warn, seeing students as friends, children so that they can receive the education of teachers naturally.
We also understand that society and parents want schools and teachers to be the place where they can entrust their children, the place where they feel most secure. However, in the new context, the new circumstances, especially the period of information technology and social network explosion, the educational environment has also changed, it is no longer as simple as before. Therefore, our teachers' wish is to be seen by society in a positive light, to share with teachers and teachers to work together to build a positive and friendly educational environment.
Teacher Bui Thi Le Thu - Teacher at Boarding High School No. 2
As a teacher myself, I sympathize with the situation that happened after the incident at a secondary school in Tuyen Quang province and some other incidents. Looking at these images, we feel very sad.
Indeed, as information technology develops and penetrates the educational environment, students' voices and personalities are revealed more clearly, their personalities and differences need to be respected, but behind that, there are many things that schools and teachers are also very concerned about.
In fact, after the incident that just happened, I myself, as a teacher, had to re-examine myself. I think that in every incident that happens, the first factor is that we need to consider the role of the teacher. The students are children, they are under our guidance and education. In this incident, the results were counterproductive.
To avoid similar situations, in my opinion, the first solution is that we teachers need to be more understanding, our methods must be more sophisticated, we must know how to protect our image to avoid conflicts with immature students, pushing them into inappropriate behaviors, thereby creating bad public opinion in school.
Moral lessons must be the first lessons when children go to school. In an educational environment, learning manners comes first, then learning knowledge, or in other words, becoming a person before becoming talented. To do so, teachers must be equipped with good pedagogical skills to train the qualities of a modern generation of students. Teachers themselves must devote all their efforts and emotions to recognizing problems and educating students. The important thing is the care and guidance of parents for their children. With a harmonious combination between family, school and society, the educational environment will become more and more perfect.
In recent days, public opinion, social networks and media agencies have also discussed the issue of protecting education. But in my opinion, there is no protection as solid as protection from both sides, protection from within, teachers love students and students trust them. If teachers receive respect from students in the spirit of "Respecting teachers and valuing education", then there is no need to protect them. Over the years, I have told my students, do you consider me your teacher or your mother? If I were a teacher, I would do my duty. If I were a mother, I would teach you with love. Wherever you are, whatever you give will be returned in kind, and if teachers love their students, they will receive respect and appreciation in return.
Recently, the Vietnam Education Trade Union signed a document to send to Education Trade Unions of provinces and cities on strengthening measures to protect teachers and workers in schools.
In particular, it requires units and schools to strengthen measures to educate students, implement school discipline and school discipline; strictly implement the motto "Teachers are teachers - Students are students" in schools.
The Vietnam Education Trade Union also directed school trade unions to review information, grasp emerging issues, promptly intervene, resolve, and rectify to prevent violations of teachers' ethics regulations and student discipline violations. Especially issues related to school management and administration.
Education unions of provinces and cities need to direct and coordinate with the Labor Federations of districts to direct school unions in the area to take measures to protect the honor, dignity, and lives of teachers and workers.