The predicament of arts and sports teachers breaks through
a "shared" teacher experiment spanning nine years
If it wasn’t for teaching, Dai Yunru, an art teacher at Hefei Experimental School, had a hard time getting to know this group of kids in the suburban junction, especially the boy who never rubbed other people’s materials in class without stationery.
In the autumn of 2019, Dai Yunru joined the Baohe District Arts and Sports Teacher Service Center (hereinafter referred to as the "Arts and Sports Center"), and was selected to serve as an instructor at the Xi'an Road School in Hefei City, helping to set up hand-cut paper clubs and guide art courses.
After a few lessons, she found that there was a boy who only wore a T-shirt during the class. It was cold and only added a coat. He always doesn't bring colored paper, scissors, glue, and "walks" around the classroom. From time to time, he borrows someone's scissors to cut a few times, and attaches a few jokes.
Once, Dai Yunru asked the boy: "Isn't the teacher saying it several times, do you want to bring your own stationery and materials? Why did you forget it?" The boy didn't want to answer the question positively and said he couldn't remember. After class, she learned that when men lived with grandma, their family conditions were average, their parents' education was not high, and some children in school were in a similar situation to him.
In the next class, she encouraged the boy: "You never miss a class, it is very commendable. For each class in the future, I will reward you with two colored papers, one for the backing paper and one for the paper cutting!"
Hearing this, the boy did not speak, but suddenly there was "light" in his eyes. Subsequently, under the careful guidance of Dai Yunru, the boy's work achieved a leap from crookedness to semblance, and the sense of discipline in the classroom became stronger and stronger.
In Baohe District Arts and Sports Center, there are many teachers who have the same experience as Dai.
In 2002, with the acceleration of the urbanization process, Baohe District changed from "suburban" to "urban", more and more migrants came to settle in the district, and a large number of children of migrant workers entered the city to study, the urban-rural dual structure is prominent Educational resource allocation brings challenges. In 2011, Baohe District had a resident population of about 810,000 people, 51 primary and secondary schools, about 70,000 students in school, and more than 3,400 teachers, but less than 200 arts and physical education teachers.
The insufficient number of art teachers is also a common problem faced by rural schools and remote and weak schools in cities. In order to break through this bottleneck, in September 2011, Baohe District Education and Sports Bureau explored the establishment of an arts and sports center. 15 famous and key teachers from music, art, sports and other disciplines regularly visited remote, weak schools and rural juvenile palaces. Art and sports courses, set up special interest groups, and use the "shared teacher" path to solve the problem of insufficient teachers.
Rural children are not worse than others, but also have the right and necessity to learn art
Golden Grape Primary School, located in Dawei Town, Baohe District, Hefei City, was formed by the merger of three local villages. In August 2011, when Dou Haishan served as the principal of this school, this school's family is like this: 400 students, 40 teachers, "There is not a full-time English teacher, let alone a teacher of art and beauty. ".
And "the main course teacher also has art and physical education classes, the effect is not very good, and I can't be too busy." In September of this year, the school happened to recruit one art teacher and one music teacher, but it was still "not enough".
Dou Haishan, who came out of the countryside and worked in education in urban and rural schools, especially wanted to create a "paradise for rural children's artistic progress". At that time, with the support of governments at all levels, he decided to set up a village school youth palace. With the venue, equipment, and funds, teachers became a problem. When he was worried, Baohe District established an arts and sports center. According to the demand put forward by Dou Haishan, the teachers of the center came to "relay" to teach, helping to open up many interest clubs, including choirs, drum bands, football clubs, taekwondo clubs, and model airplane clubs that had never been considered before.
Among them, the most popular thing about Dou Haishan is the drum band.
When the drum band was founded in 2013, many children had never seen what the instruments looked like, and the music scores were not fully recognized. "A lot of students saw strangers, they all turned their heads down, or walked away when they turned their heads, and they dared not say anything," Dou Haishan recalled.
Some people questioned that these were all learned by children in the city, and there was no need to work in rural schools. But Dou Haishan felt, "The children here are no worse than others, and they also have the right and the necessity to learn art."
"Notation, staff, music, voice, rhythm, joint training... Children are not afraid of hard work, they are afraid of no one to guide and encourage." Training is generally arranged in the summer vacation, weekends and after school, Dou Haishan remembers, children practice Very fascinating. There are also some children who are afraid of difficulties and feel that the training is boring, and the teachers encourage: "Come on, everyone is a team, if you are less, the whole performance is not so wonderful!"
Under the guidance of teachers and experts in the arts and sports center, the children gradually "take the road."
