Some of my experiences as a school inspector

Wang Yongwei

The "Education Law of the People's Republic of China" establishes the legal status of the education supervision and evaluation system . The education supervision system is one of the basic systems of education in my country stipulated in the Education Law. Education supervision has an indispensable and irreplaceable important position and role in the modern education administration system.

The educational supervision and evaluation system continues to develop in practice and has become an important administrative supervision system in my country’s education industry. "Supervision is more important than trust." This is a famous saying in the international architectural community. It has rich connotations and is also suitable for educational supervision. From the reality of our country, first, educational supervision is the guarantee for the implementation of educational laws and regulations. The prescriptive nature of education laws and regulations and the arbitrariness of actual work often lead to non-compliance with laws and lax enforcement of laws. Administrative supervision must be relied on to ensure the implementation of education laws and regulations. Second, it is the guarantee for implementing the strategic position of education. The special importance of educational status and the relative lag in educational benefits often make it difficult to implement the strategic status of education in actual work. Educational supervision must be relied on to ensure the implementation of the strategic status of education. Third, it is the guarantee for the comprehensive implementation of educational policies. The complexity of educational laws and unscientific educational evaluation lead to educational behaviors that violate educational laws

This requires the use of supervision and evaluation to guide educational behaviors.

In April 1991, the Education Commission of the People's Republic of China promulgated the "Interim Provisions on Education Supervision." In March 1999, Beijing promulgated the "Beijing Education Supervision Regulations" in the form of a mayoral order. The above two regulations

clearly define the nature, tasks, scope, and objects of supervision, especially the terms of office (both have 5 articles), powers, appointments and removals. The management of authority and procedures, the conditions for performing duties and formal training are all clearly stated.

With the continuous improvement of the education supervision system and the increasing strengthening of supervision work, the education supervision industry in our country has become increasingly difficult for those who used to have "gold medals, empty shelves, old men, troublemakers, little money, and no seats." The embarrassing situation is gradually changing, the profession of school inspector will be favored, and the image of school inspector in the new century is gradually being established. The supervision office is a specialized agency of the government that performs educational supervision functions; the supervisor is a person who performs official duties of educational supervision. Modern

The modern school inspector combines administrative, legal and academic powers and is responsible for the supervision, inspection, evaluation and guidance of education. Therefore, he is also facing higher requirements and unprecedented challenges.

How to be a qualified school inspector who keeps pace with the times? What can the inspector do to better perform his duties? I want to do it: do the job well and not be offside, tell the truth and tell the truth. Let me talk about some of my immature experiences as a school inspector.

1. Active service

We must take the "Three Represents" thought and the scientific development concept as the driving force, and use the "Inspector Code of Conduct" as the guide to realize the "three authorities" ( Supervisory authority, educational authority, legal authority) goal is to inspire, constantly enhance your sense of responsibility and mission, always think about education, think about the school, think about the children, think about the teachers, and establish Promote the professional and ethical spirit of school inspectors. This mainly refers to the professional ethics and qualities that inspectors should have based on dedication, devotion to duty, dedication, clean governance, and fairness. It is what inspectors should follow when attaching importance to educational inspection activities. A vivid reflection of professional norms and codes of conduct.

First of all, you must have professionalism.

At present, the nature of the institutional structure of educational supervision is unclear, the educational administrative supervision function of educational supervision is not strong, and there is a lack of "Sword of Shang Fang". The salary of the supervisor is not high, the staffing is unreasonable, and the intensity, difficulty, and Issues such as hard work

are objective to a certain extent. Therefore, as school inspectors, we must have an ideological state of not seeking fame or profit, high standards, and strict requirements. People must have some spiritual sustenance. Without spiritual sustenance, they are mediocre. Mediocrity is vulgarity. vulgarity is an anthrax of the soul. We should encourage ourselves with the motto of "having a position of achievement" and firmly believe that the "dawn of dawn" has appeared. As long as we work hard, work diligently and comprehensively improve our professional quality, we will eventually establish own place.

