Stop the involution, only grasp these two core advantages, let the baby enter a famous school, and after listening to it, I really realized...

 Highlights Nowadays, education is always used to adding, and every parent is afraid that they will not be able to give their children the best, and they expect to be outstanding in all aspects. And as society becomes more and more involuted, parents are becoming more and more anxious. However, we have also seen that some families are choosing a more peaceful and not harmonious, middle but not mediocre path, not rolling or lying down, and devoting limited resources and energy to the most important core literacy of their children......

Text丨Kochagin ed.丨Leon

I once happened to see a sentence written by Mr. Wan Wei, the principal of Shanghai Pinghe Bilingual School. "What determines a child's future is what they do in their free time," he said. ”

Taste a product, I really feel more and more level. A word is worth a thousand words.

A future writer is unlikely to be a diligent reader in the classroom when he is young, and a future scientist is unlikely to be able to think only in the classroom as a child.

What children are willing to do in their leisure time is what they really get used to, and what they will look like when they grow up.

In the new year, the Bund Jun has had continuous exchanges with many parents, teachers, and institutions, and found that at present, anxious families are still focusing on "results", while wise families are already doing subtraction, focusing on the cultivation of children's "habits". In the end, the anxious ones become more anxious, and the flabby ones become more relaxed.

Especially in primary school, students learn too early and learn more books than their peers...... What's the use? The result of being too extreme is another epidemic of modern diseases -- "hollow heart disease." And the real advantage of children is to build up their habits and focus on the future. In this way, even if you are temporarily behind, it will be easy to build momentum later.

So, what are some of the best things for children to do in their free time?

Perhaps, the choice of peaceful parents is worth referencing: less mental internal friction, more breaking! Don't think that children can transform into hexagonal warriors from an early age, and they will bear fruit in every way. Before middle school, put an end to "bells and whistles", you might as well focus on the child's two habits, and you can do it.

Yes, there are two habits in the big picture. As Principal Wan Wei said, the core disciplines of the school will definitely be reduced in the future. In his opinion, there are only two real core subjects, one is physical education and the other is reading.

In April, we set off to "learn from the scriptures".

Located in Pudong, the Bund, Jun visited a lot, a few days ago, we turned around and came to the beautiful scenery of Qingpu Pinghe.

"Village-style" design, beautiful Qingpu peaceful campus

More than 80% of the students are enrolled in the direct branch of Pinghe High School, which has attracted attention for its high-end design, beautiful campus and luxurious facilities since its opening. However, I didn't expect that under the "big and beautiful" appearance of Qingpu Pinghe, there were so many details hidden that in many ways, it was hard to believe that it was a young school's accumulation......

Make the library itself readable

Many parents have seen it and said that the campus of Qingpu Pinghe School is really beautiful. Especially the library, which looks like a blue whale and is as beautiful as an Internet celebrity check-in place - of course, in the general "Internet celebrity library", most people are in a concave shape, and few are reading books.

Under the cover of night,"

Blue whale "library".

But in Qingpu, the atmosphere is the taste of learning. Even after school hours, we still saw waves of students of all sizes rushing into the library, either sitting to read, or taking books to borrow, or communicating and discussing.

On the day of our visit, we were impressed by a second-grade boarding girl, who left only a quiet silhouette under the abundant light by the window, and time seemed to stand still because of her.

From the librarian, Mr. Chen, we learned that this little student would appear in the library every day after school, and when he came, he would find a place to read seriously, and he was very autonomous.

After discovering that she was also very interested in reading and sharing, Ms. Chen also encouraged her to participate in the reading exchange meeting in the junior high school.

Mr. Chen has rich work experience and is an excellent reading promoter in Shanghai, and a key librarian of primary and secondary school libraries in Shanghai. Unlike the regular grade teachers, Ms. Chen and her colleagues work with students from all grades, so they all have professional reading concepts and skills to match the differences in reading at different levels.

The teachers in the library silently observe each child every day to understand their personality, style and reading preferences.

The library is super large and clearly categorized

Students are sharing their books

Not only to promote children's autonomy, the teachers themselves have shown a very "peaceful" side, even in non-working hours, they will continue to take the initiative to think, what other creative reading activities can be brought to children? how to let students with different characteristics and preferences can participate in their own reading actions, how to make the power of reading more enthusiastic among children?......

