Xie Shuhua, Director of the Municipal Education Bureau, talks about "What is a good principal"
What kind of good principal is Xie Shuhua, secretary of the Party Committee and director of Wenzhou Education Bureau? A good principal is a good school, which is the wisdom of education. History has proved that if the principal is good, the school will be strong, Cai Yuanpei is to Peking University, Mei Yiqi is to Tsinghua University and Zhang Boling is to Nankai. Today, what is a good principal and how to be a good principal? A good principal must have advanced educational ideas. Suhomlinski said, "The leaders of schools are the leaders of educational ideas first, and then the administrative leaders." Putting forward advanced educational ideas is the premise of running a good school. Only when the headmaster has his own educational thoughts can he have a fixed opinion and determination in running a school, and have the courage and ability to innovate against the current and lead the school to Excellence. Of course, advanced educational ideas do not fall from the sky. As an educational thought, it covers the principal's explanation of educational phenomena, the description of educational essence and the prediction of educational future. There are three main ways to form advanced educational thoughts: first, strengthen learning. Strengthen the study of educational theory, policies and regulations and school management. The headmaster should be more bookish and less malodorous. At present, some principals are busy socializing and seeing off, neglecting their studies all the year round, and can't come up with advanced school-running ideas, let alone the reform and development of the school. A good headmaster should form a good habit of loving and studying hard, so as to keep his knowledge updated, thus leading the reform and development of education. The second is practice. What you get on paper is so shallow that you never know what you have to do. The formation of educational thought depends on long-term educational practice. Without long-term practice, there would be no Pavlysh Middle School in Suhomlinski and Xiaozhuang Normal School in Tao Xingzhi, and there would be no "democracy and science" in Wei Shusheng and "successful education" in Liu Jinghai. A good headmaster must work hard, run a school with heart, and form his own educational thoughts through practice. The third is constant reflection. Reflection is an important way for principals to refine their experience in running schools and improve their ideas. Principals should have reflective consciousness and habits, and often reflect on whether their school-running ideas are correct, whether their management methods are scientific and whether their management results are remarkable. Only by comparison can we identify and motivate, and principals should form advanced educational concepts in reflection. A good headmaster should have lofty moral qualities. The headmaster is the supreme commander of the school. This "command power" not only refers to the position power, but also refers to the personality charm produced by lofty moral quality. The headmaster is upright, but the teachers and students act without orders. A good headmaster should make up his mind to improve his moral level. First of all, lofty moral quality is reflected in a strong sense of professionalism and mission. Career and sense of mission are the powerful motivation and spiritual pursuit of the principal in education, and also determine the school-running realm and reform courage of the principal. The headmaster is an important event for the growth of thousands of students in Qian Qian, shouldering the heavy responsibility of national rejuvenation. If we only take running a school as a means to settle down, we will inevitably fall into the quagmire of pursuing fame and gain, and lose the lofty pursuit of education and the courage to reform. Only by taking education as a lifelong pursuit and supreme cause can we have the spirit of selfless dedication and the courage to be responsible for others, and we can not die in the face of difficulties, alert ourselves in the face of interests, and keep a persistent watch on the road of pursuit. Secondly, lofty moral quality is reflected in selfless dedication. Education is a career, and the significance of a career lies in dedication. A good principal should, as Tao Xingzhi demanded, "come wholeheartedly without a blade of grass", with unrequited love and unreserved dedication to education. As a handsome teacher, the headmaster should show his dedication and set an example for all teachers and students. In the face of some unhealthy trends in the education system, the headmaster should carry forward the righteousness, selfless dedication, indifferent to fame and fortune, and lead the teacher collective with his own practical actions. Third, noble moral quality is embodied in kindness and honesty. Education is the cause of love, and there is no education without love. Nothing is more touching than affection. It is an important factor for a principal to have a strong moral influence to have teachers in his eyes, students in his heart and love teachers and students. The headmaster holds all kinds of resources of the school, and should be fair in handling things, be fair in being a person, be reasonable and legal in employing people, and enhance collective cohesion and personal credibility. Honesty is the bottom line of morality. A good principal must be self-interested in the economy and strict with himself in life in order to achieve his personality foundation. A good headmaster must have excellent management ability. Management is not only a science, but also an art, which is the basic skill of principals. A good principal should be familiar with the basic laws and methods of school management, master the psychological characteristics of teaching staff and have excellent management ability. A good headmaster must have three management abilities: first, he is knowledgeable and resourceful. Principals should be familiar with the situation of educational development, master the law of educational development, focus on the future, be good at judging the situation and planning the future. They should not only sum up the past experience of managing schools, but also combine the