Tie-dyeing, carpentry, cutting vegetables, planting, boiling honey grapefruit tea... How many skills do today's primary and secondary school students have? Some may still be impossible for mom and dad to play. So in your mind, do you still have the impression that children are still "indistinguishable from green onions and garlic seedlings", or "the four bodies are not diligent, and the grains are not divided"? Having seen the courses offered by these schools, it may subvert your imagination.
On October 21, the National Labor Education Site Promotion Conference for Primary and Secondary School Students was held in Chengdu. More than 30 provincial (municipal) education administrative departments across the country gathered in Rongcheng to share labor education experience. In the morning, the delegates attending the meeting visited Chengdu Stalagmite Street Primary School, Tonghui (International) School, Affiliated Middle School of Sichuan University, Affiliated Middle School of Jinjiang District Academy of Educational Sciences, and "Tianfu Nostalgia • Shiji Pastoral" Labor Education Comprehensive Practice Base to understand the specific practices of labor education in various schools (bases) in Chengdu. Among them, the Red Star News reporter also divided into two roads and followed the delegates into two schools.
Tie-dyeing, carpentry, planting
The skills these dolls master are not necessarily good for parents
On the morning of October 21, Chengdu was slightly rainy and cold, but the "Sky Farm" of Stalagmite Street Primary School and the "Tongcheng Ecological Vegetable Garden" of Tonghui (International) School were all busy farming scenes.
In the orchard, grapefruit, lemon, kumquat and citrus are hanging from the branches, and the children of Stalagmite Street Elementary School start the first round of picking this autumn with scissors and bamboo baskets in hand. "We've grown all these fruits ourselves, and we've already harvested the rice over there once." The boy pointed to a bare rice field next to him and said with some pride. Picking here, the children on the other side are just making juice from freshly picked lemons, and everyone divides their work and cooperates, cleaning, slicing, juicing, mixing with water, and bottled, all in one go.
Tonghui (International) School
Of course, the children of Tonghui (International) School are not idle, under the grapefruit tree, everyone boiled honey grapefruit tea. "This is the grapefruit we just picked, after washing, we have to first cut off the outermost skin of the grapefruit, here we must pay attention to try not to bring white urn, otherwise it will be very bitter..." A small student skillfully introduced the production steps, other students cut and boiled, with tacit understanding, a glass jar on the table has been filled with the first pot of finished products.
In the planting area, the vegetable gardens of the two schools are full of vegetables, and the shallots and garlic seedlings are planted next door, and even the children themselves can't help but sigh: "Mom no longer has to worry about me not being able to distinguish the onions and garlic seedlings." "In addition, there are pea tips, lentils, cauliflower, sticks, greens, celery, lettuce and so on." Children planted by hand, watered and fertilized, observed records, and each piece of land is responsible for the class, the school has carried out planting classes for a long time, not only allowing children to master certain labor skills, but also really feel what is spring and summer, autumn harvest and winter hiding. Qu Xi, principal of Tonghui (International) School, introduced that for different grades, the curriculum sets different educational goals, such as the first grade focuses on understanding common crops and observing plant growth laws, the second grade is responsible for crop management such as weeding, fertilization, watering, etc., and the third grade needs to learn to use common agricultural tools and understand simple pest control techniques.
In addition to agricultural work, the two schools offer a wealth of labor courses such as tie-dye, carpentry, pottery, cooking, essential oil making, and vocational experience, some of which may not even be mastered by parents. According to Zhang Youhong, principal of Stalagmite Street Primary School, to say that the characteristics of school labor education, scientific integration must be counted as one, for this school specially compiled the "Labor Education Discipline Integration List", the labor and language, mathematics, science, art, music and other disciplines integration, such as children write crop observation diaries, how to observe? In what kind of words? In fact, this is to use the language skills. In addition, it is worth mentioning that the electricity used in the entire area of the school's "craft workshop" is converted by the solar energy set up on the roof of the building, which is both environmentally friendly and energy-saving, and can also give children a real science lesson.
Stalagmite Street Elementary School
Bring the rate of labor education into government supervision
Experience sharing Chengdu does so
In the agenda of the meeting on the afternoon of the 21st, Chengdu, Chongqing, Hainan, Shijiazhuang, Dongcheng District of Beijing, Fuyang District of Hangzhou and other regions exchanged their experiences and practices in labor education in the form of videos.
Among them, Chengdu has established an organizational structure led by major leaders, integrating curriculum construction, teacher training, activity guidance, and resource integration, relying on 13 pilot districts and counties and 94 pilot schools, forming a working model promoted at the "pilot + demonstration" level. In terms of curriculum, Chengdu requires labor education to enter a class schedule, and the compulsory courses of labor education in primary and secondary schools are not less than 1 class hour per week, and the extracurricular labor hours of primary school grades 1 to 2 are not less than 2 hours per week, and other grades are not less than 3 hours per week.
In addition, the problem of labor practice places has been solved through the joint office of general vocational work, the joint office of urban and rural areas, and the joint office of schools and societies. For example, 277 national, provincial, and municipal research bases and social practice education bases are used to establish special labor education practice zones; comprehensive education bases such as Shuiyun Garden are built by means of government investment and enterprise operation; comprehensive education bases such as Shuiyun Garden are built by the government to purchase services; a comprehensive practice base for labor education in Shiji Pastoral garden is built by means of government procurement of services; relying on the resources of Chengdu Agricultural Vocational College and other colleges and universities to build an off-campus labor education practice base; relying on China's Tianfu Agricultural Expo Park, etc., to build a practice space for tianfu farming civilization in primary and secondary schools. According to reports, in the past two years, the city's primary and secondary school students have participated in more than 2.25 million times of off-campus labor practice.
Not only that, in terms of ensuring the implementation of labor education, Chengdu has included the situation of guaranteeing labor education by county-level people's governments into the supervision content, focusing on the supervision of labor education opening rate and safeguard measures.
In addition, in Jinniu District, Chengdu, the district issued the "School Labor List", extending labor education to kindergartens, forming a labor education system with 6 school sections, 212 primary and secondary schools, and kindergartens, and developing nearly 100 labor school courses. In terms of teachers, we have promoted labor models, craftsmen, doctors, and parents to enter the campus, incubated more than 100 labor education instructors, and formed a teacher guarantee mechanism of "full-time + part-time + special appointment". At the same time, the "labor passport" process evaluation model is adopted, the district, school and class evaluation are established, and the honorary evaluation of the "labor medal" is implemented to encourage students to actively participate in labor.
According to Qingyang District, the district is equipped with 31 full-time labor education teachers and 1,770 part-time labor education teachers, and has built 1 district-level labor education practice base, 54 labor education practice bases 1 km outside the school, and 114 labor education practice sites in schools. It has also developed and completed nearly 80 school-based labor education books such as "Three Empowerment" Labor Curriculum, "Really Good Labor Education", and "Hemei Labor Manual". At the same time, more than 20 national non-hereditary inheritors, Sichuan Province "May Day Labor Medal" winners, Chengdu labor models and other craftsmen and masters were hired to enter the primary and secondary school campuses to carry out special labor education projects. It also explores the development of the "Mengwa Love Labor" early childhood labor education special project in 10 kindergartens. During the "Labor Month", a total of 185 labor education projects were carried out in schools in all schools, and a total of 75,051 people participated in the labor skills competition for school-level students.
Red Star News reporter Zhang Jin Xu Wen photo report
Edited by Chai Chang
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