1 Chengde strives for goodness: the cornerstone is fine products.
Since ancient times, education has always put "preaching" before "giving lessons to solve doubts", and "five educations" also put "moral education" in the first place. We believe that the orientation of the development path of school education should first lay the foundation for the inheritance of "morality" and the pursuit of "goodness". This is the basis and starting point for doing everything well. The appearance of external beauty of everything must be created by internal exquisiteness. We should try our best to brand all the factors related to children's growth as "being virtuous and being kind", and make school education an exquisite product that inherits the Millennium virtues and attracts people to be kind.
It's all for the children.
Children are the wealth that God has given to every parent, and also the wealth that gives us education. Education has a different mission for children. Every teacher has the responsibility and obligation to shine the sunshine on every child, so that every child can become the brightest jewel in the bright sunshine.
Give children a natural environment. At the beginning of Huai Xiao's school, the primary consideration of the school was how to arrange a spiritual and humanized learning and living environment for children, and how to make every part of the campus conform to the characteristics of children and integrate with nature. Therefore, the architectural style dominated by pink tones makes the entire Huaixiao campus warm and pleasant; Flowers and trees full of creative shapes make the lines of the campus smart; Countless acacia trees, magnolia trees, ginkgo trees, pear trees, osmanthus flowers, camellia flowers and plum blossoms soak the campus in the flowers and birds of the four seasons. There are also various sports and fitness equipment, sand filtration equipment and so on. Let the campus be contained in a comfortable and humanized atmosphere. Here, you can see children's energetic sports figures at any time, and you can see flowers, vegetables and fruits carefully handled by children in a corner everywhere. The campus is not big. There is life everywhere. Behind every elaborate design is a treasure-like care for children. Miss Huai Xiao, who loves beauty, always considers problems from the students' point of view and "dresses up" the campus with collective wisdom, so that Huai Xiao exudes unique exquisite charm.
Warm a child's heart with love. A small number of students are full-time students. In order to let those children who have just left home and are at a loss after novelty return to calm and get on the right track as soon as possible, at the beginning of the new semester, Li Jing, the vice president in charge of logistics, always takes the children by the hand and leads them to the dormitory, campus and playground ... When the soft floor, cartoon bed, childlike toiletries and all kinds of green plants fill the children's field of vision, the children always like this home place quickly. Under the meticulous care of teachers and the care of peers, every child with a baby has a sunny attitude.
Let children have a stage for self-development. Huai Xiao has always respected children and attached importance to teaching students in accordance with their aptitude. When children face learning difficulties, teachers provide psychological counseling and after-school counseling, so that these children will not be frustrated and lose confidence because of temporary failure; When a child with extraordinary intelligence "doesn't have enough to eat" and applies for advanced placement, school leaders face up to the child's requirements, seriously consider and repeatedly demonstrate, and at the same time do a good job of tracking feedback, so that excellent children can have a stage to display their talents.
When Huai Xiao dug the first shovel, the education of "love" began to lay the foundation stone in Huai Xiao, and "love" became the core concept of Huai Xiao. "All for the children" has become the most classic and sacred motto of every pregnant teacher.
The greatest strength comes from teachers.
The development of a school is inseparable from the key factor-teachers, and an excellent team of teachers is the decisive force for the refinement of school education.
Huai Xiao attaches great importance to school-based teaching and research, strengthens the cultivation of teachers' professional quality, regularly carries out activities led by experts and famous teachers every year, and plans various blue-blue training projects to make teachers move from bystanders to participants and then to active developers. President Qian Zemin believes that it is not only respect and love for teachers, but also training them to maximize their advantages. His control over the teacher is very loose, which seems to be more artistic management and more meticulous attention to details. It is in this atmosphere that Huai primary school teachers influence and blend with each other, inherit virtues and pursue truth, goodness and beauty.
After the establishment of Huaide Sun Society, the first research team of dream-chasing folk teachers in Changzhou, the school attached great importance to it, took good care of it and provided a platform. Under the influence of the "sun", other teachers also set off a conscious "de-professionalism" wind. This influential research team in Changzhou has also achieved remarkable results in guiding young teachers, and has been approved as a district teaching and research studio and a city famous teacher studio. Wu, a teacher, joined Sun Society in 2008 before he was admitted to the teacher establishment. During the preparation period, with the unique spirit of hard work and enterprising of Mr. Huai Xiao, I worked hard and participated in round after round, and won the first place in the preparation for new teachers in two regions respectively. When the director of another district talked to her, she said politely, "I decided to stay in Huaideyuan Primary School because this fertile soil raised me!" " Like Mr. Wu, more and more teachers began to participate in school activities, such as the reading hall of "Taste Three Flavors of Ice Cream" and the brainstorming forum of "Planting Apple Trees". They United and helped each other and opened up an experimental field of education. A kind of pursuit of dreams, a kind of appeal to educational ideals, germinated in the mind of Huai Xiao, and became an irresistible force for Huai Xiao.