Ms. Chen admits that in her opinion, the work of the campus library has long been out of the past monotonous and rigid model of "taking care of the space and books", and it is precisely in the current era that it is very necessary to take the initiative to explore the field. And she leads the team to always believe that every step of their efforts may bring some children to a new world of reading.

For example, on the occasion of the "Reading Festival" of Qingpu Pinghe Library, there are wonderful reading creative activities in the library every week. Last week, for example, there was an ingenious "Enjoy What You Want" story continuation game.

On the bulletin board in the library, the librarians and teachers set up several interesting stories at the beginning, allowing students to play freely to pick up the following stories. In the case of first and second graders who are too young, the teachers will "tour" the classes directly and let them express themselves verbally.

Children's imagination is unlimited, creating stories such as "Forest Exploration", "The Story of the Little Policeman", "Food Falling from the Sky", etc., from these "strange and cute" small works, you can discover the infinite potential of children's divergent thinking.

Mr. Chen came to Qingpu Pinghe a few years ago and felt that the library here was "different". One of her words sparked our curiosity: "A good library itself should be readable." ”

After an in-depth conversation with Mr. Chen, we found that Qingpu Pinghe Library is more like an organically growing living entity than a "place" for reading.

The school is willing to let go in all aspects, giving the stage to the students and seeing every child. Reading is no exception.

The library has set up a "Reading House", where each class selects a child who loves reading and is willing to contribute to the promotion of reading, as a link between the library and the class. "Reading Reader" not only provides students with an opportunity to grow and exercise, but also makes them realize that reading is not a one-way, passive input thing, but requires them to rely on their own strength to lead and promote.

This position is very sought-after, and children need to give speeches and interviews in order to run for election. After becoming a "reader", I also have to hold regular meetings every week, go to the library on duty, and learn library knowledge. Young "readers" not only need to do their duty, but in order to promote their interest in reading, they have to wonder how to make a book move others quickly.

In order to stimulate the reading motivation of all students, in addition to the weekly library self-selected courses (mainly in the form of independent reading and sharing and communication), teachers will also deliberately create opportunities for some children who need to "push".

This year, there is a lively and active child, who is a little naughty on weekdays, and his classmates didn't expect him to become a "reader" this semester. It can only be said that the teacher is well versed in the psychology of the children - after this child became a "reader", he changed his normal seriousness and meticulousness, and in the sharing and exchange meeting in the library a few days ago, he did a lot of homework and wrote several pages of reading notes, just to be able to make a wonderful display.

The ultimate meaning of promoting reading is not to make a top student become a god of learning, but to let every child deeply participate in it and develop a lifelong reading habit. The so-called organic growth is to sow the seeds of freedom, take root of habits, and let them blossom into the fruits of individuality.

Learning must be "interesting, informative, and persistent"

Shifting the perspective from the beautiful "Blue Whale" to the daily classroom, we found that Qingpu Pinghe did at least three key things right.

In fact, to put it bluntly, it is also aimed at the three pain points of children's reading: no interest, wandering, and giving up halfway. Let's see, how many of your children have hit?

 1. Reading without disappointment 

When it comes to interest cultivation, people are often in a hurry to talk about "internal drive". But in fact, when children are still young, they are still in a period of enthusiastic exploration of the surrounding environment, and it is difficult to have a particularly stable internal motivation, so it is necessary to cultivate it. During this critical period, educators use more snacks, and children can be less hindered.

In Qingpu Pinghe, the first and second grades, whether it is Chinese and English, are mainly picture books. In addition to pictures and texts, the teacher also introduces a large number of audio-visual texts, such as cartoons, documentaries, etc.

Even subjects such as mathematics and science are learned through picture books at a young age. For example, "A House on 100 Floors" is used for mathematical enlightenment, helping children recognize numbers from 1 to 100, cultivating their sense of space and direction in mathematics through drawings, and matching abstract numbers with houses in life, so as to bring mathematics to life......

Teachers pay great attention to providing a platform for children to share and showcase. As Ms. Gao Wen, the Vice Principal of the Primary School, emphasized, every child should be seen.

