Li, a native of Xiyang County, is the principal of Xiyang Middle School. Born in February, 1963, party member, university degree, senior middle school teacher. Since 1983 taught in Xiyang Middle School, he has served as the head teacher 15 years, and has served as the director of teaching and research section, grade director, deputy director of teaching, teaching director, vice principal and principal. He has been rated as "excellent teacher", "model teacher" and "advanced educator" in Xiyang County for many times, and won the honorary titles of "excellent teacher", "municipal teaching expert" and "national excellent teacher" in Jinzhong City twice.
"The principal's job is to serve" is the life creed of comrades. During his two years as principal in 2007, he devoted almost all his time to school work. With his efforts, the school raised 6.5438+0.7 million yuan, renovated the school canteen, equipped 64 computer rooms for senior students, rebuilt the all-plastic playground with a 250-meter runway, and built a comprehensive teaching experimental building, which created the necessary conditions for the school to become a base school for the curriculum reform of basic education in Shanxi Province. He often goes out early and comes back late, fighting in the front line of teaching, and dedicating loyalty and wisdom to the development of the school.
He treats people with humility, honesty and enthusiasm, and the demeanor and excellent moral character of his elders are respected by everyone. In terms of personal interests, he has always given priority to teaching staff, and always gives up the quota to other teachers when evaluating the model and selecting the best; When allocating a house, he should live in the best conditions, but he chose the worst conditions. He is a careful and enthusiastic person in dealing with people. When the family of a faculty member has difficulties, he always tries his best to solve them, whether the children go to school or their spouses get employment. The faculty has something to do at home, no matter how busy they are, they will go and do something. Colleagues and neighbors have patients at home and need medical treatment. He tried his best to run around, contact the doctor and go through the formalities. In the professional training of teachers and the distribution of allowances, we also go all out. In 2009 alone, the school sent 30 groups of teachers out to study and train. In order to encourage class management, he adjusted the post allowance of teachers and increased the allowance of 100 yuan for each class teacher. Under his leadership, Xiyang Middle School entered the ranks of provincial model high schools and became a famous school in Jinzhong and Sanjin.
Inheriting Dazhai Spirit and Building a Service-oriented Campus —— Interview with Li, Principal of Xiyang Middle School in Shanxi Province
Xiyang Middle School, located in Xiyang County, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province, as a famous school in Shanxi Province, has experienced too many vicissitudes and drastic changes in its history of more than 50 years. From enjoying the reputation of "three lows and one high" in the local area before the Cultural Revolution, to falling into a trough after the Cultural Revolution, and then ranking first in the college entrance examination rate and high school education quality evaluation of similar schools in Jinzhong for 18 years. It is the spirit of "self-reliance and hard struggle" that supports China people from generation to generation, who are constantly striving for self-improvement despite all difficulties. In the new era, the original China people with President Li as the core, adhering to the rich history, pioneering and innovating, take "cultivating a team of teachers with excellent quality, creating a harmonious and beautiful educational environment, casting the spirit of unity and forging ahead, and creating a high-quality brand for cultivating talents" as their school goal and establishing the sense of school service as their own responsibility. In this work, the old principals, represented by Tian and Cheng Gentang, worked together.
Q: In the past few days, I have a great feeling through zero-distance contact with teachers and students in the school: I was shocked by the spirit of focusing on teaching embodied in teachers and the spirit of focusing on learning embodied in students. I can't help but have an interpretation. The key reason why Xiyang Middle School has been able to get the first place in the college entrance examination rate and high school education quality evaluation of similar schools in Jinzhong City for 18 years is this persistence. Do you think this statement is ok?
Li: Yes, the spirit of concentration is the inheritance of Dazhai spirit.
Since the establishment of 1952 Xiyang Middle School, her development has not been smooth sailing, which can be described as twists and turns. In the process of summing up the history of the school, we suddenly found that the spirit of "self-reliance and hard struggle" has been supporting our changed school.
