School features:
First, strengthen hardware construction and create a modern educational environment.
We believe that hardware itself is a part of campus culture, and modern hardware facilities are conducive to creating a modern educational atmosphere. Therefore, we attach great importance to the campus construction and hardware investment of modern educational technology. The school has a vast campus and elegant environment, with a campus area of145200m2 (220mu), a total construction area of over 70000m2, a green area of19278m2, a library area of 3784m2 and a collection of more than 90000 books. The laboratory building covers an area of 6322㎡, including physics laboratory, chemistry laboratory, biology laboratory, language laboratory and computer room. 2 teaching buildings (opened 1 building): area15000m2, and 54 classrooms are equipped with multimedia and online patrol system. There are 5 student apartments with a total area of 18792m2. The teachers' office building covers an area of 3,392 ㎡, the teachers' and students' canteens cover an area of 5,823 ㎡, the theaters cover an area of 2,600 ㎡, the four staff apartments (three under construction) cover a total area of 23,000 ㎡, and the podium building, the school gate building and the student bathhouse each cover 1 building, accounting for 1.200㎡,
In the construction of the new campus, hardware construction and software supporting facilities are carried out at the same time, and campus network cable laying, classrooms equipped with multimedia and online patrol systems, and campus audio system lines are designed and implemented. After moving into the new campus in July 2004, we invested in modern educational technology and equipment in a planned and step-by-step manner. When I first moved in, there were two students wearing casual clothes in the computer room; A total of 126 computers, the campus sound system has been built. In June 2004, the experimental building was put into use, and the physics, chemistry and biology laboratories were configured in June of 5 years. In August, 2005, we invested 1 more than ten thousand yuan to assemble 54 multimedia classrooms and 1 electronic lesson preparation room for teachers. In February, 2006, we invested more than 200,000 yuan to install two language labs and so on.
The investment of these hardware equipment has greatly increased the scientific and technological content in campus facilities, upgraded the school's grade, and laid the foundation for making full use of modern technology to strengthen the construction of campus culture.
Second, strengthen software construction to carry campus culture.
1, taking the school motto and spirit as the carrier, forming the school spiritual culture.
According to the actual situation of our school, we put forward the school motto of "be ambitious and learn from others" and the school spirit of "patriotism, diligence, truth-seeking and innovation", and solidly carry out the construction of campus culture, class culture and classroom culture, and strive to cultivate the humanistic spirit of our school. Nowadays, the cultural activities of the whole school are going on, and the goal is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
2. Create a school environment with environmental construction as the carrier.
Increase investment, further improve school conditions, and build three cultural squares on campus: more than 400,000 yuan has been invested to build a rockery and flowing water cultural square at the school gate; Two other cultural squares are also under planning. Invested more than 70 thousand yuan to build two publicity columns, which are released regularly every month. In the corridors of teaching buildings, dormitory buildings, science buildings and libraries, portraits of celebrities, famous sayings and aphorisms, and humanistic aphorisms are arranged to highlight more student-centered paintings and calligraphy works, tap students' creative potential, be close to students' hearts, and have a more educational demonstration role. There is a national flag in the classroom and a green corner in the class. According to each grade and students' cognitive level, each class establishes a theme, and the cultural layout has its own characteristics.
All this silence is telling the aesthetic ability and school-running level of teachers and students in this school; All this silence, with its unique cultural connotation, affects students, edifies students and promotes them.
3. Take the system construction as the carrier to form the school system culture.
Strengthening the construction of institutional culture is to ensure that school education is orderly, orderly and effective, and its purpose is to strengthen the system first and then internalize the culture. The school is committed to establishing various rules and regulations. Completed the compilation of Jinshi Middle School School Management System, which consists of 4 parts and 45 systems, with a total of 35,000 words. The system embodies three characteristics: "all", involving all aspects of school management; "Fine", with specific and clear content and strong operability; "Strict", strict discipline, clear rewards and punishments.
In order to facilitate the staff to understand and master various rules and regulations, the school has bound them into volumes, one for each person. We should strengthen learning, process management and internalization and self-discipline in peacetime. So as to form an institutional culture of self-motivation, self-restraint and self-management, which is conducive to creating a sense of justice and fairness and forming a just and upward school spirit.
4. Take classroom teaching as the carrier to form a good teaching style.
The school insists that teachers need to achieve "three belts" in the classroom: bringing smiles into the classroom, bringing love into the classroom and bringing fun into teaching; Emphasize "three stresses" in teaching methods: pay attention to the guidance of students' learning methods, pay attention to the training of divergent thinking, and pay attention to the extension of knowledge; The teaching process embodies "triple": heuristic, discussion and students' inquiry learning; In the process management of teaching, six elaborations are emphasized: preparing lessons carefully, attending classes carefully, designing exercises carefully, correcting homework carefully, tutoring students with learning difficulties carefully, and organizing exams carefully.
