How to build school culture and characteristics

1. The significance of the construction of campus culture in characteristic schools.

Campus culture is the sum of various cultural factors that influence and restrict the activities and development of teachers and students in a school under a certain social and cultural background. It is an invisible and huge educational force and is also the key to educational success. An important foundation that plays an irreplaceable role in the healthy growth of students. Campus culture is a concentrated reflection of a school’s spiritual outlook and a manifestation of its school-running characteristics and development of personality. It has a significant and far-reaching impact on enlightening students’ wisdom, broadening their horizons, and optimizing their personality.

2. Contents of campus culture construction in characteristic schools

(1) Campus environment culture construction

1. Optimize the campus external environment

Each school should make unified arrangements for the school's campus culture according to its own characteristics, and optimize the school's campus environment as a whole. Make the campus culture a dominant symbol of the school's characteristics, so that others can feel it as soon as they walk on campus. To the rich characteristic cultural atmosphere. The beautiful environment and reasonable layout of the campus environment are pleasing to the eye. In addition to doing some necessary greening, the campus environment planning must also reflect a certain cultural connotation. The school can add newspaper reading columns, promotional windows, blackboard newspapers and other facilities; strengthen the library, reading Construction of rooms and showrooms; school mottos, school ethos, teaching style, study style, etc. are hung or posted in teaching buildings and office buildings to fully reflect the school's educational characteristics and philosophy. The school can also launch a series of activities called "Let Every Wall Speak" to collect student quotes from all students in the school, allowing students to write their own mottos based on the characteristics of the school, and use the masterpieces and the author's photos to make signs (such as Yum Central School), fixed in a prominent place on campus, so that students can be deeply inspired and inspired and educated anytime and anywhere. Students' excellent calligraphy and painting works can also be hung on the walls of the corridor (school seven, school three, etc.). It embodies the independent management model in which education is provided everywhere on campus and each student serves as a role model, and embodies the spiritual essence of "people-oriented".

The construction of a beautiful campus environment and the humanistic decoration and warm reminders of physical facilities make the campus full of fresh atmosphere of dialogue between objects and people. Appreciating objects and increasing knowledge enlightens students' minds; subtly, infection cultivates each student's sentiment.

2. Strengthen the construction of class culture

I believe that the construction of class environment culture is also an important part of campus culture construction. It is the carrier and platform for forming good class and school spirit, and it is also a good platform for students A place for hands-on activities to develop your personality.

The classroom layout should reflect the characteristics of the class and be artistic. Class styles and class mottos designed and produced by themselves can be hung on the walls of each class, and posters, art corners, book corners, etc. can also be set up. In the process of designing the class environment, we must give full play to the main role of students and mobilize as many students as possible to participate in the composition of class songs, collection of class style and class mottos, formulation of class rules, classroom layout, and design of class meetings... In the process of actual participation, students increase their knowledge, develop their talents, and understand principles. In the process of construction, students gather people's hearts and form a collective. Students consciously or unconsciously internalize the goals of the class into their own pursuits and actions. Once they discover the progress of themselves and the class and gain the joy of success, they will love their class even more and climb towards higher goals.

(2) Strengthen the construction of campus spiritual culture

Campus culture is not only limited to the external form, but also worthy of attention is the spiritual field that can contain its connotation and essence. The spiritual culture in campus culture is the core of school culture and the spiritual driving force for school development. The basis of campus spiritual culture is the psychological level of campus people. Its content is the ideological concepts and qualities of campus members, and its form of expression is spiritual creative activities and their products. In the process of creating a characteristic school, how to strengthen the school's spiritual and cultural construction and improve the school's educational quality? I think we should start from the following aspects:

⒈ Build a development vision. The principal should use advanced school-running concepts to build a development vision and inspire the enterprising spirit of teachers and students. The principal should think about the school's vision, mission, and organizational structure based on the school's development status, and build the school's development vision throughout the entire process of school management, inspire all teachers and students in the school to long for the future development of the school, and enhance the pride of all teachers and students. sense of responsibility and mission.

The principal must unite people's hearts and mobilize collective wisdom to implement the school's educational philosophy and goals. Focusing on the overall goal of school development, he must work hard to build a team of high-quality teachers and optimize teaching and education management. Teachers formulate their own professional development plans, and students determine their success goals, combining the development of the school, the professional growth of teachers and the success of students.