Secondly, we must have a sense of service.

The standards for developmental education supervision and evaluation currently being attempted by the school inspection community are plan-oriented, progress-centered, and development-based. Therefore, the role of the inspector needs to be changed. He should not regard himself as an "imperial envoy" and regard himself as an "education policeman" who specializes in "picking faults" and "finding faults." Those who evaluate and grade become enthusiastic cheerers and "health doctors" of education. The essence of educational supervision is not to evaluate the pros and cons, but to improve and develop. Therefore, the inspector must tolerate every fault of the school, look forward to every progress of the school, and praise every success of the school.

The process of supervision and evaluation should be regarded as a process of providing effective help to the people being supervised and evaluated, helping the evaluators deepen their knowledge and understanding of education, and deeply reflect on the educational work they are engaged in. On the basis of this, establish a correct concept of education, clarify development ideas, and help the supervisors and evaluators

summarize and refine experience, discover problems, and find solutions to problems. Supervisors must also have the responsibility and courage to "please for the people". They should take the school's difficulties, the voices of parents, and the suffering of teachers and students into their hearts, and solve or reflect them within their own capabilities

. Only in this way can we win the trust and respect of the supervisees and evaluators.

Third, we must have a fair attitude.

One of the tasks of educational supervision is educational evaluation, which is composed of fact judgment and value judgment. Fact judgment mainly answers "is it", value judgment mainly answers "should it not". The former does not depend on human will; the latter depends on both facts and the subject's objective wishes. That is to say, the scientific nature of fact judgment needs to be supported by value judgment. Therefore, it is difficult for educational evaluation to form recognized and consistent evaluation standards on a larger scale. This is not only due to factors such as multi-culture and multi-values, but also the various types of value judgments themselves. , such as moral, aesthetic, utilitarian evaluation, etc. Therefore, in a diversified society, value standards are also diverse, and recognized and consistent standards are relative. Our educational evaluation standards can only be recognized within a certain time and space. Therefore, school inspectors must not only have a realistic style of seeking truth from facts and strive to be objective and fair in educational evaluation, but also have a correct understanding of disputes and bullying phenomena that arise during evaluation activities, and negotiate on an equal footing. Be able to convince people with reason. First, we must adhere to the correct supervision ideology and achieve motivation and leadership. In terms of guiding ideology, we must focus on one goal - to promote development, grasp a premise - change concepts, lay a good foundation - promote the results of quality education, and achieve a breakthrough - standardize school running behavior. Second, we must adhere to the evaluation standards and be truthful

pragmatic. Regarding disagreements, we must be principled and realistic, and adopt different work strategies based on the development conditions of different schools. The attitude should not be simple and rude, but should be based on the starting point of being kind to others, be patient and considerate, put yourself in the other person's shoes, and work with them to work out ideas, discuss development plans, and promote the development of the school. , seek common ground while reserving minor differences, in order to achieve basic consensus in understanding. In this way, we can create a good image of our school inspectors in the process of educational evaluation and form a high social reputation.

2. Conceptually surpass oneself

The concept of supervision governs the supervisor’s supervision behavior. An inspector with the concept of educational supervision should consciously study various educational ideas and management theories, and criticize On the basis of sexual absorption, correct educational concepts have been formed one after another, and a new and relatively stable educational concept group has been gradually constructed, thereby continuously enriching and expanding one's own educational supervision concepts. With the support of such educational supervision concepts, inspectors can always pursue their own careers with an innovative spirit.

First of all, we must deeply understand the connotation of quality education.

