Li Meng, male, member of the Communist Party of China, associate professor, doctoral candidate in ideological and political education. Director of the Network Ideological and Political Work Center of Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, backbone of the ideological and political work of young and middle-aged people of the Ministry of Education, famous teacher of national college network education, positive energy model of national network, and national college counselor of the year.
From 2009 to 2021, Li Meng has devoted himself to the ideological and political work of college students for decades, carefully observing the changes of college students, actively exploring the laws of ideological and political education of college students under the coverage of the new era network, and responding to the ideological changes of college students with a more professional and scientific concept and work mode of ideological and political work. Li Meng in his work is like a shining star, guiding college students on the way to find their own road of struggle, and at the same time sharing their own college students' ideological and political education work mode and experience to more college and university ideological and political people, making college students' ideological and political education work into a well-known first-line ideological and political education brand, and practicing the original intention and mission of educating people for the party and the country with practical actions.
Create a warm and harmonious harbor for students
In 2009, Li Meng, who graduated from graduate school, became an ordinary college counselor. In Li Meng's heart, the job can be very ordinary, but the love for students and enthusiasm for work must be full. "I basically let go of all the other extra things and gave all my energy to my students. My purpose at that time was actually very simple, that is, to keep a relatively close distance from the students. Li Meng said as she recalled our past work.
Treating students sincerely and helping them solve practical problems is a criterion for Li Meng's work. In order to do a better job in student work, Li Meng insists on living in the student dormitory, bringing the warmth of home to students as a teacher and brother, and insists on leaving work two hours late every day in his daily work so that he can deal with some unexpected problems among students in the first time. Even during the break, Li Meng's mobile phone is 24 hours a day, do not turn off, so that her students can contact themselves for the first time. It is this kind of sincere dedication that has been the same day for decades, which has silently influenced and changed the students he has tutored, and laid a solid foundation for replenishing the calcium of the students' spirit and laying a solid foundation for the foundation of the students' faith. And when we mentioned the students Li Meng tutored, Teacher Li suddenly became excited, sharing the bits and pieces between him and the students like several family treasures.
In his work, Li Meng skillfully integrates the warm family concept and scientific management system in China's traditional culture, and as a "brother", he weaves a home harbor for students and creates a warm and harmonious family atmosphere. In September 2009, three girls in his class were diagnosed with influenza A, and more than 300 students in the entire grade all needed to be isolated for observation. As the "big parent" of this class, he immediately entered the isolation frontline regardless of personal safety, patiently calmed the students' panic and uneasiness, and organized students to carry out positive preventive measures. Later, Li Meng himself was isolated due to infection, and there was no way to be with his students anymore, at this time, he kept in touch with the isolated students by phone and QQ, infected and encouraged the students to stay away from panic with optimistic emotions, so that the students could establish self-confidence to overcome the disease. In the end, teachers and students not only defeated the disease hand in hand, but also made the warmth of "home" deeply rooted in the hearts of every student.
Student Zhang Mou, who enrolled after re-reading the college entrance examination, has an introverted personality, usually has very little communication and communication with his classmates, and is addicted to the Internet. In order to guide Zhang Mou out of the virtual network world, rekindle the passion for struggle and integrate into the collective family, Li Meng always pays attention to Zhang's WeChat status on the one hand, and communicates with Zhang and his parents in depth on the other hand, on the basis of fully and comprehensively understanding Zhang, taking Zhang's favorite badminton sport as the starting point, guiding Zhang to participate in professional training and competitions, and regaining self-confidence in training and competition. At the same time, Li Meng and other students in the class created various stages and opportunities to integrate Zhang into the group, which eventually not only made Zhang successfully quit internet addiction, but also became the backbone of the class family, and was elected as the president of the school badminton association.
In Li Meng's work, there are countless small stories like this, and he releases warmth like a spark in his ordinary counselor position, making the "home" he and his students weave together not only warm and loving, but also withstand the wind and rain. Through his two classes as a counselor, the class style is mellow and the learning style is strong, and the pass rate of the fourth level of university English is firmly in the forefront of the school, and more than 600 people have won various commendations at or above the school level; all 312 students in the class of 2013 successfully graduated, and none of them were demoted or punished by withdrawal.
