"Teacher Hu, what should my child do?"
Near the third year of high school, a parent of a student in Mr. Hu Xiaoming's class at Hailiang Experimental Middle School in Zhuji City, Zhejiang Province (hereinafter referred to as "Haishi") approached him and revealed his anxiety. It turned out that this student's grades have fluctuated greatly recently, and he is facing the pressure of going to school, and his self-confidence is gradually eroding. But her parents are far away, helpless, unsure how to encourage, and confused about their children's future plans.
After communicating with the parents, Teacher Hu analyzed the child's situation: although her grades are not outstanding in the class, she has a cheerful personality, enthusiasm and generosity, especially in hosting and speaking, and may be able to develop in this aspect in the future.
Coinciding with the parents' open day, Ms. Hu discussed with the parents and decided to give the planning task of this activity to this female student, and encouraged her to be the host of the parent-teacher meeting. On the day of the parent-teacher conference, the girl who was the host behaved comfortably on the stage, which was recognized by everyone, and the parents were also full of pride offstage. In this way, with the joint efforts of teachers and parents, parents were relieved, and they also saw the unique shining points and possibilities in their children, and the girl regained her former confidence and sunshine.
The story of Teacher Hu and her parents is not unique in Haishi, where teachers and parents are the "main force" of education, each other's most reliable teammates, and jointly write a beautiful chapter of home-school co-education. All this is inseparable from the changes and efforts that Haishi has been making in home-school co-education and management.
The system guarantees and supervision is well-organized
Sukhomlinsky once said: "Neither school education nor family education without school education can accomplish such an extremely small task as training people." "Family and school complement each other in a child's development. To this end, Haishi has established a complete home-school co-education system and handed over an exclusive answer sheet for home-school collaborative education.
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Establish parent committee organizations and deepen the functions of parent committees
Haishi formally established the parent committee in 2018. Over the years, the Haishi Parent Association has been playing the role of "voice", conveying the true voice of parents to the school; It is also a "communicator", ensuring the close connection between home and school, transmitting scientific and correct educational concepts to parents, and cultivating parents' awareness of home-school co-education; It is also a "supervisor", participating in the school's education and teaching activities, and providing suggestions for campus development.
In the process of practice, Haishi has continuously deepened the function of the parent committee, so that parents can deeply participate in school management and student activities. For example, patrol the discipline of the examination room, serve as the judge of the school food festival, Haishi Good Voice, etc., and combine family education with classroom cultural education, campus cultural activities, festival education and other school education. Through the implementation and deepening of a series of parent committee systems, parents have cultivated the awareness of home-school cooperation to cultivate students, and cooperate with the school to carry out educational work in a more proactive state.
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Open channels for feedback and improve parental supervision mechanisms
Haishi has established a complete multi-channel feedback system. In addition to the Student Rights Defense Center of Hailiang Education Management Group and the Education Compliance Supervision Committee, the school also uses the technology product "Hi Homeschool" to collect parents' opinions and suggestions on class management, student performance and logistics through anonymous questionnaires. After receiving the problem, each department responded positively, and timely fed back the results to the class teacher, and then the class teacher synchronized it to the parents, and strived to achieve a response and implementation of everything.
Last semester, some class teachers received some opinions from some parents in the class about the school canteen, and the school attached great importance to them and quickly invited several parent representatives to visit the canteen. The doubts and worries that parents had been hanging on to their hearts were all put to rest, and one of them said: "The school canteen is better and more reliable than the canteen in our unit!" In addition, the school will also push weekly canteen recipes to parents through "Hi Homeschool", so that parents can see it with peace of mind and students can eat with peace of mind.
Featured Activities Home-school interconnection
Home-school activities are also a major feature of the Haishi co-education model. Haishi will regularly organize and hold parent-teacher meetings, parent classes, parents' open days and other activities, which have many forms and rich content, providing parents with many ways to learn knowledge, communicate emotions and understand the school.
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Parent workshops to integrate scientific ideas
In recent years, students' mental health issues have become a hot spot in society. Haishi attaches great importance to students' mental health, equipped with three full-time mental health teachers, and set up a psychological consultation room, regularly carry out mental health lectures, at the same time, in the "Parent College" section of "Hi Home School" set up a mental health column for parents to understand and learn, through the above measures, guide and serve parents to pay attention to students' mental health status, master scientific family education methods, and create a happy and healthy growth environment for children.
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Organize open days for parents to strengthen home-school connectivity
Haishi holds regular parent open days every semester. When parents enter the school, they come to the classroom and listen to a lesson with them. Through this arrangement, parents can see the status of their children during the class and also monitor the quality of teaching in the school. In addition to learning about their children's learning and campus life, parents will also hear the principal's keynote speech and the speech of the parent committee. The Parent Open Day has become a good opportunity for parents and teachers to strengthen communication and understand students.
However, it is not easy to gather nearly 1,000 parents from all over the world at the same time, but Haishi can still overcome all difficulties with determination and enthusiasm, so that parents can send their children to school with peace of mind.
Technology empowers to establish a reputation
With the pace of digital transformation of Haishi, the school began to actively explore how to empower home-school management to improve quality and efficiency with the help of technology products.
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Leverage "Hi Homeschool" to carry out school-level home-school management
In the traditional home-school communication mode, the information transmission between the school and parents completely depends on the class teacher, and the transmission, collection and feedback of information are time-consuming and laborious, which adds a lot of burden to the work of the class teacher.
In December 2020, Haishi introduced "Hi Homeschool" and started home-school management at the school-level level. In this way, it can not only unify the school's information export, but also ensure the efficient transmission of information, solve the problems of too long information transmission links and too cumbersome class teachers' work, and reduce the burden and improve the efficiency of the overall home-school management work.
For example, on the eve of the holiday, the school directly pushes the "Safety Notice to Parents for Picking Up and Dropping Off Students" to parents from the school level through the electronic signature application of "Hi Homeschool", which saves the class teacher complicated data collection and sorting work by collecting parents' electronic signature documents and automatically classifying and archiving them.
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Play with new media to build the brand image of Haishi
In addition, Haishi also relies on various new media channels to strengthen publicity and guidance, making full use of the school's website, WeChat public account, Weibo and other platforms to present school education policies, work achievements and advanced models, so that parents can understand education, care about school teaching, pay attention to student growth, support educational reform and development, and create exclusive Haishi campus business card.
It is with an open and inclusive attitude to embrace change and embrace science and technology, so that Haishi can constantly adjust its management strategy in a timely manner with innovative thinking and positive attitude, constantly explore new models of home-school collaborative education, and continuously provide students with a better and healthier growth environment.
Through the unremitting cultivation and practice of home-school management model, Haishi's parent satisfaction has reached more than 95% for three consecutive years, ranking among the top three schools of Hailiang Education Management Group for a long time. In March last year, Haishi was selected as a model parent school in Shaoxing, and the home-school co-education work has been widely recognized and praised by the society.
Chasing the wind and chasing the moon does not stop, and at the end of the plain is Spring Mountain. Through institutional guarantee, activity innovation, and technological empowerment, Haishi's home-school co-education has achieved fruitful results, and also provided replicable and reference models and experiences for other schools. In the future, Haishi will continue to promote digital transformation and education, empower the new development of the trinity of parents, schools and society with scientific and technological means, gather new momentum for home-school co-education, and jointly promote the all-round development of students.