"For a teacher to truly grow up, the school needs to fully stimulate the potential of teachers, awaken the teacher's sense of active growth, let the teacher often have a 'sense of growth', and transform it into a driving force for further growth."
How to make teachers have a "sense of growth"? Han Xianghe, principal of Shandong Experimental Middle School, introduced that since 2013, the school has set up a teacher professional development fund to support teachers to publish books and encourage teachers who are good at thinking and practicing to write books.
On April 23 this year, Li Hongjie, a language teacher at the school, won the "Kui Xuan Book Award" in Shandong Province for his monograph "Rolling Curtains - Reading Notes on Chinese Poetry and Painting". As soon as the news came out, the teachers and students of the whole school had a higher enthusiasm for reading. This is one of the two new books added to the series of books in the 2020 Shandong Experimental Middle School, the other is "Asking the Ultimate Wisdom of the Class Teacher" by Chinese teacher Wang Lingdi.
In Shandong Experimental Middle School, it is nothing new for teachers to publish monographs. So far, the school has published 18 monographs for 16 teachers using special funds, and 4 more are about to be completed.
Empower more teachers and create expert teachers
Strong military needs famous generals, and strong schools need famous teachers. How to let teachers develop independently and take the initiative to grow, so that primary and secondary school teachers become famous and experts, the choice of Shandong Experimental Middle School is: to "teacher empowerment project", so that teachers can see more possibilities in themselves.
With 30 years of experience in teaching, Wang Lingdi is recognized as a "poet" by the school. In order to complete her monograph, she spent three years accumulating materials, one year revising, and another year revising and publishing.
"It's been a long time, but turning my professional research into results and sharing it with more people is a growth event for myself." Brother Wang said.
The publication of the book has played a magical "chemical reaction" in the teachers, which has greatly stimulated their passion for professional growth. Like Li Hongjie and Wang Lingdi, the works of more and more front-line teachers in Shandong Experimental Middle School have been affirmed by the academic community.
Of the 16 authors, 5 were rated as special teachers and 6 were rated as senior teachers. They have also become "big coffee" in their own subject areas, which not only improves their professional level, but also drives a large number of young and middle-aged backbones to make more explorations and practices in the professional field.
Carry out community teaching and research to help young and middle-aged teachers find new directions
Relatively speaking, the curriculum construction ability of secondary school teachers is weak, even old teachers with many years of teaching experience have not seen advantages in this regard, and the promotion of the new curriculum reform has put forward higher requirements for teachers' curriculum ability.
"In the past, the 'passing on the help' we talked about can no longer be limited to the classroom, and we should pay more attention to the overall improvement of teachers' educational concepts and innovative thinking, so as to truly adapt to the requirements of the new curriculum and do a good job in education." Han Xianghe believes that "only by carrying out community teaching and research, strengthening the construction of echelons, and paying attention to the cultivation of innovative thinking of young teachers can we provide a steady stream of talent support for the development of a school." ”
"Co-reading, sharing, co-creation and co-construction" is the core concept of "community teaching and research" of Shandong Experimental Middle School. In 2011, the school set up the "Education Starry Sky" teacher growth sharing meeting, which is to hope that teachers will not only "look down at the road", but also "look up at the sky". In the teacher exchange and discussion, the teachers interacted, resonated and resonated in an equal and relaxed atmosphere, activated the teachers' ideas through dialogue and sharing, enlivened the academic atmosphere of the school, and promoted the transformation of teachers from "experience- type" to "research-oriented". After 10 years of precipitation and development, the "Education Starry Sky" Teacher Growth Sharing Meeting has become a famous teaching and research brand in Jinan, Shandong Province.
Remembering the scene when I first participated in the "Education Starry Sky" sharing meeting a few years ago, the warm discussion, sincere exchanges, and heartfelt smiles left a deep impression on the Chinese teacher Duan Huilian. Since then, she has also become a regular visitor to "Education Starry Sky", listening carefully, thinking positively, and speaking enthusiastically... After three years, she also found her own research direction. In 2020, her research project "Research on the Strategy of Reading and Teaching whole books in high school Chinese" successfully passed the shandong provincial education and teaching research project review.
Nowadays, more and more young and middle-aged teachers have found a new direction in sharing, on the basis of carefully studying curriculum standards, around the core literacy of the discipline, determine teaching objectives, develop appropriate teaching content, and achieve goals through flexible and diverse teaching methods.
To train teachers with lifelong learning skills
In the 11th Reading Festival of Shandong Experimental Middle School, we not only saw the colorful student reading activities, but also saw the strong learning ability of the teacher team. Activities such as "Campus Readers", "Teacher Forum" and "Teachers' Book Lover Selection" were wonderful.
"In the past, it was often said that the teacher should give the student a glass of water and himself should have a bucket of water. In this age of information explosion, a bucket of water is no longer enough. Teachers who do not have lifelong learning ability cannot teach students with lifelong learning ability. Guo Shangmin, director of the Teacher Development Guidance Center of Shandong Experimental Middle School, said, "We encourage teachers to read more books, read good books, and continuously enrich their knowledge reserves." ”
After years of accumulation, Shandong Experimental Middle School has grown up a group of expert teachers who love to read and have the ability to lead the growth of teachers, who are transforming knowledge into educational productivity, creating a stronger learning atmosphere in the campus through sharing and leadership, and driving the all-round development of students with the growth of teachers themselves.
There are famous teachers who teach each other, and the "disciples" should go all out. Every October, the school will hold a grand ceremony for young teachers to pay homage to the teachers, and invite famous teachers to give "one-on-one" guidance to young teachers. Reading, thinking, sharing, leading the old with the new, and growing together have become the norm of teachers' working life. Many young teachers who have just entered the school participate in reading activities, listen to lectures extensively, and collide wisdom around tutors with professional expertise, not only growing rapidly, but also gradually growing in the school's team of famous teachers.
Shi Ke, a young teacher in the political group, joined the company in 2020, and her tutor Cheng Chunxian has worked for less than 20 years, and has served as the leader of the lesson preparation team and the leader of the teaching and research team for many years, and was rated as "Excellent Ideological and Political Science Teacher in Shandong School". Cheng Chunxian and the teachers of the political group have been studying "dialogue teaching" together for many years. Since 2020, she has guided Shi Ke and other young teachers to participate in the "Integrated Construction of Ideological and Political Science Classes in Colleges, Middle schools, and Primary Schools" in Jinan, effectively promoting the rapid growth of the entire team in the process of hosting activities and constantly grinding lessons.
Shao Liyun is a senior teacher in the school's mathematics group, and although she is about to retire, she is still concerned about the growth of her disciple Pan Hongyan, urging her to write monographs, write papers, and summarize her teaching achievements. In 2019, Pan Hongyan was also successfully rated as a senior teacher, achieving the good story of "double positive height" for mentors and disciples.
In 2020, Shandong Experimental Middle School was identified by the Ministry of Education as a "national-level demonstration school for the implementation of new curriculum and new teaching materials for ordinary high schools", and it has become a consensus of teachers to lead new explorations with new curriculum. Han Xianghe said: "We will take this as an opportunity to build a diversified platform for teachers' growth, and strive to create a group of famous teachers who lead the reform of the new curriculum, so that the teacher team can become a rushing river." ”
Author: Correspondent Gao Jie Reporter Wei Haizheng
Editor-in-Charge: Cao Jinyue