Why is this summer nursery school in the deep mountains crowded?

  What is desire?

A child rushed to answer: "Desire is what I want, I want, I want..." On the morning of August 11, the fourth lesson of the growth class "Take care of yourself." The children come to class.

  He has been asking questions, guiding the children to speak, and sharing his own stories.

The children said that to manage yourself well, you must manage your emotions, desires, language, and behavior.

In this class, Zhang Pingyuan and the children sat around the desk and completed the whole class in a way of communication.

  Fanjia Primary School is located in Fanjia Village, Baolun Town, Guangyuan City, Sichuan, 40 kilometers away from Guangyuan City.

Fanjia Primary School became popular in the middle of the night.

More than two years ago, Luo Zhenyu, the speaker of "Luo Ji Thinking" and the founder of Get APP, said in the 2018 New Year's Eve speech that Fanjia Primary School: All the most pioneering educational concepts can be seen in this mountainous elementary school. Education is back. The original purpose-educating people.

  Subsequently, the educational sample of this rural elementary school triggered a wide range of social discussions.

People seem to have seen the way to relieve education anxiety. Parents in Chengdu and Suining sent their children here to rent a house to accompany them in the village.

  This summer, Fanjia Elementary School opened a summer nursery school under the background of the country’s "double reduction" policy.

Many parents from other places send their children here for "crunching lessons". In this remote mountain village, they stay away from the tutoring class, visit karst caves, observe insects, find birdhouses, catch crabs, make slingshots... immersed in the special local flavor. In the design course, return to the most innocent and natural "learning".

  Mountain Elementary School

  A group of children from the city came during the summer vacation

  Compared with most children in lower grades, 13-year-old Jia Yiming and 12-year-old Li Yue are much taller.

But like other children, they still "have a lot of fun."

  August 9th was a whole day of root carving class. The two of them squatted on the ground together and spent the afternoon polishing out a few small strips of wood.

Their idea is to make a U disk model, and then ask the tutor to use tools to carve anime patterns.

  Younger children mostly make daggers, swords, and pistols. They are very satisfied with their works and will introduce their results in front of their teachers.

Teachers will also give some opinions, let them polish again, help them paint, and then praise each child's creativity.

  All the children played together naturally, playing around with each other.

But Jia Yiming from Yinchuan still feels a little different from the children in the village. He said that when he first came into contact, the children from the city would be shy, but the children in the village seemed more lively and generous.

  Gao Liping, a teacher at Fanjia Elementary School, found that the children from these cities were worse in their hands-on skills, and even in drawing lessons, they did not perform as well as the children from Fanjia Elementary School.

"But soon you will find out that there is not much difference between them, and the children's nature is the same." Gao Liping told reporters that there are a few children from the city who are outstanding in reading, and they all love to read. lots of books.

  Zhang Miaomiao is a graduate student at a university in Chengdu. The graduation project is to shoot a documentary for Fanjia Primary School. She has been in Fanjia Primary School for half a year.

According to her observation, the children of Fanjia Elementary School are more lively and cheerful, and have the appearance that a primary school student should have, while the children from the city appear to be a little "sophisticated", look quieter, and have a lower ability to communicate with others.

  The summer nursery school starts on July 25th and ends on August 14th.

Most of these children in the city come from "relationships."

The principal Zhang Pingyuan told reporters that a business organization visited the school last year and spoke highly of the school’s educational model and donated a batch of teaching materials to the school.

With such a friendship, the business organization, after learning that Fanjia Elementary School was going to run a summer nursery school, offered to send their children to experience it.

Zhang Pingyuan agreed without ambiguity, and he personally picked up many of the children at the airport.

  Until the beginning of the class, parents in Chengdu and other places contacted the school and wanted to send their children over. Zhang Pingyuan could only dismiss him on the grounds that "the dormitory is not enough, and I can't take care of it."

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  "Inquiry-based rural curriculum"

  On the morning of August 11th, the fourth lesson of the growth class "Manage yourself", the principal Zhang Pingyuan's class.