current actual planning and development and cultivate talents according to the future trend. The second is resourceful and decisive. The headmaster can't be tied up with affairs all day, and do everything by himself, which leads to confusion in school management. It is necessary to establish a system through legislation and create a school of cultural management; We should be good at grasping the direction, defining the division of labor, being good at authorizing and taking the overall situation into consideration; We should give full play to democracy, listen to opinions extensively, brainstorm and make decisive decisions. The third is to know people and be good at their duties. Principals should be good at discovering, cultivating and using talents. As we all know, people are the core element of school development, and individual schools are declining because of the oversight of principals. A good principal is to appoint people on their merits, make use of their strengths, avoid their weaknesses, and strive to create a good situation in which talented people come forth in large numbers, so that the school can become a paradise for students to grow up and a stage for subject teachers and administrative backbones to grow up. A good headmaster must have a superb teaching level. Teachers are professional, and a good principal must be a good teacher. Only an expert principal who is proficient in education and teaching can master the laws of education and students' growth, fulfill the bounden duty of teaching and educating people, lead the school curriculum construction and guide the education and teaching work. To some extent, the principal's education and teaching level determines how far the school can go and how high it can reach. First, in teaching, a good principal should be both an expert and a saint. The principal must first become an excellent subject teacher, and at the same time, he can dabble in other subjects extensively, specializing in and erudite. Principals should go deep into the front line of teaching, "go to teachers, students and classrooms", and often attend lectures and analyze classes; The headmaster should jump out of the front line again, and don't regard himself as a backbone teacher and fall into heavy teaching tasks. He should study the curriculum system and lead teachers to grow collectively. Second, in scientific research, a good principal is both a banner and a ladder. Whether we can really attach importance to education and scientific research reflects the knowledge of a principal. A good headmaster should take the lead in teaching and research, make himself the banner and head coach of educational research, and let the school have endless development momentum through teaching and research. Teaching and scientific research is also the fundamental way to promote teachers' professional development. A good principal should provide a strong guarantee for teachers to engage in teaching and research, and form a good atmosphere and mechanism for teaching and research schools. Third, in educating people, the principal should be both a confidant of students and a friend of parents. The mission of this school is to promote the development of every child. A good headmaster should go deep into the students, understand their joys and sorrows, master their ideological trends, and let his heart beat with the children's hearts. Only in this way can students be accepted and education work be possible. At the same time, good principals should make full use of and effectively integrate family education resources and social education forces, communicate closely, handle the relationship between home and school, and make parents become allies in school education. A good headmaster should have profound humanistic qualities. Pedagogy is actually human studies in essence, and the core task of education is to promote the all-round and coordinated development of students. Popularization of education pursues efficiency and unity, and exam-oriented education pays attention to mechanical training, which will inevitably lead to educational behavior that violates the law of students' growth and ignores students' personality differences. Humanistic quality is the cornerstone of a principal's comprehensive quality. Principals without humanistic qualities can only become "skilled craftsmen" in management at best, while principals with profound humanistic qualities can become "educators". Then how can the principal have a profound humanistic quality? First of all, we should improve our knowledge. Humanistic education is humanistic education first, so we should read more works on literature, art and philosophy at home and abroad and strive to improve our spiritual realm. Second, we should enrich our humanistic spirit. The soul of humanistic quality is the spirit with "human" as the object and center, and its core content is the concern for the meaning and value of human existence. At present, many principals are working hard to oppose exam-oriented education, such as "slow" education, life-oriented education, respect education and success education. These diversified forms of education reflect the principals' strong concern for their children's personal lives. A good headmaster cares about the physical and mental development of students in the past, the all-round development of children now and the sustainable development of children in the future. Third, we should improve our tolerance. Humanistic quality is directly reflected in the principal's behavior. A good headmaster should have tolerance, treat people with temperature, do things with scale, behave with grace, have a solid background and a broad vision. Being a headmaster is a noble and sacred thing, and it is necessary to constantly cultivate "morality, determination, words and deeds". In the contemporary education circle in China, Liu Pengzhi, a middle school affiliated to the National People's Congress, is the principal. Shanghai middle school Tang, "lifelong preparation, transcendence" is only for being the principal; Determined to "walk on the road of knowledge", Yang Ruiqing has been paying attention to rural education. I deeply expect that in this land of Wenzhou, there will emerge groups of good principals who will make unremitting efforts to practice their educational dreams!