Or to put it another way, how do we redefine rural education?
The definition of teaching will be more macro.
In the definition of most people, "teaching" is in a narrow sense, that is, "short-term field teaching for college students in summer vacation". In fact, this definition has been condensed into a specific definition. Is that really all?
It is fortunate and magical to have such a rural middle school, because since Internet education was not paid so much attention three years ago, their students' classes have long been not limited to classrooms, but famous teachers gathered from all corners of the country through the Internet to convince these children that "a group of ugly ducklings that others don't know can also become white swans that all schools know". This is Jingjia Town Central Middle School in Huantai County, Zibo City, Shandong Province.
Jingjia Middle School is a remote rural school without abundant teachers and excellent students. However, it is the earliest BYOD school in rural China. After three years of persistence and practice, we have explored a new way of online learning in rural schools and introduced more high-quality resources to make rural children glow with sunshine and self-confidence.
There are only 102 students and 5 in-service teachers in this graduation grade, but their curriculum resources are far more than these. Different from the recitation and memory of morning reading classes in many schools, children in Jingjia Middle School wake up the morning with poems and warm their hearts with the recitation of Cao Yanan, a teacher of Qingyang College, when reading Rainbow Flowers and Remittance. Humanistic background and traditional culture have infiltrated into children's hearts every day; Zhang Song, a gorgeous English teacher, and Yingdong, an old master of Ruibo Education, lead the children to open a new world of English learning with rigorous and professional teaching methods and relaxed and humorous classroom atmosphere; Every solar term, children follow the teacher Gao Chunxiang of "Twenty-four Solar Term Natural College" to listen to solar terms, measure solar shadows, and practice solar term courses while attending classes, thus gradually cultivating children's practical innovation and scientific spirit; Their deskmates have already crossed provinces, cities and grades, and they have become good partners with students from Sheng Qiao Middle School and Changzhou Beijiao Primary School, sharing the same class and reading the same book. They came to China with Jing Rong, a study tour group from China, and watched the world with Wenjing, a reporter from CCTV. Their teachers are all over the country. This is also a long-term practice of rural education.
For rural schools, the biggest problem is the weak teachers, the loss of students and the widening gap between urban and rural areas. Jingjia Middle School is not a case. With the rapid development of education informatization, Banbantong, school-to-school and people-to-school have also spread to most rural schools. Internet is bringing great changes to rural education. The desire of rural children for the outside world and the demand for excellent courses have changed the traditional poverty alleviation model. Can children in rural schools have the same high-quality curriculum resources as those in urban schools? Can they have famous teachers like city children? The answer is yes. The essence of the Internet is the networking of "heart to heart", and teaching in rural areas is a process of changing hearts. A brand-new era has unfolded before us.
This is thought-provoking. The subject of rural education should be the whole society, and the audience should be the whole village, including rural children who lack high-quality learning resources, parents who lack family education resources and rural teachers who lack sustainable growth resources. The resources here include both material and spiritual aspects.
The teaching mode will be more diversified.
In the practice of tackling key problems at the bottom of rural education, the strength of such a group of young people can not be ignored. They teach in rural areas. The Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the Ministry of Education encourage young volunteers to teach and help the poor-fully develop young human resources, promote the growth of young people in practice, strengthen the construction of socialist spiritual civilization, and at the same time alleviate the problems of insufficient teachers and low quality in poor areas. On February 25th, 2006, the Organization Department of the Central Committee, the Ministry of Personnel (now Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security), the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Health, the the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League decided to jointly organize "three supports and one support" (college students go to rural grass-roots units to engage in supporting agriculture, teaching, supporting doctors and helping the poor after graduation). "internet plus Teaching" will become one of the new paths of "three supports and one support".
Going back ten or even five years, Internet education is still a castle in the air, or in the subjective feelings of many people, it is a "high-end model" that only developed regions or prestigious schools can practice. With the advent of the mobile Internet era, our next generation has become an undeniable "Internet aborigine" no matter where it is. At the same time, the concept of more and more synchronization and the increasing popularity of hardware equipment have lowered the threshold of Internet education and opened up the necessary conditions. Ten years later, with the penetration of mobile Internet into every corner of our lives, teaching has also been given a new model and path. More sustainable and efficient "Internet teaching" has gradually linked the vast number of college youth with rural education.
Guo, the captain of the "Heguang Project" teaching team, said: "Our first class is English. We started with simple phonetic symbols and 26 English letters and found that they were completely interested in learning because they had never taken such a course before. " As of September, 2007, there are 9 rural schools connected with Guangping Plan, covering Sichuan, Guizhou, Henan, Hebei and other provinces, benefiting 2,000 students.
