When I first arrived at Taohua Town Junior Middle School, I bumped from south to north and entered a village. On both sides of the narrow road were cornfields like green gauze tents. Turn right and you will find Taohua Town Junior High School. When I got off the bus, I felt a very familiar feeling: the ordinary school gate was facing a screen wall, bypassing the screen wall and entering the campus. On both sides of Yonglu, several rows of red brick bungalows gave me the first feeling-small. When entering the classroom, the tables and chairs are simple, the ordinary blackboard and the information technology equipment are outdated. Walking into the teacher's office, there are few computers. I vaguely smelled a pungent smell, which was emitted from the outdoor dry toilet. Asked if teachers and students have a place to take a bath, the answer is no, which makes me seem to see a word-poverty. President Zhao Jun told me that the school has three grades, three to four classes in each grade, and there are about 300 students in the school. First, it is difficult to recruit students, and many students have gone to school in the city; Second, public funds are insufficient; Third, there are too many left-behind children, and family education cannot keep up; Fourth, the school is far from the county seat and can't keep teachers. These words remind me of a situation-difficulty.
I feel familiar because when I first joined the work 1992, I was also assigned to the most remote rural school in the northeast of the county. The situation of Taohua Town Junior Middle School was basically similar to that of the school at that time. Immediately after the signing of the counterpart poverty alleviation agreement, I personally wrote a cooperation framework agreement, determined to implement assistance and take a coordinated poverty alleviation route with diverse connotations.
In the past three years, from principals and cadres to teachers, students and even parents, the two schools have entered each other's schools like rural people visiting relatives and gone deep into the classroom; On-site guidance, online collision; Donation to students and spiritual dialogue have enhanced the confidence of all teachers and students in the school and realized the leap-forward development from hardware and environment to quality and connotation.
The power of inheritance makes the school spirit shine.
I have been to many rural schools and found that their cultural concepts are highly similar. Ask teachers or students what school motto, school spirit, school philosophy and educational objectives are, and most of them are vague and unintelligible. Taohua Town Junior High School is different. It attaches great importance to the inheritance of culture, the guidance of values, and clear concepts and culture, so that generations of Zhong Tao people naturally reveal a simple elegance from the inside out.
On the roof of the reception room on the left side of the school gate, I saw a tall iron tripod with an old clock about 50 cm in diameter hanging on it. Wu Shuo, the vice president of the school, said: "More than 30 years ago, our school used this clock for classes. We put it here because we hope that students will not forget the past and remember the struggle history of generations of peach lovers. " I lament the good intentions of peach lovers, who believe in the power of cultural inheritance.
Another scenery attracted me. There is a water tower in the southwest corner of the school. I asked President Zhao, "Is this water tower still in use?" President Zhao said, "Yes, the water quality here is quite good." President Zhao told us: "Look at the words' water is the source of life' written by an old teacher who is about to retire." President Zhao went on to say, "The old teacher is retired now, but when the school needs him, he will come to school no matter how busy he is." You see, on this concrete pavement, the eight characters' Read thousands of books and Walk Wan Li Road' are written in white paint, which was written by him. "
Based on the above culture and beliefs, I really appreciate his school-running philosophy of "accumulating steps and thinking far from the source". Reading President Zhao Jun's interpretation of it, we can realize that the school's cultural tradition, concept orientation, purpose and pursuit of running a school are not lower than those of the city.
My interpretation of these eight words is: firm goals, step by step, and embark on a real road of education. Don't forget your active heart, dedicate it to the distance and create a new paradise.
In line with the concept of "building a road by accumulated steps, thinking about the source and reaching far", we must first work hard on the word "source" to truly build our junior high school in Taohua Town into a "peach blossom source". There should be a "Peach Blossom Garden" on the wall, which is illustrated with pictures and texts. Just like a school, it is located in a remote place in Jing Ya, the easternmost part of Yuxian County, without the noise of the city and secular disputes.
