Others in Urumqi No.50 Middle School

In the autumn of 2000, in order to cooperate with the housing project of Urumqi Municipal People's Government and solve the problem of new students going to school around Shuimogou District, Shuimogou District established Urumqi No.50 Middle School. Now, after just six years of development, the school has developed from 10 class at the time of its establishment to a school with 48 classes, covering the whole stage of nine-year compulsory education. The expansion of students and teaching scale shows the continuous enrichment of the teaching strength of the school. June 65438+February 65438+June 2006, the reporter interviewed Wang Xiangnan, the headmaster of the 50 th Middle School in Urumqi, Xinjiang, who came to attend the forum. President Wang briefed the reporter on the achievements and experience in the past few years in 50 middle schools. Since 200 1, in the reform of geography classroom teaching, the school has also designed a series of school-based courses to popularize astronomical knowledge, which has enriched students' astronomical knowledge and stimulated their interest in exploring the mysteries of the universe. Every year, the school organizes students to observe the sky, know the main constellations of Xia Dong in two seasons, and observe Jupiter, Saturn, the moon, the sun and other celestial bodies and meteor showers; Organize celestial photography activities. In addition, with the support of the Youth Science and Technology Activity Center of the Autonomous Region, No.50 Middle School, as the first group of members, has always adhered to the "Intel Computer Innovative Thinking Training Program" jointly developed by China Association for Science and Technology and Intel Corporation.

In the conversation with reporters, President Wang's words are unforgettable: "Anyone who has made outstanding achievements in science and education is a person with noble morality and cultivation. Therefore, we should consider the long-term development of schools and students and pay attention to the cultivation of students' complete personality. Therefore, both science education and humanities education should not be neglected. "President Wang believes that students' scientific spirit should be cultivated at the stage of enlightenment education. Speaking of this, President Wang introduced to reporters an activity for students in No.50 Middle School-science fiction painting activity. This is a beneficial exploration made by the school in the course reform of infiltrating science education and innovation ability in the past three years. It tries to stimulate students' scientific imagination and infiltrate them with the idea of loving science by organizing students to create sci-fi paintings. These activities have made gratifying achievements in art classroom teaching, trained a large number of primary and middle school students who love science fiction painting creation, and produced many imaginative science fiction paintings, which made the cultivation of young people's innovative spirit achieve solid results in art teaching. President Wang said that science fiction painting teaching activities can also stimulate students' aesthetic psychology and improve their humanistic quality. To improve students' comprehensive quality, we can't emphasize science over humanities, nor can we emphasize humanities over science. In the future, the plan of No.50 Middle School will focus on science education, and further make some courses with scientific characteristics, especially some comprehensive courses, so that students with different hobbies and specialties can find fun in their studies.