“The request from my superiors is to let the underprivileged children receive a better education, and let ordinary children go to school well.”
A new school at the junction of urban and rural areas has hung three signs for admissions;
The students' foundation is poor, and the teachers cannot be retained. The average score of the first-year freshmen in the main subjects is nearly 60 points lower than that of the urban schools. The teachers who come to exchange will leave after one year... This is the 2015 year of Chengxi Experimental School, Jiangyan District, Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province. The appearance of the start-up.
Six years ago, Xiao Weisong, who was already the vice president of a famous school, came here.
He practiced the educational philosophy of "everyone can be brilliant", promoted "appropriate education", and let children "walk with me".
In just two years, the school has raised the grades of the same group of children to the top of the district's public junior high schools, and has gradually been favored by urban students.
I used to hang three signs and couldn't attract students
The Chengxi Experimental School in Jiangyan District, Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province is a nine-year system school located at the junction of urban and rural areas.
In 2016, not long after he was named a special-grade teacher in Jiangsu Province, Xiao Weisong came here to serve as the principal.
Xiao Weisong recalled that at that time, the source of students in the school was reflected in the "four many" - many children of migrant workers, many left-behind teenagers, many children from problem families, and many students with weak foundations.
"Many children are undisciplined, have little expectations for the future, are introverted and even indifferent."
In order to attract students, the school once affiliated with the well-known public experimental primary school and private Licai junior high school in Jiangyan, and put out recruitment advertisements such as "real school at the door" and "no money Licai", "Three signs hanging on the school gate" Once became a school scene.
Jiangyan is famous for its well-developed education.
When Xiao Weisong took over the school, the average score of the three main subjects of foreign language, mathematics and foreign language for the first-year freshmen of the school was nearly 60 points lower than that of the urban school.
Moreover, the school lacks its own teachers, most of the teachers are from other schools, and the entire junior high school does not even have a single teacher from the school.
In 2018, the exchange period for middle-level cadres in the school expired, and the vice-principal and accountant left.
"The request made to me by my superiors is to let the underprivileged children receive a better education and let ordinary children go to school well." Xiao Weisong said that at that time, the surrounding residents were not optimistic about the new school, and would rather take an extra 40 minutes to send their children to the city. inside.
"I went to work and went west, and the students went east, passing by every day, and I felt very uncomfortable."
"Everyone can be brilliant" inspires students to grow in sunshine
"Children here are largely dependent on the school, and parents can't provide much support." Xiao Weisong said that after research, he realized that he used to teach in a famous school, and the teachers and students were different, and he couldn't copy the past experience and model.
During the survey, Xiao Weisong found that although the children had average basics, they had a lively personality and loved to participate in group activities.
From this, he thought of the concept of "everyone can be brilliant", and decided to make education that is suitable, individualized and effective.
In 2017, on the east side of the school playground, Xiao Weisong set up a stage. In addition to the weekly regular performances, all children can come to the stage to show their talents at any time.
He encouraged students to highlight their individuality and set up school-based courses such as science, martial arts, and Yang opera.
In 2018, he led a group of party members and teachers to set up the "Sunshine·Outstanding" assistance club.
"Teachers contribute their wisdom, effort, and money to bring warmth, knowledge, and strength to children in need, so as to help children grow, become talents, and adults." Xiao Weisong introduced that from party teachers to ordinary teachers, nearly one-third of the school's teachers Teachers joined the help club to help nearly 200 students.
"Teachers are in class every day, and they don't leave the school when they are confused, and they don't stay overnight when they are confused." Xiao Weisong said that classroom teaching should not only be taught by teachers and written down by students, but should be guided by students to discover, explore, and solve problems on their own, so that the classroom can "live".
According to the needs of different students, the school has designed differentiated counseling and evaluation plans: outstanding students must pass the ability test, teachers can ask another way, and students can draw inferences from one case; weak students must pass the knowledge test and master the basic knowledge of the day’s learning; underachievers To pass the ideological test, teachers should talk with students, correct their thinking, and develop good habits.
"Habits are more important than grades, ability is more important than knowledge, and morality is the most important." Xiao Weisong said, "Don't give up every student, start from the last one, learn a little if you can, and learn a few if you can. Grades It is possible to make progress temporarily, but the character and will must be strong. In this way, every student can have a sunny attitude, optimistic spirit and self-confident character.”
To build an excellent team of teachers, "everything must be brilliant"
In recent years, the "Culture of Outstanding Color" has also infiltrated the construction of teachers in the school.
In the usual meetings, Xiao Weisong requested that the time be controlled within half an hour.
He asked the teachers to "excel in everything", select advanced teachers every semester, hold a grand award ceremony, and invite parents to witness.
"Faced with their careers, teachers should aim to be 'out of the box' and pursue the flowers and applause from their parents, not red envelopes." Xiao Weisong believes that the needs of students are the work of teachers and should not be assigned by leaders.
Over the past few years, Xiao Weisong has brought out a team of teachers who are serious, willing to endure hardships, dare to take responsibility, and have tenacity.
The school has also gradually gained social recognition. Now that the admissions season is coming, some parents are starting to line up in the middle of the night.
Today, the whole school of Chengxi Experimental School's teachers has "inbound more than out", from more than 50 in 2016 to more than 360, with an average age of only 33 years; the number of students in the school has increased from more than 600 in 2016 to more than 5,600, graduating from primary school The proportion of students going straight to the junior high school of the school has been increased from one-third to more than half.
In the summer of 2021, there were only more than 290 primary school graduates in the first batch of Chengxi Experimental School, and the number of first-year freshmen had reached 660 when they entered the school in the fall of the same year.
In the past, the school's teaching area was very large, but now it is full of students, and the teaching area is getting smaller and smaller.
In 2022, Xiao Weisong will be 60 years old.
He said that the most gratifying thing in recent years is to see more and more children going from "retrograde" to "walking" on the way to and from get off work.
Original title "Xiao Weisong: Let the children "walk with me""
Text reporter: Chen Xiyuan