The educational characteristics of Zuoquan Middle School

Zuo Quan, a resounding name in the history of China’s Anti-Japanese War, whose blood and life formed the unyielding backbone of the Chinese nation;

Zuo Quan Middle School, a middle school in the old district of Taihang Mountain named after the general, has wisdom and Sweat writes the splendid chapter of modern education;

"Shanxi Province Moral Education Demonstration School", "Shanxi Province Civilized School", "Shanxi Province Ordinary High School New Curriculum Plan Experimental Advanced Group", "Shanxi Province Advanced Social Practice Education" "School", "Jinzhong City Civilized Unit", "Jinzhong City Civilized and Harmonious Unit"... These impressive achievements are the fruitful results of our "moral education that adheres to revolutionary traditional education as the main line" over the years. It relies on the fusion of "the fine traditions of Zuoquan Middle School and the pioneering and enterprising spirit of advancing with the times." Spirit. Shanxi Zuoquan Middle School is an old district middle school with a glorious tradition named after General Zuo Quan. It was founded in March 1945, when the gunfire was everywhere. In the early days of its establishment, it was intended to train revolutionary cadres. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was a key middle school in Shanxi Province. . It has formed a leadership style of "diligence in study, good thinking, constant in-depth study, and practical results", a school spirit of "diligence, truth-seeking, inheritance, and innovation", a teaching style of "hard study, serious teaching, strict requirements, and teaching by precept and example", and "hard work." "Learning, independent thinking, pragmatism and simplicity, and the courage to enterprising" style of study. These fine traditions and special development background are the source of strength and educational advantages for the continuous development of Zuoquan Middle School. It is precisely because of the fine revolutionary tradition that Zuoquan Middle School has achieved great success in its 65 years. In the course of 20 years of development, we have inherited and carried forward the spirit of the old district and the anti-Japanese war spirit of perseverance and dedication, and formed the spirit of unity, dedication, pragmatism and enterprising in the left middle school.

The excellent tradition of running a school gave birth to our unique characteristics of running a school. Thinking about it, when the education reform gradually deepened at the end of the last century, school leaders were far-sighted and saw the practical and historical significance of revolutionary traditional education in the construction of modern schools, so they decided to focus on "moral education with revolutionary traditional education as the main line" and focus on This serves as an important breakthrough to improve the quality of running a middle school like ours in an old district. We took the lead in establishing a special institution for moral education in Jinzhong City: the Education Office of Zuoquan Middle School, and equipped it with a strong moral education team. It established the principle of "inheriting traditions, improving The spiritual realm of teachers and students, people-oriented, and promoting the all-round development of students' quality" are the school's moral education work ideas. Our school's moral education work started early and has rich connotations. To this day, moral education with revolutionary traditional education as the main line shows the contemporary and effective nature The characteristics of equal emphasis. The integration of management and moral education promotes the sustainable development of schools. Moral education is an arduous education project, and it is also a systematic project that requires special attention to how to improve the level of moral education in schools with revolutionary traditional education as the leader. Comprehensive improvement is a topic that generations of Zuozhong people have focused on thinking and practicing. To this end, in the past few years, we have fully explored the connotation of revolutionary traditional education, combined with the spirit of the times in modern society, and constantly changed the education methods, and the effects of education have also improved. It is most fully reflected in the following aspects.

1. Patriotism education

Patriotism is the deepest feeling for one's motherland established over thousands of years. , is the glorious tradition of the Chinese nation, the spiritual pillar of unity for people of all ethnic groups, and an important task in guiding young people to establish correct ideals, beliefs, outlook on life, and values, and to promote the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

In this era, we need to strengthen our sense of social responsibility and historical mission to make the practical characteristics of patriotism more distinctive. Patriotism, as an organic whole that integrates emotion, reason and action, is patriotism, ambition and the desire to strengthen the country. The unity of the trip to serve the country. In today's increasingly fierce international competition, the practical requirements of patriotism are even stronger. When we carry forward patriotism, we must integrate personal actions into the current of the times that promotes national development and national rejuvenation, so that patriotism becomes a huge force in promoting social progress.

