The educational characteristics of Jiangmen Experimental Middle School

Teaching and research promote teaching, scientific research strengthens schools, and builds a dynamic mechanism for successful education.

As an ordinary middle school in the urban area of ??Jiangmen, the student resources are not outstanding. However, since the 1995 graduates took the high school entrance examination for the first time, Jiangmen Experimental Middle School’s admission performance indicators have been among the best in the urban area for many years. It ranks first among similar junior high schools; in various subject competitions at all levels, the school's contestants also frequently return with great honors. In the past three years, 116 people have won national awards, and 119 people have won provincial and municipal awards; Lan Peng also won the second prize of the "Song Ching Ling Scholarship" issued by the Ministry of Education; the effectiveness of running the school is increasingly optimized.

(1) Determine the strategy of developing the school through scientific research and carry out teaching research at all levels and at all levels

The impressive performance comes from solid and creative teaching and research work. Focusing on the overall improvement of students' overall quality, the school has established a four-level scientific research management network of "principal leadership--teaching office management--subject team implementation--individual completion", forming a network of individuals, subject groups, and schools. , city, province and national multi-level tower education and scientific research system to achieve "each subject has a subject and everyone engages in scientific research". While insisting on implementing the hierarchical teaching experiment of "hierarchical teaching and classified guidance", under the guidance of experts such as Professor Zhu Zhiting of East China Normal University and Professor He Jinjun of Jiangmen College of Education, the school has also carried out "modern teaching under information conditions". Technology and Curriculum Integration", "Research on the Coordinated Development of Personality and Cognition of Junior High School Students and its Education Model" and comprehensive practical curriculum research embodying the spirit of "autonomy, cooperation and inquiry", to cultivate students' active and individualized learning by guiding them The innovative spirit and ability necessary for students to succeed. Currently, there are 41 projects at all levels in the school, including 2 national key projects and 1 provincial and municipal level project. In 2002, the school was designated as the National Education Science "Tenth Five-Year Plan" planning project "Innovative Teaching and Creativity Cultivation" Research and Experimental Base". Today, everyone from the school principal to teachers in various subject groups are involved in teaching and scientific research, forming a strong academic atmosphere of "research in the teaching process and teaching in a research state". In the past three years, 6 teachers of the school have won provincial and municipal scientific research achievement awards, and 128 have published or received provincial and municipal paper awards. Principal Li and Director Feng Jiewen have been rated as "Jiangmen City Advanced Educational Research Workers".

(2) Actively carry out curriculum reform and improve the quality of education and teaching through multiple channels.

In order to adapt to the requirements of the new curriculum reform, the school has adopted various measures to promote teachers to improve their professional skills and improve their quality. Pay attention to the practical transformation of teachers' teaching concepts. On the basis of abandoning the traditional concept of "preaching, imparting knowledge, and solving doubts", we invite external experts and key teachers within the school to give tutoring lectures, special reports, theoretical study, and practical case analysis, etc. Do everything possible to guide all teachers to firmly establish the modern teaching concept of "teachers are collaborators, guides and participants in students' learning, and the teaching process is an interactive process of teacher-student interaction and mutual development", and use it to guide individualized creativity practice.

Students are the main subjects of learning and development. Based on the physical and mental development of students in this school and the characteristics of various subjects in junior high schools, we have made the following attempts. The first is flexible selection and addition of teaching content. Based on the new curriculum concept that "education must be student-oriented, life-oriented, and society-oriented", on the basis of conscientiously completing regular teaching tasks, we have added a large amount of learning content that is popular with students based on the actual subject. For example: the school-based course textbook "Beautiful Jiangmen" compiled by the History, Geography and Biology Department, even if students understand Jiangmen from the aspects of natural environment, population resources, celebrities and historic sites, industry, agriculture and transportation, it can also subtly cultivate students' love for their hometown and the construction of their hometown. Genuine emotions. The second is to actively advocate independent, cooperative, and inquiry-based learning methods, from the confirmation of teaching content, the selection of teaching methods to the design of evaluation methods, to guide students to learn proactively and individually. For example, the biology department teamed up with the Jiangmen Environmental Sanitation Bureau to organize a survey on "Garbage Disposal and Environmental Protection Issues in Jiangmen City" and won heartfelt praise from the environmental sanitation department for its constructive research results. The third is to pay attention to both the cultivation of abilities and the coordinated development of personality. In the teaching process, while vigorously training the profundity, flexibility, originality, criticality and agility of students' thinking, we should always pay attention to the correct guidance of students' emotions, attitudes and values.