⒉ Plan development ideas. School administrators should use their own school's educational beliefs to plan the school's development blueprint. It is necessary to establish the school's development plan and clarify the school's development goals and specific strategies based on a careful analysis of existing development conditions. For example, Linshi Primary School took advantage of Maxim's Group, the resources of the ancient town, and the simulation space with students' artistic characteristics to put forward a unique school-running concept and build a characteristic school with simulation education as its feature. Tongle Middle School combined the unique "precociousness in the south" "New Development Model of Pear-based Fruit and Vegetable Planting", developed local teaching materials, and put forward the school's green education ideas. Our schools must make full use of their existing resource advantages to create high-quality education while building characteristic schools to make the school-running system more vital.

⒊ Create shared values. The school should interpret and construct the school spiritual culture of "inspiring life" through humanistic school management, personalized student evaluation, and scholarly school shaping. "Make reading a habit and learning a pleasure." Reading activities are an important part of campus culture construction. Teacher reading, student reading, teacher-student reading, and parent-child reading are the main forms of campus reading activities. Reading monographs, appreciating classics, praising classics, and writing reflections have become indispensable spiritual food for teachers. Schools can carry out reading note selection activities. Every semester, teachers are required to read the corresponding articles carefully and each person writes reading notes. The school organizes the selection of excellent reading notes. The school principal should be the leader in reading. Use activities as a carrier to stimulate students' enthusiasm for reading, from classic recitation to appreciation of famous works, from story competitions and speech contests to performances of situational dramas and textbook dramas, from the display of handwritten newspapers, calligraphy and painting to reading experiences and insights, making it rich and colorful , the popular reading activity has become a happy experience and enjoyment for students. For example, carry out theme activities of "read well, read good books, and study well" to allow students to enjoy spiritual enjoyment in the activities; schools with conditions can carry out home-school cooperation to create a scholarly family, and make reading a student's dream through the construction of a scholarly family. habits. Carrying out reading activities in the family can not only change parents' concepts, promote communication between parents and students, and enable parents and children to enjoy the fun of reading together, but also promote family education and community cultural construction.

⒋ Rely on scientific research to lead. The construction of school spiritual culture is the core of school culture construction. What it wants to cultivate is the same values ????and the spirit of the school among teachers, students and employees. The construction of school spiritual culture requires the guidance of experts. Through the guidance of scientific research, cultural construction can be established on a higher platform, pushing all administrative staff, scientific research backbones and teacher backbones to the front line of scientific research, and then gradually promote all employees.

⒌ Improve material culture. As a spiritual thing, school culture needs to be expressed through the material and institutional aspects of the school: the school's school buildings, campus planning, campus sculptures, landscaping, traffic roads and other material things must reflect the school's spiritual culture ( (mentioned earlier in the construction of environmental culture), each school must create material and environmental conditions for the cultivation of characteristic school spiritual culture. It is necessary to scientifically plan the basic construction of the school, rationally configure facilities and equipment; enrich the content of the staff reading room and activity room, carefully plan all available educational media such as posters, windows, corridors, walls, sculptures, floors, buildings, etc., and make full use of, Give full play to the educational function of school facilities and equipment, so that every flower, every brick, and every wall can "speak"; give full play to the educational function of the campus radio station, closed-circuit television, school theater and campus network, and continuously expand campus culture Channels and spaces for construction; analyze and investigate the current status of our school's school environment construction, propose rectification measures for the imperfections in the current environmental construction, and implement them in place; conduct school history research, constantly explore the school's heritage and expand its connotation; refine the school's characteristics , construct school characteristics, create school mottos, school songs, school emblems, and school logos that reflect the school's characteristics and educational concepts, and continuously enhance the school's image.

⒍ Standardize institutional culture. Institutional culture creates execution and management conditions for the cultivation of characteristic school spiritual culture.

According to the composition of the school's teachers, scientifically plan the school's organizational structure, rationally allocate personnel in each department and each line, and improve the school's organizational system; according to the school's work needs, clarify the job responsibilities of each department and each line's faculty and staff, and improve school positions system; based on the school's development goals and the needs of job work, strengthen the evaluation of the work of faculty and staff in each department, each line, and each position, and improve the school's evaluation system; based on the evaluation results, evaluate each department, each line, and each position Implement rewards for faculty and staff and improve the school reward system; create a supervision mechanism for the implementation of the system and establish a supervision team composed of administrative leaders, faculty representatives and student representatives to effectively ensure the implementation of various systems; in the process of standardizing the construction of school system culture , constantly strengthen the standardization, continuity and directional research of the system, achieve "full participation" in formulating the system and "flexible and concrete" implementation of the system; actively penetrate the concepts of "democratic management" and "humanistic management", and pay attention to teachers and students Employees cultivate "system awareness" and transform rigid systems into flexible conscious actions. In reality, we have seen that although some schools have formulated a number of rules and regulations, it is likely that they do not reflect the people-oriented philosophy of running a school and do not use the scientific development concept to guide their own development strategies. As a result, these rules and regulations lack "cultural" connotation. For example, some schools often introduce some "local policies" that neither reflect the scientific outlook on development nor the people-oriented philosophy of running schools, and even violate national policies and laws. This is a manifestation of "illiteracy".

