There are 200 teachers, including 86 special-level and senior teachers, 9 national-level and municipal-level subject leaders, and more than 30 city-level key teachers. More than 90% of the school's 45-year-old young teachers have obtained master's degrees and postgraduate degrees or are studying for postgraduate degrees. There are more than 200 scientific research results at the national and municipal levels, and more than 100 observation and research courses at the national and municipal levels have been conducted.
Promote the professional development of teachers and build high-level model schools
Principal Ma Shuling of Chonghua Middle School often uses the famous saying of Mr. Mei Yiqi, the old president of Tsinghua University, "A great person is not a building." , is the name of a master" to emphasize the special significance of talents and teachers to the school. She always believes that the construction of the teaching team is the premise, key and guarantee for the development of the school and everything else. Because cultivating and creating a team of high-quality teachers that meet the needs of modern education development is the fundamental plan for educational reform and development, and it is the primary task to ensure the sustainable development of education. The professional development of teachers is the most basic, fundamental and critical factor. It is the eternal theme of sustainable development of schools and a key element in cultivating all-round development of students.
The party and government leaders of Chonghua Middle School adhere to the educational humanistic concept of respecting, caring, understanding, and trusting everyone, discovering human potential, exerting human value, and developing human personality. Actively explore the way to develop a school relying on teachers, and strive to make the school a fertile ground for the joint development of teachers and students. Especially when Chonghua Middle School enters the ranks of model schools, the school leadership team deeply realizes that model schools should become a demonstration of educational ideas and a pioneer in educational reform to achieve high quality of education. This undoubtedly puts forward higher requirements for teachers. requirements. Therefore, they not only regard teachers as a key factor in improving the quality of education and as the object of school operation, but also regard the development of teachers as an important educational goal of the school, and incorporate the development of teachers into the school's new three-year plan. Among the overall school goals, we strive to build a team of teachers with new educational concepts, strong enterprising spirit, high moral cultivation, rich cultural heritage, mastery of modern educational technology, and a certain degree of influence and radiation.
With learning as the support, implement full training for all staff
With learning as support, implement full training for all staff to comprehensively improve the overall quality of teachers. The school purchased educational theory books for teachers such as "New Concepts in Education", "Mental Health Education in Primary and Secondary Schools", "The Art of Teacher-Student Communication", "Teaching Thinking", "Teaching Strategies", etc. Each teacher is required to have at least It is necessary to read a theoretical monograph intensively, take notes on reading, and use school-based teaching and research time to communicate. The principal in charge regularly organizes training for all teachers, so that teachers can find their own strengths and weaknesses in development, improve their professional development plans, and be well aware of and highly targeted.
The school funds rewards and supports teachers to study abroad, regularly selects key teachers to study in advanced areas, participates in national key teacher training, strongly supports young teachers’ on-the-job training, and encourages young teachers to participate in master’s degree and postgraduate courses in education. study. At present, 160 of the 165 front-line teachers in the school have a bachelor's degree, accounting for 97%; all young teachers under the age of 45 have reached postgraduate level, of which 32% have obtained a master's degree or are studying for a master's degree.
In order to meet the needs of future education, 100% of the school’s front-line teachers have participated in high- and intermediate-level computer training, 100% of teachers have obtained high- and intermediate-level certificates, and 60% of teachers have participated in Intel future education training. In order to meet the needs of new curriculum experiments, the school has equipped each teaching class with modern teaching equipment such as computers and multimedia projections, set up electronic lesson preparation rooms, equipped each teacher with a dedicated computer, and implemented online transmission. Teachers can Lessons prepared on the computer can be transferred to the multimedia desk in the classroom. The school is now undergoing a new round of computer-assisted teaching training so that all teachers can use modern teaching equipment to conduct high-level teaching.
Using "pairing" as a way to implement layered training
Using "pairing" as a way to implement layered training to improve teachers' teaching level as soon as possible. On the basis of the in-depth implementation of Nankai District's "Three Youth Education Experts Project", Chonghua Middle School has vigorously strengthened the cultivation of key talents and cultivated outstanding academic talents. Select the backbones with strong professional abilities from district-level subject leaders and outstanding class teachers, and list them as reserve candidates for the seventh batch of special teachers and municipal-level subject leaders for key training. And 13 well-known special-grade teachers in Tianjin were hired to come to the school to provide face-to-face and step-by-step guidance, and provide targeted and specific guidance according to each person's characteristics to promote the professional growth of key teachers.
The school taps its teacher resources according to local conditions and puts forward clear requirements for experienced backbone teachers. Each teacher has formulated a three-year professional development plan. The school provides support and assistance to teachers' development requirements. The school arranges young teacher apprentices for every famous teacher, famous class teacher, and subject leader. The masters and apprentices promote each other and grow together in the practice of education and teaching.
Young teachers have just graduated from school and entered the workplace, and they are very malleable. The school attaches great importance to the construction of young teachers, which lays a solid foundation for the sustainable development of the school's teaching staff. The training of young teachers requires the guidance and guidance of key teachers. All newly assigned teachers must be assigned two teachers with rich teaching experience and strong class leadership skills as their mentors, who are specifically responsible for the training of new teachers.
