Characteristics are the unique colors and styles of things, which are often unilateral. Creating school characteristics is an important basis for improving school quality. On the basis of school-running characteristics, we should further excavate, summarize and refine to form the school's characteristic culture, and then improve the quality of running schools.
The Basic Meaning of School Quality Improvement
Quality is the combination of quality, reputation and culture, with brand on the outside and connotation on the inside. School quality is a comprehensive concept, which contains many elements and involves many disciplines.
To build and improve school quality, advanced ideas and correct ideas are the forerunner, excellent principals and dedicated teachers are the main body, up-to-standard hardware and standardized management are the foundation, systematic courses and rich activities are the carrier, elegant culture and unique brands are the performance, and excellent students and social recognition are the goals. School quality is a collection of quality, connotation, culture, characteristics and credibility.
The improvement of school quality is a planned, organized and continuous process. The improvement of school quality is not only a result, but also a dynamic process and a mechanism of continuous pursuit of Excellence. The improvement of school quality is not only an ideal goal, but also a planned and organized activity. It is necessary to design the quality improvement plan in advance, determine the specific action plan, and push forward as planned. At the same time, it is constantly adjusted according to the changes of internal and external environment, and a summary is made to make it routine, internalized and solidified.
Schools should build experimental bases for democratic management and legal management; Building a fair, just, honest and friendly pure land on earth; Build a vibrant, stable and orderly growth paradise; Build the cradle of life and cultivate a new generation of people to live in harmony with themselves, society and nature.
The improvement of school quality is the overall improvement of school development, which is complicated. School quality is not formed unilaterally by a certain factor. The process of establishment and promotion involves many aspects such as school management, teaching and curriculum, and it is a complex system. Therefore, the change of a certain point needs to comprehensively consider the internal and external factors that affect the problem, integrate the ways to improve the quality of the school, form an organic whole, and give full play to the best effect.
In the process of improving the quality of schools, problems of one kind or another may arise. It is necessary to learn from the beneficial experiences of various places, avoid simple copying, and maximize the utilization efficiency of high-quality educational resources. The improvement of school quality, in terms of time, involves the past, present and future; From a spatial point of view, it can be divided into macro, meso and micro; From the object point of view, it covers hardware, software and appearance; From the morphological point of view, it includes thought, behavior and system; From the main point of view, it depends on the principal, teachers and students; Judging from the school situation, it is necessary to distinguish between centennial schools and new schools, public schools and private schools.
The improvement of school quality is a concrete action under the educational ideal and pursuit, which is operable. The improvement of school quality is a concrete action under the educational ideal and pursuit. With the guidance of the correct educational concept and a correct understanding of the ideal goal of the school, all measures to improve the quality of the school will be carried out correctly.
The value orientation of school quality improvement mainly depends not on how many profound theories are created, but on how many are actually translated into concrete actions to promote school development, implemented in teachers' teaching, students' learning, teachers' work, study and lifestyle, and implemented in the school development model, thus truly promoting the improvement of school quality.
Second, the main ways to improve the quality of schools
The improvement of school quality focuses on the high-level differential development between teachers and students. Specifically, the school should create a rich, high-quality and high-grade campus life, put all the systems, relationships and resources of the school in a balanced state that conforms to the law and is harmonious and symbiotic, and provide teachers and students with a campus life background based on the ecological significance of sustainable development.
As an educational institution, the ultimate beneficiaries of educational services are students. The improvement of school quality should take "all for students' development" as the starting point and destination, mobilize all the forces of school development, including external educational administrative forces, experts' forces, parents' forces and internal management forces, and provide high-quality and diversified education and teaching services for students from management, teaching and courses, so as to realize students' comprehensive, individual and sustainable development.
1 established the concept of school development.
It is to establish the values recognized by the whole school, which can dominate the overall situation and play a long-term role. What a school chooses, advocates and pursues is manifested in educational behavior and school spirit, and implies the values of the school. The values of the school point out the common yearning and vision for all the teachers and students in the school, and influence the daily behavior, spiritual pursuit and development direction of teachers and students and the school. The values recognized by the whole school are the necessary conditions for the success of the school.
