"Art students do not have to learn culture classes, the test score is several hundred points lower, and the test takes advantage of the big advantage" - this is the label that most people put on the art students, but the reality is that they pay more than ordinary students, ordinary students only need to take the college entrance examination once, and they are not used to run back, but for art students, they need to start rushing around the country to participate in different schools to participate in school examinations in the same way as they do half a year in advance. Participating in many school examinations means having sufficient professional knowledge, accumulating knowledge is a long and arduous process, and for art students, this road is not just full of enthusiasm and hard work to achieve the goal, choosing the right and appropriate tutor is particularly important in the whole process.
Zhou Shuai, the principal of juming feiyang art examination, shared with us the story of helping art students get into the school of their choice along the way.
Zhou Shuai
When studying in Chuanmei, Zhou Shuai would use the summer vacation and spare time to work in the studio as a teaching assistant, "I am a printmaking major, as a pure art major, the basic skills are still very solid, these professional knowledge is very useful in teaching, and the improvement effect of students' grades is also very good." In fact, at that time, I decided to take the career route or from teaching me has been struggling, I have been insisting on art creation for four years in college, but through my professional knowledge, I have let a class of students enter their ideal university teaching assistant experience, let me feel the power of positive education. It was then that I discovered that education was something that would keep me motivated and keep me going. ”
Zhou Shuai, who has a clear future direction, resolutely chose to teach at a training institution after graduation. Over the years, from teaching assistant to ordinary teacher, to teaching principal. On the road to success, many problems have also emerged-
"This process has brought out a lot of good seedlings, including the provincial champion of the joint examination, the first place in the school examination Chuanmei national, the second in the Guangmei national, etc., in addition to teaching, it has also accumulated and summarized a lot of management problems." At that time, the studio in Chongqing was in a period of renewal and iteration, the large studio expanded rapidly, the commercialization was too heavy, and the rules were cumbersome; although the small studio had a strong sense of humanity, it was neglected to manage, and the talent rate was not high. Therefore, I decided to set up my own training institution and chose the site to target Chengdu with a better cultural and creative atmosphere. At that time, the construction of art communities such as the Blue Roof Art Village was beginning to create an academic studio with both exam-taking and free creative atmosphere, which was the place where my ideal middle school art children should go. It has both a mature management mechanism and a teaching system, as well as a liberal and democratic campus atmosphere full of artistic atmosphere. So I resolutely decided to resign and start a business. ”
Zhou Shuai teaches at an institution in Huangjueping (Chuanmei) in Chongqing
Zhou Shuai's early works
After Zhou Shuai came to Chengdu, he found that the commercialization of the entire market environment was faster than expected, and there were many big brands and their perfect business models in operation, dividing up most of the students in the Sichuan market. "Our start-up team are all teaching teachers, not good at enrollment and publicity, it seems to be extra "simple", the first two years almost all rely on the accumulation of student referrals in Chongqing to maintain basic operations, the most difficult time all of our teachers are sleeping in the Chase shop, in order to save costs, go to 7-11 to eat Oden for a bowl of soup, although the conditions are difficult, but all the teachers have never complained about overtime in the face of overtime, and never asked for it, it was indeed difficult at that time, but we still adhered to the original intention, The enthusiasm of the teachers for the teaching itself has always been high, and it is this desperate momentum that we have 'survived' in Chengdu. ”
(Zhou Shuai in 2015 in Poly Center personal art studio)
(In the same year, Zhou Shuai's creative works)
"After two years of development in Chengdu, we encountered a bottleneck in development, that is, the lack of brand awareness. The Chengdu market is so large that its scale Huangjueping (Chuanmei) is worthy of it. There are so few students and families who know me personally and our team. In the past two years, there has been no shortage of art education brands that have come to us for cooperation, and in the end, we chose Juming Education. An art brand with relatively large influence in the country. With strong brand support, we are very strong in admissions and management. It turns out that this step has also really helped me achieve my original intention of starting a business - to find a balanced and efficient way of operating between branding agencies and personal studios. ”
(Juming Education Chengdu Campus was initially completed)
Breaking through the bottleneck for Zhou Shuai is not only the development but also the determination of the company's pursuit of professionalism and purity,
"Our start-up team is full of teaching teachers, and the love of these founding employees for art education is written in their bones. They, including me, have a deep impact on the teachers after that, and most of the teachers in the current education and training industry are young and impetuous. But in our school, I can still proudly say that whether it is from the perspective of the teaching process or the teaching results, we can be regarded as a professional academic institution. In recent years, some institutions, in the first half of the year, all staff desperately recruited, with a variety of preferential benefits to attract attention, the state of the teacher in the teaching process is when a monk rings a day's bell, teaching students all rely on fatigue war. In the first half of each year, except for some teachers, all the other teachers in the school do teaching and research and practice drawing. As long as there is quality training, every year I will organize teachers to go to further training. Not being affected by commercialization and wholeheartedly engaging in teaching is the school philosophy that we have always adhered to. ”
(School Start-up Team)
(Overview of achievements in recent years)
"Now the management of many schools is not necessarily from the art profession, and even if it is, it is no longer engaged in front-line education, and even no longer paints." But I still lead the class to teach myself every year, and in the experience of the actual class on the front line, I can extract a teaching method and management model that is more realistic and more suitable for students. For the school, we have more than ten years of management and operation experience to support us, and under the guidance of our consistent emphasis on academic atmosphere, we are confident that we will develop and strengthen this down-to-earth teaching team and serve more candidates. ”
(2019, the sixteenth year of Zhou Shuai's teaching)
(Zhou Shuai's recent avatar practice works)
For future planning, Zhou Shuai clearly stated that he will be committed to building a more complete education complex offline physical education.
"The educational service projects for college entrance examination students will include art, calligraphy, cultural training, voluntary interpretation, study abroad and other projects, which are now being done, but in the future, overall planning will bring better educational experiences, so that students can directly and steadily enter the ideal university from the end of the summer vacation of the second year of high school, after six months to one year of training in our school."
In the current development of the Internet, Zhou Shuai in the online education sector also attaches great importance to it, "In addition to the real-time live broadcast of each platform, we will also launch a video course system for each subject to share our teaching system for more than ten years to more candidates." Help serve more candidates. ”
In addition, through the enrollment and teaching of these winter and summer vacation short training classes, Zhou Shuai also found that the trainees were becoming more and more young. Many junior high school students with a certain foundation are not satisfied with the ordinary "interest class" type of art teaching, eager to enter the systematic learning to improve themselves, so the development of art basic education is the next step of the goal, "we will continue to polish and improve our "short training" course, so that students in the short term quickly get started, into formal learning, and combined with sketching, exhibition, career planning, foreign exchanges and other courses to let students have a more comprehensive understanding of art, so that their aesthetic taste has a better improvement. ”
At present, Juming Feiyang Art Examination has occupied a pivotal position in the education and training industry in Chengdu, and the pattern of "one school, two districts, and four departments" has been formed, and the campus of the Polytechnic University covers an area of more than ten acres, and the integrated management of food, housing and learning is integrated. Honghe Campus is located in the university, fully sharing university resources, the environment is relaxed and beautiful. Huayang Foundation Department, Longquan Foundation Department, Honghe Foundation Department, and Polytechnic University Foundation Department can provide great learning convenience for low-level art candidates.
As the president of Juming Feiyang Art Examination, Zhou Shuai is helping every student with a dream to achieve his goals with his original intention.