He sat at one end of the desk and discussed how to "control yourself" with the seven children from cities sitting around the desk.

More than 10 students in this school do homework, and 7 children from other places have a "growth lesson" in another classroom.

Zhang Pingyuan said that this is a class specially for children in summer nursery schools, and students in this school usually have this class.

  What aspects should we manage?

The children rushed to speak, saying that there were emotions, desires, words, and behaviors.

Zhang Pingyuan got up and wrote the words mentioned by the children on the blackboard.

Then continue to ask, what is emotion?

Have you ever experienced an emotional breakdown?

How to control emotions?

  Zhang Pingyuan mainly asked questions, and the children answered and shared stories.

It seems that these questions do not have an accurate answer, but they are practical and fit the scope of children's understanding.

Zhang Pingyuan said that this kind of teaching is called an independent education model. The teacher is responsible for guiding and allowing children to think and participate by themselves.

  The children are more interested in Fanjia Primary School’s "inquiry-style rural curriculum".

These courses were designed by Zhang Pingyuan himself. They explored the insects in the wild, observed and made notes, and then painted the insects they knew; they visited the caves near the school, made their own fishing gear and went fishing by the stream; they also went to find birds Nest, catch crabs, make slingshots, and use tree roots found in the wild as materials for the root carving class...

  No children say that they are not used to living here, they all like these courses.

Before the growth class on the morning of August 11, the children also participated in an outdoor exploration class of "ancient methods of logging and building shack".

This outdoor class made many children sweat, but none of them complained.

  Fan Chenxi from Hangzhou is very lively. Wearing shorts, he has several blood marks on his legs from thorns and many scars left by mosquito bites.

He didn't care, saying that he was "used to skin".

Another classmate had a small cut in his hand and waved his hand and said it was okay.

  Zhang Pingyuan said that the children are having a good time here, and they will not appear "squeaky" after they have exercised their collaboration and autonomy.

  "Student-based Education"

  It’s not that you don’t underestimate the results of cultural courses

  In Fanjia Primary School, Zhang Pingyuan’s assessment of teachers does not include students’ test scores, but includes teachers’ chat with children while eating.

He said that a teacher would not be lazy when he stepped onto the stage. He hoped that the teacher could learn more about the child's situation and ideas, so that the child could establish a trusting and intimate relationship with the teacher.

  While eating in the cafeteria, Zhang Pingyuan sat among the children.

A first-year girl likes to eat pumpkins. After adding vegetables once, she went to add them again, still pumpkins.

Every time he brought it, Zhang Pingyuan would pick a piece from her bowl, then chat with her and tell her to eat more meat.

  Let the teacher accompany the children more in order to give them a sense of security.

Zhang Pingyuan told reporters that he even set a standard format for the teacher to talk to the child. If the child made a mistake, the teacher should ask first, what's the matter?

Let me ask what you think, what do you want to do?

Finally, tell the child, are you willing to let the teacher do something?

  This kind of education method that respects children and focuses on children comes from the "life-based education philosophy" he practiced.

  Similarly, the local courses offered by the school also start from the children.

He asked the teacher to ask the children, what do they like?

What do you want to know?

Then write the keywords mentioned by the children on the blackboard, select from them, and expand the theme.

The local curriculum has become a feature of Fanjia Primary School, and the time is fixed in the afternoon every Wednesday.

  Nowadays, Fanjia Primary School's school buildings and teaching equipment are very complete, and the teacher always sits with the students during class.

The scores are not ranked. The test can be tested three times. Subjects such as sports, painting, music, etc., are set up in strict accordance with the requirements of the syllabus.

  But Li Li, a teacher at Fanjia Elementary School, emphasized that Fanjia Elementary School is not indifferent to cultural achievements.

She feels that as long as the syllabus is followed, children in elementary school can learn well.

The school teacher told reporters that two of the six students who had just graduated from the sixth grade were admitted to the key classes in Baolun Town, and one was admitted to the best middle school in Guangyuan City.

A girl who graduated earlier also won the best debater in the Guangyuan City Debate Competition, "They didn't make up classes."

  Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter Yang Ling