In June, 2003, according to the development needs of modern medium-sized cities in Danyang, Danyang Education Bureau decided to build the new Danyang South China Experimental School under the guidance of the concept of "coordinating the development process of new Danyang, conforming to the concept of running new education and showing the school style in the new era". The guiding ideology at that time was "running an ideal school in people's minds". Under the background of unity, how to build a school and how to run a school has always been the core of our China school people's thinking and pursuit.
Years of working practice as a principal tells me that to achieve the goal of "running an ideal school in people's minds" and face the special background and requirements, our school must take a distinctive and tasteful development path under the guidance of new educational concepts, new educational models and new school-running plates.
We say that taste is quality and grade. Brand is a product with considerable popularity and wide influence. No matter what product, only when it reaches a certain level can it become a brand. Each brand product has its own personality, image, culture, structure, popularity and reputation. The process of building a brand is actually the process of carefully cultivating fine products.
Therefore, in the past two years, our school has closely focused on "running an ideal school in people's minds, so that every student can get ideal development and every family can reap the joy of success!" This aim is to build a tasteful leadership team, a tasteful teacher team, and cultivate tasteful students, thus building a school brand.
First, get together and form a tasteful leadership group.
Schools should have taste. First of all, the leading group should have taste, and what kind of leading group has what kind of school. This is how I position the taste of school leaders: atmosphere-having a realm, being able to think about the school layout comprehensively and plan the school development in the long run; Generosity-have a mind, be eclectic, and be good at learning from each other's strengths; Great wisdom-the management art of wisdom science, and devote oneself to promoting development; Brave-have something to do, be able to face difficulties and work hard; The ultimate achievement-to realize the ideal of running a school.
According to this orientation, we must first grasp the orientation through training, and ask administrative cadres to achieve "six essentials" and "four possessions": being true to people, speaking with a spectrum, being honest in doing things, being practical in doing things, being lively in thinking and achieving good results. Squat well, wear a good thread, be level, image, responsibility and performance in front of the teacher.
In the process of establishing school management ideas and forming management strategies, administrative cadres are required to establish the principle of walking on two legs, look at problems with dialectical thinking, and achieve the three-in-one combination of ideal and reality, tradition and modernity, and others and themselves. Diligent observation, quick thinking, able to constantly find problems and solve them.
In specific work practice, we often ask management cadres to grasp the center of promoting the development of teachers and students and actively create a good humanistic care atmosphere. What I often talk about is two sentences and eight words: "There are people in my eyes and laws in my hands". Specifically, it is: "five hearts" and "three emotions", that is, caring for teachers sincerely, caring for them patiently, observing them carefully, and relying on them wholeheartedly to make ideological work full of emotions, material incentives full of emotions, and spiritual encouragement full of emotions.
The humanistic atmosphere is invisible and silent, but it has a profound influence on people. Since the school was founded two years ago, with the concern of the leaders of the government and the municipal bureau and the support of all walks of life, we China students have devoted ourselves to hard work and overcome many difficulties. In July 2004, we successfully completed the first phase of the project, enrolling more than 500 students in the first phase. In 2005, it increased to more than 2,600 students, 7 1 teaching classes and more than 3,600 students, creating a scientific and natural humanities course. The curriculum reform framework of "laying a solid foundation, thinking flexibly and pursuing true and efficient green quality" has formed a "through" development track of "primary school-junior high school", promoted the healthy, rapid and sustainable development of the cause and embarked on a leap-forward development road. Second, develop in an all-round way and build a team of tasteful teachers.
Teachers are the main body of running a school and the main body of the school's "tasteful" development path. Taste good
Only a good teacher can teach students with taste and cast a tasteful education. We believe that these teachers gathered in our school from various schools must undergo a kind of "phoenix nirvana" tempering, and truly have the temperament of new requirements of "taste"-integrity, unity and cooperation, good popularity, lively work, wit and talent, courage to meet challenges, atmosphere, exotic work and bullish teaching results. Develop into a new type of teacher who is knowledgeable, humorous, kind, broad-minded, appreciative, inspiring, interactive, innovative, intelligent and equal.
In order to achieve this goal, we have given the new connotation of "eight realities and eight activities" in the teaching management of conventional education: grasping the school spirit and discipline, invigorating educational activities; Do a good job in classroom teaching and activate extracurricular development; Master work discipline and activate cultural life; Grasping internal management and invigorating foreign exchanges; Grasp the sequence of activities and stimulate the creativity of activities; Grasp the routine customs clearance, invigorate the expansion and extension; Grasp the facts to make up the shortcomings, invigorate and cultivate outstanding top-notch; Grasp the static layout and enliven the dynamic display. Use three sentences to measure whether the work of our school staff is in place: think ahead-have you planned it? Keep an eye on the back.-Does it work? Kung fu is spent in the middle-is the process real? Constantly improve the taste of being a person, doing things and learning.
In the trivial and boring management process day after day, we often remind teachers "three times a day"
Province ",ask yourself:
The head teacher wants to ask: Has a good class spirit and style of study been formed in your hands? Have the teachers rallied around you? Have the class collective honor and individual academic performance improved in your hands? Are students and parents satisfied with your education management?
The subject teacher should ask: Have the students' good study habits changed in your hands? Did the students' strong interest in learning inspire you? Has the rich foundation of students been in your hands? Have students' flexible thinking been exercised in your hands? Has the comprehensive ability of students been developed in your hands? How much have you strengthened your Chinese teacher's listening, speaking, reading and writing, math teacher's thinking development, English teacher's oral communication ability, and other subject teachers' professional knowledge and skills?
Teachers of small subjects should ask themselves: how much has the personality of students developed in your hands while you are teaching the knowledge of this subject well? How many special students have gathered behind you? How many distinctive products can you produce every year?
