Hua Tongxu, director of Guangzhou Education Bureau, said that in order to ensure a "fair starting point", Guangzhou leans towards rural and weak schools in terms of investment, teachers, hardware and management, and strives to run every school well so that every child can "study hard".
The new education funds are mainly used in rural areas.
"That is our original campus, with a total area of only 1 mu." Tan, the headmaster of Qiaotou Primary School in Aotou Town, Conghua, stood on the fourth floor of the school complex and pointed to a small bicycle parking lot. "Now, we have merged six village primary schools, covering an area of 60 mu."
The inequality between the rich and the poor in various regions of Guangzhou and the large development gap have led to the long-term backwardness of suburban rural areas in education investment, hardware facilities, teaching staff, teaching quality and management level. Hua Tuoxu clearly remembers that he made an investigation after taking office in 2003. "We went to a rural junior high school, where hundreds of students had only two computers; Good primary schools in urban areas have one for every few students, and some even have one for each student. This gap is too exciting for me. "
"Educational interests are the most concerned, direct and realistic interests of the people; It is the unshirkable responsibility of the party and the government to promote educational equity and ensure that people, rich or poor, can enjoy equal educational opportunities. " At the recent Guangdong Education Work Conference, Wang Yang, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, said, "Unfair income affects people for a while, and unfair education affects people for a lifetime!"
According to the requirement of Guangzhou that "the new education funds are mainly used for rural education", the municipal finance has set up a special fund for rural education development since 2009, with an annual arrangement of 20 million yuan to enhance the funding guarantee capacity of rural compulsory education.
Standardize the construction and run every school well.
From the narrow path in the old city of Guangzhou, find Qingshui Hao Primary School in Shenzhai Alley. It's class time now. The junior children are running and playing in the wide playground, and the senior students are doing experiments in the multifunctional building.
The predecessor of the school is three typical "sparrow schools" in Guangzhou. "At that time, the school had no campus. As soon as the school gate opened, I went upstairs. Students must do broadcast gymnastics in several batches. Everyone joked that we are a' first-class school', which means that there is only one building (Cantonese, building and flowing harmony). " The headmaster said humorously.
"The comprehensive transformation project of education in Guangzhou and Yuexiu District has become our turning point." Li Rong said that through the merger, demolition, land expansion and opening to the outside world with an investment of 50 million yuan, Qingshuihao Primary School now covers an area of more than 8,000 square meters, and famous teachers are constantly emerging, and the teaching quality has been significantly improved.
Qingshuihao Primary School is one of the beneficiaries of "standardized school construction". In 2007, Guangzhou formulated the Measures for Supervision and Acceptance of Standardized Schools in Compulsory Education in Guangzhou (Trial), and all districts and county-level cities formulated the "One School, One Case" to promote the construction of standardized schools by re-approving the scale of running schools, adjusting the flow of students and service scope, adjusting and merging unqualified schools, expanding land acquisition and improving school conditions. During this period, Guangzhou merged 602 small-scale and low-efficiency primary and secondary schools, with an additional land of 5.707 million square meters and a construction area of 2.369 million square meters. The goal of "running every school effectively" is gradually approaching.
This year, strengthening the construction of standardized schools for compulsory education was listed as one of the top ten livelihood issues by the Guangzhou Municipal Government. The next step will be to implement special funds according to the ratio of 1: 1 to ensure that the proportion of standardized schools in the city will increase by 10 percentage point on the basis of the existing 76.6% during the year.
Network training promotes the soul of rural education
Chen Gang, director and English teacher of Qiaotou Primary School, came back from Liuxi Primary School. "Studying in a strong school is very rewarding. In assigning English homework, we just copy and recite these' old three articles'. People have entered the stage of personalization. According to the situation of different students, arrange three kinds of homework packages, A, B and C, in the form of fast food collocation. "
What prompted Qiaotou Primary School and Liuxi Primary School to pair up was the "Helping Hundred Schools" action plan implemented in Guangzhou in July 2009. A total of 100 high-quality schools in the city helped 100 weak schools and rural schools, focusing on helping the latter "build software".
Guangzhou Education Bureau, with strengthening the teaching staff as the core and taking education informatization as the means, spared no effort to improve the "soul" of rural education, so as to make the software and hardware of rural schools develop simultaneously: in 2006, nearly 900 backbone teachers in 60 rural junior high schools and primary schools were trained in subject teaching skills free of charge every year; At the beginning of 2008, the "Priority Development Project for Teacher Training in Rural Primary and Secondary Schools" was launched, and it was clear that "special support funds were invested to support teacher training in remote rural areas such as Zengcheng and Conghua"; In the first half of this year, the third batch of outstanding principals of primary and secondary schools in Guangzhou started, among which principals and backbone teachers in rural areas accounted for 60% of the total training targets.
In Aotou Middle School, the reporter happened to meet a teacher's class. In the computer room, more than a dozen teachers sat in front of the computer screen and carefully watched the videos of famous teachers giving lectures; The course for them is "Guangzhou Primary and Secondary School Teachers' Continuing Education Network". In recent years, Guangzhou has invested 2.6 billion yuan to carry out the education informatization project, relying on more than 20,000 kilometers of optical fiber network to promote online continuing education. Every year, 78,000 teachers can improve themselves at any time through "online classes".
At present, Guangzhou Education and Research Network has become the largest optical fiber metropolitan area network for basic education in China, with a total optical fiber length of 15000 km. The 493 rural schools in Guangzhou are undoubtedly the biggest beneficiaries of strengthening teacher training through educational information technology.