Today, I want to discuss with you the problem of raising your hand in class. Because one teacher confessed that he didn’t like students who always raised their hands. Why is that? Case 1: XiXi is in first grade, and every time her mother sends her to the school gate, she says, “Be active in class and raise your hand more often, or the teacher won’t like you!” XiXi was very obedient, and every time the teacher asked a question, she was the first one to raise her hand. However, when the teacher asked her to answer, she found that she stumbled over her answers, and sometimes she simply could not answer, and she did not think it through. After a few such cases, the teacher did not want to ask XiXi any more questions. XiXi was baffled and aggrieved: “I listened to my mother and raised my hand actively, but why doesn’t the teacher like me anymore?” Case 2: In the third grade (2) class, there is a very smart boy who loves to talk. He is a “gossip” and can’t stop talking. Akang’s grades are average and he sits behind the younger boys. Akang is a little slow in thinking, so he is often disturbed by the table in front of him. Every time he had an idea, the table in front of him started to rush to answer, so Akang’s thoughts were also “abducted” by others. According to the school teachers, the above two situations occur frequently in elementary school. One classroom teacher even said bluntly: I actually do not like students who raise their hands to speak too actively, and do not want to praise these children! Why did the class teacher say this? There are two reasons 1, the teacher actually hope that their students can think a little more, rather than in order to show their own to rush to raise their hands to speak, which is just inefficient farce; 2, a class of students are different levels, and the teacher to take care of the majority of students thinking, accepting ability, if you encourage individual children to “answer”, will interfere with the middle and lower level children. This is not good for the class as a whole, and it is not fair to other children. It is not necessarily a good thing for your child to brag to you about how often he raises his hand in school; if your child is not as active as you expect him to be in class, it does not mean that he does not think, especially in the upper grades, where some students do not raise their hands and answer questions as smoothly and well as they do when called up. It is more practical and effective to encourage children to “learn to listen” and “keep up with the teacher’s ideas” than to encourage them to “raise their hands” as a superficial thing. Teachers recommend that parents let their children try the following methods: 1. obey the rules Do not “jump the gun”, raise your hand when the teacher says you can raise your hand to answer, this is respect for other students, but also the teachers would like to see. 2. 2, the expression of communication in general, the teacher is very good at capturing the children’s expressions, if the question you will, with a smile on your face, nod to show good, do not have to blush and yell up to answer; if you will not, to stare at the teacher’s eyes, shaking his head, do not pretend to understand, but also follow the blind yelling of others. 3, handwritten notes textbook is the best notebook, they do not know, the teacher speaks well, handwritten in the textbook to draw a picture, remember, not to waste time, and whether for home writing homework or later review, are very helpful. It’s not good for children not to raise their hands to answer questions all the time, right? Yes, it’s not good to do that all the time! But there are many reasons for “not raising your hand” and we need to encourage them in different ways depending on the situation, not just by saying “you need to raise your hand more often”! The common reasons why students do not like to raise their hands 1, timid Some children are often afraid that they do not answer well, attracting teacher criticism or classmates laugh. For this type of child, general encouragement is effective. To communicate with the child, if you think well, stand up bravely to answer, the teacher also like you this behavior, as long as the first step, the next is much smoother. 2, poor foundation The teacher asked the question the child will not, how to raise his hand ah! So, if the student is this kind of situation, do not blindly encourage him to raise his hand, or first catch up on the basics of good. If the grades are up, the child will naturally have the confidence to raise his hand to answer. “Raise your hand” is a small thing, but there are big questions, parents should communicate with teachers more, more from the root of the solution, so that education to the “point”!