In the Qian'an mining area of Tangshan City, Hebei Province, there is such a school, which is neither public nor private, to say that some special, special in that it is the Shougang Mining Company's enterprise school, the only one in the whole of Beijing. Although it is located in Hebei Province, it is under the jurisdiction of the Education Commission of Shijingshan District, Beijing. Although the facilities of this inconspicuous village school are simple and the conditions are difficult, but it has repeatedly achieved good results. On November 17, 2009, the Shougang Mining Company children's school teaching and research projects "junior high school implementation of" student growth manual "practice and exploration", "to improve students' independent learning ability of teaching strategies" in Shijingshan District in 2009 on the General Assembly of Education, were awarded the education and teaching achievements of the first and second prizes. As of January 2009, there were 2,690 students enrolled in the school, all of whom were children of mine workers, most of whom came from dual-income families, and some of whom had one parent working at Shougang. Due to the reputation of the school, many local people want to enroll their children in the school, but were rejected by the school. 2009 college entrance exams, the school of the mine children's school promotion rate reached 100%, won the praise of the community. The Shijingshan Education Commission took into account that the mine children's school is located in the mountains, and was going to take care of its scores on the college entrance examination. But when the results of the college entrance examination came out, the education committee was shocked: "The average score of the children's school is higher than that of the middle school in Shijingshan District!" This school in the ravine has created one miracle after another even though it cannot enjoy preferential educational resources! Some education experts who received invitations to the children's school once laughed at themselves, "I don't see the need to go there, you don't need to instruct the grades are so good!"
Continuing attempts to learn from the experience of Yangshi Middle School
However, just a few years ago, principal Wu Shuyu was still worried about the retention of top students. The mine children's school built its own high school, but Beijing's key high schools also have selection targets for their subordinate middle schools. In 2009, for example, the mine children's school has 322 junior high school graduates, the Beijing Municipality allocated 180 places. This makes it difficult for Mr. Wu, the principal of the school: "The school's top students are selected to go, the quality of their own high school teaching will certainly decline a lot, how to do? Should we keep the good students to ensure the promotion rate?" Considering the future of the children of mine, the principal of Wu or decided to let the top students to enjoy the excellent educational resources of Beijing. This decision, many teachers in the school once produced resistance: good seedlings are selected away, the college entrance examination rate how to ensure ah?
In order to improve the quality of teaching and dispel this concern, Wu Shuyu and team members began to take the initiative to try to learn the advanced experience of other schools. At first, they came to Shandong Province, measuring the mouth of the secondary school to learn the classroom teaching reform, but a class listened to, Wu Shuyu found the problem: first of all, the classroom teaching is the original intention to stimulate student enthusiasm, but the whole class is the students in the activities of the teacher almost lost the role of the guide; and then there is a closed teaching, resulting in the students to learn the enthusiasm of the students; in addition to the contents of the teaching is still stuck in the reinforcement of memorization of the level of the students to understand the mastery. Students are not conducive to understanding and mastery. After coming back from the study, the school leaders considered for a long time, but did not adopt all the experiences of Metric Mouth Middle School. Once, Wu Shuyu read about the experience of Yangsi Middle School in China Education News. When he saw that this middle school is located in the countryside, but was listed as a model school in Jiangsu Province, he immediately came to the spirit, read the report in one breath. After reading the report, he made an immediate decision to learn from the experience of Yangsi Middle School! After the backbone teachers went to visit and study in batches, the school began to unify the idea of backbone teachers as the leader, the formation of the subject group, in the form of the subject is reflected in the teaching and the development of the date of attainment of the standard and the corresponding rewards and punishments standards, to encourage teachers to boldly implement teaching reforms.
Teaching and learning to stimulate teachers' innovative ability
Again, students are looking forward to the chemistry class, Mr. Yang walked to the classroom, the corner of his mouth with a smile: "Students, today this class we begin to learn 'sulfur'. Well, you guess, there is no 'sulfur' in real life? On what basis did you guess?" This is the introduction before the chemistry lesson begins. Students read the textbook with questions, and the teacher guides the students step by step in designing the questions, so that they can learn in communication and have a more thorough understanding of knowledge. It is understood that this is the new results of the mine children's school classroom reform.