Xiyang has a reputation of beautiful mountains and rivers, outstanding people and outstanding people since ancient times, and it was called the hometown of Leping Eight Scenes and Top Scholar in ancient times. Today, it has the reputation of tiger head scenery, Dazhai spirit and cradle holy land. Xiyang Middle School has made great achievements in teaching from its founding to the Cultural Revolution. In Jinzhong education, we enjoy such a social evaluation-"three lows and one high", that is, "the leadership level is low, the teachers' academic qualifications are low, the students' starting point is low, but the teaching quality is high"; From 1977 to 1984, the school achieved the best results in history; However, by 1985 and 1986, due to the implementation of the intellectual policy by the state, some backbone teachers left school and returned to their hometowns, and some old and weak teachers retired from their posts. Coupled with the serious shortage of leadership at that time, management was inevitably sparse. From 65438 to 0986, the quality of school teaching fell to a low point, and only 9 students were admitted this year. As a result, the county has made a large-scale adjustment to the school leadership. At this time, Xiyang Middle School welcomed Zhang Shiying, one of the most important principals in history. It can be said that he played a decisive role in the development of Xiyang Middle School, leaving a deep impression in the history of the school. Its contribution is mainly reflected in the construction and rectification of the teaching staff. Put forward the concept of "survival in rectification, development in reform and quality in management", planned the three-year goal of Xiyang Middle School at that time, and shouted out the slogan of "fighting for three years, leaving Dongshan and entering Pingchuan". President Zhang realized that the key to the development of the school is teachers. Only by creating a good working environment for teachers can they be motivated in essence. Therefore, he thought of many effective methods from the management, mainly from the teacher assessment system to stimulate the enthusiasm of teachers. In order to ensure the realization of the three-year plan as scheduled, he also formulated a teacher personnel system of open recruitment, giving lectures on stage and probation for one year before deciding whether to stay or not. In this way, the faculty and staff were activated and their enthusiasm was immediately mobilized. There is not a teacher who doesn't concentrate on his work, but works hard and hard. In this case, the development of Xiyang Middle School started. 1987, the school fought a beautiful turnaround and more than 80 students were admitted to the college entrance examination. More than 40 in 1988; More than 90 in 1989. In fact, since 1989, the school has entered a virtuous circle. By 1990, the number of college entrance examination students reached 149, and then they broke through the 200, 300 and 400 barriers one after another, and broke through 500 in 2005. Until 2007, the school won the first place in the college entrance examination rate and high school education quality evaluation of similar schools in Jinzhong for 18 years. Looking back now, President Zhang was very courageous at that time, and his spirit of attaching importance to education continued and influenced people in the past.
Q: In a specific historical period, teachers' professionalism made the school go out of the trough. At present, besides continuing to carry forward the glorious tradition, what should you take as the development direction to support the development of the school?
Li: The key to the development of a school lies in whether teachers can develop. Different schools have different requirements, but I think the development of teachers must adapt to the development requirements of schools. Xiyang Middle School has come to this day, and the spirit of hard struggle is our great wealth and the driving force for our future development. The school is marked by the display of modern information technology characteristics, the college entrance examination once again breaking through the 500 mark, and the smooth transition of leadership adjustment. Western middle schools have achieved a new leap in classroom teaching reform, teaching quality, democratic and scientific management and other educational indicators, which is the development direction of teachers and participated in the development process of the school. The new leadership of the school has made a careful analysis of the education form in combination with the reality, and set "bringing out a team of teachers with excellent quality, creating a harmonious and beautiful educational environment, forging the fighting spirit of unity and forge ahead, and building a quality brand for cultivating talents" as the next work goal.
Q: As you said, the key to school development lies in teachers. What measures can be taken to improve teachers' relevant skills and improve teaching quality? What safeguards does the school have for this?
Li: First of all, the most important thing is the guidance of thought, and consciousness determines behavior. The leading group should go deep into the classroom to listen to lectures, and then give advice to teachers to solve the problems existing in the teaching process in a timely and targeted manner. I told teachers: teaching should first pay attention to the implementation of basic knowledge, secondly pay attention to the cultivation of emotion, attitude and values, and thirdly pay attention to the training of skills and skills. Therefore, no matter which subject is taught, teachers must emphasize two aspects of consciousness: teaching consciousness and subject consciousness. The so-called teaching consciousness is mainly based on students. It is clear that the purpose of teaching is to let students learn learning methods and develop the habit of actively acquiring knowledge. I often say that the truth is realized by students, not by teachers; Skills are practiced, not given to him by the teacher; Knowledge is accumulated bit by bit, and teachers' teaching can only play a role of demonstration and guidance. Therefore, teachers should give students as many opportunities to practice in class as possible. The so-called discipline consciousness means that teachers must have high professional quality. For example, "force and force decomposition" is the focus and foundation of high school physics, which embodies the physical thought well. But as a teacher, you must have a deep understanding of this. Deep understanding, good decomposition, students are easy to understand. If it doesn't reach a certain level, students can't understand it well.