After the master-apprentice relationship is established, an "apprenticeship ceremony" is held, and the goals of "one year to get started, two years to pass, three years to reach standards, and five years to mature" are set for new teachers. Communication, and a special summary will be conducted every semester.
Take school-based teaching and research as an opportunity to comprehensively improve teachers’ teaching capabilities
School-based resources are very important teaching resources. The school has taken a unique approach and established a unique school-based teaching and research idea: the combination of cadres and masses (the combination of leaders and front-line teachers), the combination of large and small (the combination of macro topics and micro topics), the combination of reality and reality (the combination of theoretical sublimation and practical operation), and the combination of research and teaching (combination of research and teaching) as the main line, guide teachers to discover problems in practice, design their own solutions to problems, verify them in practice, and ultimately improve their teaching behavior through reflection and cooperation, along the "problem solving, spiral improvement" "The path of continuous development of oneself.
The school has also adopted some novel approaches, such as using problems as the entry point for school-based teaching and research. In view of the shortcomings of teachers "filling the whole class" and singing one-man shows in traditional teaching, teachers are mobilized to fully discuss the effectiveness of classroom teaching, realize teacher-student interaction in classroom teaching, and form a "induction-inquiry" teaching model. Use expert guidance as the guide for school-based teaching and research. The school invited education experts such as Dean Zhang Wusheng, Director Xing Zhen, and special teacher Liu Xun of the Tianjin Academy of Educational Sciences to come to the school to give academic reports. Taking reflection as the core content of school-based teaching and research. The school regards self-reflection as one of the basic forms of school-based teaching and research, and also as an important factor in teachers’ professional development and self-growth. At the end of the semester, each teacher is required to write a high-level professional development reflection on teaching. And regard peer assistance as an important system of school-based teaching and research. In school-based teaching and research activities, we adhere to the collaboration of grade-level lesson preparation groups, help in special discussions, communicate with each other after listening to classes, and give feedback after checking lesson plans, so that teachers can share experiences, learn from each other, support each other, and ** through peer interaction. *Grow together.
Use activities as a platform to promote the professional development of teachers
The school has adhered to the people-oriented and teacher-centered school running philosophy for many years, cares about the interests of teachers, respects the development rights of teachers, and fully Explore the potential of teachers, do our best to provide teachers with opportunities to display their talents, do everything possible to create an environment for teachers to become famous and have a family, and meet teachers' reasonable spiritual needs and achievement needs. Insist on carrying out various activities to build a stage for teachers to display their education and teaching talents.
For example: The school carries out five levels of classroom teaching demonstration activities every year: debut classes for newly transferred teachers, passing classes for newly assigned teachers, reporting classes for training targets, and demonstration classes for key teachers. , school-based training seminars. Every year, school-level excellent courses are launched to participate in district-wide, city-wide, and national high-quality course competitions. In recent years, five people from the school have won first prizes in national classroom teaching competitions, and have won first prizes in the "Yucai Cup" and "Jinying Cup" classrooms. In the teaching competition, *** 32 classes won awards, including 3 first prizes, 5 second prizes, and 24 third prizes. The school won the Best Organization Award and the Outstanding Award.
Actively organize and participate in the annual teacher professional assessment in Nankai District. Teachers regard it as an opportunity to accept assessment and show themselves. In the teacher professional assessment, 5 teachers in the school have won the top prize in subjects for two consecutive years, 16 teachers have received excellent results, and nearly 50% of the teachers have received excellent results. Teacher professional assessment scores rank among the top among key schools in the city.
Evaluate teachers with professional attainments, distinctive teaching, and rich experience in each discipline as chief teachers, allowing them to play a leading and radiating role in their disciplines. Famous teacher studios are set up for well-known teachers in urban areas to ensure that the guidance of experts can be used to achieve practical results.
Carry out the selection of young teacher models and outstanding young teachers under the age of 35, and give certain material rewards to young teachers who have a strong sense of responsibility for teaching and educating people, have noble teacher ethics, and have made contributions to teaching and scientific research. And commend them on Teachers' Day to create a good atmosphere and drive the enthusiasm of all teachers in the school.
Improve the professional development level of teachers and promote the sustainable development of schools
The party and government leaders of the school deeply realize that the quality of a school's education not only affects the development of the school itself, but also directly affects the development of the school itself. It will greatly affect her "product" - the lifelong development of students. A future-oriented school must consider its own development and construction as the primary issue. Modern school competition is essentially about the learning and innovation ability of all members (teachers and students) In the competition, whoever can quickly transform learning power into innovation power will win the initiative and leading advantage in development, and will also gain the power of sustainable development. Therefore, the school will promote the professional development of teachers as an important part of the construction, so that each teacher can strive to become a qualified professional who meets the needs of modern society, so as to accelerate the realization of the long-term goal of sustainable development of the school.
Teachers’ professional development is a key force for the sustainable development of schools. Only with the professional development of teachers can we create a truly high-quality education brand that can withstand any test, meet the society's long-term needs for high-quality education, and realize the needs of the school's own sustainable development.