The road to self-improvement of Shaxi Technical School in Zhongshan City

Cultural self-confidence is the soul of vocational education, which encourages vocational schools to keep innovating and enterprising in the rapid economic and social changes, adhere to the development characteristics, and realize the strength of the school itself and the educated.

Since 199 1 was founded, all the teachers and students in our school have been instilled with the Xiangshan culture of fraternity, tolerance, pragmatism, openness and romantic innovation under the spur of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's spirit of "being the first". After tempering, they have always tasted the essence of "self-improvement and harmonious development" and embarked on a road of self-improvement in vocational education with personality, life support, cooperative team and behavior.

First, as a status.

In the early 1990s, with the support of overseas Chinese businessmen and overseas Chinese, the town government invested heavily in the construction of the first phase of the school project, and named it "Shaxi Polytechnic School" after borrowing the name of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for the first time, becoming the first secondary vocational school in Zhongshan. From 65438 to 0996, our school won the first batch of "national key secondary vocational schools" and officially embarked on the road of self-improvement of characteristic vocational education culture.

Culture is led by the strong, and the strong is made by self-confidence. Vocational education didn't get enough attention from the society in its early days. Our school clearly recognizes that vocational education is the foundation of industry and will have a bright future. We should be brave in innovation, pursue Excellence and become bigger and stronger to prove our value. With the promotion of market economy, Zhongshan's industry and commerce have developed rapidly, and the demand for skilled talents is blowout. Our school has also developed from a primary school with only two classes, 100 students, to a national key secondary vocational school with more than 80 classes and more than 5,000 students after more than 20 years of fierce competition. This is a country full of reform, innovation,

The course of pioneering spirit is a powerful manifestation of the continuous self-improvement of vocational education in Zhongshan, shaxi town and even Guangdong under the background of 30 years of reform and opening up.

In the process of development, we never forget the fundamental mission of education: let students learn to be human beings, learn skills well, and create a good foundation for students' happy and meaningful life. We know that it is equally important to train an excellent secondary vocational school student and an excellent college student, but the former is more difficult, because secondary vocational school students have a weak cultural foundation and it is more difficult to correct their bad behavior habits. This sense of mission has been sublimated into the school-running concept of our school, which urges us to constantly explore the improvement of talent structure under the new economic conditions and firmly believe in the concept of quality education, that is, we should not only pay attention to strengthening students' skills, but also pay attention to cultivating students' internal quality and improving students' comprehensive quality, so that secondary vocational school students can get out of the shadow of "backwardness", regain their self-confidence and sunshine, gain happiness in life with excellent skills and win social respect with good moral character.

The course of our school's development and growth is also the course of Shaxi technicians shouldering the mission, striving for progress, exploring and climbing: we have experienced the hardships in the initial stage, met the test of the downturn in secondary vocational education, and defeated the challenge of fierce competition in secondary vocational education. In the early days of the school, we pioneered the overpass, showing the characteristics of "one combination, four combinations", that is, vocational education and adult education simultaneously; The combination of academic education and non-academic education, long-term training and short-term training, classroom teaching and social production practice, professional and non-professional, multi-level, multi-form and diversified school-running has become one of the three major modes of Guangdong vocational education. Since the new century, in order to meet the needs of the times and speed up the integrated development of Industry-University-Research, Shaxi mode of secondary vocational schools has been created, that is, "professional development docking industrial chain, training center docking industrial chain and professional teaching docking industrial chain", which connects schools with the market and majors with industries, and keeps schools on the fast track of vocational education development.

