Chapter 239 Principal He put forward the idea of personified education reform
After the admission of the freshmen from Ah Mei, Principal He saw new hope, which made him unprecedentedly excited, and proposed that the leaders should be advanced to the high school stage, and the freshmen really had a good performance, which further enhanced his confidence. Examination-oriented education pays more attention to the phenomenon of precocious intelligence, genius teenagers, and elite education, and he realized from the fate of the champions in the school that the leader training plan he proposed has not departed from the trap of focusing on intellectual education. Lack of sensitivity to students' moral precociousness and early understanding, and ineffective response. Principal He's thinking gradually focused on su zhì education. Su zhì has the connotation of the times, he imagined how the ancients would respond to the human scene today, and what the people would do if they were placed in the environment of the ancients. Although the environment corresponding to the present and the ancient times is different, as people always have something in common, as the present people want to inherit and carry forward the excellent heritage of the ancients, they should also innovate and surpass the ancients, and the ancients will be pleased to know. Su zhì education, in fact, is the internalization of knowledge, the personification of knowledge, into people's inner temperament, ability, ability, talent, shining and radiating personality charm. But when our students really show their high su, the reaction under the current education system is really worrying.
Principal He saw that Ah Hui was able to carefully study the experience of the champions and give guidance to the students on how to cope with the exams, and how many principals would reflect on this from the perspective of education. In almost all secondary schools, the task given to teachers is very clear, that is, to do everything possible to ensure that students go on to higher education. Entrance examinations have almost become the only guiding ideology of middle schools, and they are the focus and core of all the school's work. The school's evaluation system for teachers' work is also based on the test scores of the class. The so-called famous teachers, backbone teachers, and subject leaders, the most widely recognized mark is the record of their students' excellent test results in the high school entrance examination or college entrance examination. The task of the teachers is clear and rigid, which is to make the children get good grades in the subject exams at each stage of each semester, the total class score, the average score, the high score rate, and the excellent rate. Indicators such as passing rate are evaluated. The school is like a factory that produces scores, and the teacher is the operator on the assembly line. Year after year, day after day, the teacher stares at the scores, revolving around them, creating formatted products with the mark of the score. However, students are not machines after all, they are people with flesh and blood, thoughts and souls. Normal child, who is not innocent, full of curiosity and fantasy about the world? The average child has a strong sense of curiosity and desire for knowledge. No child is born without wanting to learn, learning is the nature of every child. But the problem is that we teachers don't want to understand their thoughts, don't care about their interests and hobbies, and are not good at directing their interests to the subject knowledge we want to teach. As teachers and parents, we don't really care about the children's ideas and interests, we don't think about how to satisfy the children's nature, we only think about our task: to instill the knowledge in the textbook into the students. Score first, grade first. The teachers seem to think so. If your student stays in my class for a day, you're going to have to give me a test score; Once you graduate and leave school, even if you hate this knowledge to the core, even if you burn the book. Even if you forget all about what I've taught, it's none of the business. Eventually, students may gain some knowledge, but they are not interested in it. There is no love, but boredom and hatred. As long as they don't take the test, they will never want to touch these things again. And with the children's curiosity and curiosity. They could have been interested in learning and even loving it. Originally, many of them might have made a certain knowledge their lifelong pursuit and hobby. Education is also highly professionalized, and students' scores mean salaries, bonuses, titles, honors, and status. In a word, only when students produce grades, will there be a teacher's qiē. As for the hard work of the students' study, it is also due, and the students should be taught to firmly believe that they can become superior only if they endure hardships. The preconceived notion that learning knowledge is a painful thing is contrary to education. Knowledge should be internalized into the student's element, and the effect of the internalization process depends on whether the process of receiving and absorbing the integrated knowledge is accompanied by a pleasant experience, otherwise it will form an internalization barrier.
Principal Ho's mind turned to the direction he was least willing to think about. He used to work in the university, but arranged for him to come to the middle school as the principal, it is natural that he will look at the middle school with the eyes of the university, he feels that there is a dislocation phenomenon that is difficult to correct in front of him and cannot be reversed, such as the real yàn middle school, more and more excellent seedlings are concentrated, and the content taught is also developing in the direction of high difficulty and profundity, and the content of university education should be more and more compressed to the high school stage, although more and more masters and doctors are entering the high school to teach, improving the quality of teachers. However, the school's ideology and the overall practical ability of the teachers have been unable to adapt to this new form, showing a momentum that the blue is better than the blue, and some middle schools have implemented a tutor system, employing university professors to tutor top students one-on-one. Su zhì education is precisely what it encounters is the crisis of the teachers themselves. Throughout the ages, it should be a famous school, but in many of our middle schools, it has become a famous school.