In addition to doing a solid job in student work, Li Meng also attaches great importance to innovating the work carrier of counselors. "Where the students are, ideological and political work must be where they are, and only by maintaining the same frequency resonance with the students can they truly enter their hearts." Li Meng recalled. "When I was a counselor, my articles were all about students." When we look back at Li Meng's articles at that time, it is true that most of them focus on the actual situation of students, transforming the topics that students are concerned about into small articles containing the content of ideological and political education, so that some students in the confused period can suddenly be enlightened in a relaxed reading. For example, "The little long holiday does not approve the leave, the friendship boat does not overturn", "Get up, brother", "Have a dream, why go far away"... These small articles leave a deep memory for students.
While doing a good job in school work, Li Meng also actively responded to the call of the Provincial Youth League Committee to serve as deputy secretary of the Youth League County Committee in Taibai County, Baoji City, and carried out a one-year grassroots training. During the suspension period, Li Meng skillfully combined his local work and school work, led and guided students to carry out normalized social practice and volunteer service in the local area, actively built a bridge for school-site cooperation and complementary resource advantages, promoted the comprehensive cooperation and signing of the cooperation between the school and the locality, effectively docked the school's talents and technical advantages with the needs of local economic and social development, and created outstanding performance.
Be a life mentor and close friend of your students
"Every one of us cadres in ideological and political work should be strong in politics, deep in feelings, new in thinking, broad in vision, strict in self-discipline, and correct in personality in accordance with the requirements of General Secretary Xi Jinping, and must be a good life mentor and confidant friend of students." Li Meng said.
In the extensive contact with students, he is deeply aware of the diversity and complexity of contemporary college students' ways of thinking and behaving, coupled with the full coverage of the Network, the universal use of smart phones, students' access to the outside world is more diverse, they are more and more influenced by the outside world, and the traditional mode of ideological and political education can no longer adapt well to the students' ideological work under the new situation.
He took the initiative to dock with authoritative platforms such as Theory And Politics Network of Colleges and Universities, China University Students Online, and Yiban Network, and built school-based content products against the benchmark with the help of professional support and superior resources. He led his colleagues to actively build the idea of "one axis, two poles and three drives" to continue to grasp the creation (one axis is to run through the whole process with the concept of three all-round education; the two poles are based on close to the needs of students and the mainstream voice is the leader; the three drives are integrated construction, brand cultivation, and school-based structure), relying on the Yiban platform to guide students to carry out self-education, management and service. Guide teachers and students to actively participate in the creation and production of online cultural works, and continue to promote the construction of 9 student network culture studios such as "Star Reflection", "Easy Point Pass" and "Terraced Image", forming a positive public opinion field.
Li Meng said: "We must be good at using online platforms, set up colorful ideological and political education content and educational forms such as video, audio, and memes into some specific issues that are inspiring and guiding, and do a good job of ideological guidance and public opinion hedging." For example, for the daily concerns of students, what should students do if they are sleepy in class? What should student cadres do if they encounter setbacks? Ideological and political workers can create content products in a way that is both emotional and popular, and help students clarify their understanding and solve problems in edutainment. In this process, we must strive to make thinking king, content first, methods as the key, and system as the program, so as to combine positive indoctrination with implicit thinking and government. ”
After several years of experience accumulation and summary of students' work, Li Meng gradually formed his own new media platform for ideological and political education - "Meng Ge has something to say", which takes the study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on ideological and political education work as the main line, focuses on the improvement of the ability of ideological and political workers, focuses on the universal problems of daily ideological and political work, explores scientific laws, provides effective methods, and has published more than 300 ideological and political works of various types, more than 2 million words, becoming a brand of national ideological and political workers network education. It has won the special funding of the Ministry of Education's counselor work boutique project, and has won the first prize and second prize in the national network culture excellent cases for many times, paying attention to nearly 60,000 ideological and political work cadres in the background, and realizing the leap of the column from "building a brand" to "value transmission".
