Speaking of the world's quality education, we have to mention this "small country" with a population of only 5.3 million - Finland, which impresses the world with its "smallest education system in the world".
In order to explore a good education for Chinese children, Song Wenli, founder of Wanhui Education and CEO of Chengdu Chengtou Wanhui Education, traveled millions of kilometers through more than 2,000 days and nights, and finally found a satisfactory education system in Finland.
▲Campus environment
Under the guidance of the Finnish-Chinese Education Association, she introduced the world's leading basic education model to China, using Finnish educational methods to teach the Chinese national curriculum.
In September 2020, at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain, Dujiangyan Wanhui School welcomed the first batch of new students. The Wanhui model of Finnish education pervades such an ink-painting campus.
Chuan Mei'er walked into the campus of Dujiangyan Wanhui School, interviewed three teachers of Chinese, mathematics and English, and found several truths about Wanhui Finnish classrooms.
Matt
English teacher
Graduated from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, majoring in psychology, through the TEFL curriculum certification, has 5 years of experience in teaching English in domestic and international schools, especially good at teaching English in the lower primary schools.
Zhao Xuelian
Math teacher
Senior junior high school mathematics teacher, from 34 years of teaching, including 28 years as a class teacher, has taught in Chengdu No. 46 Middle School, Chengdu No. 15 Middle School, Chengdu Experimental Chinese School West District. He has been awarded the School Excellent Teacher, Excellent Class Teacher, and Jinniu District Teaching Quality Award for many times. He was awarded the Chengdu Municipal Division virtue and teacher style advanced individual.
Shawnee
Language teacher
He once served as a class teacher, lesson preparation team leader, grade group leader and other positions in Chengdu Yindu Primary School. He has been awarded the Outstanding Class Teacher of Chengdu High-tech Zone, the Excellent Class Collective Tutor of Chengdu High-tech Zone, the Excellent Instructor of the National Innovative Composition Competition, the Excellent Instructor of the Chengdu Primary and Secondary School Students Science and Technology Essay Competition, the Seed Teacher of the International Literacy Improvement Project for Primary and Secondary School Teachers in Chengdu High-tech Zone, and many papers have won the first prize of the national level.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="24" > Truth 1: Focus on tapping into students' intrinsic motivation to learn</h1>
In the student-led Finnish education system, students are encouraged to think, understand and seek information on their own.
In the classroom of Wanhui, Chuan Mei'er was also pleasantly surprised to find that the children would take the initiative to think, ask and find answers.
Matt during class
Matt, a foreign teacher from the United Kingdom, is responsible for teaching English in the first and second grades, although he has previous experience in Guangzhou, Thailand and other places, and when he arrives in Dujiangyan Wanhui, he still receives systematic training in Finnish educational concepts.
Today, in the classroom, he encourages children to ask questions, even questions that even teachers can't answer.
Matt said: "I want children to be able to ask Whoy at any time, I don't just want to give children knowledge, but also to cultivate their critical thinking. And children who dare to ask questions in class can get Matt's praise.
In the Finnish educational philosophy, teachers pay more attention to praising, motivating and encouraging students, and pay attention to guiding students to actively explore learning.
"For the lower graders, it is very important to maintain their interest in learning, they prefer to sing, dance and show their movements", in order to stimulate the children's interest in learning, Matt spent a lot of effort on the design of classroom activities, "all the games and activities in the classroom are designed by myself, such as digging out the words in sentences, students' group quiz, improving English language ability, but also exercising children's social skills." ”
In addition to Matt's English classes, Wanhuiwa also has English classes for Chinese teachers, as well as Interest Classes such as English Public Speech and English Drama. Matt said: "The interest class is a class of 10 people, which is very popular with students. Different from the learning of vocabulary and grammar in the classroom, the interest class creates a good English language environment for children through telling English stories and English drama performances, and stimulates children's love for English. ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="73" > Truth Two: Every child can be valued</h1>
In the classroom of any school, there are students who learn faster than others, and there are students who learn slower than others. In finland's education system, children who learn slowly deserve more help, and the same is true in Wanhui.
▲Zhao Xuelian in class
Teacher Zhao Xuelian has stood on the podium for more than thirty years and has taught countless students. Her experience as a teacher at a prestigious school has exposed her to countless outstanding students, but in Wanhui, she has not given up on any of her children because of her slow learning.
