Types and characteristics of teachers

One is a craftsman.

If teaching is regarded as a technology, his technology is undoubtedly mature and even superb. Both students and "teaching" itself are the raw materials and stage for him to display his skills. His job is to polish his skills day and night. He is fascinated by his works, just as a mason faces his house and a blacksmith faces his sword. Conventional teaching strategies, students' excellent academic performance, and awards in various teaching competitions are all made by craftsmen. When people send flowers to him, they often sigh with regret in their hearts. A craftsman always lacks two things: thought and passion. Craftsman's technology is technology without thinking, and the education we want is technology with thinking and technical thinking. What's more frightening is that he doesn't have that kind of endless passion for life. He often smiles in front of his works and sleeps soundly.

The second is the artist.

He is not only full of passion, but also full of artistic cells. Through beautiful language, expressive expressions, gestures and actions, he makes teaching artistic and even romantic. Artists' classes are always full of energy, and students are strongly infected, so they are full of interest in classes. However, the craftsman's strengths are precisely the artist's shortcomings. Artists' classes can be very active and vivid, but sometimes they get lost in casual and rambling, and the teaching effect is not necessarily better than that of craftsmen.

The third is Confucian scholars.

Traditional intellectual demeanor is its basic feature. He has the sense of mission and responsibility of intellectuals, full of love for education, warmth for children, and full of sacrifice. He has a deep understanding of the subjects he teaches and is an expert in this field. But this is also his limitation. His vision is always in his own subject world, and his image orientation is still candle, devotee and victim.

The fourth is a philosopher.

He tried to teach in thinking and creation, and pursued teaching supported by thinking depth and ideas. Philosophers are not satisfied with being just a victim. He tried to turn the process of education into a creative process, creating children's spiritual world and his own spiritual world. He is also a transcendence, surpassing the existing experience, surpassing the existing perspective and way of thinking, and even surpassing the existing lifestyle. What supports him to accomplish a series of transcendence is a kind of spirit: never staying in front of any established achievements, perfecting the life of the educated and the self-life of the educator, always carrying out educational activities in the mutual blending of reason and emotion, and realizing the reflection and reconstruction of educational behavior.