Since 2003, the school has extensively carried out activities on teachers' civilized language, advocating teachers to use nine kinds of loving words such as "The teacher likes you, and the teacher is wrong. Please forgive me, it's very kind of you", and asking teachers to reject 16 kinds of abusive, aggressive, evasive and resentful words such as "You are so stupid and hopeless".
5. Enrich campus cultural life with various activities as the carrier.
We pay attention to exploring the ways of campus cultural activities in an all-round way: (1) flag-raising ceremony, school meeting, class meeting and special education are the routine activities of campus cultural life; (2) Learning from Lei Feng, sweeping the tombs of martyrs, May 4th Youth Day, street sports activities, social practice activities, military and political training and safety education are all effective carriers of campus cultural life; (3) Parents' meeting, parents' school and community practice activities are taken as an extension of campus cultural life. (4) Take science and technology festivals, art festivals and sports festivals as part of campus cultural activities.
Various activities should be carried out in class, and everyone should participate. A series of campus cultural activities have enriched students' after-school life and cultivated their sentiment. The activity highlights students' personality characteristics, enhances cooperation and team spirit among partners, strengthens practical experience, develops students' comprehensive ability, and embodies the activity goal of cultivating and shaping people in the activity.
6. Take research as the carrier to enhance the campus cultural taste.
In order to further improve the pertinence, effectiveness and scientificity of our work, we attach great importance to the study of campus culture construction according to the characteristics of campus culture construction in the new period and the reality of our students. We require each class teacher to write at least one paper on campus culture construction every semester to reward outstanding papers.
Through scientific research, all teachers have reached a consensus on the significance and function of campus culture construction, explored a series of methods and ways to carry out campus culture construction, and effectively improved the grade of campus culture construction.
7. Take the school magazine as the carrier to accumulate cultural details.
In 2004, we founded The Story of the Stone and Teaching and Research Newsletter. More than 20 issues with about 300,000 words have been published.
The article comes from students' spiritual feelings, and the publication of the school magazine embodies the essence of campus culture and accumulates the details of campus culture. The publication of the school magazine has promoted the exchange of campus culture, produced a strong centripetal force and cohesion, and made the teachers and students of the school have a strong sense of belonging and responsibility, which greatly promoted the all-round development of the school's work.
Third, strengthen the construction of teaching staff and attach importance to humanistic factors in cultural construction.
Campus culture is a comprehensive three-dimensional system, and hardware construction is only a physical environment factor. Having a team of teachers who can use modern educational technology is an indispensable humanistic factor in the construction of modern campus culture.
Based on this understanding, our school puts the construction of teachers in the top priority of school management and development. The first is to ensure that good teachers are recruited. The school has full-time teachers 136, including 78 with bachelor degree or above, accounting for 62.4%, 64 high school teachers, 76.5% with bachelor degree, 62 high and intermediate teachers, accounting for 48.4% of full-time teachers, and 77 people have obtained the certificate of information technology examination, accounting for 60. 1%, including 2 provincial backbone teachers. Most of these teachers are teaching backbones. In the process of selecting teachers, the school has implemented a set of strict procedures, focusing on four aspects: teachers' morality, teachers' wisdom, teachers' ability and health status. For the recruitment of fresh graduates, we recruit from the graduates of normal universities all over the country through the way of "one in a hundred". Therefore, through the entrance check, the school has an excellent team of teachers and a strict access system.
Secondly, the humanized teacher management mechanism has been implemented. In the annual assessment of teachers in our school, the assessment indicators of "five regulations and six awards" are fully motivated. In addition to the "six awards" itself, it is purely an incentive system, and the things that must be done in the "five regulations" indicators have also injected incentives. It will provide a mechanism guarantee for mobilizing teachers' enthusiasm and initiative, giving play to teachers' creativity and promoting the formation of campus culture.
Although all the faculty and staff come from all over the country, they are all voluntary groups. Therefore, sharpening the knife with the attitude of being the master and the style of conscious action has become the mainstream spiritual culture and behavioral culture on campus. The hardware facilities of the school are rich in material culture, and the rules and regulations of the school can be seen everywhere, which contains a lot of humanistic spirit and constitutes a people-oriented institutional culture. It is this campus cultural atmosphere that makes the school's "three styles" appear. The leadership style of "unity and hard work, diligence and efficiency", the teaching style of "dedication, leading by example, preciseness and truth-seeking" and the study style of "honesty, self-discipline and diligent cooperation" constitute the school spirit of "patriotism, diligence, truth-seeking and innovation". It will have a positive impact and promote the future development of the school.
Marx said: Man is the most active factor in productive forces. A team of teachers who can use modern educational technology is itself a living factor of modern campus culture. Using them can also influence a large number of students, make the educational function of campus culture embark on the road of sustainable development and play a greater educational role.
Fourth, actively use modern educational technology to teach and create a modern teaching atmosphere.
