Leveraging the Internet: the "live broadcast" of curriculum reform in senior high schools in Hubei Province

With the deepening of the new curriculum reform, "Hubei Senior High School Curriculum Reform Network" has become a "notebook" for students to record their "fresh" growth process. Also here, teachers can "track" their own "training records" and schools can publish "dynamic information of curriculum reform" in real time.

In the autumn of 2009, the new curriculum reform of ordinary high schools in Hubei Province was officially implemented, and the special website "Hubei High School Curriculum Reform Network" also set sail. Establishing a network-based platform for curriculum implementation, teaching management, students' growth, teachers' development and school evaluation, initially constructing a network support system of resource sharing, information disclosure, multi-party interaction and full participation, and striving to realize informationization and network management are important measures for Hubei Province to give full play to its advantages as a latecomer and form local characteristics. With the help of the rapid communication characteristics of the network, the "new curriculum reform" began to fully show its charm and vitality.

Online communication: teaching interaction is "hot"

Hubei Education Information Network, sponsored by Hubei Education Department and Hubei Education Informatization Development Center, has always been the first choice for millions of Hubei teachers and students to exchange ideas and share resources. Its code name "e2 1" has become one of the symbols of Hubei's education informatization in the 2/kloc-0 century. Based on this platform, "Hubei High School Curriculum Reform Network" has a good "reputation" and sufficient "popularity" from the beginning.

In the autumn of 2009, 423,000 freshmen from 653 ordinary high schools in Hubei Province entered the campus. Three years later, they will take the lead in "experiencing" brand-new teaching methods; Three years later, they will also be exposed to the brand-new college entrance examination model for the first time. Many firsts have brought them to the forefront of educational reform.

After the novelty, confusion and doubt are always lingering; Resolving the fear and anxiety of the "first crab eater" to "crab" has become the primary task of the education department. In this context, "Hubei High School Curriculum Reform Network" came into being, taking on the heavy responsibility of "interactive platform" for real-time exchange of "eating crabs" experience and lessons.

"Can the high school curriculum reform reduce the burden on students?" "What do you think of the new teaching method?" The website has set up a "questionnaire survey" column to understand and analyze students' ideas about the new curriculum reform in real time. For teachers, "Hubei Senior High School Curriculum Reform Network" has also designed corresponding content to investigate their curriculum reform training and the difficulties and hot issues in the process of education and teaching.

At the same time, the website also provides different levels of communication space for schools, teachers and students, so that these "educational subjects" do not feel "lonely" in the practice of education and teaching, and promote the new curriculum reform with "collective wisdom". As a retired teacher said, this is the "common cause" of all educators and educatees.

It is very necessary for the education administrative department to master the "first-hand information" in the implementation of the new curriculum reform; The correct decision often depends on the accurate judgment of the situation. On the "Hubei Senior High School Curriculum Reform Network", the opinions and comments of schools, teachers, students and even parents are undoubtedly the best and freshest first-hand materials.

Online evaluation: the subject of education has "moved"

In September, 2009, all freshmen of senior high school in Hubei Province registered online. After students complete registration and obtain their student status and student number, the school will implement credit management, comprehensive quality evaluation and graduation certificate issuance according to the student number. This brand-new management mode has greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of teachers and students, and also improved the quality and efficiency of management.

On the Hubei Senior High School Curriculum Reform Network, aiming at the network management platform specially established by student users, the specific contents such as my school status, my growth record, my elective courses, my credits and my comprehensive quality evaluation are subdivided. Students can log in and activate blogs directly with their user names and passwords, and can create columns, post review logs, upload pictures and make comments. "This is different from the past. Everyone feels very fresh and can't wait to log in and register. It's a bit like writing a mood diary. " A freshman in Wuhan said.

Whether the new curriculum reform is successful or not depends on whether the evaluation mechanism is scientific and reasonable. "Emphasis on developmental evaluation, diversification of evaluation subjects and indicators, diversification of evaluation methods, and shift of evaluation focus to process" have become the basic ways of the new evaluation mechanism. This method has been "settled" in the "Hubei Senior High School Curriculum Reform Network" and started to operate.

"In the specific evaluation process, on the one hand, students can be respected and self-evaluated, on the other hand, peers and parents are encouraged to participate in the evaluation, making the evaluation an interactive activity with the active participation of many subjects." Education experts affirmed this real-time network evaluation mechanism. Every student's growth record and self-evaluation and mutual evaluation will leave "original data" on the internet; These "data" will accompany the whole learning process of students.

In addition, the website also set up systems such as "teacher evaluation" and "head teacher evaluation"; Students, teachers and teaching evaluation groups can query the results of mutual evaluation and teaching evaluation online. The head teacher of a middle school in Wuhan said: "With the comprehensive evaluation of these data, our teachers can also get rid of the pressure of exam-oriented education and focus on improving the quality of courses."

Online Sharing: "New" Educational Resources

The new curriculum requires schools to encourage students to learn more modules in areas of interest and potential, so as to promote the all-round development of students' personality and expertise. However, due to the unbalanced allocation of educational resources, it is difficult for many schools to achieve this goal in a short time by themselves. The solution of the problem must rely on the sharing of educational resources.

After years of development and accumulation, Hubei Education Information Network has more than sub-websites and systems 100, 500 project school website members, and strong network basic service capabilities such as information disclosure, online service and public interaction. With solid "basic skills", it provides a strong guarantee for resource sharing.

Relying on these advantages, Hubei Education Informatization Development Center has initially set up a distance learning platform for students and a network platform for teacher development, providing students with learning resources and teacher teaching support to meet the diverse learning needs of students and the professional growth needs of teachers. In the next step, they will further improve the teaching material resources support website, open the online synchronous teaching and research and lesson preparation management system, and integrate the existing high school teaching resources. "We will combine video and voice technology, virtual technology and other means to help Hubei high school curriculum reform," said engineers and technicians of the website.

In addition, Hubei Education Information Center has established a basic education database covering schools, teachers and students in the whole province, and established various business application platforms for curriculum reform in senior high schools with the support of the basic database. One of the tasks is to establish a "model school" management system. School users can publish "dynamic information of curriculum reform" and "submit an application for a model school" through a special website to play their leading role in demonstration. The sharing of educational resources maximizes the use of limited educational resources; In particular, the network sharing of high-quality educational resources has greatly narrowed the inter-school and regional differences in education and teaching, and effectively promoted educational equity. "We will use modern information technology to guide ordinary high schools in the province to gradually realize the goal of national curriculum reform." Fan, director of Hubei Education Information Center, is full of confidence in the future.