Over the past 30 years, with the rapid development of Yantai in the reform and opening up, Yantai No.1 Middle School has also undergone earth-shaking changes. Bathed in the spring breeze of the times, the past and present changes of Yantai No.1 Middle School have become the epitome and witness of the great achievements of reform and opening up, and Yantai No.1 Middle School has also written the song of education for 30 years of reform and opening up. ...
30 Years' Unremitting Educational Reform and Achievements in Modern Humanities Schools
193 1 September, a school named after Zhifu-Yantai Private Zhifu Middle School (the predecessor of No.1 Middle School) was born in Yantai, a port city at the foot of Dongshan Mountain and on the coast of the Yellow Sea. Inspired by the slogan of "saving the country through education", the school has gone through storms and made progress on a tortuous road.
193 1-2008-77, time flies.
Yantai No.1 Middle School, as the first batch of key middle schools and standardized schools in Shandong Province and one of the earliest 15 key middle schools in Shandong Province, has always had the reputation of "atmospheric, simple, rigorous and pragmatic". The unique campus style, which combines dignified and lively, classical and modern, has accumulated the history and culture of Zhong Yi and condensed the wisdom of generations of China people in the past 77 years. Professor Shanda talked with Zhang Jingfen, an alumnus of Yantai No.1 Middle School, about his alma mater, and thought that the personality and sentiment, conduct and demeanor, spirit and temperament of Yantai No.1 Middle School were exemplary of the times.
In the late 1970s, Yantai No.1 Middle School had an ordinary school gate, which was far less magnificent than it is now. Entering the gate is a cement road. Now when I come to Yantai No.1 Middle School, the first thing I see is the high school gate, which presents a dignified cultural atmosphere in front of modern buildings. Since 1980s, the school has optimized the teaching environment, accelerated the renovation and construction of school buildings, built a representative hexagonal teaching building, and built new student apartments, restaurants and gymnasiums with advanced and complete internal facilities. It has modernized the experimental instruments and means of physics and chemistry students, established standardized standard computer rooms and language labs, equipped with audio-visual teaching facilities, and equipped with the city's advanced teacher office automation and interactive multimedia campus teaching network. In August 2008, No.1 Middle School took the lead in installing dust-free automatic washing blackboards in the city's education system to create a safe and green classroom environment for teachers and students.
"Thirty years of reform and development have brought more and more vibrant No.1 Middle School campus, which makes our teachers proud." Teacher Li Chongxian, who is 64 years old but still insists on education, said with emotion. Since 197 1, she has been teaching in Yantai No.1 Middle School for 37 years. However, her indissoluble bond with the school lasted for half a century, starting from 1957 in No.1 Middle School! At that time, there were only four classes in No.1 Middle School, with less than 40 students in each class. Now, No.1 Middle School is a modern middle school with 98 classes, more than 6,200 students and more than 480 faculty members. "Happy for the teacher", the fertile soil of No.1 Middle School cultivated me. Although I have reached retirement age, I am reluctant to leave. I will give back my life to my alma mater and society, and I am willing to dedicate my life to my alma mater. "
In the conference room of No.1 Middle School, a calligraphy of "being a teacher" represents the aspirations of all the students in Grade 72 of No.1 Middle School and the unremitting efforts of all the teaching staff. The reporter visited the history museum, honor room, exhibition hall and the sculpture of teacher Cai Zhiyuan, who is known as the "soul of teachers" on campus. Rich campus historical and cultural resources have also become the characteristics of moral education in No.1 Middle School, inspiring generations of students.
With the continuous development of education, the school always takes the construction of teaching staff as a strategic focus, attaches importance to teacher training, encourages lifelong learning, and improves the education level through various ways such as rotating training abroad, domestic distance education and training, offering training courses for young teachers, and using its own resources for school-based training. According to statistics, the school has 480 in-service teachers, accounting for 82% of the undergraduate education, and more than 40 graduate students, including national excellent teachers 10, national model workers 1 person, national model teachers 1 person, 4 provincial excellent teachers, provincial model workers 1 person and 58 municipal excellent teachers. In recent years, the school has won the honorary titles of "National Traditional Sports School", "Shandong Standardization School", "Yantai Star School" and "Yantai Advanced Grassroots Party Organization" for more than ten times.
Examination-oriented education in moral education sequence teaching
Since the new curriculum reform in senior high school in 2004, "knowledge and ability, method and process, emotional attitude and values" have permeated the teaching of all subjects in No.1 Middle School. The school combines national spirit with traditional virtues, as well as the glorious history and profound cultural heritage of the school, and offers self-cultivation courses. The course "Teaching students how to be human beings" taught by Li Chongxian has become the "first lesson" for every freshman, which has made the school get good grades unexpectedly, become the characteristic of Shandong education circle and won national awards. The students' moral concept has undergone gratifying changes unconsciously.
Dai Li, a student, wrote affectionately, "The rest class is the last class on Thursday morning. When the sun is shining ... I gently put that bunch of gold and wrote a little bit about the culture of the motherland in my notebook. Loyalty, filial piety, courtesy, frugality, concession, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faith ... The Tongde found by the teacher shines in the sun, and the soul becomes clearer and clearer under the all-encompassing light of this cave. Thorns and mud are still there on the way forward, but I have the courage to face the stormy weather. There are eternal wisdom and virtues in the self-cultivation class, which are dissolved in the sunshine, quietly poured into the world, flowing at the intersection of time and space, and also have the spirit of benevolence, benevolence, inspiring and eternal human feelings. The teacher's words often linger in the dance of sunshine ... "
"Leading students to the sublime with sublimity", such a self-cultivation education class, is rare in many high schools that regard time as gold. I'm afraid only one middle school can offer 20 special classes each semester. Since the beginning of the course in 2004, more than 4,000 students have fallen in love with this "first lesson".