⒎ Pay attention to behavioral culture. Each school must provide action and motivation conditions for the cultivation of modern school spiritual culture. The first is to improve leadership art, standardize educational behavior, and make managers become responsible, capable, and far-sighted "moral leaders" and "purpose-oriented leaders"; the second is to standardize teaching behavior, standardize the activities of grade groups, teaching and research groups, and strengthen Teaching research and management, and continuously improve the quality of classroom teaching; thirdly, strengthen the construction of teaching staff, expand new forms of school-based training, establish a "green-blue pairing" mechanism with the old leading the new, establish a "Young Teacher Salon", and hold a "Young Teacher Competition" " and other activities to continuously improve the quality of young teachers; continue to promote the cultivation of scientific research-oriented teacher groups, strive to build a stronger educational and scientific research atmosphere, and encourage teachers to apply for scientific research projects and conduct research; fourth, carry out science and technology, art, sports, and entertainment among students activities, organize sports games and art festivals; the fifth is to make full use of various festivals, design and carry out colorful celebrations based on the school's characteristics; the sixth is to make full use of student clubs and carry out good club activities according to the school's characteristics.

⒏ Build student culture. Student culture is a spiritual atmosphere and material environment for students' learning, activities and life. If a school can effectively combine students' academic studies with student culture, it will effectively promote the construction of academic style, school spirit and spiritual civilization on campus. Although many students have different intellectual interests, personalities and tastes, the same ideological pursuits and cultural behaviors can often produce a great sense of cohesion and honor, making life on campus more harmonious and relaxed, and their youthful vitality can be highly enhanced. If you exert yourself, your personality and hobbies can also be developed. To this end, we must attach great importance to the construction of student culture, give full play to the positive role of student culture, and let culture infiltrate the soul of every student. On the one hand, we must pay attention to the construction of students' material culture. Break the stillness of the wall and let the wall speak, arrange students' art works, calligraphy works, small productions, small inventions, literary works, computer works, etc.; build a science and technology practice platform, guide students to participate in science and technology activities, computer production, quality production, etc., and Conduct visits and competitions. On the other hand, we attach great importance to the construction of students' spiritual culture, and activities are one of the effective ways of education. Organize speech contests, debate contests, essay contests, reading festivals, art festivals, etc. among students to lead students to receive the influence of elegant culture. Fill every corner of the school with a cultural atmosphere that entertains their bodies and minds, cultivates their temperament, imbues their character, cultivates their sentiments, and shapes their souls.

⒐ Create a teacher culture. First, it is necessary to provide a good external environment for teachers to improve their own cultural literacy, ensure certain material conditions, establish a reasonable incentive mechanism, give full encouragement to outstanding teachers, and create good conditions for the growth of outstanding teachers. The second is to strengthen participatory training, action research and case studies in professional practice, so that teachers can improve their spirit and ability to pursue their careers in concrete situations, and enable them to consciously study teaching behavioral norms.

The third is to expand the space for teachers’ professional development, create opportunities for teachers, increase opportunities, and allow their talents to be displayed, such as setting up individual studios for outstanding teachers, compiling and publishing personal research collections of teachers, etc., and paying attention to school historical materials that reflect the development process of the school. Collection and archiving of various documentary materials, audio and video materials, and recording relevant audio and video materials for famous teachers, subject leaders, key teachers, etc. The fourth is to advocate a new professional lifestyle for teachers. For example, teachers are encouraged to conduct collective teaching research and experience exchanges, keep recording and organizing teaching logs and anecdotes, and establish professional growth portfolios. To enable teachers to become "spiritual, not concerned with fame and wealth, self-centered as learners, confident in people, willing to help others, do good things, not complaining, emotionally stable, self-disciplined and self-reliant, and have a sense of mission". The image of "people" encourages everyone to continuously improve themselves and surpass themselves on a conscious level, and create new highlights in the school management culture.

