Good news
Pingshan District Tongxin Foreign Chinese School won
"Annual Award for Aesthetic Education Characteristic Schools (Parks)"
——Infiltrate students with the beauty of art to grow freely
The 9th "Shenzhen Education Reform and Innovation Forum", co-sponsored by Southern Metropolis Daily, Shenzhen Education Society, and Bay Area Education Research Institute of Shenzhen University, was launched in November 2023 to solicit the selection and solicitation of this year's "Shenzhen Education Reform and Innovation Award", aiming to build consensus on reform, create a good atmosphere for education reform, commend a number of advanced models, select a number of landmark events, compile a number of outstanding education reform achievements, and help Shenzhen education to take the lead in demonstration and high-quality development. After fierce competition, Tongxin Foreign Chinese School in Pingshan District won the "Annual Award for Aesthetic Education Characteristic School (Park)"!
Aesthetic Education Characteristic School of the Year Award
The award is a school award. It is used to commend schools that attach importance to aesthetic education, cultivate virtue with beauty, enlighten wisdom with beauty, build a diversified platform with beauty, build a characteristic curriculum system of aesthetic education, improve students' aesthetic literacy, and give every student the opportunity to receive high-quality aesthetic education, and make positive contributions to building a city of aesthetic education in Shenzhen.
Scope of Participation: Schools in the field of basic education in Shenzhen.
Tongxin Foreign Chinese School in Pingshan District, Shenzhen attaches great importance to the internationalization, modernization and personalized development of students, strives to create a diversified art curriculum, and puts forward the slogan of "infiltrating students with the beauty of art to grow freely" for all students, so as to improve the aesthetic and humanistic qualities of every student, so that every student can enjoy the opportunity to receive aesthetic education.
In recent years, the school has been committed to providing teachers and students with a superior platform for art teaching and personalized learning Xi, creating a good environment for art creation and learning Xi, actively reforming traditional teaching methods, cultivating a group of innovative teaching and research teams, developing a series of art characteristic course resource packages, improving the student evaluation system, and providing students with a stage for display, so that students can create and show themselves freely and boldly. At present, our school has formed a relatively mature curriculum system, and has achieved certain results at the provincial, municipal and district levels, which has been recognized by peers.
1. Pay attention to the construction of teachers and teaching venues, and promote high-quality art education
The art department of the school is equipped with 20 professional teachers, including 4 "backbone teachers" in the district, 4 "outstanding young teachers" in the district, and 5 with postgraduate degrees.
The school has set up a total of 10 art classrooms, including children's painting art room, ceramic art art room, printmaking room, Chinese painting room, calligraphy room, and oil painting room. There are 7 music rooms, 3 dance studios, 3 rehearsal rooms, 2 small black box theaters, and 2 large theaters, so that all students can learn Xi in professional art classrooms. At the same time, the school has also opened up a variety of art exhibition spaces for students.
2. Pay attention to the construction of characteristic courses,
Construct a scientific aesthetic education curriculum system
The curriculum is the main starting point for the implementation of aesthetic education, and the school's art department team has innovated and reformed the curriculum with beauty to provide students with a variety of aesthetic education courses. Our school divides the aesthetic education curriculum into four modules: "Characteristic School-based Curriculum", "Interdisciplinary Integration Course", "Characteristic Special Activity Course", and "Art Workshop Course/Music Club Course".
(1) Construction of school-based characteristic courses
With the combination of national curriculum and school-based characteristic curriculum, we innovate art education teaching methods according to local conditions, and explore simple, effective, distinctive and practical art education methods with integrated curriculum as a breakthrough, so as to effectively improve the teaching quality of art education.
In the selection of content for the implementation of school-based characteristic courses of fine arts, our school has set up different courses for students at different stages according to the curriculum standards and the age characteristics of students, so that students at different stages can not only Xi learn the content of national textbooks in school, but also learn more art knowledge and feel more artistic charm in Xi.
On the basis of the national textbook learning Xi, the "Music School-based Characteristic Course" of our school has added three modules: singing and playing, instrumental music and drama, and each grade is taught in large units.
(2) Carry out innovative art + integration courses
Through the design concept of large units and the characteristic implementation of discipline integration, students can feel beauty, express beauty, appreciate beauty, and create beauty, enrich and develop image thinking, stimulate innovation consciousness and creative ability, and comprehensively improve the quality of students.
The school integrates subject teaching and aesthetic education, excavates the genes of subject aesthetic education, stimulates the potential of teachers' aesthetic education, promotes the effective implementation of subject aesthetic education courses, and promotes the all-round development of students.
(3) Face-to-face students,
Ensure that everyone participates in the arts
The school innovates the content and form of activities, and opens various clubs and colorful art activities every semester, so that each student can voluntarily choose to participate according to their own interests and hobbies, so that students can show themselves, harvest success and build self-confidence in the activities.
(4) Art Workshops/Club Courses,
Promote the individualized development of students
The school has set up 5 personalized "characteristic workshop courses", including children's painting workshop, three-dimensional Chinese painting workshop, ink shadow puppet workshop, light and shadow installation workshop, fiber art workshop course, etc., to meet the artistic needs of students of different grades and different categories, so that students can show themselves in the workshop and strengthen their artistic Xi.
3. Home-school co-education,
Build a good aesthetic education ecology
The school creates various opportunities for friends and parents from all walks of life to understand the school's aesthetic education philosophy, opens art teaching classes to parents from time to time, displays the latest artistic achievements of students, and allows parents to participate in aesthetic education activities. For example, campus open days, family and friend group report performances, parents' meetings, family education and training, campus cultural activities and other forms, while inviting parents to observe, to promote the important position of aesthetic education in quality education to parents, so that parents can understand that aesthetic education is not only the traditional concept of "painting, singing, dancing and dancing", mastering a skill, but more importantly, cultivating students' sentiments, cultivating students' ability to understand, appreciate, create and use beauty.
4. Establish an evaluation and guarantee mechanism for aesthetic education,
Promote the sustainable development of arts education
The school actively carries out the evaluation of the artistic quality of primary and secondary school students, and explores the establishment of a diversified evaluation system for students' comprehensive literacy.
The first is financial security. In addition to allocating special funds for art education every academic year, the school also actively cooperates with well-known high-tech enterprises in the surrounding areas and sets up the "Salubris Elite Scholarship" to reward students with special skills and outstanding achievements in art and music, and guide students to develop individually in art.
The second is resource security. Make full use of social resources to expand and enhance the campus art space. Venue resources: Regularly organize students to observe high-end concerts, dramas and art exhibitions in art venues in the city and district, invite art groups to hold performances and exhibitions for students, carry out activities for artists to enter the campus, invite artists of all levels and types to enter the campus, so that students can communicate with artists face-to-face, feel the charm of art, and listen to the growth stories of artists.