Teaching Construction of Changzhou No.2 Experimental Primary School

1. Building a beautiful campus on the grassland

The time goes back to August 1987. When four young people who had just left the normal school filled their bags with pride and rushed to report for duty at the Second Normal School, they were stunned: a lonely and unfinished teaching building stood out in a large grassland and reed pond in the suburbs. There is no school gate, no playground, no desks and chairs, no books and textbooks, and even no headmaster. Within a mile of Fiona Fang, there is no decent road. The hardest part is actually in the beginning Without money, Qian Lianzhi, the old general manager, borrowed eight checks from Changzhou Normal University to buy desks, benches and books. Unable to afford cars and porters, they found two tractors. Without saying anything, four young people jumped on the tractor and acted as porters. After they pulled school supplies to school from far away, they burned the midnight oil and unloaded bundles of books and desks. In August of the solar calendar, the summer heat is pressing, and they are sweating like rain, hungry and thirsty, but no one is tired. The teaching building has not been officially put into use, and they borrowed an office from a nearby real estate development company for enrollment. Residents nearby are unwilling to send their children to Ershi Primary School, so Changzhou Education Bureau has to intervene administratively and divide the area east of the North Ring Road into Ershi Primary School.

On September 1th, 1987, there were no flowers, flags and festive drum music. The first batch of six teachers from Ershi Primary School, led by the temporary acting principal Wang Yuansheng, hurriedly welcomed the first batch of 88 students from 2 nearby primary schools, which was regarded as the beginning of school.

some people may not believe it, but after the school was founded, the first battle that Ershi people fought was weeding, declaring war on weeds that were taller than one person on campus, and making the school really look like a school. They mobilized all the teachers and students (about 1 people) to shovel, pull by hand, dig with a spade, cut with a sickle, and burn for ten days, and finally opened up a place. They brought gravel and sand from the outside to spread on it, and the school had a small playground. After a month's hard work, I finally got rid of all the weeds in the campus. The next spring, weeds grew like crazy again. They invited tractors to dig the ground deeply first, then mobilized teachers and students to pick out the grass roots, and finally exposed the land to the sun, doing the same thing for three years in a row, and the weeds in the campus were basically removed.

the next step is greening. When there was no money to buy flower seedlings, they mobilized all the teachers and students to offer suggestions and raise seedlings through multiple channels. Someone went to the nearby nursery to pick up the flowers and trees that had fallen from the nursery and plant them in the campus. Some people saw that there were extra seedlings in the community, so they talked with others and got their consent to dig some back. They also mobilized all the teachers and students to bring a peony and a rose. Finally, I dressed up the campus like a little bit. No wonder Shao Lanfang, the principal of Ershi Primary School, said that every tree and flower in Ershi Primary School was soaked with the hard work of Ershi Primary School! Today, when we wander around the campus with shady trees and flowers in full bloom all the year round, we seem to see the scene of a young man in Ershi who started a business as hard as a swallow with mud in his mouth.

that was in 1992. The school decided to rebuild the walls of the teaching building because the paint was peeling off. I asked someone to calculate that the whole project needs at least 1, yuan. 1, yuan is an astronomical figure for a primary school with only a few thousand yuan on its books at that time. Where can I get the money? President Shao said to all the teachers, "The money is on me. I will change 1, yuan even if I change. " Shao Lanfang, who rarely asks for help for her own business and has a strong self-esteem, is not afraid of hitting a nail, not afraid of looking at a cold face, and is determined to get money even if she wears her mouth and runs her leg, looking for sponsors everywhere. She ran from house to house, talking over and over again about the difficulties of running a school, the determination of running a first-class school despite all difficulties, and the excitement, which was moving. The money is finally settled. After the money was in place, they immediately asked someone to order tiles in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi. The money and materials are in place, but the engineering team is unwilling to do it. Because of the quality and quantity of ceramic tiles, it is necessary to shovel all the paint, cement and lime on the original wall. Heavy workload, too time-consuming and laborious. What should we do? The school held a general meeting of all teachers to discuss solutions. All the teachers in the school are unanimous: if others don't do it, we will do it ourselves. It's better to ask for help than to ask for help! As a result, young teachers formed a commando team overnight and worked in pieces. Everyone has a hammer and a chisel. After school at four o'clock in the afternoon, they started shoveling and chiseling for five days and five nights. Hundreds of shovels and chisels, and the whole face is covered with white ash. There were blood bubbles on my hands, and no one said a word of rest. During recess and noon, the whole school can't find a free person. President Shao, who had a meeting outside for three days, returned to school and found that all the walls had been shoveled clean. He was so excited that his heart trembled and tears fell. Five days later, the head of the engineering team ran to the school and was shocked! He didn't believe that such a labor-intensive job was actually done by a group of delicate and tender scholars. At that time, 9% of young female teachers were allergic to skin, and their hands, faces and bodies were covered with erythema, which was extremely itchy and disappeared after more than a month.

