班级管理工作心得体会

班级管理工作心得体会

班级是构成学校这个有机体的基本细胞，班级管理工作是学校教育教学工作中最关键的一个环节。如何搞好班级管理，培养学生良好的道德品质，调动学生学习的积极性，从德、智、体、美、劳等方面全面提高学生的素质，是班主任责无旁贷的职责。可以说，班主任的教育管理工作影响着一个学生的全面发展，也影响着一个学校教育教学的兴衰，其重要性由此可见一斑。那么，如何搞好班级管理工作呢？以下就我个人经验，谈几点粗浅的看法。

在课堂教学中，我们讲究优化设计教学的各个环节，向四十五分钟要质量，在班级管理工作中，我们也应讲究优化策略。

优化环境

优化环境包括优化课堂外部环境和优化育人的内部环境。 要育好人，首先要有好的环境。“教室”是学生学习的天地，实践证明，优雅的教室环境卫生、布置，能调动学生学习的情绪，客观上促进学生学习的兴趣。有良好的教学外部环境还远远不够，更重要的是班主任要注意优化育人的内部环境，充分调动学生的积极主动性，方能达到理想的教育效果。优化育人的网内部环境，主要从以下几方面着手进行： 一．讲究民主作风，建立良好的师生关系

在新时期，中小学生的社会意识、独立自主的个性意识大大增强，他们都过早地形成了自己的人生观、价值观，而这些观点、思想都还是幼稚的，偏激片面的，需班主任花更多的时间和精力去引导，班主任在工作过程更要顾及学生的个性心理，维护其自尊，讲究民主作风。当然，尊重学生并不是一味地放任学生，讲究民主作风，老师应首先转变绝对权威的观点。其次，班主任应该鼓励学生发表自己的意见，甚至向老师说“不”，缩短师生的心理距离，建立良好的师生关系，学生方能“亲其师，信其道”。

二．在民主的基础上，培养学生自强自律、自尊自爱和团结协作精神，建立同学之间和谐的、融洽的心理气氛

在班级管理中，班主任应带动、鼓励学生大胆地参加集体活动和各项文体活动，引导并逐步放权让学生自己管理自己。

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班主任只扮演朋友的角色，有困难给予帮助解决，让学生从生活、学习的实践中去认识、体会人际关系，应互相尊重、互相关心、互相帮助、互相理解和宽容。同学之间形成了融洽的心理气氛，他们学习的内驱力才能真正调动起来，这样，就为建立良好的班风，学风打下最为坚实的基础。 三．明确目标，激励斗志

一个班级没有目标，就会失去前进的方向。我要求我的班级个人制定出个人目标，小组制定出小组目标，班级也有相应的近期目标和远期目标，而目标的达成又是量化个人、小组的最重要的方面。上学期期中考试后，我们班由最后一名上升到了第三名，我为班级定下了新目标：保三争二瞄第一。学生也一心向着自己的目标努力，结果，期末考试，我们班夺得了成绩全年纪第一。量化管理也有全校倒数第二上升为正数第一。我对学生说：“如果在战场上，你们不可能个个是大将，但一定要个个是勇士！”我的学生，充满了旺盛的斗志。 优化管理

一、优化班级管理，注意言传身教、春风化雨

有人说，什么样的班主任就带出什么样的学生。的确，班主任时时跟学生在一起，自己的一言一行，无时不在学生的仔细观察之中。同时，在学生的心目中，老师的形象总是神圣的，较为完美的，老师的一言一行，或大或小影响着学生的成长，因此，班主任特别要注意自己的言行，言传身教，为人师表，尤其在学生做得不够的一些细节上：如注意不要“言而无信”，注意“日三省乎已身”。很多老师都认为在学生面前“检讨”自己是很失面子的事。因此，有时老师在细节上不够注意的地方，过后总想方设法去遮掩，借以维护“师道尊严”，孰不知由此一来，更会引起学生的反感，往往就会出现“虽令不从”，学生跟老师对着干的现象。所以，班主任要敢于在学生面前“检讨”自己，以自己崇高的人格力量去推动学生的进步。

春风化雨，就是要求班主任有一颗博大的爱心和无私的奉献精神，甘为三尺讲台洒热血。对学生的思想教育细致、温和，对后进生的反复教育有足够的耐心和宽容。班主任要深入了解学生，并仔细观察，分析把握学生思想动态，未雨绸缪，慢慢渗透，春风化雨般滋润学生心田，以爱去感化、教育学生，从而使学生理解爱、接受爱并学会爱，这样，学生便能在

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爱的温暖中愉快地，较为自觉地学习，身心也得以健康发展。 二、优化班级管理，要抓大放小、褒贬分明