For example, there will be sharing and exchange activities such as the "Hundred Small Lectures", and the English teacher will give students a few minutes before the official start of each class to freely introduce the topics they are interested in recently.

In the process of reading, both Chinese and English are emphasized, grasping the big and letting go of the small.

In English class, the teacher will not pay close attention to every word and grammar, but let the children express themselves freely, and it doesn't matter if they are wrong or not, and give them enough space and desire to express themselves.

In terms of providing students with a rich and diverse teaching that is close to their individual needs, Qingpu Pinghe also has a set. For example, when students in grades 1 to 4 are taught English reading, the school adopts the model of cooperative teaching by Chinese and foreign teachers:

Rather than sticking to the traditional model of "foreign teachers giving lectures and Chinese teachers assisting", Chinese and foreign teachers adopt different cooperative class modes in the classroom, design diversified teaching activities according to the important and difficult points of each reading class, and integrate the advantages of Chinese and Western teaching methods.

Emphasis is placed on individualized instruction, focusing on each child's learning characteristics, interests, and ability levels. After understanding the specific situation of students' reading habits, comprehension, vocabulary accumulation, etc., teachers can provide targeted support and challenges in the teaching process, and at the same time will make real-time adjustments and innovations...... Wait a minute.

It can be said that no matter what kind of pace and characteristics children are in, they can find their own joy in reading in Chinese and English, and they will not be afraid of difficulties.

At the same time, reading is also heavily combined with extended project-based learning. For example, in the fifth grade this year, in the English class, the children learned about plants in class, and the teacher really took them to plant them in the small vegetable plot of the school after class.

At the recent language festival, the children's activities were also very interesting. The first grade excerpts sentences about spring, the second grade reviews the delicacies of various cuisines, the third grade learns about the characteristics of different traditional festivals, the fourth grade writes poems on umbrellas and fans and scores the poems, and the fifth grade adapts the four famous works in a dramatic way.

Look, to make children read without disappointment, the teacher has to put so much thought into it.

 2. Efficient persistence 

Of course, it's not enough to just let students "catch a cold", if there is no way to read, no strategy, you can only watch the flowers and geese without a trace.

Principal Gao introduced that Qingpu Pinghe really treats reading as a course.

Whole book reading begins in the first grade of primary school, 1st and 2nd grades are picture books, 2 reading classes a week, 3rd to 5th grade involves classic classics, 1 lesson a week, in English, in the 5th grade, the whole book is read for 3 class hours a week, which is quite large, in addition, there is morning reading.

The learning of all subjects is closely based on reading. The same is true for math and science subjects.

In fact, children who lack reading ability may not even be able to understand the test questions, not to mention that reading is a necessary stepping stone for learning no matter which subject.

The school library has a dedicated STEM reading area

Qingpu Pinghe's STEM curriculum is divided into reading based on pre-class preview, reading tasks used as scaffolds for understanding experimental principles during class, and reading after class as knowledge expansion...... In each process, the teacher provides the child with a supplementary reading list for reading.

"In addition to cultivating students' correct reading habits in the nature curriculum, it can also help them better integrate theory and practice. Principal Gao explained.

There are also children who only read the text mechanically when reading without deeply understanding the meaning and context of the text. This can lead to a lack of understanding of what they are reading, making it difficult for them to form a complete body of knowledge.

At this time, the role of the teacher is to be a good scaffold. For example, in the whole book reading and group reading, the teacher will wait for the students at each "intersection" and give them appropriate points to help them master the correct reading methods, such as skipping reading, skimming, intensive reading, etc., and think more deeply about the connotation of the article and form their own opinions.

If you have a method, you have to stick to it. Since the establishment of the school, Qingpu Pinghe has promoted the Chinese "Reading Marathon" activity and the English "RAZ reading" project, mobilizing students to insist on reading in Chinese and English every day, rating reading stars, and using corresponding reading data analysis to strengthen reading habits, improve reading "time" and "quantity", and exercise various reading abilities.

World Book Day, which is celebrated at this time of year, can be called a reading carnival for the whole school. The library holds a month-long "Reading Festival" to showcase children's reading gains in a variety of ways.

Principal Gao said with a smile that in Qingpu Pinghe, children's reading habits are as natural as eating and sleeping. And independent readers, even in middle and high school, have little to worry about in their studies.

