In order to ensure that every child can enjoy a fair and high-quality junior high school education, since 2018, the Minhang District Education Bureau has fully implemented the "Junior High School Strengthening Project" and achieved remarkable results. In September 2023, the second batch of 8 experimental schools of "strong junior high schools" will be ready to go, striving to make the school's running level more high-quality and development vitality more adequate in the next three years, create a new pattern of regional education, and achieve high-quality development of education.
"Minhang Today" and "Minhang Education" cooperated to launch the "Good Junior High School at the Doorstep" column, today, take you into the Minhang Yongde School affiliated to East China Normal University.
In the summer of this year, Minhang Yongde School affiliated to East China Normal University made its debut with a new attitude. The Faculty of Education, originating from Youai Experimental Middle School affiliated to Shanghai Minhang District Education College, has accumulated a profound foundation for 55 years since its establishment in 1969. In order to meet the needs of education development, the school will add a senior high school in September 2023 to provide students with a broader learning world.
Under the east wind of strengthening the school project, school districtization and group schooling, the school ushered in a gorgeous turn in June this year, and joined hands with East China Normal University to jointly build a new 12-year consistent university.
This change not only represents the upgrading of the name of the school, but also marks the deep integration of the school and East China Normal University, through the integration of management and teaching, truly share the resources and platforms of both sides, create a better growth environment for students, and contribute more to the development of Minhang education.
In recent years, with the help of East China Normal University, "iFLYTEK" and "Intel China Co., Ltd." and other resource advantages, the school has promoted the organic connection between the main campus position of science education in primary and secondary schools and the social classroom, combined with the development of school connotation and the needs of educational reform, to create a maker characteristic course group under the "new engineering" literacy featuring "interdisciplinary + artificial intelligence", and strive to build a characteristic school-running brand rich in "personalized" education services, improve students' scientific quality, and cultivate students with the potential of scientists. A group of young people who are willing to dedicate themselves to the cause of scientific research.
"The implementation of maker education is an effective measure to develop students' core literacy, cultivate students' problem-solving ability, teamwork ability and creative innovation ability, and is also an important path to implement the Ministry of Education's opinions on strengthening science education in primary and secondary schools in the new era." Principal Yan Xi said.
Since the launch of the project to strengthen the school, with the blessing of the university resources of East China Normal University, the school has worked closely with experts and scholars from East China Normal University to jointly launch a series of activities of "Maker Lecture Hall".
It is reported that the "Maker Lecture Hall" brought together many well-known experts and scholars from East China Normal University, who brought wonderful lectures covering art, science, history, literature and other fields. These lectures not only provide students with the opportunity to meet academic masters face-to-face, but also stimulate their thirst for knowledge and love for different disciplines.
Here, students can get in touch with the most cutting-edge academic achievements, understand the research trends of different disciplines, and expand their knowledge boundaries. At the same time, this interdisciplinary and integrated learning model also cultivates students' innovative thinking, critical thinking skills, interdisciplinary learning habits and problem-solving skills, laying a solid foundation for their future academic and career development.
Thanks to this, a number of students won the first prize in this year's "National Primary and Secondary School Information Technology Innovation and Practice Competition" and "Shanghai Youth Campus Film and Television Creation Practice Activity".
Not only that, the school also conducted in-depth exchanges with experts and scholars from the Asian Mathematics Education Center of East China Normal University and the School of Computer Science and Technology, and officially listed as the base school of the Asian Mathematics Education Center of East China Normal University.
In the past two years, the school has successively won many honors such as the Excellent School for the Popularization of Online Learning Space Application of the Ministry of Education, the Training Base School for Everyone in the Online Learning Space of the Ministry of Education, the Experimental School of Compulsory Education Teaching Reform of the Ministry of Education, the Base School of the Asian Mathematics Education Center of China Normal University, the Benchmarking School for the Application of Educational Informatization in Shanghai, the Civilized Unit of Shanghai, the Demonstration School of Code of Conduct in Shanghai, the Demonstration School of Family Education in Shanghai, the Red Flag Brigade of Shanghai, and the Safe and Civilized Campus in Shanghai.
Reporter: Su Mingshan
Part of the contribution: District Education Bureau
First trial: Yue Shunshun
Reviewer: Yao Yiying
Final review: Wang Tingting
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