“抓大放小”是指班主任在教育管理中抓主要问题，如学生思想、道德、纪律、学习等方面，这些主要问题要严抓、常抓、抓在前；把次要的问题放一放，如生活、劳动、卫生等方面，“放一放”不等于不抓，而是后抓，不死抓，“抓大放小”也指在教育管理中要看学生的优点，看进步的一面，不要死抓住小的错误缺点不放，一棍子打死；要顾全大局，维护班集体荣誉利益，不要以偏概全，以点代面，挫伤同学们的自尊心和积极性。班主任要以辩证的、历史的、发展的观点去看待学生的问题。

班级管理要想上档次，上水平，不能老是班主任事无巨细地去抓，而应放手发动学生，让学生自觉参与到班级管理中来 。这方面，我做了以下几点尝试：

1．放权班委。班委是班主任的得力助手，有权处理班级的一切事务，班主任老师是班委的坚强后盾。我给班委同学明确了分工，使他们各尽其责，我宏观调控，班级工作有条不紊。 2．放权小组。组长有权量化组员。劳动模范，学习标本，三好学生等均由小组推荐，班委审定，班主任小范围适当调整。

3．放权个人。我在班里设了“好点子好建议”记录本。所有同学均可把自己想到的管理班级的好方法贡献出来。好的班级采纳，效果好的给予奖励。我对学生说：每个同学都是班级一分子，切不可看轻自己的价值，低估了自己对班级的作用。这样，充分调动了学生的积极性。班内气氛活跃了，民主色彩浓了，学生的主人翁意识强了，班级的凝聚力也大大加强。 “褒贬分明”是指班主任要在班里树立楷模、树立起正气。多采取激励的方式褒扬好的方面，同时在批判的时候，也要注意方式和艺术，不妨先把进步的表现加以表扬，再适当指出存在的不足，并相信他们能改进，使学生觉得老师是真诚、善意地帮助他们，才能有效地避免学生“顶牛”现象。另一方面，班主任也要制订必要的奖惩措施，激励先进，敦促后进。 三、优化班级管理，应注意以优带差，以外促内

“以优带差”就是班主任充分利用好班干部及一些学科带头人，指导他们在学好自己各门功课的同时帮助、带动班上其他同学的学习。班主任应从一些细节上有意去组织、指导，让学生在无意中受到教育，影响。比如在座位的安排上，在分组

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劳动及课外活动小组的组织时都考虑到以优带差，或在学习上，或在做人，或在兴趣上带动，促进；也可以组织“一帮一”的学习小组，使班集体成为一个团结、和谐、勤学上进的集体。

“以外促内”是指班主任注意搜集、订阅一些有益的学习书报，以丰富生动的课外知识，拓宽学生视野，促进他们求知的兴趣，进而促进课堂知识的学习。“以外促内”也指组织多姿多彩的课外文体活动、社会调查及各类竞赛，丰富学生校园文化生活，调动学生学习积极性。另外，以外促内还包括班主任应多与家长取得联系，全面了解学生在家在校的思想表现，并与家长协同商讨教育工作。