Classroom teaching is the main position of school work, and school teaching activities are an important part of campus culture. Whether a school can have the cultural atmosphere of modern education is closely related to classroom teaching. A piece of chalk and a book will inevitably create a traditional cultural atmosphere; The use of multimedia and other teaching media has created a cultural atmosphere for modern teaching. Therefore, we actively advocate teachers to use modern educational technology to teach, create as many conditions for students to contact modern teaching media as possible, and actively create a cultural atmosphere for modern teaching.
Information technology course is an important way for students to get in touch with modern educational technology. We started the whole course. Language lab and multimedia classroom provide superior conditions for improving teaching quality and efficiency, and teachers and students can fully appreciate the charm of modern educational technology. In order to encourage teachers to actively use it, the school has introduced relevant incentive measures.
The extensive application of modern educational technology has made our school realize the transformation from traditional teaching atmosphere to modern teaching atmosphere.
Five, the use of "three systems" is a major event in the construction of campus culture.
"Three systems" means that the campus LAN system, the campus sound system and 54 classrooms are equipped with multimedia and online patrol systems. The completion and use of these three systems is a great effort in the construction of campus culture in our school.
1. Campus LAN system
In 2003, the school built a campus LAN system, which connected all the computers in the school and realized the sharing of resources in the school. In particular, the computer in the student computer room is also connected to this system, so that students can acquire knowledge and communicate with others through the network. This makes students feel the convenience of the network and the power of modern science and technology. Change the traditional way of learning. Similarly, all teachers fully feel that teaching reform is imperative, and teachers must change their teaching concepts and methods ... The influence of these feelings and changes on the whole campus cultural atmosphere cannot be underestimated.
2. Campus sound system
The campus sound system put into use in the second half of 2003 has added infinite spring scenery to the campus. The bell in class is changed to sweet music; During the break, enjoy the famous songs and have a rest; The quality of radio programs of Tianjin Radio Station has been greatly improved. All these give teachers and students beautiful enjoyment and edification, create a harmonious and beautiful campus atmosphere, and improve the quality of school life.
3. Multimedia online patrol system
The establishment and use of multimedia and online patrol system is another highlight of campus culture construction in our school, which has played an active role in educating people. Now, more than 60% teachers in our school use multimedia in class. Self-made courseware is over 80%.
Six, the use of other modern educational facilities, but also an indispensable part of campus culture.
The establishment of modern campus culture involves all aspects of school life. We carefully create every detail of campus life and strive to make the sculpture of campus culture perfect.
We have established an IC card canteen charging system, a computer-controlled book lending system and a school-to-school "family card" management system, and are trying to use computers for file management. These modern management systems have strongly influenced teachers and students by modern science and technology and modern management concepts and methods, and become an important part of modern campus culture in ordinary private middle schools.
Seven, some thoughts on the construction of campus culture.
One of the thoughts: leaders attach importance to it
We feel that the first element of the success of campus culture construction is the attention of leaders. The work that leaders attach importance to should be very specific. For example, the distribution of teams, team training and financial support should be in place.
Thinking 2: accurate positioning
To do a good job in the construction of campus culture, we must have a clear cultural orientation, such as the original cultural tradition of the school, the construction level of campus material culture, the establishment and utilization of carrier hidden ideas, and the manifestation of campus spiritual and cultural connotation.
Thinking 3: Full participation
To do a good job in the construction of campus culture, all staff must participate. In this sense, class teachers, teachers and departments should have a high degree of understanding and cooperate with each other.
As a culture, after a period of time, it should form a cultural standpoint. For example, school journals, students' journals, teachers' moral standards, students' daily behaviors and so on.
Eight, several pairs of contradictions that must be solved in the construction of campus culture.
1, the contradiction between hardware and software
As far as material culture is concerned, the shape and spatial layout of today's school buildings are becoming more and more exquisite, the modern teaching facilities on campus are becoming more and more perfect, and the beautification, greening and purification of campus are getting better and better. However, as a concentrated expression of spiritual culture, there is still a big gap between the school-running concept and value pursuit and the requirements of modern education. Art education, labor education and the cultivation of students' practical ability stay more in words and less in action.
2. The contradiction between traditional ideas and modern consciousness.
Traditional culture affects all aspects of our social life with its tenacious vitality. Excellent traditional culture is our precious heritage and should be carried forward. However, facing the future, education must first have modern consciousness, which is manifested in the construction of campus culture. Inheriting excellent traditional culture, embodying the spirit of the times, absorbing and supplementing the nutrition of advanced culture, building a new campus culture system and cultivating a new generation with brand-new culture are glorious and arduous tasks entrusted to us by the times.
3. The contradiction between social opening and campus closure.
School education has built a closed campus culture system, which enables young people to thrive in a relatively clean and safe school environment. However, the influence of social culture on schools cannot be resisted by schools forever. Only by actively participating in the social environment and building an open campus cultural system, can students undergo various exercises and enhance their ability to identify, choose, criticize, resist and integrate into multiculturalism healthily through interaction and complementarity inside and outside the school.