Peninsula All Media Reporter Huang Jinlong Correspondent Hu Xinrong
On March 1, the People's Daily published an in-depth report on "Exploring the Operational Mechanism of Collectivized Schooling in Multiple Places". Among them, Qingdao No. 53 Middle School is a typical representative of Qingdao Education Group School, which promotes a comprehensive, practical and in-depth and intensive "parent office in school" system, as an efficient operation path of group schooling, and is highly recommended. Family education has always been the foundation of school education, and the two complement each other. When the two are closely combined to play the effect of 1+1>2, and when the educational concept and reform details of group school running are fully understood and supported, the high-quality and balanced regional educational resources, fair and high-quality education, and the people's demand for "good learning" will become an exciting two-way rush. When we focus on "parents' office in school" from the education reform of "group schooling", we will find that this is a warm and practical change.
Character experience: "Punching in" is not enjoyable once
Qingdao No.53 Middle School Education Group is currently one of the largest education groups in the compulsory education stage of the island city, with two nine-year schools - Qingdao No. 53 Middle School and Qingdao Central Business District Experimental School, with a total of 4 campuses, 94 teaching classes and more than 4,000 students. With such a large scale and diversified student sources, it is twice as difficult for parents and schools to reach a consensus on educational culture and concepts, and the difficulty of "allowing the parents behind each child to realize the 'punch-in' of the school office during their children's school years" has multiplied exponentially. How to promote, how to present, and how to sustain are the key points to solve the problem.
On the issue of "how to promote", Wang Shengwen, the leader of the "one long and two schools" group of No. 53 Middle School Education Group and the general principal of the group, believes that "sincerity and righteousness" is the "reassuring pill" for gathering energy to do things, and this spirit comes from the concern for students to continue to obtain high-quality educational resources, and achieving a broad home-school consensus has become the primary breakthrough. Since the launch of the Group's "Parent Office in Residence" system in September 2023, a total of 312 parents have deeply participated in the "Office in Residence" activity in the first semester of implementation, showing a high satisfaction rate of 100%.
"Before I was stationed at the school, I was afraid that I, an 'outsider', would delay the normal teaching of the school. Ye Tingwei's father in the sixth grade (6) class of the bridging school department remembered his first "punch-in" deeply, until he entered the classroom and a child said, "I also want my mother to accompany me to school", which made the tension in his heart relax a lot.
"All day, I followed it from start to finish. From apprehension, to freshness, to peace of mind, in the end, I feel unfinished, and I still want to see it. In one day, Ye Tingwei's father followed the class, participated in the assignment of homework, went to the big recess, and ate in the cafeteria with the children's teachers, "The teacher's teaching method in the first Chinese class made my eyes shine, she took the children to sort out the time, content and bibliography in the text step by step in a task-driven form, and then let go of the students, in the form of 'group cooperation', all the students were divided into different groups, each group set different tasks, and let the students ask and answer their own questions or write and act to express their opinions." Throughout the class, the teacher continued to guide students to think and speak. ”
Between classes, Dad Ye and the children participated in rope skipping, football, table tennis, basketball, ...... Looking at the energetic faces, "I am full of energy".
"At lunchtime, I ate in the cafeteria with my children. Two meat and two vegetarian dishes, meat and vegetable partners, suitable taste. Use just the right amount of salt and oil. Ye's father knew that the school canteen was self-built, self-operated and self-managed, and there would be school-level cadres and administrative staff on duty to eat with the children every day, and he saw it with his own eyes and really felt that the school attaches great importance to the food safety and nutrition of students.
At the end of the day, Father Ye was full of vitality and realized the charm and significance of home-school cooperative education. As a parent, he will continue to pay attention to his child's learning and growth, and think about how to "check in" next time.
