At nine o'clock on Monday morning, just as the children in the primary school started their first class, all the children in the original academy were full of energy and followed the teacher. Their destination is not the classroom, but out of the campus, deep into the mountains to meet the first class of the week, "the whole school kite mountain hiking." Feel every step with your heart, listen to the sounds in the mountains with your ears, and observe the dynamics of the environment, animals and plants with your eyes. These are the keys to "perception".
Cross-age interactive activities such as school walking are not uncommon in the original academy. The original academy, which was established four years ago, started as a joint study group and later transformed into an experimental education institution. At present, children aged 7- 15 are enrolled in mixed-age education, which is divided into junior, middle, senior and junior high schools for four years. This model allows children to learn from peers of different ages, and also allows children to adapt to interpersonal communication in society in advance.
A 20-week semester course may be difficult for students to concentrate, so the original college divides the study into four academic seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter, to match the natural rhythm of life in the four seasons. Both students and teachers can catch their breath during the school holidays.
Four years ago, Chen Nianci, the founder of the original academy, felt that the universal value of utilitarianism flooded his life and founded the original academy, which attached importance to spiritual growth.
At present, Dao Sharing, the former executive director of the experimental education institution of the Academy who took over the management of Tongzhi School, said that the core concept of consciousness had not changed when the original school was founded. She saw many children willing to share and like to learn new things. Therefore, she also hopes that children will keep their curiosity about the world as much as possible in the process of running a school, lead them to know themselves better, understand their love, "feel their inner nature and stabilize their mentality."
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In addition to the main courses of sex education, the original college also teaches children Chinese, English, mathematics and other subjects. Children learn at their own pace, rather than putting their progress together in a coordinated way. During class, they pick up textbooks and exercises, read books and practice exercises by themselves, and discuss things they don't understand with their classmates and teachers.
In class, teachers expect to create an atmosphere in which children can become "masters of their own learning". Senior tutor Zhu Jiaren said, "Knowledge is used to cope with life and broaden one's horizons. She believes that children's mastery and interest in learning is more important than their ability to take exams.
Not only is consciousness course introspective, but teachers also expect children to practice it in other courses and even in life. Zhu Jiaren believes that it is also a conscious way to let children learn to adjust their learning rhythm. She said happily that she had seen children writing Chinese characters while adjusting their anxiety of repeated practice to make them breathe regularly.
It is not only the inner awareness, but also the natural practice of observing the eyes, ears, nose and tongue, which is also a major teaching axis of the original academy. "Agronomy or horticulture operates, learns, creates and enjoys through six senses. When you can hear the needs of plants and taste the food, it means that you are aware of it. Kun, who has published the Manual of Horticultural Cultivation for many times, took his children to experience nature everywhere from planting, tea ceremony and agronomy in the original academy.
When it comes to the concept of natural practice course, Huang Peng not only attaches importance to the primitive flavor of handwork and nature, but also hopes to introduce the consciousness of beauty. "Everyone should cultivate such a vision. When you have the standard values and aesthetic methods of beauty, you have the vision to show them all. 」
In the process of planting plants, children also have failed experiences. The soybeans that are ventilated by changing water from time to time can't grow bean sprouts, but they exude a strong fermentation flavor, but this is an opportunity to learn beauty. "By planting, you will know that the growth of plants will have different results only if it is delayed for one day and the next rain. Practical operation is a good way to cultivate consciousness. How to give plants the right nutrition at the right time, children's sensitivity to the environment is gradually established.
In the natural practice class, the teacher asked the children to operate by themselves, feel the temperature and humidity of the soil and increase their observation. It turns out that the college provided
"Observe the problems encountered in life, practice speaking out, and practice discussing with you. In addition to observation, Zhu Jiaren said that expressing opinions and building consensus with others are also the focus of the original academy's study, from solving peer conflicts to formulating a code of life, teachers and students communicate together.
Zhu Jiaren believes that this form is also an opportunity for children to learn democratic attitudes. Once, when he heard the children complaining privately, he took their opinions to a life seminar. "Learning should be handled through open channels, so that everyone can feel your feelings and ideas, and then there will be a chance to solve them. Learn to listen to others, practice expressing your own suggestions, and finally become a consensus resolution through listening and expressing, which is the starting point of common good.
"Education is like planting a seed. You never know when it will sprout. We try our best to create opportunities for children to experience and let them touch life. " Returning to the original intention and expectation of the original college, Kun He used plant metaphor. They often say that children who "grow up" here will not have strong ability to take exams and recite, but they all know themselves well and are good at interacting with people and ecology.
It turns out that when people are pursuing material life, the teachers and children of the academy are also continuing to pursue their metaphysical true self, and they also believe in the children who are destined to come.