Cultural construction promotes the connotation development of the school, and the investment of the school shifts from hardware construction to talent introduction and training, from conventional teaching instruments to high-end professional equipment. In recent years, our school has invested a lot of money, arranged for 90% of teachers to participate in public training, sent outstanding teachers to participate in national backbone teacher training, and went to Germany, Singapore and other developed countries to study vocational education management and professional teaching experience, thus building a team of senior and intermediate teachers and "double-qualified" teachers. The school also introduced more than 22 well-known fashion designers such as Zhang Zhaoda, vice chairman of China Fashion Designers Association, and more than 20 national well-known academic leaders such as Professor Xiao Wenling, director of the Department of Dyeing, Weaving and Clothing of Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts, as expert consultants of the school's professional construction steering committee, and opened a "lecture hall for famous teachers" for students to talk directly with famous teachers, thus cultivating a large number of skilled talents with excellent professional quality, keen ideological tentacles and high integration with corporate culture. At present, our school has built Industry-University-Research's integrated National Clothing Training Base, National Textile Quality Inspection Center and Zhongshan Leisure Clothing Engineering R&D Center, introduced the most advanced equipment used by enterprises today, including the latest technologies such as Gerber clothing CAD system in the United States, and the backbone network of the school has all reached 1000 megabit optical fiber transmission, realizing the modernization of professional teaching in the training base. Automobile maintenance specialty also imitates Toyota's "6S" model, introduces the latest management concepts and processes of enterprises, and builds a highly simulated training factory with the help of multimedia, so that every internship of students is a harsh actual combat.

The spirit of self-improvement and the quality of running a school have won the trust and support of the whole society, the higher government and the masses. In 2008, in order to adapt to the extraordinary development of vocational and technical education in Zhongshan City and solve the problems of enrollment expansion and insufficient school buildings, with the support of the higher government, our school successfully introduced social funds of160,000 yuan, and built a teaching service building covering functions such as library, famous teacher studio, designer club and national textile quality inspection center. For the first time, public secondary vocational schools in Guangdong Province introduced private funds on such a large scale to solve the bottleneck of running schools, which made a useful exploration for the development of vocational education. In the past two years, in order to support the school construction, the shaxi town Municipal Government stepped up the acquisition of factories around the school, allocated land, and enhanced the strength of running a school. People from all over the country also support the development of the school. For example, in order to build the East Gate of the school and the Zhongshan Designer Village in Houshan, the villagers in Geheng Village moved their ancestral graves without saying anything, which made the teachers and students of the school particularly moved.

Second, school is for work, and class is for work.

Shaxi technical school, a boat of vocational education, can always sail and break the waves in the downstream and countercurrent. This is because we always believe that vocational education is promising and secondary vocational students are promising, which is also proved to the outside world by facts. Our school has carried out comprehensive, in-depth and high-end Industry-University-Research cooperation with more than ten universities such as China Textile Institute, Zhongshan Science and Technology Bureau and Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, and more than 0/00 enterprises, so that students can "go to school and go to work" and become masters of learning knowledge at school and creating wealth in enterprises.

1. Professional construction is fully integrated into the industrial chain.

The process of specialty construction in our school is a vivid embodiment of vocational education reform facing the market, enterprises and industrial innovation. Based on the diversified "overpass" school-running mode in the early years, the school combined with the needs of industrial upgrading in the Pearl River Delta region, served local economic and social development, and closely followed the demand for talents, and established three key construction majors in Guangdong Province: fashion design and technology, automobile operation and maintenance, and accounting. With the further improvement of the clothing industry chain in Shaxi, Zhongshan, the school has integrated the display, testing and marketing links of the clothing industry chain, and added models and textile quality testing majors. Among them, the textile inspection specialty established in 20 10 is the only textile quality inspection specialty in Guangdong province and even the whole country.

On May 20 10, the Shanghai World Expo opened, and the temperature-changing and color-difference fabrics and garments jointly developed by Zhongshan Shaxi Technical School and enterprises were franchised in the World Expo and favored by consumers. At this point, the school clothing major has completed the whole process of participating in the clothing industry chain and realized the complete integration of professional construction into the industry chain.

2, internship students paid service enterprises

Our school adapts to the needs of professional posts, strengthens practical teaching, and strives to promote the close connection between knowledge transfer and production practice. Taking the major of fashion modeling as an example, the training is directly realized through service enterprises: in the 2009-2065 438+00 school year, the school provided services such as seasonal product ordering fashion show, evening dress show and model photography for nine clothing companies including Hu, San Fan and Wuzhou. Students majoring in fashion design insist on serving enterprises, developing and designing products and holding works release conferences every semester. Enterprises directly buy students' design schemes, and then directly convert them into enterprise products for production and sales.

