Curriculum development in Nanjing Dachang Senior High School

Under the guidance of the municipal and district teaching departments and under the correct leadership of the school leaders, the teaching department of Dachang Senior High School conscientiously implements the relevant spirit of the new curriculum reform and is guided by the important ideas of the new curriculum reform , insisting that educational scientific research serve educational administrative decision-making, serve school education and teaching reform, serve the prosperity of educational science, and strive to explore the laws of education and teaching, and explore the laws of student growth. According to the overall goal of school development, straighten out the ideas of school education and scientific research, give full play to the role of education and scientific research in promoting educational reform and development, close the relationship between educational scientific research, educational ideas and educational practice, and carry out school-based research based on the current status of the new curriculum reform. Training has standardized, institutionalized and scientificized educational and scientific research work, and has made useful attempts in teacher training, project research, teacher professional development, improving classroom efficiency, and cultivating students' ideological quality and learning ability.

1. School-based training is diversified and pays attention to the effectiveness of teaching and scientific research

For the continuing education of teachers, the teaching department of Dachang Senior High School follows the requirements of the superiors to combine directives and selectivity. Adopt a combination of urban centralized training and school-based training. In line with the principle of school-based training of "goal guidance, practice first, on-the-job practice, and assessment and calibration", the training methods mainly adopt various training forms such as expert lectures, famous teacher forums, and teachers' independent learning and self-reflection. Adopt various forms such as special training, theme seminars, teaching and research activities, collective lesson preparation, teacher forums, master-disciple pairing, teaching observation, project research, teaching consultation, etc. to achieve practical results.

1. Organize subject teachers to participate in centralized training

According to the spirit of the guiding opinions of the Nanjing Primary and Secondary School Teachers Continuing Education and Training Center on the implementation of continuing education themed training for high school teachers, Dachang Senior The middle school has carried out subject-theme training in a down-to-earth manner, carefully organized teachers to participate in the continuing education and training for high school teachers organized by Xiaozhuang College, and actively participated in various teaching and research activities organized by the municipal and district teaching and research offices. In the past two years, Directors Liu Yonghe and Chen Jingbo of the Municipal Educational Science Institute, teaching researchers from the Municipal Teaching and Research Office, and professors from Nanjing Normal University have been invited to give lectures at the school many times to teach teachers new theories and new knowledge on curriculum reform. In particular, Chen Jingbo, director of the Municipal Institute of Education and Science, was invited to the school to give a report on "Practical Reflection Research--An Important Approach to Teacher Education and Scientific Research", which aroused the enthusiasm of all teachers and achieved good results.

2. Effectively carry out school-based training

We have established an effective teacher training and training mechanism with powerful measures. Based on the actual situation of teachers in the school, the school-based training plan and young teacher training plan have been formulated and implemented. Based on the training of all staff, focusing on the training of young teachers, and taking the training of key teachers as a breakthrough, we actively carry out school-based teaching and research training. Taking the personal development needs of teachers, school development needs and new curriculum reform needs as the starting point, we combine strengthening teachers' moral cultivation, updating business knowledge and improving business capabilities, focusing on strengthening teachers' case study capabilities, teaching design capabilities, and scientific application of teaching evaluation. abilities, teacher-student communication skills, problem reflection and educational and scientific research capabilities, and continuing learning ability training.

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Expand the scope of school-based training on the existing basis, diversify the form while focusing on effectiveness, and combine the research content of provincial and municipal topics. An education and teaching forum is arranged on Wednesday afternoons every two weeks. The first is to invite experts to give special lectures in our school, the second is to invite some head teachers with outstanding achievements to introduce their experience and understanding in the direction of "aesthetic education", and the third is to invite key teachers to demonstrate the results of research on optimization strategies of "teaching links". This semester we hired a doctoral supervisor professor from Nanjing Normal University to come to our school to give a psychology lecture titled "The Art of Communication between Teachers and Students", which pointed out the direction for our mental health education research topic, and all teachers benefited a lot. Teachers Wang Fei, Cai Yonggang, Su Xiang, Yu Jianguo, Liu Miezi, Zhang Xin, Jin Hongsong, Zhang Yansong, Lin Youhong and other teachers from Dachang Senior High School also gave very meaningful lectures, which aroused every teacher's shouts of *** , received very good results. The teaching department promptly issues certificates to each teacher who gives lectures, takes information photos, and uses the display window to display results, providing a platform for teachers with ability, performance, and innovative spirit to stand out, and providing each teacher with an effective learning , a territory for improving skills. To achieve the purpose of sharing resources, promoting results, improving teachers’ quality and improving teaching level.

