Dynamic model society makes students dream come true
Whether it is contradictory to stay at home and improve performance, Shenyang Railway No. 5 Elementary School gave a nearly perfect answer with 34 years of practice.
When many parents were running around in extracurricular remedial classes and were anxious to work with their children, the three-term headmaster of this elementary school insisted on keeping the written homework for 34 years and carried out a happy education reform experiment. Students would be able to participate in the study with interest and be happy. Under the education concept, we will reduce the burden of quality.
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"Only teachers who do not understand can't learn and children who don't learn can't learn. There are so many points of knowledge, and you don't need to leave homework to practice repeatedly," said the old principal Zhang Xiujin.
The five small railways did not leave written homework from 1984. At that time, the student’s burden was heavy. When he was the headmaster Zhang Xiujin’s decision to implement the burden reduction throughout the school, he first started a pilot class. The method is simple: to be effective in the classroom, increase teacher-student interaction, and motivate students. In half a year, the results of pilot classes were significantly higher than those of other classes. Since then, the whole school has not left homework in grades 1 to 6.
“Efficient class” is a high-frequency word mentioned by the teachers in the interview. “Timing the sea tactics is a misunderstanding. Teachers should concentrate the most essential knowledge into the classroom, so that students can achieve the effect of inference.” Yu Ying, the current principal, said that teachers should ensure that every lesson, every day, every stage The knowledge of learning can be fully absorbed in the classroom. This is called the "three clear" system.
In order to achieve the "three clearings," the five small railways, teachers spend a lot of energy on preparation for classes and teaching exchanges to ensure the high quality of teaching. After the fifth grade teacher Yu Yu came to the railway five years later, all the school leaders took classes, made suggestions for her and guided the improvement of classroom teaching. In 2017, “Good Classroom Teaching Evaluation in Heping District”, she won the senior Chinese language discipline championship.
In order to improve students’ ability to study effectively, the school opens a 15-minute mini training course every afternoon. From low-level writing and time-limited memory, to high-level mind maps, the exchange of micro-curriculum settings enables students to improve their memory, listening, and generalization skills, greatly improving students’ thinking quality.
In the past 34 years, the railway five minor calendars have served as principals for three terms, and the tradition of not keeping written homework has been preserved. For the current president Yu Ying, insisting on the pressure to stay homework has only increased over the years: Although the cancellation of the beginning of the small upgrade, but the pressure of higher school advance, parents expect more of the children, the difficulty of all types of examinations is also increasing Is it possible to use this trick without leaving home?
“As long as the educational philosophy is correct and we are determined to persist, classroom teaching of 'independent and efficient' can be achieved without the need for homework.” From the time he took part in the work, Yu Ying explored the “students for the future” in the five years of railways and 26 years of teaching. Education advocates, taking the cultivation of students' core qualities and providing appropriate education for children as the core concept, formulates the school’s education strategy and action plan.
Today, there are 67 classes in the five primary and three campuses of the railway. More than 3,100 students still insist on not leaving any written homework.
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What does the student do after school?
After class, no written assignments are left. What do the students do when they return home? Does the school completely ignore it?
After school, Shi Zhize, a student in the 5th and 2nd graders of the railway school, did not go home directly, but once again devoted himself to his favorite hockey training ground. He has practiced ice hockey for almost a year and has had a wonderful performance in the Liaoning Province Ice Hockey League. After two hours of training, when he returned home, he first turned on the TV. Instead of watching cartoons, he watched the whole news. Before going to sleep, he looked at the extracurricular book “Magic School Bus” recommended by the head teacher.
There are no uniform written assignments on the five railways, but each child will arrange life after school according to his interest and specialty: reading novels, doing arts and crafts, practicing calligraphy, and dancing...
According to reports, in order to enrich students' extracurricular activities, the Railway Five Primary Schools recommend the "Word Book" and "No Word Book". “Wordbooks” are traditional books. They regularly recommend books, set up a one-hour reading class a week, once a month to study and exchange, and a reading festival every semester to cultivate students’ ability and quality of lifelong reading. “No Word Book” is news, which guides students to read daily newspapers, listen to radio, and pay attention to online news. It also conducts students’ “broadcasting”, “reviewing” and “defending” news during the morning reading.
The school has established 20 compulsory courses such as intelligent robots, Orff music, and digital arts, and established more than 60 electives such as science and technology, arts, fitness, reading clubs, and English clubs to help children locate themselves and find their own special interests. At the same time, it further enriches students' life at school and after classes so that they will not be overwhelmed by the "Shushan Sea".
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Happy education allows students to enjoy endless
Parents of the 5th and 4th grade parents, “Daily Dad,” wrote to all first-year freshmen in 2016, saying: “The school’s characteristics in education are to leave homework, read books, broadcast news, use these features, and children’s knowledge. Face and learning efficiency will become unusual."
The fourth-grade student Li Jiaxi originally had an ordinary academic record, and sometimes she experienced classroom performance, lack of concentration, and low learning efficiency. A year after joining the school makerspace community, he became a core member of the study group and a science and technology star. His innovative work, led by the team members, "Passport One-Stop Mobile Phone Companion" has been shortlisted for the Shenyang Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition in 2018.
The school's 2013 graduate Wang Hongliang is now studying at Liaoning Experimental Middle School. In the 2016 mid-term exam, he was ranked third in the city with 744 points (out of 760 points). He benefited from five small learning experiences on the railway.
“Study in high school is very stressful and hard work. Whenever I encounter difficulties, I always remember the experience of elementary school. The large number of books I read at that time is still fresh in my memory. I watch the news broadcast every morning and let me pay attention to it. The habit of current affairs and politics is very helpful for the study of politics and other subjects.” Wang Hongliang said, “I am most impressed by the robot community, which has cultivated my hands-on, innovative, spatial thinking and other capabilities. It is not always necessary to answer questions of solid geometry. Drawing, in the mind, the shape of Lego built in the elementary school can be reflected... The education of Iron Five contains too many things that are useful for growth. When it is in junior high school or high school, it is slowly revealed and I can't enjoy it.”
Along the way, the doubts and doubts have never disappeared, but the railway has not changed its mind since the beginning of the 5th Five-Year-Pary. It has persisted in exploring new initiatives for education and education, and has continuously introduced new courses such as micro-courses, science and innovation courses, and practical courses for research. Beautiful transcripts: The quality monitoring of student disciplines is ranked in the forefront of the region, and the scores of Chinese and English subjects ranked 3rd and 4th among the 55 elementary schools in the experimental area of the city. In the past 5 years, they were awarded provincial or higher technology, art, and There are hundreds of honors such as sports.
Principal Yu Ying stated: "As a basic education person, we will continue to inherit and carry forward the ideological essence of happy education to reduce the burden and improve quality, and actively explore new areas under the conditions of information technology change, starting with students' learning and study habits, and focusing on the future of students. The unlimited possibilities to enhance the quality of life in childhood." (Reporter Wang Ying)