Youxuetong: What does it mean to enable personalized caring text messages?

As a new thing in the information industry era, the two home-school communication platforms "Youxuetong" and "School Xuntong" provide students, parents and teachers with advanced modern communication technology. A brand-new communication method builds a bridge of communication between home and school, and plays an irreplaceable role in realizing home-school education and strengthening students' ideological and moral construction. After several years of use, the "School Information Communication" platform has played a positive role in our school's home-school communication, and "Youxuetong" has also begun to be officially used, increasing network coverage and showing preliminary results. Now if there are important notifications that need to be notified to students and parents in a timely manner, a text message can be sent to each parent's mobile phone, which greatly reduces work pressure and avoids some misunderstandings between home and school. But in actual application, I recently found that while the two platforms play their advantages, they also have certain disadvantages. For head teachers and teachers, how to make reasonable use of new technological platforms and truly realize benign home-school education interaction is an issue we should pay attention to.

1. Make trade-offs and analyze, don’t simply publish them

When sending results, if you just simply send the test scores, average scores, rankings and other information to parents without processing, , will likely have a negative impact on students. The class teacher should note that grades are only one aspect of the overall student learning situation, and should prompt the process analysis of vertical and horizontal comparisons of individual students. For students with mid-range grades, it is not appropriate to strengthen the ranking of horizontal comparisons, and attention should be paid to the vertical comparison of individual students. According to the situation, reasonable suggestions are put forward in a targeted manner so that parents can treat them rationally.

2. Write carefully and don’t be sloppy

The word count of text messages is very restrictive, so when preparing messages, you need to pay special attention to wording skills. First of all, we must abide by the common norms of home-school communication, respect parents, be sincere and equal, and not be arrogant. For teachers, how to write text messages is also an important aspect of showing the professional image of teachers in the minds of parents; for schools, sending text messages to parents also represents the attitude and image of the school.

Generally speaking, text messages sent to parents should not be too long. To express the meaning clearly within a limited number of words, it needs to be clear, precise, and well-worded. At the same time, when presenting written language to parents, attention should also be paid to their multi-layered characteristics. The language should neither be too colloquial nor too formal to be understood. You should think twice before clicking.

3. Be targeted individually and not blindly send mass messages

From the psychological point of view of parents, in addition to wanting to know the overall situation, they especially want to know the personalized situation of their children. Many teachers Often a message will be sent out to a group and the problem will be solved. Education without personalization is often ineffective. For the same work content, if the relevant students are divided into several categories according to different situations, and targeted content is formulated separately for individual students, only educational measures that respect the students' independent personality characteristics will be directed towards the hearts of the educated. The workload brings a multiplied educational effect.

4. Be moderately tolerant, and don’t be “revengeful”

Be moderately tolerant of students’ non-principled minor mistakes. “School Newsletter” is suitable for “reporting good news rather than bad news.” , pay attention to the minute records of students' daily behaviors, promptly report "good people and good deeds", focus on the presentation of "highlights", and focus on "process" communication. Students will gain individual respect under the encouragement of colleagues at home and school, thus forming a conscious repetition of highlights to achieve Good educational effect. For students who really need to communicate with their parents about their faults, they should generally make a phone call or make an appointment. Throwing the student's fault issues to the parents with simple messages is disrespectful to both the students and the parents.

5. Two-way interaction, not one-way indoctrination

Interaction is the key to home-school communication. When information is sent out, feedback and communication should be focused on. Some teachers only send information, regardless of parents' feedback, and do not respond promptly after receiving it. This gradually turns the original two-way interactive platform into one-way mechanical indoctrination, causing parents to lose their attention.

When you don't have enough energy to reply one by one, you can supplement it through other methods such as phone follow-up. The principle is to let parents know that there is feedback on the interaction.

6. There should be a certain amount of density, and don’t send spam and interruption

Reasonable communication should be continuous and pay attention to the rhythm. Some teachers send a large number of messages in bulk or spam whenever there are exams, or at the beginning, end of semester, or month end. On the surface, they solve some transactional notifications or reminders, but they may cause psychological irritation to the recipients. Moreover, since the number of words in a text message is limited, one thing is often presented in more than two messages. If several teachers send several messages at the same time, parents will receive dozens of text messages, which objectively interferes with the normal activities of parents. Work. In normal times, some teachers cherish words like gold, and parents cannot receive any information for a long time, which leads to rejection and even unwillingness to communicate with teachers anymore.