"Check-in" process: Promote 4000+ parents to work in the school
Speaking of the office in the school, Zhao Yiping, the head of the graduation department of Qingdao No. 53 Middle School, was deeply touched. "There were some difficulties at the beginning of the start-up, and the on-campus office meant that the parents' presence at the school needed to match the school's working hours, and parents would have a certain amount of pressure and alienation when they entered the school in an unfamiliar environment. In response to this situation, the group flexibly adjusts the activities in the school according to the parents' schedule, the school gate is open to parents at any time, and the school time is irregular and indefinite, so as not to increase the burden on parents and teachers. Zhao Yiping said that in order to alleviate the emotional pressure of parents entering the campus, the group arranged for parents to be the most familiar and trusted homeroom teacher to accompany them into the school, and conduct in-depth exchanges with parents on the content they care about, understand the needs of parents, and reach a consensus between home and school. At the same time, the school gives parents enough time and space to visit and participate in the work of the school. Parents can use their spare time to communicate with their children, learn about their daily learning and living conditions, or participate in school activities to enhance their interaction and relationship with their children. Since the start of the on-campus office work, the work has been continuously detailed, and gradually reached a benign situation of two-way running.
"Now our parents have grown from only three or four parents in a class to more than 20 parents in each class, and parents are more and more willing to take time out to participate in home-school activities that are heard, their needs are valued, and they are rewarded. Parents have also changed from the anxiety and nervousness when they entered the school gate at the beginning to school companions who take beautiful photos and record campus life. Zhao Yiping said.
According to the school's statistics, just one month after the start of the spring semester this year, a total of 53 parents from the basic school department (grades 1-5) of 53 middle schools, 42 parents from the bridging school department (grades 6-7), and 48 parents from the graduation school (grades 8-9) have participated in the school office, and the class coverage rate of each school department has reached 100%. In March, all school divisions held a meeting with parents, school (kindergarten) principals, and directors as the core, as well as school leaders, group leaders, class teachers, and directors of parent committees, and held 12 parent lectures. In another group school, the school has completed the work of residing parents of 6 classes in the first grade of the Faculty of Basic Sciences, 3 classes in the 6th grade of the Faculty of Development, and 4 classes of the 7th grade, of which 24% of the parents in the Faculty of Basic Studies and 17% of the total number of parents in the Division of Development have participated.
The sun arches and dies, and the merit is not donated. Sincere and upright communication, data-based feedback, and persistent promotion advocated by President Wang Shengwen are the only ways for the "school-based office" to be refined and practical in a large-scale and large-scale education group: "Educators should become friends of time and achieve solid educational results under the guidance of long-termism." ”
Activation Increment: What is the increase of the six "1s"?
Talking about the experience of working in the school, a parent in the fourth class of the ninth grade of the graduating school of Qingdao No. 53 Middle School repeatedly mentioned that "this trip is worth it"——
"The hard work of a teacher is much harder than I imagined. ”
"Only by experiencing the good intentions of the school can we experience all aspects of management, from the construction of the entire campus culture, the art and sports activities created for each child, the competition for hegemony in the academic world, to the love umbrella, the wish card ......"
"I participated in the preparation activities of the mathematics teachers, I never knew a class, and a professor of mathematics knowledge needed so many teachers to scrutinize it repeatedly. ”
"The discussion among the teachers was very lively, and although I didn't understand it, I was also infected, and I wondered if I should also pay attention to my children's learning when I went home?"
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More and more parents who have experienced the office in the school are gradually looking at the daily operation of the school from the perspective of the role of the principal and the teacher, so that the home and the school can shorten the distance, emotion and consensus on the starting point of joint education.
In order to establish and improve the office mechanism of parents in the school, Qingdao 53 Group has formulated the "Implementation Opinions of Qingdao 53 Middle School Education Group Parent Office in School", and established a group leading group with Principal Wang Shengwen as the team leader and the heads of each campus as members, which is responsible for the promotion and implementation of the work of each campus and ensures that the parent representatives of each class take turns to enter the school at a fixed time every week.
Under the guidance of the system, what are the specific "tasks" for parents to check in in the school office? The leading group of the group has developed a list of "six 1" activities for this purpose, that is, to serve as a student escort, to participate in an office meeting, to complete a communication with teachers/students, to conduct a classroom observation, to participate in a large recess activity (flag-raising ceremony), and to put forward a reasonable suggestion. If the scientific and reasonable home-school joint force will achieve the effect of 1+1>2, then how much educational synergy will be produced by adding the six "1s" that can activate new values by following the laws of education?
