Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 41: A Careful Man Has a Broader Path

The military training ended and the first-year high school classes officially started in the afternoon.

Class starts at 2:30. Zhou Jing leaves the dormitory at 2:20 and arrives outside the classroom just as the bell rings.

After all the students entered the classroom, Zhou Jing stepped into the classroom and walked up to the podium. He looked at the cabinets in the corridor and said, "Have all the cell phones been put in the cabinets? If you haven't put them in, put them in now. Turn them off before you put them in."

The cabinet is a special cabinet that you can throw your mobile phone into without opening the door. It is not deep, so you don’t have to worry about the phone being damaged.

The class teacher carries the key with him/her and returns it to the student after school by opening the locker.

"My deskmate, please help me put it down too."

Those who didn't hand in their cell phones got up and put them in the lockers. Other classes did the same. The corridor was filled with noise.

For people who are used to playing with mobile phones, having their phones confiscated will be very depressing. They will feel like they have nowhere to put their hands and they always feel like something is missing. However, high school is a stressful process. The school cannot guarantee that every student will be obedient, sensible and study hard, but it must ensure that a good learning environment is created for those who study hard.

The school will not have any expectations for students who are extremely irresponsible of themselves.

"Have you all told your parents my phone number? You can contact me if there is anything at home." After the students put down their phones and returned to their seats, Zhou Jing continued, "From now on, it will mainly depend on your self-discipline, including all aspects. The head teacher cannot search everyone and your seats before class."

"Although the classroom cameras are on, it is impossible for the head teacher to always stare at the surveillance screen."

Zhou Jing said this while looking at the circular camera on the upper right corner of the podium.

"I have not yet decided how to deal with someone who plays with their phone in class if I find out or other teachers report it. The school's rule is to notify parents if the student plays with their phone five times and ask them to take the student home to play as much as they want. I think it is the school's job and responsibility to discipline you. Parents have their own business, and the school should not blame them for their own business."

Zhou Jing walked and spoke on the podium.

"Teacher Zhou is absolutely right. Parents are busy enough as it is."

"Yeah, my parents are very busy."

Before Zhou Jing finished speaking, the students expressed their agreement.

"Everyone is very sensible, so don't make your parents worry about your studies. If you break the rules, I will be the bad guy. The specific punishment will be discussed in the class meeting."

When Zhou Jing was a student, he didn’t like being called “parents”; now that he became a teacher, he still doesn’t like being called “parents”.

If there are children of the Chinese and math teachers in the first and second grades of elementary school in the class, that’s a different matter.

Because these two teachers caused considerable psychological trauma to Zhou Jing when he was a child.

At that time, the math teacher was the class teacher and he liked to hit students on the palms with a ruler. The one time Zhou Jing remembered most was when he punished students by making them stand outside for a while in winter and then hit their palms. The feeling of numbness and pain was indescribable.

The Chinese teacher said that students would not be allowed to go home for dinner if they did not finish their homework or could not memorize the text or phrases. Students with older brothers or sisters would bring them meals, but Zhou Jing had no older brothers or sisters, so his mother had to bring him meals. The result was predictable. Zhou Jing was punished at school and was punished by his mother again when he got home at night.

There was a period of time when Zhou Jing was very reluctant to go to school and even had the idea of ​​dropping out.

It was not until the third grade that Zhou Jing seemed to have suddenly opened up his Ren and Du meridians. It was really magical. Before the third grade, Zhou Jing could not recite the text and could not do arithmetic correctly, but in the third grade, he could recite the text and do arithmetic very quickly.

"Teacher Zhou has no moral principles."

Only then did the students realize that they had fallen into the language trap of their head teacher Zhou Jing, and slowly realized that although this head teacher looked young, he was very good at dealing with students.

The bell rang. The first class of the afternoon for Class 175 was chemistry. Zhou Jing walked out of the classroom and met the chemistry teacher, Bian Lingli, at the door. The female teacher was estimated to be over cm tall, which was rare in the school.

"Teacher Bian."

Zhou Jing greeted politely.