To this end, we have clarified:

The basic requirements of patriotism

(1) Love the great rivers and mountains of the motherland; start with loving your hometown, loving your school, and loving your class;

(2) Love your own flesh and blood compatriots; start by loving your parents, teachers, and classmates;

(3) Love the splendid culture of the motherland; start by singing the national anthem, singing folk songs, and telling history Start;

(4) Love your great motherland. Start by learning culture, learning how to behave, and being civilized.

At the same time, we should make full use of the inherent ideological and educational nature of teaching materials, infiltrate patriotism into the teaching of various subjects, and promote it into all aspects of classroom teaching. It also creates conditions to implement various series of activities in the school.

2. National defense education

Zuoquan County is an old revolutionary base and a model county for "patriotism and support of the army" in the country. This is our unique national defense education resource. Our school absorbs school-running experience from other places and combines it with its own reality, integrating national defense education into the teaching of various subjects, cultivating students' defense concepts of patriotism, love of family, and opposition to foreign aggression; forming a spirit of loving the People's Liberation Army, advocating heroes, and serving the people; opening up a new era National defense propaganda boards use literary and artistic creation, scientific and technological creation, national defense knowledge competitions and other methods to institutionalize revolutionary traditions and national education, make them regular, and gradually achieve serialization. At the beginning of the school year, senior high school students are organized to conduct military training. During the annual military recruitment, students are organized to take to the streets and alleys to publicize the "Military Service Law" and practice it personally.

In order to make national defense education activities more popular among the people, "priority" is given to recruiting children of military families and children of active military personnel when students enter school. In order to relieve the worries of the People's Liberation Army defending peace, we provide some kind of material and spiritual encouragement and support to the children of military martyrs.

3. Unity and cooperation in education

“Unity is strength”, which can make war successful and education successful. To this end, we have focused on the following aspects of work in solidarity and cooperation education.

(1) Pay attention to the stimulation of team spirit among faculty and staff

A team is not a simple sum of individuals, but an organization, leadership, rules, and common goals. A collection of people who interact with each other and are closely connected. In terms of stimulating team spirit, we mainly focus on four aspects of work.

(1) Assessment orientation. We actively advocate that interactions between faculty and staff should be based on respect and work should be based on unity and cooperation, and regard it as an important part of teacher assessment, such as conducting evaluations of civilized offices, excellent teaching and research groups, and excellent grade groups, etc. Optimized interpersonal relationships and group atmosphere.

(2) Activity cohesion. We actively carry out a series of faculty and staff activities, harmonize feelings in various competitive activities that reflect unity and cooperation, and enhance the team awareness of faculty and staff.

(3) Promotion of public opinion. We usually actively publicize typical examples of faculty and staff on various occasions, thereby forming a public opinion atmosphere that emphasizes unity, collaboration, and dedication.

(4) Humanistic care. Based on our actual situation, we have increased our emotional investment, thinking about what the people think and worrying about their concerns, and relieving the faculty and staff from worries. Whenever there are weddings, funerals or other important events in the families of faculty and staff, the school will always provide maximum help in terms of manpower and material resources. If the children of faculty and staff are admitted to college, the school will send a car to the airport or train station. All of this greatly moved and mobilized the teaching staff.

(2) Pay attention to the creation of a harmonious teacher-student relationship

A good teacher-student relationship is the prerequisite for changing students’ learning methods. It is an important part of teacher ethics education under the new situation and is also an important part of education. Guaranteed success. Because only an equal relationship between teachers and students can awaken students' self-esteem and self-confidence and tap students' learning potential. And changing the traditional dignity of teachers is a difficult and painful process. Therefore, we have introduced the "Zuoquan Middle School Teacher Care Action Plan", which requires teachers to work hard to influence students with good teacher ethics, infect students with noble behavior, care for students with benevolence, and include feedback from teachers on caring for students at the end of the year. Assessment. Secondly, we conscientiously implement "treating students correctly" as an evaluation criterion in classroom teaching, which promotes the effective transformation of teacher education methods.

