Curriculum leadership is the soft power of a school's development, which mainly refers to the ability of a school to lead a team of teachers to creatively design, compile, develop and implement new courses according to the curriculum plan of the new curriculum reform and the school's school-running objectives, so as to comprehensively improve the quality of education and build a school-specific brand. The new curriculum scheme determines the top-level design that matches the educational modernization and quality education goals, but it can only be realized under the leadership of the school principal and through the creative work of teachers. Therefore, the headmaster, as the leader of school curriculum teaching, shoulders the heavy responsibility of guiding all teachers to accomplish the goals of the new curriculum, and is bound to be at the forefront of the new curriculum reform.
First, enhance the awareness of curriculum leadership
The headmaster is the leader of the school curriculum teaching, but because the teaching materials, knowledge, policies, measures, teams, educational models and ideas are gradually formed and developed in the process of implementing the new curriculum, there is no one-time mature and stereotyped model. Therefore, the headmaster must get rid of the complicated affairs, calm down, study hard, keep pace with the times, constantly catch the new trend of curriculum teaching, and pay attention to the new methods of curriculum implementation and improvement. So as to correctly grasp the understanding of the new curriculum, and transform the learned ideas into their own ideas through internalization, so that advanced ideas can run through all aspects of school curriculum teaching management. I usually like reading, and the expositions of famous educators such as Ogawa, Wei Shusheng and Li Zhenxi often make people shine at the moment. I often learn the wisdom of famous principals in successfully leading courses from newspapers such as School Management, Jiangsu Education, Suzhou Education, Wujiang Education, Suzhou Daily, etc., chew Liu's Poetic Education and Pondering over Management, extract wonderful passages, savor them carefully, and share them with all teachers at the school-based teaching and research training meeting.
Second, improve the skills of curriculum leaders.
First of all, we should improve the ability of curriculum decision-making, that is, build an overall curriculum vision, including curriculum planning, design, selection and so on. Secondly, we should improve the integration ability of curriculum resources, that is, we should not only make full use of and tap the superior curriculum resources in the school, but also actively integrate and develop off-campus resources to learn from each other's strengths and strive for the rational allocation of curriculum resources; Thirdly, improve the ability of curriculum evaluation, that is, discover and reflect on problems through timely monitoring and evaluation of curriculum implementation, and constantly improve and optimize the curriculum system.
The characteristic education in our school is "book-based" education, so "book-based" has become the guiding ideology of curriculum development, curriculum implementation and curriculum management. When developing school-based courses such as Drunken Jiangnan, Martial Arts and Old Wine, and Jiangnan Tianchi, we should put people first, give full consideration to students' existing life and knowledge base, and strive to be simple but not luxurious. Based on the local culture, draw on the content with strong local flavor that students are familiar with and interested in; Pay attention to the integration of school-based curriculum with local curriculum and national curriculum, and cultivate students' basic abilities such as investigation and research, exploration and innovation, and sorting out reports. The development and implementation of school-based curriculum has improved the comprehensive ability of teachers and students, enlivened the campus cultural atmosphere, promoted quality education, and promoted the improvement of teaching quality, which has been well received by parents and superior leaders.
Third, strengthen the leadership ability in curriculum implementation.
Schools should guide teachers to implement new courses with correct educational concepts, go deep into the front line of classroom teaching, analyze teaching trends, grasp the main contradictions and find out the real situation in the classroom; We should grasp the problems existing in teaching and study how to reform the teaching process and teaching methods. We should pay full attention to the difficult problems in the classroom, pay attention to the confusion in teachers' teaching, and guide and guide teachers to improve and perfect the strategies and skills of teaching reform. In recent years, Tongluo Middle School has held young teachers' teaching basic skills competition and golden autumn class every year. The banner of "learning to teach, reducing burdens and increasing efficiency, making students learn happily and teachers teach happily" on campus clearly shows our determination and goal of reforming curriculum teaching. As the principal, I insist on going deep into the classroom to listen to lectures and evaluate classes, and make classroom observations with everyone. After class, a "classroom teaching evaluation meeting" will be held to guide young teachers to sum up their experience, find out their shortcomings and accelerate their professional growth.
