From November 24th to December 7th, 2019, I was honored to be a member of the third phase of Nanjing. Under the leadership of Chief Superintendent Wu Guanglin of the Municipal Education Bureau and Section Chief Wang Fangfang of the Basic Education Section of the Municipal Education Bureau Went to Nanjing Senior High School in Jiangsu Province for two weeks of on-the-job training. The century-old school - Jiangsu Province Nanjing Senior High School allows us to appreciate the outstanding people in Wu. The garden-style campus architecture, the profound cultural heritage, the memorial hall that collects a large number of cultural relics, calligraphy and paintings donated by the talented student Shen Peng in return to his alma mater, and the wonderful introduction to the school by the well-educated teacher Jia Chenxiao all come together to form the image of this famous school. Beautiful scenery. Now I will report what I have seen, understood and felt in the past two weeks as follows:
1. Profound cultural inheritance
Nanjing Senior High School is a famous school with a history of 138 years. . Its name comes from Zhu Xi's famous saying "Study in the South, get its essence". It is a famous school with a long history and one of the first batch of high-quality model high schools in Jiangsu Province. It is a new southern school that integrates ecology, human culture and digitalization. The layout of Jingjing's buildings is unique. The modern axis highlights the vitality of the school and the buildings are majestic and beautiful. The historical axis exudes the intoxicating atmosphere of the academy. The buildings are simple and heavy. Walking into the campus is like walking into an elegant and famous garden, with pavilions, waterside pavilions, ancient wells in the academy, and ancient buildings. The famous trees, the corridor with inscriptions, the school gate with arrows and the Sutra Bell Tower... all demonstrate the profound cultural heritage of Nanjing High School. From the former Nanjing Academy to today's famous Jiangnan school, what has been deposited is not only the traces of history and culture, but also the value pursuit of education by Nanjing people of all generations. Nanjing people believe that "education is a cultural process." Culture is the symbol of the existence of education, the reflection of the essence of education, the embodiment of educational tradition, and the core of educational development. Nanjing High School adheres to the educational proposition of "school development is the growth of values ??under the guidance of culture". It establishes the school with culture and develops the school with culture, making value guidance the inexhaustible driving force for school development. The school motto of "loyalty, forgiveness, diligence and thrift" and the tradition of being practical in the world have a long history. A large number of outstanding alumni such as Huang Yanpei, Lu Dingyi, Gu Mingyuan, Shen Peng, Jin Liqun, etc. have demonstrated the cultural genes and feelings of family and country of Nanjing Education. Lead Nanjing students to understand the value of life, cultivate noble feelings, and achieve the beauty of life.
The academy couplets on Nanjing Campus demonstrate the spirit of traditional academy education that is pragmatic and practical. They are poetic, meaningful, refreshing, and have become classics. The boulder at the school gate that reads "Study from the South, Get the Essence" tells students what kind of school you have entered and what kind of person you will become. The "Zhengxue Pavilion" in the middle of the campus tells students "the students have the right knowledge and act with sincerity and practical deeds". It tells students what the purpose of your study is and what goal you should work towards? At the corner of the modern axis and the historical axis of the campus, there is the "Book Flavor Pavilion". The famous aphorism "If you read more, you will forget to complain about the boss, reading is interesting and calm" tells students how to read and study.
2. Leading by advanced concepts
In the new era, Nanjing High School is based on the "Nanjing temperament" of "having ideas and expressing them, being responsible and responsible, loving and tolerant" As the educational goal of the school, we should keep integrity, innovate and continue to explore. "Let culture lead the development of the school is the school's guiding ideology", and "cultural guidance, quality-oriented, brand building, and comprehensive improvement" is the school's development strategy. With the century-old school history as its cultural gene, the culture of Nanjing Academy thrives. According to the tasks and goals of development in the new era, Nanjing culture is developed, and the educational philosophy of the new Nanjing is established to “provide education that focuses on the life happiness of teachers and students, and achieve the beauty of life”, and clarifies that “nurturing Nanjing’s temperament and cultivating future strong The goal of school education is to "reconstruct middle school life with aesthetic education and move school education towards the aesthetic realm" and the educational idea of ??"cultivating students' core values ????with school culture and realizing the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral integrity". It reflects the overall grasp of the school's development direction. "The elites of the South are nurtured here". Nanjing High School has cultivated students with solid theoretical knowledge and broad thinking ability based on its overall pattern of "running schools rooted in China, looking to the world stage for development, and educating talents for the future society" and students with good overall quality. The educational philosophy of Nanjing High School made me realize that every year about 50 people win the first prize of the National Olympiad, about 100 people pass the independent admission examination of key universities, about 10 people are admitted to Tsinghua and Peking University, and about 50 people are admitted to the first-class universities in Europe and the United States. the root of.