In the second half of 2008, the number of academic leaders and backbone teachers in the school has exceeded 30%. In the new round of evaluation, eight teachers in Huaixiao were awarded the title of backbone teacher and four were awarded the title of academic leader. Teachers led students to create and edit more than 200 school newspapers. In the past three years, the whole school 18 teachers have participated in the compilation of 56 books. At present, undergraduate teachers account for 42% and junior college teachers account for 50%. A teacher got a master's degree this year. There are 10 teachers applying for master's degree, and high-quality teachers have become an inexhaustible motive force for the sustainable development of the school.
2. Realizing virtue and being good: what we have developed is the style of cutting thorns.
When "seeking goodness in Chengde" is laid as a spirit. The further development of the school needs deeper thinking and planning. We believe that "virtue" means abandoning the influence of formalism and utilitarianism. Lay the foundation for children's lifelong development and cultivate "moral" children with real wisdom, character and activated potential. We believe that "goodness" is a sunny, beautiful and pure realm. Educators should sincerely and wholeheartedly face everything, guide children to seek knowledge, acquire knowledge and apply knowledge, and guide children to ask about the beautiful yearning for human nature and the meaning of life. "Virtue" should be constantly understood and constructed, "goodness" should be constantly yearned for, and goals and directions should be determined. This puts forward new requirements for the development of the school, and the newly-built school will inevitably encounter many difficulties, and the trend of breaking through difficulties will become a major pattern in development.
Entering the New Curriculum ―― Dialogue with the Curriculum itself
Teach what? It is the territory that education constantly pursues. Education is the inheritance of culture. What do primary school students like best and need to learn most? When the state shared some curriculum rights with local schools, each school had the right to take care of its own land, so Huai Xiao chose to lay a piece of grass and let the children play freely. Make the campus a paradise.
How to embody the scientificity, rationality and innovation is a constant question for the curriculum construction team led by Director Wang Mingxin. Early pregnancy is not recognized by the society, and local students "flow out". In order to let the people know and trust Huai Xiao, the teaching department always takes pains to introduce the "courses" of the school to the parents who consult. Now the curriculum construction of Huai Xiao is first-class. This is also one of the things that Huai Xiao did during the development. Curriculum construction is not smooth sailing. At first, teachers had a vague understanding of it, so the actual effect was much worse. In order to let teachers play a key role, the school carries out school-based training, organizes teachers to study the relevant documents of national curriculum adjustment, and then talks about their own views, deeply understands the basis of curriculum arrangement, and then implements it in the specific curriculum arrangement. In order to develop the new curriculum of comprehensive practical activities, the school has thought from many aspects. In order to cultivate students' love, we will vigorously carry out the activities of "caring for vulnerable groups on weekends" and create a warm class activity of "Ba Xue Garden". In order to cultivate students' sense of responsibility, we have carried out comprehensive practical activities such as "competition for the position of principal assistant" and "Red Riding Hood volunteer tour on campus". In order to cultivate students' international vision and leadership spirit, we have carried out many comprehensive practical activities of international exchanges and mutual visits every year. Huai Xiao also attaches great importance to the teaching of music, physical education, beauty, science and information. There are full-time teachers and special classrooms, and we insist on not stopping a class before the final exam and graduation exam. Schools take "virtue" as the foundation of being a person and "goodness" as the goal. Curriculum arrangement is always closely combined with the cultivation of students' characteristics.
School-based curriculum can best reflect the characteristics of school curriculum. The school offers more than 20 courses such as Wushu, Guzheng, Erhu, Oil Painting, Planting and Go. Students can voluntarily choose to take part in these courses, and teachers can compile their own teaching materials, so as to be planned, process and practice. Curriculum construction makes Huai Xiao's quality education famous in the local area. At present, the school's folk music performance, dance performance, chorus performance and oil painting creation have won the first place in various special competitions in Changzhou.