(3) Activate the second classroom and strengthen the results of quality education.

School education is just a part of a student’s long life path.

The school focuses on the lifelong development of students, with the fundamental purpose of shaping individuals with distinctive personalities and sound personalities, and organizes teachers and students to carry out a variety of elective courses, second classroom activities and various types of subject competition coaching, *** 28 second classroom groups in arts, culture and sports, and science and technology have been opened, which has opened up a broad field for exploring students' potential, giving full play to students' strengths, and cultivating students' various interests. The "three guarantees" for extracurricular activities are time guarantee, funding guarantee and quality guarantee. The activities are colorful and cover all aspects of students’ interests: there is the “Environmental Protection Slogan Competition” and the “Art Handmade Painting Exhibition” that stimulate the spirit of innovation, explore the integration of disciplines and closely connect with social life; "Aviation Model Competition", "Computer Network Competition", "Robot Competition", there are literary club activities to cultivate creative talents, English sketch performances to exercise English conversation skills, and chess and Go training that combines games and competitions... Due to the second The classroom closely follows the reality of students' modern life, starting from students' physical and mental development, stimulating students' interest and innovative spirit. Students actively participate and enjoy the sweetness of success from the activities. In the city's model aircraft competition, the school's contestants have ranked first for five consecutive years; in the past three years, 8 people have won provincial awards and 13 people have won municipal awards in various computer competitions; Wang Su, a student from the school, won the first place in 2002 Won first place in the city's English storytelling competition; Wu Junming won second place in the provincial youth Go competition and first place in the city. In the evaluation of the creative physics experiment design of middle school students in Huafu New World Cup in Guangdong Province, Feng Jiawen, Wu Yingshan, and Pang Xiaoxin's work "Homemade 'Oscilloscope Observation of Sound Waves'" won the second prize; Zhao Ruzhang, Huang Yongfeng, Xu Jia, and Zhu Jianming's work "Alarm Fire Extinguisher" "Won the third prize; Teachers Chen Weibing and Ling Jie won the second prize for instructors.

(4) Focus on the sustainable development of the school and pay attention to the guidance and foresight of scientific research.

In pursuing the guidance of educational reform and scientific research, the school emphasizes the combination of teaching and scientific research, and the connection between theory and practice. The "Research on the Coordinated Development and Model of Cognition and Personality of Junior High School Students" and the "stratified teaching" experiments carried out by the school are typical examples of the organic combination of scientific research and teaching. These two major topics are based on the actual situation of the school's uneven student population. Students are divided into several levels according to their actual levels. On the basis of ensuring that all students meet the basic requirements, higher requirements are put forward for the outstanding students so that the underachievers can "eat" Got it", average students "eat well", top students "eat well". In the process of education and teaching, equal emphasis is placed on intellectual factors and non-intellectual factors, equal emphasis on rational factors and irrational factors, and equal emphasis on knowledge intelligence training and sound personality shaping, so that all types of students can develop on the original basis.

In terms of focusing on the foresight of educational reform and scientific research, the school highlights the openness, advancement and innovation of teaching and scientific research. The national-level project "Integration of modern technology and curriculum under informationization conditions" takes quality education theory as its guiding ideology and modern educational theories such as information theory, subject theory, and constructivist learning theory as its theoretical basis to integrate information technology with the curriculum of various disciplines. Explore how to guide students to make full use of the Internet, cultivate students' ability to obtain information, analyze information, use information and create information, use the large amount of information and the convenience of access on the Internet to conduct subject learning and research, and cultivate students' innovative spirit and practical ability . It has accumulated valuable experience for curriculum reform and teaching in the new situation where modern technology will become increasingly popular in the future. 2. Specialize in educating people and paving the way for each student to succeed.