"Children will inevitably encounter difficulties in learning, we should give the greatest help, and try to find children's shortcomings in the process of teaching." Teacher Zhao said: "When a child asks questions after class, even if the questions are very childish, I will certainly not laugh and criticize, on the contrary, I will praise him and not give up when encountering difficulties." ”
There is a child in Mr. Zhao's class who cannot understand the knowledge points when learning rational number operations, the calculation problems are frequently wrong, and the learning attitude is becoming more and more negative. In order to understand this knowledge point, Teacher Zhao took an hour of rest time every day to explain to this student individually, "I want to be patient, only if I don't give up, the child will not give up." After insisting on "one-on-one" make-up lessons for more than ten days, suddenly the child did a calculation problem correctly, and his learning was greatly encouraged, "Slowly I found that his demeanor was different from that of listening to the lectures, and he was more focused than before." ”
When I come to Wanhui, there are many people who pay attention to the growth of their children, and every child will not feel lonely. Teacher Zhao said: "If the child is sick, the tutor will accompany the whole process of medical treatment and medicine, playing the role of a parent, but also playing the role of a partner and friend. Children need care and care when they live away from home, and they can occasionally talk to teachers. ”
In the Wanhui small class teaching model, there is a class teacher and a deputy class teacher. According to Lu Jieshu, principal of Wanhui Middle School, Wanhui also set up tutors for each child, "Each tutor is responsible for guiding 2-3 students in their learning, life, psychology and other comprehensive development." ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="74" > Truth Three: Equal trust is the main theme on campus</h1>
If equality is the connotation of Finnish education, then trust is at the heart of Finnish education. Li Dong, General Principal of Chengtou Wanhui Education, said: "We respect each individual because society needs a variety of different talents. ”
On The Campus of Wanhui, students, teachers and parents use trust to build the road to Wanhuiwa's advancement.
Xiao Ni, a primary school Chinese teacher in Wanhui who taught at Chengdu Yindu Primary School for 18 years, is now in Wanhui, and she said: "Ready to take root here and not leave." ”
Here, Ms. Xiao Ni has received the greatest trust, "the school leaders, students, parents all trust me very much, and once people have the feeling of being trusted, they will be more bold to let go and fight." ”
"Leading a child's growth is like taking a snail for a walk, we don't want unrealistic expectations and too high positioning." Shawni once told her parents at the parents' meeting: "I take care of the learning, the parents don't have to care, please give the child to me with confidence, and have more parent-child companionship on the weekend." Chinese also does not need to go to cram school, so that children can use the time of make-up class to read. ”
Now Shawne gets up at six o'clock every day to go to school, and at night the children sleep to continue to prepare for classes, teaching and research, often busy until eleven o'clock to get off work, but she enjoys such an environment very much.
In addition, Shauni also has an identity, that is, the parent of the first grade students of Wanhui. Because of the busy work, although the mother and daughter are on the same campus, it is difficult for Shawne to take care of her daughter. "I am at ease that my teacher loves my daughter as much as I love my students, because this is Wanhui."
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="75" > Truth Four: Learn from Doing, Learn from Play</h1>
▲Kaneki Kobo
A group of students cut wood with a chainsaw, including a squeamish little girl; a group of students happily cooking together, including handsome boys; a group of students learning how to wash clothes together, male or female... This scene appears in the classroom, can you believe it? This is the Wanhui classroom under the influence of Finnish education!
▲Home economics classroom
For such a classroom, Wanhui "laid down the blood": nearly 2,000 square meters of gold and wood workshop, well-equipped housekeeping classroom, music hall with top-level stereos...
▲Music hall
Of course, Wanhui's play is not only a kind of play, but also has a teaching purpose, so Wanhui Education Has created an exclusive NEDU curriculum system.
In Wanhui brick by brick, grass and tree are all courses. Students go to the restaurant to eat quietly in line, see the guests politely hello, education into the little details.
▲Chairman Song Wenli
Chairman Song Wenli said: "Our education should not only look at the present, but also focus on the future, laying the foundation for the happiness of children's lives." There is no class in teaching, teaching according to aptitude, I believe that here, will be the starting point for every student to fly the future and dreams. "