In terms of safeguard measures, schools must create a platform conducive to the development of teachers. The school has always paid attention to creating a good environment for teachers from the teaching environment and teaching methods. In 2005, the school took the development and application of modern educational technology as a demonstration project. In the same year, it was also named "Shanxi Demonstration High School" by the Provincial Department of Education, becoming one of the first nine demonstration high schools in the province. Over the past two years, the school has been committed to the effective integration of modern educational technology and education and teaching. It is expected that modern educational technology will lead the reform and innovation of classroom teaching mode, improve teachers' professional quality with information technology as the carrier, and thus promote the development of the school to enter the "expressway" track. The so-called "expressway" is an image metaphor, which mainly refers to the construction of a campus network with integrity, openness, interactivity and appreciation. We focus on five specific links: "cars, roads, goods, drivers and traffic rules".
One is to have cars, that is, modern facilities and equipment and other hardware construction. At present, we have achieved the goal of computerized teachers and multimedia classrooms. In the process of campus network construction, the school always follows the principle of "building for use". For example, we have repeatedly demonstrated the choice of classroom terminal equipment. At first, we tried to build two multimedia classrooms, equipped with LCD projection, and later found that the utilization rate of multimedia classrooms in these two classes was very low. After my investigation, I found that the reason is that the standard operation requirements of LCD projection are high, easy to be damaged, inconvenient to use, and teachers are unwilling to use it for fear of trouble and damage. Combined with the actual situation of the school, we went out to investigate and demonstrate, and finally chose the classroom multimedia equipment composed of educational rear projection TV, physical exhibition stand and microcomputer. This equipment is relatively simple to operate, and the utilization rate of classroom teaching has been greatly improved.
The second is to have a way, that is, the construction of a networked system platform. In order to ensure the convenience, security and stability of the campus network and the smooth flow of internal and external resources, we have established a teacher file server to open a server space for each teacher, and teachers can upload downloaded materials and courseware to their own servers. The second is to establish an independent file server for each discipline to help the discipline group establish its own discipline website. The academic leaders are responsible for the development and integration of teaching resources in this discipline, and then upload them to the file server and resource database server of the discipline group for all teachers in this discipline to realize the combination of internal and external networks and resource sharing. The third is to establish a VOD system to provide systematic support for school education and teaching activities, video on demand for teachers and students, and digital on demand for English listening training. At present, the school's management platform has also built a research-based learning website and daily management websites of the Political Affairs Office, the Student Union and the Guidance Office, and developed a teaching achievement management system, a teacher professional self-evaluation system, an audio-visual teaching material management system, a student moral education work system and an automatic campus voice control system. School management is gradually becoming electronic and networked.
Third, there is quality, that is, the construction of diversified educational resources. There are four channels for the construction of our school's resource database: First, according to the needs of education and teaching, the school buys a large number of system software and teaching resources at any time, from the teaching resource database of the whole discipline to the simulated physics and chemistry laboratory, geometric sketchpad, question bank making system, courseware making software and so on. And there are more than 8,000 kinds in four categories. The second is networking, which provides alternative information resources for education and teaching. Third, by subscribing to audio-visual teaching materials, purchase a large number of teaching audio-visual materials and software. Fourth, teachers download or make audio-visual materials and courseware for education and teaching to realize digital storage.
The fourth is to have drivers, that is, to build a team of professional teachers with information technology literacy. Teachers' information technology training in our school has gone through two stages of development. The first stage was from the mid-1990s to 200 1, and the school established the training idea of "layered training and comprehensive improvement". Taking "strengthening the construction of teachers by using modern educational technology" as the research direction, more than 90% teachers have basically mastered the operation of computers and the application of common software through information technology training, online learning, electronic lesson preparation and microcomputer teaching. By organizing demonstration class teaching, we can show the benefits of using modern educational technology and stimulate teachers' interest and demand in mastering and using modern educational technology. The second stage is from 2002 to now, relying on the increasingly perfect modern educational technology facilities, adopting the way of "interaction between learning and use" to promote learning with use and use with learning. According to the needs of education and teaching and the problems encountered in teachers' practical application, the modern educational technology center of the school compiles training materials, and uses Thursday afternoon teaching and research activities and Sunday rest time to train all teachers in the practical operation of modern educational technology. The training content is what teachers are eager to know and master in practical work, so teachers are willing to learn and use it. The willingness to learn promotes the desire to use, the willingness to learn promotes the interaction between learning, learning and use, the combination of theory and practice, the improvement of teachers' information technology literacy, and the new transformation of classroom teaching from means to mode.
Fifth, there must be traffic rules. It is to rely on policy guidance and encourage the effective use of modern educational technology with results. We standardize the means, ways and methods for teachers to develop and apply modern educational technology by giving full play to the inspiring role of teaching evaluation, the leading role of teaching management, the leading role of example demonstration, the group advantages of cooperative development, the team role of school-based research and the promoting role of project research.