Pursue education with the soul and achieve the height of quality education in No.1 Middle School. Nowadays, "self-cultivation course" has become an indispensable "first lesson"; In addition, the unique mental health class also strives to create a "pure humanities one middle school". The whole moral education sequence in No.1 Middle School has witnessed the most advantageous strategic education of "cultivating talents instead of examination machines".
Differentiated characteristic education to cultivate diversified students
"Admit differences, train students with differences, give them a way out and turn differences into Excellence." In recent years, distinctive English education and individualized advantage education for students at different levels have achieved remarkable results, which have opened up new ways for thousands of students to enter colleges and universities in batches and through multiple channels, so that more students have succeeded rather than been eliminated. This is becoming an important measure to carry out quality education reform in the context of the new curriculum reform in No.1 Middle School, and it also casts a successful road to quality education in No.1 Middle School. At least 200 students from No.1 Middle School are admitted to first-class universities such as Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts and Central Academy of Fine Arts every year. Many students entered the Olympic math class and the science and technology innovation class, and won many honors.
Excellent academic performance comes from excellent learning quality, which requires the guidance and training of teachers. One emphasizes that education reform should be in line with university education and reform high school homework and examination evaluation. Cultivate students' excellent quality with "humanized homework and evaluation of learning attitude" and guide students to form a serious and meticulous learning spirit. This move quickly "won" the strong recognition and praise of the parents of No.1 Middle School, and also practiced Confucius' great educational thought of "teaching without discrimination" 2,500 years ago, and even practiced the promise of "running a satisfactory education for the people" in No.1 Middle School.
"A successful education lies not in how much calcium tablets and protein powder you give your child, but in giving him the will, ability and spiritual nutrition to work hard. Now that the economy has developed, the pursuit of material things is far greater than the pursuit of spirit. The growth of students must overcome utilitarian education. A good school not only needs further study, but also gives him spiritual support during their growth. " The school insists on cultivating students from three aspects: scientific literacy, humanistic feelings and social responsibility, and pays attention to all-round education. He has successively developed two school-based moral education textbooks, Looking Back at the Years and Making Great Achievements.
Under the guidance of this educational concept of respecting morality and carrying things, in recent years, the results of college entrance examination, unified examination and discipline Olympic Games in No.1 Middle School are among the best in urban areas, with distinctive teaching characteristics in Olympic Games, English, scientific and technological innovation, art and physical education; The school has established Yin Yongzheng Education Award Foundation, Taiwan Province Alumni Association Scholarship and Lai Scholarship to encourage and train outstanding students to grow into talents. Excellent students admitted to famous universities and key universities such as Tsinghua, Peking University and Zhejiang University account for more than 60% of undergraduate students. In 2008, the total number of undergraduates was 76 1, which created the best level in the history of college entrance examination in urban middle schools. Xu Xin and Gao Huaxin won the Shandong Science Champion and Yantai Liberal Arts Champion respectively. Twenty-six students were admitted to national key universities in advance through the Olympic Games and small language single strokes, and won the first place in the city's high schools again.
Connecting with international education and leading the direction of Yantai education
Being a humanities school, No.1 Middle School pays more attention to the internationalization of education, which is also the general trend of school development. "The internationalization of education has greatly promoted quality education". Foreign education pays attention to cultivating students' practical ability, which is a spur and promotion to domestic education. International education broadens teachers' horizons and adapts to the development direction of education at a new height.
Because of this, the school has not only become a national experimental school for research learning, innovative writing and English teaching, a national model school for creative learning, an excellent experimental school for cultivating innovative talents for young people, and the first batch of national defense students' source bases in jinan military area command. It has also become the "American INTER Computer Innovative Thinking Training Experimental School", and has also established sister schools with more than 10 famous schools in Australia, Switzerland, the United States, France, Britain and South Korea and some excellent middle schools in China to exchange visits between teachers and students, study, strengthen cultural exchanges and share resources.
"Why do I often have tears in my eyes? Because I love this land deeply. " For the further development of education in the future, Sui, the headmaster of Yantai No.1 Middle School, quoted Ai Qing's poem "I Love this Land" to express his views. "This is also my complex with everyone in Yantai No.1 Middle School. It is this feeling that urges us to do things practically every day and plan the future. There is always a voice in my heart shouting: what should I give to teachers and students? What should I give to my father Zhifu? What should I give to my country? For 30 years, I have been bathed in the kindness of the party. From receiving college education to engaging in education, my heart has always been full of gratitude and return feelings! Then, how will we lay the foundation for Yantai No.1 Middle School in the next 30 or 50 years? Bottom line: build a solid foundation and build a new one. Stick to the foundation of one China tradition, learn from international advanced education and create a new cultural realm. First, improve the happiness index of all middle school students, so that faculty and students can work and study happily. Second, develop all middle school students. Provide a platform for all teachers to grow up and become professionals; Create opportunities for all students to become talents, so that they can become the pillars of the country and be famous in society. Third, build a cultural campus and realize humanistic education, so that everyone has noble personality, humanistic feelings and courage to take responsibility. Fourth, face the world, cross-border exchanges, and internationalize No.1 Middle School education. "
30 years of peaceful scenery, 30 years of blooming flowers and 30 years of fruitful results. In the past 30 years of reform and opening-up, Yantai No.1 Middle School has been forging ahead and constantly innovating and developing, which has confirmed the development achievements of the motherland in the past 30 years of reform and opening-up and witnessed unprecedented progress of the times. Yantai No.1 Middle School is striving to build a first-class school with certain influence in the whole province, the whole country and even the world as soon as possible. (