A few days ago, Zeng Pan, secretary of the Nanshan District Party Committee, led a team to Shekou Yucai Education Group Yucai Middle School to investigate, as soon as he entered the school, Zeng Pan and his party were attracted by the school's 2020 college entrance examination results and admissions exhibition board: Yucai Middle School's liberal arts and sciences excellent investment rate (key rate) ranked seventh in the city, of which science ranked sixth in the city, the key rate reached 81.95%, and won the "Shenzhen College Entrance Examination Excellence Award" for 18 consecutive years...
Founded in 1983, Yucai Middle School is a school founded by Mr. Yuan Geng, a pioneer of Chinese reform, which has cast the Shekou gene of "dare to be the first in the world" in its school philosophy, leaving a democratic, open and inclusive cultural background. In the long river of history, 38 years is not a long time, but Yucai Middle School and Shenzhen Special Economic Zone have grown together, linking the history and future of education in the special economic zone, inadvertently creating many "firsts" in China's basic education, and also becoming a shining business card of education in the special economic zone. Today, Yucai Middle School is full of vitality under the leadership of generations of outstanding helmsmen.
Yao Xiaolan, principal of Yucai Middle School, said: "Yucai Middle School is one of the three key middle schools identified by the Shenzhen Municipal Government in the early 1990s, and if you want to find an ideal high school on China's education map, Yucai will not be absent!" ”
It is reported that on May 16, Yucai Middle School will launch a demonstration school construction classroom teaching opening and discussion activities, sincerely inviting the city's junior high school students and parents to enter the classroom, while visiting the campus environment and sharing the concept of running a school, while increasing the understanding and grasp of the reform of "new curriculum and new teaching materials" under the background of the new college entrance examination. At that time, Yucai Middle School and Bao'an Middle School, which are also the base schools of Shenzhen Biology Discipline, will also join hands to carry out teaching and research activities. Members of the Teaching Guidance Expert Committee of the Ministry of Education will walk into the classroom to comment on the interaction.
This is a school that "dares to be the first in the world"
Yucai Middle School is one of the few high schools that has attracted many leaders of the Ministry of Education to visit. Not long ago, Lin Huiqing, former vice minister of education, came to Shenzhen and affirmed in her exchange with Yao Xiaolan: "Yucai Middle School is a high-quality school with a high level of education. ”
Yao Xiaolan proposed, "Good culture is a good curriculum, and good culture is a good education." "School culture is a very valuable spiritual wealth, which takes time to accumulate, and the difference between famous schools and non-famous schools lies in the unique culture of famous schools."
In 2004, Yucai Middle School stood at the forefront of the tide and became one of the two "Sample Schools of Curriculum Reform of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China" in Shenzhen, and became a necessary place for schools across the country to visit Guangdong for curriculum reform. In 2021, in the process of the new round of high school curriculum reform, Yucai Middle School was once again selected as a "demonstration school" in Shenzhen, a national-level demonstration area for the implementation of new high school curriculum and new teaching materials; at the same time, it has also become one of the two "subject demonstration bases" of high school biology; in the newly released list, Yucai Middle School has once again become a "school-based training demonstration school for primary and secondary school teachers in Guangdong Province"...
In the past 38 years, Yucai Middle School has formed a unique yucai culture: both "courage to dare to be the first", "open and inclusive atmosphere", and "confident and elegant underpinnings", students naturally infiltrated a unique "yucai temperament": self-confidence, sunshine, enterprising, inclusive - once popular in the country", "Flower Season • Rainy Season" truly recorded the whole picture of Yucai, and now, "Youth, We Are Different" large-scale youth campus inspirational drama has been filmed in Yucai Middle School; the country's first network operation literary society "Spring Rhyme" At the beginning of the year, it ushered in the official release of a set of five parts of the "20th Anniversary Of Chunyun Network Literary Series"; the "Youth Reading Class" born here has gone to the whole country... When Mo Yan held the youth reading book "Spring Rhyme" in his hand, he couldn't help but sigh: "If I could read such a set of books thirty-five years ago, I wouldn't be like this now." Now that I've read this set of books, I still feel some subtle changes in my heart! ”
At the coming-of-age ceremony in June 2020, Huang Jiaxi stood in front of the giant signed banner and solemnly wrote "bamboo sticks and shoes, stepping on the snow without a trace" for a long time. In September, when he held the acceptance letter of the Law Major of the School of International Law of China University of Political Science and Law in his hand, he was extremely grateful to the "Yucai Middle School" for its care for freedom and praise for nature: "I spent six happy years in Yucai, if three years ago, I had doubts about whether to 'go straight up', then three years later, I can give myself a satisfactory answer... After a long time, I still miss such talents, the principal who talked with us cordially between meals, the teacher Hu, who was kind-eyed and took good care of us, the atmosphere of free questioning in the classroom, and the precious friendship of equal communication between teachers and students and 'fighting side by side'! ”
The Yucai Debate Team defeated three Shenzhen university teams in succession to win the finals (the first from the right is Huang Jiaxi).
