During his work in the Experimental School of Xishan Senior High School in Jiangsu Province, President Gu concretized "laying the foundation for students' lifelong development" into four stages of quality training goals, namely "having positive enthusiasm for participation, good behavior habits, strong sense of cooperation and healthy hobbies". After careful analysis, these are all components of a person's ideal life in the future. "Active participation and enthusiasm" emphasizes a positive attitude towards life and the courage to try; "Good behavior habit" is the basis of all behaviors and the basic proposition that education should attach importance to. A strong sense of cooperation is not only a "congenital deficiency" for the only child, but also a necessary condition for achieving a career; Healthy hobby "adds a healthy and happy color to later life." When he arrived at Luoshe Senior High School, he defined the students' stage development goal as "aiming high and being positive", and "aiming high" emphasized that efforts should have a direction and goals should be pursued; "Positive and promising" emphasizes positive attitude and action execution around the goal. In his school-running logic, he always works around the two fundamental propositions of education: "What kind of person to train" and "How to train people". In order to cultivate students' enthusiasm for participation, he has set up various meaningful activity courses in the school, from the campus charity sale, to charitable fund-raising in the society, from the credit system in community practice to the annual "Everyone has Hands" exhibition. These all affect children's enthusiasm for participation. By implementing the "Peer Growth Plan", he made the children in Xi Zhong Experimental School "everyone has a good partner and everyone becomes a good partner". He planted the seeds of interest development for children by offering various interest elective courses. After reading his article "Pursuing Valuable Achievements and Creating a High-quality Professional Life" (Jiangsu Education Research, No.2, 2006), you will understand that he is really striving to create a high-quality study life for students as his professional mission. How can a child who grew up in such an environment be unhappy and not attached to school life? No wonder President Gu visited the teaching area for the first time when he was transferred to Luoshe High School. Many students who graduated from the provincial Xi Zhong Experimental School ran out of the classroom in surprise and surrounded him, welcoming him to be their principal again. I think only principals who run schools for the healthy and happy growth of their children will have such special "courtesy".
At present, President Gu is carrying out his "Career Planning Course" in Luoshe Senior High School. The core value of this course is to lay a foundation for students' active life, and its basic course content is to cultivate the quality goal of "aiming high and being positive". We often talk about cultivating people with ideals. What is an ideal? In my opinion, having an ideal is not so much a realm of life as a habit, that is, one should always remember what one's goal is and have the executive power to work hard towards it. The course of career planning in Luoshe Senior High School is to let students know their own personality and hobbies, define their own development goals, reasonably formulate their own stage steps to achieve their goals, and define their own stage tasks. In the process of yearning for the goal and continuous successful experience, they will gradually cultivate a positive attitude of hard work and the execution of rational planning and management of learning life. Of course, as a principal with a profound understanding of education and rich practical experience, Gu did not stop at the state of language description, but focused on the actual curriculum promotion-building a curriculum promotion mechanism within the school, including the establishment of curriculum planning and implementation departments represented by "career planning department" and "home-school liaison department", and the construction of "partner group system" and "tutorial system" as courses. Strive to explore the external motivation of students' active development, initially conceive the basic framework of course content, use the available opportunities such as weekly "career planning class" to design and carry out various thematic activities, focus on solving the problems encountered in the initial implementation process by means of sub-project bidding, and initially build a basic evaluation system to guide and guarantee. Through various curriculum forms, we can clearly feel that President Gu is trying to turn his educational ideas into concrete school-running measures.
It is the passion for education under this idealistic feeling that makes President Gu have a deep understanding of specific educational behaviors, and there are often ideas and thoughts flashing with educational wisdom in the process of running a school. The practical strategy of "let students succeed in experiencing success" emphasizes the internal motivation source of students' learning; "There is hope if you work hard, and action is possible" once became a buzzword in Xi Zhong Experimental School. "Only when methods are solidified into habits will they receive long-term effects", which leads many teachers to turn the guidance of learning methods into the cultivation of learning habits; "It is better for students to be obedient than to be moved, and it is better for students to preach than to experience", which makes many teachers pay attention to the careful design of educational activities. "The highest art of education is the art of motivation", which once made "motivation" a key word in discussing the work of the head teacher in the school. In his article "Learning to Discover ―― Another Experience of Teachers' Professional Development" (No.9, Educational Research and Review, 2009), he compares the role of teachers with that of "doctors" who specialize in finding faults and "root carving artists" who specialize in discovering and expressing aesthetic interests, which is unique and thought-provoking. He regards teachers' most essential professional quality as the ability to discover students' development potential, which is a unique view in the field of basic education where exam-oriented ideas are rampant and teachers only look at scores and papers. He seems to have a particularly sensitive educational insight into various events on campus. After he won the "five consecutive championships" in the school track and field team, he not only summed up his experience and refined his thoughts, but also won the "ten consecutive championships" in the back, and took the honor in the annual district track and field meeting as an important starting point to boost the morale of the whole school. He can seize the opportunity from the feedback of teachers' behavior evaluation in the student questionnaire, which leads to the whole school discussion on "what kind of teachers students welcome", which once triggered the upsurge of teachers' learning social etiquette in the school; He can explain the significance of teamwork to the construction of teaching and research group from a teacher's successful award. In his own words, it is to increase the "educational added value" of these ordinary events (increasing the added value of campus events, the first issue of Jiangsu Education Research in 2008).
President Gu has this understanding of education: education is a career intertwined with "poetry" and "rationality". Education needs poetry, because it makes people full of passion, yearns for a beautiful vision, and often brings creative inspiration for running a school. Education needs "rationality" more, which can make people base themselves on reality, make steady progress and drive away impetuousness. I wish President Gu and his team a better and further development on the road of education interwoven with "poetry" and "rationality".
(Jin, President of Jiangsu Education Research Magazine, 2 100 13)