Q: We understand that in recent years, the school's work has been focused on the integration of traditional classrooms and modern information technology, which is also a major feature of the current school. Can you talk about the process, method and effect of "integration" in detail?
Li: OK. The most intuitive advantage of the application of information technology means is that it can visualize and concretize abstract teaching content. For example, the electric field line in physics class itself is a three-dimensional thing, but the book only gives a plan. In the past, the teacher drew a blank on the blackboard at most, which was often irregular and difficult for students to understand. Now we can use Flash software to process plane graphics into three-dimensional space effects, which is more intuitive, which will help students better understand what electric field lines are and how to describe electric fields intuitively. Another advantage is a wide range of knowledge. Through the multimedia display platform, teachers can list all the knowledge points they need to master, and they can also choose to present some exercises that are not in the teaching materials and materials, which can not only improve the classroom capacity, but also enable a large number of students, mainly those who have not mastered it, to study repeatedly. The traditional classroom is just the teacher talking about the topic. Only a few students can keep up with the teacher's progress, and other students can't study and master it in depth. Most students still need to watch, listen and think repeatedly to master it. Therefore, the comprehensive classroom is more conducive to the rapid growth of all our students.
However, multimedia should not be abused, and it must be combined with course types and course contents. Modern information technology education means is a double-edged sword. If this kind of class is intuitive and needs a changing state of motion, it is best to use multimedia. If we blindly use multimedia regardless of classroom content, it will reduce teaching efficiency.
From the student's point of view. The key to using multimedia in class is to rely on the guidance of teachers, so that students' thinking can follow and even lead teachers' thinking, thus improving students' spatial thinking ability and logical thinking ability. This is the ultimate goal of using multimedia.
Q: Indeed, the success or failure of classroom teaching is related to the development of the school. So how does the school define the advantages and disadvantages of teachers' "integration"?
Li: We have to fill in the "Teaching Log" in every class, including the teaching content and teaching means of this class. This is a shallow assessment goal, which can be quantified and solve the problem of "use or not". How to solve the problem of easy use? I use this method to assess: I take at least two competition classes or open classes every semester. Mainly young and middle-aged teachers participate, and each preparation group of each grade should listen to each other, recommend the teachers they think are good after listening to the class, and then participate in the big subject group competitions including Grade One, Grade Two and Grade Three. The subject group recommends another person who can represent their own subject group, and finally participates in the teaching competition of the school. The school is divided into two groups: liberal arts and science. The results of this selection will be loaded into teachers' growth files and business files, which will be used as assessment indicators for future evaluation of models and promotion of professional titles.
Q: In April this year, Xiyang Middle School held a demonstration activity in Shanxi Province. The main content of the activity is to observe the classroom teaching and theme class meeting under the multimedia environment. Experts spoke highly of you at the meeting!
Li: Yes, the experimental project we showed at that time was "the integration of modern educational technology and education and teaching". More than 330 leaders, teachers and network administrators from 53 schools in the province participated in the exchange activities. The expert group's evaluation of the exhibition activity is that "Western Middle School has built an all-round, open and buffet exhibition activity model for us with the confidence that a model high school should have, which has made us bid farewell to the show-like and performance-like classroom teaching exchange model that has plagued us for many years. Xiyang Middle School has taken a very solid and leading step in the construction of network environment, network platform, integrated management and application of resources.
This evaluation has given us great encouragement. Nevertheless, in the development and application of modern educational technology, we think there is still a lot of room for development, and there are still many places to explore and improve. For example, in classroom teaching, students' openness is not enough, the depth and breadth of students' communication are not enough, and students' awareness of acquiring knowledge through mutual communication is not very strong.
This is mainly a question of teaching consciousness and subject consciousness. In order to have these two kinds of consciousness, teachers must meet three standards: first, to induce students to acquire knowledge with questions. The teacher asks questions as required in his class, but the questions are unreasonable and students don't know how to answer them; Second, we should pave the steps and let him break through the difficulties. For example, it is impossible for him to jump from the bottom of the building to the third floor, but it is very easy to lay steps for him. It is to break down knowledge points and disperse some difficulties, which is the laying of steps. After laying down, the students will naturally understand each other. Instead of telling him anything, the current situation is that 30% of students can understand, 40% of students are listening but don't understand, and 30% of students don't listen at all. Therefore, teachers' teaching is not for everyone, or even for most people. This is also unfair. If it is unfair, it is impossible to create a harmonious classroom. The third aspect is classified research, which aims to guide students to summarize and reveal the laws.
Q: Is it a concrete embodiment of your service concept to put forward teaching consciousness and discipline consciousness? Teachers are required to try their best to pave the way for the independent growth of students, and always remember that students are the objects of their educational services. Is that so?