Sport helps children face an uncertain future

From the library all the way to the classrooms, to the running track that surrounds the entire school, the panoramic canopy swimming pool...... As we deepened our visit, we felt that Qingpu was more than just a beautiful landscape, and that the educators here were very aware of what they were doing and why.

Macroscopic and detailed, this is not something that a young school can easily do - it is reasonable to guess that Qingpu Pinghe has stood on the shoulders of the head school for more than 20 years, so although it is new, it is also old. It may be strange to say this, but it is not a contradiction.

For example, sports, a lot of schools are building beautiful stadiums, and that's nothing. But what is the meaning of sports and what is the core of sports? Few people have seriously thought about this question.

Ms. Ding Li, Vice Principal of the Primary School, pointed out that physical education and reading are not separated. Just as reading is based on a curriculum of many subjects, physical education is also closely linked to mental health and learning.

On the surface, Qingpu Pinghe has a lot of "fancy" sports, such as water sports, which even the head school is envious, taking advantage of the geographical advantage of being close to the Dianpu River, successfully doing kayaking and rowing projects, and introducing internationally certified professional water sports coaches; American football is also a major strength, Qingpu Pinghe is the only school in Shanghai that has both primary and junior high schools equipped with American football teams.

Children are happily kayaking

However, it was not these things that impressed the Bund, but when Principal Ding "treasured everything", what kind of exercise can exercise which muscle group of the child, why should he take the child to do more "proprioception", that is, the exercise that uses core strength, and why and how to take the child to do sensory integration training...... The education of a school is based on these meticulous, scientific and holistic thinking.

Qingpu Pinghe tends to focus on children's concentration, which is colloquially known as "high-end attention". High-end attention not only requires children to be doing what they are interested in without being distracted and distracted by the outside world, but also requires children to consciously know what tasks they need to complete, even if there are many distractions from the outside world, and still be able to maintain a high level of attention for a period of time.

High-end attention requires adrenaline and dopamine, and in sports, programs that use core strength can release them, so schools will vigorously promote baseball, football, football, etc.;

Principal Ding said that don't think that "sensory integration training" is something mysterious and lofty, Qingpu Pinghe does it every day. For example, some children's vestibular sense is underdeveloped, resulting in sensory integration disorder, and they are prone to falling when walking, so the teacher will take them to do balance balls, alternate left and right exercises, etc., and suggest that parents take their children to swing more;

In addition to working on large muscle groups, activity for small muscles is also important. "Especially for first-grade children, you will find that some children have underdeveloped small hands and are more tired of holding a pen and writing, so you need to take them to do more exercises to exercise small muscle groups, such as paper cutting, beads, stickers, ......etc."

Every project is directed, purposeful, and nested within a larger strategy. What are the details of education?

In addition, in order to mobilize children's enthusiasm for sports, the school has also put a lot of thought into the fun of sports. For example, a variety of sports club courses have been opened, including rugby club, fencing club, taekwondo club, boxing club and swimming club.

A variety of fun games are held, such as five-person six-legged, long-pole running, kangaroo melon transport, caterpillar and other group events, as well as shuttlecock kicking, hand and foot use, penguin walking, 60s shooting, fun football shooting, frisbee nine-square grid and other individual events.

Rugby is also one of the characteristic sports of Qingpu Pinghe

According to the physical education teacher's estimate, Qingpu Pinghe's children have at least two hours of outdoor exercise time every day.

Similar to reading, whether it is a Chinese teacher or a foreign physical education teacher, they pay attention to seeing every child, so that each child can enjoy and benefit from sports, and use more encouragement and teamwork in teaching.

In today's high rate of childhood obesity, the school also has a special "Little Fat Dun" program, not only in terms of medical treatment, diet, and health care, but also teachers will pay attention to and control them behind the scenes, and guide them to do outdoor games and sports inside and outside the classroom.

Some parents sign up for sports similar to triathlon for their children for the purpose of losing weight, and the result is that the weight loss is successful, but it becomes the least important thing, because the children really fall in love with sports.

It is better to raise the poor and the rich

Exercise is not only a brutal physique, but also a strong spirit. The spirit and culture of sport accompanies students after they leave the campus and with them throughout their lives.

