High-end interview Interview with Lu Jiang, president of Shenzhen Mingde Experimental School： ＂Let every child find his own track＂ for optimal growth! ＜br／＞
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In September, the newly opened autumn semester is the first semester for primary and secondary schools across the country to fully implement the policy requirements of "double reduction". In order to reduce students’ burden, eliminate "educational anxiety" and create a good educational ecology, an influential and far-reaching educational reform is under way. Under the background of "double reduction", strengthening the role of school education as the main position and promoting students’ all-round development and healthy growth have become an important direction for all parts of the country to strive for change and exploration.
In Shenzhen, there is a 12-year integrated public school-Shenzhen Mingde Experimental School, which is called "the most transformative school" and "the top ten leading schools in Shenzhen’s educational reform and innovation". Here, small class system, course selection system and walking class system have been implemented for many years; Free and open online "Dolphin College", high-quality subject content is chosen and followed by children, and online and offline are easy to blend; From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, colorful "four seasons courses" such as science and technology festivals, international cultural festivals, interesting sports competitions, grass music festivals and campus drama festivals are the happy world for children to wander around; More than 400 club activities, such as fencing, golf, drama club, choir and social practice survey, are available for children to participate in after class; There are also 16 innovative laboratories, including digital manufacturing, aerospace, river regulation and bio-genetics, which have been opened one after another for children’s in-depth creative learning … It can be said that in Shenzhen Mingde Experimental School, the school is the "main position" for students’ learning and growth, and the traditional subject work pressure and off-campus training burden seem to have disappeared here.
What are the lessons and inspirations of "Mingde Model"? What reform paths will be explored by the "Mingde 2.0 Action Plan" and "Building an Internet Pioneer School"? Recently, Lu Jiang, president of Shenzhen Mingde Experimental School, accepted an exclusive interview with all-media reporters of Guangzhou Daily.
Lu Jiang is brave for the students who are about to take the exam.
A special drama literacy training for teachers
Classroom reform: "Nourishing the classroom with art"
In late August, a five-day drama literacy training for teachers of "Futian Educational Drama Alliance Mingde Special Session" was held in the theater of Shenzhen Mingde Experimental School. The special training was attended by more than 20 teachers of Chinese, English, music, art, morality and rule of law in Mingde Experimental School.
During the training, under the guidance of professional educational drama instructors, teachers switch back and forth between "actors", "participants" and "educators" with Shakespeare’s classic plays as the material, and explore more possibilities for educational drama to be practiced and created in school education. When the training site was summarized and shared, some teachers bluntly said, "Why do subject teachers learn drama?" From the beginning, she didn’t understand and participate, and then she began to ask herself "What kind of teacher do I want to be" and "How to be a better guide for children’s growth", and finally found the inspiration of creative education from the drama experience-ignoring and rejecting students less, even from the warm response to children, the classroom, teaching and education are "changing". Teachers in Mingde have said that they will transfer the method of educational drama to Chinese, English, music and other classroom education, and dramatize the classroom content, "so that teaching is no longer rigid". Teachers pay more attention to students’ emotional tendencies when expressing, stimulate children’s concentration and expectation, and let children sprout an internal driving force to be more interested in learning content. Then deepen the understanding of knowledge and establish a complete self in the process of cognition.
Lu Jiang performed on the same stage with students at the New Year Music of Mingde Experimental School.
"This is the charm of opening the teaching boundary and opening the discipline boundary!" Lu Jiang came straight to the point and commented that "opening the border and integrating the future" is the school-running strategy of Mingde. At present, Mingde Experimental School is the host school of Futian Educational Drama Alliance. Lu Jiang said that drama is a comprehensive art, and educational drama is an interdisciplinary teaching, and its educational effect is particularly good. Because there are drama scenes in educational drama, students are easily shocked and infected by cultural atmosphere in the scene; At the same time, the drama is full of suspense and conflict, and the drama scene can stimulate children’s thinking and arouse emotional resonance; In addition, there are literature and music in the drama, and the layout of the drama scene, the construction of the stage and the design of posters are full of aesthetics. Therefore, for many years, in the "Art Season" of Mingde’s "Four Seasons Curriculum", the campus drama festival has always been a classic and highly regarded section.
"We also want to try to change the’ scripted’ traditional teacher training mode, hoping that teacher training will no longer be boring, but can touch the depths of our teachers’ hearts, which can trigger them to think about some educational concepts, and then try to change in practice." Lu Jiang said that this special training for educational drama was initially achieved. "I saw that our teachers’ eyes have changed." Teachers can feel the true meaning and essence of education, "this is very valuable", and students will ultimately benefit.
