Autumn days, blue sky. On the afternoon of October 15, 2021, at the Yuquan Middle School affiliated to Beijing Bayi School, a wonderful "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" curriculum construction achievement display and exchange activity was successfully completed. "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" is a collective term for the cultural heritage of various historical periods in the northwest suburbs of Beijing, represented by the imperial gardens of the Qing Dynasty. The three mountains refer to Xiangshan Mountain, Yuquan Mountain and Wanshou Mountain, and the Five Gardens refer to Jingyi Garden, Jingmingyuan, Summer Palace, Yuanmingyuan and Changchun Garden. The Three Mountains and Five Gardens are precious historical and cultural heritage, and the golden business card of Haidian culture. In 2020, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage approved the list of the creation of the National Cultural Relics Protection and Utilization Demonstration Zone, and there were 6 of the first batch of units in the country, among which the Three Mountains and Five Gardens of Beijing Haidian were listed.
Over the years, haidian academy of education and science has developed the local curriculum of "Haidian History and Culture", compiled teaching materials, recorded resources, carried out teacher training, organized primary and secondary school teachers to carry out innovative exploration of interdisciplinary comprehensive practical activities, and guided a group of schools to study in the curriculum of Yuanmingyuan, Summer Palace, Jingxi Rice and other themes, and achieved remarkable educational results, and Yuquan Middle School affiliated to Bayi School is a typical representative of it.
At the event, Yuquan Middle School affiliated to Bayi School comprehensively demonstrated the achievements of the construction of the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" curriculum group. From Haidian, Huairou, Yanqing, Daxing, Mentougou and other districts and counties, as well as school curriculum leaders and backbone teachers, etc., participated in the on-site exchange activities, and Haidian Cloud Classroom was broadcast live online. The main purpose of this activity is to display the achievements of the construction of special courses in Haidian District, implement the construction task of "Beijing Haidian Sanshan Five Gardens National Cultural Relics Protection and Utilization Demonstration Zone", and disseminate the excellent traditional culture of The Three Mountains and Five Gardens.
Classroom Observation: Three Mountains and Five Gardens provide rich resources for students to learn inside and outside the classroom
The leaders, experts and teachers who participated in the activity went to different classes to observe the 9 "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" series of courses offered by Bayi Yuquan Middle School. In the biology class in the lecture hall, students from all sections of primary and junior high school showed the Bayi Education Group's Jingxi Rice Penetration Course in the form of video clips and self-created dramas. Through the viewing of the picture, teachers and students intuitively feel the growth process of Jingxi rice, so as to have a deeper understanding of rice culture and actively inherit it. In the Chinese language class, in an active and positive atmosphere, students explored the meaning of life in the culture of the Three Mountains and Five Gardens, and felt the exploration and learning of the Red Chamber at the foot of the West Mountain - Jinling Twelve Noble Plant Atlas. In the math class, students look for symmetrical figures in the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" and feel the harmonious beauty of life. In the history class, through the introduction of Jingxi rice under Yuquan Mountain, the teachers further understood the past and present lives of rice cultivation culture, and systematically understood the historical development elements of the Sanshan Wuyuan area and their interconnection. In the art class, taking the painting technique in classical Chinese architecture as the clue, the beauty of the garden of the Three Mountains and Five Gardens is vividly reflected. In the Jade Dress Workshop, students use the landscape garden as inspiration to appreciate and design Chinese clothes. In the information technology class, students use modern information technology to achieve image travel through data tracing technology, allowing viewers to swim in the vanished Changchun Garden.
President Shen Jun: The culture of the Three Mountains and Five Gardens is an important resource to improve the quality of running schools
After the observation class, the school curriculum development experience and regional curriculum construction experience are intensively exchanged. Yuquan Middle School affiliated to Bayi School is located at the foot of Yuquan Mountain, within the core area of "Three Mountains and Five Gardens". In 2017, Yuquan Middle School affiliated to Beijing Bayi School launched the construction of the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" curriculum, and in the past four years, the school has attached great importance to the positive role of the cultural resources of "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" in running schools and educating people, and organically integrated it into education and teaching through multi-level school culture construction.