Later, the school built a third teaching building, a plastic runway, a multimedia classroom, a student-oriented reading room, a library and a multi-functional classroom.

after p>15 years of hard work, under the leadership of several principals, Ershi Junior has been in a state where he has no conditions to create conditions, and he has to pay much more than others for every step forward. Shao Lanfang has said many times that running a small school in Ershi is a little bit of spirit, and this spirit is called "Four Thousand Spirits"-leaving no stone unturned, saying a thousand words, going through all kinds of hardships and tempering. This "four thousand spirit" condenses the experience of running a school with two real people and reveals the secret of their success!

Second, pursue the ideal state of classroom teaching-let students actively learn

Anyone who has a little common sense in running a school knows that the hardware construction of a school can catch up with the time, but the improvement of the quality of education and teaching can't happen overnight, and there must be a process. Second, to improve the quality of education and teaching, first of all, we should focus on classroom teaching, and then we should focus on changing teachers' ideas.

One day in October p>1997, Shao Lanfang read an article entitled "Let the classroom glow with vitality" by Professor Ye Lan of East China Normal University in Educational Research. This article raises the relationship between "teaching" and "learning" to the level of reflecting the quality of life of teachers and students and releasing the value of life, which is very refreshing and enlightening. She recommended it to the middle-level and above cadres in the school for reading, and then organized the whole school teachers to study and discuss it. The teachers in the whole school were greatly inspired and shocked, and they urgently felt that they should update their views on students, classroom teaching and teaching materials, reform the traditional classroom teaching mode, and establish the consciousness of taking students to teaching materials. This article has played a revolutionary role in the classroom teaching reform of No.2 elementary school. The concepts of "student-oriented", "taking students to teaching materials" and "taking students as the main body" quickly took root in people's hearts, and the classroom teaching reform appeared an unprecedented active situation.

what is active learning? How can we make students learn actively? You can find the answer when you walk into the second real class.

Two real people have deeply reflected on the past classroom teaching. In their view, in the past, students learned passively because teachers did not fully realize that learning was a subjective, dynamic and irreplaceable cognitive activity, and they arranged too many substitutes, focusing only on the results of learning and not on the process of learning. Even if you ask questions, it is like fishing. If you catch the answer, you will achieve the ultimate goal of teaching, leaving no time for students to think and feel. After finding the crux of the problem, the teachers boldly tried it in their own classroom. Teacher Bailu's "Precious Textbook" was the first to taste the sweetness of reform, and there was a lively scene in the class that had never been seen before. When Ma Yanfen, a young teacher, taught Zhao Zhouqiao, she tried to make students understand and tell the beauty of Zhao Zhouqiao by reading the pictures repeatedly. When reading the text for the third time, a little boy suddenly stood up and said, "Teacher, Zhao Zhouqiao is so beautiful, I really want to paint its beauty!" The teacher met his requirements. Similarly, the fable "Miao Miao Fu Yang", taught by Mr. Ma, allows students to reveal the meaning of the text by performing a textbook drama.

It is a common teaching method to teach students, test candidates and evaluate students. In order to understand students' learning situation, test teachers' teaching effect and consolidate their knowledge, teachers designed the teaching link "I want to remind everyone, let me test you". Ask the students to take out the knowledge points that they think are more important or difficult to master after learning new knowledge, so as to remind everyone. Finally, students are free to ask questions and answer them by name. Those who answer correctly can continue to test others. In this way, students feel fresh and enthusiastic about learning. In order to test others without being defeated by others, they are highly focused in the whole class, their thinking is active from beginning to end, and they have learned to listen, express and evaluate. In addition This breakthrough in key and difficult points based on students' reality is more targeted.