It is not enough to seek a time, and it is not enough to seek a domain if it does not seek the overall situation. Principal Ho thought that as a principal, he should make a difference. Years of university work experience have made him develop the habit of thinking diligently. He believes that the difference between an educator and a pedagogue is that educating parents is about thinking, and a pedagogue is good at teaching skills. He observed and studied the lessons and lessons of some schools in teaching, research, and educational reform in recent years, and felt that there was a tendency in the field of education to be overly professionalized, resulting in a disconnection between intellectual education and moral education, and getting farther and farther away from the purpose of education, which was contrary to the requirements of the laws of education and deepened the crisis of education. He asked Wu Wei to come to the school to give a speech on the intellectual and martial arts obstacles mentioned in Jin Yong's works, and thought that there are no teaching obstacles in today's education field. Suddenly, he jumped out of an idea, wisdom and virtue should be united, a kind of wisdom and virtue integration of the educational idea spontaneously emerged, the practice of the new seedlings has been to achieve the unity of wisdom and morality, as an educator did not follow up in time, it is really the shame and sorrow of the educator, will leave regret and even infamy. The integration of wisdom and morality, the organic combination of intellectual education and moral education and even physical education, aesthetic education and music education, and a new way of connotative education reform, teaching and research, he immediately became excited for this novel idea. The unity of wisdom and morality, the integration of more educational elements, how to achieve, of course, must be realized in the classroom. It is necessary to ask for results from the classroom. However, in the current teaching system, intellectual and moral education is separated, how to achieve the combination of intellectual education and moral education? So he searched the Internet and went to the library to find information, and he gradually found a new point of connection. Many concepts, principles, theories, and the process of discovery and creation in the scientific system are also the history of scientists' struggle, which contains rich and precious personality education resources. Every knowledge point taught by the teachers in the classroom is not infiltrated by the painstaking wisdom of scientists, but is the knowledge of personality. Knowledge that seems to be static is transformed into a living life, and that knowledge itself is not the embodiment of the moral achievements of scientists. Those who are able to achieve achievements in scientific research are generally able to withstand the test of personality. It's just that our education only pays attention to imparting knowledge, but strips away the moral factors contained in knowledge, making students feel that knowledge is so boring. Many students have problem books, but those scientists have found that the process of creation, the process of trial and error experienced by themselves is not only difficult and even dangerous, and the spiritual height, intensity, and enthusiasm shown by scientists on the road of scientific exploration far exceed our learning spirit. Scientists can be called a model and model of the combination of wisdom and morality. Moral education is also out of touch with intellectual education, and has become an empty article-style preaching, lacking the interpretation of wisdom and wisdom, which seems to reflect moral nobility but is actually mentally retarded and incompetent. Education realizes the unity of wisdom and morality. It is also a new challenge for teachers, who should guide and encourage our teachers to improve their own moral taste while striving to recreate guò art in classroom teaching. Realize the perfect combination of intellectual education and moral education, so that students can obtain the corresponding aesthetic experience. Principal He became excited and felt that he had found a new breakthrough. How to practice, how to go deeper, he thought, we have a lot of good ideas, but we can't go deep, what reason, he is funny about the question in his heart, the reason why he can't go deep, the reason is very simple, no one persistently goes deep into the effort. He felt as if he had been inspired by a strong calling, a sense of mission that he had never felt before, and he was driven to make an effort that he had never done before.
Principal He paid attention to the expressions of several of Ah Mei and Ah Hui's classmates, which inspired him to further develop the novel idea of personification of high school teaching reform. People's discussion of the fate of the top student in the college entrance examination also caused him to think deeply, and he proposed that the training plan for leaders should be carried out in advance to the high school stage, and a series of measures were taken. He thinks that the leadership training program is still too broad, which greatly reduces the effectiveness of education. He read the biographies of great men, saw that Roosevelt's mother implemented the plan of pure heart when he was a child, and thought that he wanted to create a generation of great men, and condensed the painstaking wisdom of many people in several stages of life growth. At present, the first year of high school lays the foundation, and the second year of high school implements the division of arts and sciences, which is generally reasonable, but the training of leading figures is still too broad. Special education can be given to students who have special skills in culture and sports, which is actually to cultivate leaders in the direction of culture and sports. On the issue of the future direction of students, although it is too broad, but it can still be roughly divided into several general directions, politics, business, and learning, he thinks, the second year of high school liberal arts and sciences is too wide, the future university is too narrow, in the training of leaders, the pertinence and effectiveness of education has not been fully reflected, and the college entrance examination champions have not been able to give full play to their own potential and the priority allocation of educational resources have not been reasonably and effectively combined. He asked, since students with cultural and sports talents can implement special education, why can't special education be implemented for students with potential in other directions? After some thought, he conceived the goal of personified education, which is what type of person he wants to train his students to become. The specific idea is to divide students with special potential into three categories, according to the three directions of civil servants, professional managers, and scholars, and correspondingly divide into three types of classes, focusing on cultivating the seedlings of future public management experts, business tycoons, and scientists. From his conception, it can be seen that he was inspired by students such as Ah Mei and Ah Hui. For the three types of special classes, under the premise that the current high school curriculum system remains basically stable, the internal structure of the curriculum will be greatly adjusted, the teaching hours of the original courses will be compressed, the teaching content will be innovated, the characteristics of the curriculum will be reflected, and the corresponding professional content will be increased.