Li: That's true. I often emphasize "strengthening service consciousness and putting ourselves in a proper position". I usually tell teachers in the form of preaching that students are our God and our parents. If there are no students, the school will have no meaning of existence, and the value of teachers will not be reflected. Teachers nowadays can eat and wear warm clothes. In fact, these students are all supporting you. Then you must provide them with the best service, the best educational resources and learning conditions, so that they can become talents. Just like a businessman, he regards customers as his god and his parents, so he should do everything possible to improve his service quality and satisfy customers. We should develop and strengthen our service consciousness, but the service targets are different, the ways are different and the meanings are different. In school, the principal should serve all the staff and teachers should serve their own students.
I set myself a working system, which is to listen to at least six classes a week; Receive teachers for at least two and a half days every week; Receive students for at least two and a half days a week; Receive parents of students at least half a day every week. Then there are various special meetings. Monday in the first week of each month is a regular meeting of leaders at or above the middle level; Every Saturday morning at 8: 00 is a regular meeting above the middle level; Monday and Tuesday afternoons are special meetings of grade group and logistics. In this working system, receiving students and their parents also reflects the service consciousness of the school and can understand their opinions and voices.
Q: Strengthening service awareness is actually the embodiment of creating a spiritual and cultural atmosphere on campus. Going back to the school's next work goal, I see that you also put forward the goal of "creating a harmonious and beautiful educational environment". Please talk about your views on building a harmonious campus.
Li: The so-called harmonious development, first of all, on the surface, means to have a more scientific and reasonable management system, which everyone should abide by and consciously complete their work tasks. This is the basic premise of harmony. Under this premise, everyone, including schools, teachers and students, will develop to a higher goal scientifically and reasonably.
First of all, the school environment should be conducive to the development of teachers and students.
In terms of hardware, the restaurant was renovated this year. There were no seats before, and the working conditions were not very good. The playground will be rebuilt next. Now a report has been made to the county to build a plastic runway, which can be put into use in May next year. Our laboratory has three sets of experimental equipment that meet the national standards, but the classroom conditions are not very good. Now the renovation drawings have come out, and the tender will be invited at the end of February. In addition, there are classrooms. Now some classrooms are not very standardized, which is not good for students. For example, the classroom is too long and there is a rear projection TV in front, so students have problems listening and watching. It is impossible for every student to enjoy the benefits of this educational resource, so it is necessary to build 20 more classrooms. This is on the hardware.
In software, it is the school system. At the faculty meeting, I suggested that the system should be formulated by the students themselves, just like our law making, and we should discuss it together. The process of discussion is the process of self-discipline and education. After the discussion, everyone will abide by it, not the teacher's mandatory requirements, but what they think they should do. Through this humanized process, students clearly know what to do and what not to do. However, some appropriate guidance should be given, such as classroom order, self-study discipline, some extracurricular behaviors, how to protect environmental hygiene, dormitory hygiene, how to abide by bedtime order, dining order and so on. We give some general directions. There may be some differences between each class, but on the whole, it should meet the overall requirements of the school. Let students form a good habit and create a benign spiritual pursuit, which is our basic requirement. Therefore, this year we put forward a related theme education activity, advocating the mainstream consciousness of "loving my past, strengthening my quality and building my image", and firmly establishing the creed of "I am Xiyang Middle School, I am a model high school, Xiyang Middle School is me, and the model high school is me".
Q: Harmony is an atmosphere, but also a kind of "soft power". In the process of building this soft power, in addition to establishing a humanized management system, what other aspects do you think Western middle schools should strengthen?
Li: For the construction of a harmonious campus, it is important to refer to the spiritual and cultural aspects, that is, people often say "soft power". We always take the spirit of "self-reliance and hard struggle" as the premise of everything we do. In addition, we put forward the construction goal of "teaching everywhere and educating people everywhere" to build an overpass for students to become talents. On the basis of the past, we should optimize the humanistic environment, make the campus environment full of cultural atmosphere, make elegant civilization the theme of campus culture, make the cultivation of students full of humanity and socialization, and finally let students achieve rapid growth under the influence of this rich cultural atmosphere.
Postscript: In my spare time, I met several classmates and teenagers, and they all praised their principals: "amiable", "there is no generation gap with students", "excellent", "practical and approachable" and "educational thought" ...
Li Shanliang is simple. On the surface, there is not much thinking about secularism; In fact, my heart is full of expectations, and my educational ideal-making the school a base for serving the society-will be realized. If it is, if it is. He put all his love for education on schools, teachers and students, and set an example by himself!