528 square meters, only a little larger than a standard basketball court, but it is the playground area of Huaihai Middle Road Primary School adjacent to Xintiandi. But it is this "pocket" outdoor sports field that has become a happy place for more than 200 students in the school to take the physical education class and physical fitness class, and the school's only two full-time physical education teachers have drawn a high "growth curve" with students in this small sports field: in recent years, the performance of students in the school's physical health standards has always been among the best in the district.
Games, competitions, parent-child interactions... Let the daily running and jumping no longer be monotonous
How to practice a 400-meter endurance run on a playground with a circumference of no more than 100 meters? How to run at a speed of 50 meters and 100 meters, how to run on the playground where the longest point is only 30 meters? There are only two full-time physical education teachers in the school, and how do more than 200 students take physical education classes?
One morning before this year's Farmers' Harvest Festival, a relay race of "Spring Sowing and Autumn Harvest" was held on this "pocket playground". Students in the 5th grade of the school conduct a "face-to-face relay" on the left and right sides of the playground.
The baton is a small basket in the hand. Students start from the end of the track to sow the "seeds" in the basket into the circle in the middle of the track, and send the empty basket to the opposite student, and the opposite student returns to collect the "fruit" in turn and give it to his companions, and the fast team counts victory. There is also a special rule in the competition: once the "fruit" falls out of the circle on the run, students must pick it up and put it in the circle, and start from scratch to let them experience the hard-won food.
At the end of the half-hour recess, the students were sweating profusely, but they were still unsatisfied. Zhu Tie, head of the physical education teaching and research team of Huaihai Middle Road Primary School, smiled: "Such a race must be compared to speed, but also test their physical control ability, the 30-meter track is divided into two sections, students run too slow to win, rush too fiercely, stop 'sowing' and 'picking up fruits' Time has to increase." ”
The school's sports field is small, and according to the convention, many projects cannot be carried out effectively. But it was Zhu Tie and Ma Tianhui, two full-time physical education teachers, who managed to combine traditional physical training and games to design fun and effective team games.
The "Monthly Competition", which is attended by all students in the school for 15 years, has been carried out in the school for 15 years, and the theme of each month is different, and the format and details of the competition will be adjusted accordingly. Students are also more interested in sports in competitions.
The same 400-meter run was split into 25×16 round-trip runs on the 30-meter-long playground, and various obstacles were set up in the middle of the way to require students to cross, jump and drill. For example, the traditional sports game "Ant Move", which originated from the outdoors, has also been moved into the classroom, through the change of formation, equipment handling, so that students can play sports through teamwork, coupled with music, even if the weather is bad, students can have fun indoors.
Not only that, the two physical education teachers also designed a number of home-child interactive sports projects, which were personally demonstrated by the teachers and filmed and released, and encouraged students and parents to move together by organizing "cloud competitions".
Behind the "rapid progress" of sports performance, there are two "invisible" "files"
At Huaihai Middle Road Primary School, Zhu Tie has been a physical education teacher for 26 years, and colleagues call her "Iron Blood Teaching Head". In her computer, there was a huge folder. Inside was a sports profile she had recorded for every student she had taught. From the first grade to the departure, after everyone's name, there are nearly a hundred numbers and notes: jump rope, broadcast exercises, forward rollover... These numbers, measured in weeks, record each student's completion and progress in sports at home and at school. It is these numbers that draw the "growth curve" of students' physical fitness and physical exercise indicators: almost all the way up.
Take Xiao Chen, a student in class two (1), as an example. His sports profile shows that before entering school last year, Xiao Chen could only jump 9 jump ropes a minute, and on September 6 last year, his first school test, his score was 14. Just over two months later, on November 15, his jump rope performance at home had climbed to 104. Today, Xiao Chen's one-minute jump rope score has stabilized at more than 130, which has long exceeded the full score level in the "National Student Physical Health Standards". In the archives, in addition to Xiao Chen's half-minute and one-minute jump rope situation, there are also some shortcomings in the forward rolling and broadcasting exercises...