In fact, some front-line teachers have a very deep feeling, just joined the work of a few years, they are full of enthusiasm for the work, but after a few years, with their own to teach the subject is familiar with, people slowly began to burn out, and over time lost the passion for innovation. In response to this situation, Shougang Mining Staff Children's School, relying on the Shijingshan Education Committee as a platform, set up the Shougang Education Branch of the Shijingshan Education Society to introduce the new curriculum and other educational and teaching theories, and to carry out pedagogical training and teaching and research activities. Gradually, the teachers realized the joy of teaching and research, and the school's teaching presented a brand new situation. The topics developed by the teachers themselves are very micro, practical and interesting, such as "How to solve the problem of students' slow reading speed" and "What to do if the voice of answering questions in class is too low". In addition, young teachers seek advice from veteran teachers and conduct seminars to introduce their teaching experience, all of which are a kind of enhancement process. In this regard, Wu Shuyu said wryly that their experience is basically successful, solved the problem of "poverty" and "food", and is moving towards "well-off"!
The school has implemented a mentorship system
In order to make the school's academic performance and learning atmosphere more intense, Shougang Mining Children's High School has implemented a mentorship system. This is not only a way of education, but also an attempt and innovation of the emerging education concept. "My answer is finished. Please ask my school teacher to add or comment. ""My schoolmate spoke well, loud and clear, very much improved compared to the previous day, is there any other group to add or challenge? If not, please ask the teacher to comment."
This is the system of mentor-teacher cooperation, in which a student who excels academically in the class goes to help a student who is relatively average academically, both in learning and in life. In this way, not only to ensure that the school's various learning targets; but also in the after-school time to better unite the school students; and to ensure that the classroom of the compactness and learning atmosphere, so that the classroom is also not dead pressure sense. In the school leadership vigorously advocate and promote, now the system is gradually mature. The system has also been extended to many schools in Shougang Mining Schools. And achieved excellent results, so that the school's academic performance "a hundred feet pole, further".
Mining four junior class has been the teacher and friend cooperation excellent class group, but also on the open class excellent class group, academic performance is among the top. By the school leadership unanimously praised. The class teacher, Mr. Zhang Xinrong, said with his own personal experience: "I used to be unable to understand the junior high school math problems, but since I taught the first year, I understood the first year's problems; taught the second year, I understood the second year's problems; since I taught the third year, I was able to do almost all of the questions on the midterm exams correctly. And the system of teacher-friend cooperation is not only beneficial to the schoolmates, but at the same time as the schoolmaster teaches the schoolmates, it also makes one's own knowledge become more solid and solid."
This is by no means a mere formalism, and it is true that the academic performance of the school has been greatly improved by this constructive method. It is believed that under this system, the Shougang Mining Children's School will be able to achieve another success!
Autonomous management students become masters
The current head of the senior year group, Ms. Yang Mei, is the leader of the students' autonomous management. She said she has been surprised at how innovative and self-learning students are. Now, the daily work of the first, second and third grades of high school is completely done by the students themselves. Hygiene, discipline, and learning are all handled by student-elected ministers of hygiene, discipline, and learning, with each class taking turns on duty to monitor classroom hygiene, student dress, and posting grades on the grade-level bulletin boards according to the scores given in the rubrics. The display of excellent homework and test papers, led by the Minister of Publicity and participated by the students on their own initiative, had a positive impact on the students. This moved Ms. Yang, who told reporters, "Li Wenzheng and Li Jiaozi from this year's graduating class once hosted a joint knowledge contest for five classes. At that time, they had to make a lot of preparations, like the snatchers were contacted by themselves and borrowed from the labor union of the mining company. Both students felt that they had gained a lot from this activity. The time taken up by organizing the activity, they all worked overtime to make up for it, and neither of their grades were affected, both of them ranked in the top 10 of their class in the college entrance examination."
Not long ago, the children's school drew out two classes as a class integrity education teaching pilot. Then students in other classes heard about it and pleaded, "We can also complete the papers independently! Can you let us try too?" Teachers were pleased to say that the children valued honesty over scores, which is really rare.
Wu Shuyu said: "Autonomous management or classroom teaching reform, its ultimate goal is to better train mine children. Once a foreign educationists scoffed at Chinese children will only test, I am very unconvinced, my idea is to cultivate the children's sense of independent learning in the subtle actions and concepts, specifically in the various disciplines in the penetration of the inculcation, such as carbon recycling equipment, the collection of machines, water and electricity savings, I want the children's brain really 'rich' up."
Now, many of the students trained in the children's school have gone on to work, and there are many of them in all walks of life. Talking about their own students, Wu Shuyu told reporters such a thing: Shougang Mining Company General Manager Hao Shuhua once went to Beijing's 301 Hospital to see a doctor, a young doctor has been staring at him, and then and he greeted: "Hao manager good!" And then fell generous to report home: "You certainly do not know me, but I know you; I am our mine children's school students ah!"
Toward the end of the interview, Wu Shuyu said to the reporter: "Now, the Shougang Mining Company's employees' children's school has gone through 50 years, from which countless proud children. Looking at these growing students, I believe the children's school tomorrow, will be better!"