In addition to the above school-level lectures, this semester requires each school-level famous teacher to give a teaching lecture during collective lesson preparation activities, or organize teachers from the teaching and research group and lesson preparation group to discuss the design of a certain teaching link, the interpretation of a certain knowledge point, and a certain The preparation of a chapter, the solution to a certain exercise, the compilation of a certain test question, the innovation of a certain experiment or the production of a certain courseware are explored, an implementation plan is formed, and implemented in classroom teaching. There are many key teachers this semester. Submit the results or lecture manuscripts to the teaching department for record, and we will award teaching achievement awards based on the quality.

3. Actively carry out self-study training

Dachang Senior High School subscribes to an educational magazine for each teacher and requires each teacher to study an educational monograph every school year. and write a paper. The self-edited "Teaching and Research Newsletter" provides new curriculum training and guidance materials for teachers to conduct in-depth self-study, and also provides a platform for teachers to communicate.

4． Carry out school-based training and assessment work seriously

In accordance with the spirit of the Nanjing Municipal Education Bureau in carrying out school-based training in primary and secondary schools, Dachang Senior High School seriously carries out the assessment and assessment of teacher training work, so as to promote training through evaluation. During the assessment, teachers must promptly submit written materials such as study notes, lecture records, lesson examples or cases, courseware production, learning experiences, experience summaries, research papers, etc. to the school as the basis for school-based training inspection and assessment. This school year, Dachang Senior High School’s school-based training lasts more than 40 hours, with special learning and theme seminars accounting for about 60% of the hours; academic exchanges, teaching observation, case studies, teaching competitions or collaborative teaching accounting for about 40% of the hours.

2. Normalizing project research to improve the effectiveness of teaching and scientific research

In the past three years, Dachang Senior High School has overcome various problems under the conditions of school name change, changes in project team members, and loss of materials. In spite of these difficulties, we completed the research work on the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" provincial project "Research on Improving the Effectiveness of Classroom Teaching". The research on the project received unanimous praise from the municipal project acceptance group. On October 22, 2005, expert leaders such as Director Liu and Director Hong of the Municipal Audio-visual Education Center and Director Chen Jingbo of the Municipal Teaching and Research Office came to our school to conduct on-site examinations. Their evaluations were: innovative spirit, unique insights, and good Research prospects. Their conclusions after acceptance are: 1. Leaders pay attention to the topic and go deep into the subject, with both macro grasp and micro guidance. 2. Grasp the hot spots and care about the integration of information technology and teaching quality. 3. Unified understanding, clear division of labor, meticulous steps, appropriate methods, complete evaluation, and standardized processes. 4. Engage in a project, lead a team, constantly reflect and adjust, effectively use action research methods, and develop in a higher direction. 5. Form preliminary research results and make the idea of ??sharing become the mainstream of understanding. Agree to close the issue.

The provincial-level project "Research on Improving Classroom Effectiveness" was successfully concluded, which enhanced our confidence and accumulated valuable experience for our research on the "11th Five-Year Plan" project. It also exposed our There are deficiencies and shortcomings in the establishment and application of project research, specific steps of research, mid-term management, and the collection of final materials. To this end, we have researched and developed a series of management measures and systems for subject research. The purpose is to achieve: standardization of project application, popularization of project research, orderly research steps, and scientific process management.

At present, our teaching department is actively carrying out research work on the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" provincial project "Research on Countermeasure Evaluation and Intervention Strategies for Mental Health Education of High School Students in the Internet Environment" and regularly hires experts Conduct relevant lectures on mental health education research, set up a psychological consultation room composed of teachers who have received mental health education training, organize relevant activities, mobilize teachers to write cases and papers on mental health education during holidays, and conduct regular interviews with members of the research team Meetings, accumulation of research literature, and timely diagnosis and treatment of existing problems in the research process. Complete the mid-term work report and upload process materials online.

Continue to do a good job in the research work of the city's "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" project "Research on Optimization Strategies of High School Classroom Teaching Links under New Curriculum Conditions", and actively organize various teaching and research groups to do a good job in research on sub-topics. Teaching and scientific research work must pay attention to practical results and must be innovative and distinctive. Dachang Senior High School combines the actual situation of the new curriculum reform and Dachang Senior High School in formulating the direction of teaching and scientific research work, establishing teaching concepts, discussing teaching methods, details of teaching work, and evaluating teaching effects. The school environment has given rise to new teaching ideas and some unique teaching methods. The focus of work has always been on the combination of new teaching concepts and traditional teaching concepts; on the integration of modern teaching and traditional teaching.

This can be seen from the topic selection of each sub-topic group:

Chinese group: Research on optimization and guidance of Chinese learning strategies

Mathematics group: Research on teaching methods of high school mathematics case studies

English group: Research on applying multimedia technology to improve English classroom efficiency

History group: Research on constructing teacher-student interactive teaching model in history teaching

Biology group : Research on cultivating students’ self-learning ability in biology teaching

Chemistry group: Research on the best combination of inquiry-based teaching and impartial teaching

Physics group: Cultivating the spirit of hard study and reducing students’ burden Research