At present. Huai Xiao is making a new curriculum development plan. They integrate advanced concepts such as students are courses, teachers are courses, and textbooks are courses into curriculum construction. The standardized management, development and implementation of the curriculum is the guarantee to realize the beautiful vision of cultivating children with "kindness, wisdom and sunshine".
Entering New Curriculum ―― Dialogue with Curriculum Implementation
How to teach? This is the eternal theme of education. When the major teaching points are blooming everywhere in the motherland, Huai Xiao is also exploring his own way. Plant all kinds of flowers for children and let them find and pick them according to their own preferences. They will regard pregnancy as a paradise in their hearts.
"How to make children really love English?" This has always been the thinking of Li Na, head of the English teaching and research group. She believes that English learning needs atmosphere and environment. To this end, she led the teaching and research group to formulate a series of measures, such as the "six ones" training plan for young teachers, the establishment of English newspapers, "English festivals" and the establishment of English clubs. The serious reflection and reconstruction of English group not only makes English group mature, but also makes children like English more and more. Their oral English competition won the first prize in the whole region, and their English compositions were published in journals. Now the school has also hired foreign teachers. Children have the opportunity to have oral communication with foreign teachers in English class every week.
Huai Xiao's Chinese subject, from the "second class hour" that everyone is keen to explore to "finding the soul of the first class hour", and now the exploration of integrated class hours, has enabled more and more Chinese teachers to establish the concept of big Chinese teaching. At the initiative of Zheng, the head of the school's Chinese subject, the school also set up a literary society and a small reporter court. In the past three years, the Small Press Institute has published nearly 200 articles on Changzhou Evening News, with a full page of 18 times, and was commended by the All-China Youth Federation in September 2007. China's famous children's literature writers such as Jin Bo, Cao Wenxuan, Ge Bing and Ge Jing have also taught students many times. Close dialogue with literary masters has made children realize the importance of expressing their true feelings in words.
Education emphasizes regression, and education should be simple and "reduce the burden". Every morning, President Qian Zemin will stand at the school gate and greet every child with a smile. He will also check the children's schoolbags from time to time and ask teachers to strive to be "good teachers who don't let children carry schoolbags home". He not only emphasizes "reducing the burden" from the external workload, but also emphasizes "reducing the burden" in the classroom, that is, discussing the teaching design of "30+ 10". Homework should be clear and clear.
Teachers with young children are thinking about the far-reaching influence of this subject on children. They take "solid foundation, comprehensive quality and obvious specialty" as the training goal, leading children to truly enter the temple of knowledge and fly themselves in a free paradise.
3 Doing good deeds and accumulating virtue: It is the rise of modern wind.
The school only stays in the process of "realizing morality and doing good", and its development is incomplete, because only "doing" is the real education, and the belief in education is not expressed in words, but in actions. Everyone has a dream tower. It is education that "awakens" dreams and makes them come true. Teachers are people who fly to their dreams hand in hand with their children. Schools should not only become the gateway to the tower of dreams, but also become the driving force for their soaring, such as a wind, a modern wind with the characteristics of the times and vitality. The development of a school should be a process of "doing good by virtue", acting in virtue, participating in goodness, turning education into hope in development and rising in development. This is the change that education should bring.
A feature of continuous progress in thought.
"Mathematical culture" is the most representative of many characteristics of Huai Xiao. 200 1, when Huai Xiao took mathematics as the content of brand building, there was no successful experience reference. Many activities are carried out vividly: copying famous mathematical sayings, telling mathematicians' stories, drawing Max's children's paintings, writing math papers, publishing math wall newspapers, holding math interest classes and so on. Although these measures played a certain role in stimulating students' interest in learning mathematics, broadening students' knowledge and cultivating students' mathematical ability at that time, the problem that the form is greater than the connotation and too superficial is also obvious. For better and better schools, this function must break through the bottleneck!
In the continuous practice, the school has gradually defined the goal and formed the working idea: "carry forward the mathematics culture, feel the usefulness of mathematics, taste the fun of mathematics and experience the beauty of mathematics." The concrete measures are: building "three fronts" (giving every math class well, compiling gymnastics teaching materials for mathematical thinking, and setting up school-based course "comprehensive mathematical practice activities") and building "three platforms" (building a website showing the characteristics of school mathematics teaching, running "Huaide Mathematics Newspaper" well, and holding a mathematical culture festival every year). The school expects to achieve the following goals: ① to give students a pair of eyes that can observe things with mathematical eyes; (2) Give students a mind that can think with mathematical thoughts; Give students a pair of hands that can try to practice with math ability.
