Cover news reporter Zhang Zheng
In 2008, Chen Qiuju, who was under the age of 18, graduated from normal school and went alone to teach at Leyang Primary School in Ziyang, Sichuan Province, a rural school more than 30 kilometers away from the county seat. She was stunned by the sight before her: the school building was dilapidated and the living environment was difficult, but there were the kindest and simplest children and the loveliest teachers. So she chose to stick to rural education.
In 2015, because of a report in the West China Metropolis Daily, the most beautiful rural teacher entered the public eye and was fortunate to become the winner of the first Ma Yun Rural Teacher Award. Five years later, this post-90s female teacher who walked on the rural wilderness witnessed the earth-shaking changes in the school and went on a TV show with her rural children. On December 30, 2019, as an outstanding representative of women, Chen Qiuju became the winner of the 2019 "Fengge" Female Elite Award hosted by Cover News.
After 12 years of rural education, Chen Qiuju said that she found her own professional happiness.
Most exciting: 12 years of witnessing the school's great changes
When interviewing Chen Qiuju, she was confident, generous and beautiful, wearing a camel coat with a floral black dress and delicate makeup.
The road of 12 years of rural education has made her change from an ignorant girl to a confident and independent female representative: "I have witnessed the earth-shaking changes in the school, and witnessed the school getting better and better. ”
When she first arrived at Leyang Elementary School, Chen Qiuju was not used to it. There are more than 30 kilometers from the home in Lezhi county to the school, and it takes more than 2 hours by bus. "The living conditions around me are inconvenient, and I have to bring vegetables for a week." Carrying heavy luggage, when I arrived at school, I was basically gray-headed.
After 12 years, the government paid for it, the school building was renovated, and the children were replaced with brand new desks and new computers. "The Jack Ma Rural Teacher Award has also made me famous in the county, and many enterprises and caring people have contacted me to donate books to us and donate money to children from poor families."
Today, the first graduates she taught have gone to the third year of junior high school, many students have been admitted to the best junior high school in the county, and many people are at the top of the class, which makes her feel very pleased.
Proudest: Getting my students on a plane for the first time
The "Jack Ma Rural Teacher Award" also allowed this post-90s girl to see the bigger world. "I'm most proud of letting my students get on a plane for the first time, the first time they're on TV!" After winning the award, Chen Qiuju was invited by Hunan Satellite TV's "Every Day Upward" program to share the stage with Zhao Wei and Wang Han. What excited her the most was that the program team secretly brought dozens of children in the class to the scene!
"I love traveling, and when I became a teacher, I found out that travel not only broadened my horizons, but also allowed my children to see the bigger world through my vision." "Travel with Dreams" fulfilled her wish to go to Egypt to teach domestic students through the Internet. Under the pyramid, she held up a selfie stick and used her mobile phone to give the first live lesson of her life to rural children.
In 2016, at the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, Chen Qiuju was selected as a character in CCTV's external propaganda film, and appeared to the world as a representative of young teachers in the film...
Biggest wish: Publish a book
"The Jack Ma Rural Teacher Award is my starting point." The training after the award also made her feel deeply. "Including Ma Yun and successful people from all walks of life, giving us lessons is refreshing, letting us understand that learning is not only about listening to peers, evaluating classes, listening to lectures in the industry, but also more fresh knowledge."
Now, Chen Qiuju has also become a judge of the Ma Yun Rural Normal Student Award, and has also become a disseminator of rural education.
"Charity is giving, and philanthropy is influencing." After winning the award, Chen Qiuju was even more precipitated. "The Jack Ma Rural Teacher Award has attracted me attention, changed my concept, and made me understand the need to use our power to influence more rural teachers and let the society pay attention to rural teachers, thus changing Rural Education in China."
After taking the initiative to fight, Chen Qiuju became a member of The Doctoral Workstation of Teacher Li Zhenxi. She followed Teacher Li Zhenxi to read education monographs, learn to write, visit and study in various places, and also opened her own WeChat public account, writing articles and sharing her children and her concept of education with more people. Today, more than 7,000 people have become her fans, and "80% of them are teachers." "My biggest wish is to publish a book!"
Chen Qiuju likes such a sentence: the self-confidence on the face, the kindness that grows in the heart, the bone qi that melts into the blood, and the strength that is carved into life. From 2008 until now, walking in the wilderness of rural education, this post-90s young woman has found her own professional happiness.
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