Where does the "increment" come from? Qingdao No.53 Middle School Education Group's "Parents' Office" model has given a wonderful answer. In the specific implementation process, each campus of the group makes full use of its own scale advantages and human resources, continues to tap the unlimited career industry advantages of the parent group and the high-quality educational resources behind it, and launches a series of brand characteristic courses such as "Zall Parent Lecture Hall" and "Mom and Dad Enter the Classroom", so that these potentially huge "education stocks" are gradually and orderly transformed into "traffic that radiates more children and benefits more students", and naturally accumulates into the "retention" of education that nourishes the growth of students.
Since September 2023, a total of 56 parents from the Basic School of Qingdao No. 53 Middle School have walked into the "Zall Parent Lecture Hall" to open "Growth Open Classes" with different themes, covering health care, sports health, campus safety, home safety, labor education, marine environment, mental health, etc. It is understood that the series of activities of the school's parent lecture hall are not limited to a single lecture form, but its form is diversified and open, and even presented in the form of project-based visits. While the children were fascinated and eye-opening, their hearts also increased their awareness and reverence for all walks of life. And all kinds of "moms and dads" also took to the podium one after another, pushing the doors and windows of the world for the children in their own different ways.
"The parent-in-school office is not a new idea, its core lies in the long-term meticulous cultivation and the continuous expansion of the value connotation, these details of education will gradually give children a strong mind. In President Wang Shengwen's view, for an individual, all growth is spiritual growth.
Flat management: "Export" home-school co-education new buff
The rapid implementation and continuous promotion of the good system in the entire education group, in addition to the consensus and cohesion of the "sincerity and righteousness" of the whole teacher team, in addition to the creative and high-quality activity connotation to derive the high-quality word-of-mouth fermentation in the early stage, the root of it is also the 53 Middle School Education Group's reform tool to the 2.0 version of the education group - flat management.
During the interview, President Wang Shengwen's sentence made the reporter remember deeply - "The entire education group has 4 campuses, 9 grades, and 94 classes. According to the traditional management model, the implementation of a task needs to be conveyed to all grades, which is less efficient, let alone promoted in different campuses. ”
It is understood that a complete management system has been established within the school group - the 53rd Middle School has set up the Department of Basic Studies, the Department of Convergence and the Department of Graduation, and the School of Science and Technology currently has set up the Department of Basic Studies and the Department of Development - and the right to set up courses, the right to evaluate performance, and the right to organize activities have been transferred to the head of the department, and the head of the department can report to the principal and implement it directly.
"The unified mode management of the four campuses, the 'parent office activities in the school' has achieved good results, and has been praised by many parents. I gathered the heads of the departments of each campus and mobilized them to promote the implementation, and it was soon fully rolled out within the group. Principal Wang Shengwen said.
When a high sense of responsibility is superimposed on the high-quality institutional connotation and carried by an efficient management model, it ensures the long-term operation and adaptive update and iteration of the high-quality education model in different campuses and different grades, fully releases the educational energy of Buff full, and realizes the integration of time and space of home-school education resources, and promotes the birth of a new education scene at the level of home-school co-education of No. 53 Middle School Education Group. Such an innovative and sustainable education scene and education ecology are the basic organizations and "sub-units" that support the operation of the entire group school-running system in modern education.
Reporter's note>> New scenes bring new potential energy
With the creation and promotion of new scenarios and models, it is bound to bring abundant potential energy, abundant resources, and more development space and possibilities. This process may inevitably generate new problems, but doesn't it also provide new solutions?
Qingdao No.53 Middle School Education Group's parent office system has been running for more than half a year, through real-time data feedback and evaluation, in addition to the high praise of parents, the group's leadership team has also found new problems, such as the conflict between the school time and some parents' working hours, the gap in the participation rate of different grades, etc. At the same time, parents are invited to participate in the evaluation of class culture and the planning of school development, so as to create a "family education guidance forum" that truly serves family education, and a "parent think tank platform" that scientifically and reasonably operates home-school education resources......
We look forward to and believe that this kind of educational scene that is rejuvenated by the change of human cognitive thinking will provide children with a better educational experience and resource allocation through a pile of high-level, down-to-earth, warm but practical facts and details. And this is also the goal and original intention of the group's school.