总之，班级管理工作是一项复杂且具有挑战性的工作，一个班就如一个小社会，学生个性各不相同。要使这个集体蓬勃向上，班主任的工作艺术是至关重要的。

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When we listen to the tapes and repeat many times, then our d.President Trump, as he often does, had a few things to sayAfter admitting that he had been lonely over the holidays, Trump took advantage of his first public appearance of the new year Wednesday to air lingering grievances, make multiple false claims and reinforce recent decisions that have rattled financial markets and his party’s leaders.As he held forth for more than 90 minutes before a small pool of reporters and photographers, members of his Cabinet, ostensibly called to the White House for a meeting, sat quietly around a long conference table.Trump defended his decision last month to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria and sharply cut the deployment to Afghanistan, moves that disturbed Republican allies in Congress and prompted the resignation of Defense Secretary James N. Mattis. In doing so, he contradicted his own recent claim that the U.S. had achieved its objectives of total victory over Islamic State militants in Syria.“Look, we don't want Syria,” he continued. “We're talking about sand and death. That's what we're talking about. We're not talking about vast wealth. We're talking about sand and death,” he said, seemingly contrasting the war-wracked country with Iraq and its vast oil reserves.Iran “can do what they want there, frankly,” he added, a comment likely to unnerve officials in Israel, who have worried that a U.S. withdrawal from its positions in eastern Syria would allow Iran to expand its influence there.“It’s not my fault,” he said. “I didn’t put us there.”Trump offered little further clarity on the U.S. withdrawal from Syria, which he initially said would take place in 30 days, saying now that the pullout will “take place over a period of time.”Later, in a long riff about Afghanistan, Trump seemed to endorse Moscow’s 1979 invasion of the country — an act that the U.S. viewed as an attempt to spread communism and waged a long, covert operation to combat during the Carter and Reagan administrations.“The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia,” Trump said, making a case to leave the policing of hot spots in the Mideast and Central Asia to countries in the region. “They were right to be there. The problem is it was a tough fight.”The Soviet Union eventually was bankrupted by its Afghan war, Trump added. “Russia used to be the Soviet Union. Afghanistan made it Russia, because they went bankrupt fighting in Afghanistan.”Historians generally agree that the Russian invasion and subsequent occupation of much of Afghanistan was one of several factors that contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union, although the country never went bankrupt.For years, Republicans have credited President Reagan with bringing an end to the Soviet Union by his aggressive increase in U.S. military spending.Trump’s comments stood in stark contrast to the view Mattis espoused in the resignation letter he presented last month after failing to convince the president to hold off on withdrawing from Syria.“We must do everything possible to advance an international order that is most conducive to our security, prosperity and values, and we are strengthened in this effort by the solidarity of our alliances,” Mattis wrote.Mattis’ comments clearly stung Trump, who responded last month with criticism of his former Pentagon chief. On Wednesday, he stepped that up, claiming that he fired Mattis.“What's he done for me? How had he done in Afghanistan? Not too good,” Trump said. “As you know, President Obama fired him, and essentially so did I.”Obama did not fire Mattis, although the general did retire several months early in 2013 from his position as the head of the military’s Central Command after dissenting from Obama administration policy decisions.Tuesday was Mattis’ final day at the Pentagon. Trump, in a fit of pique after the resignation letter became public, had moved up Mattis’ termination dateIn addition to his foreign policy comments, Trump also downplayed December’s stock market losses, which erased all positive gains for the year, as “a little glitch” and asserted — wrongly — that there are “probably 30-35 million” immigrants in the U.S. illegally. The nonpartisan Pew Research Center estimates that as of 2016, there were 10.7 million unauthorized immigrants living in the country, a number that has declined in recent years.Trump repeated his call for Democrats to agree to $5.6 billion in funding for a border wall, and expressed surprise not to have received overtures from them over the holidays to negotiate an end to the government shutdown.“I was in the White House all by myself for six or seven days,” he said. “It was very lonely. My family was down in Florida. I said, ‘Stay there and enjoy yourself.’ I felt I should be here just in case people wanted to come and negotiate the border security.”Trump, who met later in the day with congressional leaders away from TV cameras, has already dismissed a funding proposal from House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi that includes $1.3 billion in border security funding.While leaving the door open to a compromise, Trump continued to argue for the importance of a wall, pointing to other examples of barriers. He incorrectly asserted that Obama’s Washington residence is surrounded by a 10-foot wall and cited the Vatican, which he said “has the biggest wall of them all.”“When they say the wall is immoral, then you better do something about the Vatican,” he said. “Walls work.”As Trump spoke, a “Game of Thrones”-style movie poster teasing Iran sanctions — “SANCTIONS ARE COMING,” it read — lay unfurled across the table directly in front of him. But he made no remarks on the subject.He did, however, comment on Sen.-elect Mitt Romney of Utah, who wrote in the Washington Post on Tuesday that he was troubled by Trump’s “deep descent in December” and that his deficit in “presidential leadership in qualities of character … has been most glaring.”“I wish Mitt could be more of a team player,” Trump said. “And if he’s not, that’s OK too.”Seeming to warn Romney about the fate that lies ahead for Republican lawmakers who vocally criticize him and his presidency, Trump boasted that he “got rid of” former Sens. Jeff Flake of Arizona and Bob Corker of Tennessee, both of whom opted not to seek new terms last year.Accusing both men of seeking publicity in taking stands against him, Trump suggested that Flakewould be seeking a job as a paid cable news contributor — or perhaps in another profession that Trump himself once plied.“Jeff Flake is now selling real estate or whatever he’s doing,” he said dismissively.