Shen Jun, principal of Beijing Bayi School and principal of Yuquan Middle School affiliated to Beijing Bayi School, delivered a speech. President Shen proposed that curriculum construction is the foundation for improving the quality of education, promoting group-run schools, and enhancing school brands. The school incorporated the cultural content of "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" into the school curriculum system, and developed the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens Series School Curriculum of Yuquan Middle School Affiliated to Bayi School", including eight sub-courses such as the beauty of the gardens of the Three Mountains and Five Gardens, the literary space of the Three Mountains and Five Gardens, the Jingxi Rice under the Yuquan Mountain, and the red culture of the Three Mountains and Five Gardens. The construction of the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" curriculum has built a platform for the development of teachers, promoted the improvement of students' core literacy, and improved parents' satisfaction with teachers.
Jiang Shan, executive principal of Yuquan Middle School affiliated to Bayi School, presided over the meeting
Haidian Academy of Education: After 10 years of building a regional research practice curriculum system
Song Shiyun, director of the Curriculum Center of haidian District Academy of Education and Science, reported on the achievements of the construction of the research and practice education curriculum for primary and secondary schools in Haidian District from three aspects: national education policy, regional curriculum construction and school curriculum implementation effect. Since 2011, Haidian District has given full play to the advantages of regional resources and has continuously deepened over the past 10 years to build a research and practical education curriculum system. In the past 10 years, the construction of Haidian characteristic courses based on regional resources has gone through three stages: the development and implementation of local curriculum (2011-2015), the construction of study tour courses (2016-2018) and the construction of research and practical course system (2019-2021). Using local resources, Haidian Academy of Education and Science has successively developed the local curriculum of "Haidian History and Culture", "Approaching the Yuanmingyuan", "Exploring Haidian", "Intellectual Property Education", compiled local teaching materials and activity readers, and in 2021 developed the "Handbook of Red Research and Practice Activities in Haidian District", and compiled 20 red theme study curriculum programs to guide primary and secondary school students to learn the history of the party and modern Chinese history around them. Haidian Academy of Education and Science will take into account the overall consideration of local curriculum, social classroom practice, research and study travel, etc., deeply cultivate the field of "research and practice education", and build a new model of comprehensive practical curriculum education that points to quality education. Dozens of schools in Haidian District have set up "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" theme courses to promote students' independent, cooperative and inquiry-based learning, providing a carrier and opportunity for cultivating core literacy.
Bayi Yuquan: Exploring the road of educating people in the roots of inheriting regional culture
Liu Rongtie, general secretary of the party branch of Yuquan Middle School affiliated to Beijing Bayi School, made a report on the construction of the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" curriculum under the title of "Using Regional Resources to Inherit Cultural Roots and Explore the Road to Educating People". Secretary Liu said from the geographical location of the school, the historical and cultural resources of the Three Mountains and Five Gardens surrounded by the school have a high educational value for primary and secondary school students, and it is an important mission of Bayi Yuquan to inherit the culture of the Three Mountains and Five Gardens and explore the road of Lide Tree. Taking advantage of the geographical advantages of "Three Mountains and Five Gardens", the school combines the school curriculum and the local curriculum, develops a series of "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" series of courses that students must and elective, and carries out interdisciplinary comprehensive practical activities inside and outside the classroom. Secretary Liu introduced the school's practical exploration of the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" special curriculum from four aspects: integrating social resources, developing characteristic courses, characteristic course cases, and experience exchange results. The construction of the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" curriculum requires cadres and teachers to constantly grind in the implementation process, communicate and discuss with experts, and require teachers and students to continue to learn, grow together, and move forward hand in hand.
Expert comments: Transforming regional resources into courses to exert greater educational value
Professor Hu Dingrong of the Faculty of Education of Beijing Normal University highly affirmed the effectiveness of curriculum development and implementation in Haidian District and Bayi Yuquan. He believes that the enlightenment of this exhibition activity is: the main body of school-based curriculum development should be coordinated by regions, school districts and schools; improving the quality of curriculum construction requires joint participation inside and outside the school; the development trend of school-based curriculum should be from independent development to coordinated development; the development of school-based curriculum should be combined with national development, social development and student development; and interdisciplinary characteristic school-based curriculum has a lot of room for development for cultivating students' core literacy.
