"Most Stream" Middle School Counterattack

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　　In the past, Yuntong Middle School, a "last stream" middle school, faced difficulties in recruiting students, more difficult to recruit teachers, and more difficult to improve the quality of teaching for many years.

　　Dilapidated facilities, dilapidated campuses, students with weak foundations, and teachers who plan to be transferred from time to time... This is a true portrayal of Yuntong Middle School in Wuhua District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province a few years ago.

This enterprise spin-off school is located in the urban-rural fringe of the main urban area. The source of students is mainly composed of the children of migrant workers and the children of residents of the surrounding urban villages. The special development history has caused the fault of middle-aged teachers, occupying various conveniences and resource advantages in the urban area, but Carrying the burden of "low quality and weak schools", it has faced difficulties in recruiting students, recruiting teachers, and improving teaching quality for many years.

　　The situation that Yuntong Middle School was in was experienced by many companies when they spun off the school.

These schools have lost the support of enterprises, and the relocation of enterprises has led to the outflow of people from the original living areas, making the schools lose their original source of students.

Now, this former factory-run middle school and "Moliu" middle school has completed its counter-attack.

　　The former "last" school

　　Yuntong Middle School, formerly known as Yunnan Smelter Middle School, is an enterprise-run school that grew out of factories.

The school was founded in 1962, opened a junior high school in 1971, and opened a high school in 1975, becoming a school that integrates primary and secondary schools.

In August 1987, primary and secondary schools were run separately and independently established, and Yunnan Smelter Middle School was established.

　　At that time, it was a proud thing for Kunming people to work in "Yunye".

The development of enterprises has also made a large number of industrial workers live here, forming a living area.

However, with the expansion of the urban area and the relocation of factories, the functions of the Yunye living area and the surrounding old communities have also quietly changed.

　　In 2003, Yunnan Smelter Middle School ceased to operate as a high school, and the school became a junior middle school.

After the adjustment of Kunming's urban planning in 2004, the school was placed under Wuhua District. In October 2008, it was renamed Wuhua District Yuntong Middle School and entered the stage of government-running.

The predicament of Yuntong Middle School has the characteristics of both urban fringe schools and rural schools. Regional development changes and school restructuring are no different from a "big break". The complex subjective and objective factors have led to a sharp decline in the quality of school education and teaching, and it was once reduced to Wuhua District. The "last stream" school.

　　In April this year, a reporter from "Workers Daily" went to Kunming Yuntong Middle School for an interview.

In recent years, the school has seized the root cause of the disease and prescribed the right medicine to achieve a perfect breakthrough in adversity.

"There is no secret, just stick to the key of teachers and make teaching 'routine' to the extreme." Principal Fan Kaihang said.

In 2018, he became the school's principal.

　　When you walk into Yuntong Middle School, you will see a small and beautiful environment. Compared with the old residential buildings around, the school building looks brand new and neat. This is the result of two renovations funded by the Wuhua District Government.

Living in a residential area, the space is limited, and the campus buildings stand in four together, forming a square patio in the middle, which coincides with the "orthodox culture" advocated by the school, which is quite interesting.

Every corner of the school is clean and tidy, and the students are full of vigor.

"In recent years, the school has undergone earth-shaking changes," said Shi Anping, secretary of the school's party branch.

　　Start with the ability of teachers

　　Fan Kaihang said that the campus infrastructure is outdated, teachers lack educational enthusiasm and professionalism, and the quality of students is deteriorating. This is the pain point of any weak school.

The school decided to make great efforts to solve the common problem of "low teacher ability" in weak schools.

"Only by making every effort to achieve teachers, let teachers calm down and be willing to teach, willing to teach, and even obsessed with teaching, can we talk about developing students."

　　Since September 2018, Yuntong Middle School has begun to pay close attention to the long-term weakened teaching and research activities. It has fixed time, place, personnel and theme to ensure that a teaching and research activity is carried out every week. The school leaders and the teaching and research teams of various disciplines participate in the whole process. ; Closely linked to classroom teaching, teachers take turns to take open classes and jointly evaluate courses; invite subject leaders from some excellent schools in Kunming to study courses, grind courses, and evaluate courses... Over the past few years, the school's teaching research has grown from nothing. , from low quality to high efficiency.

　　"Every day, the principal would come to listen to one of my math classes, and he also took notes on the lectures, and gave me the parameters of whether the students' attention was focused in each time period. Focus." Yuan Changlin, a math teacher at the school, said.

　　Fan Kaihang's lecture notes had a thick stack.

Even if he opened the lecture records three years ago, he can still analyze the classroom situation and existing problems at that time, and explain it in a eloquent manner.

　　After several years of hard work, Yuntong Middle School's students have "low entry and high exit", and the pass rate of the academic proficiency test has increased from 32% to 80%.

　　Lide tree people and teach students in accordance with their aptitude

　　"Our goal is to cultivate people with self-cultivation. Whether teachers or students, they must have responsibility, ideals, and self-cultivation; be able to learn, be a person, and do things; know self-motivation, self-reflection, and self-management." Fan Kaihang said .

　　Let students participate in labor, cleaning classrooms, tidying up desks, arranging school bags, participating in the dining hall and tableware collection and cleaning.

Over time, the effect continued to manifest.

The willingness of students to participate in labor increases, the total amount of leftovers decreases, and the phenomenon of food waste is greatly reduced.

After school, students are more willing to help their parents with household chores, and their academic performance has not declined, but has improved.

　　In 2018, Wuhua District launched the demonstration area project of teaching AI in accordance with aptitude, and Yuntong Middle School took the lead in pilot application, ushering in a key inflection point in the school's development.

The education and teaching reform of Yuntong Middle School occurred almost in parallel with the transformation and upgrading of education informatization in Wuhua District, Kunming.

The development of educational technology is an important opportunity and key variable for the development of Yuntong Middle School.

　　"Using the tablet computer is very important for teachers to quickly grasp the class and students' individual learning situation. Only by understanding students can they teach well, and knowing what students need, so as to accurately adjust teaching methods and teaching content, and it is possible to teach students according to their aptitude." Yuntong Middle School English Teacher Lu Jiao said, "Through information-based teaching, teachers can immediately and intuitively detect students' mastery of classroom knowledge after a class." In the eyes of Chinese teachers and Wenhua, "With the help of high-quality resources and interactive functions in the tablet , enrich and make the Chinese classroom more interesting, and make the students like the classroom.”

　　"It turned out that Yuntong Middle School was at the bottom in our district." Mr. Ma, a Kunming citizen, said that now the teaching quality of Yuntong Middle School has improved rapidly, and more and more parents have begun to send their children to Yuntong Middle School.

　　"The quality of the school's teaching has improved, and now parents are full of hope for the school's future." Fan Kaihang said, "We plan to expand the enrollment source this year and expand the teaching staff at the same time."