Two years of training and accumulation have finally been tested. In October 2015, German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the school, and the school drums band would spend three days practicing a German country folk song that had never been heard before. In the end, under the guidance of the teachers of the arts and sports center and the experts in the district, a group of farm children played the ballad very well. Their performance "amazes" everyone present. Afterwards, students also presented Merkel with the pulp paintings directed by the teachers of the Arts and Sports Center.
"Maybe some children will never be engaged in arts and sports work, nor will they be on the stage, but this experience can make them sunny and confident, which is the biggest meaning of learning arts and sports skills." Dou Haishan lamented.
In 2019, Xu Yanyan, a music teacher and leader of the music teaching and research team at the Primary Three Primary School of Hefei Normal University, came to Golden Grape Primary School to guide choral clubs and competition training. When she rehearsed the song "Me and My Motherland" for the first time with her students, she felt that the students were interested in the chorus and her desire was revealed in her eyes, but it seemed to be "not quite the same" as the students of her own school. "This group of children are more timid and restrained, and even dare not talk to me or communicate, so I changed my strategy, let them recite the lyrics first, mobilize their emotions, and then teach singing techniques."
During the three-month training period, Xu Yanyan and the music teachers Xu Yaqin and Chen Ying of the Golden Grape Primary School continually communicated and worked together. With their hard work, the children are full of energy and have made progress every day. Their personality has become confident and cheerful. No one has ever asked for leave or missed classes. In the end, the school's choir represented Hefei City to participate in the talent show of the Rural Children's Palace in Anhui Province, and the village baby stood on the big stage.
From the self-enlightenment and self-painting in the original art class, I can now master the painting skills, and also learn the techniques of paper cutting and hand-made clay sculpture; from the beginning, I mistakenly used the electronic piano as a piano, and now I can listen to the sound of the piano and accurately understand the spectrum; from the original physical education class From "playing" to now can stand up quickly, "play" softball, basketball, handball and other projects... In the past few years, under the influence of teachers of the Arts and Sports Center, the changes of remote and weak school children are happening quietly. Because of "sharing", every child has the opportunity to approach and enjoy culture and art, and also learn to discover beauty, perceive beauty, and create beauty.
"Shared teacher" is not just for 40-minute classes
Hefei No. 48 Middle School (Binhu Campus) music teacher Bu stop stopped in 2019 to go to Hefei Experimental School (Binhu Campus) to teach. This school has few children interested in choral music, and the professional vocalist Bu Xingxing took a new path and formed the Ocarina Society.
Bu Stop, who has never learned the Ocarina, specializes in searching courses online, teaching students to sing music, using breath, and twelve-hole Ocarina fingering while groping and teaching.
There is a girl who is embarrassed every time she goes to class. After one class, the Ocarina didn't sound. If Bu stopped and named her, the girl would be scared to hide. After understanding, the girl's intelligence is a bit low.
Bu Xingding did not give up and encouraged the girl: "The teacher does not require you to be able to play music. As long as you are interested and willing to come over, you can sit here and listen to other students blow. You can also feel the beauty of the music and get influenced by it. "After that, the girl came to the class on time for every class, and her nervousness eased a lot.
At the same time, Bu stops trying to allow students to self-manage. She voted for the president of the Ocarina in the classroom. The president is mainly responsible for the daily work such as naming and arranging the watch, etc. Since then, every time the class is full, no one is late.
Many children can play the ensemble from not playing the Ocarina to the scale. In this process, Bu Xing stop also mastered new instrumental playing techniques and teaching methods.
"Teaching experience seems very plain, but it makes me understand that education is not only to teach students a skill, but also the cultivation and shaping of students' various abilities and personalities." Bu Zhiting said.
In 2018, Xu Yanyan also taught at Tunxi Road Primary School (Binhu Campus) for one year. In her view, walking education is not a one-way output process, but a two-way learning interaction. "In different schools, contact with different types of students has broadened my horizons, released more energy, and children can learn more."
Over the years, the arts and sports center has also continuously conveyed this concept: "You must not regard yourself as a teacher who can only take 40 minutes of class. You must use limited time and activity opportunities to improve children’s artistic literacy and guide them to grow upright, kind, and Loving, respectable people."
According to reports, with the gradual implementation of the balanced education in Baohe District, the arts and sports center has changed its functions, focusing more on training, guidance, and communication, so that the skills of arts teachers can complement each other and improve themselves. In 2015, the Arts and Sports Center adopted the "2+1+2" work model. Teachers work in our school two days a week, teach for two days, and return to the center on Wednesday for sharing.
Since 2017, the arts and sports center team has continued to grow, and many teachers have also undertaken the daily teaching tasks of helping the school. At the same time, the concepts of principals of some famous and excellent schools have also changed: from the initial "reluctance to let people out" and "fear of affecting the quality of teaching in our school", to slowly accepting and supporting this "sharing" model.