Quality education is education for the all-round development of students, education that enables students to develop as a whole, actively develop, develop throughout their lives and develop their personality. The school's teaching must focus on the development of a complete person. The important purpose of teaching is to teach students to learn to learn. Teaching must provide opportunities for students' development. In teaching, questions must be used to guide the teaching process and measure The most important thing in teaching is the quality of understanding, not the quantity of information. Therefore, in the process of implementing quality education

the connotation of teachers' roles has also changed. Teachers must change from an educational practitioner to an educational researcher, and from a imparter of knowledge to a knowledge A critical analyst, from a curriculum implementer to a curriculum developer, from a manager to a guide, from an executor of teaching behavior patterns to a creator of teaching wisdom who. Modern educational theory tells us: Only teachers who can promote personal development are the best teachers, and only education that promotes personal development is the best education.

Secondly, we must have a vision of building a learning organization.

The influence of the inspector’s learning organization not only stays at the conceptual level, but also penetrates into the specific conduct in a timely manner, because the learning organization has the following basic characteristics: learning concept - work is learning, Intrinsic motivation

Self-transcendence, learning foundation-systematic thinking, learning goals-shared vision, learning approach-group learning, so building a learning organization model is a practical learning society, An important prerequisite and

foundation for improving organizational effectiveness is for inspectors to continuously acquire knowledge, transfer knowledge within the organization, and create new knowledge to enhance the organization's own strength, generate effectiveness, and achieve the organization's and the inspector's personal goals process.

Therefore, it is very necessary to actively build an environmental platform for learning organizations. Supervisors must also establish a good attitude towards organizational learning, effectively design their own career development blueprint, and formulate personal study plans. Plans and project research plans give personal development

a clear goal and an effective carrier. Only a learning inspector can keep pace with the pulse of the times, establish the inspector's own personal educational philosophy, transcend himself, and have the most cutting-edge educational concepts and education

ideas of supervision.

Third, we must have the evaluation idea of ??developmental education.

This evaluation idea is a concept about educational evaluation developed since the 1980s, and is a new evaluation model for building a quality education mechanism. It has the following characteristics: that is, in the direction of educational evaluation, developmental education evaluation is based on modern times, reviews the past, and faces the future. It not only pays attention to the actual performance of the evaluation object, but also pays more attention to the future development of the evaluation object. , focusing on adding value to the evaluation object; the purpose of developmental education evaluation is to promote development

It is a formative evaluation based on goals, focusing on the process, timely feedback, and promoting development; the evaluation of developmental education attaches great importance to Improve the participation awareness of the evaluation objects and give full play to their enthusiasm; the evaluation objects of developmental education evaluation are the development subjects. By systematically collecting evaluation information and conducting analysis, we can make value judgments on the educational activities of the evaluation objects to achieve The process by which the evaluator and the subject of evaluation coordinate and develop goals. Therefore, only with the idea of ??developmental education

evaluation can we truly be an inspector who keeps pace with the times.

Fourth, we must have a systematic way of thinking.

Whether it is a human group or an individual, major breakthroughs in cognitive abilities are directly related to changes in the way of thinking. Today's changing and diverse era requires people's way of thinking to change accordingly. Multi-directional thinking, three-dimensional thinking, and innovative thinking can enable managers to observe problems more deeply and comprehensively, think about problems dynamically, understand problems holistically, and constantly conduct critical reflection to find solutions. optimal approach to the problem. As a school inspector,

you should learn new thinking and learn to think systematically. It turns out that when we face complex problems, we are accustomed to thinking about them by dividing them into manageable pieces and then integrating them. This idea of ??dividing first and then combining is appropriate for many complex tasks

. However, segmentation makes us lose the elements of a deeper observation of the overall formation, which will induce us to ignore the essentials and avoid the important ones to deal with the problem. Because the complex dynamics of most things are in a slow and gradual process, they are difficult to detect. Even if you notice them, it is often too late, making it difficult to deal with them effectively. Therefore, inspectors must have a thinking model of educational systems thinking in order to effectively deal with various forms of new problems encountered in educational supervision work.