3. Unique Curriculum Construction
Under the guidance of advanced school running concepts, Nanjing High School has formed the development of "reconstructing middle school life with aesthetic education and moving school education towards the aesthetic realm" Path, curriculum base construction is in full swing, and the "two axes, three levels and five domains" aesthetic education curriculum system has gradually been formed and improved. Dual axes: The two core axes in the layout of the school building complex: the historical axis and the modern axis, representing the history and future of Nanjing Academy respectively. The double axes also symbolize the hour and minute hands of the clock: from the "Centennial Academy" to the "Great Beauty Nanjing", which means that Nanjing education inherits history, transcends time and space, and faces the future. Level 3: Refers to the structure of school curriculum, which are arranged at three levels. They are basic courses directed at the formation and development of students' basic qualities and reflecting the country's most basic requirements for citizen qualities; and directed at developing students' potential and promoting students' individuality. Develop and reflect the school's characteristic expansion courses; comprehensive courses that point to students' independent and innovative spirit, research and practical abilities, and cooperation and development awareness. Five domains: refers to the five major areas of the curriculum structure, namely humanities and social sciences, technological innovation, life and health, artistic creation, and civil society.
In recent years, Nanjing High School has successively become: a temporary training base for national famous principals and famous teachers of the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences; a training base for the Basic Education Curriculum and Textbook Development Center of the Ministry of Education; and an inspection base school for the Middle School Principal Training Center of the Ministry of Education. ; Leading school of Jiangsu Province Ordinary High School Curriculum Base Alliance; Jiangsu Province Ordinary High School Curriculum Base Demonstration School; Jiangsu Province Basic Education Forward-looking Teaching Reform Experimental Project School; Jiangsu Province Aesthetic Education Curriculum Base; Jiangsu Province Micro-Technology Curriculum Base. "Study and Life Construction Pointed to International Understanding Literacy" was established as a forward-looking teaching reform experimental project of basic education in Jiangsu Province; "Gu Mingyuan Basic Education Thought and Practice Research" was established as a forward-looking teaching reform experimental project of basic education in Jiangsu Province; "Pointing to Nanjing The "Construction of an Independent Moral Education Curriculum System for Temperament Cultivation" was established as a character improvement project for primary and secondary school students in Jiangsu Province.
Classroom teaching is the main battlefield of school education. While Nanjing is committed to the construction of autonomy, generativity and openness in the classroom, it further clarifies that the essence of the classroom is to promote student learning and advocates construction to allow students to "enjoy" "Aesthetic class. From the perspective of classroom teaching, the school's construction of "aesthetic classroom" is to achieve the integrity of every Nanjing student's life. The school held the "Aesthetic Class" public teaching seminar event, aiming to implement the philosophical proposition of "providing education that focuses on the life and happiness of teachers and students" and open up a development path for the school in the new era of "reconstructing middle school life with aesthetic education", using the discipline of aesthetic class Construct and promote school education towards an aesthetic realm. All disciplines have worked hard to form a unique curriculum system. Such as "Exploration and Reproduction Design of Lost Ancient Teaware", "Geographical Discovery" Study Trip, "Guolan and Culture" and so on.
As Yang Peiming, the principal of Nanjing High School, said, "The most fundamental purpose of education is to cultivate people's pursuit of values, pay attention to the life happiness of teachers and students, and enable students to constantly get rid of their own shackles and move toward a broader spiritual highland." "There is no education without love, and there is no learning without interest. Teaching and educating people are in the details, and students grow in activities." Nanjing's curriculum culture embodies the characteristics of harmony and tolerance, giving people a pleasant aesthetic feeling everywhere, edifying people. The temperament of teachers and students gives birth to the endless pursuit of beauty deep in the hearts of teachers and students.
