An art demonstration school for harmonica performance.

This art demonstration school about "harmonica" is specially arranged for everyone, hoping to help everyone!

The day before the fall of 2007, Xia Shuang, the headmaster of Beijing Taiping Road Middle School, suddenly received a letter from a township middle school teacher in Guigang City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, saying:

"Dear President Xia, I recently read an article published by you in China Education News about the innovation of harmonica in school art teaching, which was very enlightening. I really appreciate your skillful use of harmonica to enhance the vitality of the school. In my opinion, this is the real way to improve quality education. As a rural middle school teacher, facing the growing weariness of students, I once thought about how to create a harmonica class. I read your article when I was at a loss. I really can't find a place to go! Your success has given me great encouragement, and I hope to get your guidance and help ... "

The teacher also left his name and mobile phone number at the end of the letter. When President Xia Shuang received this letter, he was filled with emotion. In recent years, Taiping Road Middle School has built an art demonstration school with "harmonica", which has been recognized not only by competent departments at all levels, but also by peers and parents of students, and also by a teacher far away in the southern countryside. She quickly wrote back to the teachers and sent them her own "School-based Trial Teaching Materials for Harmonica Art Education". Since then, President Xia and this distant colleague have become good friends.

"Piano in pocket"

Taiping Road Middle School was originally a school with poor school conditions and poor quality of students. In order to take the road of characteristic development, the school has established the idea of "promoting the harmonious development of teaching with aesthetic education" in recent years. They took the opportunity of curriculum reform to promote quality education in an all-round way, and finally embarked on a characteristic development road with harmonica aesthetic education teaching.

1988 Taiping Road Middle School established its first harmonica team. In the past two years, the school has increased the input of human and material resources, upgraded the original harmonica team to a harmonica orchestra, and invited music experts to guide the school. It has won many awards in recent urban competitions. Not long ago, the school was awarded the traditional art project school and the science and technology education demonstration school by Haidian District Education Committee. At the same time, the school has developed a school-based curriculum and compiled a school-based teaching material "Harmonica" by summing up the experience of developing harmonica teaching for many years, which makes harmonica teaching more scientific and standardized.

Harmonica is small and exquisite, easy to carry, low in price and easy to popularize. It is called "the piano in the pocket" and is one of the simple musical instruments for music teaching in ordinary schools. For many years, Taiping Road Middle School has insisted on "harmonica" as a compulsory content for junior high school students of all grades. Through study, every student can master harmonica playing skills well when he graduates, especially integrating harmonica teaching into song teaching, music theory teaching, music appreciation and artistic creation teaching, which improves students' understanding ability, aesthetic ability, artistic creation ability and teamwork spirit.

The piano sound on campus is melodious.

The day before beginning of autumn, the reporter of Education Xunxun came to Taiping Road Middle School. This old school in Jingxi, which has gone through more than 40 years, is bathed in the autumn sun, and the campus is full of flowers. Some junior middle school classes have just finished weekly harmonica lessons, and students in twos and threes come out of the classroom to practice harmonica under the flower beds. The passionate ensemble naturally spread. Zhao Xia, a young female teacher who teaches music at the school, told the reporter: "Everyone is playing the school song" Revitalizing China is Our Goal "of Taiping Road Middle School."

Li Si, a junior three student, said: "Joining the harmonica orchestra not only improved my personal taste, but also broadened my horizons and showed myself, which made me more confident in my study ..."

After years of hard work, the teaching of harmonica in Taiping Road Middle School has made a series of achievements. Harmonica teaching has become a major feature of Taiping Road Middle School, which has attracted the attention of the music and education circles. He has won many honors in various instrumental competitions held in China, Beijing and Haidian District. "On May 30th this year, at the invitation of the Education Committee of Haidian District, the school participated in the" June 1st "harmonica concert held in the Concert Hall of the National Library of Haidian District to welcome the Olympic Games. At the concert, students played songs such as Blessing the Motherland and Entering a New Era, which won applause from the audience. The scene is exciting. " President Xia Shuang recalled the scene at that time and was still excited.

Under the guidance of harmonica teaching, art education in Taiping Road Middle School has been vigorously developed. In these activities, students have improved their ability to feel, experience and understand art, formed a healthy and upward aesthetic taste, enriched campus cultural life and created a positive campus cultural atmosphere.