With the help of enterprise management experience and cultural resources, the school has also set up training courses in famous enterprises, such as Hu Xia Shijia Store Manager Class, Toyota Elite Class, Shi Ying Student Training Line, etc., which has broadened the school's management ideas and school resources. Among them, the sales price of evening dresses produced by the school in the training line of Shi Ying Company is as high as $65,438+3,000, and the students are formally employed during the internship, with a monthly salary of more than 2,000 yuan, which greatly reduces the educational burden of parents and enhances the employment confidence of students.

3. Industry-University-Research combination is more direct and efficient.

In addition to representing Guangdong Province in the national skills competition every year, our school also took the initiative to go out and successfully planned and organized five provincial-level clothing skills competitions, and hosted many national professional competitions and industry summit forums.

20 10165438+10/2 with the theme of "fashionable China, environmentally friendly future", 2010 "Tianzhu Cup" casual dress design competition, Tianzhu Industry Alliance Link Meeting, China Shaxi Industry-University-Research Summit. This competition is sponsored by China Tianzhu Industry Alliance, which has more than 40 domestic core enterprises and a famous domestic environmental protection fiber brand "Tianzhu", and provides design materials. China Tianzhu Industry Alliance promises that the alliance enterprises will give priority to the outstanding prospective designers who enter the final of the competition. According to the insider, the design fabric is provided by the enterprise, the works are made by the teachers and students of the school, and experts from professional institutions give advice. Award-winning design works were subscribed by enterprises on the spot, put into production and sold quickly, realizing economic benefits. This kind of Industry-University-Research cooperation is more direct and efficient.

The combination of Industry-University-Research is the development direction of vocational education, but the combination of Industry-University-Research pursued by our school is not single, superficial and low-level, but a "comprehensive, deep and high-end" combination of Industry-University-Research. The school has comprehensively promoted the integration of Industry-University-Research from the aspects of school-running mechanism, training mode, teaching methods and evaluation system, so that Industry-University-Research is no longer separated in appearance, but closely related in interests and deeply blended in culture. The school also attaches great importance to forming alliances with high-level industries and research institutions to achieve high-quality teaching. For example, a new investment of 9 million yuan will be made to build the National Textile Testing Center and apply for the State Key Laboratory. The textile and garment product inspection report issued by the school is valid nationwide, which will lead the professional construction of our school to be fully integrated into the quality inspection of the industrial chain, realize the function of cultivating professional talents and serving the society, and promote the high-end development of Zhongshan garment industry industrial chain.

Third, there are channels for further study and employment options.

A senior scholar in education commented on our school like this: if it is difficult, our school can do it; Rare things, the school gets. This evaluation is particularly popular in Zhongshan Shaxi Technical School. From "you can enter science and engineering without hard work" to "you can enter science and engineering with hard work" and now "you can succeed if you enter science and engineering". Along the way, all the blandness and brilliance are condensed with the phoenix-like nirvana of school teachers and students. No matter how the current situation changes and how fierce the competition is, Shaxi Institute of Technology has always been soberly aware that "if you don't advance, you will fall back", and with the courage and mind of "don't ask me what you can give me, just ask me what I can do"-win financial support with confidence, win gold and silver in the national skills competition with strength, promote the self-developed "temperature-changing T-shirt" in the World Expo with sincerity, and show the Dragon, the Lion and the Crane on the World Expo stage with confidence.

"The rise of technology is my responsibility." Every teacher, from the school administrative team down to all departments, has rooted his youth and ideals in the development of the school, and worked hard day and night. Many faculty members take the school as their home, take pride in their careers, take pleasure in their work and take learning as their life. "School xing, I am proud; School failure, I am humiliated ",has been internalized into the bones of school teachers and students;" "Hello, I am good, the school is good, the school is good" has become the collective pursuit of teachers and students in the school. Self-confident and positive culture brings together famous teachers in our school, which not only produces many excellent instructors in the national skills competition, outstanding educators in South Guangdong and many outstanding teachers in South Guangdong, but now there are four famous teachers in the field of vocational education in Zhongshan, three of whom are from Shaxi Technical School in Zhongshan.

