China News Service, Nanning, June 14th Telegram: Teachers from Guangdong volunteered to teach Dayao Mountain, Guangxi, and let children in mountainous areas "embracing" the sea
Author Huang Lingyan Wang Yi
"The rooster of the He family, the rooster of the He family, the chick of the He family..." Recently, in the third-grade class of the Minzu Primary School in Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County, Laibin City, Guangxi Province, He Xiaoxing, a volunteer teacher from Dianbai District, Maoming City, Guangdong Province, led the students. Sing classic Cantonese nursery rhymes.
From August 2021, under the framework of Guangdong-Guangxi cooperation, He Xiaoxing was assigned to teach in Dayaoshan, Guangxi for one year.
From Maoming to Jinxiu, there is no direct expressway, and the journey takes about 6 hours.
"Everything is very different from the place where I used to live and work." He Xiaoxing said that Jinxiu County National Primary School is built on the mountain. Just climbing a hundred steps to and from school every day makes her feel very uncomfortable when she first arrives in the mountains. adapt.
Jinxiu County National Primary School is built on the mountain.
Photo by Jiang Xuelin
Minority students in Jinxiu County National Primary School accounted for more than 80%. The enthusiasm, simplicity and liveliness of the students left a deep impression on He Xiaoxing, which made her slowly fall in love with this place.
He Xiaoxing found that many students in the class were left-behind children and had never walked out of the mountains.
Knowing that many children had never seen the sea and yearned for the sea, she tried to build a bridge connecting mountains and seas for them.
Returning to Maoming on a vacation, He Xiaoxing organized the students of the original class to go to the beach to pick up shells, filmed a video of the journey and the blessings of urban children, shared it with the students of Jinxiu County Minzu Primary School, and gave them the shells.
He Xiaoxing is in class.
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He Xiaoxing hopes to use Guangdong's more advanced educational concepts and management methods in the process of teaching support to cultivate children in mountainous areas to develop good habits such as extracurricular reading and broaden their horizons.
"Knowledge can take you out of the mountains if you study hard enough," she encouraged her class.
The teaching support cycle is coming to an end. Facing the retention of the children in the class, He Xiaoxing is very reluctant to leave.
Thinking of parting with the children, He Xiaoxing's tears rolled in her eyes, "Although I am very concerned about the family, people always have to do something meaningful. If I have the opportunity, I want to stay and teach for another year." She has now applied for an extension of her teaching time.
"Mr. He teaches us Chinese. I hope she will continue to teach us until the sixth grade. She often visits home and is very patient. When I graduate, I will definitely go to Guangdong to see the sea and visit Mr. He by the way." He Xiaoxing The students in the class taught by the teacher have a good saying.
Pan Youshan's classmate Fei Yang also hopes that He Xiaoxing will continue to teach until the sixth grade.
The two of them and many of their classmates had never been out of Dayao Mountain or seen the sea. Fei Yang cherished the shells given by Mr. He's students in Maoming.
Since the Guangdong-Guangxi cooperation was launched, Maoming City, Guangdong Province has provided educational assistance to Laibin City, Guangxi.
Since 2018, three batches of Maoming teachers have come to Jinxiu County Minzu Primary School to teach.
Including He Xiaoxing, a total of 8 teachers will participate in the teaching team in 2021.
He Xiaoxing was interviewed by reporters outside the classroom.
Photo by Jiang Xuelin
According to Pan Haizhen, the principal of Jinxiu County Minzu Primary School, the teachers who support teaching have rich front-line teaching experience, positive and optimistic attitudes, and quickly integrate into the atmosphere of mountain schools.
Despite the difficult conditions, they also signed up to participate in the school's "Send Education to the Countryside" activity.
"Teachers of volunteer teaching bring more attention and companionship to left-behind children, guide and influence local teachers to treat children in a more scientific way, and improve the level of education and teaching." Pan Haizhen said that thanks to the support of volunteer teaching, in recent years, the school has The school has successively won the titles of advanced collectives in the national education system and the national "March 8 Red Flag Collectives".
In addition to teaching support, Guangdong-Guangxi Cooperation has invested funds to build teaching facilities, so that Yaoshan students can obtain more abundant teaching resources.
At the same time, Maoming Early Childhood Teachers College has set up "Jinxiu Class" to train students free of poverty. After graduation, students return to Jinxiu to work to solve the problem of local urgent need for excellent educational talents.
Since the "13th Five-Year Plan", Guangdong-Guangxi Cooperation has vigorously promoted the development of education in many mountainous areas in Guangxi by promoting school construction, strengthening talent exchanges, carrying out school pairing assistance, opening characteristic classes, and jointly promoting campus culture construction.
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