On-the-spot report of deepening education reform in Yantai City, Shandong Province
Yantai Development Zone Senior Middle School held the ceremony of campus youth adulthood. Photo courtesy of Yantai Education Bureau
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In the process of educational reform and development, many typical models have emerged. They have had an important influence and made important contributions in the history of new China’s education development. For many years, they have also been persistent in the journey of educational reform. In order to present these typical new achievements and experiences in further promoting education reform, starting from today, this newspaper will open the column of "70 Years of Magnificence and Typical Return Visit in the New Era of Struggle", and successively publish the typical return visit reports that have been launched by this newspaper, so please pay attention.
Quality education is an unavoidable topic in contemporary China education. From the early days of reform and opening up, many places have begun to explore hard. In this exploration, Yantai is another unavoidable place.
In 1984, the first experimental area of educational reform in China was born in Yantai. In 1990, the State Education Commission identified Yantai as a pilot city for comprehensive urban education reform in China. In 1992, Yantai’s experience in quality education reform attracted much attention, and People’s Daily and China Education News reported it one after another. In September 1997, the national experience exchange meeting of quality education in primary and secondary schools was held in Yantai, which became an advanced model of quality education in China.
In the development history of quality education, the pace of Yantai people’s reform has never stopped. For more than 30 years, they have unswervingly implemented quality education and written a rich and colorful stroke.
Recently, our reporter went deep into Yantai, Shandong Province for investigation and interview, revisited the forefront and fiery scene of the reform in that year, and analyzed the latest progress of quality education reform, with a view to providing a reference model for the latecomers who promote quality education today with Yantai, the "living fossil" of quality education.
From the individual to the whole — —
Always take the growth of students as the foundation.
Qu Wenteng, a chemistry teacher at Dayao Middle School in Muping District, is very happy in recent years. Because of the appearance of the tutorial case, a teaching pain point that has plagued him for many years has been solved at once: the problem of uneven students’ level — — Some people don’t have enough to eat, and some people can’t eat.
The guiding plan adheres to the design principle of few, precise and thoughtful. By designing hierarchical learning objectives, leading questions and corresponding exercises, students with different learning situations can be guided to find their own content and methods. This efficient classroom reform with the guidance plan as the core has been carried out in Dayao Middle School for more than ten years. President Sui Zhengong said that this model is based on respecting students’ differences, aiming at developing students’ differences and cultivating students’ self-learning ability, and its core is student-oriented.
Speaking of the concept of differentiated teaching, Sui Zhengong said that this is actually in line with the junior high school quality education reform implemented by Dayao Middle School more than 30 years ago.
Back in the 1980s, in order to consolidate the achievements of "Nine-Year General Education" and better implement quality education in junior high schools, Yantai City, starting from the goal of all-round development, lost no time in launching the overall reform plan of "two-for-all, two-for-four reform" with classified guidance and separate teaching as the main ways, with 16 different types of junior high schools such as Dayao Middle School in Muping District, Beima Middle School in Longkou City and Qixia Experimental Middle School taking the lead in "classified guidance".
Dayao Middle School at that time was the pioneer of reform. Under the leadership of Li Peizhi, then principal of the school, the school explored and built a junior high school education model of "two parts", which was praised as "the golden key to open junior high school quality education". Subsequently, Dayao Middle School was recognized as "an advanced model of quality education in primary and secondary schools in China" by the State Education Commission and relevant experts. In September 1997, the State Education Commission held a national experience exchange meeting on quality education in primary and secondary schools in Yantai, and Dayao Middle School was selected as a "junior high school" to visit the site.
From the individual to the whole, this question, which was once placed in front of Li Peizhi and Sui Zhengong, got a similar answer in line with the spirit of the times under the concept of differentiated teaching.
More than 30 years have passed, and the research on differential education has never stopped in Yantai. The research on differential education has become an excellent research project that regional professional researchers and front-line principals and teachers have participated in and adhered to for 23 years. More than 1,000 experimental teachers from 212 experimental schools have participated in the project experiment. The research achievement won the second prize of provincial basic education teaching achievement twice in a row.
Focusing on the all-round development of students, the student-oriented curriculum reform is being continuously and comprehensively promoted in Yantai. At present, differentiated teaching has been extended to all disciplines and all aspects of school work, and different students have obtained development paths suitable for their own growth here.
From result to process — —
Always take evaluation reform as the guide.
Sports and art are a happy thing in Laizhou bilingual school. This is the goal that President Zhao Fuqing has been pursuing for many years. "I just want to make sports and art change from passive to conscious, from task to interest, and from result to process."