"Your answer is wonderful!" Affirmation and encouragement are the magic weapons to arouse students' active learning. If we want to talk about the characteristics of the second elementary class, it is that teachers are always full of expectations, understanding and encouragement for students. They say that all other links in a class can be saved, but this link can't be saved. Teachers' encouragement is the motivator and catalyst for students' enthusiasm for learning. Pupils are very concerned about teachers' evaluation. Once encouraged by teachers, they dare to think, speak and ask.

Third, the theme homework-a bridge between the "book world" and the "life world"

Some people say that today's children grow up doing various workbooks. However, in the teacher's office of Ershi Primary School, the reporter was attracted by such varied and ingenious assignments. Chinese homework includes: drawing, making, observing diary, collecting, performing and other forms; Math homework includes: operation homework, observation homework, visit homework, etc., all of which are of interest to children. For example, after learning the article Waterfalls, students are required to collect pictures and poems of famous waterfalls at home and abroad, as well as information about the name, geographical location, width and height of waterfalls, make a Waterfalls Collection and hold a Waterfalls Exhibition in the class. As soon as the homework was assigned, the students got busy. As a result, the "Waterfall Exhibition", which was all done by students independently, was a great success! Second, real people call this kind of homework "theme homework" and think it is a bridge for students to communicate the book world and the life world. In the past, the teachers in the second elementary school mostly focused on a 4-minute class, ignoring the link of homework. Assigning homework was just a few simple sentences, that is, asking students to complete several exercises. As a result, most students only did homework for homework and became "operators" to solve problems, which caused the homework to be light, the written work to be light, the knowledge to be light, and the students' interest in learning to be damaged. In order to reduce students' heavy homework burden, make students willing to do homework, like to do homework, and believe that they can do their homework well, they transform those traditional homework to make it a theme homework with a certain theme and situational content. When a teacher corrects a topic assignment, the evaluation method is also different from that of approving a general assignment. Instead of using scores and grades, we use descriptive language to evaluate, encourage, reward and remind. For example, some students' homework is particularly close to life, and the teacher's comment is "You really have a heart for learning and living!"

Fourth, the "Mathematics Hospital"-cultivate the good habit of students' lifelong use

On the desk of the teachers in No.2 Primary School, the reporter also saw such an unusual student exercise book. Some of them are named "Mathematical Hospital", some are named "Little Mirror", and some are named "Mathematical Medical Record Card", "The Story of Sloppy Country" and so on. The teacher told the reporter that this kind of introspective homework full of childlike interest is the product of the school's reform of homework marking methods, improving students' learning strategy level and making students learn more clearly and actively. Teachers only tick "√" on the topics with correct process and results, and mark out those topics with "-"if the errors are "overall"; If the error is local, use "?" Express. The purpose of making such marks is to let students find the reasons for their mistakes and reflect on them accordingly. The contents of introspection are "where did you go wrong", "why did you go wrong" and "can you solve it correctly now". When the students finish the introspection, the teacher asks the students to rewrite the correct problem-solving process or results in another revised book, and the names of the book are chosen by the students themselves, which gives rise to the above names. In the process of correcting, teachers also write various comments from person to person. In order to consolidate the effect of daily reflection and further strengthen success, teachers also guide students to write a "reflection diary" every week. Zhou Ji asked parents to read and sign. Parents are very appreciative of this move. They think that weekly summary is not only to correct some mistakes in solving problems, but more importantly, to make students clearly know what they are doing, how they are doing, where their goals are, and to form feedback habits and self-reflection abilities. Once this habit is formed, it will be useful for life.

In order to form a reflective atmosphere in the class, they also changed the math class every Friday to "learning reflective class". In the first 2 minutes of the class, let the students talk about the successful experience and introspection, and in the second 2 minutes, do consolidation exercises according to the students' introspection. If anyone has no mistakes in a week, he will be rated as a "math star". In addition, there is also a "learning progress award" and so on. The function of reflection class is "correcting mistakes", "strengthening success" and "promoting students to learn from each other, inspiring each other and learning to learn strategically. Later, this practice has been transferred to other disciplines.