During my on-the-job study in Liying School Miyun Branch, I deeply studied the "all-learning" curriculum reform implemented by the school. Our school has fully introduced and implemented the concept of "whole-course learning". Combined with the school-running concept of "accumulating step by step, thinking about the source and reaching far", the classroom was renamed as the "thinking about the source" classroom under the "whole study". First, people who dig wells don't forget to drink water. "Siyuan" just wants to drink water Our teaching model today originated from Beijing Yu Ying School Miyun Branch, so we should always be grateful. Second, the development of Taohua Middle School today is inseparable from the hard work of the older generation of teachers. The inscription "Water is the Source of Life" by Liu Ai, a teacher who retired in July this year, is a portrayal of the spirit of the old teacher. Third, do true education, trace back to the source, return to the truth, respect the law, pay attention to individual students, carry forward students' personality, tap students' potential and achieve every student; Fourth, let learning really become a student's business. Through the learning mode of autonomy, inquiry, cooperation and display, let every student bloom like a peach blossom in the classroom, and achieve the ideal taoyuan realm of multi-dimensional mutual assistance and harmonious and beautiful classroom atmosphere for students.
The concept of "building a road by accumulated steps, thinking far from the source" is full of personality, diligence, pioneering, gratitude, beauty and pursuit ... which will be guarded and passed down by generations of peach lovers.
After years of cultural inheritance, the school-running concept lurking in the inner layer of the school has been condensed and generated. President Zhao Jun planned and operated all aspects of the school's work and activities around this school-running concept, which was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and internalized in the hearts of everyone in the school. The enthusiasm of the faculty was ignited, the long-term ice of job burnout began to melt slowly, and the wind of entrepreneurship set off again.
Professional guidance makes rural teachers great.
I have reached an understanding with the headmaster of this school that education precision poverty alleviation can not only stop at donating grants to a few poor students, but also stop at passive task activities once or twice each semester. The essence of poverty alleviation through education should be "helping others", that is, helping people to update their educational concepts, acquire new ideas and theories, learn more scientific and effective new operations, and generate their own new programs. Even if the poverty alleviation work is over, the cooperation will continue, because the two sides have forged an eternal friendship and the pursuit of life growth has become a common desire. The experience and scheme formed in three years can take root in the school and can be inherited and carried forward.
The two sides reached an agreement to actively study and practice the concept of school culture construction, management system and operation mechanism, achievements of curriculum and teaching reform, and teachers' school-based research strategies on the basis of the original school reform exploration. After three years, it has formed its own characteristics, enhanced the connotation of running a school, significantly improved the quality of education and teaching, and continuously expanded the social influence of the school. The professional level of school teachers has been improved by leaps and bounds, and a number of backbone teachers have been trained, so that teachers can fully enjoy the sense of professional acquisition and happiness.
Zhao Liping, a young teacher of this school, worked continuously at Yingmiyun Campus for one month. Every day, she insists on attending classes and evaluating classes simultaneously, participates in teaching and research activities, studies and applies the teaching reform concept and mode of Yu Ying Miyun Branch, designs teaching, and actively applies for water classes. Back in our school, she combined her learning achievements with the teaching reform that our school has been insisting on for many years, learned from each other's strong points and reconstructed her own classroom teaching model. The following is part of the classroom reform in the semester plan reported to me by Teacher Zhao.
The current classroom teaching mode in our school is preplan-assisted classroom, which is divided into the following six links: situational introduction-preview test (autonomous learning)-auxiliary promotion-list consolidation-expansion and extension-reflection on learning and teaching. I understand and practice as follows:
Situational introduction, a teacher should make students not only learn, but also seek knowledge, with doubts in their hearts. This shows the importance of situational introduction.
Preview detection, which is a demonstration of autonomous learning in class, detects the effect of students' autonomous preview before class, so that students can get feedback on their initial understanding of new knowledge, which is conducive to the effective classroom teaching. Depending on the course, it is sometimes put in class.
To improve students' learning, this link is to improve classroom knowledge and cultivate students' independent thinking and communication ability through independent and cooperative inquiry. The design of cooperation, exchange, communication and discussion in this link not only causes children's thinking collision, but also hopes to give them enlightenment and progress beyond knowledge.
Take stock to consolidate, guide students to systematically summarize the knowledge and methods to be mastered in this lesson, make the theme clear and focused, help students remember and master, and make the knowledge concrete.
Expand and extend, through the completion of exercises, test the learning effect of the classroom, consolidate the knowledge goal and deepen the ability goal.