In line with the successful education idea of ??"not asking everyone to get the key points, but asking everyone to develop and make progress", the specialty education of "guiding students to pursue multi-faceted success" has always been the core of the school's education. The purpose of educating people. The school consists of four traditional specialties of "art, sports, computers, and model aircraft". It uses art education as a breakthrough to develop students' individual strengths and cultivate "qualified + specialty" talents. The school has cooperated with Jiangmen Children's Ballet and Jiangmen Philharmonic Chorus to establish 3 ballet professional specialty classes and 2 choral specialty classes. It also developed dulcimer, chorus, dance, art ceramics, calligraphy, painting, etc. Multiple art interest groups. On the basis of effectively grasping the teaching routine of music and art, the school has explored the art education path of "one section, three exhibitions, three determinations and five combinations". "One Festival" is the annual Jiangmen Experimental Middle School Art Festival, which provides more students with the opportunity to taste the joy of success through literary performances, chorus competitions, art competitions, etc.

The "three exhibitions" include dulcimer, ballet, and choir class reports and performances, calligraphy, painting, and photography exhibitions, and fine arts, handicrafts, and ceramic works, setting a stage for the successful exploration of students' artistic potential. The "three determinations" are to appoint a person to be responsible and hire professional dance and singing teachers to teach; a fixed time, daily activity classes and evening classes as training time; a fixed location, that is, to ensure a venue for activities. "Five combinations" include the combination of focused training and widespread popularization, the combination of professional training and regular demonstrations, the combination of observation and learning and pioneering and innovation, the combination of centralized training and individual tutoring, and the combination of classroom teaching and extracurricular activities.

Solid and lasting art education enables the students of Jiangmen Experimental Middle School to thrive like flowers and trees in spring, fully explore their artistic potential, and continuously improve their humanistic qualities. Xu Jiaying won the second prize in the 2000 Provincial Accordion Competition. At the first art festival of Jiangmen City (four cities and three districts under its jurisdiction) in 2002, the school's chorus, ballet and dulcimer performances won first, second and third place in the city's junior high school group respectively. , the team’s total score ranked first in the city. They held a number of special reporting performances at the East Lake Theater, the Municipal Government Auditorium and the East Lake Plaza stage. Their wonderful performances won heartfelt praise from education delegations from the United States, Australia and Hong Kong. As the only representative team of Jiangmen urban junior high school, the school's art troupe participated in the first primary and secondary school students' art show in Guangdong Province and won the provincial second prize. The choir was also invited by the China Chorus Association to participate in the Austrian International Chorus Festival (later due to "SARS" failed to make the trip). Among them, Wang Tiantian, the monitor of the yangqin class, has developed comprehensively due to his artistic hobby and was named the first provincial "Three Good Students" in Jiangmen City Junior High School. Chen Rui, a student of the dance class, is excellent in both literature and academics and was rated as a provincial "small citizen model".

8 of the students’ calligraphy, painting, and photography works won national, provincial, and municipal awards; the students’ calligraphy and painting works were framed and hung in the school corridor, winning praise from students and parents. , not only beautified the environment, but also allowed the authors to experience the taste of success, and set an example for more people to follow. 14 people were admitted to art schools.

Conscientiously implementing school health and physical education regulations, and on the basis of the teaching routine of "two classes and three exercises", the school has created a "five-three-one" series of sports. "Five" refers to the five specialty training teams of track and field, football, basketball, badminton, and table tennis; "Three" refers to ensuring three training periods in the morning, noon, and evening; "One" refers to the annual sports festival. In the eleven years since the school was founded, the school has won the first place in the team or the overall score of men and women eight times, second and third place ten times, and trained four national second-level athletes in the city's middle school student sports meets; its physical education high school entrance examination scores have won the city's first place eight times. One person. The school was therefore rated as "Advanced Unit of Mass Sports in Guangdong Province". In addition, it has won the provincial first and second prizes for three consecutive years in the computer production competition for primary and secondary school students held by the province.