The practice of 38 years of Yucai schooling proves that every student in Yucai Middle School can carry unlimited potential and achieve longer development and remarkable achievements in the university and even in the future life, which is reassuring everywhere! ——This is the characteristic of Yucai students under the influence of the unique culture of talent cultivation.
This is a "everything for the students" school
During the two sessions of the National People's Congress, Tang Jiangpeng, principal of Xishan Senior High School, brushed the screen: "Scores are the unavoidable content of education, and schools that do not pay attention to academic achievements are irresponsible, but scores are not the fundamental goal of education..." Yao Xiaolan deeply agreed, he said that a good education ecology is not only good teaching quality, but also needs to boldly adhere to the direction of quality education, to achieve students' personality and all-round development. A good school should create a healthy educational ecology like a forest, and carefully care for the growth of each sapling with the school's culture, environment, curriculum, teaching, teachers, teacher-student relationship, home-school relationship, etc.
According to reports, including the "New Talent Program", Yucai Middle School focuses on eight major learning areas through six major plans, and each field goes deeper through the three levels of "basic curriculum, extended curriculum, and research course", promoting the entire curriculum system to fully dock with the new college entrance examination and boost the cultivation of students' personality.
Li Jingquan, a Yucai graduate who was admitted to the University of Chinese in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, recalled: "Many of the abilities I learned in Yucai have been continuously precipitated into wisdom on my way forward. Indeed, every day at five o'clock in the afternoon is the world of yucai students, tv stations, Spring Rhyme Literature Club, Debate Club, Street Dance Club, CrossTalk Club, Bridge Team, 404 Band, Naval History Research Club and other more than 100 elective courses, club activities for students to release their personality and display their talents. In the past three years, among the inquiry projects for primary and secondary school students in Shenzhen, More than 50 projects of Yucai Middle School have been shortlisted, and the number of projects has remained in the forefront of the city's high schools. In the second student skills competition in Nanshan District, the winning points of Yucai Middle School accounted for 37.64% of the total points of the high school, which was 156 points higher than the second place...
Huang Pengtao, a Yucai graduate currently studying at Beijing Normal University, remembers that "the countless brainstorming sessions in the maker lab and the countless days and nights of being alone in the lab when completing small projects enabled me to be eclectic and use the strengths of various disciplines for my own use." In order to greatly stimulate students' ability to innovate, the school has built five centers such as the "Chuang Lesson" Center, the Electronic Science Talent Incubation Center, and more than a dozen high-end laboratories such as drone laboratories, artificial intelligence laboratories, plant cell engineering laboratories, microscopic chemistry experience centers, 3D printing laboratories, and exploration space stations, all of which play a role in improving students' hands-on ability, research ability, practical ability, innovation ability, and cultivating students' comprehensive literacy such as innovative thinking...
Today, BGI's biology innovation laboratory in Yucai has also been completed, and the courses of "Fun Gene Testing" and "Future Genetic Engineer" have been launched first. Yucai Middle School Senior (15) Ban Li Yixuan sighed after class, "Entering the laboratory and looking around, as if I have been involved in biological research, the course on DNA involves more in-depth knowledge, which makes us eye-opening!" ”
More than a hundred years ago, Dewey said that "school is society" because good schools can cultivate students' ability to adapt to the future society. "We respect the rights of students and let students participate in the management of affairs, because the future society needs civic literacy; we pay attention to the individuality of students, meet the diverse development aspirations of students, give students the space for independent development, and provide opportunities for independent choice, because the future society needs the ability to challenge various challenges; the school is open to schools, building a bridge between the school and the society, because 'closed will form a closed personality, open can create an open personality'." Yao Xiaolan said that in the next step, Yucai Middle School will achieve further transcendence on the "curriculum map".
This is a school that has won the "College Entrance Examination Excellence Award" for 18 consecutive years
In January this year, the Shenzhen Municipal Education Bureau held the 2020 High School Education teaching work conference, at which the advanced units and individuals with outstanding performance in the 2020 college entrance examination were commended. Yucai Middle School won the "Shenzhen 2020 College Entrance Examination Work Excellence Award". The "College Entrance Examination Excellence Award" is the highest award of the Municipal Education Bureau for the work of the school college entrance examination, awarded to the high school with excellent college entrance examination results, and Yucai Middle School has won this honor for 18 consecutive years.