4. Solid Scientific Research Guarantee
Currently, there are the following misunderstandings about educational scientific research: First, educational scientific research means writing papers and doing projects, which has little effect on teacher development and improvement. Second, education and scientific research work is to deal with the school's evaluation of excellence and advanced work, which is the school's business; third, the key to school work is teaching and test scores, and there is no need to spend great efforts on teaching and scientific research. It is no wonder that these misunderstandings arise for three reasons: first, the transitional utilitarian orientation of education; second, short-sighted thinking in educational development; third, the lack of scientific understanding of ways to improve the quality of education and teaching.
Nanjing Middle School adheres to the development concept of "developing teachers by developing scientific research, developing students by developing teachers, and developing the school by developing teachers and students." Its teaching and scientific research work has achieved three persistences: "Adhere to one principle: overcoming utilitarianism; adhere to one magic weapon: grassroots research; return to one origin: classroom teaching." Full participation, lower focus, and linkage of three courses (topics, courses, and classrooms) , ensuring that teaching and scientific research work takes root.
At the same time, Nanjing Middle School focuses on the cultivation of scientific research talents based on quality improvement.
The teaching and research group formulates a three-year development plan for the discipline; teachers formulate a three-year personal professional development plan; a collective teaching and research mechanism based on teaching improvement (teaching and research group activities, lesson preparation group activities); research on teaching improvement based on big data analysis (mathematics group, foreign language group, physics group , geography group); a teaching and research group based on curriculum development; a head teacher research team based on class management optimization; a project research team based on grade department development. In 2016, Nanjing established the Mingyuan Teacher Development Center and the Excellent Teacher Workshop to fully promote the professional development of teachers.
Some inspirations for our education and teaching work:
1. To improve the quality of teaching, we must have advanced concepts to guide us
"Cihai" (1989) There are two interpretations of the word "idea". One is "views, thoughts, and the results of thinking activities"; the other is "theory, concept (Greek idea). It usually refers to thoughts. Sometimes it also refers to representations or objective things in the human brain. The general image left in it" ("Cihai" p. 1367). Ideas relate to ideas. Concepts that rise to the level of rationality are called "ideas". (First there is an idea, then the correct idea becomes a concept, and then the concept becomes an idea after another observation). I believe that the so-called philosophy in education and teaching work is no wonder a pursuit and value orientation of education and teaching. An advanced and advanced concept will inevitably bring about big thinking and pursuit of education. Nanjing Senior High School "reconstructs modern campus life with the pursuit of beauty" and "provides education that pays attention to the life and happiness of teachers and students". Our school "runs a school that satisfies the people" and "builds a famous school in Longshang". These are all schools under the guidance of advanced concepts Pursue. Only under the guidance of advanced teaching concepts can we achieve high pursuit and high goals of education quality. "Dynamic classroom" and "Let learning lead to thinking", these basic requirements for classroom teaching are concrete practices based on advanced concepts. In recent years, the quality of the college entrance examination in our school has improved by leaps and bounds, which cannot be separated from the guidance of advanced concepts. If you remain stubborn, you will inevitably retreat. Jinzhong people know this truth very well. Only by learning by doing and doing by learning can we improve the quality of teaching today and even in the future.
2. To improve the quality of teaching, we must give full play to the power of the team
As the saying goes, "A single tree cannot make a forest" and "Many oars can sail a big ship". The truth reflected is that the power of the team must be brought into play. quantity. Within the unit, everyone is an independent individual, and everyone may not necessarily have the same understanding and view of the same thing. Some people are very supportive of the goals and tasks set by the unit, some may think it doesn't matter, while others may be more resistant, and some may even disagree with the task arrangement and path methods you proposed and think their ideas More scientific, more direct and more effective than yours. In education and teaching work, we have grade groups, teaching and research groups, and lesson preparation groups. The main function of establishing these teams is to leverage the collective strength. What we have to do is to seek common ground while reserving differences, build cohesion, and achieve effective collaboration. Since we are in the same school, one grade group, one teaching and research group, and one lesson preparation group, our goals and pursuits are the same. This requires us to abandon individualism, everyone thinks in the same place, works hard in the same place, and works together for the determined goal. Make sure you build a platform without tearing it down, and build up your strength without getting discouraged. If you have any problem, please discuss it with us and find a solution together. As Nanjing Middle School said, "There are no losers in a successful team, and there are no winners in a failed team." What we need is this positive team spirit. To improve the quality of teaching, we must leverage the power of the team.