Reflection on learning and teaching, I regard "reflection on learning and teaching" as the last link of teaching. In this way, students can grasp the classroom knowledge as a whole, have a clear understanding of their own learning effects, understand their own weak links, be good at summing up experience, choose or adjust learning strategies and methods according to different situations and their own reality, and improve their language expression ability.
As can be seen from the contents of the report, Mr. Zhao has developed his own mature teaching style, which can organically integrate theory and practice. From April 2065438 to April 2008, the teachers of our school participated in the 8th National "Harmony Cup" Classroom Teaching Mode Expo and won the team gold medal. Teacher Zhao Liping won the grand prize in one fell swoop. In 20 19, Zhao Liping won the first prize in the city's junior high school mathematics speech contest and the first prize in the county's junior high school mathematics quality class contest twice.
In 20 19, Bai Jie, a young teacher of the school, won the second prize on behalf of the whole county in the Zhangjiakou Junior High School Quality Class Competition, and became famous in June 2020.
I believe that in this remote and backward rural school, there will be more young teachers like Zhao Liping and Bai Jie who are full of educational passion. They love learning, are willing to take root in the countryside and dedicate their youth.
Multi-dimensional cooperation makes the future show hope
As can be seen from the above text, the cooperation between the two schools is diversified and coordinated, and they cooperate, interact, communicate and talk with each other in many aspects, such as "classroom teaching reform, teachers' professional development, students' cultivation education, school leadership construction, school-based curriculum development and school characteristics construction", and sincerely learn from each other and help each other. This kind of help focuses on the soul, spirit and emotion, in order to seek possible strategies for future development. The development vision pursued by the two schools is to "continue to write excellent school culture, build a learner-centered curriculum model that supports diversified learning, change learning methods, improve classroom teaching ecology, and reshape teachers' professional life." "
In addition, the two schools strive to create conditions for students to learn from each other and experience life with each other. On May 2019 12, the two schools held student exchange activities, and 24 students from Yu Ying Miyun Branch and Taohua Town Junior High School exchanged visits, completing a week-long visit to the school.
In the past three years, the two universities have collided with the same goals and visions, course contents and activity strategies through exchanges, interactions and studies in various ways and at different levels, and even collided with the spirit and feelings of being brave in innovation, working hand in hand and sincerely helping each other for the party's educational cause.
With the strong support of Yuxian governments at all levels and the Education Bureau, and with the help of Miyun District Education Committee, Taohua Town Junior High School has undergone earth-shaking changes. It has invested10.4 million yuan to build a high-standard student canteen, clean and tidy toilets, repair and transform playgrounds and toilets, every teacher has a computer, every classroom has a new teaching screen, and there are high-standard recording and broadcasting classrooms. Physics, chemistry, music, physical education and aesthetics are well equipped, and the school actively practices the concept of quality education. There are fifteen clubs in the school, including basketball team, football team, skipping team, rhythmic gymnastics team, chorus team, broadcast host, model airplane, literature club, walking into Xiaowutai Mountain, walking into flowers and trees, and broadcasting current affairs. Every Tuesday, Thursday and the seventh class, all students, regardless of their grades, take the form of "shift system" and participate in their favorite club activities according to their hobbies. Organize relevant competitions every semester, actively participate in county-level art festivals, sports competitions and special competitions, and commend and reward sports stars, art stars, science and technology stars, skilled craftsmen and best hosts. In 20 18, the school was the champion of the 28th Yuxian Art Festival, and won prizes in various competitions such as table tennis competition for primary and secondary schools and model airplane competition for middle school students. The school of 20 18 is the most remarkable unit in the county. 20 18 1 1 President Zhao Jun shared his experience at the collective lesson preparation promotion meeting held in the county, and in the staged achievements exhibition of classroom teaching reform in junior and middle schools in the county. In 20 19, the school was rated as an advanced unit of education and scientific research in Zhangjiakou city.
Small, poor and difficult can't stop the growth and development of junior high school in Taohua Town, because of the support of the party and government and the help of brother units. All teachers and students of Taohua Town Junior Middle School will strive for the balanced development of education and the revitalization of rural school education, and go forward bravely!