Vision and values are the foundation of school quality improvement, common values are the soul of vision, and common vision is a powerful driving force to standardize educational behavior and guide school development. Make clear the development concept of the school. The concept is not very profound, but it embodies the universal law. It can also be called guiding ideology, guiding principles, development goals, next steps and so on. At present, it is necessary to explore the formulation of school rules, so that the values of the school are relatively fixed, quiet and far-reaching.
2 the introduction of school development planning
School development planning is a future-oriented development planning based on an objective and comprehensive understanding of the current situation of the school. Good planning potentially includes goal force, integration force, foresight force, cohesion force, development force and execution force, and it is also the harmonious unity of these forces. Generally speaking, the main body of school planning is school teachers, leaders and students, as well as the community where the school is located and the higher administrative organs of the school, which is bound to be the unity of multi-subject opinions.
The development plan of the school should fully carry forward democracy, based on the values recognized by the whole school, and reach the maximum consensus through extensive and in-depth discussion and even debate among teachers, students and staff of the whole school. This process is precious and also a rare process of rallying people's hearts. The object of school development planning is human, financial, material, intelligence, information and other resources available inside and outside the school, and these resources must be rationally allocated. The process of school development planning is the integration of subject and object.
School development planning begins with observing, thinking and looking forward to the internal and external environment. The starting point is to solve the problems in development, arouse the awareness of development and plan the steps of development. With a scientific and clear school development plan, the improvement of school quality has a foundation.
3 the implementation of school management standards
The Management Standard for Compulsory Education Schools (Trial) promulgated by the Ministry of Education on 20 14 advocates "education-oriented, all-round development; Promote fairness and improve quality; Safe, harmonious and full of vitality; The school management concept of "running a school according to law and scientific governance" in compulsory education puts forward six aspects, including 22 management tasks and 92 management requirements: treating every student equally, promoting students' all-round development, leading teachers' professional development, improving the quality of education and teaching, creating a harmonious and safe environment and building a modern school system.
In the process of improving school quality, compulsory education schools should follow this management standard as the basic basis, and senior high schools should refer to it. It is necessary to sort out the various systems of our school, improve those that have not yet reached the standard requirements, further refine those that meet the requirements, and implement those that exceed the standard requirements.
We should strive to build a vibrant modern school system, emphasize democratic management, legal management, principal responsibility system and social participation, mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties, and promote school reform and development in accordance with the spirit of the rule of law. It is necessary to construct the school system, embody the unique values and behaviors at all levels of the school, provide the spiritual norms recognized and followed by all school members, and lay a solid institutional foundation for the improvement of school quality.
4. Give full play to the principal's leading role
The headmaster is the leader of all school work and the main person in charge of improving school quality. School affairs are complicated, so the headmaster should keep a clear head and avoid being entangled in affairs. Principals should work hard for educators, focus on building a strong leadership system, give play to the role of teams, and improve management behavior.
The headmaster should regard the progress, growth and achievement of students as the ultimate goal of school work, clearly and specifically list the tasks and goals of the school, and lead everyone to solve the education and teaching problems faced in the development of the school. Improve the management behavior of the school leadership. Under the leadership of the principal, school administrators should clarify their responsibilities, do a good job of implementation and pay attention to details.
Attention should be paid to the leadership construction of the management team, and the leadership of the principal is manifested in the correct guidance of the direction, mode and strategy of running a school; The leadership of middle-level cadres is reflected in the amplification of the principal's leadership and the implementation of specific work, as well as in planning, coordination, financing, control, cooperation and innovation.
5 mobilize the main role of teachers
Teachers are the main undertakers of school work, and should have ideals and beliefs, moral sentiments, solid knowledge and a kind mind. There are10.69 million full-time teachers in primary and secondary schools in China, which is the largest group of national public officials.
Teachers are the most important subject to improve the quality of schools. In order to improve the quality of schools, we must give full play to the role of teachers. Schools should build a common spiritual home, so that the majority of teaching staff have a sense of belonging, enhance the cohesion of the school, and give play to the enthusiasm and creativity of teachers. Schools should hold regular staff congresses, listen to teachers' opinions and suggestions on school management and work to the maximum extent, discuss major issues such as education and teaching, and let teachers really participate in school governance.