In order to achieve this goal, the school has set up a set of evaluation system of physical arts based on process evaluation, such as classroom observers, nine-day sports meeting, home sports homework, sports cooperation teaching, and the evaluation scheme of "physical fitness+skills" & HELIP; …
The sports meeting of Laizhou Bilingual School lasts for 9 days, from class to department and then to the whole school. Everyone is an athlete and everyone can get evaluation. During holidays, with the participation of parents, students have to complete a physical exercise every day; In the classroom, evaluation is divided into teacher evaluation and student evaluation, and student evaluation evaluates and summarizes the performance of each group by classroom observers in each class … …
Zhao Fuqing, who has been teaching for many years, has participated in and experienced the quality education reform in Yantai for many years. In his view, Yantai’s sports and arts reform comes down in one continuous line.
After the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977, Yantai’s enrollment rate has been among the best in Shandong Province, and people used to be proud of it. Later, in order to pursue the enrollment rate, some schools began to take further studies as the baton and cut off the courses of music, physical education and beauty.
The reform of quality education in Yantai begins with the reform of examination system and evaluation system. First of all, the reform of the 100-point system was abolished in primary schools, and the evaluation method of "grade+specialty+comment" was implemented to liberate primary school students from the weight of scores. All subjects in primary schools are assessed by sub-items, and rated according to four grades: excellent, good, passing and failing. The assessment will be carried out by combining the daily examination with the comprehensive examination.
Looking back on the past, how similar this is. Since 2012, Yantai Education Bureau has studied and put forward the idea of school physical education reform of "scientific research leading, administrative promotion, point-to-area and regional promotion", taking the lead in establishing the development concept of "healthy sports, scientific sports and all-round sports" in the country. After more than six years of exploration and practice, the city’s education system has gradually established a five-in-one school physical education reform system of "complete guarantee, curriculum optimization, training promotion, competition guidance and standard guidance", laying a solid foundation for students’ lifelong physical education.
From the baton focusing on results to the evaluation system focusing on process, Yantai quality education has blossomed in various campuses. On the campus of Penglai No.2 Experimental Primary School, the hall of the teaching building has become a stage for students to display, and the most conspicuous wall is reserved for the "one-star" students who perform best every month. Even the piano in the corner has become a stage for students to compete for display, and the campus is full of students’ cheers and smiling faces. At the Second Experimental Primary School in Muping District, every day at noon, the reading forum starts on time and persists every day, rain or shine. This normalized speech activity has cultivated students’ confidence and ability to speak and express in front of everyone.
From school to society — —
Always aim at all-round development.
For students living in Yantai, social practice is a necessary action to participate in and complete with their parents.
Since the summer of 2013, Yantai has organized and guided students and parents to participate in the social practice activities of "practice base group, social big classroom" in the city by means of "parents’ full participation and timely guidance from the school", and entered social venues such as museums, nuclear power plants and air forces that are open to primary and secondary school students free of charge.
After more than six years, Yantai has gradually established a comprehensive practical activity curriculum system with the theme of "ideal moral construction, vocational skills training, scientific exploration and innovation, and comprehensive quality improvement" and the characteristics of "school+base group". Up to now, Yantai has built 33 municipal social practice listing bases, 139 county-level listing bases and 560 school-level listing bases, and the characteristic practice education base group of primary and secondary schools has begun to take shape.
The comprehensive practical curriculum system in full swing is just one of the two wings of the new regional integrated moral education curriculum system that Yantai has continuously promoted in recent years. On the whole, Yantai’s framework is a new framework of "one subject and two wings" regional integrated moral education curriculum, which focuses on subject moral education curriculum and takes traditional culture curriculum and practical activity curriculum as two wings.
"The outstanding feature of the new system of Yantai regional integration moral education curriculum is three combinations." Xu Jianmin, director of Yantai Education Bureau, introduced that the combination of administrative decision-making and scientific research guidance, inheritance and innovation and development, and school, family and social education should be adhered to.
Since it was established as a national experimental area for educational reform in 1984, Yantai has made rich experience and achievements in the field of moral education reform in primary and secondary schools while deepening the reform of quality education. On the one hand, Yantai organically integrates the scattered experience of a single point, and then grasps the point and gives full play to the role of demonstration radiation; On the other hand, based on the new situation and requirements of moral education and the new situation and problems of school moral education reform and development, the classic educational wisdom is organically integrated into the brand-new moral education practice.
After three years of exploration and practice, the reform and development of integrated moral education curriculum in Yantai city is in good condition. Five schools in the city have been rated as national excellent Chinese traditional culture demonstration schools, and the moral education courses of more than 130 schools have become gold medals in their respective districts and cities, becoming the "favorite" for school principals and teachers in the city and the region to watch and learn.