"Xiao Zhou is busy first."

Bian Lingli nodded and walked into the classroom. Zhou Jing then went to the office, which was quiet. Those who had classes went to class, and those who didn't have classes were either in the dormitory or in the office preparing for class or slacking off.

When Zhou Jing walked into the office, he saw Zhao Xin stealing vegetables on the computer. Zhao Xin's farm was of a very high level.

Yang Wenwen, who had just arrived at the office, opened the Chinese textbook to prepare for the lesson.

Gu Jia didn't have class in the first period and didn't come to the office.

The other teachers are also doing their own things.

Zhou Jing turned on his computer, logged into QQ and played some games first. If he didn't play some games before going to work, he wouldn't be able to find his working state, just like he couldn't wake up in the morning without checking his phone.

Many people liked and commented on the post Zhou Jing posted at noon in his space. The sentence with the most comments was [Happy Teacher's Day, Teacher Zhou]. Someone was building a building and the downstairs was very tidy.

Yang Wenwen, Zhao Xin and Gu Jia commented on this sentence.

This made the high school classmates very envious. They suddenly felt that being a teacher was great. It would be a wonderful thing to become colleagues with their former teachers, especially to be on equal footing with them.

So some people commented and asked whether Zhou Jing Experimental Middle School was still recruiting teachers. Of course, it was just a joke. Even if his alma mater was recruiting teachers, not everyone was qualified. First of all, he had to have a degree related to education.

The first two photos of Zhou Jing and Yang Wenwen in the post evoked memories of their high school classmates. They left messages on their former teachers’ spaces to wish them a happy Teachers’ Day.

Zhao Xin said with emotion, "Some students are very thoughtful. After graduating from high school, they leave messages for their teachers every Teacher's Day. Zhou Jing is one of them. As a teacher, I am very pleased."

“Once a teacher, always a teacher.”

Zhou Jing didn’t remember these teachers, but because his father was a teacher, he was deeply impressed by this festival.

People who are determined often have a wider path.

Emotions need to be maintained.

As a student, we should care about our former teachers every Teachers' Day, even if it is just a simple greeting of "Happy Teachers' Day". If our children need help in their studies in the future, can we just ignore them if the former teachers are able to do it?

Those who have worked in sales have the most say in this regard. In order to maintain relationships with customers or potential customers, they are more "filial" than to their parents. They send blessings on every festival and sometimes say hello on weekends. This is how Zhou Jing treated parents when he was a teaching assistant in his previous life. Although the profession of teacher does not require humbleness, one must be able to let go of one's airs if one wants to achieve great things.

After stroking the fish and drinking a glass of water, Zhou Jing opened a spreadsheet to simulate the seating arrangement in the class.

Zhou Jing does not simply arrange seats for students in his class according to their height. He also considers the students' academic performance in individual subjects and their personalities. The academic performance is mainly determined by mathematics and English, which are the most critical, regardless of whether they choose liberal arts or science.

Zhou Jing set up eight columns in the table, corresponding to the eight rows of seats in the classroom. Taking into account the students' gender, height, and high school entrance examination math and English scores, he tried his best to arrange a reasonable position and a suitable deskmate for each student.

Zhou Jing did not tell the students in advance if there were any special circumstances. The special situation was undoubtedly myopia, and they should go to an eyewear store for this problem.

The Student Canteen Management Office sent a message in the group to inform the first-year students that the meal cards have been processed and asked the class teachers of each class to pick them up.

"If Teacher Yang doesn't want to go, I'll take your place."

Zhou Jing took a sip of water and said.

"Let's go together. It's tiring to sit here. Let's go for a walk."

Yang Wenwen screwed on the water cup and stood up.

"Zhou Jing also topped up 200 yuan on my meal card."

Zhao Xin took out her meal card and found two hundred yuan in her wallet and gave it to Zhou Jing.

Yang Wenwen glanced at Zhao Xin and thought that Gu Jia and Zhao Xin did not treat Zhou Jing as an outsider at all and were not polite at all when asking him to do anything.

(End of this chapter)