I remember when I first came, Zhao Bin went to various schools for investigation and went to a town junior high school without saying hello. When I opened the door, I saw the teacher having a class on the platform, but there were a lot of students sleeping under it. The headmaster explained helplessly: these students not only don't attend classes, but also often turn over the window to play truant. The school had to compromise and allow students to attend classes without disturbing the class order, let alone skipping classes. Zhao Bin looked around the classroom and found a path without grass under the window trampled by truant students.
This "truant trail" runs through Zhao Bin's heart after he took office, making him sleepless. Is it possible to change this educational situation? Where is the way to get rid of difficulties in mountain education?
Student-oriented education made Rongshui take off the "hat" of poor education.
Rongshui is a multi-ethnic mountainous county with poor educational conditions, backward ideas and lack of teachers.
Although the government of Rongshui County Party Committee has increased its attention and investment in education in recent years, some deep-seated problems that affect the development of education have not been fundamentally solved: the inherent mode of teacher training is difficult to break through and the educational concept is backward; Classroom teaching is full of irrigation, and students are even tired of learning. Students with better grades try to run to schools in the city. Teachers' job burnout is obvious, and many principals feel humiliated, which makes mountain education unsustainable.
20 13,10 In June, Zhao Bin attended the 26th training course for directors of education in the National Institute of Education Administration. A lecture by Guo, a professor at South China Normal University, made him suddenly enlightened. Student-oriented education theory regards students as the real learning subject. Teachers must change from controlling life to the educational process aimed at stimulating life, and turn teaching into learning. Through the curriculum and teaching reconstruction of student-oriented education, students can find the most reasonable learning path leading to knowledge, ability and wisdom, so as to achieve excellent results in active "living education".
After returning to Rongshui, Zhao Bin immediately organized theoretical and practical research on student-oriented education. A month later, Zhao Bin led the county's primary and secondary school principals to Guangzhou, the birthplace of student-oriented education, to learn from the scriptures. At the beginning, Rongshui principals who have experienced many times of "thunder and rain" educational reform only attended classes step by step, but when the educational miracle cases created by the student-oriented concept were put in front of them, the principals began to itch to try: "Can you still attend classes like this? Can the school still manage like this? " In the following discussion and brainstorming, the principals of Rongshui gradually reached a consensus: we should use the student-oriented concept to break through the realistic predicament of Miaoshan education and find a new way of teaching reform in which teachers enjoy teaching and students enjoy learning.
Since then, Rongshui County has sent 13 batches of principals and teachers to Guangzhou and other places to study and experience, and also invited the student-oriented education team to Rongshui for training twice. At the same time, the county has set up scientific research teams at all levels and disciplines, established experimental schools and classes, formed joint teaching and research, and accelerated the progress.
Teachers talk less and students talk more.
"In the classroom, most students write and interact in groups on the podium. What does a teacher do? " "Teachers gradually quit the center and become organizers and guides of teaching, and students begin to become real learners." Observing the classroom with active thinking, the reporter clearly felt the vitality and spirituality of student-oriented education in generate. But who would have thought that this Rongshui town central primary school was a marginal village-level school that was repeatedly rectified and backward two years ago.
In the depths of the mountains, student-oriented education has become increasingly thin, and many schools have turned around. In the teacher's office of Huang An Township Primary School, the reporter saw a student writing in his exercise book: "Because I can't stand the pressure of my parents, I can come back this time and find that I have never been respected and chosen after class. I like such classes and schools. "
"The student-oriented educational concept has influenced the compatriots who have had the tradition of' dogs don't plow, women don't study' since ancient times. In Da 'an Village, there are actually 1 1 Yao Hong girls who go to school voluntarily. " Li Kungang, the principal of Anzhuang Middle School, said proudly.
"What is the attitude of leadership proofreading reform in the county?" "Seeing is believing, let's go and have a look." Under the leadership of Xu Shaoxing, director of the county teaching and research section, the reporter went straight to Rongshui Middle School in the county. During the break, several senior one students took the initiative to ask reporters about the environmental protection topic of smog control in Beijing. The reporter has been visiting the class and observing the classroom all morning. The reporter was deeply impressed by the scenes of students studying in groups, interacting in many directions, and debating and asking questions boldly.
"Starting from the three experimental classes, being cautious and pragmatic is the idea and method of teaching reform set by the school. Unexpectedly, all the achievements of the experimental class were in the forefront of the parallel class last year, and the students' spirit of inquiry, humanistic quality and practical ability were even more amazing. Teachers who have tasted the sweetness of reform have also changed their ideas. At present, the number of classes that actively request and join the undergraduate experiment has increased to 3 1. Li, president of Rongshui Middle School, said.
In the middle school for nationalities, Zhou Lizhen, an English teacher, was once called a "bully" by her colleagues, because she could have four classes in one morning. In May, Zhou Lizhen carefully prepared lessons and took part in the school's teaching competition, but in the end, this class came last. The opinion given by the judges is: teachers and students are tired.
This teaching competition greatly stimulated Zhou Lizhen, who has always worked hard, and she began to learn the theories of "doing before learning", "learning before teaching" and "learning as teaching" advocated by student-oriented education. Later, she redesigned the course, allowing students to arrange plays in groups according to the content of the textbook and share them in class. Zhou Lizhen found that although teachers "talk less", students "talk more", and they show unprecedented happiness, confidence and creativity in class.
The "extricating from difficulties" path of water-melting education has reference significance.
Through the preliminary practice, the teachers in Rongshui saw the great changes of the students: people who didn't like learning before became fond of learning, fell asleep less in class, and the class became lively. The quality of education in the county has risen from the last six counties in Liuzhou to the first place, and there are fewer outstanding students who leave Rongshui to study in big cities than in the past. Some principals also said that now they dare to go out and communicate with their peers. More importantly, the concept of respecting, trusting and relying on the object of education began to spread in the depths of the mountains, and the reform was widely concerned and praised by society, parents and teachers.
During the interview, the reporter had a strong interest in these changes in education in a multi-ethnic mountainous county in a short period of time: why did the education reform make a breakthrough in Rongshui? Does its reform have reference value for other poor areas?
Guo, who has been engaged in lifelong education research and practice for many years, said: what happened in Rongshui is normal. Because we usually look at the weak side of remote mountainous areas, but we often don't see the advantages. Education in mountainous areas is closer to nature and less interfered by the outside world, which is the key factor for the success of Rongshui education reform. For example, the prohibition of unified examinations in compulsory education is a stubborn disease that is difficult to give up in many places. The melting water can be broken quickly, which relieves the "tight spell" of teachers' bold changes in the classroom.
The primitive conditions of education in mountainous areas are poor, and the teachers, equipment, social and family cultural foundations are relatively weak. What Rongshui explores is the change of classroom, not only the change of organizational process form, but also the deep change of curriculum and teaching reengineering, from teaching to learning, from learning to active exploration.
Under the good ecology of respecting students, everything in education began to become harmonious. I believe that melting water can do it, and so can education in more poor areas. (Reporter Shi Xiaoling correspondent Du Zun)
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