My ideal is that one day our children will stand on the stage and tell you the story of their reversal. As teachers, we will cheer for them under the stage. "Shi Xinyuan, the headmaster of the Third Middle School of the Republic of China in Hualien County, expressed his original intention of bravely investing in experimental education.
Experimental education in Taiwan Province Province is about to enter a brand-new stage, from marginal, alternative and niche to shaking the mainstream and system. Since the beginning of this year, a group of enthusiastic public school teachers and principals have decided to devote themselves to it, hoping to open a consistent curriculum and progress framework, inject different choices, and change the education in Taiwan Province Province and the future of the next generation. This summer, Chengzhi Education Foundation introduced the educational concept and mode of KIPP (Knowledge is Power Plan) from the United States, and applied for KIPT (Taiwan Province KIPP School) in three counties and cities. In addition to the elementary school in the Republic of China, there are challenges for Yunlin County to save the Republic of China and Taoyuan Elementary School in Taitung County to join this educational experiment.
Shi Xinyuan, who was originally the principal of Longpu Primary School in New Taipei City, chose to move his family from Taipei to Hualien to explore new possibilities in the form of public and private experimental schools. Shi Xinyuan has no experimental education background, but he is determined to stimulate the system with changes outside the system. "Never give up education within the system". Shi Xinyuan compared the education within the system to a truck. He thinks it takes a lot of effort for a big truck to turn, "even the inner wheel difference will hurt people", so he wants to use a small car (experimental education) to turn quickly and adjust quickly. Let the society understand that "good teachers don't need circles and frameworks", and teaching-oriented schools promote educational reform.
Shi Xinyuan and his wife, Yan, used to be teachers in Longpu Primary School. Together, they introduced a unified education platform and successfully brought up their students. They are known as the condor heroes in education. Two years ago, Yan left Longpu Elementary School and joined the self-study group "BTS Boundless Learning" founded by Ye Bingcheng, a professor of electrical engineering at National Taiwan University. Since then, Shi Xinyuan has often heard his wife share in experimental education. Because there is no framework, the teacher community is always enthusiastic to develop new teaching methods together. This kind of enthusiasm that sparks in teaching makes Shi Xinyuan envious.
Therefore, when Fang Xinzhou, the chairman of Chengzhi Education Foundation, visited the United States with several Taiwanese teachers such as Shi Xinyuan, Shi Xinyuan saw children talking about their interests and future ideals on the stage of KIPP annual meeting. "They also talked about their own changes and how the school helped them fall in love with learning." These moved him back to Taiwan Province Province. Although he had a lot of hesitation, he finally followed his intuition, and the husband and wife decided to join hands in experimental education. "If you are dissatisfied with the status quo, why don't you stand up bravely? 」
Shi Xinyuan mentioned to his wife Yan (left) that she might invest in experimental education when attending the annual meeting of KIPP in the United States. Yan replied, "Life and death are the key to his determination." Zhang Yiqin
This change can not only rely on the enthusiasm of Shi Xinyuan, but also face the system and law. Fortunately, there is a group of supporting partners working together.
Liu Meizhen, director of education in Hualien County, not only personally communicated with the county magistrate, but also visited the annual meeting of KIPP in the United States to draw up the experimental education law in Hualien from scratch. "I don't want the children in Hualien to lose any chance," Liu Meizhen said.
From Taipei to Hualien, the fastest Puyuma train takes two hours, while it takes 90 minutes to drive from Hualien to Yuli Town. Although there was a Sanmin Railway Station next to the primary school in the Republic of China, only two buses stopped every day.
Here, the distance is not only the consumption of traffic time, but also the sparsity of frequency and the hard-to-find ticket, which limits even those who want to come or leave.
Sandwiched between the coastal mountain range and the central mountain range, the primary school in the third year of the Republic of China is a mountain no matter whether you look left or right, and the Taijiu line running through the East Rift Valley is the lifeblood of the school. The railway is next to the school basketball court, and there are trains passing through the campus from time to time. Every grade in the school has a class with 38 students and 13 teachers.
On the first day of August, when the new semester began, Shi Xinyuan and his family started a new adventure in Hualien Yuli. 266 kilometers away from home, Shi Xinyuan took over as the principal of KIST three-year Gonghe Primary School, a public and private school in Hualien County, and his family moved from the Three Gorges in New Taipei City to Yuli in Hualien County. The first shock to Yuli is that the convenience store is 17 kilometers away, and you have to drive to buy a bowl of instant noodles.
Yuli's "new home" is a three-story building. It took them some time to make the house look like a home. Worried about the old pipes, they installed water filters on each faucet, bought simple furniture with sleeping mats for camping, swept the house back and forth three times, and finally the whole family cooked and had their first dinner. "This is my home! Shi Xinyuan announced on Facebook.
It is every teacher's ambition to find a way out for his hometown, but for Shi Xinyuan, it is more empathy. Shi Xinyuan's parents divorced when he was four years old. He and his younger brother live with their father and stepmother. Although his father has nine brothers and sisters, only four of them spend the New Year together.
Father failed in business, the whole family moved five or six times to avoid debt, and Shixinyuan Primary School went to three schools. The family was displaced, and he once set up a stall in the night market with his father. On a motorcycle, the father and son were selling kiln chicken and leather bags everywhere, and they had to detour to avoid the police when they came home. Sometimes when my father works outside, he will wake up the two brothers in the middle of the night and let them take the panda eye to school. "Home" has never been a safe haven in the hearts of the two brothers, "so we all walk slowly after school." Shi Xinyuan volunteered to go to Mazu when he was a soldier, just to get as far away from home as possible.
Without the warmth of family, Shi Xinyuan believes that she was "raised by God". Just as he grew up with only a dictionary and an extracurricular book, he was the first college student in his family; He won the national excellent ink painting in junior high school. Where did he learn it? He said, "Just stand by the road and look at other people's paintings." Shi Xinyuan is happy-go-lucky, but he still makes the eagle-eyed adults doubt his situation. So a teacher at home gave him second-hand clothes and a classmate's mother gave him money. "I shouldn't paint, I shouldn't study, I shouldn't be a teacher ..." Somehow, someone always helps Shi Xinyuan move forward more steadily, and I appreciate the help of strangers.
"God gave me these opportunities to raise my children." I get up at six o'clock every morning, go out and stand at the school gate and say good morning to every student. He expected the school to prepare for the teaching reform, so he invited all teachers to prepare lessons in the summer vacation, so that the empty campus in the summer vacation was full of teachers' voices of learning, meeting and learning.
On the road of reform, Shi Xinyuan wants good ideas not only to affect a school, but also to support a whole generation with education and save more "Little Stone Xinyuan" with the same background as him.
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