7. Employ multiple approaches and do not replace interviews

Of course, no matter how good the technology communication platform is, it cannot replace language communication and face-to-face communication between people. Parents hope to communicate with the class teacher or class teacher. Teachers communicate in a wide range of areas, and parents' deepening understanding of teachers will help teachers maximize the cooperation from students' parents in education. Therefore, while teachers use online platforms to communicate, they cannot ignore traditional home-school communication methods such as telephone communication, school interviews, and home visits.

The two platforms of "Youxuetong" and "School Communication" are bridges of communication between home and school. Only when parents and teachers are on one end of the bridge can we build this perfect bridge of communication. If we do not make reasonable use of this powerful platform, parents will not feel the importance of this platform. On the contrary, if we do a good job in communicating between teachers and parents, parents will actively participate. The rational use of teachers can make these two platforms better serve the education and teaching work of our school, making them a harmonious and warm interactive platform for teachers, students, home and school, and playing a positive role in promoting the healthy development of school informatization.

Attachment: How to quickly use Youxuetong - Class Teacher's article

1. How to log in to Youxuetong?

Double-click to open the IE browser icon on the desktop, enter in the "address bar" at the top: Open the Youxuetong website, click the "Download Area" on the upper right to download the Youxuetong client. After the download is completed, double-click to install. After installation, enter the account password received on your mobile phone and click the "Login" button.

2. How does the class teacher send mobile text messages to students in this class?

There are three ways for the head teacher to send text messages to students:

⑴ After logging into Youxuetong, click "Home-School Interaction Management" → "Send Text Messages to Parents" to enter Youxuetong Through the text message sending and receiving system, the head teacher can choose to use the text message template to send mobile phone text messages to parents, and can also choose to send text messages regularly.

⑵ After logging in to Youxuetong, click "Home-school Interaction Management" → "Class Teacher Management" → "Class Text Message". The class teacher enters the content of the text message in the text box and clicks the Send button to send the text message to everyone. Parents of class students.

⑶ The head teacher can use his or her own China Unicom mobile phone with Youxuetong service to directly edit the text message and send it to 1065596000055. The Youxuetong intelligent text message forwarding system will automatically forward the class teacher’s text message to the parents of the whole class.

3. How does the class teacher add or modify students in this class?

After logging in to Youxuetong, click "School Office Management" → "Campus Office Platform" to enter the school's campus office platform. After entering, click "Student Management" → "Class Teacher Management" in the left menu list, click the "Add" text link in the upper right corner, enter the name of the new student, the parent's mobile phone number, and click the "Invite Activation" button. If you modify student information, find the student you want to adjust, and click the text links such as "Edit" and "Change Class" at the back to adjust the information and change classes.

4. How does the class teacher distribute homework to the students in this class?

After logging in to Youxuetong, click "Home-school Interactive Management" → "Class Teacher Management" → "Class Assignment". The class teacher enters the assignment content in the text box (supports uploading of attachments), and clicks the Send button. Parents of students will receive homework assigned by teachers through mobile phone text messages and the Internet.

5. How does the class teacher send home-school communication cards to parents?

After logging into Youxuetong, click "Home-school Interaction Management" → "Class Teacher Management" → "Home-school Communication Card". The class teacher can send home-school communication cards to the whole class or to designated parents. Parents Will be received via SMS and Internet. Parents can respond promptly.

6. How does the class teacher use educational and teaching resources?

After logging into Youxuetong, click "Education and Teaching Resources" → "Provincial Basic Education Resources" to enter the Provincial Basic Education Resource Center to search for relevant education and teaching resources.

7. How does the class teacher interact with parents?

After logging in to Youxuetong, click the "Public Address Book" button on the left menu list, select the parent of this class, and right-click on his or her avatar to directly send an instant message to the parent. , mobile phone text messages, voice, video calls. Double-click its avatar to transfer the file directly.