Chapter 45: Entry Point
It is rare that Liu Jue and Bai Fan are both here. Mi Meng refused to go downstairs to set up a stall, insisted on pulling the two to watch a movie together, and even sent an invitation to Yao Yi.
However, Yao Yi did not join their movie night because he had to do another more important thing. After washing the dishes, Yao Yi returned to his bedroom, searched the People's Education Press junior high school English vocabulary list with his mobile phone, and began to prepare lessons.
Teaching and educating people is not only a job, but also a mission. Since you have to do it, you must work hard to do your best. Even if you have only two students, even if you don’t have class hours, Yao Yi must do her best to bring more interesting and content courses to students.
This persistence is a necessary element to success, but unfortunately most people don’t understand it.
In this era of instant money-worship, most people are too smart and not smart. Before doing something, people always first consider whether their efforts can quickly bring rewards that meet their expectations, and then worry about whether their achievements may be stolen or plagiarized by others, but rarely consider whether this matter can give them more opportunities and more help in the future.
According to this thinking mode, when a tutor at a training institution finds that word deduction can help students solve the problem of word memory, the first problem he thinks about is often how much benefit a word lesson plan can bring to himself based on domestic textbooks and whether it is worth his energy to put in it. Then he will worry that his efforts may be plagiarized by other training institutions at any time, because there is almost no concept of intellectual property protection in China, so it is very likely that he will work hard and finally make a wedding dress for others.
Therefore, he is likely to give up this "silly" idea and continue to promote the wrong concept that "rotten memorization is the only way to learn English."
But this is not the case. In fact, as long as you concentrate on a career, be ahead of your peers or even become a pioneer in the industry, you will have a broader vision and a broader stage, so you will see more opportunities and meet more connections. You are more likely to continue to lead than those who follow the trend later.
As long as you maintain the spirit of leading and innovativeness, you can always achieve something. Those who are worried that others will plagiarize their creativity will just want to do it once and for all. However, in this era when changes happen everywhere and you will be eliminated without innovation or evolution, there is no one-time and for all.
Take the deduction method of words as an example. In fact, some people in China have long proposed the "shortcuts" to use roots and affixes to memorize words. For example, New Oriental, a giant in English education, but no training institution has made a targeted set of word textbooks for domestic junior and senior high school exam-oriented education. As long as Yao Yi is willing to spend time studying and summarizing and completing this work step by step, he may become famous in one fell swoop like the crazy English he had back then.
At that time, what if other institutions follow the trend and plagiarize? The top giants in the industry will definitely extend an olive branch to Yao Yi.
Of course, Yao Yi does not value these interests. With a wealthy family as an economic backing, he can jump out of the low-level level full of money and pursue a higher level.
If we could really organize a wonderful word textbook, Yao Yi would not hide it as a treasure, but would contact the publishing house and the media as soon as possible to simultaneously promote physical textbooks and online courses to students across the province and even the whole country. Because what the Yao family needs is not money, but a good reputation passed down from generation to generation.
Taking the word textbooks for junior and senior high school students as the entry point, and using unique memory methods to gain fame. Combined with the Internet + innovative ideas that everyone is talking about but few understand, Yao Yi is confident that she can take over the big cake of the junior and senior high school English tutoring market.
As far as Yao Yi knows, the dominant position of the junior and senior high school tutoring market nationwide has not been determined until ten years later. Each region has its own famous training schools. Even if New Oriental, which has made the first domestic education industry stock, is a strong leader in most second- and third-tier cities, will not defeat local tyrants.
However, this established trajectory may not be able to change. Even if you cannot become the overlord of the tutoring industry chain for primary and secondary school students, at least you can make the novel online education and education apps online in advance, and solve the difficulties of families who are worried about extracurricular tutoring in various places.
If one day, my parents, sisters and friends find that they have become famous teachers that tens of millions of middle school students across the country, I wonder what their reaction would be? Yao Yi appeared one after another, thinking that the title of "national treasure-level master" on her business card in the future was bubbling.
However, ideals are full and reality is very backbone. Yao Yi quickly discovered that writing word textbooks is not easy.
First of all, the total number of extremely derivative words in the syllabus of the middle school entrance examination is close to 3,000, and a considerable number of words are not suitable for deductive memory, such as basic nouns (such as tea, book, door), some upper meanings (such as fruit, organ, color) and words with rare roots as the main body (such as astronaut).
These words can only be memorized in series in the form of making up stories. Even if Yao Yi can handle this daunting project, it cannot be guaranteed that all students can accept it.
Secondly, systematically sorting out prefixes, roots and suffixes is equivalent to allowing students to change from memorizing words to memorizing the components of words first and then memorizing words. If students cannot quickly grasp the rules of word evolution, they will increase the amount of memory.
For students like Song Ci who have strong thinking ability and flexible brains, deduction is a good way to help me remember, but if Yao Yi only focuses on this type of students, how is it different from teachers who give up on "poor students"?
However, the textbooks suitable for everyone are themselves a false proposition. Yao Yi cannot be perfect. She can only work hard to let more students learn deduction. To do this, we must first reduce the difficulty of understanding deduction, so that students can find the connection between words more easily.
How to do it?
After thinking hard for half an hour, Yao Yi decided to start with the re-type of the word list.
There are two types of word typesettings in the People's Education Press Junior High School English Textbook. One is to sort according to the new words contained in the courses learned in each unit, and the other is to sort according to the first letter set. Both typesetting methods have nothing to do with the root and the pre and suffix, so Yao Yi must first retype these more than 2,000 words.
Words with the same root, words with the same prefix or suffix, words with the same evolutionary rules should also be put together. According to this layout method, the same word may appear repeatedly and the workload is extremely large.
Chapter completed!