In the 2020 college entrance examination, Yucai Middle School ranked seventh in the city in terms of liberal arts and sciences (key rate), of which science ranked sixth in the city, with a key rate of 81.95%. Of course, to evaluate the academic processing ability of a high school, we must not only look at the online rate, but also look at the admission list of famous schools. In the 2020 college entrance examination admission list, students from Tsinghua University, Nanjing University, Zhejiang University, Southern University of Science and Technology, and Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) in Nanshan District are all from Yucai Middle School. In addition, in the list of other first-class universities admitted to Nanshan District, Yucai Middle School is also shining: Fudan University, Sun Yat-sen University, Hong Kong Chinese University (Shenzhen), Xiamen University, South China University of Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Beijing Normal University, half of the admissions come from Yucai Middle School... The number of people entering China's first-class universities in Yucai Middle School is the first in the region with an absolute advantage.
Yao Xiaolan said, "It is irresponsible for a school not to have good college entrance examination results! However, it is not enough to have college entrance examination results! Good school education must not only have college entrance examination results, but also cultivate students into talents who adapt to the future society, meet students' diversified development aspirations, pay attention to students' individual and individual needs, and provide students with opportunities and space for independent development. ”
Under the "concept of diversified talents", Yucai's graduates are not only learned, but also versatile, and a number of "star-studded" "star" figures have emerged: Li Luya and Zhu Yanqiao, the top six of Miss China of Phoenix Satellite TV in 2016, are Yucai alumni, of which the former won the third place and the only winner of the "Most Internet Popularity Award"; 2017 Miss China Top Six reproduced Yucai alumni Ding Zhongge; Yucai alumni Dong Feifei is a signed artist of the American Music Artists Association and the winner of the 14th Claiborne International Piano Competition. In 2016, he was selected by the Chinese Musicians Association as one of the top ten Chinese young pianists in the world by the "Huaxia Qinying"... Many Yucai students have been promoted to art academies such as the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the Central Academy of Drama, and the Central Conservatory of Music, and they have become excellent representatives of the diversified "yucai temperament".
As a model school for the integration of sports and education in Shenzhen, Yucai Middle School has created three elite teams of volleyball, swimming and football, and has become an "ace army" in Shenzhen's sports world. The men's volleyball team and women's volleyball team dominated the province, and the swimming team broke the national record one after another... A number of students have obtained the national first- and second-class athlete qualifications, and most of the volleyball and swimming teams have entered the 985, 211, and double first-class universities. Even the newly established football team has won the honor of "National Football Characteristic School" for the school in a short period of time with excellent results.
This is a school with an "Ace Master"
Yao Xiaolan said: "A good teacher is a good education! Whether a school has good teachers should be considered from the three aspects of age structure, professional ability and professionalism! ”
Yucai Middle School has a "trump card teacher", the combination of the old and the young, the structure is very reasonable: 10 ortho, special level, national outstanding teachers, more than 30 provincial and municipal backbone teachers, 63 senior teachers; of which between 30-49 years old account for 63.5%, mainly young and middle-aged backbone teachers, 71 teachers are key universities master's and doctoral, is the golden age stage of the career. The talents of the Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger are not lacking in the host of the provincial famous teacher studio, the outstanding training expert of the People's Education Publishing House, the core author of the textbook of the People's Education Publishing House, as well as the annual teacher of Shenzhen and the national outstanding teacher.
Li Zhonglai, the host of the Nanshan Famous Teacher Studio, was called "Little Horse Season" by the students. At the school animation festival, students even developed a series of literary works such as keychains, bookmarks, exam pads, stickers and so on in his image, which were snapped up by the "fan group" as soon as they appeared. The children all said, "Teacher Li has the skills to talk about mathematics class as crosstalk, shake a 'baggage' must follow the key points, and it is difficult to 'pass through the mouth' for a while." His original "reading + display board" teaching method makes the math class a thinking drill field. Over the years, Yucai's college entrance examination mathematics score has been at the forefront of the city.
Zhou Hongjie, a national outstanding teacher and director of education affairs of Yucai Middle School, is another "big god-level" figure, who was promoted to senior middle school teacher at the age of 28, was rated as a special teacher of middle school chemistry at the age of 35, and his teaching and research papers blossomed everywhere. Li Biye, who was rated as a special teacher of Chinese at the age of 39, took off many halos to return to Yucai and restarted; Tao Ming, who was once an "outstanding teacher of the whole army" who had won two second-class merits and one third-class merit, and Tao Ming, the host of the Famous Teacher Studio in Nanshan District, had given up his position as vice principal to come to Yucai... Such "immortal" teachers abound in education.
"It was Yucai who gave me a platform for independent teaching and research." Xia Xianping, a senior teacher, a special teacher, and a national biology teacher, is one of the core authors of the human-taught version of the high school curriculum standard "Biology" textbook, and now, his studio has cultivated a number of senior teachers, special teachers, and provincial famous teacher studio hosts.
