The Main Contributions of Wei Yong School in Qinyang

In this garden of rural education, many people know the name Cai Linsen. As the principal of Yang Si Middle School in Taixing City, Jiangsu Province, he turned an ordinary middle school into a "China Famous School" with more than 4,000 teachers and students and fixed assets of nearly 100 million yuan. He was also rated as a special-grade teacher in Jiangsu Province, one of the top ten principals in Jiangsu Province, and a model worker in the national education system, and was received by party and state leaders many times.

These honors not only praise Cai Linsen's extraordinary achievements, but also affirm his school-running philosophy. "There are no students who can't teach well"-there is such an eye-catching slogan in the main teaching building of Yang Si Middle School. Cai Linsen explained it this way: This sentence contains two meanings, one is to make every student a talent, and the other is to make every student an adult.

The idea of "making every student a talent" comes from the personal experience of Cai Linsen's godson. Cai Linsen has three children, all of whom are at the bottom of the class in primary school. After junior high school, at noon every day, Cai Linsen asked the children to dictate the examples they had learned in the morning and do oral calculations. Cai Linsen didn't ask the wrong questions, and let the children read and think for themselves to get the answers. When walking, washing feet and sleeping, Cai Linsen will still use this method to help children review. In this way, the three children gradually learned to teach themselves, became excellent students, went to college and went to the United States to study.

Cai Linsen thought from this: If you teach students like your own children, which student can't teach well? Therefore, Cai Linsen pays special attention to "starting from the last student" in education. In this regard, he has three "tricks up his sleeve": first, rationally divide classes and mobilize competitive forces; The second is to help each other in pairs and mobilize the power of cooperation; Third, pay special attention to and mobilize emotional strength. The "last student" has made progress, and its demonstration and driving role can be imagined.

In the aspect of "making every student an adult", Cai Linsen pays more attention to details. Cai Linsen attaches great importance to environmental education and life education. He said that he wanted teachers and students to receive silent education as soon as they entered the campus. On campus, people can see all kinds of warnings, such as "stepping on the sunset and asking how much you have improved today". Cai Linsen also personally compiled teaching materials and offered life courses to educate students on how to learn life skills such as getting up, eating, sleeping, washing clothes, bathing and managing money. "Don't think these requirements are too trivial. Education with the concept of equality, education with the concept of labor, education with frugality, education with efficiency and time, and education with unity and friendship. " Cai Linsen said.

"Learning before teaching, training in class"-Cai Linsen's brilliant idea has created a "miracle" in education reform. In the 1980s, Cai Linsen saw the phenomenon of "spoon-feeding" and engaging in "sea tactics" which were common in class. Cai Linsen realized that this method would definitely lead classroom teaching into a dead end. How to reduce the excessive burden on teachers and students and improve the quality of education and teaching? After rational thinking and argumentation, Cai Linsen put forward the classroom teaching requirement of "teaching, learning and finishing homework" in 198 1. In order to enhance persuasiveness, he personally held demonstration classes and observation classes. Through three or four years of painstaking efforts, the school's senior high school entrance examination and senior high school entrance examination results are among the best in the city. In the next few years, this practice gradually matured into "learning before teaching and training in class". Under the guidance of this model, since 1988, the school has achieved 100% annual enrollment rate, consolidation rate, graduation rate and qualified rate.

Yang Si's experience in teaching reform has aroused widespread concern in the education field. Some media called it "a simple educational miracle" and "a banner of the national rural junior high school education reform". Wang Zhan, then Vice Minister of Education, commented: Yang Si's education mode is advanced, and Yang Si's classroom teaching is advanced, which can be in line with the world.

"Bitter comes sweet"-this is Cai Linsen's mantra and his life creed. When Yang Si Middle School 1980 was first built, even a bed could not be bought, so Cai Linsen planted several wooden stakes on the ground and nailed them to make beds. There is only one straw mat on the bed all year round. Because there are boarders in the school, he decisively lived in the student dormitory and lived with students for 23 consecutive spring and autumn. Three principals in Henan who have been visiting middle schools for a long time said emotionally: President Cai lives on the sixth floor of the student dormitory, and the bedding and towels used have holes. Such a headmaster is hard to find in our poor mountainous areas.

For this hard material life, Cai Linsen is full of enthusiasm and has no complaints. No matter how late he goes to bed at night, he gets up at five every morning. After washing, he came down from the sixth floor to inspect the dormitory and patrol every corner of the campus. At six o'clock, he did morning exercises with teachers and students, and then began a busy day's work. All year round, every day.

Under the influence and encouragement of Cai Linsen, all the leading members of Yang Si Middle School also lived in the student dormitory. For some young people, Cai Linsen always hoped that they would take hardship as enjoyment. He said, "Going to Yang Si is like going to Jinggangshan. Only if you are willing to endure hardships can you win, and only if you are willing to endure hardships can you have hope. "