As one of the first batch of state-level demonstration high schools in Guangdong Province, a first-class school in Guangdong Province, and one of the "300 National Famous Schools" of the Ministry of Education, Shenzhen Cuiyuan Middle School is a veteran key middle school in Shenzhen and one of the eight famous schools in Shenzhen. As 2021 draws to a close, looking back at The Achievements of Cuiyuan Middle School, "breakthrough" is the key word of the year.
In the five university discipline competitions with the highest gold content in the national competition, Chen Jiahao, Liu Junwei, Liu Peijun and other 11 students won back many national and provincial awards, of which the 8th International Youth Innovation and Design Competition in China won the first prize of the country and made a historic breakthrough; in the Shenzhen Primary and Secondary School Students Art Exhibition and Performance Activities, Cuiyuan Middle School won a total of 1 provincial first prize and 4 municipal first prizes, and the number of awards ranked first in the city; in the final of the 7th China International "Internet +" College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, Cuiyuan Science and Technology innovation won two silver awards, following the only "double gold award" in the country last year, this is another breakthrough; as a high school freshman, Ma Beichen also broke through the achievements of Cuiyuan's new science and technology innovation strength, he and Li Chun, Zhang Jiacong two seniors to complete the "intelligent unmanned settlement equipment" project won the first prize of the 37th Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition City Finals, and was also selected as the "Youth Science Recommendation Officer" in Shenzhen, representing Shenzhen on the fourth "Youth Science Highlights List"...
It can be seen from the achievements that in Shenzhen, a young, energetic and enterprising city, this old school, which was founded in 1964, has never stopped pursuing excellence, has always been full of reform vigor and courage, and will continue to make breakthroughs.
Reconstructing the Curriculum System "Four Colleges" to Create An "Overpass" for Diversified Development
The achievements of Cuiyuan are not accidental, behind each achievement there is a logical starting point, and each logical starting point points to the purpose of running the school. Whether it is the continuous climbing college entrance examination results, Cuiyuan Middle School has won the "Shenzhen College Entrance Examination Excellence Award" 20 times; or the national football results, in the first national high school boys' campus football league in 2015, Cuiyuan Middle School defeated the Renmin University Affiliated High School and won the laurel; or led the country's science and technology achievements, in 2020, the sixth China International "Internet +" College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition In the first "Bud Track", Cuiyuan Middle School became the only "double gold award" school in the country, creating a record for the competition. Won the honor for Guangdong and Shenzhen... These are the fruits of diversified development.
At a new starting point, Cuiyuan Middle School has always adhered to the principle of "building a stage for the brilliant life of teachers and students" and further injected into the curriculum system. The curriculum is the cornerstone of schooling. Cuiyuan Middle School will take the development of students' core literacy as the direction, focus on the goal of "creating an outstanding high school in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" and the goal of "cultivating outstanding talents with Chinese feelings and worthy of the great responsibility of national rejuvenation", continuously promote the optimization and integration of the curriculum system, promote the implementation of the national curriculum, the series of local curriculum settings, the diversified development of school-based curriculum, the construction of grade curriculum characteristics, and the personalized arrangement of class curriculum, and comprehensively deepen the reform of education methods.
The school will build four major colleges: "Zhiyuan College" (benchmarking the new curriculum standard and new college entrance examination), "Qiangji College" (benchmarking the "Qiangji Plan" top-notch innovative talent cultivation), "Innovation College" (focusing on international education), and "Liberal Arts College" (focusing on humanities and social sciences and sports arts), to build an excellent curriculum system that organically integrates basic courses, expansion courses and characteristic courses, and creates an overpass for students' diversified development, stimulating fun and enlightenment, adaptability and talent, so that every life can shine.
The construction of the "overpass" also needs multi-party collaboration, and the Cuiyuan education brand can continue to be polished. The first is to accelerate the promotion of overall expansion projects. At present, the school is promoting the campus renovation and expansion project, which will provide teachers and students with a vibrant, creative, cultural, more moving and wonderful learning and working environment after the completion of the renovation and expansion, and lay a solid foundation for the leapfrog development of Cuiyuan Middle School. The second is to continue to promote in-depth cooperation with world-class high schools, including Shenzhen Middle School, to achieve the sharing of high-quality educational resources, the interaction and exchange of teachers and students, and the establishment of a joint training mechanism for teachers and a mechanism for top-notch students to study abroad. The third is to build a home-school-community organic synergy education model, strengthen home-school cooperation, and form a co-education culture. The fourth is to explore the joint construction of courses and joint training models with universities, scientific research institutes and high-tech enterprises.
Forging a team of teachers to create a three-dimensional diversified famous teacher "incubation system"
In the 57 years since its establishment, Cuiyuan Middle School has won the titles of the first batch of international ecological schools, the national top ten campus literature demonstration schools, the national scientific and technological innovation talent training project experimental school, the first batch of football characteristic schools, the first batch of national demonstration high schools in Guangdong Province, the first batch of Scholars Campus in Guangdong Province, the guangdong provincial high school curriculum reform sample school, the Guangdong moral education demonstration school, the Guangdong provincial demonstration school for governing schools according to law, etc., which has cultivated a large number of outstanding talents for the country and made outstanding contributions to the economic and social development of Shenzhen and Luohu.