Lu Jiang said that under the "double reduction" policy, schools should effectively reduce students’ burdens and ensure the high quality of teaching, so it is necessary to "seek efficiency from the classroom", do a good job in curriculum design, and learn from the power of art to nourish and activate the classroom. In recent years, Mingde Experimental School has vigorously promoted classroom reform: music class is a drama class; In the history class, "Zheng He’s Journey to the West" can be enjoyed in Chinese classical music at the same time. Morality and rule of law course can be a collection of multimedia technology and film art; Even the opening ceremony of the sports meeting can be transformed into a course, such as each team interpreting a sports event and so on.
Mingde campus
Promote the "Mingde 2.0 Action Plan"
Building an "Internet Pioneer School"
Lu Jiang has worked in the education department for many years, and has more than 20 years of school work experience and rich school management experience. He is an "outstanding teacher in Nanyue, Guangdong Province", "Top Ten Young Teachers in Shenzhen" and "Top Ten Principals in Shenzhen", and his solo performance is also very wonderful. Shenzhen Mingde Experimental School, which is jointly run by Futian District Government of Shenzhen and Tencent Charity Foundation, is managed by Mingde Education Foundation jointly established by both parties. It is an experimental school for school-running system reform. In the past eight years, the school has made great breakthroughs in the reform of corporate governance structure and curriculum reform, which has exported rich experience for the system reform and management innovation of public schools in China and formed a great demonstration effect, which is called the "Mingde model" of basic education reform.
Three years ago, Lu Jiang was transferred from the principal of Shenzhen Second Experimental School to the principal of Shenzhen Mingde Experimental School. At the beginning of 2019, Lu Jiang proposed to "promote the Mingde 2.0 action plan and build an Internet pioneer school". He said: "Innovation and exploration are the ideas that Mingde School has been adhering to since its establishment." In recent years, the school has actively introduced Tencent’s world-leading Internet technology, explored and practiced the all-round application of artificial intelligence technology on campus, and made great efforts to incite changes in teaching and learning methods, promote the transformation of school management, and promote the improvement of teachers and students’ information literacy.
"We have made changes in space, technology, courses and talents, trying to create a different school temperament." Lu Jiang said that Mingde Experimental School is building three school-running characteristics. The first is the intelligent campus. The working mode of the school is completely different from the traditional working mode. A lot of work is done on enterprise WeChat, including the approval process of various resource purchases, and intelligent teaching will be launched in the future. In addition to the physical school, there is also the online virtual school "Dolphin College". Students can listen to the lecture online at any time if they don’t understand any class, so as to blend online and offline.
Secondly, the ecological campus. Take the ongoing renovation of school facilities as an example. All the floors in and around the school are paved with permeable bricks, and the school square is a big "sponge", which can divert rainwater in time and recycle water resources for reuse. It is a Shenzhen sponge city base school. The school is building a natural ecological space (sponge city laboratory), a river management laboratory and a marine resources laboratory, which will be used by children to explore experiments. It can be said that in and out of Mingde campus, the concept of water saving and "sponge city" and the awareness of eco-environmental protection have quietly infiltrated and are flourishing.
In the Mingde Art Season, children are performing.
"Mingde will also be a humanistic campus. One of the important indicators is to turn the school into a "happy home" where teachers and students linger. Lu Jiang said that the lunch break and after-school delayed service advocated under the "double reduction" policy is "not strange at all, because it has been implemented in Mingde for many years and has achieved good results".
For example, the school lunch break system, Mingde even developed the lunch break lunch support for primary school students into a "life nourishing course", designed before, during and after meals, and realized self-care in autonomous management. In the past, more than 100 parents came to the school at noon every day to help divide meals and do other service work. Now all parents have withdrawn from the school, and parents are very happy, and their children’s abilities have also been exercised. Mingde has long implemented the system of not taking exams in grades one and two; In the after-school delay service, Mingde has more than 400 extension courses, and even vacates all the rooms on each floor of the roof, so that all kinds of clubs selected by students can open on time.
Lu Jiang told reporters that thanks to Mingde Yu’s flexible school-running mechanism, the school began to buy extracurricular club courses from the society many years ago, and introduced excellent resources from all aspects of society to the campus, including art, sports and science and technology. These courses greatly enriched students’ cultural quality.
In the Mingde Innovation Season, children are experiencing scientific and technological activities.