⒑ Cultivate team spirit. Advanced theories cannot be rooted in people's thoughts and behaviors without the necessary popularization. Therefore, if a school wants to achieve long-term development, it must rely on the sincere cooperation of the entire teaching team. An excellent team must be a collective that is positive, active in thinking, and united and cooperative. In order for teachers to fully participate, to gain their recognition and turn it into conscious action, we must first learn together. Through learning, teachers will know what it is, what to do, and what can be done further. On the basis of different learning (popularizing knowledge), then think at a rational level. Through regular study and reflection, teachers' thoughts can be unified to the pursuit of the school's common values. Then, we will promote the formation of team strength through bundled evaluation of grade groups, lesson preparation groups, offices, etc.

11. Carry out research on the three winds. The school should conduct research on its own school spirit, teaching style, and study style, reflect on the causes of the past school spirit, teaching style, and study style, and re-tailor-make its own "three styles" based on the current school-running philosophy to better strengthen the "three styles". "Three Styles" construction; explore the relationship between modern school spiritual culture, community culture, and local culture, and reveal the inner connection between them.

12. Use classroom penetration. Teaching is regarded as the basic form of school spiritual and cultural construction. The school focuses on teaching, and teaching takes up the most time in school activities. As far as subject teachers are concerned, there are mathematics teachers who are good at logical and rational thinking, Chinese teachers who are passionate and full of humanistic feelings, life teachers who are caring, deans who are good at management and even principals who make macro decisions. All teachers have the same responsibilities, but each has different subject advantages, professional skills and cultural literacy. They can infiltrate the school's educational philosophy into their respective classrooms, try to explore teaching methods that are consistent with the educational philosophy, and make the classroom full of vitality. If a unified force can be formed, then teaching will undoubtedly be a huge force in the construction of school spiritual culture.

(3) Institutional Culture Construction

Scientific institutional culture is an important part of campus culture and the guarantee of school culture construction. Its potential function is undoubtedly huge. Therefore, the school must establish a standardized, efficient and complete organizational management system and system that highlights the school's advantages, embodies school-based consciousness, and has unique cultural characteristics. Schools should innovate various systems such as enrollment management, student management, teacher management, teaching management, and logistics management that are conducive to the healthy development of teachers, students, and schools, such as standardizing the advanced evaluation methods for students and the advanced evaluation methods for moral education teachers, so that various activities can be effective. Follow the rules and develop in an orderly atmosphere. The school's various systems should be compiled into a book, and there should be a procedural system for formulating or revising rules and regulations.

1. Strengthen system construction, establish and improve the management system, standardize the school's decision-making system in accordance with the law, improve the decision-making process and work rules, and achieve procedural and scientific decision-making, especially democratic decision-making on major issues. change.

2. Establish and improve the party committee and principal’s office meeting procedures; adhere to and improve the democratic management system of teachers’ congresses, and hold faculty and staff congresses in accordance with regulations; middle schools should pay attention to the functions of youth league congresses and student congresses. Role; improve and effectively implement the school affairs disclosure system in accordance with the law, and continuously expand the rights of teachers and students to know, participate and supervise school work.

3. Further strengthen the construction of various systems of the principal responsibility system under the leadership of the party committee, and revise the "Rules of Procedure for Party Committee Meetings", "Rules of Procedure for Principal Office Meetings", "Rules of Procedure for Executive Meetings", and "Rules of Procedure for Teachers' Representative Meetings" "Rules of Procedure", "School Affairs Disclosure System" and a series of rules and regulations.

4. Establish and improve student management systems, student organization norms, student behavioral norms and various rules and regulations, and give full play to the function of institutional culture in educating people and developing elegant behaviors. For example, we can further improve the "Student Management Regulations", "Daily Behavior Standards Regulations", etc., and give full play to the normative, motivating and guiding functions of rules and regulations in students' study and life.

5. Improve the "Teacher's Manual" compiled by the school's rules and regulations, and use it as a basis for handling various tasks within the school.

6. Strengthen legal education, do a good job in legal publicity and education, enhance the institutional awareness of teachers and students, and advocate acting in accordance with the law and rules.

(4) Behavioral culture construction

Behavioral culture is a dynamic reflection of the school’s spirit, values ??and school philosophy. It is the concrete manifestation of campus culture in teachers and students. It mainly refers to the behavior of teachers and students. Behavioral habits, life patterns, various group (club) activities, and the school spirit and study style displayed on this basis. Behavioral culture is a good carrier for promoting the construction of campus culture, and the participation of all employees is the key to promoting the construction of campus culture. It is necessary to start from the construction of the system, further strengthen the construction of teachers' ethics and teaching style, further strengthen the construction of study style, establish a rigorous, pragmatic, diligent and honest work style, so that all teachers and students can actively participate in the construction of behavioral culture and promote students' Comprehensive development. Strengthening the construction of behavioral culture should start from the following aspects:

1. Build a value concept system and use advanced concepts to guide behavior

When schools have refined and improved school cultural concepts, they often still It is necessary to promote and implement these cultural concepts through a series of activities, and then subtly guide the behavior of teachers, students and employees through these concepts. To make these behaviors deeply rooted among teachers, students, and employees, necessary training and guidance are also needed. The school's training and promotion of cultural concepts should be based on the daily behaviors of teachers and students, using concepts to guide behavior, and using behavior to interpret concepts, so as to avoid empty, abstract training in which teachers, students, and employees feel excited when listening and continue to go their own way when they return to their jobs. . The form of concept promotion must be rich and colorful to ensure that the concept is story-based, personified, and visualized.