3. To improve the teaching quality, we must do a good job in teaching and scientific research
Teaching and scientific research is a key factor related to the improvement of a school's teaching quality. As far as the current teaching and scientific research work is concerned, some people do it as an effective way to improve their own abilities, some people do it as a means to reserve the conditions for professional title evaluation, and some people just do it to complete a specific school. Regulations are being made. Due to differences in the goals and value pursuits of teaching and scientific research work, the implementation of this work is different. What we need to do now is to correct our attitude towards teaching and scientific research, not to do scientific research for the sake of scientific research, and not to engage in fake scientific research. Overcome the utilitarianism of teaching and scientific research, and truly carry out teaching and scientific research work. In order to do this work well, we need to find an entry point for teaching and scientific research. The teaching and scientific research work of Nanjing Senior High School has given us a good inspiration, that is, "grassroots research." As Teacher Meng Xiaodong said in his article "Grassroots Research in Education": "Grassroots Research" contains three meanings: one is "rooting in the local area", the other is "group participation", and the third is "consolidating the foundation."
"Grassroots research" is a very practical trend and method for teachers to conduct teaching research. "Grassroots research" studies practical problems in teaching. The real problems in education may not be profound knowledge or pure theory, but they can directly affect students. This kind of research is just like civilian life, rather than living in a palace with high walls and red tiles ["Jiangsu Education" 2008.06]. As an ordinary high school teacher, we should have a sense of rooted education. We are surrounded by materials that can be studied, methods of teaching and learning, the relationship between teachers and students, the design and achievement of three-dimensional teaching goals, and the construction of student self-management. These are things that each of us can grasp. In practice, Actionable research materials. Knowledge is everywhere, from teaching, to teaching; from students, to students. Be a real "grassroots researcher". To improve the quality of teaching, we must do a good job in teaching and scientific research.
4. To improve the quality of teaching, there must be strong institutional guarantees
The development of anything has both external and internal driving forces. Internal drive is a kind of motivation and orientation of the practitioner himself, and external drive is some potential power from outside the thing. To improve the quality of education and teaching, we need the efforts of each teacher on the one hand and strong institutional guarantees from the school on the other. Currently, our school has methods for calculating semester teaching performance, methods for teacher teaching performance assessment, methods for college entrance examination performance assessment, methods for teacher promotion to intermediate and senior professional titles, etc. These are all external driving forces for improving teaching quality. What we need to do is to implement various systems and give full play to the guarantee function of the system. When teachers all feel that the system is fair to them, and as long as they are willing to work and are willing to work, they will be rewarded well. I think our work will become more energetic and enterprising. At the same time, with the reform of education, we must continue to innovate work ideas and methods, improve various rules and regulations, and keep pace with the times. Only in this way can we be convinced of the system and better engage in education and teaching.
In short, studying at Nanjing Senior High School is just a way for us to accept the guidance of advanced teaching concepts and innovate work ideas. We also need to be grounded in local reality. After all, there are differences between the north and the south. In the practice of education and teaching, what we have to do is to absorb the advanced concepts and practices of Nanjing Middle School, organically integrate them into our practice, and let them take root and sprout. Nanjing has Nanjing’s culture, and we also have our own culture. What we lack is the refining and application of culture. In the current educational context, education needs leadership, education needs practice, education needs innovation, and we need to clear out old thinking patterns. Education needs to pay attention to the individual development of each student, so that each student can become a person needed by society, and this need comes from different levels and perspectives. Education needs to cultivate elite talents, but education cannot become a successful "elite hunting" selection. Of course, educational equity is not a simple idea of ??cutting peaks and filling valleys. The quality education and ability cultivation of more people at the grassroots level of society is the responsibility of our basic education.
Finally, to paraphrase Plato’s wise words about education: Education is to lead a person from low to high; education is to lead a person from falsehood to truth; education is to lead a person from darkness to light. . We are on the way to realizing the ideal of educators running schools. Work with concentration and educate people with love! Encourage yourself with this.
I sincerely thank the Municipal Education Bureau for setting up a good learning platform for us, giving us the opportunity to go out and learn advanced educational concepts and improve our own quality. Thanks!