Every teacher should ask himself: Can your ideological quality be recognized by colleagues? Can your work attitude be respected by students? Can your professional ability adapt to the development of schools in China? Can your educational achievements be praised by everyone? Constantly improve working methods and improve the level of teaching and educating people.
At the same time, we should also make good use of three grasping hands: First, we should take reading as the grasping hand, actively create conditions, cultivate teachers' reading habits, and make reading the "source power" for teachers to update their concepts and enhance their professional development. Second, teachers' activities should be taken as the starting point to arouse teachers' enthusiasm, such as launching a speech contest: "I will develop with China schools" and "cheer for youth"; Writing experience: "China school, what can I give you", "The revolution has not been successful, comrades still have to work hard"; Carry out the "Hope Cup" competition for young teachers' basic skills and award "Hope Star" and "Teaching Rookie"; Carry out "five-star" teacher evaluation. The third is to undertake large-scale educational and teaching research activities at different levels, types and disciplines, and to combine teachers' personal development goals with the overall development goals of the school to the maximum extent to promote the healthy development of the school.
In the past two years, it has hosted more than 20 large-scale seminars at different levels, such as provinces, cities and counties, and hosted more than 0/00 field meetings of all-staff training, teaching seminars and teaching competitions organized by higher-level teacher education departments and teaching and research departments. More than 30 teachers have achieved excellent results in basic skills competitions of different levels and disciplines. Teachers have published more than 250 articles in educational journals at or above the provincial and municipal levels, which has truly created the "taste" of teachers and promoted their effective development.
Third, develop in an all-round way and cultivate students with taste.
A leading group with taste and a team of teachers with taste all aim at an ultimate goal: to create a tasteful education and cultivate tasteful students. We believe that students with taste should be gentle, polite, knowledgeable, self-cultivated, diligent and enterprising, and have good study, life and behavior habits.
Based on the accumulation of many years' experience in running schools in rural areas and the reflection on the experience in running schools inside and outside the city, we think that the development of students in China schools must resist pressure, eliminate interference and adhere to the educational concept of "talent first". Therefore, in the past two years, we have adhered to the goal of "standardization+liveliness" and the modern "gentlemen and ladies" education of "courtesy, wisdom, kindness and beauty", vigorously implemented the comprehensive care education plan, opened up students' intelligence, cared for their lives, and promoted their physical and mental health development.
The first is to grasp the taste in small things and details. Adhere to the most basic norms such as queuing, sports, gathering, dining, going to bed, reading, writing and etiquette, do a good job in behavior training and cultivate civilized habits; Give full play to the role of student management guards, cultivate the ability of independent management, and form an inner temperament of knowing honor and honor, being sensible and polite, and a clean and well-trained external style.
The second is to grasp the taste in comprehensive practice. Establish moral education bases inside and outside the school, guide students to go deep into the community, carry out social practice activities in nature, farms, large and medium-sized enterprises, science and technology museums, museums and universities, and hold regular theme activities such as reading festivals, textbook drama performance festivals, martial arts festivals, singing competitions, English speech competitions and English sitcom competitions to enrich emotional experience and improve practical ability.
The third is to grasp the taste in cultural construction. From school culture to class culture, from material culture to spiritual culture, from institutional culture to independent culture, we have built a three-dimensional cultural platform, striving to:
1, the theme of school class culture.
The class has a green corner, a book corner and a cultural position, and the class has a theme culture and research topics. Portraits of celebrities and famous sayings and epigrams are carefully arranged in the corridor, and the cultural corridor is arranged into more than 20 cultural sections, such as astronomy park, geography park, history park, science park, biology park, military park and mathematics park, making the whole campus a three-dimensional teaching material.
2. Vivid environment and culture.
Optimize the environmental layout around the concept of "one belt", "two axes" and "four parks" and "eight hospitals" on campus.
3. Individualization of curriculum culture. Relying on the main topic of "nine-year-old consistent school curriculum integration and school-based implementation" and guided by the development goal of "Excellence+Specialty", this paper conceives and starts the school-based curriculum reform experiment of "elective+compulsory", constructs the school-based curriculum system of "discipline+activity", "foundation+expansion" and "convention+characteristics", and strives to practice the integration of teaching and research-"vertical connection" and "characteristics" Diversification of teaching evaluation —— Establishing a humanistic quality evaluation system for school teachers in China: Constructing a diversified evaluation system for school students in China, implementing a growth evaluation record bag, and forming diversified evaluation mechanisms such as "written test+spoken language", "foundation+expansion", "single item+synthesis" and "pass+ability" to promote the scientific development of teachers and students.
4. Serialization of community culture. More than 60 campus cultural organizations and interest groups, such as Sinology Enlightenment Society, Tian Yun Poetry Society, Kua Drama Society and Wu Jingshe Society, have been established, and organizations such as Morning Wind Radio, Weekend Cinema, Phoenix Basketball Association, Tengfei Badminton Association and Taekwondo Training Camp have been established to pursue "green quality" in an all-round way and develop students' quality in an all-round way, including interest, specialty, ability and will. ...
For more than two years, until now, although the school has no finished products, experience or even history, our efforts to turn this school into a new concept development area, a new model radiation area and a new plate assembly area have achieved initial results, and the school management has achieved good benefits and its social influence has been expanding. We deeply feel that through two years' efforts, a leading group with flavor is forming, a team of teachers with flavor is developing, and more and more students are working hard in the direction of "flavor". It can be said that after two years of hard work, we have not failed to live up to the hopes of our superiors, society and parents, nor have we failed to live up to the trust of all sectors of society. In the process of pursuing the ideal of running a school in the future, the hope of superior leaders and the entrustment of all walks of life will become the new support and new motivation for us to build brands and cultivate fine products!