(3) Pay attention to the cultivation of the spirit of cooperation among classmates

It is easy for students to spend a long time together, causing some small frictions and conflicts. In addition, students’ psychological adjustment ability Deficiency, if not handled well, can easily produce adverse consequences. Therefore, the student-student relationship is also an important aspect of campus harmony. In terms of student-student relationships, we attach great importance to guiding harmonious coexistence as the main theme of class style construction, and actively carry out various activities so that students can experience the strength and warmth of the collective during the activities, realize the preciousness of friendship between classmates, and Understand that friendship requires mutual care and careful cultivation, and then implement it in your own study and life. The school also actively publicizes typical deeds in this area through radio and electronic screens, which greatly promotes harmony among students.

4. Harmonious development education

Harmonious education is essentially consistent with the all-round development of students. To achieve the harmonious development of students, we must grasp the people-oriented approach and respect the dominant position of students. , Give full play to the main role of students. In practice, we have also realized that the harmonious development of students is manifested at a deeper level, including the combination of political integrity and talent, the integration of emotion and knowledge, the unity of hands and brains, the harmony of mind and spirit, the unity of nature and man, and the unity of individual and collective development. To this end, we focused on the six aspects mentioned and worked hard on the following three links.

(1) Build students’ autonomous management model

Students are the main body of learning and practical management. The school strives to build an autonomous management model and implement students’ dominant position. "Autonomous management committees" have been established from school to class to realize self-management of property, self-formulation of systems, self-supervision of processes, and self-organization of activities... At present, students have truly become the masters of management. Self-supervision, self-execution, self-evaluation, and self-education are done in an orderly manner: activities such as lectures, debates, moot courts, and various competitions are conducted with great vigor. Students exercised their talents and wisdom in the activities, and during their participation, they also realized the integration and harmony of emotion and knowledge, which laid a solid foundation for students' sustainable development.

(2) Construct a classroom teaching model of independent cooperative inquiry

The teaching model refers to the structure and procedures of the teaching process, that is, the reasonable formation of various teaching elements in the classroom. And independent inquiry and cooperation are the learning methods advocated by the new curriculum. Therefore, building a classroom teaching model of independent inquiry and cooperation is conducive to optimizing the teaching process, conducive to the implementation of the subject position, and the harmonious unity of knowledge, emotion, and intention, thereby improving classroom efficiency.

Modeling activities are divided into four steps: modeling - modeling - using models - creating models. During the modeling process, effective teaching is the goal, and we adhere to "subject participation, hierarchical optimization, and timely feedback." The teaching principle of "motivating and evaluating" creatively uses psychological effects such as "empathy, trust, expectation, infection, and success" to talk about the "learning process" and "construct a four-person cooperative learning group" to make classroom teaching appear harmonious. Status and ideal effects.

(3) Build a platform for students’ comprehensive and personality development

There is a difference between quantity and quality, breadth and depth between students’ comprehensive development and personality development. Whether it is comprehensive or personality development, They are all inseparable from the harmonious development of people. Harmonious development runs like a red line through all aspects of human development. Based on this understanding, in the process of education and teaching, we pursue the promotion of students' all-round and individual development as an educational ideal. In addition to permeating this idea into the above-mentioned management practices, we have also made many attempts in setting up activity classes. With hard work, the school currently has 30 teams, and has implemented standardized classes and activities, allowing students to improve their quality through participation and accelerate their development through experience. In order to ensure the effectiveness of moral education, we adhere to the following two aspects of strategic advancement.

1. Serialization promotion

Moral education is not empty preaching, nor is it something ethereal. As long as we closely integrate education with life, there will be materials for moral education everywhere.

(3) Theme activities broaden channels for education

Over the years, our school has mainly carried out the following five theme activities to broaden the channels for patriotism education, that is, in conjunction with major festivals and anniversaries, we have carried out many Various forms of educational activities, carry out various knowledge competitions with the theme of patriotism; use various cultural and sports forms to carry out educational activities; adhere to the traditional Qingming tomb-sweeping educational activities that have been uninterrupted since the school was founded 65 years ago; carry out extensive social practice and youth volunteers Activities, education and entertainment make patriotic education vigorous and solid. While our school does a good job in the "five loves" education and implements patriotic education, it still does not relax the education of collectivism and hard work, national defense education and security education, so that they can be integrated into patriotic education, such as through military training. Incorporate collectivism, hard work, national defense and national security education into patriotism education, achieving the effect of simultaneously promoting five educations. The above are some thoughts and practices on the characteristics of running schools in our school. It can be said that "moral education based on revolutionary traditional education" has played a great role in improving the quality of school running in the past school running process. Faced with the rapidly developing education situation, how to further improve the quality of education and enhance the school's education taste is still a topic for our thinking and research. For this reason, in the future education, we must further cultivate the school's education characteristics and make it Make it bigger, stronger and more practical so that it can truly become the core competitiveness of the school in the new situation.