3. Continuous improvement in professionalism

The Ministry of Education's "Opinions on Strengthening Educational Supervision and Evaluation" points out: efforts should be made to establish a "combination of full-time and part-time students with sufficient numbers" . It can be seen that establishing and accelerating the pace of professionalization of school inspections has become an important issue for the development and improvement of the education supervision and evaluation system with Chinese characteristics in the new century. So, how to comprehensively improve the professional quality of school inspectors? I believe that in addition to strict selection in terms of mechanism and implementation of the inspector qualification certificate system, efforts should also be made to

improve the professional abilities of school inspectors in the following aspects:

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First, the ability to be good at learning, thinking and innovating.

Inspectors in the new era must develop the habit of diligent study and thoughtfulness. They must not only be familiar with education and its related laws and regulations, master and understand them, and strive to become a "lawyer" for education, but also Be familiar with education guidelines and policies

and be familiar with various documents formulated by the education administration department. Master advanced management theories and experiences. You must also understand the theories and laws of education and teaching, and be proficient in and familiar with one or two subjects. Teaching, and having profound insights, becoming an "expert" in subject guidance. The knowledge of an inspector is crucial to improving his ability to understand educational phenomena and analyze and solve educational problems. Therefore, the learning tasks of the inspectors are long and arduous. Reading activities must be vigorously carried out. A certain number of books on related majors must be extensively read in a planned way every year, and a certain number of educational monographs must be read intensively and targeted; frequent readings must be held Various forms of personal reading exchange meetings promote the improvement of understanding, internalization and sublimation of knowledge.

With the continuous deepening of education reform, the past step-by-step closed education supervision model is obviously difficult to adapt to the current requirements of quality education. There is an urgent need for inspectors to have a sense of pioneering and enterprising, and to effectively enhance education< /p>

The ability to supervise innovation to promote the comprehensive implementation of quality education in schools.

Second, improve communication and coordination skills.

In the process of performing their duties, school inspectors must often play a role between the upper and lower levels of government, between government functional departments, between the government and schools, between schools and schools, and between schools and communities and families. , Questions between teachers and teachers,

The role of "coordinator" between teachers and students.

Therefore, inspectors must be good at communicating and interacting with leaders at all levels, good at communicating and interacting with teachers, good at communicating and interacting with students, good at communicating and interacting with parents

and good at communicating and interacting with society. This interactive ability of communication and coordination is a key ability of an inspector and must be effectively improved in actual work.

Third, improve supervision, evaluation and guidance capabilities.

In order to perform their duties well and do a good job in educational supervision, inspectors must have strong ability to supervise administration and supervision. The first is to improve the ability to supervise according to law, that is, the administrative supervision ability to inspect and supervise the implementation of educational regulations, policies, guidelines, and tasks

by educational institutions and schools at all levels. The second is to improve evaluation capabilities, not only to learn and master evaluation techniques and methods, but also to learn to select and apply educational evaluation techniques and methods. This ability has a very important impact on the validity and reliability of educational supervision

. The third is to improve guidance capabilities. Educational supervision is not only about "supervision", but also about "guidance". Therefore, inspectors must make full use of their professional expertise and serve as a good "think tank" and "think tank" for educational administrative agencies. The "experts" and "consultants" of grassroots schools, teachers, and students should effectively play the guiding function of educational supervision and guidance.

4. Improve the ability of research and reflection

Having scientific research awareness, knowledge and ability are the common characteristics of professionals from all walks of life. To improve the professional level of school inspectors, it is necessary to emphasize the requirement of having project research capabilities. Project research is of essential significance to the improvement of the professional quality of inspectors

and is also the best and fastest way to cultivate and develop an inspector. In the actual work of educational supervision, inspectors are required to not only have the ability to discover problems, but also be good at converting the discovered problems into research topics

and to see the essence through phenomena through research, so as to Find effective measures and countermeasures to solve problems. The research ability of an inspector is also reflected in his reflection on his own supervision work and the educational phenomena occurring around him. Therefore,

Reflection is also an essential ability for the professional development of school inspectors.

(The author is a deputy director-level researcher at the Education Supervision Office of Fengtai District People’s Government