Walking into the second experimental primary school in Muping District, I was just catching up with an "apricot" thing at school: picking apricots. In the school’s "pocket garden" and dozens of apricot trees near the courtyard wall, golden and full apricots are ripe. The students excitedly and carefully picked the apricots they planted one by one.
President Jiang Yuemei introduced that in order to provide students with sufficient practice space and create opportunities for "working all the time", the school has carried out four aspects of work: developing "pocket vegetable garden" and building a labor platform; Scientific planting management to improve labor quality; Carry out research study to enhance labor skills; Take advantage of the charity sale and feel the meaning of labor. It is worth mentioning that according to the solar terms, the school compiled the school-based textbook "Follow the solar terms", and these "small farmers" followed the solar terms textbook to carry out inquiry learning and research.
In 2017, the integrated observation and exchange activities of moral education courses in primary and secondary schools in Shandong Province were held in Yantai, which was highly praised by the Provincial Department of Education and peers in the province. In 2018, the results of the integrated reform of Yantai moral education curriculum won the second prize of the provincial basic education teaching achievements.
From Method to Theory — —
Always guided by education and scientific research.
Under the observation and discussion of more than 600 people in two days, Yin Shaoping, the principal of Zhaoyuan Experimental Primary School, has a deeper and broader understanding of the "12xue internet plus Teaching Characteristic Model" that she insists on, and at the same time, she has strengthened her confidence in going on. In November 2018, the "Yantai Education and Scientific Research Tour" series of activities was held in Zhaoyuan, Yantai. More than 600 people from all the staff, principals of primary and secondary schools and key teachers of all counties and cities participated in the activities.
"This session is ‘ A trip to education and scientific research ’ The ninth stop. " Guan Xiji, Dean of Yantai Academy of Educational Sciences, said that this activity was started in 2010 in Yantai, and it entered a county every year. The number of participants exceeded 1,000 for many years. The content of the activity deepened year by year, and the coverage continued to expand. A large number of advanced units and outstanding teachers emerged with this platform, forming a core brand in the field of regional education and scientific research.
"Yantai’s quality education reform has always had an important principle — — Guided by scientific research. " Guan Xiji hit home.
Xu Jianmin put forward the basic requirements of "improving our work with research spirit, research thinking, research methods and research standards, taking research as a way of work and becoming the level of work we pursue", and "promoting educational research with administrative power and carrying out educational administration with research spirit".
It is under the guidance of research spirit that Yantai can break through the primary stage of finding solutions to practical problems and transform and refine various reforms into scientific tools and even theories in time. According to statistics, in 2016, the first outstanding achievements in educational science research in Shandong Province were selected, and Yantai ranked first in the province in terms of the number of awards, the passing rate and the fields involved; In 2017, the number, passing rate and categories involved in the annual project of the 13 th Five-Year Plan for Education Science in Shandong Province ranked first in the province; In 2018, the province’s basic education teaching achievement award passed the second place in the province; In 2019, the passing rate of basic education and teaching reform projects in Shandong Province once again ranked first in the province.
Thirty years of hard work. In the late 1980s, for a long time after the resumption of the college entrance examination, students, parents, schools and society were all pursuing the enrollment rate, and there were many calls for reform, and all localities explored ways to promote students’ all-round development. The quality education reform in Yantai is just the right time.
From "cancel the percentage system and implement ‘ Grade+specialty+comment ’ The evaluation method, liberating primary school students from the weight of scores ",to" implementing ‘ Classification guidance ’ , implemented in the graduation grade ‘ Diversion education ’ , don’t have to hordes to squeeze ‘ A wooden bridge ’ " Finally, to "reform the enrollment system of senior high school entrance examination, link the enrollment quota of senior high schools and technical secondary schools with the conditions and level of running schools in towns and villages, and turn the competition for further education into the competition for running schools" … …
In 1997, the national experience exchange meeting on quality education in primary and secondary schools was held in Yantai. The meeting not only summed up the experience, but also made a comprehensive plan and deployment for the implementation of quality education throughout the country. This marks that the reform of quality education in China has entered the stage of national reform from regional experiment.
Yantai contributed a lot.
Now, when you walk into Yantai, you will find that learning has become a happy and fulfilling thing. Students with comprehensive qualities have made great achievements in the college entrance examination and talented people have emerged in large numbers. Walking into Yantai, you will find that the implementation of quality education is no longer a slogan, but a real action by governments, schools and teachers at all levels; Walking into Yantai, you will find that the strategic vision and great courage of the pioneers of reform have been inherited in the same strain, and the motivation for reform has not diminished.
Yantai, always on the road … …
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