Some time ago, there was such a clip in the popular TV series "Thirty Only": Gu Jia, one of the heroines, in order to find resources for her own fireworks company, painstakingly integrated into the "wife circle", she forced her children to learn equestrianism, which was called "there will be a plus point later", although the child expressed himself more than once that he did not like it.
In this era of "catching up with learning", parents like Gu Jia who do not hesitate to overpay their time, money and energy for the growth of their children are not in the minority, they hope that their children will become dragons, their daughters will become phoenixes, and they always hope that their children will win at the starting line. It's a love as a parent, and there's nothing wrong with that in itself. But does it really take so much money to cultivate your child's interests? Some projects that do not require high study fees must not meet the needs of raising children? Not really.
Look at the chess "plus"
13 years of exploration, the campus blows the "chess wind"
There is a primary school in Hefei, Anhui Province, where there are more mobile left-behind children, and many parents are busy making a living for their families all day, and may not be able to afford "aristocratic sports" such as equestrianism. But the children at this school grew up healthy and thriving, and their childhoods were happy and fulfilling; they enjoyed the wonders of flying horses in a small world— because they loved chess.
In the 676 original articles that Chess Friends have pushed in the past, many mention the help of chess for children's growth. Cultivate logical thinking ability, cultivate mental meditation ability, cultivate memory ability, cultivate frustration ability, cultivate competitive awareness, cultivate good mentality... It can be seen that these "plus points" are not less than equestrianism. Hefei Gedadian Primary School has long been aware of this, and for more than a decade, the school has worked hard to explore the relationship between chess activities and educating people.
This is a national chess school, but also a designated school for the children of migrant workers, as the name suggests, most of the children here are migrant left-behind children. Female chess master Zhao Yin became a teacher at Gedadian Primary School in 2015, specializing in children's chess teaching. "Chess activities have less economic investment and strong student interest, which is the most suitable special project for our school, and we have been exploring it for 13 years." She told her that GeDadian Primary School began to carry out chess curriculum activities in 2007, and in 2009, the school expanded the chess curriculum from the first few classes to promote it throughout the school, and set up a school team to develop the corresponding school-based teaching materials. Since then, this former rural primary school has begun to blow a fashionable "chess style".
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Teaching chess for many years, Zhao Yin's most intuitive feeling is: "Chess is a good frustrated education, but also a talking point for people to communicate with each other, in the process of learning chess can teach children to have the right response in adversity." He said that today's students are generally squeamish, which has a lot to do with the doting of parents. The school chess team has a very talented child, because he has no worries about food and clothing from an early age, and he has to be windy and rainy at home, resulting in "bad management", but after contacting chess, he has changed a lot. "Playing chess should be 'affordable to lose', and after playing chess, you must reconsider." The biggest change in this child is that he communicates with people more humility and has a much more restrained personality than before. ”
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In the process of establishing a chess school, the school has been cared for by leaders at the provincial, municipal and district levels. Chief Inspector Li Mingyang of the Provincial Department of Education personally wrote the inscription "Take Every Step of Life"; He Bingzhang, a provincial education expert, wrote the name of the new school; provincial leader Ye Ruqiang, director of the Provincial Department of Education Cha Haibo, municipal leaders Yang Zengquan and Jiang Hong, district leaders Hu Qisheng and other comrades have successively come to the school to guide and inspect the school's characteristic construction work. In the course of the establishment of chess characteristics, the school set up a leading group with chess characteristics, which was personally led by Wang Jun, the principal of the "number one", and a middle-level cadre was selected to be specifically responsible, adhering to the founding concept of "virtue with chess trees, enlightening wisdom with chess, taking chess into good health, and taking chess as fun", holding regular meetings of the leading group for the construction of campus cultural characteristics, adjusting and revising the stage goals and work measures according to the actual situation, and ensuring the smooth progress of the work of chess cultural characteristics. This vigorous "chess style" made Gedadian Primary School finally win the title of "National Chess Characteristic School" after unremitting efforts.
Chess classroom
In order to create a strong chess culture atmosphere, the school has opened up a "chess corridor" at the most eye-catching place in the corridor, opened columns such as "Chess Celebrity" Introduction, "Chess and Life", "Chess Heart Language", and created a separate chess classroom. Each issue of the blackboard newspaper will introduce some chess knowledge, so as to continuously attract students to participate in chess activities.
Chess Culture Square
At the same time, the school activated the campus network with chess characteristics, and the website has a special chess section. The school combines chess teaching with competition activities, and regularly holds school-wide chess competitions every year, and the chess tournament for 1,000 people and the star chess child selection activities will meet with teachers and students every year, triggering the participation of the whole school, and also regularly invite chess masters to the school to promote chess culture.
National chess master Zou Liwu and the little chess soldiers took a group photo
In order to let the children lay a solid foundation in chess theory, the school has cooperated with a number of chess masters and teachers to independently develop the school-based curriculum for the lower, middle and upper grades to popularize the whole school. In addition to the daily chess school class and the school team training class, the public welfare chess city children's palace interest class is also carried out on weekends and winter and summer vacations.
In the past 13 years, chess has long been an integral part of Gedadian Primary School. Zhao Yin told him that in the future, the school should continue to organize multi-level and multi-form chess competition activities to provide a stage for the whole school to practice chess; at the same time, take the opportunity of the creation of chess competitions to continue to do a good job in the construction of various training echelons.
Today's Gedadian Primary School is already a "big school" with two campuses in the south and north, and the new students in the south district will also integrate the special curriculum of chess after entering the school. Zhao Yin hopes that in the near future, every child here will play chess and learn the truth of "chess as life, life as chess" in the chessboard.
Original Author: Cool Enjoyment Communication Mei Qingshi