Researcher Wang Kai, deputy director of the Curriculum Center of the Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences, believes that this "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" special curriculum display activity is a highly condensed spiritual feast, which fully reflects the process of promoting the utilization of resources and promoting the advancement of education in regions and schools. The main characteristics of the development of the Bayi Yuquan curriculum are, first, to turn blind to the comprehensive utilization of resources; second, to return resources from comprehensive utilization to disciplines to add capacity to disciplines; and third, to connect culture, curriculum and school education. Culture is the soul of school education, curriculum is the root of school education, education is the cause of Bacon casting the soul, Bayi Education Group's Jingxi Rice curriculum has formed a small, primary, high connection of the project-based learning characteristics, to see the big in the small, with resources to play a "big chess game of education".
Leader's speech: Let young people become a new force for the protection of cultural heritage
The leaders praised bayi Yuquan Middle School's achievements in the construction of the Sanshan Wuyuan and Jingxi Rice curriculum over the years, and congratulated the district education institute and the school on their achievements.
Zhang Tao, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Haidian District CPC Committee
Deeply felt the efforts and contributions made by the Haidian District Education Committee and the Yuquan Middle School affiliated to Bayi School to inherit and promote the history and culture of the Three Mountains and Five Gardens, and saw the initiative and efficiency of the District Education Committee in actively participating in the cultural dissemination of the Three Mountains and Five Gardens. I hope that the next three mountains and five gardens curriculum can enter the primary and secondary schools in Haidian District, and I also hope that teachers and students can go out of the campus to carry out study tours in the three mountains and five gardens. Everyone will definitely polish the cultural golden business card of the Three Mountains and Five Gardens more brightly when they join hands!
Qiao Jian, director of the Haidian District Education System Customs Work Committee
Yuquan Middle School affiliated to Beijing Bayi School takes the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" as a natural practice base for students, develops and constructs the school curriculum, protects, utilizes and disseminates the historical and cultural heritage of the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens", and builds a good platform for students to learn and understand the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens". Under the background of the construction of the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens National Cultural Relics Protection and Utilization Demonstration Zone", the exploration of the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" curriculum has provided an example for the local characteristic culture to enter the campus and made important contributions to the inheritance and development of excellent traditional culture.
Song Guanya, vice president of haidian district academy of education
Young people are the successors and fresh forces of cultural relics protection and cultural inheritance. Teachers should guide students to take the Three Mountains and Five Gardens as the research object, carry out interdisciplinary learning, and study the methods and paths of the cultural inheritance of the Three Mountains and Five Gardens. "Cultural self-confidence is the most basic, deepest and most lasting force", we must use our hands to protect the green waters and cultural heritage of the Three Mountains and Five Gardens, and spread the history and culture of the Three Mountains and Five Gardens. Combine reading and learning with walking inquiry to achieve comprehensive learning, practical learning, inquiry learning, and cooperative learning. The teachers and students of Bayi Yuquan Middle School have opened a new situation, and hope that teachers and students will continue to practice, have the courage to explore, and grow together.
Liu Lan, deputy director of the Haidian District Cultural and Tourism Bureau
In September 2020, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage announced the first batch of national cultural relics protection and utilization demonstration area creation list, Haidian District obtained the creation qualification; on March 2, 2021, the "Beijing Haidian Sanshan Five Gardens National Cultural Relics Protection and Utilization Demonstration Zone Construction Implementation Plan" passed the approval of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, Haidian District set up a creation working group, and formulated the "Demonstration Area Creation Task Decomposition Table", Xiangshan Park, summer palace and more than 40 units in the whole district participated. The district education system has done a lot of work to benefit many primary and secondary schools with high-quality regional cultural resources, and the results of Yuquan Middle School affiliated to Bayi School are the most prominent. Generations of young people should become a new force in protecting and utilizing the cultural heritage of the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens".
This activity is a phased demonstration of the construction of the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" special curriculum in Haidian District, and is a positive response and effective action of the education system to the construction of the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens" National Cultural Relics Protection and Utilization Demonstration Zone, which will surely play a positive role in promoting the cultural dissemination of the "Three Mountains and Five Gardens". Knowing the hometown, loving the hometown, loving Beijing and loving the motherland, we will cooperate across borders to promote the construction of the haidian local curriculum as always, and create a richer and more flexible social classroom for haidian students.
Author: Song Shiyun
Photo: Bayi Yuquan Middle School
Source: Haidian Academy of Education