Grow into a thinking actor
"My expectations of me, to put it bluntly, are a hope for myself, that is, a structural transformation problem. Because in the past, in his work, he was more of an emotional and practical summary, lacking the condensation of academic rationality and the sublimation of professionalism, hoping that he could have new transformations and breakthroughs in the field of ideological and political action research..." Li Meng shared with us his future ideological and political work transformation ideas, for which he took the initiative to study for doctoral students at the National Key Horse Academy, presided over more than 10 provincial and ministerial ideological and political education projects, published more than 10 ideological and political articles in Guangming Daily, China Social Science Daily, and Shaanxi Daily, and published 3 monographs. He has published more than 10 research papers, and has also carried out special topic sharing and theoretical lectures in 10 "double-first-class" colleges and universities such as the National Academy of Education Administration, Beijing Normal University, Tianjin University, Nankai University, and nearly 300 colleges and universities, covering more than 100,000 teachers and students. Years of ideological and political front-line practical experience has laid the cornerstone of Li Meng's career, the local hanging exercise has broadened his horizons, enriched his local work experience and organizational strength, long-term internalized thinking initiative research has enhanced the depth of his thinking, but also enabled him to accumulate less into more, gather armpits into qiu, accumulate sand into a tower, grow into a thinking actor, which has the opportunity to second to the Ministry of Education in 2020. One minute on stage, ten years offstage, the new platform gives more room to play, but also means to take on more important responsibilities.
"The orientation is correct, the orientation is good, the wind direction has changed, the weather is new, and the ambition is greater." Li Meng, who is now responsible for the specific construction of the Shaanxi University Network Ideological and Political Work Center and the Shaanxi Provincial College Yiban Development Center, has a broader stage and greater responsibilities and responsibilities, and he has changed his ideological and political mode in a timely manner. In the past, it was to directly help students buckle the first button of life, but now it is to share the soul of the political people to more political people, in order to cultivate more people who help children buckle the first button of life. We should break down geographical restrictions, strive to make ideological and political affairs go out of schools, organize more ideological and political people to carry out ideological and political activities, and integrate ideological and political affairs with history and practice, and with students and society. "Role model, hello" is a grand online short video political activity organized by Li Meng to celebrate the centenary of the founding of the PARTY, which was organized by Li Meng. The activities focused on the three themes of "ideals and beliefs, struggle course, and important contributions", excavated the deeds and stories of revolutionary martyrs who regarded death as homecoming, heroes who struggled tenaciously, and advanced models who dedicated themselves selflessly, and used "short videos" as the carrier to relay the vivid history, praise the glorious history of the annals, and jointly gather the powerful joint force of knowing history and loving the party, knowing history and loving the country. "As the backbone force for educating people for the party and the country, it is an unshirkable duty for us ideological and political workers in colleges and universities to innovate work models, form a joint work force, and organize and lead the vast number of young students to study party history well in a down-to-earth manner." Li Meng said this when referring to the background of project planning. In order to accurately grasp the main theme and mainstream essence of the party's historical development, correctly understand and scientifically evaluate the major events, important meetings, and important figures in the party's history, and ensure the accuracy of the party's history stories and the correctness of their viewpoints, he invited some party history experts and ideological and political backbones to jointly set up a content review group, carefully selected more than 100 founding fathers, revolutionary martyrs, and exemplary figures who made outstanding historical contributions in the party's revolution, construction, and reform period as the objects of narration, repeatedly polished the text materials, and collectively checked the video content. Guide teachers and students to establish a correct view of party history and deeply understand the internal logic of our party from victory to victory.
Ideological and political work should be studied regularly, in line with the characteristics of students, good at using the "portrait" method to analyze the common problems currently existing in students, and then timely follow-up from the technical point of view, it is possible to form a more advanced and more perfect mode of ideological and political thinking, and better practice the historical mission of cultivating a strong generation. "In the next step, the network ideological and political work center should actively rely on big data to accurately profile students, explore the use of algorithm recommendations to push information for students, take the initiative to use artificial intelligence to build effective application scenarios, gather more high-quality resources, and focus on technological innovation to help ideological and political leaders." Teacher Li's eyes full of longing have drawn the most beautiful ideological and political model map for us.
Go alone fast, go far. Li Meng deeply understands the inner meaning of this sentence. In the new stage, Li Meng pays more attention to helping newcomers grow, team building and innovation of online ideological and political models, and expects Li Meng to lead more college ideological and political workers to grow professionally with his broad pattern and solid behavior, take on great responsibilities, and forge the soul with determination.
Reporter: Shaanxi Education Newspaper And Periodicals Wang Dongping Xue Xiaoqin
Editor: Liu Xin
Shaanxi Education Newspaper and Periodicals is the education propaganda functional department directly under the Education Working Committee of the Shaanxi Provincial CPC Committee and the Department of Education of Shaanxi Province, which edits and publishes newspapers and periodicals such as "Teacher's Newspaper", "Self-study Examination Newspaper", "Shaanxi Education", "New New Primary School Students", "New New Junior High School Students", "New New Children" and so on. Submission email: [email protected]