Behind the contribution is a team of capable and motivated teachers. Teachers are the foundation of education and the source of revitalization. Educational reform focuses on teachers. All along, Cuiyuan Middle School has been adhering to the concept of "using the best people to cultivate better people", adhering to the combination of introduction and cultivation, creating an "incubation system" of three-dimensional and diversified famous teachers, actively creating a first-class talent growth environment, and enhancing the core competitiveness of the school's sustainable development.
In the new stage of development, Cuiyuan Middle School will build a teacher career planning system, establish a cascade training mechanism, improve the effectiveness of teacher training, and promote the professional development of teachers. The school has 6 senior teachers, 5 special teachers, 7 provincial and municipal famous class teachers, 32 urban discipline leaders, and 81 backbone teachers. A large number of young and middle-aged teachers, under the leadership of famous teachers' studios and backbone teachers, are changing from experience-based to expert-scholar-type. In 2021, in the Guangdong Provincial High School Geography Teacher Proposition Competition, three teachers from Cuiyuan Middle School won the first prize; in the Shenzhen High School Teachers' College Entrance Examination Simulation Question Proposition Competition, the four university disciplines won the first prize at the same time, and the number of winners ranked first in the city.
At the same time, Cuiyuan Middle School has also continuously improved the talent introduction system and optimized the structure of the teacher team. In the past three years, Cuiyuan Middle School has introduced a total of 47 master's and doctoral students from Tsinghua, Peking University, National University of Singapore and other famous schools at home and abroad, and a batch of fresh blood has joined, changing the age structure of the teaching team, improving the professional level of academic qualifications, and running out of the "Cuiyuan Speed" of the introduction of educational talents, injecting strong impetus into the subsequent development of the school.
Deepening Classroom Reform Plays a "Strong Voice" for High-quality Education Development
At the new starting point, Cuiyuan Middle School will also grasp the opportunity of the era when artificial intelligence promotes the in-depth transformation of basic education, seize the key opportunity of "deep reform", improve quality, increase efficiency, promote reform, and create brands. With the transformation of teaching and learning as the core, we will further promote the "classroom revolution", actively explore interactive, heuristic, inquiry-based and experiential classroom teaching modes based on situation, problem and task orientation, actively promote teaching methods such as project-based learning, design-based learning, inquiry-based learning, experiential learning, experiential learning and online and offline integrated learning, guide students to actively think, actively ask questions, and explore independently, attach importance to differentiated teaching and individualized guidance, and effectively improve the quality of students' classroom learning.
According to reports, under the impetus of the high-efficiency classroom model, a group of young teachers quickly stood out. For example, in 2015, Teacher Yan Xiaohan won the first prize in the National Finals of the Primary and Secondary School Experimental Teaching Competition; in 2016, Mr. Huang Yanlin won the first place in the finals of the Guangdong Provincial Young Teachers Teaching Competition; in 2017, Teacher Li Shuangshuang won the first prize in the National Finals of the Secondary School Physics Teaching Innovation Competition; in 2018, Teacher Yang Xiaoping won the first prize of the Guangdong Provincial Secondary School Biochemistry Experimental Innovation Competition; in 2019, Teacher Su Wenguang won the first prize of the National Physics Teaching Innovation Competition. In 2020, Teachers Xiao Jia and Song Weili won the first prize of the "New Teacher" online teaching case in Guangdong Province.
Education is the benchmark of people's livelihood and happiness in the "pilot demonstration area", to achieve excellent education, what should Shenzhen education do? What kind of responsibilities and contributions do The people of Cuiyuan have? Guo Yuzhu, the general principal of the group, demanded that all Cuiyuan people should vigorously carry forward the "Luohu pioneer spirit and struggle culture", seize the major opportunities of "dual-district drive", "double-district superposition" and "double-reform demonstration", have high goals, high standards, high requirements and great responsibilities, and in the spirit of "waiting for no time, only race against the clock", really do solid work, do good work, quickly build a high-quality development system for education, and play the strongest sound of the high-quality development of Cuiyuan secondary education with the attitude of a strivers.
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In July this year, Guo Yuzhu, president of the Luohu District Academy of Educational Sciences, took over the baton and became the general principal of Cuiyuan Education Group. Under the purpose of always adhering to the purpose of "building a stage for the brilliant life of teachers and students", Guo Yuzhu, based on the new opportunities of the times, put forward the goal of "building an outstanding high school for the pioneering demonstration of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" and the training goal of "cultivating outstanding talents with Chinese feelings and worthy of the great responsibility of national rejuvenation", and will coordinate with many parties to optimize the curriculum system for educating people, actively promote the classroom revolution, build a first-class teacher team, enhance educational information technology, innovate the group's school-running mechanism, and integrate high-quality educational resources. Further polish the brand of the established famous school and revitalize it.
Text/Photo: Xie Yuelei