Now, Guo, who decided to take this teaching career as a formal job, envisions this: "I want to copy what I am doing now as a template, and even affect some current teaching situations in Shanghai and even the whole country. You can't change the backward education of more than 20,000 rural small-scale schools in China. On the contrary, there are so many college resources in China. Can you combine the two well and really help some local children? " (Part of the text is taken from Yang's "The Second Wave after 90s | Guo: Online Teaching")
On March 17, 1, the national "Internet to Increase Students' Education" activity jointly sponsored by Hujiang "Mutual Plus Program", Shanghai Maritime University, English College of Shanghai International Studies University and Shanghai Lingqing Public Welfare Development Center was officially released. The activity of "Internet to Increase Students' Education" hopes to connect universities and rural schools through webcasting classes, care for left-behind children, accompany rural children to grow up together, enrich quality courses in schools in remote areas, and help rural schools obtain more social resources. Zhong Wei, vice president of China Information Society Education Branch and a professor at Shanghai Maritime University, said, "In China, the poorer the place, the better the scenery and the richer the specialties. The local children are far smarter than you think. They just lack a platform and an opportunity. If everyone can find the value of that place, then you will get more things in the process of teaching, and teaching will become a valuable thing for both sides. "
The concept of teaching will be clearer.
In the process of rapid urbanization, rural education is facing severe challenges due to large-scale population mobility and school merger. Small-scale schools in rural areas are facing problems such as structural shortage of teachers and urgent improvement of education quality. The urgent task is to solve the fundamental problem of rural education. Give full play to the role of the Internet in helping the poor, promote accurate poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation, let more people in need use the Internet, and let the children in the ravine receive quality education. 201610 June 3 1 day, the Central Network Information Office, the National Development and Reform Commission and the the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office jointly issued a document to speed up the implementation of the network poverty alleviation action and the network intelligence support project, promote the docking of urban quality education resources with primary and secondary schools in poverty-stricken areas, and improve the education level in poverty-stricken areas. Giving children in poverty-stricken areas a good education is an important task of poverty alleviation and development, and it is also an important way to block the intergenerational transmission of poverty.
Therefore, my understanding of "teaching in the countryside" is a supplementary form of education based on the needs of rural education and the formation of long-term contact with the help of the Internet. And has the following four characteristics:
First, a new way to link famous teachers face to face: explore the feasibility of linking famous teachers resources in rural schools with the help of the Internet. Gather high-quality teachers and educational resources at low cost and high efficiency, and match high-quality educational resources with weak educational areas from multiple angles and options, so as to effectively promote the innovation and quality improvement of schools and regional education with significant comprehensive benefits. The value of "famous teachers" will not only enrich the learning space of rural children, but also enhance the ability of rural teachers and make rural education more possible.
Second, cross-regional groups exchange new communities: innovate teacher training methods, improve the efficiency and quality of teacher training by cross-time platform and interactive community training mode, at the same time greatly reduce the cost of teacher training, and enhance teachers' teaching philosophy and network literacy. When it comes to "rural education", two words will appear frequently at the same time, one is "attacking from the bottom" and the other is "holding a group to keep warm", both of which are inseparable from the continuous growth of rural teachers. At present, rural teachers are generally in a state of "no growth", with enthusiasm but no path. If we can build a cross-space growth community for such groups, it will lay a solid foundation for rural education.
Third, the new path of sustainable sharing of resources: continue to share high-quality educational resources, let schools in remote areas offer enough courses, realize the nationwide co-construction and sharing of online courses, and improve the shortage of teachers and educational resources in remote areas. In the process of teaching in rural areas, we need to build a virtual tunnel of rural education, so as to obtain a two-way channel of high-quality education and teaching resources, which is both "acquisition" and "feedback". Why is it "resource sharing"? Because rural education is also unique and has great output value, it is not a one-way transmission channel, but a two-way shared tunnel.
Fourth, promote the new teaching mode for college students: innovate the traditional classroom teaching mode and students' learning methods, and meet the personalized teaching and learning needs with the help of the Internet and mobile terminal devices. Innovate and develop the teaching mode of college students in internet plus, and promote the comprehensive and coordinated development of higher education and rural education. On the basis of off-line teaching during holidays and daily online teaching as a link, a platform for continuous dialogue between college students and rural areas is built.
Finally, the sharing of Zhong Wei, an associate professor of Shanghai Maritime University, at the Third world internet conference was summarized.
For the first time, Internet education has given everyone a minimum opportunity to link rich educational resources, and "rural teaching" has been redefined in this era.