Principal He further thought that according to the potential and aspirations of students, this kind of humanized education reform goal will be more specific and practical than the leader training plan, and cultivating talents according to this humanized goal can carry out a new integration of educational resources. Principal Ho further found that students such as Ah Mei and Ah Fai need to cultivate professional ethics and knowledge and ability training corresponding to their interests and tendencies. It is difficult to accomplish such complex and difficult educational requirements with the current teaching arrangements, and it can even be said that they are divorced from their actual needs. The biggest disadvantage of test-oriented education is that it goes against the spirit of the times of innovation. His thinking has begun to rise to the level of educational thought, the education system. He realized that the goal of personalized education is a serious challenge to traditional education. In particular, the educational resources of some parents can be introduced into the teaching process, and the resources of the parents of the second generation of students, the second generation of officials, and the second generation of the rich can be correctly used to introduce the outstanding people from all walks of life into the classroom teaching process. It enables students to directly enter social practice, accumulate contacts, enter the role to be familiar with the role, mobilize their interest in learning, and maximize the development of students' potential.
Principal He was excited about his idea, he excitedly discussed with the relevant teachers, communicated with the students, solicited the opinions of some parents, and received enthusiastic support and response from all sides. He also convened a discussion with representatives of all sectors of society. When demonstrating the feasibility, he made a special proposal in order to dispel everyone's doubts and boost confidence. From a big country to a strong country, China must have talent as the support, and the prosperity of education will lead to the prosperity of talents, and the prosperity of talents will lead to the prosperity of the country, and education must also be in line with international advanced standards.
He said. There is a huge gap between China and the United States in terms of education. He told the story of his classmates. His classmates, who worked at a university in China, hated the current education in China because he had a daughter who was tormented by it. The most torturous thing is the standard answer that can't be memorized. The daughter of a classmate had the opportunity to study in the United States in her third year of high school, and the American education opened his and his daughter's eyes to feel the impact of American-style sex education. My classmates once thought that the easiest thing for my daughter to learn was American history, which was only 200 years old. As a result, it was precisely the easiest American history that surprised him. After only ten days of his daughter's visit, she sent him an urgent distress email, and the title of the assignment turned out to be a civil rights research paper, which was required to be printed out on 3 to 5 pages, at least three sources of information on the Internet and books, and at least 5 citations. There are also four people's views on black America, and then there are a series of homework questions, including a rather thoughtful American Civil War topic and a series of questions, and a topic that will arouse our rich associations, why protecting the innocent is more important than punishing the guilty, from the defense argument put forward by the second president of the United States, Adams, when he stood in court to defend the British soldiers at that time. My daughter said that they also have textbooks, but the teacher never talks about them in class, and shows videos in class, which is not in the books, and the homework is to send us a lot of materials, and then answer questions or find out the main points. Classmates said that their daughter's trip to the United States did not reduce the burden as originally expected, and often slept only four or five hours a night, sometimes even one hour, and it seems that the key to education reform is not the burden, but what the burden is. This is just a history lesson, and I really don't know how the American-style political education is taught. My classmate was ashamed to say to me that we all thought that the American people were indifferent, and suddenly, his daughter sent him an email, which made him very emotional, and the homework is to make your family tree, write the names and years of birth and death of all male and female relatives from your great-grandparents to yours. The classmate said that fortunately, my grandmother was alive and well, and after some investigation, the family tree was finally completed, and a sense of family history arose.
Principal He said that my classmates not only asked about her daughter's studies, but also personally participated in helping her daughter complete her homework, and the homework was also a kind of enrichment and improvement for herself. We all say now that in terms of hardware, China is almost the same as the developed countries in the West, and the gap is mainly reflected in software, software is mainly culture, and the root of culture is education. With such contrasts, I have a strong sense of crisis.
After full discussion and argumentation, Principal He submitted a formal education reform report to the Provincial Education Bureau, which attracted great attention and was immediately forwarded to the Ministry of Education.
Coincidentally, the senior leader who cultivated Zhang Xing by hand, from Zhang Xing's successful political practice, he also realized that the training of leaders in various fields should be advanced, and the national echelon talent construction project should be moved down to the high school stage. (To be continued......)