Educational Philosophy
The art of education is not to teach, but to inspire and awaken.
? Educational Quotes
Be a good principal who makes the school successful.
? Highlights
Zhou Zhi, a special teacher in Sichuan Province, an education inspector of the Chengdu Municipal People’s Government, a high school principal in Chengdu who leads students, and a famous principal in Wenjiang District. Xingtan has been teaching for 37 years, from ordinary teacher, teaching and research team leader to principal of a nine-year consistent school, and now principal of Wenjiang Middle School Experimental School. No matter where he is or what position he holds, he believes that "education is first of all spiritual growth" He will give top priority to the spiritual guidance of teachers and students and strive to lead the school to excellence.
? Educational thinking and practice
"Excellence" originally refers to excellence. Mr. Ye Lan gave it a new connotation - outstanding independence, surpassing oneself and surpassing oneself. Outstanding people have high aspirations and broad vision; they have independent personality, tenacity of will, wisdom and ability; they are able to constantly challenge themselves and surpass themselves. With deep recognition of his views, Zhou Zhi put forward the core connotation of the school’s excellent education: to maximize the potential of every teacher and student and help them experience a sense of achievement beyond themselves.
Cultivation of the spirit
Excellent education should start from the cultivation of the spirit, and put helping people gain spiritual strength and improving people's spiritual quality at the top of the educational goals. Zhou Zhi believes that outstanding people do not strive to be the first in everything, but can have a kind of "even if they are a small grass, they must stand up their own branches and leaves and show their own green" on the road to future development. Effortless and confident.
Cultural leadership. In addition to creating a cultural environment that permeates the spirit of excellence, the school also keeps pace with the times and organizes a series of rich and meaningful activities to allow students to experience in the activities, think in the experience, understand in thinking, and internalize in understanding. , expressed after internalization, so that the spirit of excellence can take root in the heart like a seed. Moral education activities with themes of love for the party and patriotism, traditional virtues, and civic ethics; an oath-taking ceremony for leaving the army and joining the regiment in commemoration of the "December 9th" movement; a series of regiment training; entrance military training to cultivate will and quality; various Similar sports competitions...are all ways for schools to achieve cultural leadership.
Have firm faith. Faith is the organic unity of knowledge, emotion and will, and is a psychological quality that is comprehensive, stable and durable. People judge right and wrong based on their own beliefs and work hard for their beliefs. For teenagers who are in the formative period of their faith, faith education is crucial. The school uses team activities with distinctive themes and lively forms as the starting point to educate students on world outlook, history, life, and moral values, and actively encourages them to learn to use beliefs to adjust and guide their study and life.
Practical experience. Allowing students to gain experience in organizing and participating in club activities is an innovative step in cultivating students' spirit in the school's excellent education. The school student union has established a club department, which is responsible for the management of various clubs and the coordination and implementation of club activities. On campus, at the flag-raising ceremony, members of the Brass Band Club will provide on-site ceremonial music accompaniment; for every large-scale event, students from the Ceremony Club will be responsible for greeting, reception and service matters; at sports events, the Model Aircraft Club, Students from the dance club, photography club, Xinyu club and volunteer service club will actively provide caring services... Outside the campus, students have spontaneously organized a number of caring clubs. Everyone uses weekends, holidays and other breaks to visit Communities, providing assistance to the best of our ability to the lonely elderly and needy families in the community.
Developing quality
Moral quality is the relatively stable and consistent characteristics and tendencies shown by individuals in their moral behavior. It is the moral principles and norms of a certain society that are reflected in personal thoughts. and reflected in behavior. The essence of spiritual growth is the cultivation and improvement of moral character. Under the leadership of Zhou Zhi, the school has built an autonomous and progressive moral education system that takes into account factors such as moral understanding, moral emotions, moral beliefs, moral will and moral behavior to help students develop good qualities.
Self-management system for third-level students. The school has established independent student management organizations at the school level, grade level and class level - the Student Autonomous Management Committee. The members of the school-level autonomous management committee are elected through class elections, grade recommendations, and school-wide elections. Their responsibilities are to inspect, evaluate, and report on the school's duty situation, lunch break discipline, order of the two exercises, environmental sanitation, etc.; the grade-level autonomous management committee is responsible The class campus is on duty for the week to monitor, supervise and inspect school affairs during the week; the class autonomous management committee of each class is responsible for specific class management such as discipline, hygiene, two exercises, and duty.
The three-level student self-management system realizes a school management structure in which everyone has a post, everyone has a fixed position, everyone has something to do, and everyone is managed. It helps students form self-discipline in self-management, move from self-discipline to self-reliance, and from self-reliance to self-improvement. At the same time, the school's large-scale themed moral education activities, grade-level moral education activities, club activities, etc., from creativity, planning, implementation to organization and summary commendation of the activities, fully highlight the dominant position of students. For example, the program selection, front and backstage service work, on-site order maintenance, and activity arrangement for activities such as the seventh-grade "Farewell to Childhood and Flying Dreams" and the eighth-grade "English Style Contest" are all responsible for the student independent management committee.