Xu, who is in charge of school mathematics, has been thinking about how to let students consciously accept the enlightenment of mathematical spirit under the infiltration of mathematical cultural field. She believes that the value of school mathematics education is not only to let students acquire mathematical knowledge, but more importantly, to let students accept the influence of mathematical spirit, mathematical ideas and mathematical methods through mathematics learning and exercise their will quality. And move them to all fields of study, work and life. She thinks this is the embodiment and interpretation of the connotation of the school in this discipline. What impressed her most was that she led all the math teachers to carry out a series of math theme activities of "approaching scientists and developing students in an all-round way", which made the children truly experience the wind of "doing good deeds, accumulating virtue and being kind to others". In 2006, the teachers and students of the whole school collected the information of 26 Changzhou academicians, and all classes in the whole school contacted academicians. After the theme activities began, students began to communicate closely with academicians and grandfathers, and reported their participation in school development and hometown construction. At present, students with children have kept close contact with eight academicians, and four academicians have personally come to the school to carry out networking activities with their classmates.
Vice President Xu Zhitong, who is in charge of teaching, has only been in school for one year. She found that Huai Xiao's mathematics is "special" in the overall quality of students' mathematics, "special" in the cultivation of mathematics culture for the whole people, and "special" in the reform of mathematics evaluation. Just one year after coming to the school, she made an inventory of the school's mathematical culture construction in recent years and put forward new ideas. She hopes that those lovely math teachers with children can gradually have their own "special" teaching ideas and act bravely. In last year's celebration of "20th Anniversary of Teaching and Exploring the Sea in Jiangsu Province", Huai Xiao also presented the school's mathematical culture construction as a sub-venue. Professor Yu Yayan, an outstanding young math teacher, finished the school-based course "Kilogram and Gram", and showed his change of ideas in the process of mathematical culture construction through one lesson, which left a deep impression on the participants.
A feature of continuous walking in the mind lasted for seven years. Influenced by the strong mathematical culture, the mathematical achievements of Huai pupils gradually tend to be in the leading position in the whole region. Math teachers have achieved themselves as well as their children. In 2009, the district teaching and research section made statistics on the winners of young teachers' quality competitions over the years. Everyone was surprised to find that in the seven years that Huai Xiao advocated the brand of mathematics characteristics, Huai Xiao's mathematics teachers also won seven first prizes in succession.
The transformation from local to whole.
In 2004, Huai Xiao had only one municipal project. As a banner of the region, an ordinary project can no longer meet the needs of the sustainable development of the school, and there must be a high-level project that integrates operability, practicality and research. In 2007, the school pondered the question "What kind of study lays the foundation for students' lifelong growth". The topic of "Creating the Intellectual Background of Students' Lifelong Development: School-based Curriculum Development of Inquiry Reading" began to be brewed. In combination with the fact that the understanding of reading teaching is still relatively narrow and the selection of reading materials is relatively simple, the school tried to innovate boldly and prepared to infiltrate reading teaching into all subjects in the whole primary school stage. Not only did the reading materials break through the recommendation of China's literary works, but the guidance of children's "inquiry reading" was no longer for the specific acquisition of a certain knowledge. It is not equivalent to in-depth research reading on a certain issue, but to stimulate an interest, experience a reading process and realize a development vision of active reading. More importantly, it has changed the situation that China teachers "monopolize power" and made it the responsibility of all teachers to cultivate children's reading habits and abilities.
Reading is the power to revitalize the nation, and education is the engine to exert this power. This study pays more attention to the life growth of teachers and students in the process of inquiry reading, and holds the views of "starting from children's reading needs", "starting from providing suitable reading works" and "starting from respecting children's unique reading feelings". Here, teachers' mission of teaching and educating people has also been given a new orientation. Teachers' participation in research leading children's reading is not only a process of reflecting on children's reading experience and thinking about how to realize "inquiry" reading more effectively, but also a process of teachers' reading works. This process improves the individual life value of teachers, purifies teachers' hearts, and teachers and students embark on the road of truth, goodness and beauty.
After a year's brewing, this topic has invited provincial, municipal and district teaching and research experts to come to the school for guidance. In 2008, it finally became the key project of the provincial "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" scientific planning office. In recent two years' research, the weekly reading class and daily noon are divided into two stages: "quiet reading time" and "enjoying reading time", which makes reading highlight the curriculum culture and noon culture; Childhood views on students, teachers and teaching are changing from local to whole.