However, for teachers who teach away, not only do they have to complete the school’s teaching tasks, but they also have to undertake additional teaching away from school. The amount of labor has undoubtedly doubled.
According to Xu Li, director of Baohe District Youth Activity Center and director of the Arts and Sports Center, the Arts and Sports Center is more like a volunteer service organization. Every teacher has a quality of upward, pure, and not afraid of hardship. They use wisdom and enthusiasm. , Sincerity and dedication will brighten the center's reputation.
Teacher Shen Juan is pregnant, and her home is far away from Baoxing Elementary School. She departs from her home at 6 am every morning and arrives at the school before 7:30 to take her students to read early; an art teacher puts mud, branches, leaves, straw and other objects Bring into the classroom, expand students' art vision, and solve the current situation of lack of tools; and teachers will use weekends to visit art experts, recharge themselves, and then pass these contents to students...
"Teaching experience has deepened my understanding of education: not only to cultivate children's sense of art experience, but also to care more about their children's character and life, and guide them to learn to solve difficulties in life." Dai Yunru also expressed emotion, now the school is open, I think that there are new classmates about to join the club, and I am full of expectations.
Group development, so that art teachers are no longer "marginalized"
Many art teachers face the same confusion: being marginalized and not having a strong sense of belonging. In some schools, there is even only one teacher in a subject, and the working atmosphere and ability of teaching and research are lacking.
How to "activate" the group of art teachers?
The Education and Sports Bureau of Baohe District has made great efforts. The Arts and Sports Center has formulated a detailed performance evaluation plan and rules and regulations, and established a joint teaching and research group of the Arts and Sports Group to allow teachers of the same subject from different schools and education groups to "consolidate" to carry out teaching and research, and share experience in activities, technologies, and teaching. Promote each other.
"During the teaching process, many teachers combine their specialties with the characteristics of helping the school to continuously improve teaching skills. Usually, the Arts and Sports Center will carry out activities such as reading sharing, arts and sports competitions, volunteer services and other activities based on the "discipline"." Xu Li observed that there are young science teachers working with physical education and music teachers to "excite" new teaching skills and cultivate students' innovative thinking.
During the epidemic, Art Sports launched the "Online Rainbow Course". The 57 teachers in the Art Sports Center cooperated "interdisciplinary" to launch a series of excellent public welfare courses, including psychological counseling, life experience, Guzheng playing, technological innovation, and reading sharing. Module, and open to society.
The Education and Sports Bureau of Baohe District has also allocated special funds to organize experts to train all teachers of audio-visual beauty, information technology, mental health and other disciplines to solve the problem of weakening teachers' skills and promote the quality of school operation.
In this regard, Pan Yifen, a sports teaching and research fellow in Baohe District, was deeply touched. In view of the fact that the number of physical education teachers is too small and teaching and research cannot be carried out normally, the district organizes backbone and famous physical education teachers to enter the school for guidance and research. In addition, the school not only helped young physical education teachers to stabilize the classroom, but also handed over many of the key tasks of teaching and research to them.
In addition, Baohe District has given policy support to teachers of the Arts and Sports Center to complete the assessment of the teaching hours, which can be regarded as the "teaching" experience required for the evaluation of professional titles.
In response to the common problem of difficulty in compiling arts and sports professional talents, from 2012 to 2017, the Baohe District Pilot will open posts to the society every year, introduce high-level athletes, singers and dancers and other talents who are in short supply of professional skills through the green channel, and avoid the written test. Pass the interview to "enter".
"According to the practice, the school lacks teachers, and it must give priority to recruiting the main class teacher. The sound and body beauty first "put it out". In the past, the number of artistic teachers was only one-tenth of the total number." Baohe District Education and Sports Bureau Personnel Section Chief According to Lu Huming, this year, in accordance with the principle of "where to make up for less", the district compiled 600 indicators and reserved 120 for art teachers. This number is also the highest in the history of the district.
At present, Baohe District has a resident population of 1.42 million, 50 primary and secondary schools, and 4919 teachers, of which nearly 600 are art teachers. This number has tripled in 2011.
Nine years have passed, and nearly 400 teachers have served in the Arts Center. They travel to and from different schools throughout the year. While disseminating advanced teaching methods, they also bring back the experience and reflection of walk-through teaching. Through teaching and research interactions, they have achieved an overall improvement in the level of art teachers. Many young art teachers who were helped early and achieved a level of improvement chose to join the art sports center, changing from recipients to helpers.
China Youth Daily · China Youth Daily reporter Wang Haihan Wang Lei Correspondent Wang Chenchao Li Duoqing Source: China Youth Daily