Progressive moral education work system. Based on the psychological development characteristics of students and the laws of junior high school education, the school has established keywords for moral education work for each grade to clarify the focus of moral education at each grade. The key word for moral education in seventh grade is "nurturing education." The school hopes to gradually standardize and normalize students' behavioral and study habits by creating a good atmosphere, insisting on quantitative evaluation of classes, and strictly implementing moral education routines, and then achieve three transformations, namely, from wrong understanding to correct understanding, and from correct understanding. The transformation of understanding into correct behavior, and the transformation from correct behavior to good behavior.
The key word for eighth-grade moral education is "character education." Personality education is an important part of moral education. While helping students develop a healthy personality through regular moral education in schools, the school conducts theoretical and practical exploration of personality education in the form of project research. The “Research on the Team Building Model of ‘Recommending and Cultivating Talents’ in Junior High Schools”, which includes personality education objectives, was successfully approved as a key project of the Youth League Provincial Committee and the Provincial Department of Education.
The key word for ninth-grade moral education is "ideal education." Ideals are the beacon and motivation for graduating students’ actions. In view of the characteristics of junior high school students' ideals tend to be superficial and lack stability, the school organizes class meetings and lectures around ideal education every semester, and also holds ritual activities and career experience activities such as the 100-day swearing-in ceremony for the high school entrance examination and graduation ceremony to make the best of the situation and inspire them. The spark of their ideals encourages them to combine their interests, talents, and aspirations with social needs.
Cultivating abilities
The essence of the school’s spirit of excellence is to forge ahead, never give up; do your best to be yourself. Under the guidance of the school-running philosophy of "perfection, perfection, and pursuit of excellence", the school has established a capability-building system that promotes each student's personality development, their strengths, and their diversified development.
"Three-Self" courses. The "Three-Self" refers to "self-reliance", "freedom" and "autonomy". It is a general summary of the respective properties of the school's basic courses, expanded courses and practical courses.
Basic courses are compulsory courses in schools, including national curricula and local curricula. The school requires teachers to strictly implement the curriculum plan, complete teaching tasks with quality and quantity, control the workload and the number of tests, and seek benefits from the classroom. Since this part of the course is a course that students must try their best to complete within the scope of their own abilities and continue to work hard, the school also calls it a "self-reliance" course.
“Freedom” is the school’s visual expression of the characteristics of the expanded curriculum. At present, the school has comprehensively opened more than 50 expansion courses in five categories: fitness, knowledge, happiness, inspiration, and promotion. The school has also cooperated with the doctoral supervisory laboratory of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, and Xi'an Jiaotong University to offer courses aimed at early cultivation of students' financial and economic literacy, life science literacy, and scientific innovation and experimental literacy. The school hopes to provide students with more opportunities for free choice through a rich curriculum.
In line with the principle of "independent creation and self-management", the school has developed practical courses that reflect the characteristics of "independence", striving to allow students to gain experience in practice. The course is mainly implemented in the form of club activities. Under the unified leadership of the Student Association Federation, students enjoy many rights such as applying to create associations, hiring teachers independently, and carrying out activities independently. At present, the school has established more than 60 clubs such as Xinyu Club, Campus TV Station, Volunteer Service Club, Hanfu Club, Model Aircraft Club, and Animation Club. Each club has distinctive characteristics and creative activities. It cooperates with the student union and has its own beauty.
The combination of physical education and education. In order to allow every student to have a lifelong sports habit and two lifelong sports skills, while ensuring the school's normal education and teaching activities, the school integrates multiple resources, reforms management methods and operating mechanisms, and gives full play to the school's physical education advantages. , cooperated with Sichuan Sports Technology Institute, Chengdu Football Association, and Wenjiang District Amateur Sports School to develop a sports-education integrated education model of "one exercise + three lessons + two meetings + two activities". "One exercise" refers to eye exercises, "three classes" refers to three physical education classes per week, "three meetings" include winter comprehensive sports meeting, spring ball games, and staff sports meeting, and "two activities" refers to inter-curricular activities and extracurricular activities. Nowadays, school activities show a good trend of "everyone loves sports, there are teams in every class, and there are competitions every week."
In the long-term development of sports activities, the school has achieved double harvests in scientific research and achievements. The project "Research on Strengthening Quality of Junior High School Students" has been approved by Wenjiang District. The school's women's football team won the second prize in the 2017 National Youth Football Champions Cup; the school's weightlifting team won the first and second place in the team in the 2016 and 2017 National Middle School Weightlifting Championships. The school has won a series of honorary titles such as "National Advanced Group of Schools with Traditional Sports Projects", "National Sports Red Flag School", and "National First Batch of Campus Football Designated Schools".
"Work can be ordinary, but life cannot be mediocre" is the view shared by Zhou Zhichang with everyone. Under his leadership, the cultural spirit of "everyone, always, and everything pursues excellence and rejects mediocrity" in the school is being continuously strengthened. Zhou Zhi hopes that excellent education can lay a good foundation for the healthy development of every student. He will work with the entire school staff to cultivate students into pillars with excellent emotional intelligence and lifelong pursuit of excellence.