Chapter 10 Turning Point
Since the implementation of the "wolf" and play-based learning strategies, my son has obviously been able to sit still a little bit in his homework, but I understand that this is short-term and can only achieve long-term results after his attention ability is effectively improved.
Improving people's attention ability is not something that can be done overnight, and it requires enough patience and skill. Scientifically speaking, in order to maintain the stability of attention, there must be complex, changing, and active perceptual objects. Homework in utilitarian education generally has a small range of thinking, a large amount, and is monotonous, which can easily cause brain fatigue. In the long run, this kind of education will only promote students' distraction, destroy people's ability to continue behavior, affect their enthusiasm for learning, and reduce the quality of learning.
To do this, I mixed attention training with memory training to make it "nondescript." At the same time, I firmly rejected the "wolf coming" approach that had just taken effect. Because "the wolf is coming" is a conditioned reflex imposed on the child by external forces, it will not help the child to develop a desire for self-learning. Psychologically, the long term will only have the opposite effect.
That day, I couldn't control myself when I watched my son do his homework. I called him over and memorized a set of numbers before he went to do his homework. After writing for a while, I saw that his hands began to grasp things, and I called him over again and told him to close his eyes and think nothing in his mind, and see if he could hold on for three minutes.
"The time has come. Can you think of nothing in your head?" I asked.
"No, you can't. My mind is full of things in cartoons. ”
"It's okay, try next time. Write your homework and go. I said.
"Old man, are you nervous? The child's attention is already poor, and you still keep disturbing him. The wife said unsatisfactorily.
"I'm just training his attention. ”
"Coax the ghost to go, how can you train your attention like this in the world?"
"For a seven-year-old, it's good to have a good concentration for five minutes. The child can't control himself, mainly because he pays attention to nerve fatigue, as long as he switches with other things, he can recover from paying attention to nerve fatigue. If the concentration drops and you force him to read, on the surface you are strengthening the child's attention, but in fact it is the opposite. If the child is subjected to such compulsory learning for a long time, it will cause him to be habitually fatigued, as long as he learns, as long as he reads a book, his attention will be naturally distracted after a few minutes. Just like in the middle school classroom now, many students can still concentrate on the teacher's lecture at first, and then they will be distracted after a few minutes, and when they come back to their senses, the teacher has finished speaking, which is attention habitual fatigue. I said.
"What a nonsense fallacy. In the world, I have only heard of studying quietly, and I have never seen you like this, it is really laughable. I don't think you make your son into a four, it's not like you don't care!" The wife was so angry that she didn't even watch TV, and closed the door of the living room with a "bang" and entered the bedroom.
I went to great lengths to stick to the "nondescript" attention training method. My son can write and practice, and he always has a smile on his face.
One day in early December, the sun was shining. After school at noon, my son was radiant and wearing only a thin shirt, and he was dexterous like a small fish from the crowded school gate "stinging, stinging". I had seen him a long time ago and walked towards him. My son suddenly saw me, "Daddy, Daddy" He ran towards me with his arms outstretched and something in his hand. "Dad, I'm improving. Today, the math teacher praised me, the Chinese teacher also praised me, and I got a little red flower. This is yesterday's exam paper. The son's words were very urgent, as if he had no time to breathe, for fear that the good news would grow wings and fly.
When I looked at it, the fifth unit of the Chinese test scored 94 points and 96 points in mathematics. At this time, his mother came over to see the results, happily squatted down and kissed her son a few times. To congratulate the progress, we came to the hot pot restaurant. "Today I feel the joy of learning. The son said when shabu-shabu.
"This hot pot is also won by your learning progress. I followed my son's wishes.
The son was happier.
The child has made progress in his studies and has a much happier family life. My wife's attention training for me to be "nondescript" changed from resolute opposition to suspicion.
On the evening of December 12, 2001, I took out my son's schoolbag and tore up the "Ancient Poems for Primary School Students", and opened them to see that the first twelve poems were glued with small red flowers. I asked what was going on?" Recite a song and the teacher will stick a flower. The son said.
"Who in your class memorizes the most?"
"Bai Yufei. He can sing 35 songs, and I only have 12 songs. ”
"Joy, your memory is trained, and no one can carry things. Starting tomorrow, we will change our memory training to memorizing ancient poems. If you put in 10 minutes at noon every day, you will definitely be able to surpass many of your classmates, and you may even be the first person in the class to memorize the whole book. ”
"Can I?" the son looked puzzled.
"Your memory training has achieved very good results, let's prove it by memorizing ancient poems. ”
"Try it!" said the son, slowly.
Actually, I was just cheering up my son. In this way, he took 10 minutes every day at noon to memorize new poems, reviewed them in the evening and the next day, and repeatedly. Two days ago, my son was not comfortable to devote special time to memorize things, reciting one poem a day. On the third day, the child said that it was too easy to memorize one song, and two songs were added. The more he carried it, the smoother it became. By the end of December, my son had a taste for reciting poems. I said that day, "Let's have a memory challenge today." ”
"What's the challenge?"
"Today at noon in a little more than an hour to see how many poems you can memorize. ”
The son was unwilling. I said I just wanted to see if he had a strong memory, and only once did he agree. This time he was able to recite six songs, which blew my mind. By the end of December, my son had memorized more than 80 ancient poems in the book, becoming the first person in the class to memorize the entire book. Since then, he has gained confidence in endorsements.