In terms of teaching evaluation, Zhongshan Shaxi Vocational and Technical School implements a "pluralistic system". The school has set up a professional construction steering committee with the participation of school leaders, business people and senior education experts. Regularly exchange information between schools and enterprises, formulate personnel training objectives and professional construction plans according to the needs of enterprises, evaluate teaching behavior and discuss teaching reform.

In the evaluation of students, Zhongshan Shaxi Vocational and Technical School implements the "credit system", which effectively embodies the characteristics of flexible and personalized learning, greatly mobilizes the initiative and enthusiasm of students, and solves the problem of "weariness" that has been plaguing secondary vocational education. In the process of implementing the credit system, the evaluation mechanism of students' innovative ability is set up, the corresponding credits are increased, and more students are encouraged to actively participate in school community activities and participate in various innovative activities and social practice. At the same time, we have made great efforts to build campus culture, and established nearly 20 campus organizations such as the Dragon and Lion Team and the Wind Orchestra, which have set up a stage for students to develop their personalities and talents, vigorously advocated the construction of a safe campus, a harmonious campus and a green campus, and created an all-round educational growth environment for students. In order to constantly stimulate cultural creativity, the school has built a new art museum, where students' works and national masterpieces shine in the same room. "If you don't know the history of the school, you won't know the present and future of the school." The school history room with rich cultural atmosphere has been renovated for this purpose, and efforts have been made to build Zhongshan Designer Village where famous teachers gather, so that students can feel the cultural atmosphere everywhere.

Multi-culture makes versatile people. Our school has made outstanding achievements in professional skills research and higher vocational college entrance examination. Great achievements have been made in the subject skill competition: from 2007 to 20 10, in the national vocational college skill competition for four consecutive years, students majoring in clothing in our school participated on behalf of Guangdong Province, and won 7 first prizes, 9 second prizes and 3 third prizes 1 1 in the competition, ranking first in the country. On 20 10, Shaxi Institute of Technology participated in the competition on behalf of Guangdong Province and won the national special prize (there were only five contestants in the competition). In terms of professional skills research, the school has been far ahead in the province for more than ten years. In the national computer grade examination, national English grade research, provincial computer high-tech research, accounting qualification research and other professional skills research, the evidence collection rate ranks first in the city and ranks among the best in the province. The evidence collection rate of most professional skills research reached 100%, and the "3+ professional skills course certificate" college entrance examination was continuous 100.

Up to now, the school has trained more than 30,000 comprehensive professional, cooperative and independent middle and senior skilled talents and management talents, and has become a "hot commodity" in the job market. The annual employment rate of graduates is 100%, each graduate has 2-3 jobs to choose from, and 40% of students can go to university for further study. Among them are outstanding talents such as national model worker and torchbearer Liu of Beijing Olympic Games, well-known fashion designers such as Lin Yongjian, rising stars such as Li and others who started their own businesses, rural grass-roots management cadres such as Yu, and a large number of technical backbones and management personnel in the production line of enterprises, which have become an important supporting force for local economic construction and social development. They are vivid cultural symbols of the school and have injected fresh strength into the local economic and cultural construction.

Peaches and plums say nothing, but they go their own way. In 2008 and 2009, a central news delegation composed of People's Daily, China Education Television and other news media came to our school to report and publicize our high-quality culture as a model for the development of a harmonious society. In 20 10, our school was listed as the national model school for the reform and development of secondary vocational education, as the first of three secondary vocational colleges in Guangdong province10, and its characteristic culture was paid great attention to and studied on the national stage.

Long winds and waves, Yun Fan hangs straight. Self-confidence and self-improvement, never stop. With the vision and mind of great education, the height and breadth of harmonious development, our school will constantly absorb the high-quality elements of the Chinese nation and even the world culture, learn from others' strengths, nourish professionals in the new era, and embark on a road of school culture construction with the characteristics of Shaxi Vocational and Technical College.