It can be seen from Qingpu Pinghe's high confrontational sport such as rugby as a major feature that the school attaches great importance to honing children's character. Principal Ding added that one of the most important lessons for the water sports team is to learn how to fall into the water first, just like when learning roller skating, learn how to wrestle first.

The resilience and courage of courage can be attributed to another major framework of Qingpu's peace - cultivation education.

From the beginning of the establishment of Qingpu Pinghe, special emphasis has been placed on the cultivation and education of students - ability may determine whether a child can fly high or not, and parenting can determine how far a child can fly.

Just like Principal Ding's witty sentence: "In the past, people said that boys are poor and girls are rich." But no matter how rich or poor you are, it is not as good as upbringing. ”

To some extent, parenting is armor that can protect a child's body. Therefore, at the beginning of school, children are taught how to control their volume on different occasions and show appropriate manners and demeanor.

Detail control has appeared again - details, always details, can see a school's real intentions, real background.

For cultivation education, Qingpu Pinghe has formulated quite a lot of detailed and specific rules and etiquette, such as "55 Details of Qingpu Pinghe Cultivation Education".

For example, the use of volume can be broken down into five degrees. Under what circumstances should you be absolutely quiet, when you can speak quietly and quietly to your classmates, when you need to express your thoughts and thoughts fairly clearly, loudly and politely, and under what circumstances can your child be allowed to be unrestrained occasionally......

But at the same time, cultivation education is moisturizing things silently, infiltrating students' daily learning and life, and infiltrating all aspects of students' interactions with others.

Teachers, whether they are subject teachers, class teachers, physical education teachers or life teachers, the whole team will develop education topics, such as academic integrity, personal hygiene, dining etiquette, dress code, assembly etiquette, toilet civility and so on. Through different forms such as flag-raising ceremonies, theme class meetings, celebrations and subject activities, we help children to establish morality and become gentlemen.

For example, in the library, the children's "first lesson in entering the library" is the education of behavioral rules, guiding children to learn to "make friends" with the library correctly, and presenting the library's code of conduct to children in the form of vivid animations and performances.  

For example, in the process of reading, children will also learn how to respect each other, be courteous to others, and live with each other in friendship. It's like the picture book "Have You Filled Your Bucket?" mentions, "When you take the initiative to help others, you are adding water to someone else's bucket, and when you gain respect, help and kindness from others, it is someone else who is adding water to your bucket." "Children realize that only by respecting each other and being courteous to each other will everyone's bucket be fuller and happier.

Conclusion: The Triumph of Long-termism

There is another point that I want to write in the back, which is also very impressive to us, that is, another important thing that Qingpu Pinghe thought about and did thoughtfully-

Such a group of enthusiastic and meticulous educators still never thought of "arranging" education. Ping Hoa has always believed that education is not just a school business, and the influence of parents on their children is undoubtedly huge. Home-school co-education is an unchanging premise for Qingpu Peace.

Ordinary but not mediocre, harmonious but different

In reading, the school has set up a special book area and a home education module for parents. It not only pioneered the setting up of the "VIP Parent Reader Mechanism" for parents to open borrowing, but also regularly held parent reading sharing meetings, led the "Family Book Club", empowered parents to carry out parent-child reading, and used reading to strengthen the linkage between home and school, and become a bond to strengthen the intimate relationship between parents and children.

In terms of physical education and cultivation education, the school has activities such as the Dad Football Team, the Mom Dance Troupe, and the Parent-Child Cycling Team......

In a sense, these actions are not the "obligation" of the school, but Qingpu Heihe still does it with his heart. We also suddenly understood why this school is so trusted by so many families in Shanghai. At the same time, many parents' parenting concepts have also quietly changed due to peace.

President Wan Wei said that we can no longer just give students some fixed skills today. For example, in the past, it was said that learning mathematics, physics and chemistry is not afraid to go all over the world, this concept does not exist, we must teach children some basic things, so that they can face this unknown world with these things.

"In life, only sports and reading can be disappointed. "The famous words of Wanxiao have now become one of the most important guidelines of the Heiwa School.

If the body, mind, and mind are strong, how can the future be unpredictable? Only by cultivating children's core habits can we win the victory of long-termism.

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