The Dongguan Education Conference, which came to a successful conclusion on September 10, issued a series of documents on deepening the comprehensive reform of the field of basic education, and proposed the goal of building Dongguan into a new business card for the high-quality development of basic education in Guangdong Province by 2025. The conference mentioned that education is related to the overall situation of reform and development, the future of the nation and the city; Dongguan is accelerating the construction of future schools, and it is necessary to lead the new road of education reform in Dongguan and even the whole country.
As the first public future school with a high starting point and high positioning in Dongguan, Dongguan Songshan Lake Future School has attracted widespread attention from all walks of life and citizens. Since the school officially started construction in April this year with the comprehensive national science center of the Greater Bay Area (Songshan Lake Science City), the current progress has become one of the most concerned topics of people's livelihood.
Construction: The school building is nearing the topping out and will be delivered in June next year
At the city's education conference just past, Wan Fei, principal of Dongguan Songshan Lake Future School, revealed that as of early September this year, the school teaching building has been constructed to 5 floors above the ground, close to the ceiling, and the main buildings in other areas are also accelerating construction according to the schedule, and the main building structure of the project is planned to be fully capped in November this year and delivered in June next year to ensure the completion of the hard task target of the municipal government's key work and ensure the official opening in September next year.
According to the plan, the school level is a complete middle school with junior high school and high school, with a scale of 3600 students, it will be built into a school that stimulates potential, transmits warmth and creates a better future, focuses on the core literacy of the 5C in the 21st century, cultivates new people of the times who can take on great responsibilities for the future development of the country and society, builds a high-quality development and innovation demonstration school for Dongguan education, and creates a future innovative talent training base, a future education innovation practice base, and a future education teacher incubation center.
Running schools: Implement diversified training of innovative talents
With the acceleration of the preparatory work, the "portrait" of the school's campus has become clearer and clearer. The school will adhere to the future and actively explore the cultivation of innovative talents in basic education.
On the one hand, actively drawing on the successful school running experience of Songshan Lake Experimental Middle School, a member school of the Education Group, for more than six years, further deepening and extending the exploration in the implementation of "creating education"; on the other hand, deepening cooperation with the high-end think tank of the China Academy of Education Sciences, under the guidance of the value of Dongguan quality education, the school will implement three-dimensional comprehensive changes from the aspects of school running mechanism, curriculum implementation, learning methods, evaluation methods, etc., around the core elements of innovative thinking, innovative personality, and innovative skills, and redefine the learning space. Create characteristic curriculum resources, promote the reform of teaching methods, use the big data platform as the support to achieve large-scale teaching according to talents, and actively explore new models of innovative talent training that meet the needs of future society.
Teachers: The first batch of seed teachers began the incubation journey
According to reports, the school has been officially formed in late August. The teaching team includes graduates of famous schools at home and abroad such as doctors of astrophysics, doctors of biological education, and masters of information production systems; there are provincial special teachers, provincial famous teachers and other discipline backbones; as well as programming masters, e-sports masters, calligraphy masters, photography masters, etc. Although these key footnotes do not fully demonstrate the excellence of teachers, they can also be seen as a high starting point for the teaching team of Dongguan's first future school.
Following the eight-day unique exchange team building and pre-job training activities at the end of August, on the occasion of this year's 37th Teachers' Day, a special space learning trip made the school's first batch of seed teachers spend a different Teachers' Day. "Learning" instead of "celebrating" became the theme of the first Teachers' Day at the new school. The event invited President Sun Daoming to give a lecture on "Walking and Walking, We Met", introducing the practice of space design in Songshan Lake No. 2 Primary School in the campus; inviting interior designers from Shenzhen Special Economic Zone to share the architectural design concept of the future school; the whole team to study books such as "Redesigning a Good School", participating in the reading salon, sharing learning experience, and fully participating in the design process of the school's learning space.
In the next year, the first batch of "seed teachers" will receive systematic and intensive teacher training courses with the theme of "future education". A few days ago, Dongguan Songshan Lake Future School 2021 national recruitment of teachers was also officially launched, with "good platform", "good partner", "good vision", "good treatment", "good development" and other attractions, I believe that it can attract outstanding fresh graduates at home and abroad, domestic famous teachers, special talents in the professional field, etc. to devote themselves to Dongguan education, and jointly contribute to the high-quality development of basic education in Dongguan.
Reporter Qin Fengchun Correspondent Chen Shuxin
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