1. Update concepts and expand the connotation of traditional education

The times are developing. In order for moral education with traditional education as the main line to play a more efficient role, we must further expand and deepen the role of traditional education. connotation, so we must further emancipate our minds, update our concepts, focus on resolving the relationship between inheritance and development, and pay attention to three aspects.

(1) Pay attention to the promotion of national spirit. The Jinggangshan Spirit, the Long March Spirit, the Yan'an Spirit, the Xibaipo Spirit, the Daqing People's Spirit, the "Two Bombs and One Satellite" spirit, the Lei Feng Spirit, and the Flood Fighting Spirit formed in the long-term revolutionary struggle and the great practice of socialist modernization under the leadership of our Party , the spirit of fighting against SARS, the spirit of "manned spaceflight" and the spirit of Olympic fighting... these have greatly enriched the connotation of the national spirit, and these have undoubtedly become good materials for revolutionary traditional education. We must organically integrate these national spirits with the Taihang spirit and the Left Power spirit based on the characteristics of the old revolutionary areas to make school education more lively, colorful and unique.

(2) Pay attention to the implementation of the "people-oriented" concept. "People-oriented" is a product of the times, and it is also an important principle and guiding ideology of moral education under the new situation. Therefore, we must adhere to the "people-oriented" school running philosophy, innovate education methods, and pay high attention to the all-round development of people on the premise of respecting people. , personality development and innovative development, and ultimately realize the scientific development of people.

(3) Pay attention to mental health education. Mental health education is an important symbol of modern education. On the basis of inheriting traditional education, we must create conditions to strengthen the organic integration of mental health education and traditional education. We must not only bring mental health education into classrooms and open psychological consultation rooms, but also create conditions Invite psychological education experts to the school regularly to provide special counseling, and carry out psychological diagnosis and treatment activities at a broader and deeper level to ensure the mental health of teachers and students.

2. Scientific research leads the way and strengthens the construction of moral education teams

Moral education is both a means and a science. To enhance the effectiveness of moral education, we must strengthen scientific research and pay attention to the important role of scientific research in moral education work. . We need to include moral education as a major topic in the school's important research scope. The Political and Education Department is equipped with full-time and part-time researchers to seriously carry out moral education research. At the same time, we actively encourage teachers and moral education workers to conduct action research in micro fields at the action level and strive to improve the effectiveness of moral education.

Moral education is an all-inclusive project that educates people, educates people with morality, and educates people with quality. The ideological and political quality of teachers and the level of professional moral education are also key factors. Therefore, teachers should strengthen their own cultivation. It is particularly important. To this end, we must further improve the teacher ethics assessment methods, further implement the "three questions, two checks and one veto" system, create a new pattern of teacher team construction, and improve the initiative and enthusiasm of teachers in moral education.

3. Create an atmosphere and pay close attention to the construction of campus culture

Culture is an important force in moral education. Mr. Tao Xingzhi said, “A good life is a good education.” “The natural environment and Personality cultivation is closely related." It can be seen that the environment we live in has the functions of guiding, regulating, restraining, motivating and influencing people's development. Having a rich educational environment is crucial to the moral education work of the school. To this end, we must adhere to the timeliness principle of moral education on the basis of traditional cultural construction, strive to let every wall speak, let every scenic spot shine, and let all faculty, staff and students feel the humanistic atmosphere and Humanistic care. At the same time, slogans that reflect the school's philosophy are presented in every space where students grow, including campuses, classrooms, reading rooms, laboratories, apartments, restaurants, etc., to inspire and infect every student at all times. It is also displayed on the wall of the teacher's office to create a positive humanistic environment for teachers' work and study.