"Open the border and integrate the future"
"Building a free and open future school and cultivating innovative talents leading the times"
Originated from the integration with Tencent, Mingde Experimental School has a distinct scientific and technological innovation gene since its birth. Lu Jiang studied many Internet works, and combined the Internet corporate culture with the realistic education of the school, which focused on cross-border integration, Internet of Everything, Pluralism and Openness, and further formed the unique temperament of Mingde Experimental School.
For example, "opening the curriculum boundary", Mingde explores multidisciplinary integration, integrating education, teaching and life, integrating the campus with the world, and integrating multiple disciplines across borders. "Educational drama is one of the best cross-border disciplines. It opens the boundaries of disciplines and integrates other disciplines." Lu Jiang said. In recent years, Shenzhen Mingde Experimental School has built three series of curriculum pedigrees: basic courses, extended courses and special courses. Based on social life and students’ reality, it has put learning into real life situations, developed more than 200 school-based courses such as mangrove courses, wetland research, sponge city and China classical culture, and introduced Tencent programming courses, network literacy courses, product managers, sound effects production and other courses. We are accelerating the construction of curriculum bases such as intelligent manufacturing space, natural ecological space, internet innovation space, artistic creativity space, humanistic reading space and sports space, and strive to build a vibrant curriculum system.
In the Mingde Innovation Season, children are experiencing scientific and technological activities.
Around the course design, Mingde has also "opened the boundaries of the campus", co-established laboratories with different enterprises, and launched characteristic courses, including 16 innovative laboratories, including the aerospace laboratory jointly established with DJI, the bionic mechanical laboratory jointly established with Ubisoft, and the automobile engineering laboratory jointly established with BYD.
In order to teach these courses well, Mingde has further opened the boundaries of talents. From reforming the post appointment system, to teachers without school registration, and then to parents and teachers. In Mingde, there are chemistry teachers who teach physics, some teachers who have taught mathematics for engineers, and some teachers who have taught English for flight attendants … This practice of "promoting teachers on their merits" has injected fresh blood into Shenzhen Mingde Experimental School, and elite teachers from all walks of life have also injected bright colors into the "Mingde Model".
"We believe that children are different but there are no poor students; We hope to help every child find their own track, so that every child can get the best growth! " Lu Jiang said that adhering to the school motto of "Mingde is honest and free in personality", Shenzhen Mingde Experimental School will take "building a free and open future school and cultivating innovative talents leading the times" as its mission, and continue to promote system reform, management reform, curriculum reform, technological reform and talent reform, and strive to build the school into a reform benchmark school in Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s pioneering demonstration area based on global education coordinates.
Mingde students show their passion at the sports carnival
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"Double Reduction" Policy Landing: Shenzhen Urged Operation Management to "Reduce Burden and Improve Quality"
A few days ago, the Shenzhen Municipal Education Bureau issued the Notice on Strengthening the Operation Management of Compulsory Education Schools (hereinafter referred to as the Notice), and the Shenzhen Academy of Educational Sciences issued the Guidelines on the Written Operation Design of Compulsory Education in Shenzhen (hereinafter referred to as the Guidelines), which effectively promoted the operation management to reduce the burden and improve the quality.
The relevant person in charge of the Shenzhen Municipal Education Bureau said that in addition to the supporting policy of the Guidelines, a series of supporting mechanisms were put forward in combination with the actual innovation in Shenzhen: First, comprehensive, project-based, theme-based, unit-integrated operation design and other characteristic operation types were added in the innovative operation types and methods; Weekends, winter and summer vacations and legal holidays are mainly comprehensive and practical work; There is no homework written in the first and second grades of primary school. Consolidation exercises can be arranged appropriately in the school, and non-written homework can be arranged appropriately according to the characteristics of students.
Second, in improving the operation management mechanism, each school should establish the publicity system in the operation school and the operation overall management and control mechanism, and establish a series of operation planning overall planning mechanisms such as the total amount audit and quality periodic evaluation mechanism.
Third, in improving the quality of work and the efficiency of completion, we should coordinate the construction of high-quality resource packages and air classes, and strengthen the co-construction and sharing of high-quality teaching resources; Explore the use of new technology to implement intelligent correction of homework; Explore the establishment of teacher online work’s counseling and answering mechanism.
Mingde students show their passion at the sports carnival
Text, map, video/Guangzhou Daily Xinhua City Reporter: Liu Chang, Wang Na
Guangzhou Daily Xinhua City Editor: Cai Dongqing
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