⒉ Managers take the lead in setting an example and leading the behavior of teachers, students and employees. Every teacher, student and employee will have an expectation of the consequences of their actions. For example, if the school promotes a kind of behavior, if it is an employee, he would not dare or be unwilling to violate it. However, when he sees that the managers do not comply with this rule, he will also encounter certain situations in the future. Try to violate the authority of the system until you have no scruples to violate the system, because the managers have already found reasons to violate it. This phenomenon is very obvious in our current schools. For example, there is a rule clearly posted on the wall of a school office: "No smoking is allowed in the office area. Violators will be fined 50 yuan." However, teachers still hold cigarettes in one hand and grab the mouse with the other. The reason was that it turned out that the vice-principal took the lead in starting the ban, and everyone was happy to follow the leader's lead.

3. Focus on standardizing behavior and cultivate good behavioral habits. The code of conduct system includes the overall code of conduct of the school, the school's code of moral conduct, the code of conduct of senior leaders, the code of conduct of middle managers, the code of conduct of grassroots teachers and students, and the code of etiquette. Generally speaking, teachers, students and employees have a process of understanding behavioral culture from recognition to recognition to conscious practice, from unconsciousness to consciousness, and from unaccustomed to habitual behavior.

4. Use institutional strengthening as a guarantee to shape the environment for behavioral culture construction. Schools need to establish, improve and improve relevant systems to build a good mechanism that provides incentives and constraints, and give full play to the positive incentive and negative warning effects of institutional mechanisms on behavioral concepts and behavior implementation, thereby motivating teachers, students and employees to carry out the values ????advocated by the school. conduct behavioral activities, create a good environment for behavioral culture construction, and continuously promote the construction of school behavioral culture.

⒌ Design and implement standardized behavior patterns. Standardized behavior is divided into two categories: one is the standardization of behavior patterns based on management processes, and the other is the standardization of general behavior. The promotion of standardized behavior requires a long-term process, during which there will inevitably be intervention from different aspects. Schools should overcome all difficulties to persist in it and transform it into conscious behaviors of teachers, students and employees.

⒍ Establish outstanding role models in different positions and guide the behavior of teachers, students and employees with the power of role models.

The slogan "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng" once sung in our hearts. He infected everyone in the society with his sincere actions and continued to pass on love and help; Wang Jinxi worked day and night to develop the oil industry of the motherland and made selfless contributions. While creating huge material wealth, it also left us with precious spiritual wealth - the Iron Man Spirit. The Iron Man Spirit is the typical embodiment and personification of the Daqing spirit of "patriotism, entrepreneurship, truth-seeking, and dedication". There are also many things in life. There are many such typical models who use their actions to influence everyone around them and promote the continuous improvement of people's behavior. While we are building a school behavioral culture, we must fully pay attention to the role of role models in different positions in the school. Set up outstanding typical models, motivate and infect teachers and students through publicity of exemplary deeds, promote the improvement of teachers and students' behavior, and promote the improvement of the school's behavioral culture. At the same time, the school can also report what happened in the school's development process. The touching events are collected into a book so that teachers, students and employees can learn from it, turning the invisible into tangible, so that the power of inheritance can truly play a huge role.

What needs to be reminded in particular is: the construction of behavioral culture must be full of humanity. We must be good at grasping and utilizing periodic and unexpected opportunities. For example, the form and content of cultural construction must conform to the learning characteristics of teachers and students, the characteristics of the school, and the characteristics of the school’s staff composition. The beginning and end of major annual and school activities, as well as emergencies within society, parents and schools, are the best opportunities to spread concept culture and build behavioral culture.

The construction of characteristic school campus culture is a project. There are still many problems that require practice and thinking about complex system engineering with long cycles and slow results. But as long as we truly pay attention to it, boldly explore, continue to practice, and make timely summaries, then the construction of our characteristic school campus culture will inevitably continue. Reaching a new level, quality education will definitely continue to deepen in the new era.