There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real! Dream what you want to dream;go where you want to go;be what you want to be,because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do. May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,enough trials to make you strong,enough sorrow to keep you human,enough hope to make you happy? Always put yourself in others’shoes.If you feel that it hurts you,it probably hurts the other person, too. The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything;they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.Happiness lies for those who cry,those who hurt, those who have searched,and those who have tried,for only they can appreciate the importance of peoplewho have touched their lives.Love begins with a smile,grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can’t go on well in lifeuntil you let go of your past failures and heartaches. When you were born,you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.Live your life so that when you die,you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is cryig.Please send this message to those people who mean something to you,to those who have touched your life in one way or another,to those who make you smile when you really need it,to those that make you see the brighter side of things when you are really down,to those who you want to let them know that you appreciate their friendship.And if you don’t, don’t worry,nothing bad will happen to you,you will just miss out on the opportunity to brighten someone’s day with this message.Since we went to school, we have access to English all the time, because it is one of the necessary subjects. Before we attend college, we keep our attention on the grammar, but now college means the new stage and we should pay attention to practical English. Here are some suggestions.First, it is important to speak out loudly. The purpose of learning English is to communicate with foreigners, so as to get to know more about the world. Grammar is not the only thing we care about. What we should do is to open our mouths and improve our ability to use spoken English. It begins with reading textbooks. When we listen to the tapes and repeat many times, then our d.President Trump, as he often does, had a few things to sayAfter admitting that he had been lonely over the holidays, Trump took advantage of his first public appearance of the new year Wednesday to air lingering grievances, make multiple false claims and reinforce recent decisions that have rattled financial markets and his party’s leaders.As he held forth for more than 90 minutes before a small pool of reporters and photographers, members of his Cabinet, ostensibly called to the White House for a meeting, sat quietly around a long conference table.Trump defended his decision last month to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria and sharply cut the deployment to Afghanistan, moves that disturbed Republican allies in Congress and prompted the resignation of Defense Secretary James N. Mattis. In doing so, he contradicted his own recent claim that the U.S. had achieved its objectives of total victory over Islamic State militants in Syria.“Look, we don't want Syria,” he continued. “We're talking about sand and death. That's what we're talking about. We're not talking about vast wealth. We're talking about sand and death,” he said, seemingly contrasting the war-wracked country with Iraq and its vast oil reserves.Iran “can do what they want there, frankly,” he added, a comment likely to unnerve officials in Israel, who have worried that a U.S. withdrawal from its positions in eastern Syria would allow Iran to expand its influence there.“It’s not my fault,” he said. “I didn’t put us there.”Trump offered little further clarity on the U.S. withdrawal from Syria, which he initially said would take place in 30 days, saying now that the pullout will “take place over a period of time.”Later, in a long riff about Afghanistan, Trump seemed to endorse Moscow’s 1979 invasion of the country — an act that the U.S. viewed as an attempt to spread communism and waged a long, covert operation to combat during the Carter and Reagan administrations.“The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia,” Trump said, making a case to leave the policing of hot spots in the Mideast and Central Asia to countries in the region. “They were right to be there. The problem is it was a tough fight.”The Soviet Union eventually was bankrupted by its Afghan war, Trump added. “Russia used to be the Soviet Union. Afghanistan made it Russia, because they went bankrupt fighting in Afghanistan.”Historians generally agree that the Russian invasion and subsequent occupation of much of Afghanistan was one of several factors that contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union, although the country never went bankrupt.For years, Republicans have credited President Reagan with bringing an end to the Soviet Union by his aggressive increase in U.S. military spending.Trump’s comments stood in stark contrast to the view Mattis espoused in the resignation letter he presented last month after failing to convince the president to hold off on withdrawing from Syria.“We must do everything possible to advance an international order that is most conducive to our security, prosperity and values, and we are strengthened in this effort by the solidarity of our alliances,” Mattis wrote.Mattis’ comments clearly stung Trump, who responded last month with criticism of his former Pentagon chief. On Wednesday, he stepped that up, claiming that he fired Mattis.“What's he done for me? How had he done in Afghanistan? Not too good,” Trump said. “As you know, President Obama fired him, and essentially so did I.”Obama did not fire Mattis, although the general did retire several months early in 2013 from his position as the head of the military’s Central Command after dissenting from Obama administration policy decisions.Tuesday was Mattis’ final day at the Pentagon. Trump, in a fit of pique after the resignation letter became public, had moved up Mattis’ termination dateIn addition to his foreign policy comments, Trump also downplayed December’s stock market losses, which erased all positive gains for the year, as “a little glitch” and asserted — wrongly — that there are “probably 30-35 million” immigrants in the U.S. illegally. The nonpartisan Pew Research Center estimates that as of 2016, there were 10.7 million unauthorized immigrants living in the country, a number that has declined in recent years.Trump repeated his call for Democrats to agree to $5.6 billion in funding for a border wall, and expressed surprise not to have received overtures from them over the holidays to negotiate an end to the government shutdown.“I was in the White House all by myself for six or seven days,” he said. “It was very lonely. My family was down in Florida. I said, ‘Stay there and enjoy yourself.’ I felt I should be here just in case people wanted to come and negotiate the border security.”Trump, who met later in the day with congressional leaders away from TV cameras, has already dismissed a funding proposal from House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi that includes $1.3 billion in border security funding.While leaving the door open to a compromise, Trump continued to argue for the importance of a wall, pointing to other examples of barriers. He incorrectly asserted that Obama’s Washington residence is surrounded by a 10-foot wall and cited the Vatican, which he said “has the biggest wall of them all.”“When they say the wall is immoral, then you better do something about the Vatican,” he said. “Walls work.”As Trump spoke, a “Game of Thrones”-st

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