Many people do not know how much time and energy Teacher Zhu has silently invested behind this detailed sports file.
On weekends, dozens of parents sent a one-minute video of the student jumping rope, and she looked at it one by one, not only to see the movements, but also to count them one by one. "In order not to increase the burden on parents, I will count their grades in turn, and then inform parents whether the children have made progress." When I encounter a student whose level has dropped, sometimes as soon as he enters the school, I will send him a rope and stare at him to 'make up for the shortcomings', and the home and school work together to improve their sports level. Teacher Zhu told reporters.
Why spend extra time doing such a "sports profile"? In Mr. Zhu's view, the "sports file" can outline the movement curve of each student's personality. "When every grade and every progress of students is clearly recorded, on the one hand, we have evidence in teaching, on the other hand, students know that teachers will pay attention to their every grade, and it is naturally not easy to slacken off." On the form, there are also notes for students with wrong movements, which can also help them correct them in a more targeted manner. ”
In addition, Mr. Zhu also designed a paper "award file" for each student. The "reward file" is more detailed, in the unit of days, and Mr. Zhu "adds points" according to the students' sports performance in class, school and home every day, and different scores correspond to different prizes. Among them, there are small awards and small prizes purchased by Mr. Zhu at his own expense according to the students' preferences, as well as the "hard currency" HAPPY card redeemed on campus. With the HAPPY Card, students can exchange their favorite gifts at the beginning and end of each semester.
Every day when she returned to the office after class, the first thing Teacher Zhu did was to update the "reward file" of each class. "Let students know their 'exchange' ability in a timely manner, and also let them be more active in 'moving'." Teacher Zhu told reporters.
At Huaihai Middle Road Primary School, the most popular activities for students every year are the game festival and sports festival held before May Day and New Year's Day. "The sports festival is held in winter, and it is also hoped that students can brave the cold and stick to the good habits of sports." Zhang Min, principal of Huaihai Middle Road Primary School, told reporters that over the years, the school attaches great importance to students' physical exercise, but due to the limitations of the venue conditions, teachers have brainstormed, combined with classic items such as running and jumping rope, so that students can practice more interestingly, so that the concept of happy sports and healthy life has taken root in the hearts of children from an early age.
Reporter's Note:
Harvest the joy of growth in the fun of running
It was a completely incidental interview. From contacting the school to stepping into the playground, it takes only half an hour. Under the blazing sun in early autumn in Shanghai, the reporter heard and saw that the whole school teachers and students on the playground cheered and shouted wave after wave, ran and played contentedly, and truly felt their love for this "pocket playground".
In the eyes of principal Zhang Min, this playground is the only outdoor sports "treasure land" for children. Therefore, even in recent years, with the decline of the number of students in the school, the number of full-time physical education teachers has dropped from seven to two, but they want every child to adhere to the motivation and efforts of happy sports, has not changed. Whether it is a monthly competition, a sports festival or a game festival, activities are never "suspended" due to weather reasons, and teachers always pay attention to the weather forecast, and as soon as there is good weather, they immediately move.
Teacher Zhu Tie remembers that in the past, she used to let parents send her videos of children jumping rope on weekends, so her weekends were always extra busy and fulfilling. Busy because she has to count dozens of videos one by one; enrichment is because when she carefully watches these videos, she has a little more understanding of the children's athletic ability and physical fitness.
Today, under the five regulations, parents no longer send videos, but she still thinks of ways to "inquire" about children's sports at home. Therefore, when Teacher Zhu opened the laptop at the request of the reporter, the detailed and detailed EXCEL form made people read from it that the teacher was full of care for the students.
Perhaps, these persistences, day after day, year after year, are the mystery of students' health and happiness.
Author: Wang Xing
Edit: Wang Xing