We should take the development of teachers' quality as an important part of improving the quality of schools, build a community of teachers' development, encourage teachers to carry out teaching and scientific research, hire experts to strengthen the guidance of young teachers, and actively create opportunities and stages for teachers' development.
6 concise school characteristic culture
School culture is the value concept, mode of thinking, mode of behavior and the result of its activities gradually accumulated and jointly created by all members of the school in the practice of education, teaching and management. It is characterized by school spirit, school system and material form, which affects and restricts the thoughts and behaviors of all school members.
School culture is the soul of the school and the internal driving force for its sustainable development. The construction of school culture is an important way to improve school quality. To ensure high-quality school culture construction, the proposed school culture construction goal should have a higher status.
We should examine the school emblem, school flag, school song and school motto, and use these symbolic things to form cultural characteristics, concise cultural consensus and inspire teachers and students. Schools attach importance to the construction of network culture, build a green grid space, and guide students to have a certain awareness of network identity.
7. Construct a modern curriculum system
Curriculum is the core of all school work and the most important carrier to improve school quality. The improvement of school quality can only be effectively promoted by relying on the courses that students are exposed to every day.
On the basis of offering national and local courses in an all-round way, schools should organize and develop distinctive school-based courses according to the development needs of students and the resource conditions of schools and communities, and form a unique curriculum system of schools. Attach great importance to the curriculum of comprehensive practical activities, implement the requirements of the curriculum of comprehensive practical activities, organize students to carry out research study, community service, social practice and labor technology education, cultivate students' innovative spirit and practical ability, and improve their ability to solve practical problems comprehensively.
Encourage teachers to actively explore teaching methods, improve classroom teaching efficiency, and strive to reduce students' excessive academic burden. Carry out colorful campus cultural activities, make the activities curriculum, give play to the educational function of the activities, and realize all-round education.
8 Promote students' happy growth
Schools should cultivate high-quality people, create a high-quality growth environment, set high-quality curriculum standards, and let children stand in the center of the school. To promote students' happy growth, we must devote ourselves to students' all-round development and personality development, which is the core goal of improving school quality. Schools should fully implement the party's educational policy, promote students' all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique and aesthetics, and form core literacy.
To put the socialist core values on the screen, everyone should keep them in mind and externalize them from time to time. It is necessary to carry forward the excellent Chinese traditional culture and implement the newly revised Code for Primary and Secondary School Students, so that students can form good habits. We should teach students the basic knowledge and structure of the subject, avoid over-study, don't let students lose their interest in learning because they learn too much, pay attention to the cultivation of students' creativity and practical ability, and strive to reduce the excessive academic burden.
Let students form the habit of physical exercise from childhood, form some sports hobbies in primary school, and have one or two sports specialties when they graduate from middle school. Without paying attention to art education, it is impossible to have quality education and improve the quality of schools. In order to make students have the consciousness and ability to feel beauty, appreciate beauty, express beauty and create beauty, and be able to express, be good at expressing and be brave in expressing, every middle school student should have the ability to play one or two musical instruments.
Let students practice, take part in certain productive labor, let children do something, sweat, and even see the world through the wind and rain. Don't cultivate students into weak seedlings in the greenhouse. In addition, mental health education should be strengthened to solve students' growing troubles and psychological confusion. In the whole process of education and teaching, schools should teach students in accordance with their aptitude, reflecting a key to open a lock.
In the process of striving to improve the quality of schools, we should handle several relations:
The first is the relationship between hardware construction and connotation development. Improving the quality of schools is an effective way to implement the Party's educational policy and comprehensively implement quality education, which plays an important role in improving the quality of education. Hardware construction has standards, connotation development is endless, and quality improvement is always on the road.
The second is the relationship between quality improvement and daily work. School quality should be the goal of school development under the new situation. Combine the daily work of the school with quality improvement, clarify the development ideas, improve the work level, build a strong backbone team, continuously promote the in-depth development of school quality improvement work, and improve the quality of education and teaching.
The third is the relationship between common pursuit and adaptation to schools. Colleges and universities should seize the main ways to improve the quality, at the same time, base themselves on their own reality, adhere to the characteristics of running a school, strive for progress steadily, and train a group of well-developed qualified builders and reliable successors for the construction of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.