The headmaster's coming into the classroom is not only an understanding of the teacher's "teaching", but also an understanding of the students' "learning". Usually, after listening to each class, I always ask students or conduct a questionnaire survey to find out what students have gained and what problems they have after a class, and then give feedback to the teacher, so that the teacher can constantly improve the teaching methods and make the classroom teaching more ecological and effective. It can be said that it is ecologically effective, which is also the primary pursuit of "respecting the classroom" in our school. Of course, in addition to listening to the courses of this major, the principal should also learn the general methods of listening to lectures, that is, to judge the overall state of the class and the teaching realm of teachers from a general perspective, and to pay attention to the teaching and learning methods and teaching effects in the classroom.
Fourth, build a strong teaching and research team.
Teaching and research group is an organization for teachers to engage in teaching research and an effective form of school administrative leadership teaching. The strength of teaching and research team construction largely determines the success or failure of school teaching. The construction of teaching and research group should focus on teaching research and aim at improving the quality of school curriculum teaching and promoting teachers' professional development. Therefore, the administration should personally go deep into the teaching and research group to participate in the activities of the teaching and research group, encourage teachers to actively participate in the activities of the teaching and research group with their enthusiasm, and constantly strengthen the construction of the teaching and research group, requiring that the activities of the teaching and research group should be planned and step by step every semester, thus providing teachers with opportunities for discussion and reflection, starting with the problems around teachers and the problems that teachers are most familiar with and concerned about, and prompting teachers to reflect on their usual teaching practice and inspire each other in mutual exchanges. It is in the process of participating in this kind of teaching and research activities that teachers are "forced" to reflect on their own experience, improve their practical level, and finally enhance the strength of the whole teaching and research team. Every year, our school holds "Young Teachers' Professional Growth Promotion Meeting", mentoring ceremony and other activities, aiming at enabling backbone teachers to impart successful teaching methods, leading young teachers to take fewer detours and grow up rapidly, thus enhancing the team ability of teaching and research groups and lesson preparation groups. In order to avoid complacency, the school provides certain funds to each teaching and research group every year, so that they can "go out" and communicate with their brother schools, observe and learn classroom teaching in the form of "different topics" and "reconstruction of the same topic", and constantly improve and optimize teaching behavior.
Five, establish and improve the implementation system of curriculum standards
The curriculum standards of various subjects reflect the basic requirements of the state for students of different classes in knowledge and skills, processes and methods, emotional attitudes and values, and put forward teaching and evaluation suggestions, which are the basis of teaching work. Teachers should conscientiously implement the curriculum standards and actively carry out teaching reform in the teaching process. However, in actual teaching, teachers often put forward teaching requirements because they cannot accurately interpret the curriculum standards, and there are also deviations in grasping the teaching materials. Therefore, every teacher must be familiar with the curriculum standards of this subject, actively create conditions and establish relevant management systems to help teachers correctly interpret the curriculum standards, such as school-based training system, teaching research system, "six earnest" work system and classroom teaching evaluation system. So as to guide teachers to correctly interpret national curriculum standards and deeply analyze students' foundation. Under the background of performance pay, on the basis of soliciting the opinions of all teachers, our school holds a teachers' congress every year to revise and improve the teaching and research system and the "six earnest" work system. This process is actually another evaluation and reflection on the usual curriculum teaching. Therefore, the headmaster should guide teachers to understand this matter from the height of evaluating teaching and learning and promoting curriculum construction, so as to promote the curriculum reform to develop in depth. Such system modification and improvement not only fully reflects public opinion, but also enables teachers to consciously implement the system in the future.
In a word, under the new educational situation, all teachers must observe the trend of school curriculum development, change their thinking mode and behavior habits, enhance their curriculum awareness, cultivate their solid curriculum professionalism and participate in various teaching practices, so as to promote the construction of curriculum system, improve teaching quality and run a satisfactory education for the people.