It is worth mentioning that in all kinds of teacher business competitions organized by the higher education business department, regardless of the total number of awards and the number of first prizes, Yucai Middle School has always ranked first in the city and Nanshan District. Yucai teachers are full of feelings, elegant and confident, good at research, optimistic, and the "mentor system" is widely recognized by students, and the relationship between teachers and students is particularly harmonious. In addition, Yucai Middle School has also built a team of sports and arts education composed of world champions, Asian champions and national champions through the combination of its own potential and recruitment, leading students to achieve personalized development in many fields and achieve the requirements of the development of new college entrance examinations.
Yao Xiaolan said that the training of good teachers is divided into three levels, not only the improvement of professional ability, but also the construction of teaching and research ecology and the condensation of teacher culture. The teaching team of Yucai is working with Yucai students to move from excellence to excellence.
This is a "hardware-hardened" school
On May 5th, Yucai Middle School held a campus open day, and many parents and students who walked into Yucai could not help but marvel at the design of Yucai Teaching Building and forward-looking perspective: "Accordion folding classrooms, all single-sided buildings, north and south transparent, quiet and comfortable, to the greatest extent to avoid the next classroom string, like a string of beautiful notes, even if today it is not outdated!" "The excellence of Yucai Middle School is also reflected in its campus environment and architecture, at the beginning of its creation, the school's architecture gathered the advanced concepts and the highest design level at home and abroad at that time, and the dotted gardens dotted around the front and back of the teaching building, which were pleasant and pleasant, and a few more points of refinement and delicacy were written with care and care for teachers and students.
Yucai Middle School is also the first school in the city to have a swimming pool. Because of it, the summer physical education class of Yucai School was once changed to swimming class; because of it, Yucai has held national or provincial swimming competitions many times. Today, the heated swimming pool, badminton hall, volleyball hall, basketball court, dance room, etc. reconstructed from the original pool location are readily available, and the campus facilities have been upgraded again.
A few days ago, Zeng Pan went to Yucai Middle School to investigate and visit the overall environment of the school, and proposed that he hoped that the school could make full use of the holiday time to further renovate the old walls and ground of the campus, the quality should be good, the time should be fast, the materials should be environmentally friendly, and the district committee and district government will fully support the development demands of the school and create a better learning environment for Yucai students.
Yao Xiaolan revealed that thanks to the great importance attached to education by the Nanshan District Committee and District Government, this autumn, the accommodation conditions of Yucai Middle School will be greatly improved, not only the internal facilities will be renewed, all replaced by new wooden beds, to ensure that each dormitory does not exceed 8 people, and there will also be 4-6 honor dormitories to provide the most comfortable and modern learning and living environment for Yucai students.
【Principal's Philosophy】
Yao Xiaolan: Create a 3.0 version of the curriculum map to achieve a high-level "summit plan"
China's high school education is facing two major reforms: one is the comprehensive reform of the college entrance examination, that is, the new college entrance examination; the other is a new round of high school curriculum reform. Based on the school's understanding and positioning of the new college entrance examination, the strategy of coping with the new college entrance examination, and the work done around the new college entrance examination, the new round of reform is bound to cause some high school schools to reorder.
As a demonstration school in Shenzhen, a national-level demonstration area for the implementation of new curriculum and new teaching materials, Yucai Middle School not only lays the foundation and reform of "art" from the technical level, student planning and evaluation level, but also actively reconstructs the curriculum and improves classroom teaching from the perspective of coordinated development and transformation of high school education methods, helping Yucai students adapt to the diversified development path of the new college entrance examination.
In the next three years, the mission of Yucai Middle School is to bravely stand at the forefront of the construction of demonstration schools, take the lead in demonstration, and contribute to the high-quality development of high school education. In the three-year construction plan of the school, we have extracted eight major tasks, including curriculum construction, teaching improvement, education methods, school-based training, teacher development, education evaluation, smart campus and school culture, so as to promote the overall improvement of school work.
We will aim at the diversified development path of the new college entrance examination, actively reconstruct the curriculum, create the 3.0 version of the curriculum map, seamlessly connect with the general college entrance examination, the strong foundation plan, and the comprehensive assessment enrollment, focus on the improvement of students' key abilities, innovative thinking and comprehensive literacy; take the opportunity of a new round of high school curriculum reform to actively carry out teaching and research, creatively implement the national curriculum, develop students' core discipline literacy, and continuously improve teaching performance.
Shenzhen has only one talent. As the leading school of high school education in Nanshan District, Yucai Middle School has the unshirkable responsibility to achieve the "Summit Plan" at a high level.
(The original title was "Nanshan Excellence High School: From Sample School to Demonstration School, What is the secret of Yucai Middle School?) 》）
(Author: Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Daily reporter Yao Zhuowen / Wen Zhou Hongsheng Cheng Haikun / photo)